Ep. 174: Old In The 90's - What Were They Thinking Again?

This week we provide you with the finest in Hair To Hair Combat! You got it… we are dipping our spandex-covered legs into the pool of obscure glam metal. These are groups with similar band names that we thought needed to go hair to hair to see who truly has the right to rock the name. If you like it glammy, sleazy, and trashy; this is your show!

New to InObscuria? Every week your two hosts crawl down to the crypts to exhume obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. If you dig it… go dig it up and buy it! Support these artists and keep your devil horns and hair high in the air!

Songs this week include:

1. KingOfTheHill – “Party In My Pocket” from King Of The Hill (1991)
2. Kings Of The Sun – “Drop The Gun” from Full Frontal Attack (1990)
3. Salty Dog – “Keep Me Down” from Every Dog Has It’s Day (1990)
4. Sea Hags – “Back To The Grind” from Sea Hags (1989)
5. Star Star – “Treasure Or Trash” from The Love Drag Years (1992)
6. Starwood – “All My Girlfriends Have Boyfriends” from If It Ain’t Broke, Break It (2004)

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This week we bring you a cornucopia of obscure psychedelic sonic nuggets from the one, the only Cap’n Content himself; Robert Harrison. Share a tab and grab a fork as we dig into some tasty blues inspired psychedelia curated by the good captain. These are bands and songs that co-host Kevin Williams was mostly unaware of until now, so we are flipping the script a bit in this episode! Welcome to BizarrObscuria!

What is it that we do here at InObscuria? Well, we exhume obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. As always, our hope is that we turn you on to something new!

Songs this week include:

1. Love – “Slick Dick” from False Start (1970)
2. Steamhammer – “Midnight Blues Train” from Wailing Again (2022)
3. The Pretty Things – “All Light Up” from Balboa Island (2007)
4. Third World War – “Ascension Day” from Third World War (1972)
5. Highway Robbery – “Ain’t Gonna Take No More” from For Love Or Money (1972)
6. Lone Star – “She Said She Said” from Lone Star (1976)

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This week we pay homage to bands straddled the world of the 80s hard n’ heavy and the 90s alternative n’ grunge. These were bands that were somewhat outside of the status quo specifically in the hard rock and metal world that seemed to be playing music that was more genre and categorization-defying. Thus we created our own non-genre called; The Inbetweeners!

What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we cover all 3 categories and even some bands that we played early on in the podcast. The transition from the hard rockin’ 80s to the punk-edged alternative of the 90s was a time like no other, and some bands simply got caught in the middle. Go and check out these songs and the albums that they come from and enjoy some music from The Inbetweeners! 

Songs this week include:

1. Naked Sun – “Psycho-Activate” from Naked Sun (1991)
2. Funhouse – “Y.R.S.” from Generation Generator (1990)
3. No Walls – “Naive” from No Wall (1992)
4. Animal Bag – “Missing Out” from Animal Bag (1992)
5. Red Sea – “Blood” from Blood (1994)
6. The Hatters – “Sacrifice” from The Madcap Adventures Of The Avocado Overlord (1994)
7. Loudhouse – “Faith Farm” from For Crying Out Loud (1991)

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This week get your nerd on with us as we are raiding the Prog Rock crypt again. However, this will be a much different journey into the world of progressiveness, as we are covering Neo-Prog from the early to mid-1980s. A much different time for progressive rock, as these bands were influenced by more than just Genesis, Yes, and King Crimson. These groups were injecting heavy doses of hard rock, new wave, punk, and pop into their progressive Day-Glo soup! Keep an open mind and give it a listen…

What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. Prog rock in the 60s and 70s initially had mostly classical music and jazz influences, but over the last 40 years it has come to include other fusions of music styles including metal, punk, funk, folk, and electronic. From Zappa and Sgt. Pepper to the 1980s music by bands like Marillion and Pendragon… This is Neo-Prog Rock! Get yer nerd on!

Songs this week include:

1. Saga – “Wind Him Up” from Worlds Apart (1981)
2. Twelfth Night – “East Of Eden” from Smiling At Grief (1982)
3. IQ – “The Wake” from The Wake (1985) 
4. Pendragon – “Fly High Fall Far” from The Jewel (1985)
5. Gowan – “Keep Up The Fight” from Gowan (1982)
6. It Bites – “All In Red” from The Big Lad In The Windmill (1986)

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Listener Beware: You are about to enter the mind of a co-host of this show. Some know him as the enigmatic, flame-throwing, jack of all trades: Robert Harrison. This year he has earned the title of “Captain Content”, and thus you will be thrust into the mind of a… Let’s just say it will titillate some and completely confuse others. This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth… until a week later when he forgot the bands and songs that he shared with us. Welcome to bands Robert found and then lost…

What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. Robert hopes he turns you on to something new… Just like it is for him again.

Songs this week include:

1. Pure Hell – “Lame Brain” from Noise Addiction (1978)
2. Stargunn – “Mustangs And Camaros” from The Only Way Up Is Down – Part I (2001)
3. Liquid Jesus – “W.H.Y.B.” from Pour In The Sky (1991)
4. McOil – “Be Careful” from All Our Hopes (1979)
5. Fontaines D.C. - “Too Real” from Dogrel (2018)
6. The Now – “Girl You Got Me” from Too Hot To Handle (2024)
7. Dax Riggs – “Night Is The Notion” from We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love (2007)

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This week is all about bands playing other bands' songs… classic songs that perhaps radio has exhausted… Whether they are playing it straight note-for-note, or whether they are re-interpreting it; bands love to pay tribute to great songs that they love! In this episode, we showcase the diversity of how a band can take a classic rock hit that you’ve heard a million times and heavy it up.

