Our Favorite Albums Michael & Jason

For a Las Vegas band, it would be difficult to get noticed with the audacious spectacle of Sin City. The Killers, however, had their sights focused on superstardom and they achieved it on their debut album. Listen to us discuss an album that defined pop rock music for an entire generation.

As a final effort to save a struggling 80's new wave pop band, a 70's powerpop icon was enlisted to produce their record and keep them under budget while balancing attitudes and a power struggle with the band's leader.



The result: album is now listed on all review sites with the highest reviews and is considered one of the greatest albums of the entire decade.

We will readily admit that country music is not our favorite genre of music. So, when one of our friends said he could not only find a country album we would like, but specifically a red dirt country album that would change our minds, we took him up on the challenge.



Recorded in front of a live audience at Pratt's Books (PrattsBooks.com), we go head-to-head with our buddy, Dan, to discuss The Turnpike Troubadours 2015 self-titled album. Think he can change your mind, too?

Four albums in, the members of King’s X felt like their career wasn’t going like it should and were looking for their identity. They had a legion of loyal fans, but never really found success in the mainstream. They were at a crossroads, both collectively and individually.



So, they enlisted a burgeoning supernova producer to help them create a new sound on their albums that was more representative of their live act, literally taking inspiration from themselves.



King’s X recorded one of the most influential albums of the grunge era that, oddly enough, most people have never even heard. Hopefully, that changes a bit as we introduce you to one of our favorite albums of all time, the 1994 album by King’s X: Dogman.

2020 may have sucked, but at least the tunes were good.

In 1981, The Boss asked one of his roadies to find a tape player that he could mess around with some songs in his house. He ended up making what I consider to be his finest album that went to #3 on the charts for that year, is considered one of the greatest albums in the entire decade, and frankly the album could be credited with creating a whole new genre of songwriting.



And he didn’t even have COVID to thank for it.



In this episode of Our Favorite Albums, we invited one of our buddies into the studio to help us break down Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album, Nebraska.