The #1 song in the country this week was Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville", forty-six years after its original release. This is mostly to celebrate the life of one of the legitimately "good guys" in the music industry. An occasional pot smoking, cocktail swilling dad rocker who owned several businesses and by all accounts stood behind his employees in a way that should be taught to the soulless pieces of shit who own 90% of the businesses in The United States.  Look up Jimmy Buffet and Hurricane Katrina for a ton of feel good stories.

He's mostly known for his songs from the 70s and early 80s, when his tropically inspired rock was at its most marketable. But the truth is, he never stopped being an interesting songwriter, and his band only ever got better as it aged.

I imagine most people, if they were going to make a multi album discography of Buffett would either lean in to this early work or else simply do their own personal version of "Songs You Know By Heart" (hey, I did that!) and then make a second album of everything after that. 

I understand that urge, and will probably make just three albums, the third being everything after 1996. This album exists because it contains the albums that came out during my high school and early college years when I was most easily influenced. I bought "Songs You Know By Heart" in high school because I had several friends, some coworkers from Cape Cod, some school friends from around the world, who loved him and exposed me to his most popular songs. I think that whole album was on the jukebox in my high school snack bar/performance venue. Then, a coworker took me to one of Buffett's live shows, and then I went to college in Florida. So this is the era I most listened to Buffett and am, thus more knowledgeable about it than any other point in his career. And I loved these albums. So please accept this as my "Songs I Know By Heart And Wish More People Knew All The Lyrics To." 

1.​ After getting into Buffett mainly through the Songs You Know By Heart album, I hesitantly bought the first album released after I "discovered" him, Fruitcakes. Everybody's Got A Cousin In Miami is the delightful first song on the album that convinced me I was going to like his new work as much as his classics. It was bright and silly and made me wish I was drinking a virgin cocktail (I was underage.) It's kind of the perfect "Oh, did you know his career continued after his Greatest Hits album?" opening track.

2. The title track for this imaginary album isn't one that's stuck with me over the years. The lyrics are a little stupider than I usually like (I mean, what do you expect from a song called Mental Floss?) but they're refreshingly common man for someone who was incredibly wealthy by the time he wrote them. The harmonica playing off the steel drums is such an unusual combination that it adds a complexity that the song doesn't lyrically warrant.

3. Ballad Of Skip Wiley was made to sound famliar. The baseball stadium organ playing, the 1970s stage musical background vocals and riffs, the vocalist speaking over the bridge rather than singing. Surely, you've heard this song before, even if you don't know any of the words. This song is based on a novel from the 1960s about a reporter who loves his home state of Florida so much that he goes to extremes to protect its honor. I may have to track that book down.

4. I didn't include any of the songs from Buffett's Christmas Island album because I'm just not a fan of holiday music 360 days of the year. But I'm sure Buffett's take on December holiday songs are at least different from most rock or pop stars'. This isn't a December Holiday song, though. This is Buffett reminding you that you need to take some time off from work, and you should probably do it somewhere warm near an ocean. This might be the earliest reference Buffett makes to The Internet, which he suggests you take a break from. Musically, it's middle of the road Buffett, not a ton of creativity but the trumpet solo leading into the steel drum solo is a refreshing breeze of nostalgic air.

5. The early 20th century symphonic swell at the start of this song quickly quiets down to just guitar plucking, piano twinkling, and steel drums for Blue Heaven Rendez-Vous, which certainly has "My Blue Heaven" vibes, which I've been a proponent of ever since I fell in love with the same titled Steve Martin/Rick Moranis/Joan Cusack film that probably hasn't aged very well.  This is just a simple mid-late twentieth century lounge number that could be found in any mediocre 80s or 90s romantic drama ... or a restaurant scene in a Muppets movie. I would love to hear Rowlf cover this.

6. Some soft drumbeats and guitars climb into this tropical soft rock declaration that Buffett never wants to be too famous so he's been Quietly Making Noise to achieve the level of fame he's most comfortable with. It's a sweet country fair sing-along style track.

7. The next track is a meditation on the importance of Buffett's songwriting, which makes it a good follow-up to "Quietly Making Noise." It also has some lyrics that remind you that no matter how wealthy and white Buffett and his followers tend to be, his politics are surprisingly liberal, if often absent from his work. Here he muses Are we destined to be ruled by a bunch of old white men/Who compare the world to football and are programmed to defend? Only Time Will Tell.

