Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative Music Podcast

This week, the lads travel back to share their Top 5 songs from the high school graduation years - 1977, 1988, and 1992.   Graduating at the top of the class at O3L High:   - Brett, "Most Likely to Earn a Fake PhD in Music Nerdery" - Uncle Gregg, "Most Likely to Steal a Pixies Cassette" - Bueno, "Most Likely to Date a Model from a Robert Palmer Video"   I'm glad we became friends this year.  Have a rad summer.  KIT.  Ack!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey kids!  O3L Records presents all of your favorite groovy hits on one long playing podcast.  You get 29 Original Episodes by the 3 Original Lads!     This episode, we discuss our Top 5 Various Artist Compilation Albums, and we've come up with (to quote an old K-Tel album) pure gold.  But wait...there's more!     You get these smashes and more: "Be Bueno" (12" Remix) "You'll Come Around, Gregg" "I'd Like To Punch Reel Big Fish Silly (But They Probably Had It Comin')"   Act now - supplied are limited!**   **No, they're not.       Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why, thank you for noticing how gritty and topical we've gotten lately. We feel it's our duty to both entertain AND educate. Therefore, we're gonna share part of the screenplay for the very first O3L After School Special:   [Son is sitting on his bed, obviously listening to Episode 28 of O3L, upset that Uncle Gregg didn't pick Gino Vanelli's "Living Inside Myself". His father comes bursting into his room, clutching a Depeche Mode single. Or maybe even Dexys Midnight Runners, because kids are rebellious, after all.]     Dad: What is this?   Son: I don't know, it's not mine.   Dad: Your mother found it in your closet.   Son: One of the guys must have left...   Dad: Tell me! Where did you get this? Who taught you how to listen to this stuff!?   Son: YOU, OK?!?! I learned it from listening to YOU!   [End scene}   So, whaddya think?   The moral of the story: Teach your children well. Oh yeah, and listen to O3L. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you belieeeve in life after O3L?  We sure don't, because near, far, wherever you are...O3L will go on and on.  In case you haven't caught on by now, this week we're taking the O3L spaceship back to 1998.  And we think we've really outdone ourselves, for what it's worth! We also announce the winner of the "Uncle Gregg Caption Contest."  Dig it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We celebrate half a year worth of episodes with our Top 5 Non-Album Singles.  You know, those great standalone singles that didn't find a home on an album.  They're like little gifts from the artist to the fan.     You know what else is a gift?  The picture of Uncle Gregg circa 1988 on our Facebook page at facebook.com/onlythreelads. Caption the picture by Saturday, 8/15/20 - best caption will WIN an O3L T-shirt of your choice!   Don't say we never gave you nuttin.  Or else O3L is gonna give you the business, see? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Birthday, Bueno!  Let your freak flag fly.   This episode, we celebrate the one word man known as Bueno, and our top one word bands of the O3L era.  One word bands - lazy...or just plain resourceful?  You make the call.  Join Bueno, Brett & Uncle Gregg as the musical archaeologists make some important excavations.  Wooooo-eeeee!  Plus, the Lads have some sage advice for the youngins out there: Crime DOES pay, kids!*   * The producers of Only Three Lads do not actually endorse nor condone criminal activity.  We just play hardened street thugs on a podcast, that's all.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're gonna have to face it...you're addicted to O3L.  And that's OK, because we're here to give you your weekly fix.  Yeah, we're enablers.  This episode, we hop in the Delorean and set the Flux Capacitor for 1985.  Aside from discussing some of the greatest alternative music ever created, Uncle Gregg gives us a taste of movie cheese, Brett reveals his obvious mastery of a Dutch accent, and Bueno?!?  Well, let's just say you have to hear it to believe it.  So, pour yourself a Double Palmer and stay awhile!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER!  In this episode, the lads count down the songs of the past that sound like the future...or something like that.  That's right, we're talking about our top synth pop songs of the O3L era, and it's a fun 'un!   Now, kids, generally we pride ourselves on running a family friendly show, but this is the first podcast in history to garner an 'Explicit' rating for hard hitting discussions about robot prostitutes, The Great Gazoo, and Metal Mickey (seriously, does nobody but Brett watch that masterpiece??).  But don't fact check us on that, because there are some pretty freaky-deeky podcasts out there.  Boogie boogie! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahh, parting is such sweet sorrow.  (Because we're basically on the same level as Shakespeare, we can quote him.)  Sometimes a band or artist's swan song is tragic.  Sometimes it's a real stinker.  Sometimes it's pure magic...and that's what is discussed on this episode of O3L.  Bueno, Brett and Uncle Gregg count down their Top 5 Final Albums of the classic alternative era, and it's a humdinger.  Will we have our second triple crossover on this show?  Guess you'll have to listen to find out!  Plus, Bueno shares a very special message of LOVE that you do not want to miss.  Trust us.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So there was this one time when Uncle Gregg was at a pool party with The Cranberries...   Join Brett, Uncle Gregg and Bueno for a ride back to 1995, as they run through their Top 5 alternative albums from that halcyon days of yore.  As Charles Nelson Reilly might have said in 1995, it's a real blank in the blankety blank!     21 Episodes.  Three Jokers.  Thanks for joining us on this journey! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices