60 Songs That Explain the '90s
Hosted by Rob Harvilla · The Ringer
4.8from 8,276 ratings
- 180
- Episodes
- 65
- Transcribed
- 8,276
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 6M
- YouTube views
About 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
First came '60 Songs That Explain the '90s.' (We did that.) Then came '60 Songs That Explain the '90s: The 2000s.' (We're doing that now—and yes, that's the actual name.) But whether you want to jump back to the Clinton years or join us as we reboot our old iPods, you can find all of the collected works of Rob Harvilla below. Come back each Wednesday for a new episode.
- Publisher
- The Ringer
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
65 of 180 episodes have a transcript.
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Peter Bjorn and John — "Young Folks"
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Evanescence — “Bring Me To Life”
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Sade — “By Your Side”
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Peter Bjorn and John — "Young Folks"
Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's great to be here. Thanks for having me back. Of course. Chris, you recently wrote a great Stereogum piece about the 20th anniversary of Peter, Bjorn & John's Writer's Block album, and you called it a tipping point in the gentrification of indie rock. What do you mean by that? Because that sounds bad. Yeah, I know how it sounds. It's not good, but it's not necessarily their fault either. It's like they made this just about perfect pop rock album, and it happened to be exactly what companies who wanted to get a hip indie sound in their ads were looking for. Like I wrote in my retrospective, the article you just talked about, every time the whistling hook from young folks would breeze down a block, a city block, a microbrewery and a Whole Foods would just spring up. […]
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- Chris DeVille
- Brittany Spanos
- Danyel Smith
- Ryan Dombal
- Geoff Rickly
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- YouTube views
- 5,847,542
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 1,152 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 7,124 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100
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- Quality
- 69
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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