8. Fruitcakes is the longest track on this album, just a shade longer than the opening track. It's one of his songs referencing his book Where Is Joe Merchant?, specifically the rocket scientist, Desdemona. This is a delightfully silly song bemoaning political, religious, romantic, and scientific excess. It's also a powerful revolutionary song demanding the return of Junior Mints to theaters.

9. If there's a Whiter, Soft Rockier concept than Jimmy Buffett covering a James Taylor song, I haven't heard it. I was unfamiliar with the original​ until I heard this version. It's a daydream about life would be like in Mexico as imagined/written/sung by someone who's never been there, but would like to. It's then infused with a bunch of references to Buffett songs and stories.

10. I remember hearing the story of how Jimmy Buffett, Bono, and Bono's family were in a plane in Jamaica that was shot at by police who suspected it was a drug-running plane. Jamaica Mistaica is Buffett's processing of the event from his perspective with a chorus from the perspective of the apologietic Jamaican police begging them to come back/come back/come back to Jamaica, promising that the next time they fly there they won't shoot (them) outta the sky.

11. The Night I Painted The Sky is a piano ballad about being a kid and watching a Fourth of July fireworks display. Super simple, and sweet. With a harmonica solo.

12. Lage Nom Ai is a song I loved from the first time I heard the Barometer Soup album, but whose name I could never remember. The title is an integral part of the chorus, and is from the French Caribbean Patois, meaning "the man who gave up his own name", which the song reminds the listener repeatedly. 

13. Shortly after Buffett's passing, I saw a couple of his videos where his daughter, Delaney, interviews him about some of his lesser-known songs. The first video I clicked on was him reminiscing about Delaney's childhood where he specifically talks about how she chase(d) cats through Roman ruins/stomps on big toadstools, and about a party where Delaney Talks To Statues and otherwise behaves like an endearingly weird child. It's like a slightly less saccharine version of Billy Joel's "Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel)."
 
14. The second cover on the album is a steel drum version of The Grateful Dead's Uncle John's Band. It's to his credit that I like this song, as I'm not a big fan of The Grateful Dead's music. But this is a direct, lyric-centric cover of one of the jam band's most famous songs.

15. The 90s were the decade of The Hidden Track at the end of the CD. Treetop Flyer is Buffett's hidden track from Banana Wind. It's a Stephen Sills solo track (I didn't know Stills had solo albums until I did a deep dive on this track) from his debut album. It's slightly more country rock than Buffett usually leans but the lyrics about flying low to not get caught certainly harkens back to "Jamaica Mistaica," which was on the same album.

16. Lone Palms sounds like it would be more at home on Songs You Know By Heart. It's a smooth ballad about tropical living. It doesn't stretch Buffett's 70s/80s sensibilities. Even the lyrics seem more like his stoic 20s & 30s then the material he was writing in the 90s.

17. We close out the album with one of Buffett's favorite tropes from the era, writing about missing his childhood, discovering your heart/again and again. Jimmy Dreams is also a sweet memorial to him with just the right touch of steel drums. 

This season sees an exciting evolution in wrestling. We start with with the rise of NXT, WWE's developmental division. We introduced it last season, and saw The Shield graduate on to the main roster, but this season, the entire future of WWE goes through NXT. Current and future headliners, get their start, and Most Importantly, the womens' revolution gets underway as The Four Horsewomen (Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Becky Lynch) put on some of the best wrestling matches of the year, regardless of gender.

We also get our first glimpse of Japanese wrestling in a while. I understand that there are a ton of American fans of New Japan, Pro Wrestling Noah, All-Japan and more. I am unfamiliar with Japanese promotions' American commentary, so I've mostly avoided it. But this season, we see the birth of Bullet Club, which will not only include even more future WWE headliners, it's also the genesis for AEW, which is only a couple of seasons away. So we see a few episodes in Japanese this season, but we also see Bullet Club cross into Ring Of Honor, giving it a shot in the arm it desperately needed.

Impact fades out for a bit this season, as their best stars scatter to other promotions, and their pay-per-view events go from monthly to semi-annually. And the quality does not increase with the decrease in quantity.

