Hidden Jukebox

Your favorite 90s albums, celebrated

About the show

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.

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Episodes

  • Episode 6: 0898

    March 1st, 2018  |  32 mins 51 secs

    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....

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    Episode 5: Mezzanine

    February 1st, 2018  |  46 mins 28 secs

    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.

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    Episode 4: Penthouse

    January 15th, 2018  |  34 mins 53 secs

    On our fourth episode we listen to Luna’s Penthouse—Laura Loe’s favorite album of the 1990’s. We discuss lush recording, embarrassing lyrics, shameless Velvet Underground rip offs, and the absence of early rock shows for aging Gen-Xers.

  • Episode 3: Celebrity Skin

    January 1st, 2018  |  46 mins 23 secs

  • Episode 2: 69 Love Songs

    December 1st, 2017  |  1 hr 2 mins
    90s, indie, magneticfields, stephinmerritt

    The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs, 1999

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    Episode 1: Brighten the Corners

    November 9th, 2017  |  46 mins 49 secs
    90s, indie, music, pavement

    Pavement, Brighten the Corners, 1997.