This week, Dan and Aaron are immense fans of the DC indie band The Dismemberment Plan! They were rock, post-punk, angular, math rock, electro-pop, and whatever other circa-1999 genres you want to call them. We were in late high school and college when we found out about them and became huge fans, as did everyone we knew. They rule. If you don't know them, check out "Emergency & I" since that's the album most people love the best, but all 5 records are great. We talk about how the band's journey mirrored our own as young people figuring out how to be a person and how they were a beautiful, almost magical part of an otherwise often dishwater gray period of life: angst-ridden young adulthood. But fun! We had a wonderful time reminiscing and gushing and hopefully you'll like it and listen to some fantastic records because of it.
NOTES / DON’T @ US:
— We messed up some lyrics, especially when Dan jumbled two sections of “The Ice of Boston”. We know and are pummeling ourselves appropriately.
— “Crush” was by Jennifer Paige.
— The years 1998-2004 were basically one long year for us, so ignore any dates we assign to anything.
