Best of... Lists

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

A little delayed but it's here now, Dick Fetti and Ben the Beardo's favorite records, manga and video games of 2021.

Disco Box Recommendations:
Anatomia – Corporeal Torment LP – Me Saco Un Ojo Records
Bo Burhnam - Inside CD - Imperial
Charli XCX – Good Ones - Asylum Records
Charli XCX – New Shapes - Asylum Records
Karim Maas & Stave – Godless LP – UVB-76
Metadevice – Turba CD – New Approach
Overlook – UVB76​-​018 12” – UVB-76
Shackleton – Departing Like Rivers 2xLP – Woe To the Septic Heart!
Tribal Brothers & DJ Polo – The Link Up 12” – Livity Sound
VA – Tresor 30 12x12” - Tresor

BDMFT #33: The Best Records and Video Games of 2021

The boys are back at again to discuss their favorite movies, shows and concerts of 2022. To start things off they review "Barbarian", the 2022 film by Zach Cregger.

64: The Best and Worst of 2022

In the first part of the BDMFT wrap-up, Dick Fetti digs into the disco box for his favorite records of 2022.

Disco Box Recommendations:
Blocks & Escher - Shot in the Dark EP 12" - R&S
Cerebral Rot - Excretion of Mortality LP/CD - 20 Buck Spin
Charli XCX – Crash LP/CD - Asylum Records
Clarity - Basalt EP 12" - UVB-76
Overlook - Lost Souls Club EP 12" - UVB-76
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity LP/CD - Prosthetic
Purity Ring - Graves MP3 - Self-Released

BDMFT #35.1: The Best Records of 2022

In the second half of this BDMFT series the boys discuss the video games, manga and anime they enjoyed most in 2022. Some of these things are new release, but most aren't. Tune in to hear reviews of Blasphemous, God of War Ragnarok, Doom Eternal, Cultic, Chainsaw Man, No Longer Human, and many more!

BDMFT #35.2: The Best Video Games and Manga from 2022

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.