No Filler Music Podcast - Guitar-Driven Sonic World: The Music of Swervedriver

Episode Date: June 6, 2022

For our very first listener-suggested episode, we talk about the amazing Swervedriver and focus on their first 2 records: Raise and Mezcal Head. Similar to bands like Hum and Catherine Wheel, Swervedriver mixes elements of grunge, alt-rock, and shoegaze to create their sound. Tracklist: Son of Mustang Ford Sci-Flyer Sandblasted Never Lose That Feeling MM Abduction A Change Is Gonna Come Deep Wound Part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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favorite records. That's music to my ears, dude. Love it. Is this our first episode that was essentially inspired by a listener's suggestion? Absolutely, dude. I think it is. What's even better is this band is freaking great, dude, and they're growing on me. Yeah.

A lot. Totally. And they are, you know, they make the rounds on lists of best Shugay's records. And yeah, we'll talk about kind of where they fall on the shoe gaze tree of the family tree of shoe gaze bands that we've kind of mentioned before in the past. But yeah, we're talking about swerve driver today. And that is all thanks to a listener who reached out to us on Instagram. So a few months back, a listener of ours, Marita reached out to us to talk about a band that she, is super into called Swerve Driver, asked if we could do an episode on them.

So we gave him a listen. It was a no-brainer. We're like, of course we're going to, yeah, we should absolutely cover Swerve Driver because they fit in perfectly with the music we've been listening to lately. We both checked out their debut record, Rays, which came out in 91. So, you know, a little conversation started with Marita. and she shared this story with us that we're going to kind of kick off this episode with. She says, I first discovered Swerve Driver when I was 16.

I saw them on a late night TV show. I knew that this music was different in a good way. The song was raved down. And then I heard son of a Mustang Ford. I was hooked. I took out on loan a couple of their albums from a library that let you, hire out CDs for a small fee. This was before the internet speeds were fast and people weren't downloading music at

this stage. I recorded their CDs to tapes and I listened to those tapes endlessly. Every time I listened to Swerve Driver, it was like being instantly transported into Swerve Driver's guitar-driven Sonic World. I love that, dude. Perfectly said. Everything about it. There's so many parts of her discovery and connection with Swerve Driver that we can relate to, man.

Like, immediately I thought of Spoon. Yeah. We discovered them on Jay Leno or Conan, one of those late-night host, yeah. Yeah, one of those late-night TV shows. And it was music that was different in a good way, which is how she put it. You know, like, this was something different, you know? Feels different, yeah. Yeah, and that's, I think Spoon was the first band where I thought that.

Like, wow, this is something different that I've never heard before, and it is awesome. A really good way to kick off this episode. And, yeah, thanks again for sending this. suggestion to us. Hopefully we can get more and more listeners to reach out to us with music that they love, bands that they love, give us a little write-up on what makes them special and maybe, you know, how you found out about them. And who knows, maybe we'll do a whole episode on them. And yeah, so I think it's time to just jump in, dude, you know. It's time to jump in. But let's take a quick break first and then we'll get back. This episode is sponsored

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And Rave Down is the single, I believe. Son of a Mustang Ford is one of the singles. Yeah, I think they're both singles, actually. Okay, cool. So we're going to cover a couple albums to the, their first two records. And yeah, their first album again is Rays, which came out in 91. So yeah, these guys started back in 84.

Well, the two main guys, Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge, they were schoolmates. And they started a band called Shake Appeal in 84 with Franklin's older brother and a drummer named Patty Poulzer. So even in the early days, they kind of turned. their attention to American groups like Husker Doe, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.

And they were inspired to, quote, push out the boundaries of electric guitar within a pop format. I mean, with those three bands, dude, you've got, I mean, those those are the rock groups that were doing all, like, something different around that time, right? Husker Doe, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.

And, yeah, what a great, like, foundation for influences to kickstart a band with, you know? And that's, what was that quote? You said pushing the boundaries of guitar? Push out the boundaries of electric guitar within a pop format. I mean, yeah, that's shoe gaze, right? I mean, that's... Yeah, exactly.

Or at least the, you know, pushing the boundaries of guitar. Some shoegaze bands were less poppy than others and, you know, focused more on like the noise aspect of it. But yeah, this is a band. that falls more along the lines of maybe like a Catherine Wheel or something like that, who's writing more straightforward sounding like melodic pops and stuff. But the guitar sound is like that said, being pushed a little bit further into the extremes, if you will. Yeah, exactly.

So they started way back in 84. And in 87, they acquired Adrian Vines as their bass player. and then an 89 drummer Graham Bonner. So the fully formed band as Swerve Driver formed in 89. And then they signed to A&M records in 91. And I thought this was interesting. This quote here, I don't remember who it was that was being interviewed. But they chose A&M over Geffen because, quote,

there's only one band in Geffen, and that's Guns and Roses. So basically, they thought if they signed to Geffen, they wouldn't get the attention that they deserved from the record label. I thought that was interesting because Sonic Youth signed to Geffen in 1990, but it's interesting to hear another band coming up around this time choose a totally different record label over Geffen because they're like, there's nowhere we're going to get the attention we deserve and the time and focus and energy if we're on Geffen,

because they've got guns and roses. Who are we? Right. Well, that's funny. Yeah. I mean, I wonder if Sonic Youth just had more confidence. I mean, Sonic Youth never really made it all that big either. I mean, compared to a band like Guns and Roses, obviously.

No. No, but they had a lot of cheerleaders, you know, in the early 90s. I doubt that Swerve Driver did. But, you know, there was a lot of, like, word on the street about Sonic Youth. with like who they knew in the art world and the people that they knew and stuff. Like, yeah, I think there was a little bit more confidence going in from Sonic Youth around that time. But yeah, I thought that was interesting. So 1991, they signed to A&M and then they did what a bunch of bands were doing around that time.

One of them that comes to mind is Lush, who we covered a few weeks back, where they just, as soon as they had, you know, three or four songs, they would drop a little EP. You know, so they were just dropping tiny little EPs here and there up until September of 91 when they kind of just piled all those EP songs together and threw on a couple more songs to create their first full length, which was Rays. We got a couple songs to play off this record, but man, I'll just say now, dude, when I, so I listen to both albums all the way through today. and when I press play on mescal head, which is their second studio album that came out two years later, it's different in like all the right ways, dude. Like this is,

it's really cool to kind of hear how their sound changed a little bit. And for good reason, they lost quite a few members in the band. But we'll get to that once we dive into these first few songs. Travis, we're going to play some singles today. That's fine. Yeah, I want to cover the two songs that you liked from Rays,

and one of those Sandblasted is a single, but that's fine, dude. You know, that's fine. That's fine. It's fine. Yeah, so let's just dive right in here, Q, and play some tunes. So we're going to start with the very first track on their debut record. Always a good way to introduce yourself to a band is just hit play on track one of the first record, right? This is like their opening statement to the world, even though, like you said, they had put out EPs prior. to this, but this was their debut full length, right?

Yep. So this is a pretty cool name, I think, for a track. And I think technically, in some way, sort of classifies them as a space rock band, right? I guess, yeah, that's what we've learned over these last few months, dude. Yeah. But I would think that, you know, aside from just talking about, you know, UFOs and stuff, I think some of their qualities, their sound qualities would fall under space rock. But anyway, here we go.

This track is called SciFlyer. What a great way to kick off an album, man. It's got a great opening. Nice, solid, like, instrumental bit at the beginning. Like, it goes on for a good, like, minute and a half or so. We've talked about this before. I love when a band does that. A nice, yeah, sort of, like, lead in to the...

A little runway. Yeah, to a song. Yeah, it kind of helps set the tone, you know. So I've been listening to this band, obviously, for a couple of weeks now. and I've been trying to like figure out in my head who his voice reminds me of and I think I've got to narrow down to you. I want your thoughts on this. I feel like it's a mix between Elvis Costello and Phil Lennett of Thin Lizzie.

Yes. A mashup of those two. Yeah, I can hear that dude for sure. Yeah, especially the Costello bit for sure. And I never got into Tom Petty. but you know it's kind of got that tompettiness to it maybe not in the same but like yeah it's kind of that like lazy vocal delivery almost like bob dillon in a way so yeah yes yes there's all of that that's kind of mixed up into this yeah and i pulled this quote because i think it's the perfect way to

describe it i don't know who said this so on wikipedia but he's got this stream of consciousness narrative and i think that's a great way to describe his lyrics you know it's kind of just like pen to paper, not really thinking about what he's writing. It's just coming, you know, as it's being formed in his brain, he's writing it down, right? It's just like not just thoughts on paper, right? Yeah, and some of these lyrics, I mean, this is a funny, this, this cracked me up. So he's talking about, like, aliens coming out, checking out the planet, right? Yep, yep.

