Today I listened to an album I discovered at a record store in Indiana that looked goofy as hell and, as it turns out, IS goofy as hell. And it's surprisingly well-known! It was a wild ride through one man's struggles with mental illness and anticipating the people from the funny farm coming to take him away (ha-haaa).
Did you know that the guys who made the "Oh Yeah" song have other songs? Well, they do, and they're an actual band. They're called Yello, and today we listen to some cuts from their greatest hits album.
The Scumbag Files returns to the air after a 4-month break. We celebrate this return with a look back to the show's roots by checking out a video compilation of "Divorced Dad Anthems" from Youtube.
The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRd5dY3DAlA
What a wild album we had on our hands this week, man. The Femcels - a totally unknown band from what I can tell - just released their debut album and it just looked so wild that I had to check it out and review it. This week's show was pre-recorded and I had it ready first, so that's why the numbering is out of order chronologically on the blog.
The interview that I referenced: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/the-femcels-holy-noise-horny-despair-and-the-art-of-dreaming-yourself-alive
Well, here it is. The last episode of Season 2, and the last episode of The Scumbag Files. In September 2023, I had the idea to start this show as a means of introducing humorous yet insightful music commentary to WART and satisfying my urge to talk about music to anyone who would listen. I kept the show going on a weekly basis for the next two years, through the hurricane, and right up until the present day. It was fun and I received a lot of great feedback. Unfortunately, it cannot continue. I will be moving to Indiana at the end of this month and need all the time I can get to set my affairs in order beforehand. I didn't do a great big send off on the show today because 1) I couldn't think of one and 2) it wouldn't really be my style, now that I think about it. Rather, it was just business as usual and I just listened to some new stuff that I wanted to check out.
Check this blog occasionally for updates regarding the show, as I would like to restart it some time in the future in some form. That won't be for a long time, though, so in the meantime, enjoy the archives on this blog.
Thank you so much to everybody who's listened over the last two years and thank you to WART for giving me a platform to do my silly music commentary. I'll see you all further on down the road.
Being a fan of the last Sabrina Carpenter album, I just had to check out this one. Could she keep up the quality and consistency in characterization even though it's barely been a year since her last record? Well, it turns out that she can. This was a pretty good album.
Two new albums from two very famous scumbag rock bands. Well, Deftones isn't that scumbag, but they were associated with the same bands. Today we listened to a few songs from both. Deftones ended up winning out in quality, I think.
