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The podcast bad boys from Boston are talking about THE Bad Boys from Boston. It's AEROSMITH week!

Joining the show with discussion questions in hand is the lead singer and guitarist of another great Boston band Beeef, Perry Eaton! Perry and the guys break down the many eras of Aerosmith and try to make sense of their complicated and epic legacy. The band's first TV performance in 1974 on The Midnight Special is all leather pants and rock god vibes. 13 years later, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry do Walk This Way with Run-DMC on the VMAs. Back to back 90s SNL performances capture the apex of Aerosmith, including an iconic Wayne's World sketch. And we return to the Super Bowl, with a halftime show that surrounds Aerosmith with the 2001 zeitgeist.

Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!

Dream On/Train Kept a Rollin', 8/16/1974 on The Midnight Special

Walk This Way with Run-DMC, 9/11/1987 on the MTV Video Music Awards

Janie's Got a Gun (27:24 mark)/Monkey on my Back (40:04 mark) (row 174), 2/17/1990 on Saturday Night Live

Cryin' (20:10 mark)/Sweet Emotion (51:10 mark) (row 66), 10/9/1993 on Saturday Night Live

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, 2/24/1999 on The Grammy Awards

Bye Bye Bye/I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing/It's Gonna be Me/Jaded/Walk This Way with N'Sync, featuring Britney Spears, Nelly & Mary J. Blige, 1/28/2001 on the Super Bowl Halftime Show

They're pop-punk emo heroes turned anthemic arena radio rock mainstays. Some turned to heavy drug use, while others became tabloid fodder. And hats. Lots of hats. It's FALL OUT BOY week!

The career arc is there folks, captured in some ridiculous late night performances. Fall Out Boy explodes into the mainstream with From Under the Cork Tree with a shaky spot on SNL. The anti-vowel movement comes to a head with a pretty great performance of Thnks Fr Th Mmrs on the Tonight Show featuring strings and horns. A black-lit performance on Kimmel in skeleton costumes has to be attempted to be seen to be believed. And an exploration of 2010s radio rock music is reluctantly conducted.

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Dance Dance (36:30 mark)/Sugar We're Goin Down (58:44 mark) (row 18), 3/4/2006 on Saturday Night Live

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs, 5/2/2007 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

I Don't Care, 12/16/2008 on The Late Show with David Letterman

My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'em Up), 2/13/2013 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Centuries, 1/7/2015 on The People's Choice Awards

We Didn't Start the Fire, 9/12/2023 on The MTV Video Music Awards

In a year that saw Nirvana, R.E.M, and Pearl Jam put out generation-defining albums, Spin Magazine named this band's 1991 album Record of the Year. 33 years later, this cult power-pop outfit remains a weird outlier sandwiched between the eras of grunge and Britpop. It's TEENAGE FANCLUB week!

Joining the show is animator, music video director, and self-proclaimed Fannie Mark Neeley (Aquarium Drunkard)! Mark and the guys explore the origins of TFC's rapid ascent from the Scottish indie-rock scene to performing on Saturday Night Live in just two years' time. The band's follow up to Bandwagonesque falls on deaf ears in America, but performances on BBC's White Room and Top of the Pops captures their persistent popularity in the UK. And the show discovers Oddville MTV, a similarly cult-like entity that grazed the periphery of mainstream America.

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Everything Flows, 12/21/1990 on Snub TV

The Concept/Satan, 2/15/1992 on Saturday Night Live

What You Do to Me/Pet Rock, 2/15/1992 on Saturday Night Live

Escher, 2/14/1994 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Mellow Doubt/I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds Cover), 2/17/1996 on BBC White Room

Ain't That Enough, 11/7/1997 on Top of the Pops

Take the Long Way Round, 8/29/1999 on Oddville MTV

The craziest bass playing you've ever seen. Atonal metal breakdowns. Songs about meth heads burying bodies. And multiple top-ten records. How? It's PRIMUS week!

It's a guestless, Alex-pick episode: buckle up. Primus breaks on to the national TV scene on the Dennis Miller Show. "My Name is Mud" is a hit somehow, and Primus performs it on MTV's Haunted House Party with White Zombie and Penn & Teller. Les, Ler, and Herb dress up in penguin suits to perform their biggest hit to the dismay of David Letterman's showrunner. We finally return to Farmclub.com to see Primus awkwardly fitting into the Nu-Metal moment. Plus the debut of South Park Sucks!

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Jerry was a Race Car Driver/Tommy The Cat, 3/20/1992 on The Dennis Miller Show

My Name is Mud, 10/30/1993 on MTV's Haunted House Party

Wynona's Big Brown Beaver, 6/16/1995 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Shake Hands with Beef, 7/16/1997 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Antipop/Greet the Sacred Cow, 3/5/2000 on Farmclub.com

Lee Van Cleef, 10/24/2011 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

He's gone from causing a national panic to winning Grammys and selling high-end perfumes, all while putting on some of the most innovative stage performances of the 21st century. It's TYLER, THE CREATOR week!

Joining the show to school us elder millennials on our most modern artist to date is music and culture journalist J'na Jefferson (Rolling Stone, Uproxx)! The guys and J'na make sense of Tyler's wild early career, including a 2011 Fallon performance for the ages featuring an exorcism. A 2017 Colbert performance pays homage to Soul Train and captures the hard left-turn of Flower Boy's direction and production. Tyler wins a Grammy in 2020 and performs on the show with Charlie Wilson and Boyz II Men amid a burning suburbia landscape. And a windstorm set piece on the 2021 BET Awards blows (pun intended) everyone away.

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Sandwitches with Hodgy Beats, 2/16/2011 on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Rusty with Domo Genesis and Earl Sweatshirt, 4/4/2013 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Cherry Bomb/Smuckers, 7/29/2015 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

911, 7/24/2017 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Earfquake/New Magic Wand with Charlie Wilson and Boyz II Men, 1/26/2020 on The Grammy Awards

Lumberjack, 6/27/2021 on The BET Awards

Massa, 11/21/2021 on The American Music Awards

Her voice: timeless. Her TV performances: iconic. We're headed across the pond and googling gobby. It's AMY WINEHOUSE week!

Clips on Later...with Jools Holland and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show Amy at her jazziest. Jools Holland's 2006 Annual Hootenanny gives her the big band treatment with Paul Weller from The Jam. Amy breaks out in her American television debut on David Letterman. And award show performances at The Mercury Prize and The Grammys perfectly capture both the zenith and tragic ending of Amy's story. Plus the debut of HOLLAND'S JEWELS!

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Stronger Than Me/Take the Box, 11/7/03 on Later...with Jools Holland

I Heard Love is Blind, 3/19/04 on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Monkey Man/Don't go to Strangers with Paul Weller/I Heard it Through the Grapevine with Paul Weller/The Mighty Quinn with Paul Weller and Sam Moore, 12/31/06 on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny

Rehab, 3/12/07 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Love is a Losing Game, 9/3/07 on The Mercury Prize

You Know I'm No Good/Rehab, 2/10/08 on The Grammy Awards