Dig Me Out: 90s & 00s Rock

Space rock, emo, and electronica are smoothly integrated into the post-rock sound of First Wave Hello on their 2006 debut album The Lord and it's Penguin.

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Dog Show World

10:35 - Our Best Policy

13:21 - Everything Automatic

19:59 - Lay Down

24:52 - Nothing Like Nausea

Outro - Falling Apart

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For his last film of the 1990s, David Lynch worked with longtime collaborators and new musicians to build a soundtrack as varied and unpredictable as his film for 1997's Lost Highway.

Songs In This Episode

Intro - The Perfect Drug by Nine Inch Nails

14:11 - I'm Deranged (Edit) by David Bowie

19:07 - Eye by The Smashing Pumpkins

30:18 - Mr. Eddy's Theme 1 by Barry Adamson

45:21 - Rammstein (Edit) by Rammstein

Outro - This Magic Moment by Lou Reed

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Following the release of their debut, 12 Rods signed to V2 Records and released Split Personalities in 1998. Sprawling in its ambition, the band twists and bends pop rock into a variety of genres, melding drum 'n bass, shoegaze, emo, and more.

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Part of 2

13:44 - Chromatically Declining Me

20:00 - The Stupidest Boy

24:42 - I Wish You Were A Girl

37:51 - Split Personality

Outro - Girl Sun

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This week we're checking out the 2000 album Tried + True by Tinfed. The third and final album by this Sacramento, CA based alternative rock band shows confidence in their willingness to experiment with electronic elements, but occasionally misses the mark in the execution.

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Arrange

16:50 - Immune

24:43 - Always-Never

27:03 - Idol

37:34 - Drop

Outro - It's Late

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While not as well know as other goth heavyweights like Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, or Siouxsie and the Banshees, the third album by Fields of the Nephilim, 1990s Elizium, deserves recognition on par with the classics of the genre.

Songs In This Episode

Intro - For Her Light

19:29 - At the Gates of Silent Memory

24:57 - Sumerland (What Dreams May Come)

36:40 - Submission

Outro - Paradise Regained

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This week we revisit the 2007 debut album Exit Decades by Cut City. If you are a fan of 70s post-punk (The Sound, Joy Division) or the 2000s revival (Interpol, Bloc Party), you will definitely want to tune in and check out a band that ticks all the post-punk boxes with modern twists.

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Manoevres

13:16 - Anticipation

18:05 - Such Verve

20:44 - Rival Trial

Outro - Like Ashes Like Millions

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Known for the hits “Run Around,” “Hook,” and “Mountains Win Again,” we take a listen to their 1991 sophomore album Travelers and Thieves.

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Ivory Tusk

15:16 - Onslaught

10:36 - What’s For Breakfast

34:40 - The Tiding

36:56 - I Have My Moments

47:00 - Sweet Pain

Outro - Support Your Local Emperor

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Clean acoustic guitars and strings one moment, fuzzy riffs and f-bombs the next - we check out the self-titled 2004 debut by Love Outside Andromeda.

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Tongue Like a Tether

11:45 - Improper Methods

17:14 - Made Of Broken Glass

19:56 - Gonna Try To Be A Girl

29:40 - Juno

Outro - Something Whit & Sigmund

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Take members of Tool and Failure, give them classic rock artists and new wave bands to cover, and you get the oddball 1996 self-titled by Replicants. 

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Just What I Needed (The Cars)

13:03 - Dirty Work (Steely Dan)

16:59 - How Do You Sleep? (John Lennon)

19:34 - Silly Love Songs (Wings)

28:18 - Destination Unknown (Missing Persons)

Outro - Are ‘Friends’ Electric? (Tubeway Army)

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Power pop might be one of the most misunderstood and under-appreciated genres under rock, and the 2004 album Recess Serenade by The Argument is a perfect example. Harmonies and hooks with loud guitars, what more could you want?

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Song One

15:43 - Call In Sick

23:47 - Everyone’s Selling Something

26:45 - Soaked

31:51 - My Dumb Luck

Outro - Incognito

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