1 hr 7 min

Skeleton Key - Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon | Album Review Dig Me Out: 90s Rock

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Though known for a variety of harder post-hardcore bands like Helmet, Quicksand, Biohazard, and many more in the early 90s, the New York City indie music also include a number of outliers who had their major label moments. Like Soul Coughing or Firewater, Skeleton Key sought to do something slightly different. Sure, there are guitar-driven alternative rock tunes like "Wide Open" or "The Worlds Most Famous Undertaker," but the majority of the album isn't so straightforward. With a "junk" percussionist, there is a pallet of sounds not regularly heard on most alternative rock records of the decade.
 
Songs In This Episode:
Intro - Watch The Fat Man Swing
23:05 - Wide Open
28:22 - All The Things I've Lost
35:24 - Vomit Ascot
Outro - The Worlds Most Famous Undertaker
 
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Listen to the episode archive at DigMeOutPodcast.com.

Though known for a variety of harder post-hardcore bands like Helmet, Quicksand, Biohazard, and many more in the early 90s, the New York City indie music also include a number of outliers who had their major label moments. Like Soul Coughing or Firewater, Skeleton Key sought to do something slightly different. Sure, there are guitar-driven alternative rock tunes like "Wide Open" or "The Worlds Most Famous Undertaker," but the majority of the album isn't so straightforward. With a "junk" percussionist, there is a pallet of sounds not regularly heard on most alternative rock records of the decade.
 
Songs In This Episode:
Intro - Watch The Fat Man Swing
23:05 - Wide Open
28:22 - All The Things I've Lost
35:24 - Vomit Ascot
Outro - The Worlds Most Famous Undertaker
 
Support the podcast, join the DMO UNION at Patreon.
Listen to the episode archive at DigMeOutPodcast.com.

1 hr 7 min