It’s time to look back at the year in music with The Extended Play Podcast. Hosts E and Tank listened to a ton of new music this year, and even managed to like a lot of it. Get your Notes app ready, because we’ve got a lot of recommendations. Or just check out this Spotify playlist. We also talk about some of the biggest stories in music, including the Kendrick/Drake beef, Diddy being a scumbag, and the future of AI. Thanks to all of our Extended Family for an amazing 2024. We’ll be back in a few weeks from a remodeled studio with more great music talk. Did we miss any great albums from 2024? Let us know in the comments. Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
The time has come. We’ve been counting down the 100 Best Albums of Our Lifetime for the past few months, and we’ve finally arrived at the Top 10. We started this project with nearly 700 albums to consider, and couldn’t be prouder of where we ended up. If you haven’t been following along the whole time, catch up on previous episodes in our feed or on YouTube. Listen to a Spotify playlist of the albums in this episode. What do you think of the Top 10? Let us know in the comments! Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
We’ve been counting down the 100 Best Albums of Our Lifetime, and before we get to the Top 10, we thought it was time to take a quick detour and talk about some fantastic albums that did NOT make the list. Were our choices arbitrary and capricious? Hell no! We take a deep dive on why these albums are great - just not great enough to make the Top 100. What do you think of these albums? Any albums we’ve missed so far that you don’t think are in our Top 10? Let us know in the comments! Check out this playlist of the albums featured in the episode. Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
And just like that, we’re one step away from the Top 10. But before we get to the absolute cream-of-the-crop, we’ve got some killer albums to discuss taking up the 20-11 spots. A bunch of genres and subgenres are represented here, including one album that E thinks is essential listening (though one could argue this entire list is essential, right? 😉). What do you think of this portion of the list? Any of these make it into your Top 20? Let us know in the comments! Check out this playlist of the albums featured in the episode. Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast. Mentioned in the episode: Song Exploder: “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails Playlist Challenge: “Clones” (featuring Jimi $pendrixx) Rick Beato’s interview with Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots
Long time members of The Extended Family™️ may remember last year when hosts E and Tank committed to three music-related New Year’s resolutions. Well, it’s time to check in on their progress. Any guesses on how they did? Plus, they’ll make three more resolutions each for 2025. This episode brought to you by Shanky’s Whip. It’s Worth a Try! (There is no official partnership between The Extended Play Podcast and Shanky’s Whip…yet. We just love the stuff. 😉🥴) Do you have any music-related resolutions? Let us know what they are in the comments! Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
Our countdown of the Top 100 Songs of Our Lifetime has reached numbers 30 through 21. So many incredible albums that our hosts are nearly speechless. Just kidding - they go on and on and on; exactly what you’d come to expect from The Extended Play Podcast. What do you think about the list so far? Would any of these albums make your list? Let us know in the comments! Mentioned in the episode: Listen to a playlist of albums included in today’s countdown. Reaction to hearing “Killing in the Name Of” for the first time. Like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
Having recently included “A Rush of Blood to the Head” in our Top 100 Albums of Our Lifetime, we knew we’d have to review Coldplay’s latest. This one really tested us TBH. Come for the album review (we go to 20!), stay for E learning why he can’t say “pegged” anymore. 🤢 What do you think of the album? Let us know in the comments? Watch all of our past video episodes. Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
The countdown of the Top 100 Songs of Our Lifetime continues with numbers 40-31. Quite an eclectic mix of albums in this episode! Watch as hosts E and Tank go all Siskel & Ebert on this episode, ranking a few albums WAY differently. What do you think about the list so far? Would any of these albums make your list? Let us know in the comments! Listen to the albums included in today’s countdown. Watch video episodes of the show. Mentioned in the episode: Playlist Challenge: “New/Year” (at end of our “Musical New Year’s Resolutions” episode): Playlist Challenge: “Medical” Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
Do the words “satin crotch shot” mean anything to you? Well, they didn’t to us until we watched the video for Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five’s hip-hop classic “The Message.” Somehow, the video is way worse - and better - than you can possibly imagine. What did you think of the video? Let us know in the comments. Check out other video episodes of our show. Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
It’s become a show cliche at this point, but true nonetheless; the albums in our list of the Top 100 Albums of Our Lifetime just keep getting better! 😜 This time around, we move past the half-way point to discuss some classic hip-hop albums and some that deserve to be classics. Plus, we give you our un-asked-for take on Canadians. What do you think about the list so far? Would any of these albums make your list? Let us know in the comments! Watch more video episodes of the show. Mentioned in the episode: Spotify playlist of albums included in today’s countdown Bon Iver - A Take Away Show - “For Emma, Forever Ago” and “Skinny Love” Playlist Challenge: “Clones” (Songs with Identical Titles) Playlist Challenge: “Names” Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
