Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative Music Podcast

On the day of this episode's "transmission", it is 41 years to the day that we lost Ian Curtis.  We celebrate the music of Joy Division this week, one of the most influential and important bands of the O3L era.  Playing the role of Bueno this week, we've got the marvelous Mark Cline of Love Tractor returning to the show.  Since Mark and Love Tractor toured with New Order in the mid-80s, he's a very fitting guest host, and always has great insights and stories!   Also on the docket, we play a music nerd "would you rather" game, talk classic TV, get songwriting tips from Mark, and talk about Love Tractor news.  Don't miss the unknown pleasures of this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our oddest episode yet (question mark???)...you be the judge.  For starters, we discuss the Oddball Albums of the classic alternative era - the eccentric, the weird, the daring left turns, the unloved, the underappreciated, the groundbreaking, the soul patches.  Oh, the soul patches.  It's also odd because Bueno isn't back yet...and you know how we miss our Bueno! How appropriate, though, that our guest Lad this week is Jason Wright, host of the oddball show podcast, President/Founder of the oddball foundation, Editor-in-Chief of oddball magazine, author, poet, and mental health advocate.  We had a great time with Jason, and know you will too!  Not only does he know his music, but he also shares some great insights during this Mental Health Awareness Month.   O3L tackling heavy subjects?  That *is* odd! P.S. Up your nose with a rubber hose! P.P.S. Just kidding, we love you.  We wish no rubber hoses up your noses.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coming soon to a podcast near you!  O3L Media presents: Cool Like O3L.  The year is 1991.  A grungy slacker who may or may not actually be your uncle.  A troubled hoodrat from the mean streets of suburban Poway.  A young medical prodigy with a taste for Toad in the Hole.  Three different worlds.  One united cause: to save the world from terrible music.  Yo, drop the zeros and get with the heroes! Note: Bueno is taking a brief hiatus, but Dr. Don did a great job stepping into those giant basketball playing shoes this week!  The Bueno-ator says: "I'll be baaaaaack."   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've got a fever...and the only cure is more CURE!   Join us for Only Three (Imaginary) Lads this week.   In the O3L world, The Cure are as important an institution as any. During this special episode, we celebrate the music and legacy of Robert Smith and his legendary band. The gloomy. The doomy. The playfully silly. The sublime. The hauntingly gorgeous. The profound and poetic.   And because it's "Never Enough", we also talk Moby! Why Bueno doesn't have kids! Evolution! UFOs!   Sleep tight, kiddies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this very special crossover O3L, we discuss our Top 5 Workout Songs with the very REAL  medical professional Dr. Don Sharnowski.  Dr. Don is  one of the leading experts in the wellness field, but he's also a dear friend of the show and a huge classic alternative music fan.  Not only can nobody fill out an O3L Be Bueno shirt like Dr. Don, but he's got a reeeeally big dictionary.  That's dictionary,  you sickos...seriously, he offers some very eloquent and thoughtful insights into the music. Even though we're pretty much a medical podcast now, on the other side of the Callhole... It did not escape us that this episode is coming out on 4/20, and Bueno...uh, let's just say he played *A LOT* of "basketball" before the show.   Put on your sweatbands and get ready for the most unusual and outrageous O3L yet!     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like, gag us with a spoon! It was a totally gnarly topic this week. Join the Lads and their fake new wave bands, The Highscore Kids, Hooper Dream, and VHS Lazer (pew-pew-pew), as they attempt to count down their Top 5 New Wave Songs.   Featuring such hits as*:   The Highscore Kids - "Is The Girl Who Looks Like Belinda Really Going Out With Him?"   Hooper Dream - "We Got The Meat"   VHS Lazer - "Do You Really Want To Hurt Him (Sarah)?"   If you're wearing your WWBD bracelet and thinking "What Would Bueno Do?", the answer his simple: He'd listen to this episode of O3L. Sounds like good advice.   * Don't worry, this episode does not actually feature these hits, because these are neither real songs nor real bands.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ah, 1974. Bueno was a young, wild teenager with a Greg Brady perm harboring a crush for Helen Hunt. Uncle Gregg was a wee toddler digging the Electric Company and special brownies. Baby Brett Weird was just entering the world, no doubt with a stack of obscure Mongolian records in his crib. Yup, that's how we remember 1974.   The Lads recount their favorite albums from 1974 - the wild, the weird, and the groundbreaking. It's a crazy, globetrotting musical journey.   Plus, Uncle Gregg's "baby Mama" Aunt Vicky pays O3L a special, unforgettable visit! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here at O3L, we don’t just talk about great guitarists...we have great guitarists join us! And it doesn’t get much better than art rock pioneers and founding members of the legendary Athens, GA alternative scene (and our new BFFs), LOVE TRACTOR. For this episode, we are joined by guitarists Mark Cline & Mike Richmond and bassist Armistead Wellford as we all discuss our favorite guitarists...celebrating the doodly doodlies, the chunka chunkas, the visionaries and the influencers both in and out of the O3L era.   Love Tractor recently reissued a remixed and expanded version of their 1982 eponymous debut, an instrumental masterwork of shimmering guitar interplay that Mike Mills from REM lauds as “one of my favorite records of all time.”   But wait, there's more...   We had such a great time with the guys that it ended up being our most epic show yet. Army, Mark and Mike had so many incredible and hilarious stories that we present a two part bonus feature, Fun to be Happy: O3L in Conversation with Love Tractor. Believe us, some of the best moments are on these episodes, so make sure to check those out too!   Thanks to Love Tractor for being so wonderful and generous with their time and memories, and a special thanks to Karen Allison for coordinating everything.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PART ONE:   We had such a great time with Mark, Mike and Army from Love Tractor that it ended up being our most epic show yet. They had so many incredible and hilarious stories that we present a two part bonus feature, Fun to be Happy: O3L in Conversation with Love Tractor. Believe us, do not miss these. Some of the best moments are on these episodes.   We cover everything from Love Tractor history to times with fellow Athens luminaries like The B-52’s, REM and Pylon to stories about New Order, The Bangles, Alex Chilton, Chrissie Hynde, Iggy Pop, 10,000 Maniacs, Red Hot Chili Peppers, RuPaul, Mick Ronson and so much more. And we guarantee you will never hear “Pushin’ Too Hard” the same way again!   Thanks to Love Tractor for being so wonderful and generous with their time and memories, and a special thanks to Karen Allison for coordinating everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PART TWO:   We had such a great time with Mark, Mike and Army from Love Tractor that it ended up being our most epic show yet. They had so many incredible and hilarious stories that we present a two part bonus feature, Fun to be Happy: O3L in Conversation with Love Tractor. Believe us, do not miss these. Some of the best moments are on these episodes.   We cover everything from Love Tractor history to times with fellow Athens luminaries like The B-52’s, REM and Pylon to stories about New Order, The Bangles, Alex Chilton, Chrissie Hynde, Iggy Pop, 10,000 Maniacs, Red Hot Chili Peppers, RuPaul, Mick Ronson and so much more. And we guarantee you will never hear “Pushin’ Too Hard” the same way again!   Thanks to Love Tractor for being so wonderful and generous with their time and memories, and a special thanks to Karen Allison for coordinating everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices