Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

Hi there, it's Alan Cross, and for the next few weeks of the ongoing history of new music podcast,

we're going back to revisit a series we did a little while ago called 100 Weird Things

About New Rock. This is a 10-part series,

and it explored a lot of topics with each episode dealing with a particular brand of

weirdness, sex, the law, drugs, strange recordings, excess, road stories, bad behavior,

and more. There's a lot that goes into the music that we don't

always hear about, despite what you may hear on the internet. So it's kind of like my job to

filling in. You ready for some weirdness? Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you. There's a fine line

between wonderful and weird. Things that are wonderful tend to inspire you with awe. You feel warmth

and light and admiration, and you may suddenly find yourself believing in goodness and a higher power.

I saw a total solar eclipse once. It's exactly how I felt. Maybe you've had a similar experience.

But just a few centimeters from wonderful is how you feel when you run across something that is genuinely weird.

You still might feel odd, but you might also experience disbelief, confusion, disgust,

and you might even feel a little throw up the back of your throat.

Or you might laugh.

Weird can be funny.

Or you might think that something weird is really, really cool.

See, there's good weird as well as bad.

Wonderfully weird, if you will.

It's all in the eye or the ear of the beholder.

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