I was torn by how to properly close out this season, as there aren't any real Super Touchstone Moments, so I went for what appeared to be Sting's last match. He's barely in this season, as his WWE run was incredibly short, but will give him a wave see-you-later here, knowing that he'll be back soon when AEW gets going.

This season sees an exciting evolution in wrestling. We start with with the rise of NXT, WWE's developmental division. We introduced it last season, and saw The Shield graduate on to the main roster, but this season, the entire future of WWE goes through NXT. Current and future headliners, get their start, and Most Importantly, the womens' revolution gets underway as The Four Horsewomen (Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Becky Lynch) put on some of the best wrestling matches of the year, regardless of gender.

We also get our first glimpse of Japanese wrestling in a while. I understand that there are a ton of American fans of New Japan, Pro Wrestling Noah, All-Japan and more. I am unfamiliar with Japanese promotions' American commentary, so I've mostly avoided it. But this season, we see the birth of Bullet Club, which will not only include even more future WWE headliners, it's also the genesis for AEW, which is only a couple of seasons away. So we see a few episodes in Japanese this season, but we also see Bullet Club cross into Ring Of Honor, giving it a shot in the arm it desperately needed.

Impact fades out for a bit this season, as their best stars scatter to other promotions, and their pay-per-view events go from monthly to semi-annually. And the quality does not increase with the decrease in quantity.

I was torn by how to properly close out this season, as there aren't any real Super Touchstone Moments, so I went for what appeared to be Sting's last match. He's barely in this season, as his WWE run was incredibly short, but will give him a wave see-you-later here, knowing that he'll be back soon when AEW gets going.

This season sees an exciting evolution in wrestling. We start with with the rise of NXT, WWE's developmental division. We introduced it last season, and saw The Shield graduate on to the main roster, but this season, the entire future of WWE goes through NXT. Current and future headliners, get their start, and Most Importantly, the womens' revolution gets underway as The Four Horsewomen (Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Becky Lynch) put on some of the best wrestling matches of the year, regardless of gender.

We also get our first glimpse of Japanese wrestling in a while. I understand that there are a ton of American fans of New Japan, Pro Wrestling Noah, All-Japan and more. I am unfamiliar with Japanese promotions' American commentary, so I've mostly avoided it. But this season, we see the birth of Bullet Club, which will not only include even more future WWE headliners, it's also the genesis for AEW, which is only a couple of seasons away. So we see a few episodes in Japanese this season, but we also see Bullet Club cross into Ring Of Honor, giving it a shot in the arm it desperately needed.

Impact fades out for a bit this season, as their best stars scatter to other promotions, and their pay-per-view events go from monthly to semi-annually. And the quality does not increase with the decrease in quantity.

I was torn by how to properly close out this season, as there aren't any real Super Touchstone Moments, so I went for what appeared to be Sting's last match. He's barely in this season, as his WWE run was incredibly short, but will give him a wave see-you-later here, knowing that he'll be back soon when AEW gets going.

1400. The Bullet Club, 2013

An almost exclusively all-Japanese episode (there's some Spanish, and even less English), this episode sees Finn Balor (as Prince Devitt) form an all-gajin stable to try and take all the belts in New Japan. In this episode we see the full Devitt reign with Karl Anderson, Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, and the Young Bucks. The next time we see Bullet Club, they'll have new leadership as they go to America and Canada to fight in ROH.

1. Finn Balor (as Prince Devitt) & Bad Luck Fale vs Captain New Japan & Ryuske Taguchi
2. Karl Anderson vs Tanahashi
1. Finn Balor (as Prince Devitt) (IWGP Heavyweight Champ) vs Tanahashi
2. Finn Balor (as Prince Devitt) vs Gedo
3. Shinsuke Nakamura (IWGP Intercontinental Champ) vs La Sombra
4. The Young Bucks (IWGP Jr Heavyweight Tag Team Champs) vs The Time Splitters vs Forever Hooligans vs Suzuki-Gun
7. Finn Balor vs Kota Ibushi

1401. Arrival, 2014

NXT's first, major event sees the second generation of ROH flow over into WWE's farm league. There's some second vs third generation blood when Natalya from the Hart family takes on Charlotte Flair for the honor of being the first ever NXT womens' champion, and Bray Wyatt's younger brother ascends up the card while Bray wreaks havoc in the WWE.

