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Dropped D - Episode 05.05
Extra Lives - January 01, 2015 13:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIt's been a really long time, but Dropped D is back for the time being. Desmond and Damian waste no time as the puns begin to fly inside of the first minute. Besides covering Trent Reznor's descent into EDM music on Nine Inch Nails' 2006 record With Teeth, the boys discover which of the two is mo...
Dropped D - Episode 05.04
Extra Lives - February 13, 2014 13:45 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSince it's been so long between recordings, this episode Damien and Desmond spend the whole time catching up. Topics include bad celebrity impersonations, guitar strings, music-based video games, metal album appearances, and the sobering reality of raves that Hollywood doesn't want you to know ab...
Dropped D - Episode 05.03
Extra Lives - October 06, 2013 16:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIf you think this is going to be a good episode of Dropped D, then you might not be wrong. Come musician with us as we discuss Nine Inch Nails' second official full-length release: The Downward Spiral. But, be warned: there is math involved. Also, there's some valuable dating advice, the topic of...
Dropped D - Episode 05.02
Extra Lives - September 22, 2013 16:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSo, you've just ridden a wave of underground popularity with a record that was 100% rock-driven synth pop. What do you do? Well, if your record label wants you to capitalize on that, you say "Fuck you" and release Broken. Nine Inch Nails' 1992 sounds so radically different from what came before t...
Dropped D - Episode 05.01
Extra Lives - September 08, 2013 17:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIt's been a year since our last episode! But wait! It's not entirely our fault. Listen to the saga of two lost episodes, high school yearbook write-ups, CD singles, and an album that is full of dichotomies. Tease up your hair and pull on your legwarmers for the first and 80s-est release from curr...
Dropped D - Intermission 02
Extra Lives - July 15, 2012 16:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAfter announcing a short hiatus for the boys, Desmond thought it wouldn't be prudent to leave you guys podcastless when there's perfectly good audio sitting around the Dropped D compound! So, presented for your approval, a piece of audio first published this past April as part of Earth-2.net: The...
Dropped D - Intermission 01
Extra Lives - July 01, 2012 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis is not the best episode in the world; this is just an intermission. After talking about some recent punk rock releases and music-based video games, Desmond and Damien dive into the now classic 1994 Black Sabbath tribute album Nativity in Black. Hear them talk about the state of heavy metal a...
Dropped D - Episode 04.06
Extra Lives - June 17, 2012 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWith Album of the Year it's the end of the Faith No More coverage, for now, but put on your baggy pants, turn on your Discman, and take a journey back to 1997 with Desmond and Damien as they talk about that year in music. But this episode features what has to be the longest tangent the podcast ha...
Dropped D - Episode 04.05
Extra Lives - June 03, 2012 16:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAfter bantering on vinyl acquisitions and plans for the future of the show, Desmond and Damien dive into what is the most divisive record in Faith No More's discography thus far: King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. And though much of this episode is actually dedicated to the coverage of the al...
Dropped D - Episode 04.04
Extra Lives - May 20, 2012 13:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSo, Faith No More's Angel Dust is pretty good. Desmond is too strung out on caffeine from his own three-day binge of sleeplessness, so instead of crafting show notes, he decided to list just some of the tangents Damien and he covered: scaring vocal coaches, band names, Super Mario's underwater pl...
Dropped D - Episode 04.03
Extra Lives - May 06, 2012 13:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsDesmond and Damien know that feeling, it is The Real Thing. Faith No More's first band featuring alternative music legend Mike Patton on vocals. And boy are they happy about it?! Yes, they are. First up, they have news featuring previous bands covered on the podcast, and then they talk about the ...
Dropped D - Episode 04.02
Extra Lives - April 22, 2012 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsDamien and Desmond are back in hologram form to introduce themselves to the only record standing between them and Mike Patton: Faith No More's Introduce Yourself. Right off the bat, Desmond has a theory about Chuck that Damien agrees with. What do Wesley Willis and the Kids of Widney High have in...
Dropped D - Episode 04.01
Extra Lives - April 08, 2012 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe care a lot! About Roddy, Billy, and Puffy! / We care a lot! About Des' nose that sounds stuffy! / We care a lot! About fun band names, Mike Patton, and Courtney Love! / We care a lot! About drooling over sleazy covers we are not above! / We care a lot! About random dude's names and Melissa Auf...
Dropped D - Episode 03.04
Extra Lives - March 25, 2012 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn this episode, Damien and Desmond cover the first two albums from trip hop / speed metal duo Rusty Chuck: Boob Height and Sinus Irrigation. But first, they have to get through the final two (for now) releases from The Offspring: Splinter and Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, respectively. Before t...
Dropped D - Episode 03.03
Extra Lives - March 11, 2012 17:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn this episode, covering Americana and Conspiracy of One, Damian and Desmond cover "that era" of The Offspring's career. The song "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" inspires no less than 20 minutes of vitriolic sonic hatred. Question: What are some things that punk songs should not contain? Answer: ...
