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It's our fifth year of getting the patrons together and giving thanks for the new music that gave us happiness and good vibes in 2024. There's a wide array of bands and artists, new and old, that helped make 2024 a great year for music. New albums from 1980s, 90s and 00s artists like The Cure, Pearl Jam, Judas Priest, Underworld, The Black Crowes, John Davis (Superdrag), The Sheila Divine, Jack White, Pig, the Pixies, Watershed, Sebastian Bach, Silver Sun, D-A-D, J. Mascis, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Primal Scream, The Smile, and many more all released great late career records, while newer bands like Return to Dust, Ahem, Friko, The Blackburns, Crows, and several others landed on our radar.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Alone by The Cure (from Songs from a Lost World)
3:38 - Trust In Me by Silver Sun (from Mild Peril)
11:49 - (Hold On) To The Dream by Sebastian Bach (from Child Within The Man)
18:11 - Lapdog by Ahem (from Avoider)
21:34 - Fallout by Pig (from Feast of Agony EP)
31:17 - Free To Fall by John Davis (from JINX)
34:32 - Trial By Fire by Judas Priest (from Invincible Shield)
42:00 - Automaticity by J. Robbins (from Basilisk)
52:01 - Wanting and Waiting by The Black Crowes (from Happiness Bastards)
1:08:41 - The Darkness by The Sheila Divine (from I Am The Darkness. We Are The Light)
Outro - Dark Matter by Pearl Jam (from Dark Matter)
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The 1994 album Let Love In by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a masterful exploration of beauty and brutality. Blending gothic rock with bluesy undertones, Cave delivers haunting melodies with vivid, poetic lyrics. Tracks like "Do You Love Me?" and "Red Right Hand" showcase Cave's magnetic storytelling and the band's dynamic range, taking the wildness of his previous band The Birthday Party, and the noisy experimentation of fellow Aussies The Dirty Three, and utilizes it in surprisingly restrained ways. Themes of passion, despair, and redemption weave through the music, and while a few of the louder tracks break up the flow, overall the album creates a dark, immersive experience unlike anything from the decade.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Red Right Hand
15:55 - Do You Love Me?
20:02 - Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore
23:45 - Jangling Jack
27:06 - Do You Love Me? (Part 2)
30:48 - Thirsty Dog
Outro - I Let Love In
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The 1998 concept album Nightfall in Middle-Earth by Blind Guardian brings the epic scope of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion to life through power metal. The album tells the tragic tales of elves, men, and gods embroiled in a war against the dark lord Morgoth, blending rich lyrical storytelling with complex arrangements, and finds a sweet spot between the technical skill of bands like Metallica and Helloween with the melodic bombast of Queen. Each track serves as a chapter in the larger saga, with both interludes and full songs capturing key moments via a variety of unique approaches. Mixing soaring vocals, symphonic elements, and Brian May-esque guitar riffage, the band create a sense of grandeur that mirrors the mythic subject matter.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Into The Storm
14:49 - A Dark Passage
19:42 - Nightfall
24:50 - The Eldar
34:08 - Thorn
38:53 - Mirror Mirror
Outro - The Minstrel
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Almost Here is the 1998 debut album by the Unbelievable Truth, fronted by Andy Yorke, who you may have just discovered (like us) is the younger brother of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. Infused with haunting melodies and introspective lyrics that lean on melancholy, emotional conflict, and introspection, the album showcases Yorke's evocative vocals and a minimalist approach Throughout the album, songs like "Settle Down" and "Stone" highlights the band’s thoughtful arrangements and subdued sound, tasteful integrating keys and organs without overpowering the mix.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Solved
15:27 - Higher Than Reason
18:02 - Stone
25:57 - Settle Down
Outro - Finest Little Space
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The 1991 debut album Gish by The Smashing Pumpkins marked the band's entry into the alternative rock scene with a unique mix of psychedelic rock, heavy metal, and dream pop elements. Produced by Butch Vig, who would later work with Nirvana on Nevermind, the album showcases the band's early experimentation with layered guitars, intricate rhythms, raw energy, and dense sonic textures that would become hallmarks of the Pumpkins sound. Although Gish did not initially achieve mainstream success, it garnered a strong underground following, helping to set the stage for the band's breakthrough with Siamese Dream in 1993. Celebrated for its unique blend of intensity and melody, it serves as an early glimpse into the Pumpkins' evolving musical ambitions, complete the fingerprints of Jane's Addiction, Van Halen, and Black Sabbath.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Tristessa
16:57 - I Am One
21:57 - Rhinoceros
30:36 - Window Paine
33:46 - Siva
Outro - Bury Me