Announcers: William Regal, Byron Saxton, Tom Phillips, Brandi Rhodes

1. Caesaro vs Sami Zayn
2. Tyler Breeze vs Xavier Woods
3. Bo Dallas (NXT Champ) vs Pac (as Adrian Neville) in a Ladder Match
4. Tyler Breeze vs Sami Zayn
5. Charlotte Flair vs Natalya for the NXT Womens Championship
6. Pac (as Adrian Neville) (NXT Champ) vs Tyson Kidd
7. Charlotte Flair (NXT Womens Champ) vs Bayley

1402. Caged Heat, 2014

After this quite good match card, the talent started to splinter to New Japan, WWE, NXT, and Ring Of Honor. They went from near monthly pay-per-views to a couple of events per year, and their weekly TV show was fine but it didn't set anybody's world on fire. Don't be too sad about missing these wrestlers, however, as I mentioned, they're going to still be around, just working for other promotions.

Announcers:Mike Tenay, Taz, Jeremy Borash, Christy Hemme

1. Great Muta, Sanada & Yatsu vs Chris Sabin & Bad Influence in a Steel Cage Match
2. Madison Rayne (Impact Knockout Champ) vs Gail Kim in a Steel Cage Match
3. Jaxson Ryker vs James Storm in an I Quit Match
4. Samoa Joe vs Bobby Lashley
5. EC3 vs Bubba Ray Dudley (as Bully Ray) in a Texas Death Match
6. Eric Young (Impact Champ) vs Bobby Lashley vs Austin Aries in a Steel Cage Match
7. The American Wolves (Impact Tag Team Champs) vs The Hardy Boyz
8. The American Wolves (Impact Tag Team Champs) vs Dudley Boyz (as Team 3D) vs Hardy Boyz in a Full Metal Mayhem Match

1403. Plan A, 2014

This is all we get of Daniel Bryan between when he won the title at Wrestlemania and when he had to vacate the title to go get neck surgery, but it's a great match against his former Hell No teammate, Kane. The Bar goes head to head in the days before they became a dominant tag team. Oh, hey look, there's Bray Wyatt! And The Shield and Evolution, generally considered two of the greatest stable of all time, go head to head for no titles, just glory.

​Announcers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles

1. The Shield vs Evolution
2. Daniel Bryan (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Kane in an Extreme Rules Match
3. Sheamus (WWE US Champ) vs Caesaro
4. John Cena vs Bray Wyatt in a Last Man Standing Match
5. Paige (WWE Divas Champ) vs Alicia Fox
6. The Shield vs Evolution in a No Holds Barred Elimination Match

1404. Plan B, 2014

"If at first you don't succeed, cheat to get what you want." is pretty much Triple H's motto. Evolution changes the game on The Shield. The Uso/Wyatt feud continues, and we get a very brief look at Damien Sandow and Adam Rose. Don't get used to either of them. Although Sandow will show up now and again under various gimmicks.

​Announcers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles, Jojo

1. Evolution vs The Shield
2. The Usos (WWE Tag Team Champs) vs The Wyatt Family
3. Adam Rose vs Damien Sandow
4. The Money In The Bank Ladder Match
RvD, Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Jake Haeger (as Jack Swagger)

5. Rusev vs Big E
6. Ladder Match for the vacant WWE Heavyweight Championship
John Cena vs Randy Orton vs Roman Reigns vs Bray Wyatt vs Kane vs Shaemus vs Caesaro vs Alberto Del Rio

7. The Usos (WWE Tag Team Champs) vs The Wyatt Family

1405. Relentless, 2014

The slow funneling of talent to NXT means that the ROH roster starts to rotate more quickly but also it begins to reward the people who've either stayed with the promotion or else come back to it afte unsuccessful WWE runs. 

