Rock And/or Roll

Just in time, a Christmas playlist for you to enjoy, or put on in the background. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released in 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released February 2015: BJ gets down deeper and down with one of his favorite rock bands of the seventies--Status Quo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Same name, different band. METELICA - TRAIN METELICA - TIME AND TIME AGAIN NIRVANA - PENTECOST HOTEL NIRVANA - SATELLITE JOCKEY NEW EDITION - SUNSHINE SATURDAY OASIS - SMILE FOR THE SUN KID ROCK - ICE CREAM MAN THE EAGLES - YOUR ENEMY CAN'T HURT YOU THE SUPREMES - JUST FOR YOU AND I PANTERA - I CONFESS CINDERELLA - FROM TOWN TO TOWN THE RUNAWAYS - WHERE WE CAME FROM THE MISFITS - YOU REALLY WANT ME THE STROKES - WHATCHA GONNA DO DISTURBED - I DON'T BELIEVE OFFSPRING - WINDFALL VELVET UNDERGROUND - SOMEBODY TO LOVE IRON MAIDEN - FALLING HEART - LOVEMAKER THE KNACK - ALWAYS POISON - GET UP AND MOVE YOUR BODY PUBLIC ENEMY - NO RESPECT ANTHRAX - PPB WARRANT - SATAN NEW ORDER - ROCK 'N' ROLL SOLDIERS WAYNE COUNTY AND THE BACKSTREET BOYS - MAX'S KANSAS CITY LUCKY HILL AND THE ROLLING STONES - I'M WONDERING GENE SIMMONS - MONEY MONEY MONEY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released Aug 2016: BJ is once again joined by Julian Gill from the KissFAQ podcast, this time for a discussion about the roller coaster career of legendary sleaze rocker Zodiac Mindwarp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2014 a certain record sold on ebay for $14,000. The lucky seller purchased the album at a Goodwill in New Hampshire for $1.00. As it turned out, very few copies existed because the majority of whatever had been pressed had most likely been shipped straight to a landfill by the label as a shady tax write off. And this wasn't a one-off scam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In BJ's opinion Bad Company were, well...bad. That is, until Brian Howe replaced singer Paul Rodgers in the mid-eighties. Then they were kind of good, for awhile. On this episode BJ tells the story of the band's awkward transition from the seventies to the eighties, and counts down his top ten favorite Bad Company songs...with Brian Howe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released August 2015: It was a great year for rock and roll so on this episode, which is episode number 89, BJ discusses not his top ten but his top fifteen favorite albums to be released in the corresponding year of 1989. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Part four in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part three in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part one in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released May 2016: Burn a building! Burn! Burn! Burn! For this episode BJ is joined by frequent guest Greg Renoff, author of Van Halen Rising, to discuss Def Leppard's smash hit album from 1983. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released September 2013: Holy shit, finally here it is, the Sunset Strip Part 2, 48 songs by the best, poppiest, glammiest bands to have infested the Strip in the eighties and early nineties, handpicked by BJ: his favorite songs by his favorite bands from that Sunset Strip glam scene. Have fun! CANDY - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FUN CANDY - AMERICAN KIX (LIVE) DATA CLAN - GYPSY LOVE FASTER PUSSYCAT - CITY HAS NO HEART JETBOY - FEEL SO GOOD AGENT X - RUN IF YOU CAN HOT WHEELZ - THE SHAKE PLAIN JANE - YOUNG WILD AND FREE PLAIN JANE - HEAVEN WARRANT - TEASE MACHINE ROCK CITY ANGELS - TEENAGE LIPSTICK BOYS RUBY SLIPPERS - DON'T TELL ME ST. VALENTINE - HARD DAYS LONG NIGHTS LICKITY SPLIT - TOO LATE FOR LOVE TRASH COWBOYS - WHEN IT'S OVER JUICY MISS LUCY - ONE WAY TICKET TO L.A. BIG BANG BABIES - COME ON ANGORA - GIVE ME A LINE TUFF - SINNER STREET ROUGH JUSTICE - CHEAP DISGUISE PAIR A DICE - WHERE'S JENNY ALLEYCAT SCRATCH - TAKE A BITE (OUTTA ME) THE ZEROS - STICKY SWEET GIRLS SWINGIN' THING - LET'S DO IT WI

Originally released September 2013: The Sunset Strip is a mile and a half stretch of Sunset Blvd which lies outside the jurisdiction of the LAPD. On today's episode we take a look at the amazing hard rock scene that sprung up on the strip in the seventies and the heavy metal scene it spawned in the eighties. VAN HALEN - THE ROVER VAN HALEN - HERE'S JUST WHAT YOU WANTED QUIET RIOT - PICKING UP THE PIECES SNOW - DON'T WANT ANYMORE THE BOYZ - NITE BOYZ XCITER - PARIS IS BURNING DOKKEN - HARD ROCK WOMAN MICKEY RATT - RATT MADNESS SISTER - SWEET DREAMS LONDON - DREAM GIRL ROCKANDI - MY GIRL WAITING FOR ME MOTLEY CRUE - RUNNING WILD IN THE NIGHT SIN - BREAK DOWN THE WALLS WITCH - BEWITCHED KERY DOLL - A CHILD SHALL LEAD HOLLYWOOD ROSE - SHADOW OF YOUR LOVE L.A. GUNS - SOMETHING HEAVY THE SHARKS - HARD TO GET L.A. GUNS - LOVE IS A CRIME SWEET SAVAGE - ON THE ROCKS POISON - TALKIN' LOUD MOTLEY CRUE - TOAST OF THE TOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Never mind Nevermind, BJ picks his top ten Nirvana songs not included on that iconic release. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released August 2013: This episode is a tribute to the concept of an "album" as a work of art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For many, like BJ, the 1971 dark comedy film Harold and Maude was their introduction to British songwriter Cat Stevens. If you're unfamiliar, may this episode be your introduction to either or both. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices