Ron Swanson
@ron.yeet.fm
Real music is the sound fire makes as it sizzles sirloin.
SCENARIO: You've been in a coma for 20 years and you awake to a phone call on your 3g LG Chocolate with t9 predictive keyboard, cellular device. You know exactly what ringtone is playing… Beating hearts BABY BABY is this love for real? YOOOOUUU HEAD AUTOMATICA - POPAGANDA June 6, 2006
Did Garth Brooks' autistic obsession with physical media sales destroy his creative legacy? Recognized as a global talent, youd be hard pressed to find a modern artist who cites him as an influence. After spending the last 20 years fighting digital streaming platforms, the outcome is intradesting
If you were forced to describe the 80s in one song, "I Wear My Sunglasses at Night" thanks Corey eat your Hart out
I'm not sure if we ever really addressed the fact that, as punishment for a drunk driving felony. Coach Bombay was sentenced to supervise children, alone. I guess Minnesota has always been pretty messed up. Hash tag, and then he tipped his hat, and I was like. Emilioooooooooooooooh
There is a new king of blowing out the low ceiling joints, put your arms around the strangers next to you, and join in on the chorus with pub energy type swagger. "I've never down B'd so hard to a song about Kirby" -David Hasselhoff Harrison Gordon - The Yuppies Are Winning July 27th, 2023
Influence can be worn on a sleeve. This was my surprise pop punk favorite of 2025 Marketing Team Be Like - ungooglable band name - generic ass album art - generic album title (alliteration and double entendres aside) - sneak release at the end of the year, - Canadian.
I don't know what this sound is? Post HxC with the treble sucked out, but also melodic shoegaze glazed with DC Emo? You know what, nevermind, don't listen to me, listen to Koyo, pronounced Koi-Yo. Koyo - Would You Miss It? September 29, 2023
There might not be a single song on this album that doesn't mention; grinding hard for money, working hard with the boys, getting paid, & shrugging off trolls. Every one of them Closing out 2025 for new music Peoples Champ ain't had a problem in 25 years Paul Wall & DJ Fresh-The Tonite Show
There's a lot of Dashboard Confessional fans out there who don't even know this album exists. Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down March 27, 2001
After all… why not, Why shouldn't I have a skank for Christmas? Reel Big Fish - Happy Skalidays October 14, 2016
Breaking into AP's list of 100 best singles of the 2000s, at number 99… just as I am (inside joke, it's brand new) "Art is Hard", but this album is wicked. Cursive - The Ugly Organ March 4, 2003
The early 10s were full of crunk core party rock & folk indie, Ho Heys They didnt quite reach the stratospheric level of, The Lumineers, but these dudes definitely had their place in the sun. Pressed to wax for the first time, a decade after release American Authors-Oh What a Life March 3, 2014
When you cool, the sun shine on you twenty-four, seven. Do you wear your sunglasses at night? Corey Hart - First Offense November 11, 1983
The entirety of side 4 is literally just "Free Bird" live… …as it should be. Lynrd Skynrd - Icon August 31, 2010
281-330-8004 Still Tippin on fofo's Barre sippin', car dippin', Grant wood grain grippin' Who is Mike Jones? The album, coming soon. Wreckshop Records Swisha House beeyotch Mike Jones - Who is Mike Jones? April 19, 2005
Some kind of an insane irony that a 2001 album called, "Soundtrack for a Generation", from a band everyone forgot about, has a hit single, everyone knows as a Starting Line song... which, more or less, kind of embodies the soundtrack of the Napster generation. You know this song by Student Rick
Drain is the friend you need when one requires melting of the face variety. Drain …Is Your Friend November 7, 2025
Knowledge reigns supreme over everyone. I know, you know, we know, because of KRS-One October 10, 1995
Could you imagine the waking nightmare, if upon death, perverts were the only souls cursed to walk this earth as spirits? Kids See Ghosts June 8, 2018
Sometimes chiptunes are like Pringles. Once you pop, the glitch don't stop. Mega Drive - 200XAD July 21, 2023
There hasn't been a single time in human history when an unnofficial mashup, unsupported by either artist, has even artistically worked. Let alone been worth a single solitary fu… Wugazi - 13 Chambers 2011
Create rap music cause I never dug disco. At one point, it sounds like someone is channelling an Eminem that wouldn't drop "Infinite", until later that year, on the s/t track Dr Octagon. Thanks Kool Keith for SciFi rap. Dr Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst April 1996
Every early Thrice fan sleeping on "Wounded Touch"... is old. That's just an unobjective fact. No matter whether you jam this or peanutbutter it. Wounded Touch - A Vivid Depiction of Collapse May 16, 2025
You ever just zone out and make it to side C before you realize you forgot to turn off dust mode on the record player? AKA 45 rpm Still pleasant cranked up a notch 🤣 Call it the reverse chopped and screwed. Most famous for his single, "Fuck the Police" J Dilla - Donuts February 7, 2006
"We have dreams of being dust" Dissolving, the track that drops the album title, is pretty epic. Whole thing is pretty shoegazey, and at other times I hear Castlevania music. These peeps never make 2 albums that sound the same. Not bad. TWIABP&IANLATD - Dreams of Being Dust August 22, 2025
The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die. You should never admit defeat in the name of your band, but I'm fairly certain every album from this outfit has been a different band. "Josh Cyr and friends" I like their broken Stargate album Illusory Walls October 8, 2021
Stoupe, the Enemy of Mankind, is one helluvah moniker. Another Y2K album that recently turned 25. Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design October 3, 2000
Like TayTay, every era of Marshall has haters LPII hate was silly & in further hindsight, it's hands down my favorite cohesive Em unit, behind Bad Meets Evil II The best samples of his discography can be found here & Rubin magic is sprinkled around. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP2 11-5-13