​Announcers: Kevin Kelly, Nigel McGuinness, Steve Corino, Bobby Cruise
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1. Jay Lethal vs Michael Elgin
2. reDragon (ROH Tag Team Champs) vs American Wolves
3. Kevin Owens (as Kevin Steen) (ROH Champ) vs Jay Briscoe
4. Davey Richards vs Paul London
5. Adam Cole vs Michael Elgin for vacant ROH Championship

1406. The Biggest Party of The Summer, 2014

More fallout from the Shield/Authority feud. More inter-The Bar battling. Gold and Stardust return to the tag team title scene. And Brock Lesnar is back to wreck everyone.

Announers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Lillian Garcia

1. Rusev vs Jake Haeger (as Jack Swagger) in a Flag Match
2. Dean Ambrose vs Seth Rollins in a Lumberjack Match
3. The Usos (WWE Tag Team Champs) vs The Rhodes Brothers
4. Sheamus (WWE US Champ) vs Caesaro
5. Roman Reigns vs Randy Orton
6. John Cena (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Brock Lesnar

1407. War Of The Worlds, 2014

Over in New Japan, AJ Styles (formerly from Impact) takes over The Bullet Club, and they pick up gold all over the place, including Ring Of Honor. So in these episodes, stars from both promotions go head to head in Canada and the US for various titles and glory.

Announcers: Kevin Kelly, Steve Corrino, Nigel McGuinness, Michael Elgin, Bobby Cruise 

1. The Young Bucks (IWGP Jr Heavyweight Tag Team Champs) vs Forever Hooligans vs Time Splitters

2. Bullet Club (IWGP Tag Team Champs) vs Chaos
3. Adam Cole (ROH Champ) vs Kevin Owens (as Kevin Steen)
4. Bullet Club (IWGP Tag Team Champs) vs The Briscoes
5. Kevin Owens (as Kevin Steen) vs Shinsuke Nakamura
6. The Young Bucks (ROH Tag Team Champs) vs reDRagon
7. AJ Styles (IWGP Heavyweight Champ) vs Kazuchi Okada vs Michael Elgin

1408. R(ivals), 2014
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All sorts of fun debuts here as Kevin Owens hops over from ROH to hang out with his buddy Sami Zayn, and former Bullet Club leader Finn Balor drops in to help his buddy Kenta.

Announcers: William Regal, Byron Saxton, Corey Graves, Alex Riley, Rich Brennan, Tom Phillips, Renee Young, Jojo, Eden

1. Ascencion (NXT Tag Team Champs) vs Lucha Dragons
2. Pac (as Adrian Neville) (NXT Champ) vs Sami Zayn, Tyler Breeze, Tyson Kidd
3. Kevin Owens vs CJ Parker
4. Finn Balor & Kenta (as Hideo Itami) vs The Ascencion
5. Charlotte Flair (NXT Womens Champ) vs Sasha Banks
6. Pac (as Adrian Neville) (NXT Champ) vs Sami Zayn in a Title vs Career Match

1409. R(evolution), 2015

It's great seeing New Japan all-stars like Finn Balor and Kenta rising to superstardom in WWE. The continuing epic of Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens is an all-time highlight. But the true heart of this episode is the rise of The Four Horsewomen: Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Becky Lynch are four of the all-time best wrestlers, male or female. Three of them continue to dominate the WWE while the other is a megastar in Japan. Here are some of the early matches that made the wrestling world excited for what was to come.

Announcers: Corey Graves, Jason Albert, Rich Brennan, Jojo

1. Kenta (as Hideo Itami) vs Tyler Breeze
2. Finn Balor vs Pac (as Adrian Neville)
3. Charlotte Flair (NXT Womens Champ) vs Sasha Banks vs Bayley vs Becky Lynch
4. Sami Zayn (NXT Champ) vs Kevin Owens
5. Finn Balor vs Tyler Breeze
6. Sasha Banks (NXT Womens Champ) vs Becky Lynch

1410. All Star Extravaganza, 2014

More international matches with New Japan stars. Bullet Club continues to be a dominant force in ROH this season.

Announcers: Kevin Kelly, Steve Corrino, Nigel McGuinness, Joe Dombrowski

1. The Briscoes vs Matt Hardy & Michael Bennett
2. Adam Cole (ROH Champ) vs Michael Elgin
3. Michael Elgin (ROH Champ) vs AJ Styles vs Adam Cole vs Jay Briscoe
4. AJ Styles vs Adam Cole
5. reDRagon (ROH Tag Team Champs) vs The Young Bucks

1411. Out Of Nowhere, 2014

Randall Keith bookends a fun show with less story progression than normal. This is just a series of good matches that took place around the same time. It's also our final look at The Rhodes Brothers in WWE before they pop up in AEW.

Announcers: Jerry lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles

1. Randy Orton vs Chris Jericho
2. Dean Ambrose vs Seth Rollins in Hell In A Cell
3. The Rhodes Brothers (WWE Tag Team Champs) vs The Usos vs Los Matadores vs The Miz & Damien Sandow

4. John Cena vs Randy Orton in Hell In A Cell

1412. Tables Ladders Chairs And Stairs, 2014

Ever since the Austin/McMahon feud, it seemed like there was always a storyline where some major champion/former champion with a bazillion titles was targeted by a McMahon family (or Triple H, who is a McMahon family member through marriage) as being "the wrong sort of person to represent WWE". Somehow, in this era it's John Cena, a superstar so likable and well decorated that a certain segment of fans hated him for many years because he seemed to win everything. So here is his moment against the Authority where, surprisingly, someone else is given the chance to shine as The Underdog. Plus, the former Shield and Wyatt family members cross paths with each other, The Beast Incarnate, and Big Match John.

Announcers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles ​

1. Team Cena vs The Authority
John Cena, Big Show, Dolph Ziggler, Ryback, Eric Rowan vs Kane, Seth Rollins, Mark Henry, Rusev, Brodie Lee

2. Brodie Lee (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Dolph Ziggler in a Ladder Match
3. Bray Wyatt vs Dean Ambrose in a TLC Match
4. Brock Lesnar (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs John Cena vs Seth Rollins

1413. Winter Warriors, 2014, 2015

Ring Of Honor was just a haven for great tag teams in the 2010s, as well as giving Americans in New Japan a place to perform for English speaking audiences. While we have a couple of strong solo performances here, the tag teams are the highlight, as well as our first peek at Shayna Baszler, who we won't see in a ring for a while.

Announcers: Kevin Kelly, Steve Corino, Niles McGuinness, Bobby Cruise

1. ACH & The Young Bucks vs Cedric Alexander & The Addiction
2. Jay Lethal (ROH TV Champ) vs Matt Sydal
3. reDRagon (ROH Tag Team Champs) vs Time Splitters
4. Jay Briscoe (ROH Champ) vs Adam Cole in a Fight Without Honor
5. reDRagon (ROH Tag Team Champs) vs The Young Bucks

1414. The Heist, 2014, 2015

More former Shield battles, more John Cena, more Brock Lesnar, and Daniel Bryan returns from injury related retirement. 

Announcers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles 

1. Rusev (WWE US Champ) vs John Cena
2. Roman Reigns vs Daniel Bryan
3. Wade Barrett (WWE Intercontinental Champ) vs Daniel Bryan vs Dolph Ziggler vs Cody Rhodes vs Dean Ambrose vs R-Truth vs Brodie Lee (as Luke Harper) in a Ladder Match

4. Randy Orton vs Seth Rollins
5. Brock Lesnar (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Roman Reigns

1415. Global Wars, 2015

More international bad-assery between Ring Of Honor and New Japan. Once again, Bullet Club is all over this episode but we also get to see Jay Briscoe back at the top of the singles division, and Samoa Joe's final ROH match for seven years.

1. Matt Sydal, Andrew Everett & Caprice Coleman vs Tomasso Ciampa, Cedric Alexander & Moose

2. Jay Briscoe (ROH Champ) vs Samoa Joe
3. Bullet Club vs Roderick Strong, The Briscoes & War Machine
4. Bullet Club vs Kazuchika Okada & Roppongi Vice
5. Bullet Club vs The Kingdom
6. Jay Briscoe (ROH Heavyweight Champ) vs Jay Lethal (ROH TV Champ)

1416. Tag Team Elimination Chamber, 2015

While the first ever tag team elimination chamber is the match this episode is named for, there are a lot of ther things going on. The New Day forms and wins their first of many titles in their first appearance as a team in our chronology. Also, John Cena won the US Championship for the kabillionth time in our last episode. Rather than the usual So Now He Will Fight The WWE's Biggest Monsters storyline, he begins a series of open challenges where he faces younger talent, mostly current and former NXT stars. It's way more interesting to watch, especially as one of his earliest challengers takes him to the absolute limit to make his name on the main roster. 

