Hidden Jukebox

We did what they told us. Adam Neely: The Music You Hate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZMpU-7YcgA Adam Neely: Learning to Like Contemporary Christian Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hACUz4WVWwk

Life is parallel to hell, but I must maintain.

Leave a message and I'll call you back.

How many special people change? (Featuring George McCleary!) Special Guest: George McCleary.

Wearing my naughties like a jewel. CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault.

Tunnel vision! Content Warning: Several references to sexual assault, plus we criticize the band Sublime.

Put your skeletons in jail.

Take a good look at it. Look at it now.

Who stole Thom's vodka cup?

Jake is a Phish fan. Matthew is a Phish skeptic. Naturally they're tackling the Phishiest possible release, 1994's A Live One, which features a 30-minute song.

Special Guest Rich McLaughlin (Sirius XM, I Heart Radio, WFUV, Amazon Music) joins us on a journey through “Time.” On this month’s Hidden Jukebox, we discuss REM’s Out of Time (1991) as well as what made the band great, what made the band fall apart, and why Rich is so damned obsessed with these guys. Special Guest: Rich McLaughlin.

Snoop Doggy Dogg, 1993 In 1992, a new video debuted on MTV, and suddenly America couldn’t stop talking about two things: cars that bounce, and a cornrowed rapper with a lovable lazy drawl and the improbable name of Snoop Doggy Dogg. We can't stop talking about him either.

Green Day’s Dookie (1994) was punk rock your parents could enjoy in the car. Deceptively upbeat (until you listen to the lyrics), Dookie’s strong hooks and clever lyrics brought punk to a mass audience—and is still loads of fun today.

Maria, carry a rifle.

We should be okay and we won't get in a muddle.

This month, once again we talk about an obscure 90s album you've never heard of. Pretty good.

A stone-cold classic that's as relevant, progressive, and weird as it was in 1995. These are loud, smart hope-from-the-gutter tunes, and we're kind of in love. This album is out of print, but used CDs are readily available.

0898 Beautiful South, The Beautiful South, 1992 Matthew really puts Laura through the wringer on this one. 0898 is an overproduced, saccharine mess of sad drunks, cannibals, and codependents, and Matthew couldn't love it more. (Except for that one frustratingly catchy misogynistic track.) Laura, on the other hand....

Mezzanine, Massive Attack, 1998. On this episode, we chill out after the rave and talk nicknames, musical diversity, fade-ins, buildups, and teenage weirdos. We also say "Bristol" many times as if we know where that is.

On our fourth episode we listen to Luna’s Penthouse, Laura Loe’s favorite album of the 1990s. We discuss lush recording, embarrassing lyrics, shameless Velvet Underground rip offs, and the absence of early rock shows for aging Gen-Xers. Luna (extended thoughts from Laura Loe) There are a lot of amazing things about doing our Hidden Jukebox podcast. Tonight I'm listening to Luna's Penthouse for the...

Hole, Celebrity Skin, 1998. We take a deeper look at ourselves while listening to this 1998 classic. If this album is considered by some to be a "guilty pleasure," we clearly don't have any guilt about it. This was a foundational soundtrack to our 90's SoCal lives. From hanging with dolphins at the beach and midnight jaunts to the "Rock n' Roll Ralph's" grocery store to being trapped in college li...

The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs, 1999 With apologies to Prince's Emancipation, 69 Love Songs is probably the best triple album out there. Still, we wondered, what if we had to edit it down to twelve songs? (Heretical, we know.) In the process, we talk romantic entanglements, carfree urbanism, and dreaminess.

Pavement, Brighten the Corners, 1997 On our debut episode, we talk guitar wankery, hit singles, off-mic screaming, and how to sing when no one's listening.