Music talk is the B-side to the A-side movie talk of this pod. It's time for another yearly tradition as we go back to talk about a year in music, this time making up the one year we missed with 1999
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For this excursion into something besides movies, I would recruit friend and Austin-based journalist Dan Solomon to go back 20 years to talk about a year in music - an art form that I love every bit much as film.
For this retrospective, my guests and I curate a new list of ten favorite records from that year, playing snippets of certain songs and discussing our feelings about music in general. As of 2021, I decided to include my dear friend Jason Simpson, also a pop culture writer, to join us in this endeavor.
I've been going back 30 years to talk about the year in film with Collin Souter and Erik Childress, so I asked Jason and Dan to do the same with records. A full archive will be available soon. Hopefully everyone enjoys this discussion about our favorite records from a weird year for music. It was such a blast sharing memories with dear friends from high school as well as getting to hear a lot of incredible music from the late 90s. Thank you so much for listening and much gratitude to Dan & Jay for their insights, opinions and a 30-year friendship.
Also be sure to check out this obscure Canadian band (my number 10 pick):
https://www.discogs.com/master/1523139-Thrush-Hermit-Clayton-Park
Listen to me talk about my favorite album of 1999 on this podcast here:
https://podbay.fm/p/the-great-albums/e/1496635200
All Yearly Music Retrospectives (feat. Jason & Dan)
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
Coming in Fall of 2025 - B-Side Me - a spin-off show about music/bands!
