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It’s a Peter Murphy Christmas!  Timing is everything and it could be argued that we screwed the pooch on our holiday episode selection. On the other hand, what could be better than sitting around the fire with a little rum spiked eggnog and the Godfather of Goth at his most joyful?  The boys get a little tipsy themselves while they contemplate how Murphy's 1987 sophomore effort has stood the test of time.  Happy Holidays form HHPP!   LINK TO EPISODE IN BIO   RIP Terry Hall   Recommended Listening:   HHPP EP103:  The Specials  https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/06/02/ep103-the-specials/   “Final Solution”  https://open.spotify.com/track/4iGukCefZBHnpQWBEnWMbT?si=42de9b05c8e94b00   Iggy Pop “Funtime” https://open.spotify.com/track/3tFQ4Zz3FKz3s6sCdY1mQg?si=61ccab28b90c46b4   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon A

Walter Schreifels had Gorilla Biscuits in the ’80s, Quicksand in the ‘90s and then Rival Schools in the early aughts.  Their debut album United by Fate is a record that Mike has obsessed over for twenty years, Glenn came to late but has gown to appreciate more and more and Rod had never heard before preparing for this podcast.  They come to the album from three different perspective but there’s little disagreement about this one.     Recommended Listening:   Far Water & Solutions  https://open.spotify.com/album/4enPQLBdrmgyL6NwrMZXx1?si=mo2EL9swR82X7-DsadIoAA   New End Original Lukewarm  https://open.spotify.com/track/6nqxqN3oaRkRLjz0VtKmJ9?si=aacc38b2c8044751   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.sp

If you could only listen to 10 artists for the rest of your life who would they be?  Slayer?  Miles Davis?  Freaking Beethoven?!?  Lots to consider:  breadth of catalog, a variety of moods, songs you’ll never tire of.  It takes us over two and a half hours to compile our lists and it’s a journey of contemplation, joy and agony.  Episode 200 is exactly the wild ride we hoped it would be.       huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Bob Mould is an under appreciated genius.    RIP Christine McVie RIP Keith Levene    Recommended Listening:   Beaster  https://open.spotify.com/album/1Lj1hDF4hcyKGUiw0k7iC3?si=cafC_z4cQGaI1Tc4GWgXFQ   Bob Mould Workbook https://open.spotify.com/album/3VhSB8ozURez6qOSptLb15?si=WuoPoZdtRRS0ugB-fAB0Ig   Black Sheets of Rain https://open.spotify.com/album/6X7wrpHgbgBB3u2eMBFNuN?si=GtSFSJepTNev5HhRoRBkGg   Body of  Song https://open.spotify.com/album/48JZpYBLsQUd4O1d0wful4?si=-ZFfKW7aTU6TPy4WqX9nzA   Book   Bob Mould:  "See A Little Light:  The Trail of Rage and Melody"  https://www.amazon.com/See-Little-Light-Trail-Melody/dp/031604508X   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOE

Excel’s debut is rarely mentioned along with the classic Crossover albums, a list that includes Suicidal Tendencies' “Join the Army,” COC’s “Animosity,” DRI’s “Dealing With It” and Agnostic Front’s “Cause For Alarm” and it's hard to understand why.   It’s a perfect blend of Metal guitars and Punk vocals with personal lyrics about how fucked up the world is an how helpless we are to fix it.  Venice Beach native Patrick Sweeney joins to help us crack the code of this under appreciated masterpiece.      Recommended Listening:   Welcome To Venice - Comp https://www.discogs.com/master/99961-Various-Welcome-To-Venice   “Tapping Into the Emotional Void” https://open.spotify.com/track/5knnuV8LT06mtp5K8Cfh8f?si=3941a130ea5d423c   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/

It’s hammer time in DC!  After fronting a trio of legendary Dishord bands, The Untouchables, The Faith and Ignition Alec MacKaye had more than earned his status as American Punk Rock royalty and could have certainly rested on his laurels.  Instead, he’s back with a new project, Hammered Hulls that is more than worthy of his legacy.  Their debut LP sounds like classic Discord in all the best ways and the recently released Careening is getting better with each listen.      Recommended Listening:   The London Suede  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6GuRYj1MEnu1WZhDA2Xy0t?si=_zL-K5GSTi2R27CcGpc88A   Mercyful Fate - Live at the YouTube Theater 10/29/22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RELC5T6ys5o   Inner Ear Studios Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV2Rx6mu138   Academy O.C. Irish Goodbye https://open.spotify.com/album/300aJGhxoESCbUVUCpGKsW?si=I78OzqjcRByGbP2TWbVS2g   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://op

