Flashback Countdown: What "5 Years Later" Sounds Like

Barenaked Ladies

Well, it's been 5 freakin' years of doing this podcast. There have been lots and lots of highs and maybe a low here and there. I'm not planning on stopping anytime soon so buckle up! It's the safe thing to do. You should buckle up even if I do stop sometime soon, though.

Enjoy the memories :)




Flashback Countdown #6 (1993)

***Featuring***
Barenaked Ladies
Bjork
Blind Melon
The Catherine Wheel
The Juliana Hatfield Three
New Order
Pearl Jam
Pet Shop Boys
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Smashing Pumpkins
Urge Overkill

Monthly Poll: Coldplay - Parachutes

So I want to focus a little more on these Alternative Album Grammy Winners that I'm playing for bonus songs on the Countdown. So I think, on the first Monday of every month, I'm going to do a little retrospective poll related to the album from the proceeding month.

August's album was Coldplay's Parachutes.

Please answer the following questions in the comments section. (If you don't have an answer, feel free to skip the question)

1. What is your favorite track on Parachutes

Don't Panic

Shiver

Spies

Sparks

Yellow

Trouble

Parachutes

High Speed

We Never Change

Everything's Not Lost

Life is For Living (hidden track)

2. What is your favorite Coldplay album?

3. Which do you feel should have won the Grammy, if not Parachutes:

• Tori Amos Strange Little Girls
• Bjork Vespertine
• Fatboy Slim Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
• Radiohead Amnesiac

Monthly Poll: Radiohead - Ok Computer

So I want to focus a little more on these Alternative Album Grammy Winners that I'm playing for bonus songs on the Countdown. So I think, on the first Monday of every month, I'm going to do a little retrospective poll related to the album from the proceeding month.

May's album was Radiohead's Ok Computer.

Please answer the following questions in the comments section. (If you don't have an answer, feel free to skip the question)

1. What is your favorite track on Ok Computer?

• Airbag
• Paranoid Android
• Subterranean Homesick Alien
• Exit Music (For a Film)
• Let Down
• Karma Police
• Fitter Happier
• Electioneering
• Climbing Up the Walls
• No Surprises
• Lucky
• The Tourist

2. What is your favorite Radiohead album?

3. Which do you feel should have won the Grammy, if not Ok Computer:

• Bjork Homogenic
• David Bowie Earthling
• The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole
• The Prodigy Fat of the Land

Monthly Poll: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

So I want to focus a little more on these Alternative Album Grammy Winners that I'm playing for bonus songs on the Countdown. So I think, on the first Monday of every month, I'm going to do a little retrospective poll related to the album from the proceeding month.

February's album was Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York

Please answer the following questions in the comments section. (If you don't have an answer, feel free to skip the question)

1. What is your favorite track on MTV Unplugged in New York? (Spotify)

• About a Girl
• Come As You Are
• Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam
• The Man Who Sold the World
• Pennyroyal Tea
• Dumb
• Polly
• On a Plain
• Something in the Way
• Plateau
• Oh, Me
• Lake of Fire
• All Apologies
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

2. What is your favorite Nirvana album?

3. Which do you feel should have won the Grammy, if not MTV Unplugged in New York:

• Bjork Post
• Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
• PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love
• The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America

Festive Fifty 2007 Top Ten

Each day this week, in anticipation of the deadline for voting on the Festive Fifty 2012 Shortlist, I'll be listening to the Contrast Podcast Festive Fifties of yore (2012's will be the 6th!) and trying to track down the videos of the Top 5!

My snapshot impression of this inaugural edition of the Festive Fifty was that I hadn't paid ANY attention to what had come out in 2007 and I was also very unfamiliar with a lot of the nominees on the shortlist, so I just voted for names I knew! Oh, how times have changed....sort of. ;-)

You can listen to the 2007 Festive Fifty Here: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

10. Bjork - Earth Intruders
9. Wilco - Impossible Germany
8. Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe
7. Arcade Fire - Intervention
6. Iron & Wine - Boy With a Coin

5. PJ Harvey - When Under Ether

4. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

3. The National - Fake Empire

2. Spoon - The Underdog

1. Los Campesinos! - You, Me, Dancing!