Your Music Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad

Feb 21 2025 92 ep. 60 mins 38
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Matt and friends discuss the state of music, popular or otherwise, in the 21st century.

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More Nevermore or Sadboy Starsearch

Feb 21 2025 34 mins  
Jeff Loomis and Van Williams reunite to form Nevermore 2.0 (Warrel's dead and Jeff wasn't invited) and hold open internet auditions for a new singer and bass player. Matt and Blake discuss what this could lead to and what the chances are it produces anything musically interesting. If nothing else it will definitely produce CONTENT.

Dream Theater's Nocturnal Emissions (or Parasomnia or whatever)

Feb 14 2025 33 mins  
Matt and Blake review Dream Theater's new album "Parasomnia" aka "Nocturnal Emissions" aka "Mike Portnoy's CPAP Machine".Its a concept album exploring how quickly Dream Theater can put you to sleep by playing riffs they've recycled so many times you're not sure if its an intentional quote of their own work or if they're just still deeply out of ideas.Fans (nobody) have been clamori

BEAT: The Ultimate Old Dude Band (LIVE!) Part 2

Dec 27 2024 65 mins  
Matt is joined by Brooks Rocco to discuss their experience seeing BEAT - 80s King Crimson reunion / tribute featuring Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Zappa, Talking Heads) and Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Liquid Tension Experiment) as well as Danny Carey (Tool) and Steve Vai (Steve Vai).

Opeth's Last Will and Testament

Dec 21 2024 38 mins  
Episode 88Is Opeth BACK or is Mike just dumping his last good ideas? Do we love the album concept or are we annoyed that the song titles are a character I don't know how to type? Does this prog metal album achieve the jazz? None of these questions and more on this episode of Your Music Is Bad ...And You Should Feel Bad.Find us on Bluesky:Matt - @theonetruematt.bsky.socialBlake - @b

BEAT: The Ultimate Old Dude Band, Part 1

Dec 12 2024 22 mins  
Adrian Belew and Tony Levin of King Crimson enlist Danny Carey (Tool) and Steve Vai (Steve Vai) to play the 80s King Crimson albums "Discipline", "Beat" and "Three of a Perfect Pair"Matt and Blake discuss this unique period of King Crimson's music and their first exposure to it

Seven Spires: A Fortress Called Home

Dec 02 2024 21 mins  
No funny title 'cause we didn't really think this album was very bad. What are we even doing here? Do you even want to listen to this podcast if we LIKE albums? Is there any point if we aren't hating on things? Why do I ask so many questions in the episode descriptions?This album came out in June but you want to hear what we think of it NOW! Except we also recorded what we thought

Time II - Your Sauna Dollars At Work

Oct 28 2024 25 mins  
Matt and Blake discuss the long awaited Time II by Wintersun.They discuss the many rounds of crowdfunding, why there was a Time I in the first place and whether the album lives up to the hype. But most importantly, could Jari have made this album without a sauna?

Sonic Symphony Concert Review | YMIB 84

Jul 20 2024 34 mins  
Matt tells Blake about his unexpected trip to see Sonic Symphony featuring Ty Christian of Lords of the Trident on vocals. Also why this occurred because of Threads, the Twitter of Facebook. A surprisingly positive episode. Apologies to our regular listeners, someone will definitely dislike something on the next one.

New Albums! Evergrey, Lords of the Trident and Unleash the Archers

Jun 29 2024 63 mins  
In this episode, Matt and Blake discuss three new albums: Evergrey's 'Theories of Emptiness,' Unleash the Archers' 'Phantoma' and Lords of the Trident's 'The VGEP. The hosts discuss the use of AI in music and the challenges of creating concept albums about AI.

Why are GAMERS mad about the Oscar for Best Original Score?

Mar 25 2024 31 mins  
This is about music, really. It just happens to involve a lot of talk about video games. The Gamers are mad at Ludwig Goransson for comments made in his acceptance speech for his Academy Award for Best Original Score. Ludwig's done a lot of great work, what have video games ever done?