Soul Asylum In The 80s | Roundtable

Soul Asylum In The 80s | Roundtable

Author: Dig Me Out October 8, 2024 Duration: 1:17:01
Although they've released over a dozen albums covering four decades, odds are if you ask someone on the street to name a song by Soul Asylum, it's going to be the mega-hit "Runaway Train" off their 1992 album Grave Dancers Union. There were other singles, "Black Gold" and "Somebody To Shove" off Grave Dancers Union, "Misery" and "Just Like Anyone" off the follow-up Let Your Dim Light Shine, but those albums and songs represented a band that had worked and toured and recorded since the early 1980s, taking a primordial post-punk and hardcore sound and slowly evolving album by album, starting with their debut Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold The Truck in 1984. Like their Twin/Tone Records labelmates The Replacements, the manic youthful energy gave their lead singers an opportunity to gradually find their literal and lyrical voice. On each successive album, and a jump to major label A&M, the band continued to refine and improve their brand of midwestern alternative college rock, and reached the heights of their songwriting prowess just as a second major, Columbia, took a chance that would land them a home for their sixth album and eventual double platinum seller, the aforementioned Grave Dancers Union.   Songs In This Episode Intro - Down On Up To Me (from Hang Time) 22:24 - Voodoo Doll (from Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold The Truck) 28:36 - Masquerade (from Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold The Truck) 33:16 - Tied to the Tracks (from Made To Be Broken) 36:46 - Can't Go Back (from Made To Be Broken) 40:20 - Freaks (While You Were Out) 47:22 - Endless Farwell (Hang Time) 51:30 - Cartoon (Hang Time) Outro - Closer To The Stars (While You Were Out)   Support the podcast, join the DMO UNION at Patreon. Listen to the episode archive at DigMeOutPodcast.com.

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

Dig Me Out: 90s & 00s Rock
Podcast Episodes
Reacharound - Who's Tommy Cooper? | 90s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:19
Never heard of Reacharound? You're not alone, which is a shame, because this band of UK expats playing punked-up rockabilly and 60s Kinks and Who influenced garage rock deserved your attention. Their only album, 1996's W…
Albums of 2006 | Roundtable [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:45:54
2006 wasn't just any year in the 00s. It's the year Twitter launched, the year before the release of the iPhone, Nintendo debuted the Wii console, Borat burst into movie theaters, and Justin Timberlake made sure sexy was…
Josh Ritter - The Animal Ritter | 00s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:01
Released during the protracted second Iraq war, Josh Ritter's fourth album The Animal Years layers a singer/songwriter album with somber lyrical depth softened by effective melodies and thoughtful instrumentation. Songs…
Silkworm - Firewater | 90s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:45
Earnest without sliding into overwrought emo, Silkworm struck a balance between raw and refined on their fourth album, 1996's Firewater. Like most of their releases, the band turned to Steve Albini to engineer, capturing…
12 Rods - Lost Time | 00s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:17
Self-produced after parting ways with their major label, 12 Rods released the genre-bending Lost Time in 2002, combining elements of power pop, indie rock, 70s art rock and more. Eclectic songwriting, dynamic shifts, and…
KMFDM - Naïve/Hell to Go | 90s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:55
Is an industrial song ever really done? KMFDM’s 1993 release Naïve/Hell to Go asks that question, revisiting tracks from their 1990 release Naïve and offering new remixes and modified versions. Leaning heavily on sequenc…
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People | 00s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:36
You Forgot It in People captures Broken Social Scene at their most expansive, an indie rock communal experience balancing meticulous arrangements and unhinged joyfulness. Layers of guitars, synths, horns, and rotating vo…
Bush - Sixteen Stone | 90s Album Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:22
Naomi Carmack of the Dope Nostalgia podcast joins us to revisit the six times platinum debut album Sixteen Stone by Bush. Released in May of 1995, the album spawned five inescapable singles and videos released in 1995 an…
Season Fifteen Review [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:17
Our fifteenth season is in the books. Check out our picks for most surprising discoveries, the top review albums, and more from 2025. Stay tuned as towards the end we cover some changes to the DMO schedule and more choic…
Heart - Surviving The 90s [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:07
In our fourth installment of Surviving the 90s, we’re revisiting Heart - the band that not only churned out hits across multiple decades, but played a key role in the burgeoning Seattle music scene of the 80s and 90s. Kn…