The boys drink some Lakini's Juice, but when it comes to the rest of Live's album Secret Samadhi, Trav and Quillen taste seeds of Creed.  Al does his best to defend a childhood favorite that was generally seen as a letdown in 1997.  On the charts we visit Prodigy, Big Head Todd, Space, and White Town.

This - must - be: Pop! This week on the pod, the boys are talkin' U2 to you. Is their new evolution a hit? Listen to learn the actual correct pronunciation of the song title, then head into the Flood again, and finally, check the charts for Garbage.

This episode was released earlier this morning with only Trav's audio.  This is the corrected version.

Don’t take that poison just yet, Romeo!  We’re not dead, we’ve just been sleeping.  Here we are with Garbage, Baz Luhrman, and some mild audio issues.  It’s 1997.

The boys go all in on The Breeders, including detours for Channel One and Ewoks.  Then a rare glimpse into 1993's Modern Rock charts, including Radiohead, Pumpkins, Cracker, Buffalo Tom, Ocean Blue and more.

Hey, what do you want Travis to say???  It's not like he volunteered to do a podcast about 90s alternative radio.  It's time to go deep on TOP fave "Stay" by Lisa Loeb.  Plus some talk about Ida, Loeb's album Tails, and showing goodbye.

Things get dumber and dumberer as we return with a random episode about "New Age Girl" by Deadeye Dick, a band whose recordings have largely vanished from the internet.  Stick around for 90s comedy soundtracks and the return of grinchy Quillen.

There are some mild, brief audio issues about 25 minutes in.

It's time for our annual year-end special, which this year comes in the same form it does every year: the Pod Star game.  Please pardon the mild audio irregularities; we recorded in the same room (!) for the first time.

:00 Pod Star Intro

6:38 What was your favorite song in 1996?

10:30 Stats time!

19:14 Billboard Stats

21:41 Top 5 Albums for 1995

1:19:40 Announcement of Hiatus Episodes

Grab your Razorblade Suitcase and take a trip with the boys to discuss the Gavin Grunge Gang! Did Bush get good? Or just good enough? Or are they still Bonedrivel? Also on this ep, Quillen talks about drums, Alec gets angry(!), and Trav is mostly quietly thinking about Gavin's fantastic shirt.

The boys go full hipster snob on this piece of himbo beach bum, tribal tattoo garbage. Psych! What Sublime has got here is a masterful hybrid of genres that we don’t have the willpower to resist. Van Halen, Blackstreet, and Tonic are on the charts. No cats were harmed in the making of this episode.

This week we head to California for a fertile moment when producer Jon Brion is working with Eels, Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Rufus Wainwright, and P.T. Anderson. On the charts, Trav does NOT want to talk about Weezer, but The Lemonheads, Counting Crows, and Tool are fair game. A bad episode for people who hate good episodes.