60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Hopefully they use the break to address the sound issues. I’m getting close to breaking up with the pod otherwise which is a shame cause I was a huge fan forever but it’s so bad.

So nice to have the 90s explained

This used to be so good. And does this latest season explain anything to anyone other than Rob? This was my ‘90s and ‘00s too! Maybe make a podcast of indie ‘00s music for those “Aficionados”, and a more mainstream ‘00s podcast for the rest of us. It doesn’t have to be super complicated or surreal to explain the time.

I am BEGGING The Ringer and the producers here to recognize that most people are still listening to this as an audio podcast and to put some effort back into the sound mixing as such. Rob’s microphone/sound mix is now ridiculously quiet and cutaways to commercials or YouTube content then blow out my eardrums.

Host Rob Harvilla loves music of all kinds. That much is obvious. However, I’m not always convinced he actually *likes* the music he discusses, and his honesty on this makes all the difference. He always attests to; every podcast seems to contain the word “important” half a dozen times. When he does like a song, the discussion is deep, intelligent, and fulfilling. But Rob also seems to carry a profound sense of guilt all the time, as if he doesn’t feel worthy to speak on such august songs- or, because he thinks they’ll make good episode titles, rather than good episodes. When that happens, you get 45 minutes of discussion of bands he actually likes and can, in the last ten minutes, link to the song the episode is ostensibly about. Toss in a cursory interview with a colleague who also likes 2000s-era indie rock from NYC, and bam! It’s over. Much of this is very good. But when it’s guilty, it’s bad. And Rob seems more guilty than ever in his latest episodes.