It says this is where they came down to our planet, checking on our climate and our women, too. And it says, this is what I thought was funny. They said, is this who you love? And I said, yeah. But she only has two arms and one smile. That's all right. That's enough for me by a mile. As in like these aliens are like, what are you talking about?

This girl only has two arms. She's only got one smile, dude. Our women have like eight arms and five smiles. My favorite line is, you know, and they repeat this over and over. kind of like a chorus. Below the apes above the angels. We're just these lowly apes, you know, stuck to earth by gravity above us, angels. And by angels, I mean, these, you know, eight-armed, multi-smile women.

We may be below the apes, but we're above the angels. We're better than angels, dude. Oh. Or the alien sits above the angels, maybe. Anyway, there's a really cool thing that happens at the very, very end of the song. All right, here we go. Here is the second clip from SciFlyer. So that's how the song closes.

And I was thinking maybe that's the transition to track two. But it's not. It's just they wanted to change up and throw a little outro to the song to end it. And I thought it was cool. Yeah, this is something that surprised me in a good way about these guys. they have these really cool just kind of jam kind of breakdowns in a lot of their songs where a good portion of it or like this last third of a song would just be some really cool jam you know like an instrumental jam they do that in both of these albums and it's it's good stuff man yeah well it's

cool because like it starts with that guitar intro that nice lead in and they have a guitar outro to kind of close it out which is sweet but yeah anyway awesome first track and I think a good introduction to these guys if you've never heard them before. Definitely. So yeah, like you said, the next track we're going to play is technically a single. And we try not to play singles here on no filler, but sometimes you got to do it, you know? Yeah, and this one is, you know, it's a single, but only because it was one of the songs released on the little EPs that they were dropping before raised.

Oh, so it wasn't an official single for the full length. It's mentioned as one, but no, it was track one on an EP called Sandblasted that came out in July of that year. Okay. So, yeah, it came out before raised it. Cool, cool. All right. Well, I mean, Q, we could just go right in it if you'd like. What I like about this one is, again, it has, it has this nice lead in.

And it's a very, it's a much softer guitar sound, a whole different kind of tone than what you just heard in sci-fly. And yeah, I think that's actually, like you said, that's what they did at the end of SciFlyar, which was like change up into a whole different melody and riff to kind of close it out. And this song is another example of them doing that where like the start of the song is completely different than where they take it, which is cool.

So here we go. This song is called Sandblasted. Now there's the shoe gaze right there, dude. Yeah, man, you started to get a little bit of that glide guitar sound, DeN. Just a little bit. But yeah, I love that guitar. um,

ditty that happens there, sort of like in between the verses. Yes. It's got this very like classic, almost like 60s, um, Brit pop sound to it almost. Yeah.

And that's what made these guys, you know, kind of like what, uh, Marita was saying, you know, it was different in a good way, you know?

Yeah. I'm assuming that Marita heard this, they must have been touring for this album. So it must have been 91 when Marita heard this. So, as a music fan in 91, she heard them, you know, on this late night TV show

and this stood out to her. Yeah. And in 91, dude, that's right when it all started. Yeah, good stuff, dude. And so we're going to jump right into Mescalhead. And briefly here, I'll say a little,

there's a little bit of a lineup change. So, uh, they started their North American tour in February of 92. And while waiting to cross the Canada-US border for a show in Toronto, their drummer, Graham, left for a sandwich, and never came back.

What? That's what it says. I'm sorry with that. I mean, I've never heard of, I mean, did he get abducted by a UFO or something? Did they ever find the guy? Oh, no, I think, no. What if he's buried in a ditch somewhere? No, dude, I don't think they, it doesn't say that he was never seen or heard.

He was never seen or heard from again. He said, I'm going to go get a sandwich. He hops off the tour bus and he just leaves. I mean, look, we hear that all the time about, you know, the classic, the dad goes out for cigarettes and never comes back. I've never heard it from a drummer before. Every other unsolved mystery episode starts off like that, dude. That's really funny, man.

