Dig Me Out: 90s & 00s Rock

Refused famously titled their landmark 1998 post-hardcore album The Shape of Punk to Come, a nod to the trailblazing Ornette Coleman avant garde/free jazz album The Shape of Jazz to Come released in 1959. The short-lived band Swedish band Purusam released their second and final album Daybreak Chronicles in 1997 on the Refused-connected Desperate Fight Records, though it could have been titled The Shape of Metal to Come. More than just a post-hardcore outfit, the band dabbled in Iron Maiden-style twin guitar attacks and galloping rhythms before shifting into progressive-ish mode with cello drenched interludes while balancing screaming male vocals and ethereal female vocals.

 

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Opening Theme/The Way of the Hero

15:47 - Leave and Forget

22:38 - Atma

35:23 - Starlit

Outro - Hourglass

 

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Good Health, the 2002 debut album by Pretty Girls Make Graves, packs punches in all the right places and in under thirty minutes. Angular guitars bounce off of a confident, inventive rhythm section in service of indie rock earworms and an anthemic opener. 

 

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Ghost In The Radio

13:05 - Speakers Push Air

25:08 - The Get Away

31:12 - If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone

Outro - More Sweet Soul

 

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Never heard of Reacharound? You're not alone, which is a shame, because this band of UK expats playing punked-up rockabilly and 60s Kinks and Who influenced garage rock deserved your attention. Their only album, 1996's Who's Tommy Cooper? is a charming, straight-up rock album with enough variety to keep fans of Reverend Horton Heat, Social Distortion, or The Living End interested.

 

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Big & Mean

22:22 - Big Chair

26:37 - Seen It Before

33:36 - Gene Autry

Outro - Shaking Like A Leaf

 

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2006 wasn't just any year in the 00s. It's the year Twitter launched, the year before the release of the iPhone, Nintendo debuted the Wii console, Borat burst into movie theaters, and Justin Timberlake made sure sexy was back. It was also when danceable post-punk, alternative metal, and UK post-Brit pop were making waves bubbling up to the underground, and much more. We've invited a group of our Patrons to revisit the year and discuss albums that stood the test of time (and a few that did not), overlooked and underappreciated albums, albums we were late to discover, and much more.

 

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Supermassive Black Hole by Muse, Young Folks by Peter, Bjorn and John, Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

22:00 - Unleashed by Front Line Assembly

31:53 - Family Band by The Tragically Hip

43:58 - Rockstar by The Fags

56:46 - Master Exploder by Tenacious D

1:00:39 - Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge

1:17:39 - Star Witness by Neko Case

1:22:34 - Come Clarity by In Flames

1:32:26 - Standing In The Way Of Control - Gossip

Outro - Different World by Iron Maiden

 

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Released during the protracted second Iraq war, Josh Ritter's fourth album The Animal Years layers a singer/songwriter album with somber lyrical depth softened by effective melodies and thoughtful instrumentation.

 

Songs In This Episode

Intro - Wolves

17:04 - Girl In The War

18:58 - Monster Ballads

25:29 - Thin Blue Flame

32:36 - Good Man

Outro - Here at the Right Time

 

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