What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. If you’ve ever listened to classic rock radio… we got ya covered! 

Songs this week include:

1. Prong – “Working Man (Rush)” from State Of Emergency(2023)
2. Jake E. Lee – “Rock Candy (Montrose)” from Retraced (2005) 
3. Jetboy – “Bloody Well Right (Supertramp)” from Crate Diggin’ (2023)
4. Class Of ‘99 – “Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2 (Pink Floyd)” from The Faculty (Music From The Motion Picture) (1998)
5. Deftones – “Simple Man (Lynyrd Skynyrd)” from Covers (2011)
6. Enuff Z’Nuff – “The Stroke (Billy Squier)” from Covered In Gold (2014)
7. Toque – “On The Loose (Saga)” from Give’r (2016)

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This week we present another installment of our ongoing series called “Grave Mistakes: They Shoulda Been Huge!!!”. A few weeks ago, we heard a band on our “Keep On Truckin’” episode that Robert said he’d like to explore further. So, we are going to do just that! This is a Viking band straight from the deserts of Sweden... or something like that. We’re talking about the most awesomely fuzzy band in the history of desert, stoner, fuzz rock: TRUCKFIGHTERS!!!

What is it that we do here at InObscuria? Well, we exhume obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This episode covers a band that is clearly in the Lost category for most. If you were too ask, “How fuzzy could this band be?”; the answer would be, “…none fuzzier!”. As always, we hope that we turn you on to something new.

Songs this week include:

1. Truckfighters – “Nitro” from Fuzzsplit Of The Century (2003)
2. Truckfighters – “Gweedo-Weedo” from Gravity X (2005)
3. Truckfighters – “Slacken” from Phi (2007)
4. Truckfighters – “The New High” from Mania (2009)
5. Truckfighters - “The Chairman” from Universe (2014)
6. Truckfighters – “Fiend” from V (2016)
7. Truckfighters – “Atomic” from Live In London (2016)

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Welcome back my friends to Ep. 213 of the InObscuria Podcast! Last week one of your esteemed co-hosts mentioned that he was going to start a new funk rock band called White Pepper… We thought this week would pontificate about what that group will sound like! We will once again explore all things FUNKY! Let your body move and your asses groove as we get down with some badass funk rock! 

What is it that we do here at InObscuria? Besides eating pop-tarts, we exhume obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. In this episode, we take a listen to all 3, as we move n’ groove our way through funk-infused rock n’ roll. This genre has a special meaning to the hosts, as they have dabbled in this funkdafied landscape throughout their musical journeys. 

Songs this week include:

1. High Fade – “Burnt Toast & Coffee” from Burnt Toast & Coffee - Single(2023)
2. Electric Love Hogs – “Just Another Day” from Electric Love Hogs (1992) 
3. Osaka Punch – “How We Operate” from Mixed Ape(2023)
4. Sinister Dane – “Ravens” from The Claws Of Time (2023)
5. JonesWorld– “Feel The Groove” from Feel The Groove – Single (2016)
6. KRUSH GROOVE – “K.G.” fromHAVE A BREAK(2002)
7. Precious Death – “Shine” from Southpaw (1995)

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This week we continue the discussion that we started at the end of our last show; with our admiration of the almighty power of the guitar and the guitar hero! This time around we are going to play guitarists, or guitar passages or leads in songs that caught our ears at some point in our lives that made us truly stop and listen. It’s not always about the training, finesse, dexterity, or speed a player has or even the style of music or song that is being played. If you are into guitar and the sound of strings being plucked and bent then you know… It’s just something you feel deep down that gets to your heart and soul!

What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we discuss all three. Get out your old Guitar World and Guitar Player mags and flip the pages as we discuss some of the most amazing fingers to ever touch a fretboard! Be sure to also check out the Jason Becker documentary “Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet” that we mention.

Songs this week include:

1. Anvil Chorus – “Blue Flames” from The Killing Sun (2009)
2. Kirk Hammett – “The Jinn” from Portals - EP (2022)
3. Bruce Kulick – “Ain’t Gonna Die” from BK3 (2010)
4. Buckethead – “Welcome To Bucketheadland” from Giant Robot (1994)
5. Tears For Fears – “Broken” from Songs From The Big Chair (1985)
6. Psycho Motel – “Welcome To The World” from Welcome To The World (1997)
7. Cacophony – “Go Off!” from Go Off! (1988)

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It’s 2024 and your humble hosts have been persuaded by the good podcasting people to keep on truckin’. Therefore, we bring you an episode full of bands devoted to naming themselves after the almighty diesel guzzlin’, 600 horsepower pullin’, multi-axle haulin’ hell on wheels known as trucks! This episode is, obviously, brought to you by our resident gearhead: Mr. Robert Harrison.

New to InObscuria? It’s all about digging up obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal from one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we are digging and hauling by featuring bands whose names contain the word truck… I know, it’s a bit out there. Thanks, Robert! We hope that we turn you on to something new!

Songs this week include:

1. Truck - “Make Hay” from Exploring The Wah (2022)
2. Truckfighters - “Hawkshaw” from V (2016)
3. Monster Truck - “Thundertruck” from True Rockers (2018)
4. Bad Möthertrückers - “Crucified” from Crucified - Single (2019)
5. Truckers - “Truckers” from Leave Me Alone (1995)
6. Gruntruck - “It’s Alright” from Gruntruck (2017)
7. Derek Trucks Band - “Alright” from Out Of The Madness (1998)

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