This epic show included some surprises, including about 25% CanCon and none of them named “Rush”. Even the picks that were only selected once included some pretty massive albums. Check out the lists, and the graphs by Geoff, and let us know what you think about our picks!
The LeBrain Train: 2000 Words or More with Mike and Friends
Saturday July 9 – Episode 75 – Top Debut Albums of All Time
Our audacious panel is tackling a big list topic this week, brought to you by Kevin: Top debut albums. The graphic above is a mere tease. Some of those albums might be on lists, some might not…you never can tell what you’re going to get with a rogue’s gallery like this:
In a show first, this will be Geoff’s debut as a participant and not just the scorekeeper/grapher! This will be a lot of fun for us, and hopefully you as well. Get ready with your own lists — this show’s gonna rock.
This could be the first list show with entirely unique picks. There was no overlap among the 55 albums selected! It was also one of the most diverse sets of lists.
We started the show with some new action figures (including Lemmy, who turned up on one of our lists), then did a quick interview with J, before diving into the lists. The lists start around the 0:42:00 minute mark!
This was a long show, but the audience hung in for the whole thing and dropped some amazing comments. Check it out.
Don’t forget to check out Andy Curran on the Saturday show!
It’s another two-show weekend! Get ready to rock this Friday and Saturday.
The LeBrain Train: 2000 Words or More with Mike and Friends
Friday – Episode 69 – Blind Buys
What is the best album that you bought “on spec” — without knowing much of anything about it? This is a great question for fun discussions. The subject was suggested by Kevin aka BuriedOnMars, who is one of our favourite guests here on the show. With him will be Sarca Sim and her own killer list. Aaron from the KMA will be on board with his best discoveries.
And…for the first time ever…all the way from Scotland…
…Joining this LeBrain Train in his debut appearance is J, the Vinyl Daft Dad, aka Jim Dead. This talented singer/guitar player/songwriter has been wanting to hang out for over a year, and now we finally get to do it. Well overdue! Not only is he a truly great musician, but also a wonderful human. This show, and these lists, are going to be prodigous!
The LeBrain Train: 2000 Words or More with Mike and Deke
Saturday – Episode 70 – Andy Curran, round 3!
I’m sitting here in awe that Andy Curran is coming back to talk to us for a third time. The Earl of the Eighth Note, the masterful bassist and vocalist from Coney Hatch, is back to take care of some loose ends! I can’t think of a better way for you to spend a Saturday afternoon than checking out the rock and roll tales of Andy Curran. Now that we have the Coney Hatch Live at the El Mocambo album in hand, we have so much more to ask. We also have some special guest questions locked and loaded. Make no mistake — this will not be a repeat of the firsttwo Curran shows!
I’d like to thank Deke, Andy and Chip for making this possible. As Deke says, we’re just fans. But we eat, breath and sleep this stuff. Andy has some of the best stories. I can’t wait to hear some more.
As usual, this is a show that you want to make sure that you catch live. We try to ask as many viewer questions as we can so don’t miss it!
Awesome show this week! The 42nd LeBrain Train was another three hour long epic. The theme was “Best Bands You Probably Never Heard Of”. We never settled on a proper wording for it, or a proper system for keeping score. The goal was to introduce you to plenty of artists we think you’d think. And we hope you do! For the first time ever, there was no crossover with the six lists!
Added bonus: At the mid-way point (1:30:00 exactly) a very-caffeinated-me decided to go on an F-bomb laden rant about people who post The Mandalorian spoilers openly on social media without warnings. Please enjoy my rant!
The final score:
Mike: 11 points
Sarah: 14 points
Harrison: 17 points
Rob: 19 points
John: 23 points
Aaron: 88 points
Huge thanks to everyone for hanging out so long! Thanks for watching and see you next week.
Thank you to Sarah and Kevin (Caught Me Gaming and Buried On Mars respectively) for co-hosting, and for some amazing Nigel Tufnel Top Ten Led Zeppelin songs lists! Thank you to Aaron (Keeps Me Alive) and Uncle Meat (no affiliation) for adding your lists to the mix. We heard about some brilliant songs tonight with some personal touches of what makes them so special.
But the hero of the night is Graph Wizard Geoff from 1001albumsin10years! Thanks to him, we can call some clear winners or losers in this race!
Or can we? You’ll just have to watch to find out!
If you don’t feel like watching the whole thing, you can just check out Geoff’s cool graphs below!
The LeBrain Train: 2000 Words or More with Mike Ladano
Episode 37
In case you didn’t know, Sarah and Kevin (Caught Me Gaming and Buried On Mars respectively) just finished a massive Led Zeppelin review series. Separately, they reviewed each Zeppelin album, from Zep I right to Coda. They did a fantastic job of it, so with that completed, I had to have them on. We’re going to do the Nigel Tufnel Top Ten Led Zeppelinsongs, with a few bonus guest lists in the hopper as well.
“But Mike!” you say. “I have a hard time keeping up with all those lists, and remembering how many times certain songs or albums were picked.”
You’re right; I have a hard time keeping track too. So this time, finally, we’re bringing in Geoff from 1001albumsin10years. Geoff is the graph master. You give him any subject you can think of, and he’ll come back with some kind of graph. If anyone can keep track of our Zep stats, it’s him. I feel the countdown will be in good hands with Geoff.
Gratitude to Kevin / Buried On Mars for helping me get started with Streamyard. Thanks to the insightful Mr. Mars, and thanks to the perseverance of Mr. Books, today we accomplished a few goals:
Successfully test streamed with the one and only Aaron of the KMA on board, full video and audio, for the first time ever.
Cleared up some other issues when streaming with a co-host, such as mirrored images and working from a PC.
This test stream went on for an hour as our impromptu chat developed. We talked music, guitars, the Community, Covid, school, Paul Rudd, and Skip the Dishes. This little unofficial bonus episode is now available for you to watch below. But the significance is huge to me. Now I can have up to five additional co-hosts on future shows. The game has changed. The sky is the limit!
Sarca from Caught Me Gaming does much more than just video games (not that those don’t rock)! She talks coffee, she talks books, movies, and occasionally music too. I was thrilled to get this birthday gift. Check the video below.
Aaron got the same gift from Sarca for his birthday! Check his out over at KeepsMeAlive.
Thank you Sarca for this awesome rock and roll mug!
Aaron and I have returned safely from Toronto, with treasures in hand! He has posted to the KMA a non-spoiler update regarding the trip. We both did very well. As a “Taranna First” I was providing live photographic updates of the trip via social media.
As I did on the previous two trips, I took plenty of photos and video with the intent of creating another great trip video! With that in mind, we don’t want to spoil too much about our adventure, so this is just a brief preview. Of note, Aaron bore gifts, and one of them is a book that I am just as happy to get as I am some of my musical finds. Aaron also helped add to my 6″ Stormtrooper army!
The sad news: Even though I was quite confident that we would find at least one item from somebody’s KMA Holy Grail list, we did not. I was sure that we would at least be able to find one of Sarca’s, such as the Ray Lyell CD. I was surprised that we didn’t. I might have an easier time finding it locally.
Having said that: I encourage you to check out the KMA Grail list and add your own long-sought albums to it. Though we did not have luck with it this time, we did look hard. The more people who participate in the Holy Grail list, the better, so as my buddy Aaron would say GIVE’R!
Enjoy the photo gallery, and if you missed the videos from the 2012 and 2013 trips, you can check those out below.
LeBrain (who, I am glad to say, did not fart once in Aaron’s car this time.)
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