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Bearded Dick's Musical Fun Time!

This week the boys get personal and discuss their favorite and least favorite moments, movies, and manga from 2021. And to kick things off they review the mess that is Ruggero Deodato's "Ballad in Blood" (2016).

60: The Best and Worst of 2021

Only a year delayed, this week the boys discuss their favorite records and video games from 2020. Hopefully you'll find these recommendations evergreen.

Disco Box Recommendations:
Ai Aso – The Faintest Hint LP – Ideologic Organ
Autechre – SIGN LP – Warp Records
Clarity – UVB76-016 12” – UVB-76
Gremlinz, Jesta & Kalu / Friske – Monolith / City Limits 12” - DROOGS
Grunt – Spiritual Eugenics 2xLP – Freak Animal
Hannah Diamond – Reflections LP – PC Music
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth LP – Iron Lung, 625 Thrashcore
Kinbakushi – Construction Site Bondage Cassette – IOPS
Metadevice – Ubiquitarchia cassette - Malignant
Regis – Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss LP - Downards
Sadio – Piss Drinking Slut 7” – Freak Animal
Taeter with Sektor 304 – The Hermeneutics of the Hunt Has Gone Full Circle CD – New Approach, Narcolepsia

2020 Reissues
Aube – Spindrift LP – Robert & Leopold 
Mania – Eros + Massacre cassette
Mania – If They Move... Kill Em cassette
Mania – Miserable Disposition cassette
Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit – Axis/Another Revolvable Thing 1 LP – Blank Forms Editions
Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit – Axis/Another Revolvable Thing 2 LP – Blank Forms Editions
Mental Fear Productions – Remastered Classics 2002-2006 MP3 – Mental Fear Productions
Mothra – Doom Engine LP – Cold Spring 
Toho Sara – Toho Sara 2xLP – Black Editions
White Heaven – Out LP – Black Editions

BDMFT #32: The Best Records and Video Games of 2020

Dick Fetti and Ben the Beardo welcome you to their new mini-show, "The Bearded Dick's Musical Fun Time" aka BDMFT. In an effort to make Motel Hell episodes a little bit shorter, Dick and Ben will be cracking open the Disco Box and reviewing various media here on BDMFT, instead of on the main show. 

This week Dick Fetti reviews two records by current drum & bass wunderkid Jason Luxton aka Overlook and the classic album "Exorcise the Demons" by Source Direct. After which, Ben the Beardo reviews the awesome new Spider-Man game.

Disco Box Recommendations:
Overlook - Smoke Signals 3xLP - UVB-76 2017
Overlook - All Of Them Witches 12" - UVB-76 2018
Source Direct - Exorcise The Demons CD - Science / Virgin 1999

BDMFT #1: Spider-Man Listens to Drum & Bass

This week Dick Fetti's obsession with drum & bass continues as he reviews the recent tech-step gem by Outer Heaven and the just released compilation, "Themes & Variations", on Osiris Music UK. Fetti then goes back 12 years to review a monumental dubstep 12" by the one-of-a-kind Shackleton. After which Ben the Beardo discusses the most important comic book of all time, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' "Watchmen".

Disco Box Recommendations:
Outer Heaven - Pathos EP 12" - UVB-76 2017
V/A - Themes & Variations 12" - Osiris Music UK 2018
Shackleton - Soundboy's Nuts Get Ground Up Proper E.P. 12" - Skull Disco 2006

BDMFT #2: Who Watches the Watchmen?

Ben the Beardo and Dick So Fetti are back again to bring you more music and comic recommendations! Dick Fetti discusses two of the best drum & bass records from this year and the soundtrack to the classic PSX racing game, "WipeOut XL". Then Ben the Beardo gushes about Junji Ito's monumental "Uzumaki" manga. 

Disco Box Recommendations:
4625 - 4625-001 12" - 4625 2018
V/A - Wipeout XL CD - Psygnosis / Virgin 1996
Blocks & Escher - Something Blue MP3/2xLP - Metalheadz 2018

BDMFT #3: Spirals, Red Bull and Drum & Bass

This week Ben the Beardo and Dick So Fetti talk about something other than drum & bass! Dick Fetti reviews deconstructed club gems by Raime and OAKE, and the modern post-punk of Tropic of Cancer. Then Ben the Beardo discusses the creepy "Corpse Party" video game and anime series.

Disco Box Recommendations:
Raime ‎– Quarter Turns Over A Living Line 2xLP - Blackest Ever Black 2012
OAKE ‎– Auferstehung 2xLP - Downwards 2014
Tropic of Cancer - Restless Idylls 2xLP - Blackest Ever Black 2013

BDMFT #4: Corpse Party at the Last Foundry

Mosey on in listeners as this week Dick Fetti gushes about two of the best industrial projects around, Japan's Linekraft [Masahiko Okubo] and Germany's Operation Cleansweep; and Ben the Beardo provides his initial impressions of everyone's favorite grand theft horse adventure, Red Dead Redemption 2.

Disco Box Recommendations:
Linekraft - Iwatsuki cassette - Old Europa Cafe 2017
CazzoKraft - Integrity Of The Preconscious System CD - Old Europa Cafe 2014
Operation Cleansweep ‎– Powerhungry LP - Tesco Organisation 1996

BDMFT #5: Linekraft, Operation Cleansweep and Red Dead Redemption 2

Happy New Year! The boys are back in town and here to goosh and sploosh all over 2018. This episode Dick Fetti and Ben the Beardo review the best records, video games, movies, live performances and life events of 2018 for your benefit. Highlights include records by Grunt, Linekraft and Portal, God of War (PS4), Hereditary, Deadpool 2, Mandy, Hospital Fest '18, Ride for Revenge and Ben's imminent fatherhood! So listen in and scream at your phone in disagreement. <3

BDMFT #6: The Best and Worst of 2018

Dick Fetti and Ben the Beardo are back to kick the decade off right by immediately looking backward! Ben is on the mend from his abdominal surgery (and complications) and to make up for lost time the boys deliver this two hour episode. The Dick and the Beard discuss the best and worst life events, records, movies and video games of 2019. Come join and live in the past with Motel Hell!

47: The Best and Worst of 2019

Four months since our last episode and a month since it was recorded, here's the Motel Hell wrap-up of 2020. Don't worry, the pandemic is ignored in favor in-depth discussion of the Halloween, Resident Evil and Twin Peaks franchises. Plus a review of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Cure".

54: The Best and Worst of 2020

Welcome to Motel Hell where we discuss obscure movies, weird music, sexual fetishes, video games and manga. Join us each episode for a new topic of interest, long digressions and sexual tension.