Ryan, Matt, and Rachel gather in the parking lot of the ghost town which used to be a mall and talk Modest Mouses’s The Lonesome Crowded West. The record may only sort of be “real country music,” but at least Cowboy Dan is on hand to help navigate the cowboy scene.

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Episode 284: What’s in That, Man? What’s in That Mall Juice? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan, Matt, and Rachel D time-travel back to the 90s-00s taint (the Starr Report through 9/11 period) to listen to Pavement’s Brighten the Corners.

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Episode 283: Poetry in Banal Things originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan and Matt crank the volume in their jeep and cruise to the polyglot heteroglossia of Wyclef Jean’s solo debut, Wyclef Jean presents The Carnival featuring Refugee Allstars, his follow-up to 1996’s smash hit Fugees record, The Score, and which they decide is simultaneously ahead of its time and a lost treasure.

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Episode 282: Panatlanticism originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan is joined by Rachel D and Jordan to discuss Dr. Octagonecologyst, the debut album by Dr. Octagon, who is definitely an extraterrestrial surgeon from Jupiter and not a hip hip trio made up of rapper Kool Keith, producer Dan the Automator, and turntablist DJ Qbert.

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Episode 281: First, Do Harm originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Matt and Ryan explore the many levels of irony of non-networked self on one of the best rap albums of the nineties. IN other words, they are talking about Fiona Apple’s seminal 1996 debut, Tidal.

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Episode 280: The Special Technique of Emotional Shadowboxing originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan and Matt have a conversation about the multi-platinum Spice, the 1996 debut from the Spice Girls, which is frankly shocking in its sincerity. Spice advocates for pro-social, emotionally adaptive, and mature relations among groups of friends, between lovers, and with oneself. Indeed, it seems that everything we learned about love, we learned from the Spice Girls.

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Episode 279: Sometimes You Just Need Zigazig Ha originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan and Matt are separated by Punk Correspondent Rachel D and special guest Theorist Jordan Stokes as they discover Bristol trip-hop pioneer Tricky’s debut album Maxinquaye.

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Episode 278: More a Hop that Trips than a Trip that Hops originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan and Matt revert to a rivalry every bit as antagonistic as Noel and Liam Gallagher, whose breakthrough second album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory is the subject of this episode.

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Episode 277: The Best Tambourine Album of the 90s originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan and Matt are joined by punk correspondent and hot Garbage enthusiast Rachel to discuss the quartet’s 1995 debut, an album that synthesized every trend in two decades of rock music except the one you’d most expect.

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Episode 276: Garbage In, Garbage Out originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Is ska dead? Is ska a word? Is ska punk? Is ska reggae? Is ska coming back? These questions and more as Ryan, Matt, and punk correspondent Rachel examine No Doubt’s commercial breakthrough, Tragic Kingdom. Slip into your bondage pants and find the sweet spot on the grind/mosh continuum: we meet this album’s energy with a great deal energy of our own.

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Episode 275: It’s Third-Wave Ska but Second-Wave Feminism originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]