Twenty years can make a big difference. On January 20, 1997, Bill Clinton was sworn in for his second term as president. Today, well, you know. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1997 in hour 2. It was an interesting year for alternative music, as grunge faded away and different sounds were starting to emerge.
The dang-ol' playlist:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Spoon - Hot Thoughts/Hot Thoughts
Stove - Bubblegum Lightning/Is the Meat That Fell Out
Mutes - Vanishing/Single
Chemtrails - Aeons/Love in Toxic Wasteland
Vanity - Don't Be Shy/Don't Be Shy
Chavez - Blank in the Blaze/Cockfighters
Desperate Journalist - Hollow/Grow Up
La Sera - Queens/Queens
Run the Jewels - Call Ticketron/RTJ3
Jeff Rosenstock - Staring Out the Window at Your Old Apartment/WORRY.
The Proper Ornaments - When We Were Young/Foxhole
Mr. Elevator & the Brain Hotel - Fuzz Phantom/When the Morning Greets You With a Smile
Bueno - Wasted Anyway/Illuminate Your Room
PJ Harvey - Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln/The Hope Six Demolition Project
TUNS - Lonely Life/Tuns
Used Cassettes - I'm Insane/Rock n Rills
Hour 2: 1997
Guided By Voices - I am a Tree/Mag Earwhig!
Pavement - Stereo/Brighten the Corners
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out/Dig Me Out
Cornershop - Sleep on the Left Side/When I Was Born for the 7th Time
Portishead - All Mine/Portishead
Radiohead - Paranoid Android/OK Computer
Foo Fighters - Hey, Johnny Park!/The Colour and the Shape
The Hellacopters - Where the Action Is/Payin' the Dues
Faith No More - Last Cup of Sorrow/Album of the Year
Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing/Either/Or
Moe Berg - Angelique's a Free Spirit/Summer's Over
Ben Folds Five - Battle of Who Could Care Less/Whatever and Ever Amen
Paul Weller - Peacock Suit/Heavy Soul
Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube/I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Built to Spill - Made-Up Dreams/Perfect from Now On
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