I basically listen to podcasts all day at work
And in the car. So I'm always looking for new ones, especially since I have kind of high standards for them, frequently dropping old ones that aren't or are no longer meeting my standards.
My newest discovery/obsession is 60 Songs That Explain the '90s. Which just released its 70th episode, so I'm not pretending to be on the bleeding edge of what's new in podcasts.
I'm a Gen Xer so I'm more of an '80s kid, but I graduated high school in 1992 and was still pretty plugged into the musical mainstream for most of the '90s. Actually, maybe even more so than in the '80s, because a lot of the music I listened to then was old (the very first wave of post-punk) and, being British, somewhat more obscure than the stuff that made it big in the '90s. You know, the internet was starting to be a thing, and genres were starting to run together a little more. I mean I listened to a lot of hip-hop in the '90s, which was a genre I was barely aware existed in the previous decade. Uh, Melle Mel's "White Lines" sometimes got played on the local Top 40 station, and I liked Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" because it played over the opening credits of Do The Right Thing.
Anyway, it's nostalgic fun, and I'm compiling a list of 1990s albums to re-visit; today I listened to Hole's Live Through This and Celebrity Skin.
I am also now aware that a karaoke mash-up of Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" sung to the Ghostbusters theme song music exists, something that made me laugh until I cried when the host (who, if he was 15 when Kurt Cobain died as he's mentioned, would have been starting high school just as I was leaving it, so we're not that far apart in age) played a snippet of it. The implication being that even industrial music, for all the swearing and screaming and headache-inducing noise, is also just pop music at base.
But also, that's just fucking hilarious.
Here's a photo of unknown graves in Plaquemines Parish (they got washed out of their original graves in a hurricane);
My newest discovery/obsession is 60 Songs That Explain the '90s. Which just released its 70th episode, so I'm not pretending to be on the bleeding edge of what's new in podcasts.
I'm a Gen Xer so I'm more of an '80s kid, but I graduated high school in 1992 and was still pretty plugged into the musical mainstream for most of the '90s. Actually, maybe even more so than in the '80s, because a lot of the music I listened to then was old (the very first wave of post-punk) and, being British, somewhat more obscure than the stuff that made it big in the '90s. You know, the internet was starting to be a thing, and genres were starting to run together a little more. I mean I listened to a lot of hip-hop in the '90s, which was a genre I was barely aware existed in the previous decade. Uh, Melle Mel's "White Lines" sometimes got played on the local Top 40 station, and I liked Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" because it played over the opening credits of Do The Right Thing.
Anyway, it's nostalgic fun, and I'm compiling a list of 1990s albums to re-visit; today I listened to Hole's Live Through This and Celebrity Skin.
I am also now aware that a karaoke mash-up of Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" sung to the Ghostbusters theme song music exists, something that made me laugh until I cried when the host (who, if he was 15 when Kurt Cobain died as he's mentioned, would have been starting high school just as I was leaving it, so we're not that far apart in age) played a snippet of it. The implication being that even industrial music, for all the swearing and screaming and headache-inducing noise, is also just pop music at base.
But also, that's just fucking hilarious.
Here's a photo of unknown graves in Plaquemines Parish (they got washed out of their original graves in a hurricane);