Do we stress you out? Our sweaters are on backwards and inside out this week to talk about an artist that took over the world in 1995. But what about before and after? It's ALANIS MORISSETTE week!

Joining the show is past guest Courtney Denison and her husband/musical partner Sean Farrell of Boston pop punk band Bad Idea USA! We begin this week discussing Alanis' often forgotten teenage dance pop days in Canada with a 1992 daytime talk show appearance in her native land. The Jagged Little Pill-era live band featuring Taylor Hawkins is ridiculously good with appearances on Letterman and SNL. A 1999 Grammy's performance off of the City of Angels soundtrack requires a sidebar on the fashion of AJ McLean of The Backstreet Boys. And we wrap up discussing the biggest selling albums of the 1990s.

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Change is a Waste of Time, 11/24/1992 on The Dini Petty Show

You Oughta Know, 8/17/1995 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Hand in My Pocket/All I Really Want, 10/28/1995 on Saturday Night Live

Joining You, 12/17/1998 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Uninvited, 2/24/1999 on The Grammy Awards

Hands Clean/Your House, 2/27/2002 on Last Call with Carson Daly

Everything/Out is Through/Ironic, 5/14/2004 on Later...with Jools Holland

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Founders of Seattle grunge, this sludgy hard rock outfit combined crazy technical prowess with hair-raising vocals. Led by a one-of-kind lead singer, they defined a movement that persists to this day. It's SOUNDGARDEN week!

Jon and Alex deal with the fallout of being cancelled by the anti-Dave Grohl internet movement before tracking the twists of a band that mostly avoided TV appearances! Clip 1 finds the band on a short-lived awards show put on by the College Media Journal and the USA Network. Steve Issacs returns to the show right as grunge is taking over, with Soundgarden blasting through Outshined and Slaves & Bulldozers on Hangin' with MTV. Superunknown is a huge hit and the band is hardly on TV for it, except for a 40-minute Japanese grunge special. And we discuss the band's 2010s reunion with clips on Conan and Jools Holland before Chris Cornell's tragic ending.

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Ugly Truth/Big Dumb Sex reprise, 10/26/1989 on the CMJ New Music Awards

Outshined/Slaves & Bulldozers, 12/11/1991 on Hangin' with MTV

Fell on Black Days/Spoonman, 2/8/1994 on Sony Music TV Japan

Pretty Noose/Burden in My Hand, 5/18/1996 on Saturday Night Live

Black Rain/Hunted Down, 11/9/2010 on Conan

Been Away too Long/Taree/Rusty Cage, 11/6/2012 on Later...with Jools Holland

This artist melded 70s southern soul with 80s hip hop and earned a royal title for it in the process. Equal parts tough and diva, she took over the R&B world in 1992 and never left. It's MARY J. BLIGE week!

Joining the show is journalist, author, and Mary superfan Craig Seymour! Luckily, Craig is prepared to school the guys on the immeasurable impact of Mary's early albums and the way it shaped modern hip hop/R&B forever. Clip 1 has Jennifer Lopez, Rosie Perez, and Jim Carrey backing up Mary on In Living Color. My Life is a huge album without a huge single, but a full-band version of "You Bring Me Joy" still kills on Conan. Queen Latifah brings together Mary and Lauryn Hill for a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration on TV. And we end with the 2022 Super Bowl, with Mary fitting right in alongside other legends of hip hop (and 50 Cent).

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Reminisce, 11/2/1992 on In Living Color

You Bring Me Joy, 5/19/1995 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Thank You Lord/Not Gon' Cry/Love is All We Need with Nas, 3/7/1997 on The Soul Train Awards

All That I Can Say with Lauryn Hill, 2/4/2000 on The Queen Latifah Show

Family Affair/No More Drama, 5/3/2002 on Later...with Jools Holland

Be Without You/Stay With Me/Runaway Love with Ludacris and Earth, Wind, & Fire, 2/11/2007 on The Grammy Awards

Family Affair/No More Drama with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem, 2/13/2022 on The Super Bowl Halftime Show

In the mid 70s, some arty weird kids in Athens, GA shared a volcano cocktail at a Chinese restaurant. That party took them to many others, armed with hugely influential guitar licks, beehive hairdo wigs, and dancing from another world. It's THE B-52s week!

It's episode number 50 of TMGT, and the show kicks off with a performance on SNL that changed Dave Grohl's life. Jon insists on covering a clip of the band at the 1982 US Festival despite it having no place within the dumb format of this podcast. The "Whammy" era is captured on UK TV, and uh, it's not great! The guys discuss the lasting influence of the late great Ricky Wilson, and his absence is sorely felt on a 1987 clip from a UK children's show. And a comeback performance of "Love Shack" on Letterman almost makes Jon cry.

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Rock Lobster/Dance This Mess Around, 1/26/1980 on Saturday Night Live

Give Me Back My Man, 9/3/1982 at The US Festival

Song for a Future Generation/Whammy Kiss/Butterbean, 1983 on Switch

Wig/Planet Claire, 7/11/1987 on Get Fresh

Love Shack, 6/20/1989 on Late Night with David Letterman

Cosmic Thing/Channel Z, 4/21/1990 on Saturday Night Live

Is That You Mo-Dean?, 8/31/1992 on Hangin' with MTV

She emerged from the caves of Iceland with a singular voice and singular vision. As the ultimate blank check artist, she combined international textures with innovative electronic landscapes to both astound and baffle listeners. It's BJÖRK week!

