{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Hidden Jukebox","home_page_url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com","feed_url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/json","description":"Jake Amster and Matthew Amster-Burton, two Seattle music nerds and actual brothers, take you on an audio tour of the best albums of the 90s, from R.E.M. to T.L.C., Snoop Dogg to Phish.","_fireside":{"subtitle":"Your favorite 90s albums, celebrated","pubdate":"2024-11-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","explicit":true,"copyright":"2024 by Jake Amster and Matthew Amster-Burton","owner":"Jake Amster and Matthew Amster-Burton","image":"https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/c/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/cover.jpg?v=1"},"items":[{"id":"bebe6fd3-aa55-4854-a5ac-473414dfd791","title":"78: Mind Playing Tricks on Me","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/78","content_text":"\n\nHe'd be in for a squabble, no doubt.\n\nWhat we're listening to:\n\nJake:\nJohnny Blue Skies, Passage du Desir\nDavid Gilmour, Luck and Strange\n\nMatthew:\nThe Linda Lindas, No Obligation\nTouché Amoré, Spiral in a Straight Line","content_html":"
\n\nHe'd be in for a squabble, no doubt.
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nJohnny Blue Skies, Passage du Desir
\nDavid Gilmour, Luck and Strange
Matthew:
\nThe Linda Lindas, No Obligation
\nTouché Amoré, Spiral in a Straight Line
He's battle-tossed and laid...?
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nMew, And the Glass-Handed Kites
\nLouis Cole, Nothing
Matthew:
\nDrug Church, PRUDE
\nCleaners from Venus, Lilli Bolero
Your love's decided, and all love is real? Yeah, baby
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nKGLW, Flight b741
\nChildish Gambino, Bando Stone and the New World
Matthew:
\nCombat, Stay Golden
\nStand Atlantic, WAS HERE
YEEEEEEEEAH
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nMatthew:
\nTHEM, Girls Mind
\nThe Raveonettes, The Raveonettes Sing...
\nThe Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice, Moon Colony Bloodbath
Jake:
\nThe Dip, Love Direction
\nParlor Greens, In Green We Dream
\nFleet Foxes, Live on Boston Harbor
Now come on, what was I supposed to do?
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nMedium Build, Country
\nNxWorries, Why Lawd?
\nParcels (just the band in general)
Honorable mention: Lightheaded, Lightheaded Anthem
\n\nMatthew:
\nThe Lovely Eggs, Eggsistentialism
\nGood Looks, Lived Here for a While
\nLightheaded, Always Sideways
I can't stand rocking when I'm in here.
\n\n\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nJustin Timberlake, Everything I Thought It Was
\nBrittany Howard, What Now
Matthew:
\nOrigami Angel, "Fruit Wine"
\nCamera Obscura, Look to the East, Look to the West
\nThe Distillers, Coral Fang
Ross:
\nWilli Carlisle, Critterland
\nFat White Family, Forgiveness Is Yours
\nMohama Saz, Máquina de Guerra
If the music's pumping it will give you new life.
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nMatthew:
\nVampire Weekend, Only God Was Above Us
\nEnglish Teacher, This Could Be Texas
\nKate Davis, "Cunty Bang Bang"
Jake:
\nWaxahatchee, Tiger's Blood
\nPearl Jam, Dark Matter
Will she smell alone?
\n\nRick Beato interviews Robert DeLeo about writing "Plush"
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nIdles, Tangk
\nMildlife, Chorus
Matthew:
\nDucks Ltd, Harm's Way
\nEmma Anderson, Pearlies
\nTokyo Police Club, Just a Scratch/Catch Me If You Can
It tickles to see you try to be like Mr. Pickles.
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nMatthew:
\nJunodream, Pools of Colour
\nThe Paranoid Style, The Interrogator
\nMSPAINT, Post-American
Jake:
\nThe Smile, Wall of Eyes
\nThank You Scientist, Terraformer
\nParamore, Re: This Is Why
Around the world. Around the world?