Yeah. Well, I mean, that's one way to leave a band. Yeah, yeah. So it says here, despite having fully intended to completely. the tour, artistic differences between band members made it impossible for him to continue. So he just wasn't feeling it, dude. So he left for a sandwich, you know. And then in August of 92, so same year, their bass player 80 Vines left to form the heavy metal oriented band skyscraper. Never heard of them, but they could be cool. So yeah, things change, you know, as they're kind of

of regrouping and figuring out. Basically, to quote, Adam Franklin, all that remained of the band was, quote, myself, Jimmy Hartridge and some effects pedals. So really it was just the main two guys left. I mean, look, man, those pedals are important. At least they still had those. Yeah, that's really important. You're going to make sure you have those. But during some recordings leading up to Mescalhead. Basically, they just met new members along the way, like in different

little bars that they were playing in. One of the guys approached them saying, like, hey, you're the guy from Surve Driver. You need a bass player. I'm your man. So they got a new drummer. They got a new bass player. Do you think one of the questions they asked during the interview process?

Do you like sandwiches? Yeah, listen. Do you like sandwiches? Yeah. And, you know, if they said yes, then look, this is not going to work out. So, yeah, these, let's see, I'll give them proper shoutouts here. Jeremy Hindmarsh, who was the ex-drumer of a London band called 530. It's a pretty cool name, as in like the time, 530.

They were introduced by one of the producers of a song called Deeress that they recorded for this album, Mescalhead. He was a producer of one of the 530 albums, so he knew that guy. And then Steve George was the bass player that approached them at a bar in Camden and said, hey, I'm your man. So they've got a new lineup here. We're going to do something a little bit different. We're going to dive right into this next album. So this is 93 that Mescalhead came out. And I got to say, man, I love this album. Like, it's now, it's already up there, dude, for me. This is the one.

This is the one that you'll see out there listed with other, other best shoe gaze records. Well, actually, let me, I'll just say this too. So, Rays, their debut, made it on, uh, Pitchfork's 50 best Shugays albums of all time. Actually, both records do. This was a, a list that Pitchfork released in 2016. Rays is number 15 on that list. Mascalhead is number 10 on that list. Okay.

Top 10. So that's, dude, that's, yeah, that's something, man. And that's crazy that, I mean, I think we said this last week on our Watcher Heard, dude, like, we just, we just don't know, you know. You know, there's so much we're still learning about music in the 90s. And I think this says it all, dude. We just now discovered this group. And they're on their number 10 and number 15, you know, album lit on these, their first

two albums make it on Pitchfork's top 50 shoe gaze records of all time. Yeah, I mean, this year at least, like this has kind of been exclusively a 90s rock podcast. Like, we've done a lot of 90s this year. Yeah. Like, we could do an entire podcast dedicated to 90s rock and be able to do a new record every week, just like we do on this on this show and never run out of great rock records in the 90s. You could never, never run out. And that's just kind of what we were saying last week, like 90s really was this incredible time for rock music. There were just so many, like, branches of the tree, right? Yeah, man, it's crazy.

And it's pretty cool to just now be finding that out. You know, I'm all about it. Yeah. All right, so we're going to do something that we don't normally do. And I'm actually going to play, I mean, I guess depending on the version of Mescalhead that you have, this is a. bonus track on the U.S. edition. It was released in 93, so it released the same year, you know, as the U.K., you know, the original

release. But the last track on the U.S. edition is Never Lose That Feeling, which was actually released on the EP of the same name back in May of 92, so a year before Meskellhead. And this is the band's final release with the original lineup. So I thought it only makes sense to go chronologically here. So this song I really like because, you know, kind of like with Sandblasted, it has some really great classic Shugays moments in it. So here we go.

This is from an EP released in 92 from Stor of Driver. This song is called Never Lose That Feeling. So one big difference is the harmonizing. Like they didn't happen on the first record. Yes. And I wonder if that's the bass player, the new bass player. Well, this is the original lineup. Trev. That's why I played it first.

But is it the original lineup on this record, too, or just the EP? Like, did they re-recorded, I wonder? Oh, I don't know, actually. That's a good question. Because sometimes they do that. I mean, sometimes... No, I'm going to guess that this is the original... This is the recording with the original lineup, because this is a bonus track,

technically, on the U.S. edition. Yeah, I bet it is. Yeah. Well, that's cool. So, yeah. So that's something that the band had started to do. Yeah, yeah. But I noticed that, too, and throughout this whole album, album is a little bit of a change up in the sound. On the first track, for Seeking Heat, right off the rip, it sounds more heavy, a little bit more grungy. But as you, you know, throughout the record, it starts to feel like, and so we mentioned

this with, what was the band that we were talking about, Travis, that we say, like, you know, you can hear what's coming down the pipe. And, you know, and we were talking specifically about, you know, early 2000s, emo and garage rock like what was to come oh probably um yeah that was our episode on um unwound um unwound yeah yeah because they were they kind of sounded a little bit like some of the stuff you're doing in the 2000s the post punk emo stuff from the 2000 and like interpol and stuff like that right right and you know i can hear that even on this album even from 93 so again it's like one of those things, who was listening to this record?

