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Although we do not like the term Yacht Rock, it represents an important and influential time in popular music. As the Baby Boom generation matured into their 30’s and 40’s, many members transitioned into a subset named the Me Generation.  In the late 1950’s and throughout the 1960’s, the Baby Boomers changed pop culture foreverContinue reading “Top 5 Yacht Rock”

The movie industry reached it’s mid-life crisis in the 1970’s as dark realism and nostalgia crept into all genres.  The major studios embraced outsiders blurring the lines between major and independent influencing nearly every movie that came after. On this episode Louis and Mike discuss their five favorite movies released in the 1970’s and of courseContinue reading “Top 5 70’s Movies”

No filmmaker has had a greater impact on film and culture over the last 30 years than Quentin Tarantino. As much as he is influenced by the movies and television of his youth, music has always been a big part of not only the finished film, but Tarantino uses music all throughout the process asContinue reading “Top 5 Quentin Tarantino”

According to pop culture author and essayist Chuck Klosterman, the 90’s may be the last decade to be easily defined by itself. After the fury of Grunge abated, Rock became dominated by what was called Alternative music. From singer songwriters to just short of heavy metal, everybody was included under the Alternative umbrella. It wasContinue reading “Top 5 90’s Alternative Rock”

At the end of the last episode, we promised that the next subject would take us closer to the present, but then we both watched the Get Back Documentary by Peter Jackson and had to talk about it.  The Beatles are ubiquitous; not only as a result of their recordings, but also because an argumentContinue reading “Top 5 The Beatles”

When Yankee great Joe DiMaggio made appearances at sporting events and mall openings, he would insist upon being introduced as the world’s greatest living baseball player.  At a time when Ted Williams, Wille Mays, Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron still walked the earth, it was a false claim, but like being the King of PopContinue reading “Top 5 The Rolling Stones”

As the Punks grew up and learned to play their instruments, the music changed and became more sophisticated. At the same time executives in the music business wanted to shy away from the the rawness and violence Punk Rock projected so Punk Rock was repackaged and marketed as many new forms of music; Post Punk,Continue reading “Top 5 New Wave (Second British Invasion)”

We hated the term then and it is basically meaningless now, but what was called Grunge in the late 1980’s to about 1992 changed Rock n Roll forever. Louis and Mike discuss the music of their angry young manhood and they try to defend and define a musical movement that exploded while it was exploitedContinue reading “Top 5 Grunge Songs”