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nMarco:
\nCub Sport, Jesus at the Gay Bar
\nLil Yachty, Let's Start Here
\nANOHNI and the Johnsons, My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
Jake:
\nJungle, Volcano
\nKGLW, Petrodragonic Apocalypse
Matthew:
\nKate Davis, Fish Bowl
\nThe Clientele, I Am Not There Anymore
\nThe Photocopies, Top of the Pops
You can keep me company as long as you don't care.
\n\nMeredith and Matthew are Twilight Diners.
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nMeredith:
\nAlvvays, Alvvays
\nThe Mystery Lights, Too Much Tension!
Matthew:
\nThe Mice, For Almost Ever
\nFatima Mansions, Lost in the Former West
Jake:
\nPsychedelic Porn Crumpets, Fronzoli
\nlespecial, Odd Times
Santa Claus won't make me happy with a toy.
\n\nWhat we're listening to
\n\nMatthew:
\nThe Photocopies, Top of the Pops
\nAndré 3000, New Blue Sun
Jake:
\nNeil Francis, Francis Comes Alive
\nCold War Kids, Cold War Kids
\nKGLW, The Silver Cord
I can't change my mould.
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nMatthew:
\nMetric, Formentera II
\nKNOWER, KNOWER FOREVER
\nJason Thomas Gordon, The Singers Talk (book)
Jake:
\nRoyal Blood, Back to the Water Below
\nGoose, Autumn Crossing
Don't you see the colour of deception?
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nMatthew:
\nAsh, Race the Night
\nA Giant Dog, Bite
\nMen Without Hats, Pop Goes the World
Jake:
\nJungle, Volcano
\nLocal Natives, Time Will Wait for No One
Ooh-ooh-ooh-hoo
\nOoh, ooh, ooh
\nOoh-ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
\nOoh-ooh-ooh-hoo
\nOoh, ooh, ooh
\nOoh-ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
What we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nYoung Gun Silver Fox, Ticket to Shangri-La
\nSmall Paul, Come Alive & Live Again
Matthew:
\nNoname, Sundial
\nThe Dead Krazukies, From the Underworld
\nGuns N' Roses, "Perhaps"
Never before and never since, I promise
\n\nWhat we're listening to
\n\nMatthew:
\nOrigami Angel, The Brightest Days
\nThe Clientele, I Am Not There Anymore
Jake:
\nJW Francis, Dream House
\nKGLW, PetroDragonic Apocalypse
\nQueens of the Stone Age, In Times New Roman
\nSandrider, Sandrider
Tell your friends jump in the GS3.
\n\nYo! MTV Raps Unplugged, 1991
\n\nWhat we're listening to
\n\nJake:
\nFoo Fighters, But Here We Are
\nJanelle Monáe, The Age of Pleasure
Matthew:
\nThe Reds, Pinks & Purples, They Only Wanted Your Soul
\nBlood Ceremony, The Old Ways Remain
Fingernails are good
\n\nWhat we're listening to
\n\nJake:
\nBoygenius, The Record
\nUnknown Mortal Orchestra V
Matthew:
\nFruit Bats, A River Running to Your Heart
Man, life can get all up in your ass
\n\nStakes is High live with The Roots on Fallon
\n\nThe song at the end of this episode is "Battlegrounds," from Matthew's band Early to the Airport's new EP, Departures
\n\nWhat we're listening to
\n\nMatthew:
\nNicole Yun, Matter
\nFrank Bango, The Truth Fox
Jake:
\nFlipturn, Shadowglow
What a kick just a buddy and me
\n\nWhat we're listening to
\n\nMatthew:
\nCaroline Rose, The Art of Forgetting
\nEyelids, A Colossal Waste of Light
\nKate Davis, Fish Bowl
Jake:
\nHarry Styles, Harry's House
\nTrue Loves
You don't really care for music. Do you?
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJohn:
\nDADADA!