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Most people know Jesus Jones from their big hit in 1991, "Right Here Right Now." Thanks to the explosion of grunge and alternative rock that was already bubbling up from the underground to the mainstream, the techno-rock of Jesus Jones took a back seat and relegated them to one-hit wonder status. But instead of changing their sound to blend in with the loud guitars from Seattle, the band and primary songwriter/singer Mike Edwards went in the opposite direction and leaned into their electronic elements for 1993's Perverse. Recorded entirely on computers, the album marks on the second fully digital release, and the sounds Edwards and band created sound positively futuristic compared the 1993 musical landscape.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Zeroes and Ones
24:43 - Spiral
27:49 - The Devil You Know
41:09 - Yellow Brown
Outro - Magazine
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An original member of KMFDM, producer, musician and singer Raymond Watts has been ensconced in the electronic and industrial music scenes for going on five decades. His own project PIG started out far more raw and aggressive, but over time Watts evolved the sound and eventually found a home on Trent Reznor's NOTHING label for the 1996 release of Sinsation (released the previous year in Japan only). With nods to Reznor's Nine Inch Nails and fellow industrial metal act Ministry, among others, Sinsation adds some unexpected and well-placed orchestra and horn samples to give the album a cinematic feel that would sound appropriate backing a dystopian science fiction film.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Hamstrung on the Highway
16:01 - The Sick
22:04 - Serial Killer Thriller
30:31 - Transceration
35:48 - Hot Hole
Outro - Paniac
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Although they've released over a dozen albums covering four decades, odds are if you ask someone on the street to name a song by Soul Asylum, it's going to be the mega-hit "Runaway Train" off their 1992 album Grave Dancers Union. There were other singles, "Black Gold" and "Somebody To Shove" off Grave Dancers Union, "Misery" and "Just Like Anyone" off the follow-up Let Your Dim Light Shine, but those albums and songs represented a band that had worked and toured and recorded since the early 1980s, taking a primordial post-punk and hardcore sound and slowly evolving album by album, starting with their debut Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold The Truck in 1984. Like their Twin/Tone Records labelmates The Replacements, the manic youthful energy gave their lead singers an opportunity to gradually find their literal and lyrical voice. On each successive album, and a jump to major label A&M, the band continued to refine and improve their brand of midwestern alternative college rock, and reached the heights of their songwriting prowess just as a second major, Columbia, took a chance that would land them a home for their sixth album and eventual double platinum seller, the aforementioned Grave Dancers Union.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Down On Up To Me (from Hang Time)
22:24 - Voodoo Doll (from Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold The Truck)
28:36 - Masquerade (from Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold The Truck)
33:16 - Tied to the Tracks (from Made To Be Broken)
36:46 - Can't Go Back (from Made To Be Broken)
40:20 - Freaks (While You Were Out)
47:22 - Endless Farwell (Hang Time)
51:30 - Cartoon (Hang Time)
Outro - Closer To The Stars (While You Were Out)
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On their second album Young And Full Of The Devil, Magic Dirt blended fuzzed out psych and stoner riffage with a grunge-tinged snarl. The throat shredding vocals of Adalita Srsen lend comparisons to bands like Hole, The Distillers, or L7, but the band delves into darker, scuzzier territory on tracks like the opening opus "Babycakes" and the closer and bonus track "Babycakes You Always Freeze Me Up." The foursome display a penchant for uptempo riffage on songs like "Rabbit With Fangs" and the appropriately titled "She-Riff" layered in a variety of guitar pedals and effects, but some odd choices on the back half of the record left us scratching our heads about what started out with strong intentions but veered into less concise territory.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Short Black
22:03 - Shrinko
28:54 - She-Riff
35:02 - Ascot Red
43:36 - X-Ray
Outro - Rabbit With Fangs
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It's hard to reconcile the importance of a band like Pavement considering their lack of mainstream popularity and pedestrian album sales But like The Velvet Underground and others before them whose underground popularity helped launch a thousand bands, Pavement's twisted takes on pop rock, post-punk, jam bands, and even country somehow make their 1994 sophomore album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain made a big impression on those looking for something the radio and MTV didn't offer. Witty lyrics, slacker vibes, jangly and occasionally conflicting guitars were present on their debut, but the band honed their skills to craft catchy, off-kilter melodies on tracks like "Cut Your Hair" and "Range Life."
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Cut Your Hair
24:36 - Silence Kid
37:06 - Fillmore Jive
46:59 - Heaven Is a Truck
56:53 - Range Life
Outro - Gold Soundz
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