86 episodes
Bizarre Albums Tony Thaxton
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- Music History
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4.9 • 308 Ratings
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Tony Thaxton explores the weirder side of music, celebrating and telling the story behind those strange albums that make you wonder how and why they exist. Doing deep dives on albums released by pro athletes, actors, fictional characters, and more. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bizarrealbums/support
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Pat Boone - In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy
Pat Boone was the second biggest act of the late 1950’s, behind only Elvis Presley. Then he went down a country and gospel music path. Then in 1997 he shocked the world with an album of heavy metal covers. This is the story of Pat Boone’s, In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, from 1997.
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Kiefer Sutherland - Down In A Hole
After over thirty years of being a successful actor, Kiefer Sutherland releases his debut country album.
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Jack Palance - Palance
Oscar winner. Emmy winner. Country music recording artist. This is the story of Jack Palance's Palance, from 1970.
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Lynda Carter - Portrait
Lynda Carter shot to fame on the Wonder Woman tv series in 1975. But her first love was singing. This is the story of Lynda Carter’s Portrait, from 1978.
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BONUS- Bizarre Singles: Christopher Lee- A Heavy Metal Christmas & A Heavy Metal Christmas Too
Merry Christmas! This is a free bonus episode of Bizarre Singles, originally released last Christmas on the Patreon. You can get weekly bonus episodes and more at patreon.com/bizarrealbums
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Dallas Cowboys Christmas
How does combining contemporary christian music, Robert Kardashian and the NFL result in a Christmas album? This is the story of Dallas Cowboys Christmas, from 1985…and 1986.
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Customer Reviews
Fun and fascinating
Tony gets straight to the point every time. Each episode is all killer, no filler, which is kind of rare for podcasts that focus on odd or obscure trivia. I’ve learned and been amazed in every episode.
Engaging and entertaining
I’ve been listening to Bizarre Albums since it’s inception, and even though it was always enjoyable and entertaining, it continues to get even better with each installment. Stop reading this review and just go listen already!
One Most Excellent Podcast
Each episode quickly draws listeners into the most interesting aspects of rare or kitschy albums.
The show touches on the obvious then quickly goes to a next-level story about the people who made, used or consumed the recordings. BTW: that ends up including you, the listener!
The best part is Tony: he sounds like a genuinely nice guy, with excellent self control (for knowing all this super cool history) and real under the radar home-run quips and puns.
I’d give two thumbs up but am busy pressing play on the next episode ;) 👍