\nWednesday Campanella
\nA playlist of contemporary Asian pop and indie
Jake:
\nLil Yachty, Let's Start Here
\nMadison Cunningham, Revealer
Matthew:
\nParannoul, After the Magic
\nDe La Soul feat MF DOOM, "Rock Co.Kane Flow" (video)
Why did it take so long?
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nBlack Midi: Hellfire
\nThe Sound of Animals Fighting: Apeshit
\nPlains: I Walked With you a Ways
Matthew:
\nBelle & Sebstian: Late Developers
\nAlvvays: Blue Rev
\nOMD: "Souvenir"
if you're getting any bright ideas, quiet dear
\n\nKeith Lowe's single, Respair
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nSnarky Puppy, Empire Central
\nDrugdealer, Hiding in Plain Sight
Matthew:
\nBest songs of 2022 playlist on Spotify
Keith:
\nA Girl Called Eddy, "Somebody Hurt You"
Remember back on the Bully when cats used to harmonize?
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nKing Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Changes
\nPost Animal, Love Gibberish
Matthew:
\nWeird Nightmare, Weird Nightmare
\nSobs, Air Guitar
one kid had it worse than that
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nJake:
\nArctic Monkeys, The Car
\nCytrus, Concentrate
\nMildlife, Automatic
Matthew:
\nTitus Andronicus, The Will to Live
\nOpen Mike Eagle, Component System with the Auto-Reverse
\nSteady Holiday, "Can't Find a Way" (out November 2)
The girls need a break.
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\n\nVibraslap
\nHerbie Hancock is 82.
Recommended:
\n\nMatthew:
\nKiwi jr., Chopper
Jake:
\nDOMi & JD BECK, NOT TiGHT
\nDanger mouse and Black Thought, Cheat Codes
First it steals your mind and then it steals your...
\n\nProducer Michael Beinhorn on Black Hole Sun
\nSoundgarden live at the Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley, 1994
Recommended:
\n\nMatthew:
\nHollie Cook, Happy Hour
\nTHEM, The Car EP
Jake:
\nGoose, Dripfield
I drink the honey inside your hive.
\n\nRecommended:
\n\nMatthew:
\nKing Stingray
\nJoyce Manor: 40 oz to Fresno
\nStrong Songs podcast on “Silent All These Years”
Jake:
\nJack White: Fear of the Dawn
\nFoals: Life Is Yours
Words are meaningless and forgettable.
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\n\nAcoustic guitar cover by Takashi Kouda
\n\nWhat we're listening to:
\n\nPUP, The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND
\nSoul Glo, Diaspora Problems
\nIbibio Sound Machine, Electricity
\nSAULT, Air
\nJake in front of a portrait of Kate Bush?
There's a rider that's fallen.
","summary":"There's a rider that's fallen.","date_published":"2022-04-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/59714d20-acb2-4d5e-956e-1e3cab35f4d7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38235368,"duration_in_seconds":2385}]},{"id":"e2446633-9d67-486b-aedc-8add2c5194b3","title":"46: The Boy Is Mine","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/46","content_text":"\n\nOh yeah, definitely. I know his name.\n\nRecommended:\nParannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream\nDeep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight\nThe Dip - When You Lose Someone (from the forthcoming Sticking with It)\nSome artists called Goose, Geese, Neil Francis, or maybe Neal Francis\n\nEddie Vedder Is Still Learning to Live with Loss","content_html":"\n\nOh yeah, definitely. I know his name.
\n\nRecommended:
\nParannoul - To See the Next Part of the Dream
\nDeep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight
\nThe Dip - When You Lose Someone (from the forthcoming Sticking with It)
\nSome artists called Goose, Geese, Neil Francis, or maybe Neal Francis
Eddie Vedder Is Still Learning to Live with Loss
","summary":"Oh yeah, definitely. I know his name.","date_published":"2022-03-01T06:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/e2446633-9d67-486b-aedc-8add2c5194b3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32134000,"duration_in_seconds":2004}]},{"id":"e895f1d9-027e-4e85-8c5e-ed06d2d6fd03","title":"45: Throwing Copper","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/45","content_text":"\n\nIt's the way we sing that makes 'em dream.","content_html":"\n\nIt's the way we sing that makes 'em dream.
