60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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‘60 Songs’ x ‘Bandsplain’ Live at the Teragram
Listen as Rob and Yasi Salek are joined by Chris Ryan to hold the ultimate ‘60 Songs’ draft!
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Puff Daddy, “I’ll Be Missing You”
How an unthinkable loss (and a, let’s say, generous Police sample) became one of the defining songs of late ’90s hip-hop
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‘Loki’ Season 2 Finale and ‘The Curse.’ Plus, Rob Harvilla on ‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s.’
Rob Harvilla joins Chris and Andy to get into his new book! Plus, Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder’s ‘The Curse,’ starring Emma Stone, and the Loki Season 2 finale.
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Portishead, “Glory Box”
Exploring the dark, sultry, dare-we-say menacing closing track from ‘Dummy’
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Perfecting Pop With the Swedes, “Lovefool” Edition
Exploring the 1996 Cardigans song from the ‘Romeo + Juliet’ soundtrack
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Who’s Afraid of Eminem?
On this week’s episode: "My Name Is" and various other provocations, courtesy of Marshall Mathers
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The Gorgeous, Eternal Guitar Tone of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun”
Exploring Chris Cornell and Co.’s biggest hit, its gorgeous guitar tone, and its moderately destabilizing, unforgettable video
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: “One,” U2
Rob focuses in on what Bono and U2 meant to music in the ’90s versus their ’80s impact
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Fugazi and the Making of a Hardcore Revolution
Also! Minor Threat! Rites of Spring! Embrace! And … emo. ;(
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Beyoncé, Destiny’s Child, and the ‘Star Search’ Loss That Launched a Kingdom
We’re talking "Say My Name," but before we get there, we’ve gotta discuss the most infamous defeat to ever happen in front of Ed McMahon
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: How Sinéad O’Connor Turned a Prince Song Into Her Classic
The Irish singer-songwriter died Wednesday at age 56. She leaves a vast legacy that includes being perhaps the only person to do a Prince song better than Prince.
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Mazzy Star, “Fade Into You”
Exploring one of the decades slowest, mopiest, most important alt-rock standards
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100 Episodes of ‘60 Songs’: A They Might Be Giants Celebration
The world’s most inaccurately named music podcast hits the century mark, so Rob’s doing one for him
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Daft Punk, “Around the World”
A journey through dance music and the world of robotics
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Nate Dogg, Warren G, and the Apex of the G-Funk Era
Talking "Regulate," Michael McDonald, and the effortless brilliance of the late gangsta crooner Nate Dogg
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: PJ Harvey’s Scary Movies
Talking Polly Jean and "Down by the Water" with Yasi Salek from ‘Bandsplain’ and ‘24 Question Party People’
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: “Tubthumping” and the Chart-Topping Anarchists
Don’t call them one-hit wonders, and don’t you dare try to knock them down. This week, we’re covering Chumbawamba and the unlikely song that took over the world in 1997.
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: The Filthy Brilliance of Prince in the ’90s
Finding the joy in the repetition—and experimentation—of Prince’s most interesting decade
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: ‘If It Makes You Happy,’ Sheryl Crow
Exploring the singer-songwriter through her loudest, most visceral hit
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: All Hail Beck, King of the Losers
Just don’t call him a slacker, he doesn’t like that very much
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: The Sacred and the Profane of Salt-N-Pepa
On this week’s episode, we’re tackling the legendary rap trio and their 1993 hit, "Shoop"
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Nirvana and the Courtney Love Interview
‘60 Songs’ is back for another season, and we’re kicking it off with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and a very special guest
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The Bittersweet Triumph of De La Soul’s Streaming Arrival
On the latest ‘60 Songs,’ we’re joined by Open Mike Eagle to celebrate the legendary trio hitting Spotify and other DSPs and to remember Trugoy the Dove, who passed away earlier this month
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” and the Art of Making a Cover Your Own
A discussion about the classic, featuring an interview with Sophie B. Hawkins
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Surviving the “Macarena”
In 1996, a song conquered the world. It nearly destroyed us all.
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“Basket Case” and the Big Deal About Green Day
Talking ‘Nimrod,’ major labels, and the pop-punk trio that took the genre to new commercial heights
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Depeche Mode, the Synth-Pop Gods Who Shaped the Decade
Paying tribute to "Enjoy the Silence" and the dance-rock stars from Essex
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Liz Phair Didn’t Need Guyville As Much As Guyville Needed Her
On making peace with the past and learning to live with the weight of expectations—and also on a really excellent debut album and its just-as-good follow-ups
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Hootie & the Blowfish and a Janglier Vision of ’90s Rock
On our latest episode, we’re exploring the grunge counterprogramming of Darius Rucker and the boys’ "Only Wanna Be With You"
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A Salute to Erykah Badu, “Neo-soul,” and the Live Album
On our latest episode, we dive into "Tyrone" and the makings of a somewhat controversial genre
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Vanilla Ice’s Great White Hype
Making sense of rap’s biggest punching bag with help from Tom Breihan
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But First, Pearl Jam
It’s "Yellow Ledbetter" time, with help from our old friend Steven Hyden