Podcasts: The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel

Dave McElfatrick and Joel Watson, two of the comedic minds behind the wildly popular Cyanide and Happiness cartoons, love playing guitar, love rock and roll and especially love making noise. Join Dave and Joel in The Noise Hole as they explore the music that defined their generation, recount famous and infamous rock star stories, and exorcise their personal rock and roll demons, all while improvising songs with a full band! It’s an hilarious celebration of alt. rock, grunge, punk, pop, emo, heavy metal and all things ROCK AND ROLL!

09 – Aerosmith In A Denny’s

The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
09 - Aerosmith In A Denny's
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Noise Bois, I hope you’re ready for some SELF INDULGENCE because this episode HAS IT. Easily half the episode is about Aerosmith going to Denny’s, then:

  • Dave and Joel discuss how Slash only has a few axe tricks up his sleeve
  • What Lynyrd Skynyrd’s mommas told them
  • Who’s in the room when Metallica records a cover
  • Dave’s years long quest for Michael McDonald
  • Rage Against Tennessee Williams
  • Just after Joel gets serious about his deep love and admiration for Queens of The Stone Age, the boys try their hand at Parched Stoner Desert Rock
  • The boys offer new James Bond Themes courtesy of Uncle Kracker, Jack
  • White and Scooby Doo
  • Finally Metallica are revealed to be masters of ACTUAL puppets

08 – Cowboy Corpse

The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
08 - Cowboy Corpse
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In this episode:

  • Dave and Joel christen the new home of The Noise Hole in the Dave Cave
  • Dave has a retirement plan
  • Green Day has a children’s album
  • A musical tribute to a special Noise Boy
  • Dave gets creeped out by his Mum’s use of punctuation
  • We also meet Jom, Joel, Porge and Ringum: The Bortles (or possibly The Bartles), and they visit Old Mother Titty Tree
  • England goes for a spin, as does Bertie The Butt Bus
  • The ACTUAL Beatles sing “You Wife, Yoko, Is A Stupid C*nt”
  • Reel Big Fish and Rancid bring us “You’ve Got A Friend In Ska”
  • A Noise Boi further explains Thrice to Joel
  • Dave is ashamed of his Thrice-style scatilogical song
  • An etherial ambient jam from space
  • A story about Joel’s 8th grade Death Metal friend
  • Cannibal Corpse’s writing process
  • Nashville favorites, Cowboy Corpse

07 – I Love Daddy, Daddy Eat Egg

The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
07 - I Love Daddy, Daddy Eat Egg
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Ask yourselves, Noise Bois, are you ready for:

  • Devo’s “Wammy Bar Song?”
  • “Roger’s Bum” by Pink Floyd?
  • Baby Bands featuring Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica and Nirvana
  • “Daddy Was A Rock & Roll Dude” but Bowie
  • “I Love Daddy, Daddy Eat Egg” by Nirvana
  • Joel explains how Cake sounds like Cake, but Beck sounds like four Becks
  • Dave approximates the Finnish fury of Nightwish
  • The boys also get into YouTube Guitarbois with indecipherable accents
  • How unearthed early demos should be REearthed
  • Kurt Cobain’s “Diary of Plops,”
  • 1boi riffs vs. 2boi riffs
  • Dave Grohl’s B-52’s story time
  • Finally, they explore Slipknot, Mudvayne, Mushroomhead and other rare Pokemon
  • Korn’s two biggest hits, “Twink On A Leash” and “Classic WWE Anthem.”
  • This one’s a journey for sure!

06 – A Cold Shit At Midnight

The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
06 - A Cold Shit At Midnight
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Prepare yourselves, Noise Bois!

  • Dave is still sick, but he’s powering through
  • KISS doing “Cold Shit”
  • Iron Maiden with “A Cold Shit At Midnight”
  • Coldplop doing… basically the same thing!
  • It’s a lot of songs about freezing cold turds
  • Dave and Joel talk iconic frontman grunts
  • The Broody Beatles
  • How Black Flag are garbage
  • All about the Rollins Band making shitty excuses
  • Joel delves into what G.G. Allin means to him
  • Both boys talk about the punk bands they were in as teens and how skanking isn’t a crime, but having too many members in your ska band is.

05 – The World Is A Trash Hole

The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
The Noise Hole with Dave and Joel
05 - The World Is A Trash Hole
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Listen up, Noise Bois! This week we’ve got:

  • Yogi and Booboo rocking it out
  • System of a Down with the sickness
  • System of a Grocery Store
  • System of a Green Day!
  • Mad Boy™ music
  • Dave tries to relay the concept of Thrice to Joel
  • Atreyu go on a date with The Scooby Gang
  • Apocalypse Rock meets Convenience Store-core!
  • We finish it off with The Cranberries’ Icelandic Ferries
  • All Holes Unplugged
  • Tom Waits for no one
  • We Are The (Trashhole) World