","summary":"It's the way we sing that makes 'em dream.","date_published":"2022-02-01T06:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/e895f1d9-027e-4e85-8c5e-ed06d2d6fd03.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":49766444,"duration_in_seconds":3106}]},{"id":"985432c0-9e37-4eb1-9e21-6f8c6e3fded2","title":"44: Nothing Compares 2 U","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/44","content_text":"\n\nSince you've been gone I can do whatever I want.\n\nLucy Dacus on Song Exploder","content_html":"\n\nSince you've been gone I can do whatever I want.
\n\n","summary":"Since you've been gone I can do whatever I want.","date_published":"2022-01-01T06:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/985432c0-9e37-4eb1-9e21-6f8c6e3fded2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31240821,"duration_in_seconds":1948}]},{"id":"561de130-3de6-4cb9-a287-5f78f8537537","title":"43: Walk","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/43","content_text":"\n\nIs there no standard anymore?\n\nConsolation Lakes: I'm Not the Nightmare\nSault: Untitled (Black Is)\nEvery Time I Die: Thing with Feathers","content_html":"\n\nIs there no standard anymore?
\n\nConsolation Lakes: I'm Not the Nightmare
\nSault: Untitled (Black Is)
\nEvery Time I Die: Thing with Feathers
Take a ride, take a shot now.
\n\nMatthew's punk playlist on Spotify
\n\n","summary":"Take a ride, take a shot now.","date_published":"2021-11-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/45aa745d-2e0e-420d-8365-ff3e30cafbc3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32554467,"duration_in_seconds":2030}]},{"id":"f0ac38b6-4eb4-4cf7-9e3e-eb09313e5f06","title":"41: Common People","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/41","content_text":"\n\nIn that case, I'll have rum and Coca-Cola.","content_html":"\n\nIn that case, I'll have rum and Coca-Cola.
","summary":"In that case, I'll have rum and Coca-Cola.","date_published":"2021-10-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/f0ac38b6-4eb4-4cf7-9e3e-eb09313e5f06.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29821432,"duration_in_seconds":1859}]},{"id":"ad174a8a-ed2b-4e0a-9946-4b7dc24c9b6c","title":"40: Girls and Boys","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/40","content_text":"\n\nDu bist sehr schön","content_html":"\n\nDu bist sehr schön
","summary":"Du bist sehr schön","date_published":"2021-09-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/ad174a8a-ed2b-4e0a-9946-4b7dc24c9b6c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27434049,"duration_in_seconds":1710}]},{"id":"b7fc9bb1-3829-426c-9c68-55b81593e48f","title":"39: 1979","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/39","content_text":"\n\nCool kids never have the time.\n\nALBUMS RECOMMENDED\nThe Chills: Scatterbrain\nThe Cleaners from Venus: Penny Novelettes\nGoose: Shenanigans Nite Club","content_html":"\n\nCool kids never have the time.
\n\nALBUMS RECOMMENDED
\nThe Chills: Scatterbrain
\nThe Cleaners from Venus: Penny Novelettes
\nGoose: Shenanigans Nite Club
He's not vicious OR malicious.
","summary":"He's not vicious OR malicious.","date_published":"2021-07-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/6f571ed8-867f-4e78-b0d0-e4dc031cf4b6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25880495,"duration_in_seconds":1613}]},{"id":"ced4a857-6745-4041-a60e-6ceed9c8f343","title":"37: It Was a Good Day","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/37","content_text":"\n\nWhat's the haps on the craps?\n\nCW: Mass shootings, sexual assault.\n\nAlso, Matthew definitely knows that Raising Hell came out in the 80s.","content_html":"\n\nWhat's the haps on the craps?
