Episode 32: Rediscoveries – The Late 90s
OK, let me do a pre-emptive apology for the transitions on this one. Usually they’re much better than these, but because I had a precedent of chronology on the first Rediscoveries show, I stuck with it when I wrote this script. I knew it would be sonically all over the place, but I didn’t think they would also all be harmonically incompatible. Sue me, sue me, what can you do me, to quote Nathan Detroit.
MUSIC:
I Feel Alright by Steve Earle (I Feel Alright, Hard Core Troubadour, More Than I Can Do)
Other Songs by Ron Sexsmith (Thinking Out Loud, Average Joe, April After All)
Too Far To Care by Old 97s (Niteclub, Barrier Reef, Timebomb)
All The Pain Money Can Buy by Fastball (The Way, Fire Escape, Out Of My Head)
XO by Elliott Smith (Bled White, Waltz #2 (XO), Baby Britain)
Midnite Vultures by Beck (Sexx Laws, Mixed Bidness, Debra)
Closing Song: Ellis Unit One by Steve Earle courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network
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Isn’t it bizarre the way Fastball was relatively popular, with good songs that got on the radio and people genuinely liked, and then they pretty much disappeared into the ether? You don’t even hear the popular songs anywhere anymore.
I think it was because they were too ubiquitous that summer. A year later it was all faux-Latin music and nobody cared about melodies anymore, which is too bad because You’re An Ocean is every bit as good as The Way.