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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Steve presents a learned treatise on alternative-rock bands who scored Top 40 crossover hits in the pre-grunge era of 1987-1991.
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0:00.0 | college a place young people go to think they're better than me get above their raisin |
0:06.3 | and receive anti-patriot indoctrination from woke marxist libtard snowflake politically correct |
0:12.1 | blue-haired baristas studying impractical careers such as underwater basket weaving |
0:18.2 | which sounds really difficult so no wonder there are so many college courses on the subject. |
0:24.3 | College used to be a place where our social betters would learn to rule us properly, |
0:28.4 | but then FDR came along with his GI Bill and ruined everything. |
0:32.9 | I'd call it a lower GI Bill, you know, to really trigger the woke flakes, |
0:39.6 | but actually, that's just what the doctor sent me after my colonoscopy last year. Anyway, in the 80s, college even used to |
0:45.8 | have its own kind of rock, which they played on their college radio stations, which were paid for |
0:51.3 | with my tax dollars. You know, all the taxes I paid back in my 1980s childhood. |
0:57.2 | And some of the weird and unnatural music, |
0:59.6 | these goddamn kids played, got itself an audience. |
1:02.7 | And then they started calling it alternative rock. |
1:05.2 | You know, just like their weird and unnatural alternative lifestyles, we call them back then. |
1:11.9 | Some of those college rock bands even got popular while the 80s were still going on, |
1:16.3 | like precocious students who showed lots of early promise and were already advanced for their age |
1:21.1 | and looked like they might actually become successful in life. |
1:24.4 | And that's who we'll be looking at today. |
1:26.8 | In this first installment of College Rock Chronicles, a subgenre, I'm going to give the |
1:31.7 | tidy and compact name of undergrad thesis rock. |
1:38.6 | Beyond Yon Rock, 2000. |
1:47.3 | Welcome to Beyond Yadrach 2000. |
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