🎙️ Welcome to Two Fat Guys and an Album …the only fat guys podcast that matters! 🎧🎸

This week, Mike Blackburn and Maestro Brek Hufnus are diving into Jane’s Addiction’s alt-rock breakthrough, Nothing’s Shocking 🔥—a landmark in alternative and art rock that helped shape the sound of late ’80s and early ’90s music. With Perry Farrell, Eric Avery, Dave Navarro, and Stephen Perkins at the helm, this album was raw, eclectic, and fearless. From its explosive energy to its cultural legacy (hello, Lollapalooza), Nothing’s Shocking left a permanent mark on rock history.

On Side Two, the guys check in on King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and their sprawling psychedelic jam-prog record Phantom Island 🌴🐉. Then Side Three takes a turn into Highly Suspect’s gritty, emotional and alternative powerhouse, The Boy Who Died Wolf 🐺⚡.

If you love deep dives, lively debates, and music that pushes at boundaries, you’re in the right place.

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📼 Episode Breakdown

0:00 Welcome + Nuggets 🐔 (The Who – Who’s Next, Keith Moon, rock is dead?, Tyler the Creator podcast rant)

11:55 Side One: Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking (band history, Lollapalooza, Porno for Pyros, Mountain Song video)

32:15 Song breakdown & analysis

51:51 Landmark? Perfect? 🗺️💯

1:01:48 Side Two: What’s Going On: Blind Melon, Des Plaines Theater, Becoming Led Zeppelin, BoDeans, Al Scorch, King Gizzard – Phantom Island, Flying Microtonal Banana

1:25:02 Side Three: Beyond Classic Rock: Highly Suspect – The Boy Who Died Wolf

1:38:20 Side Four: Ranking + Thank You 🙌

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🎵The Maestro's Current Album Ranking

1. Sgt. Pepper (1967) – The Beatles

2. Moondance (1970) – Van Morrison

3. The Doors (1967) – The Doors

4. Wish You Were Here (1973) Pink Floyd

5. Aqualung (1971) - Jethro Tull

6. Graceland (1986) - Paul Simon

7. Who's Next (1971) - The Who

8. Violent Femmes (1983) - Violent Femmes

9. London Calling (1979) – The Clash

10. Nothing's Shocking (1988) - Jane's Addiction

11.Blonde on Blonde (1966)-  Bob Dylan

12. American Beauty (1970)- Grateful Dead

13. The Sunset Tree (2005)- The Mountain Goats

14. Moving Pictures (1981) – Rush

15. Bat Out of Hell (1977) – Meat Loaf

16. Brothers in Arms (1985) – Dire Straits

17. Automatic for the People (1992) - R.E.M

18. The Chirping Crickets (1958) - Buddy Holly

19. Discipline (1981) – King Crimson

20. OK Computer (1997) - Radiohead

21. Joshua Tree (1987) U2

22. What’s the Story (1995) Oasis

23. Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985) – Sting

24. Breakfast in America (1979) - Supertramp

 

🎵The Show's Current Album Ranking

1. London Calling (1979) – The Clash

2. Blonde on Blonde (1966)-  Bob Dylan

3. Aqualung (1971) - Jethro Tull

4. Bat Out of Hell (1977) – Meat Loaf

5. The Doors (1967) – The Doors

6. Moving Pictures (1981) – Rush

7. Breakfast in America (1979) - Supertramp

8. Moondance (1970) – Van Morrison

9. Brothers in Arms (1985) – Dire Straits

10. Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985) – Sting