\n\nCW: Mass shootings, sexual assault.
\n\nAlso, Matthew definitely knows that Raising Hell came out in the 80s.
","summary":"What's the haps on the craps?","date_published":"2021-06-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/ced4a857-6745-4041-a60e-6ceed9c8f343.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27304481,"duration_in_seconds":1702}]},{"id":"c0e59749-570b-4bf8-ba37-7736db501a84","title":"36: Tomorrow","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/36","content_text":"\n\nVERY hard to drink.Links:Steady Holiday: Tiny Desk ConcertFenslerfilm's GI Joe overdubs","content_html":"\n\nVERY hard to drink.
Links:
","summary":"VERY hard to drink.","date_published":"2021-05-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/c0e59749-570b-4bf8-ba37-7736db501a84.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29059910,"duration_in_seconds":1812}]},{"id":"5013263d-a404-49a3-b3b0-de2f03c4f826","title":"35: Baby One More Time","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/35","content_text":"\n\nOh baby, baby\nOh baby, baby\nOh baby, baby","content_html":"\n\nOh baby, baby
\nOh baby, baby
\nOh baby, baby
Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about!
","summary":"Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about!","date_published":"2021-03-01T06:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/19aaa37a-07cc-4ae9-9f9f-25daeeb1a628.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28462646,"duration_in_seconds":1774}]},{"id":"e7db9f23-b31b-42f3-9a0b-9917510029ed","title":"33: What Would You Say","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/33","content_text":"\n\nDon't drop the big one.","content_html":"\n\nDon't drop the big one.
","summary":"Don't bite the mailman.","date_published":"2021-02-01T06:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/e7db9f23-b31b-42f3-9a0b-9917510029ed.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28046777,"duration_in_seconds":1748}]},{"id":"f3fb116a-e356-4786-8402-2cf6a24ef341","title":"32: Seether","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/32","content_text":"\n\nI tried to rock her in my cradle.","content_html":"\n\nI tried to rock her in my cradle.
","summary":"I tried to rock her in my cradle.","date_published":"2021-01-01T06:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/f3fb116a-e356-4786-8402-2cf6a24ef341.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30749301,"duration_in_seconds":1917}]},{"id":"6492f9b5-51a4-4dfc-95c3-02b28488140d","title":"31: Possum Kingdom","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/31","content_text":"\n\nI'll not be a gentleman.Links:Possum Kingdom State Park — Guess what? It's a lake.","content_html":"\n\nI'll not be a gentleman.
Links:
Tie your own... hey!
","summary":"Tie your own... hey!","date_published":"2020-11-01T06:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/a8d7e5b1-e249-4ed7-8e8a-5ec0d909ac92.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29014353,"duration_in_seconds":1809}]},{"id":"887abf54-0d1c-4700-ba41-9883a25cd62b","title":"29: No Rain","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/29","content_text":"\n\nIt's a great escape.Links:St Andrew's FallAll I Can Say (2020) — A documentary based on footage shot by Shannon Hoon.","content_html":"\n\nIt's a great escape.
Links:
I honestly do.
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\n\nAdam Neely: The Music You Hate
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZMpU-7YcgA
Adam Neely: Learning to Like Contemporary Christian Music
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hACUz4WVWwk
Life is parallel to hell, but I must maintain.
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Special Guest: George McCleary.
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\n\nCONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault.
","summary":"CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault.\r\n\r\nWearing my naughties like a jewel.","date_published":"2019-12-01T06:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/6f4d927b-b78b-4b4b-b398-3cf676db540d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":47108641,"duration_in_seconds":2940}]},{"id":"7ada7297-6cc1-4edc-97ba-1318d5e515ca","title":"18: Vs.","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/18","content_text":"\n\nTunnel vision!\n\nContent Warning: Several references to sexual assault, plus we criticize the band Sublime.","content_html":"\n\nTunnel vision!