Announcers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Booker T, Lillian Garcia, Eden Stiles, Jojo

1. John Cena (WWE US Champ) vs Dean Ambrose
2. Caesaro & Tyson Kidd (WWE Tag Team Champs) vs The New Day
3. Roman Reigns vs The Big Show in a Last Man Standing Match
4. Seth Rollins (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Randy Orton vs Roman Reigns vs Dean Ambrose

5. Tag Team Elimination Chamber
The New Day (WWE Tag Team Champs) vs Ascencion vs Prime Time Players vs Los Matadores vs Caesaro & Tyson Kidd vs Lucha Dragons

6. John Cena (WWE US Champ) vs  Kevin Owens (NXT Champ)

1417. Takeover Brooklyn, 2015

Ring Of Honor veterans abound as NXT levels up with strong storylines about betrayal and some wacky tag team gimmicks. We won't be seeing too much of Enzo & Cass, thankfully, or The Vaudevillains, unfortunately, but both put on great shows here. Also, the double main event of this episode is top notch.

Announcers: Corey Graves, Byron Saxton, Rich Brennan, Mike Rome

1. BAM Factor (NXT Tag Team Champs) vs Enzo Amore & Big Cass
2. Kevin Owens (NXT Champ) vs Sami Zayn
3. BAM Factor (NXT Tag Champs) vs The Vaudevillians
4. Samoa Joe vs Baron Corbin
5. Sasha Banks (NXT Womens Champ) vs Bayley
6. Finn Balor (NXT Heavyweight Champ) vs Kevin Owens

1418. Low Impact, 2015

2015 saw a massive drout in TNA pay-per views which, unfortunately, didn't result in the pay-per-views being of higher quality. But during the spring and early summer, the weekly TV show that the company would soon rename itself after featured some fresh faces and a few fantastic matches.

Announcers: Tazz, Josh Mathews, Elijah Burke, Jeremy Borash

1. EC3 vs Drake Maverick (as Rockstar Spud) in a Hair vs Hair Match
2. American Wolves (Impact Tag Team Champs) vs Jessie Godderz & Zema Ion vs Sanada & Manik in an Ultimate X Match

3. Bobby Lashley (Impact Heavyweight Champ) vs Kurt Angle
4. Taryn Terrell (Impact Knockout Champ) vs Gail Kim vs Awesome Kong
5. Kurt Angle (Impact Heavyweight Champ) vs Austin Aries 
5. American Wolves vs The Dirty Heels in an Iron Man Match for the Impact Tag Team Championship

6. Kurt Angle (Impact Heavyweight Champ)  vs EC3

1419. The Architect Vs The Open Challenge, 2015

Seth Rollins really evolves from Triple H's chosen hound to superstar here with a couple of classic matches. John Cena continues his excellent run of Open Challenges. And we see a couple of highlight reel level matches from former NXT stars.

Announcers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles, Jojo

1. John Cena (WWE US Champ) vs Sami Zayn
2. Seth Rollins (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Dean Ambrose in a Ladder Match
3. John Cena (WWE US Champ) vs Kevin Owens
4. Chris Jericho vs Pac 
5. Bray Wyatt vs Roman Reigns
6. Seth Rollins (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs John Cena (WWE US Champ)

1420. Headliners, 2015

An odd end to the season. We have the last couple of womens' matches before the WWE Womens' Revolution begins in earnest, a rematch from last season's finale, the first of two Shield appearances with a fill-in member, and the only WWE Sting match in this continuity. Don't worry, though, he'll be back in another couple of seasons.

Announcers: Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Lilian Garcia, Eden Stiles

1. Team PCB vs Team Bella vs Team BAD
Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch & Page vs Nikki Bella, Brie Bella & Alicia Fox vs Sasha Banks, Naomi & Tamina

2. Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar
3. Nikki Bella (WWE Divas Champ) vs Charlotte Flair
4. The Wyatt Family vs Off-Brand Shield
5. Seth Rollins (WWE US Champ) vs John Cena
6. Seth Rollins (WWE Heavyweight Champ) vs Sting