Dropped D - Episode 03.02
Extra Lives - February 26, 2012 17:20 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHey, Dropped D listeners! Did you think, like others, that perhaps last episode was light in the tangent department? Well, this is the episode for you! They went on a long tangent before recording, began the episode on a long tangent, and indulged in several tangents of varying length during the ...
Dropped D - Episode 03.01
Extra Lives - February 12, 2012 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsGet your "whoas" and "yeahs" ready! The Offspring era has begun! Desmond will make sure to type "The Offspring" in the show notes all of the time because, for damned sure, he won't be saying it in the show. But that's okay, because Damien is very accepting of this shortfall. In a show where your ...
Dropped D - Episode 02.06
Extra Lives - January 29, 2012 18:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIt's a Huge Conspiracy! The Guns N' Roses era of Dropped D ends with a whimper. The boys cover the lamented Chinese Democracy this week in the final GNR episode, because, let's face it, there won't be another. Even if there is, Desmond will be long dead by then, and Damien will be busy transferri...
Dropped D - Episode 02.05
Extra Lives - January 15, 2012 17:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe got a new show, we got it good! Du-nuh-nu-nu! Yes, you knew that we always would! Du-nuh-nu-nu! We stop to tangent off, but Des edits out the coughs! Desmond and Damien grab a handful of pasta and cover their very first cover album: "The Spaghetti Incident?" So jump on the shame train and grab...
Dropped D - Episode 02.04
Extra Lives - January 01, 2012 15:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis episode is so silly, Damien barely gets a greeting out before Desmond bursts into laughter. But once the boys start discussing Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion II, they talk about movie quotes sampled at the beginning of songs, documentaries about black metal, and world politics. And that's ...
Dropped D - Episode 02.03
Extra Lives - December 18, 2011 02:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsYour Gods of Rock are back with the first half of Guns N' Roses' double album: Use Your Illusion I. Desmond tweeted Axl Rose. Damien comes up with the idea to cast the Guns N' Roses movie with awkward celebrities. Then the two talk about the pretty significant line-up changes during this era of t...
Dropped D - Episode 02.02
Extra Lives - December 04, 2011 17:15 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis episode begins with puns so bad, it almost ends the show. Almost. Why would they end the show when there's so much to talk about in one of the weirdest releases a band has ever put out? This time, Desmond and Damian put on fingerless gloves, and, Guns N' Roses' second official release, G N' ...
Dropped D - Episode 02.01
Extra Lives - November 20, 2011 13:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn this extensive conversation of Guns N' Roses' first official release, Appetite for Destruction, Desmond and Damien discuss all aspects of the early era of the band. Along the way, they pay tons of lip service to LA Guns, Dave Mustaine, Mega Man, and teenage pop stars. Listen as the fellas reco...
Dropped D - Episode 01.06
Extra Lives - November 06, 2011 15:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsComing off Tool's magnum opus, Desmond and Damien bid farewell to the band, for now, by covering their misguided and much-awaited most recent release, 10,000 Days. In this episode, Desmond makes several puns so bad that Damien verbally winces. It was all for him! But that's suitable, because whil...
Dropped D - Episode 01.05
Extra Lives - October 23, 2011 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsStrap in, folks. Damien is about to swing on the spiral and go all Tool Nerd on your asses! In a review that spans almost twice as long as the actual album, the two hosts go over Tool's Lateralus. Get out your graphing calculators, you might need them. Also, Damien mentions the name of a band so ...
Dropped D - Episode 01.04
Extra Lives - October 09, 2011 14:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsYou thought the Tool discography was all a lovefest, didn't you? Even with a lukewarm reaction to the first EP, the guys were full of praise. This time, everything changes. As they slog their way through the audio disc that was part of Tool's Salival boxset, the guys make fun of young people a lo...
Dropped D - Episode 01.03
Extra Lives - September 25, 2011 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHow the hell do two guys talk about an album for almost twice its running length? By going on tangents and making references to Blur, Jungian theory, Scientology, and El Santo of course! Desmond and Damien also tell a cool story about a Monty Python record that neither of them can quite recall. M...
Dropped D - Episode 01.02
Extra Lives - September 11, 2011 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAs the hosts continue their Tool retrospective, they go in-depth on their first full-length album: Undertow. This record is full of stuff that we'll see more of on the next venture. Damien steals Desmond's title only seconds into the show, making for a very tense relationship between the two. Per...
Dropped D - Episode 01.01
Extra Lives - August 28, 2011 14:45 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIt has begun! Join Des and DW on their modern rock odyssey to go in-depth on their favorite bands, album-by-album, track-by-track. Up first is Tool, the masters of art-rock / prog-metal. The album: Opiate, their 1992 EP. Hear the boys dissect this less-than-stellar debut by referencing French bro...
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