How much of our love of Mercyful Fate is based on nostalgia versus the fact that they were an incredibly innovative, talented band with great songs?  As a relative newbie to the band Rod helps us answer the question as we dive deep into their classic first LP while touching on their equally great follow up Don’t Break the Oath, discuss the conviction in the bands approach and debate how many riffs is too many riffs.      RIP Jerry Lee Lewis  RIP Timi Hansen    Recommended Listening: King Diamond Fatal Portrait  https://open.spotify.com/album/0l9HvMchT9T7ZPoWBhu1Zj?si=35hHcYFrSzWpGaufjpIENQ   Metallica Mercyful Fate https://open.spotify.com/track/45oVrneg2MiwAA74KgmtBj?si=943491a4c53a4c4d   manhuntsman Convalesce  https://open.spotify.com/album/68hyowzBh18ZcDvg1edBtJ?si=7QMxfxVOTyCX73fsH4s5CA   Movie The Munsters https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14813212/   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user

Keith Morris and Dimitri Coats are back and this time with a brand new rhythm section.  Now four LPs in, the newly constructed quartet sounds completely revitalized.  The familiar OFF! punch is still there but now with new layers, textures and moods thrown into the mix.  Free LSD might not be the bands best album but it’s pretty damn great right now.     Recommended Listening:   HHPP EP151:  OFF! “The First Four EPs” https://huntsmanhill.com/2021/04/04/ep151-off-the-first-four-eps/   Burning Brides  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6093L65mwrPFONEN7Qbeeg?si=eEgVNDlORcW9nw0twyXGpg   Movie “Brainiac:  Transmissions After Zero” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7974564/   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsma

Whether Discharge is simply one of Final Conflicts primary influences or their entire reason for being may be debatable but what isn’t is how great a hardcore record Ashes to Ashes is.  It’s decidedly Punk Rock but could not exist without its Metal trimmings.  It has all the attitude and urgency of the former without sacrificing any of the aggression or heaviness of the latter.  Regardless who Final Conflict were biting,  Ashes to Ashes is a stone cold classic of the genre that sounds as great today as it did in 1988.     Recommended Listening:   Discharge https://open.spotify.com/artist/5SRhOM75OnwuXH8BmCxD5a?si=inCL8YeBRr-xCCkgzIMDHA   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https:/

Mike notes that all the songs on the Chicago trio's second LP are about “terrible people doing terrible things”  while Rod describes the albums sonics as the sound of chewing on tinfoil" and Glenn astutely observes “this album should really be called Songs About Getting Fucked.”  They’re all right.   Recommended Listening:   Produced by Steve Albini Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7aLsoxNb3egrBqxnEEXadA?si=084262b414fe48fb   Academy O.C. “Roommate With An Axe” https://open.spotify.com/track/4RuIkJyvkUB4GwGnBEk6k4?si=59ac07d392d74b0f   Video Steve Albini & Ian MacKaye Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPMNY3roo_Y&list=WL&index=5   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.

This week we are joined by dear friend, Metal aficionado and Armored Saint insider Bob Nalbandian for a conversation that takes us back to early 80’s tape trading, drunken escapades in Phoenix and Mike’s unlikely emotional response to the dawn of the power ballad.     Recommended Listening:   “Isolation (Live from Isolation)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUKNJ0UIDA   manhuntsman “The Writer” (Odin cover)  https://open.spotify.com/track/2UVHFmqxw9KS9Wv5HhjgQL?si=46bf8f20242940d9   Movies  Armored Saint doc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBcqE0ZpTc   Inside Metal Documentary Series https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Metal-Scene-Explodes/dp/B078TMVYK7

Can a podcast episode be entertaining if the hosts just constantly agree and nothing remotely controversial said?  We ask ourselves this question all the time.  This episode is an absolute love fest, celebrating the Clash's 1980 compilation and the band in general however, Rod definitely stirs things up with his perspective on their place in the pantheon of great Dub artists (Mike does not endorse this comment).    Recommended Listening: EP39:  The Clash - Complete Discography  https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/09/11/ep39-the-clash-complete-discography/   The Harder They Come Original Soundtrack  https://open.spotify.com/album/4oxdKcC9epGo9viy1j8fN7?si=jUNzR601QCiFkAMyUsm36w   Playlist: “All the Bands That Mattered to the Only Band That Mattered" https://open.spotify.com/playlist/28PsiEn0kesL0yri22M678?si=4a750791a55d439d     Movie:  RocknRolla https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032755/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill S

From the Sex Pistols take on Eddie Cochran to Black Flag's interpretation of “Louie Louie” and Refused trying their hand at AC/DC, Punk bands have always delved into other artists material that’s well outside their chosen genre.  In this episode of the HHPP the boys each choose their ten favorites.  Predictably, Mike and Rod lean into the classics while Glenn tries to pull us out of the 1980s.      Recommended Listening: Mdou Moctar https://open.spotify.com/artist/48dgx7iGqLQ3E5KO3pzd94?si=d45od4uIRuOPyU8BDefLZA   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO

The first of the three records that firmly cemented The Cure as Goth Rock royalty.  Seventeen Seconds has all the mood, mystery and majesty we’ve come to expect from Robert Smith & co and his incredible songwriting chops cut through the gloom with soon to be live staples “Play For Today” and “A Forest.”  One in a long line of Cure classics it’s a record that is equally suited for a variety of nighttime activities including crying into your pillow, mourning a lost love or dancing ’til dawn.    Recommended Watching:   Movie: M https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1   huntsmanhill.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDu

One of the best selling and beloved records in Pink Floyd’s catalog, WYWH has all the elements that made the band great.  Long, sweeping instrumental passages, emotional and thought provoking lyrics, incredible playing and mood for days.  If you ever wondered how a psychedelic rock band with 10+ minute songs and Vonnegut-level intellectualism got so massively popular, the 44 minutes of their 9th album make it immediately clear.  Yes, the album is undeniably great but where does Glenn rank it all-time?   Recommended Listening: Animals https://open.spotify.com/album/3b4E89rxzZQ9zkhgKpj8N4?si=aQqivbZaQ_-vYWQmE5_S0Q   Syd Barrett Barrett https://open.spotify.com/album/53uU5rBCXOZ9Qb55PLjjLF?si=HldVOmY2Rf277aW2BeYo3w   huntsmanhill.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFk

It could be argued that reggae is more political than punk, more personal than country and more urgent than hip hop and by comparison Rastaman Vibration is the equivalent of London Calling, Red Headed Stranger and Amerikkka’s Most Wanted.  We break it down until it’s broke.    Recommended Listening: The Birth of a Legend  https://open.spotify.com/album/2ymwnKX5hw8j4PqxYv2UQV?si=i5I_UJ7LQE2N4Pu_eMybSg   huntsmanhill.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c  

“Seven hits of L and nobody could tell, so we spent all our dimes just to pod in Anaheim” (well, Venice Beach actually).  It's our first ever in-person episode!  The three amigos and some friends were all together in SoCal and we took the opportunity talk about music over some drinks (which is essentially the entire premise of our show).   We aptly chose the debut EP from fellow Orange County natives The Vandals.   High jinx ensued and we ended up with an episode that’s three times as long as the actual record.  “Hold the government please!”     huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhill@gmail.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c    

Black Love is the Whigs second masterpiece in a row and they would never be as dark or foreboding again.  Where Gentlemen was intimate and desperate, Black Love is grand and demanding.  It’s the soundtrack to a Film Noir / Blaxploitation mashup, a world where secrets and betrayal are set to a Wah Wah pedal and there’s no discerning anger, desperation or triumph. It's terrifying and I never want to leave.  Here’s hoping Greg gives us the second part of that crime scene at some point.    Recommended Listening: Beautiful Girls Soundtrack  https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B002GKMKUA   Greg Dulli “Live At the Triple Door” https://open.spotify.com/album/18qbIFeS9zZck6MjFaEmQY?si=lbroHcetQFueylX49h6-bg   huntsmanhill.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c  

Johnny Rotten was a pivotal figure in the earliest days of Punk.  For an encore he went back to his surname of Lydon and formed Public Image Ltd who would prove to be one of the earliest purveyors of a genre that would aptly come to be known as Post Punk.   Influencing the likes of Big Black, Sonic Youth, Slint and scores of others, PiL were as ahead of their time as the Sex Pistols were and their legacy is arguably more consequential to the sound of anything that could called “alternative” music today.     huntsmanhill.com   #huntsmanhill   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c    

Minor Threat is back along with Dischord stalwarts Government Issue and Youth Brigade (not to be confused with the Stern brothers led LA band of the same name) for Dischord releases three, four and five.  While the quality varies across the three 7 inches, they are each representative of not only the DC sound of the time but also of what legions of Hardcore acts to follow would use as inspiration (and imitation).    huntsmanhill.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c