\n\nContent Warning: Several references to sexual assault, plus we criticize the band Sublime.
","summary":"Tunnel vision!\r\n\r\nContent Warning: Several references to sexual assault, plus we criticize the band Sublime.","date_published":"2019-11-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/7ada7297-6cc1-4edc-97ba-1318d5e515ca.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":52759032,"duration_in_seconds":3293}]},{"id":"797d1c92-902a-49af-b52e-77d9f2f659fa","title":"17: Odelay","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/17","content_text":"\n\nPut your skeletons in jail.Links:Switched on Pop: No Country for Old Town Road","content_html":"\n\nPut your skeletons in jail.
Links:
","summary":"Put your skeletons in jail.","date_published":"2019-10-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/797d1c92-902a-49af-b52e-77d9f2f659fa.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":50507068,"duration_in_seconds":3152}]},{"id":"a2d909f9-2ffc-4058-96ef-28c7820a7c58","title":"16: CrazySexyCool","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/16","content_text":"\n\nTake a good look at it. Look at it now.","content_html":"\n\nTake a good look at it. Look at it now.
","summary":"Take a good look at it. Look at it now.","date_published":"2019-09-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/a2d909f9-2ffc-4058-96ef-28c7820a7c58.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":49659864,"duration_in_seconds":3099}]},{"id":"321b719c-3540-4e94-b86c-c3427431bb91","title":"15: The Bends","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/15","content_text":"\n\nWho stole Thom's vodka cup?","content_html":"\n\nWho stole Thom's vodka cup?
","summary":"Who stole Thom's vodka cup?","date_published":"2019-08-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/321b719c-3540-4e94-b86c-c3427431bb91.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":42703770,"duration_in_seconds":2664}]},{"id":"a2aa1409-86a5-408a-bc99-e4dc5a736eef","title":"14: A Live One","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/14","content_text":"\n\nJake 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.","content_html":"\n\nJake 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.
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2019-07-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/a2aa1409-86a5-408a-bc99-e4dc5a736eef.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":52483179,"duration_in_seconds":3276}]},{"id":"76e0d8ef-9792-415e-9482-71b7cf30e96a","title":"13: Out of Time","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/13","content_text":"\n\nSpecial 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.Links:An Inaugural Day Message via the Words of R.E.M.","content_html":"\n\nSpecial 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.
Links:
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2019-06-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/76e0d8ef-9792-415e-9482-71b7cf30e96a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":64337755,"duration_in_seconds":4017}]},{"id":"10856634-e0a8-4983-9b62-310376f441c1","title":"12: Doggystyle","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/12","content_text":"\n\nSnoop Doggy Dogg, 1993\n\nIn 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.","content_html":"\n\nSnoop Doggy Dogg, 1993
\n\nIn 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.
","summary":"We'll be here till six in the morning.","date_published":"2019-05-01T05:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/10856634-e0a8-4983-9b62-310376f441c1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":52726431,"duration_in_seconds":3291}]},{"id":"6735e717-9a62-462b-ae78-7c1705700015","title":"Episode 11: Dookie","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/11","content_text":"\n\nGreen 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.","content_html":"\n\nGreen 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.
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2019-04-01T05:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/6735e717-9a62-462b-ae78-7c1705700015.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":48674317,"duration_in_seconds":3038}]},{"id":"912023e1-a14b-484f-ae70-ae69ba91ea47","title":"Episode 10: Star","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/10","content_text":"\n\nMaria, carry a rifle.","content_html":"\n\nMaria, carry a rifle.
","summary":"Maria, carry a rifle.","date_published":"2018-07-01T06:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/912023e1-a14b-484f-ae70-ae69ba91ea47.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":36508712,"duration_in_seconds":2100}]},{"id":"05c31f9f-2dec-4415-96a1-6f6d604a78b5","title":"Episode 9: If You're Feeling Sinister","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/9","content_text":"\n\nWe should be okay and we won't get in a muddle.","content_html":"\n\nWe should be okay and we won't get in a muddle.