We're back with an episode just for our non-YouTube folks! It's the return of the Playlist Challenge! Hosts E and Tank each choose five songs that have something to do with comebacks, they each listen to each other's choices, and then rate them from worst to best. It's a blast!Which songs were your favorites? Least favorites? Let us know in the comments on Spotify.Listen to a playlist of the songs on Spotify and YouTube. Please check out the video versions of the show.Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
Umm…what the hell did we just watch?! Only the most confusingly awesome music video maybe of all time? Seriously, there is a LOT going on in Vince Neil’s “Sister of Pain” video, beginning with a cyborg exotic dancer and ending with a space age helicopter rescue mission. Plus, the vibraslap ™️. Laugh along with hosts E and Tank as they go deep into this masterpiece. What did you think of the video? Let us know in the comments. Check out other episodes of our show. Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
And just like that, we reach the halfway point of our countdown. This episode, we see the appearance of a recently reunited English giant, some 90s bangers, and robots. 🤖 What do you think about the list so far? Would any of these albums make your list? Let us know in the comments! Watch video episodes of the show. Listen to a Spotify playlist of the albums featured in the show. Mentioned in the episode: T-Pain’s cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” Radiohead performing “In Rainbows” in complete “In Rainbows” - The Dissect Podcast Gnarls Barkley’s cover of “Reckoner” Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
Why, you might ask, do Extended Play Podcast album reviews go to 20? It’s simple; because they’re twice as awesome as any other lame-ass review system. 😎 This time around our hosts check out the latest album by Detroit hero and former member of the White Stripes, Mr. Jack White. Could we have a new record for highest scored album? 👀 Tune in and find out! What did you think of “NO NAME?” Let us know in the comments! Check out the video version of this show and previous video episodes. Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
The countdown of the 100 best albums of our lifetime continues! This time around, it’s #70-#61, which includes at least two of our hosts’ all-time favorite artists. What do you think about the list so far? Would any of these albums make your list? Let us know in the comments!Listen to a Spotify playlist of the albums featured in this episode. Watch the video version of this episode or past video episodes of the show.Like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
Watch as hosts E and Tank spring music-related lists on each other, with each having to answer 10 correctly before getting 5 incorrect. This episode, E will have to guess the top selling artists of all time, while Tank will have to guess the top selling soundtracks. Who will win? Who will lose? How do two dudes who have a music podcast seemingly know so little about music? Play along and let us know how you did in the comments! Check out previous editions of 10 Before 5: Top Streaming Artists on Spotify & Best Songs of the 80s Top Touring Country Musicians vs. Highest Grossing Biopics Don’t forget to like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
Despite Tank’s intro, this episode is NOT about grooming habits of the 1970s 😜, but numbers 80-71 of our countdown of the 100 best albums of our lifetime. Sure, they may have collaborated on the list, but it’s worth tuning in to see how differently hosts E and Tank rank some really killer albums. What do you think about the list so far? Would any of these albums make your list? Let us know in the comments! Watch the video version of this episode or past video episodes of the show. Like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast. Mentioned in the episode: The “Dancing in the Dark” Remix Every Sample on “Paul’s Boutique” Extended Play’s Best Album Covers
Listen, you’re not going to find two bigger Run the Jewels fans than hosts E and Tank. 👉🤛 So imagine how pumped they were when Killer Mike dropped a surprise album a couple of weeks ago! What did they think? Did it meet expectations? Exceed them? Fall short? What do you think of the album? Let us know in the comments! Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast. Check out the video version of this episode or previous video episodes.
Way back in Season 1 of our show, we discussed what makes a great live concert. We revisited the topic in this episode after our hosts attended a Dave Matthews Band show last month. How does it measure up to other shows we’ve seen? What has changed in the last few years about seeing live shows? Why are fans at concerts all of a sudden behaving so badly? What was your latest show experience like? Are our hosts way off? Let us know in the comments! Watch the video version of this episode or our other video episodes of the show: Please like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
The countdown of the 100 best albums of our lifetime continues. In this episode, we discuss albums 90-81, an eclectic mix of pop, hip-hop, rock, and metal. What do you think about the list so far? Would any of these albums make your list? Let us know in the comments! Watch the video version of this episode and more video episodes of the show. Like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.