Yeah. Who would later go on to, you know, joining those bands in the early 2000s. Yeah, be influenced by it, yeah. Yeah, what a great song, dude. That's, I love that song. Yeah, kind of an uplifting kind of vibe. Yeah. Yeah.

That is what, that's kind of what I, like the takeaway for me, between Rays and Mescalhead. It is a little bit more upbeat. That's not the right word. But, you know, you'll see. Yeah, I know what you mean. With the songs that I, yeah. So, one of what I mean.

So one cool thing, too, on this bonus track, they released another instrumental song called Never Learn, which it goes on for like over 11 minutes long. And a good half of that is this instrumental Crout Rock kind of thing. It's kind of a Prague rock kind of sound. It's cool. It's different. You know, I'm curious about it. Like who, where did that come from?

Where to come from? Yeah, yeah. But there is an additional musician credited for saxophone. His name's Stuart Dase. I love it when a band does that, man. They just throw on something out of left field like that. Yeah, and it's cool, too, they just kind of tacked it on the end of never lose that feeling. All right, so now let's get into it.

Let's listen to what the two new members of the band bring to the table. So, again, we've still got Adam and Jimmy, the founding members. All right, so here we go. Here is, this might be my favorite one on here. So again, this is with the new members in the band. Here's with, you know, kind of the change in sound. I'm all for it, dude. So again, this is Swerve Driver's second studio album, Meskelhead.

This is track four on the record. This song is called M.M. Abduction. Man, the way he holds that note in the verse reminds me of something, man. I can't think of it, but it just reminds me of something. Well, this is the first song that I thought, like, wow, this is really. really this sounds like, like all the emo and like the pop punk kind of stuff. More like the garage rock stuff, yeah. Yeah.

I heard the stills. Yeah. Okay. Yep. The way that guy sings. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, I was trying to think of like you, a band to kind of suggest for her it sounds like.

The song of Montreal by the stills, you know, just, yeah, it just made me think of that kind of stuff. And that was the garage rock revival, you know, from the early 2000s. Yeah. And this came out in 93, dude. Crazy. Every episode, dude. Your mind is blown by the 90s. Yeah, man, really. I think it's just time to just accept it, dude.

This is what the 90s sounded like. And we just weren't, you know, everybody has like these boundaries around what they think each decade sounded like. And like, if you weren't in the, like, if you weren't paying attention. and actively seeking out music in that decade, then you're only really going to be exposed to the stuff that was mainstream until you go and seek it out of yourself, like is what we do every week on this show, you know? It took us a while, dude, but yeah, we're starting to dive into it, finally.

But yeah, great, great stuff, man. What a great recommendation. And, yeah, perfect, perfect. Like, right exactly, like, this is in the wheelhouse of exactly what we're talking about, the kind of bands that we've been covering this year. So, yeah, this was great. Yeah, it's great, dude. I love this interaction that we're getting with our listeners.

I'm going to ask it again because I haven't heard anything yet, but is there any interest in a no-filler T-shirt? Just send us a message on Instagram. T-shirt, yay, or t-shirt, nay. Or if you have no interest in Instagram and you don't want to create an account just to send us that message, email us at no-filler podcast.g.g.com. Good call. That's true.

Yeah. If I get enough people that say they're interested, we will make t-shirts. All right, so I got one more track I want to play real quick. And I think I'm just going to play a lengthy clip because I like kind of what happens towards the end, but I don't want to split it up. So this, we're going to jump down a few tracks here. This is track seven on the record. It is called A Change Is Gonna Come.

I'm a big fan of his stream of consciousness narrative, dude. I love the way he sings. I love the repetition and his lyrics sometimes and I love the way he like slightly changes like that line that he repeats over and over at the end there I just love how he slightly changes how he sings it each time. I love that kind of stuff.

He's a yeah, he's got a, you know, his voice is different, but like I was saying, it's a good mashup of kind of a bunch of, you know, kind of classic vocalists and rock like we were saying earlier, but it's different than, you know, there's no shoegaze band that I could think of that sounds like this, as far as the vocal quality, right? Because like the classic shoegaze vocal is the dreamy, airy kind of vocal, right.

Yeah, and it kind of goes back to the bands that they were listening to back when they were first starting out, like Husker Doo, Dinosaur Junior, Sonic Youth. They were taking, you know, that inspiration and just trying to push those boundaries of, you know, that guitar-driven kind of sound into like a pop format. I think, yeah, they freaking nailed it, dude. Like we said, man, another great band that we had never heard of up until this year, you know. And it just makes you, like, you know, this just makes me want to keep listening, go to their next album, see what they started sounding like later.

Yep. Did they have any sort of like breakup or hiatus? You know, a lot of bands seem like they are, a lot of these bands, man, they were, They were prolific in the 90s and then they stopped, but now they're making music again. And I bet you that's the case with these guys. Exactly the case, dude. Between 89 and 98, they released four studio albums, EPs and singles. Yeah, it says record label issues and waning interest within the group led to their splits at the end of 98.

So surprise, surprise. They had issues with their record label. Yeah. Tale as old as time, dude. But it says here, a decade later, Swerve Driver reunited and toured periodically over the the next five years, releasing their first new material in 15 years with the 2013 single, Deep Wound. Let's outro out with that, dude. Blindly. I haven't listened to it. Let's just do it, man. And they've also released two full-length albums since 2013. Their last one was in 2019.

So it looks like it's just the main two guys, Adam and Jimmy, and then they've got touring stand-ins, Mikey Jones and Mick Quinn, permanently joining the band. Okay, yeah, so that's cool. So they had a touring drummer and bass player that has since permanently joined. So yeah, dude, they're still going on. Still going strong. Cool. Since 2013, I guess.

Well, that's actually almost a decade, you know. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. So yes, Marita, thank you so much for this recommendation. You are the first listener that we got a recommendation from that we decided to do a full episode on. So thank you so much again. I am I can't stress enough how much I enjoyed mescal head. Like that's up there now for me in in my list of favorite 90s records for sure.

Totally. So thank you. Thank you. And so yeah, I guess we'll extend another invitation to all of our listeners to reach out to us on Instagram at any point in time or email us at no feeler podcast at gmail.com with, you know, your favorite record or artist from the 90s within this same vein or in another genre that we're just not, you know, another genre that we're not thinking of that was overlooked in the 90s that, you know, needs more attention. We are all about it. This is why we do. The podcast is just to connect with like-minded music lovers like us. So again, that's at no-filler podcast is the handle. or no-filler podcast at gmail.com.

What do we doing next week, Tref? Do we have an answer to that question? No, I don't think we do. Well, I mean, we just, off mic, we're entertaining the idea of something pretty drastically different. I don't know if we want to go that route yet, but maybe we could close out the month of June with a few more shoegays bands or 90s alt-rock bands

and then head into July with another idea that we're kind of kicking around that we've kind of talked about before as far as like a nice theme, I guess, a stint of episodes on, well, I don't want to spill beans queue. But maybe we'll switch it up here in July. Yeah, let's just say it'll be in the 80s era, which is not a decade that we spend a lot of, time. No.

And if we do, it's like bands like REM, you know, or, you know, kind of more of the same. Yeah. But yeah, we could scrounge up a few more artists under this 90s alt rock umbrella for sure, but then we now and next week. But it'll have to be a surprise, I guess, for. Yeah, we don't know. We do not know what we're going to cover next week. So we'll figure it out.

But as we just mentioned earlier, dude, there's a, there's a bottomless well of great 90s all rock bands. out there, dude, and Chewgays, man. So, plenty of options. Totally. Yeah, we could, we could hang out in this decade for the rest of this year if we really wanted to. All right, so as we're wrapping this up. As always, you can also find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network. That is our network family. Lots of really great music-centered podcasts within the network. You can follow us on at Pantheon Podcasts. on Instagram.

Pantheonpodcasts.com is the website. And as always, we would like to thank AKG for supporting the show. And yeah, we're going to outro us out with Swerve Drivers single from 2013 when they kind of reunited. It's a song called Deep Wound, and that's going to wrap us up for today. Thank you, as always for listening. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. You'll take care.