","summary":"We should be okay and we won't get in a muddle.","date_published":"2018-06-01T05:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/05c31f9f-2dec-4415-96a1-6f6d604a78b5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":42706313,"duration_in_seconds":2487}]},{"id":"f30fe0c3-a2f3-442e-85a5-d8678618bc19","title":"Episode 8: OK Computer","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/8","content_text":"\n\nThis month, once again we talk about an obscure 90s album you've never heard of. Pretty good.","content_html":"\n\nThis month, once again we talk about an obscure 90s album you've never heard of. Pretty good.
","summary":"This month, once again we talk about an obscure 90s album you've never heard of. Pretty good.","date_published":"2018-05-03T08:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/f30fe0c3-a2f3-442e-85a5-d8678618bc19.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":46801957,"duration_in_seconds":2743}]},{"id":"a4712fab-06a9-4d2c-a856-81303d5398dc","title":"Episode 7: Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/7","content_text":"\n\nA 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.\n\nThis album is out of print, but used CDs are readily available.","content_html":"\n\nA 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.
\n\nThis album is out of print, but used CDs are readily available.
","summary":"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.","date_published":"2018-04-01T05:00:00.000-07:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/a4712fab-06a9-4d2c-a856-81303d5398dc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":43971220,"duration_in_seconds":2566}]},{"id":"fa8eb77e-6528-42b4-9c85-4702f776cd4a","title":"Episode 6: 0898","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/6","content_text":"\n\n0898 Beautiful South, The Beautiful South, 1992\n\nMatthew 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....","content_html":"\n\n0898 Beautiful South, The Beautiful South, 1992
\n\nMatthew 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....
","summary":"Matthew really puts Laura through the wringer on this one. _0898_ is an overproduced, saccharine mess, and Matthew couldn't love it more. Laura, on the other hand....","date_published":"2018-03-01T05:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/fa8eb77e-6528-42b4-9c85-4702f776cd4a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26557637,"duration_in_seconds":1971}]},{"id":"eff7f39a-3b42-412d-994e-df2f92d4f046","title":"Episode 5: Mezzanine","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/5","content_text":"\n\nMezzanine, Massive Attack, 1998.\n\nOn 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.Links:Listen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify","content_html":"\n\nMezzanine, Massive Attack, 1998.
\n\nOn 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.
Links:
","summary":"Mezzanine is Massive Attack's 1999 breakout third album. 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.","date_published":"2018-02-01T05:00:00.000-08:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://pdcn.co/e/aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/c7e7a43b-5714-4470-a244-6aa82c1dceff/eff7f39a-3b42-412d-994e-df2f92d4f046.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":47514780,"duration_in_seconds":2788}]},{"id":"ffe657df-536b-45b0-90fb-2dae3d6ef91f","title":"Episode 4: Penthouse","url":"https://www.hiddenjukebox.com/4","content_text":"\n\nOn 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. \n\nLuna (extended thoughts from Laura Loe)\n\nThere are a lot of amazing things about doing our Hidden Jukebox podcast.\n\nTonight I'm listening to Luna's Penthouse for the millionth time with completely different ears--this is a super special rare gift.\n\nThank you Matthew Amster-Burton for this amazing opportunity to re-hear the music that is so central to me.\n\nSome albums aren’t remarkable the first time you hear them. This is one of those albums.\n\nOver the years I have become more and more and more obsessed with it.\n\nFrom the first notes of Chinatown, I am transported to a particular moment in a person’s life when they think they are really fucking cool—I think this whole album mocks a certain New York rocker pretentious hipsterism…\n\nThe lyrics get funnier and funnier the more you spend time with them. And some lyrics which seem playful at first can turn sinister after the 50th listen.\n\nReleased in August 1995, this is the third album by Luna, produced by Pat MacCarthy who the interwebs tell me mixed Madonna’s Ray of Light.\n\nOn Hidden Jukebox we usually ask...\n\nWhere did you hear this album the first time?