The End.

A review and a look back.

It’s been over seven years since Marc and Steve brought on an intern (Eric) to create a music review podcast. Since then they covered every single NIN and Bowie song, and 42 separate albums by other artists ( plus related discographies). The Trio has reached the end of the road, and they find themselves back at the starting line.

Pod Like Hole’s pilot experiment, the first episode, was Nine Inch Nails' “Pretty Hate Machine”, but the Hole Boys didn’t really know what they were doing yet. Blushing amateurs, they bungled a classic record. In the spirit of setting things right in this jacked up universe, they will finish what they started. But this time....they’ll get it right. (what year is this?)

Enjoy a track by track review of “Pretty Hate Machine” , and betwixt the analysis the guys will reflect on this project, their friendship, and the incredible listeners we’ve gotten to know over the better part of a decade. It's a loose, long goodbye.

As the bionic guitars of Ringfinger echo into the stratosphere, so do your hosts. While our friendship is eternal, this project has been canceled. This is our goodbye. But …..to quote Joe Strummer, (co-creator of our only perfectly scored record), “ The Future is Unwritten”….

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Artwork by the great Greg Wolgast. Check out his you tube channel where he destroys every drum cover he does..in a good way : https://www.youtube.com/@someroomtodrum

Read the new book by frequent guest Guy Mankowski’s, “You Complete the Masterpiece”

Buy on Amazon or even better your local bookstore

And be on the look out for “Lived Through This” based on the journals of late Hole-bassist Kristen Pfaff.

Listen to the incredible sophomore album by regular listener Michael Komonos , “My Mother and Child”.

https://michaelkonomos.bandcamp.com/

Our listeners have been the extra fuel to get this baby to 88 MPH, thanks for seven years of friendship.

This episode concludes our discussion of The Cure and this Pod Like a Hole season by analyzing the album Disintegration. Do we end the season on a sour note, or do we find ourselves whisked away to a world of wind chimes and thunderclouds rumbling in the distance?

Just like one of the themes of the record, everything must come to an end. We thank you, faithful listeners, for following us as we talked for countless hours about our favorite music, artists, and bands in what felt, at times, a neverending project. We ain’t quite dead yet though. Stay tuned.

All good things…

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“Pictures of You”

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This episode discusses our individual rankings for the Cure's studio album discography. This conversation is a prelude to our next episode where we review track by track the album Disintegration. Let us know how we did on everything by finding us below.

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