S3. Episode 1. And The Podcast Will Rock Van Halen III Rankings Live Show

Season 3. of the Regarding...Series goes where no Fonzarelli has gone before, jumping the pod and crossing streams into the depths of the CMPU with Mark Camire and the genuine article himself, the real Corey Morrissette.

Join us as Scotzo and Chaz help the boys at And The Podcast Will Rock put Van Halen III to the final discussion on their venerated podcast. (Wolfie is nothing if not integrus, staying home to maintain his VHIII virginity.)

The backstory - as Corey and Mark wind down their listen through the 128-song Van Halen catalog, Van Halen III was a hold-out album, with the final cut, Josephina, being spun off the random spinning wheel of tracks with just 5 tracks left to spin. Their show wrap-up and ranking of the overall album is the Regarding...VHIII jumping-off point, with this historic episode establishing the baseline for where Chaz and Scotzo came into the season, fresh off a track-by-track listen with the ATPWR crew and their live audience.

A few twists and turns reveal one of the wildest scoring and ranking cluster-of-phuchs, the likes of which you've only ever heard in the utterances of idiots and loons obsessed with a record that was released 26 years ago. "How many say why?", as Mr. Paltrowitz asked. We endeavor to answer that from here...

This is where the season starts, before we fall back off our jet skis and get below the waves into our deep-dive, track-by-track exploration of our very own Van Halen III Redux, masterminded by Scotzo and engineered by Kevin Brown. We'll listen to that, along with the original album cut, over the next season, with another panel discussion at the end. Where will Wolfie come out on all this? Will Scotzo and Chaz change their minds from what you hear tonight? Only time, and our listening to Van Halen III so you, fair listener, don't have to, will tell.

Season three, Regarding...Van Halen III, is going to be a twister in your ear and rubber hose up the nose of preconceived notions...and bass lines, Wolfie...

Season 3 of the Regarding...Series - Welcome to the ultimate rediscovery of Van Halen’s most controversial album. 

At the outset, we represent a good spectrum of views: Wolfie is 100% no opinion on the album; Scott leans more positive but is in the middle and has some dislikes; and Chaz is … appreciative as a student of Edward Van Halen, and empathetic to his artistic cause, but not a big fan of the final output overall. To put it mildly. How Many Say Why is all they could be heard muttering to themselves, in a sea-shanty sort of sway. How Many Say Why? How Many Say Why?

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