\n\nI was living in Evanston, homesick for Santa Monica and also homesick for a version of New York City--where I had never lived--but I was increasingly realizing was out of my reach. I’d grown up in the suburbs of NY till I was 13 and in my mind my 20’s would be spent there…\n\nCertain albums make me long for a New York that probably only exists in my daydreams. (The most obvious is probably Lou Reed's New York... but the most vivid for me is PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea...)\n\nThe songs on this album all run together for me. I almost never don’t listen to this album start to finish. The tempo of the songs is all just a little bit slower than any “hit single” will ever be. It is languid af and all feels like it must have been written and recorded on an ecstasy come down.\n\nThe bass playing is exquisite and buried so deep in the mix. It is hidden. I didn't even pay attention to it till I became a bass player.... Another aspect of this album that requires many listens to really hear it.\n\nI’ve tried over the years to get various people to fall in love with this album as hard as I have. Almost never succeeded.\n\nThis album makes me think about the times you call out of work or skip school or tell a lover you’re working late at the office but really what you’ve done is stolen a moment for yourself. Where no one knows where you are and it feels delicious.Links:Luna at the Neptune in Seattle, January 23, 2018 (tickets)Penthouse (Spotify)Penthouse (Apple Music)A Place of Greater Safety (Spotify)","content_html":"\n\nOn 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.
\n\nThere are a lot of amazing things about doing our Hidden Jukebox podcast.
\n\nTonight I'm listening to Luna's Penthouse for the millionth time with completely different ears--this is a super special rare gift.
\n\nThank you Matthew Amster-Burton for this amazing opportunity to re-hear the music that is so central to me.
\n\nSome albums aren’t remarkable the first time you hear them. This is one of those albums.
\n\nOver the years I have become more and more and more obsessed with it.
\n\nFrom the first notes of Chinatown, I am transported to a particular moment in a person’s life when they think they are really fucking cool—I think this whole album mocks a certain New York rocker pretentious hipsterism…
\n\nThe lyrics get funnier and funnier the more you spend time with them. And some lyrics which seem playful at first can turn sinister after the 50th listen.
\n\nReleased in August 1995, this is the third album by Luna, produced by Pat MacCarthy who the interwebs tell me mixed Madonna’s Ray of Light.
\n\nOn Hidden Jukebox we usually ask...
\n\nWhere did you hear this album the first time?
\n\nI was living in Evanston, homesick for Santa Monica and also homesick for a version of New York City--where I had never lived--but I was increasingly realizing was out of my reach. I’d grown up in the suburbs of NY till I was 13 and in my mind my 20’s would be spent there…
\n\nCertain albums make me long for a New York that probably only exists in my daydreams. (The most obvious is probably Lou Reed's New York... but the most vivid for me is PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea...)
\n\nThe songs on this album all run together for me. I almost never don’t listen to this album start to finish. The tempo of the songs is all just a little bit slower than any “hit single” will ever be. It is languid af and all feels like it must have been written and recorded on an ecstasy come down.
\n\nThe bass playing is exquisite and buried so deep in the mix. It is hidden. I didn't even pay attention to it till I became a bass player.... Another aspect of this album that requires many listens to really hear it.
\n\nI’ve tried over the years to get various people to fall in love with this album as hard as I have. Almost never succeeded.
\n\nThis album makes me think about the times you call out of work or skip school or tell a lover you’re working late at the office but really what you’ve done is stolen a moment for yourself. Where no one knows where you are and it feels delicious.
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Hole, Celebrity Skin, 1998.
\n\nWe 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 life in the valley, this summery, power pop, ironic album speaks to a particular GenX sensibility like nothing else.
\n\n(other topics touched on: women in rock, how to relate to your fans, amazing bridges in songs, commercial drum sounds, the names of bands we've been in, emotional macaroni and cheese)
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The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs, 1999
\n\nWith 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.
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