Björk leans into her Sugarcubes and London club influences early with quirky and catchy performances on Conan and Leno. A turmoil-filled run up to Homogenic produces an intense 1997 performance on Jools Holland with an Icelandic string octet. The swan dress overshadows a sparse and haunting Oscars performance of I've Seen it All. Björk is backed by a renowned harpist, found sound DJ producers, and a Greenland Inuit women's choir on Japanese television. And Alex and Jon display a shocking lack of knowledge regarding the female anatomy.

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Human Behaviour, September 14th, 1993 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien

It's Oh So Quiet, November 2nd, 1995 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Hunter/Bachelorette/Joga, November 28th, 1997 on Later...with Jools Holland

I've Seen it All, March 25th, 2001 on The Oscars

Pagan Poetry/Generous Palmstroke, January 14th, 2002 on News23 Tokyo Television

Earth Intruders/Wanderlust, April 21st, 2007 on Saturday Night Live

The Gate/Blissing Me/Courtship/The Anchor Song, May 22nd, 2018 on Later...with Jools Holland

Mix 1 part traditional irish folk, 2 parts punk, and 3 parts irish whiskey (just not the protestant kind): stir and drink well. Grab a Guinness and sing along: it's THE POGUES week!

Joining the show is a long-time friend who played many a sweaty Boston punk show with Alex and Jon over the years, Kevin Bogart (Trophy Lungs, Better Sense)! Kevin and the guys discuss the upcoming New Warden/Trophy Lungs reunion show at O'Briens before tackling the idiot savant genius nature of Shane MacGowan. We kick off the show with The Pogues baffling a crowd of hip London teens on The Tube. A French filmmaker produces a TV documentary for British television at the height of Rum Sodomy & the Lash. The Pogues join the nation of Ireland by honoring 25 years of The Dubliners, and it is the most Irish thing you'll ever see. And Fairytale of New York sends Shane and the guys off on a path of fame and messiness that ends today with a Letterman clip in 1993 (without Shane).

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Sally MacLennane/Whiskey, You're the Devil/Boys From the County Hell/Waxie's Dargel, November 1st, 1985 on The Tube

Part 1/Part 2/Part 3, February 15th, 1986 TV French special by Antoine de Caunes from Rock Arena

Irish Rover with the Dubliners/Auld Triangle group sing-along, March 6th, 1987 on RTE The Late Late Show Tribute to 25 years of The Dubliners

Fairytale of New York with Kirsty MacColl, December 1st, 1987 on Top of the Pops

Fiesta/Streets of Sorrow-Birmingham Six (4:20 mark), April 15th, 1988 on Friday Night Live

White City/The Body of an American, March 17th, 1990 on Saturday Night Live

Tuesday Morning, October 22nd, 1993 on The Late Show with David Letterman

This western Massachusetts trio combined elements of hardcore, folk, and guitar virtuosity to become unlikely godfathers of grunge. But in between classic 80s indie releases and 2000s reunion albums, lots of other stuff happened too. We discuss. It's DINOSAUR JR. week!

Joining the show is the creator of the indie punk and rock publication see/saw and former Pitchfork News Editor Evan Minsker! After giving the first Lou Barlow era its needed time up top, the guys watch the band's network TV debut 7 years after its formation on Letterman. It's a very World's Most Dangerous Band episode, featuring punk chimes in a '93 clip. Dinosaur Jr. performs a forgotten rap-rock jam on Arsenio with the ridiculous lineup of Del tha Funky Homosapien, Mike Watt, and Mike D. The Mike Johnson era of the band reaches its pinnacle with Feel the Pain on Letterman. The guys are too old to party with their daughter on the Jenny Jones show. And the triumphant return of Lou kicks off on Craig Ferguson in 2005.

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Band Featurette, January 1991 on Snub TV

The Wagon, 5/21/1992 on Late Night with David Letterman

Out There, 6/12/1993 on Late Night with David Letterman

Missing Link w/ Del The Funky HomoSapien (featuring Mike Watt and Mike D), 1993 on The Arsenio Hall Show

Feel the Pain, 9/8/1994 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Never Bought it/Out There, 11/6/1997 on The Jenny Jones Show

The Lung, 4/15/2005 on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Almost Ready, 4/30/2007 on The Late Show with David Letterman

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Good genes. Industry access. A lack of initial meritocracy. These artists reaped the benefits and pitfalls of simply being the children of some of the most famous musicians of all time. It's NEPO BABIES week, grab bag style!

We start off nepo week in style with Nancy Sinatra performing a stone-cold classic on Ed Sullivan in 1966 with an array of groovy back up dancers. Ziggy Marley leads a nepo baby band at the height of his powers sounding exactly like his Dad. It's nepo baby mania in 1990, with Wilson Phillips and Julian Lennon performing two months apart on Letterman. The guys unearth the odd cultural relic of Z, a short-lived Zappa family band that combines guitar virtuosity with a nonsense grunge aesthetic. Jakob Dylan, not satisfied to be only upstaged by his father, performs with Bruce Springsteen on the VMAs in 1997. And MTV pushes Kelly Osbourne onto the music world, and the world politely declines.

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Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walking, 2/27/1966 on The Ed Sullivan Show

Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers - Tumblin' Down, 2/7/1989 on Late Night with David Letterman

Wilson Phillips - Hold On, 4/24/1990 on Late Night with David Letterman

Julian Lennon - I Get Up, 6/18/1990 on Late Night with David Letterman

Z - My Beef Mailbox, 2/28/1994 on Late with Conan O'Brien

The Wallflowers with Bruce Springsteen - One Headlight, 9/4/1997 on the MTV Video Music Awards

Kelly Osbourne - Papa Don't Preach, 6/1/2002 on the MTV Movie Awards