Three friends on the cusp of their fifties decided to start a podcast in December 2019, just before the pandemic that would make it all that much easier to get together virtually from three different states and talk about all their favorite things. Would it be movies? Television? Sports? Music? Why not all of the above!
So the three - "Lord" Rob McCollough, Jeremy "Jay" Forman, and Patrick "Butch" Brennan started making content. It took a few months to get into their groove when Jay suggested they start doing album reviews, discussing each track by track and then ranking the tracks on the album, and also ranking the albums as they went. Since the podcast was called CineMcCollough, they dubbed the album reviews "The Sounds of CineMcCollough."
The project started with diamond albums, with a focus on classic rock and 80s pop/rock - with each member picking a new one each week, an album that sold at least 10 million copies in the United States. From there they moved on to picking a PAIR of albums by the same artist to compare how their music had changed or stayed the same over time. Then the fateful moment when they brought on a fourth member, "Cold" Jim Perry, to make a foursome that would take on the awesome responsibility of reviewing and raking all of the KISS albums, branding themselves (temporarily) the KISS Army National Guard. Once they'd completed all the KISS catalogue, they returned to their roots of picking one single album at a time. They also occasionally threw in a newly released album or concert review as bonus episodes.
And the Sounds of CIneMcCollough continues going strong to today, releasing new content every few weeks. We will be releasing all of our episodes in four seasons:
-season 1 is diamond albums;
-season 2 is two-album sets;
-season 3 is the KISS Army National Guard KISS album reviews;
-season 4 is back to reviews of single albums.
So climb down into your shag-carpet listening lounge, find a bright orange comfy couch to lounge upon, turn on your black light and lava lamp, and crank your hi-fi to eleven and listen along as we take you on a sonic journey into the SOUNDS OF CINEMCCOLLOUGH.
S2-E20: Queen A Night at the Opera (1975) and The Game (1980)
Next up before us, what do we see? A little silhouette of a man in the form of the British rock band Queen - one of Lord Rob's top five bands of all time, finally making an appearance here in the Sounds of CineMcCollough.
Rob had a lot of options for which two albums to pick - one of them seemed pretty obvious - 1975's "A Night at the Opera" and skip forward five years and a few albums for "The Game" (1980).
Queen is a band with a lot of memorable hit songs, but is not necessarily a group that one associates with particular albums. As a result, many music fans are also unfamiliar with some of their album tracks, which is a shame, as there are some hidden gems mixed in with the hits.
Listen in as Rob leads Butch, Jim and Jeremy (and bonus Joel!) through the two albums and we rank the songs on each disk!
TRACKS: 12 (Opera) and 10 (The Game)
RUNTIME: 43:08 (Opera) and 34:02 (The Game)
CERTIFICATION: 3x platinum (Opera) and 4x platinum (The Game)
30 Oct 2026
S2-E19: Genesis ABACAB (1981) and Invisible Touch (1986)
Butch's pick is up next and he goes back to some 80s pop - though, for what it is worth, it is a former prog band - this week Butch asks "Give me GENESIS!" in his best Khan voice, and brings two albums from their 80s pop era, bookending the 80s - 1981's "ABACAB" and then skipping ahead a couple albums to their big late 80s hitmaker "Invisible Touch" (1986).
Genesis recently ceased touring with the medical retirement of Phil Collins, so it seems like eons ago when Phil Collins' presence was felt all over pop music, playing with Genesis, and as a solo artist, and as a visiting drummer and vocalist on all sorts of collaborations.
Question is, are the songs from these albums timeless or stuck int heir era? Did Butch pick the correct albums? And which songs do we think are all timers and which are duds? Listen in and find out!
TRACKS: 9 (ABACAB) and 8 (Invisible Touch)
RUNTIME: 48:03 (ABACAB) and 45:42 (Invisible Touch)
CERTIFICATION: 2x platinum (ABACAB) and 6x platinum (Invisible Touch)
29 Oct 2026
BONUS: Wheel of One-Hit Wonders Vol. II
Hot on the heels of our first disk of randomly selected one-hit-wonder tunes gathered from a 240-song database of songs 1960-1999, we bring you the second volume (out of 24 volumes) for your listening pleasure... and by that, we mean "listen to us talk about songs that we listened to..."
There is a little something for everyone on this list, as is the case with most of the volumes of CinemaK-Tel's Wheel of One-Hit Wonders... we rank the ten songs here to decide which still hold up and which belong in the time capsule.
- “Tubthumping” by Chumba Wumba (1997)
- “Into the Night” by Benny Mardones (1980)
- “Valley Girl” by Frank Zappa (1982)
- “Don’t Close Your Eyes” by Kix (1989)
- “I Melt With You” by Modern English (1982)
- “Forever Young” by Alphaville (1984)
- “In My House” by Mary Jane Girls (1985)
- “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” by Edison Lighthouse (1970)
- “Maniac” by Michael Sembello (1983)
- “Black Betty” by Ram Jam (1977)
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