Impossible Way Of Life

We watched this doc called "Whatever Happened to Pink Floyd?  The Strange Case of Waters and Gilmour and as such decided to settle on of the most important questions in Classic Rock.  Do Pink Floyd a…

In an IWOL first, Alex Bleeker made it Snowdenseque and safely across the Canadian Border, and we catch up with him "alive and dangerous" to discuss all different kinds of ranking, plus James tries t…

It's really hard to explain what's goin' on here.

R.I.P to a Real One.  Rest in Power Charlie.

It's flowing like 1988 flo-jo, and we're taking it back to Clapton's first strategic target, and the man who wrote all his biggest songs (except for Bob Marley).  JJ Cale, everyone's favourite guitar…

Episode 91 - It’s peak summer and we are crackin’ the Red Stripe and skankin’ to Bob Marley’s “Catch A Fire,” the album that got a lil help in the form of Blues Overdubs.   Don’t worry if you don’t k…

Johnny is producing a record, so I hopped on my bike.  Full Ocean Way Feel riding down to his studio.  Got to share a couple beers with an old pal Travis and discuss Burrito Bro's 1969 cosmic country…

I finally got my wish.  I've been working on the SSL console famous for that "Vancouver Snare Sound."  Though I'm still not sure what that is, I know I'll find it on Pump.  Luckily, we have a Toxic T…

We are officially commencing our Summer of Beatles Beatles Beatles.  In today's episode we discuss the first two episodes of the Cocaine vs Peyote, McCartney vs Rubin standoff, that is McCartney 3,2,…

Bounced back from the Euro defeat and right back into the swing of things.  Read a great Vanity Fair article on how Led Zeppelin were the ultimate hotel room trashers, were loathed by the critics, an…

On the 50th Anniversary of Jim's ascent into Rock and Roll Heaven, we discuss The Doors Eponymous L.P.  We are joined by our IWOL Hollywood Insider and Sunset Strip Field Reporter Amanda Morck, to ta…

The People have decided - Queen are the biggest band on Spotify, which we can only assume, by current ranking systems, means they are the best.  We take a deep dive into their best albums - Greatest …

Slowly becoming a Ranking Podcast and here we set a Euro 2020 / Round Robin competition involving all Beatles albums and the choice solo Beatles records.  Turns out ranking is really hard.  We also t…

Still feelin' the double albums and started watch the " Steve Jobs and  Apple 1971: Rock changing the world and all that" series, so thought we'd tackle the sleaziest of the records from that year, "…

In a special new feature, we have a round table Charlie Rose / Hard Talk style serious tete a tete discussion about all that is "The Blues."  We dissect Microsoft vs Apple blues rivalry, what makes C…

Johnny called today as the first day of summer, and we tackle the record that pushed the California sound of the 60s to it's apocalyptic conclusion.  Punk is here - it's getting angular.  There are a…

We are joined by Vom Cruise, who gets banned from instagram every time we do a podcast (ask Mike Love, Chris Martin, Johnny Depp why).  We explore the machinations of the first indie band of all time…

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN.  Johnny returns to the big city and, since we really just wanted to enjoy our reunion, we chose an album that we didn't even have to think to talk about, because we didn't …

We are joined by Jason Grimmer, Vancouver's  Roky Erickson and a local rare Pokemon.  He was Johnny's floor manager at Zulu Records, in it's Artie Fufkin heyday.  Now in Montreal, he chats with us ab…