Their favourite compilation and top 3 songs, their least favourite compilation and bottom 3 songs, what it felt like looking back on these years as a whole, what it was like submerging oneself into these songs during a global pandemic and, of course, the Washington Avenue Grill.

Big Shiny Podcast will return in a few months with something new. Enjoy your summer and vaccinations.

P.S. The ambient music sprinkled throughout comes from some sketches Graham Van Pelt uploaded to his youtube.

Check out his latest album of beauteous tones here: https://arbutusrecords.com/collections/graham-van-pelt/products/salt-spring-sun-and-shadow

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14 years and this is how MuchMusic decided to end things.

The Horror. The Horror.

Remember this compilation-if at all-not as lost

Violent souls, but only

As the hollow songs of men

This is the way the Compilation ends

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3pEKT87bJjk5rRHc1SVyKM?si=0b6a12aff4924c33

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Unlucky number 13?

We hang on, hope against hope, that the programmers at Much will find someway to redeem us, not only for the cultural mess they made, but for giving David Draiman yet another platform to gurgle his necrophilic suicide fantasies into thine ear.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/52x9dvE4akb9DWh86ZHUub?si=5ea75d128b3d4064

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Do the programmers turn it around in these last three episodes? Will MuchMusic allow more than one slot for women on their compilation, considering it's 2007?

Is Finger Eleven's 'Paralyzer' the Necronomicon of music?

All answers lay waiting for you within, but tread carefully lest you awaken Mariana's Trench, or something...

Listen along on our spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47qitvhiiuKaMVZ22i4whF?si=4e2fe8ef44244e85

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Listen along on the Spotify playlist Big Shiny Podcast BSP 11 (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7LGhbfzrxjz8wZHn633Gl9?si=7227d06e5dd94a40)

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One of the worst songs of all time happens to appear on this compilation. Shouldn't be hard to guess which.

Listen along on the Spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7obCCdsUSvGvMMAcAvqdRc?si=14f1a6e78db4493b

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A not completely awful Tea Party song? What is going on here?!

Huge Thanks to Frankie Muniz for filling in for Jordan during the Intros and Outros this week.

Here's the playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hWTbhhKxf2eofcJ3cbl7u

Weirdly, the Tea Party song isn't on there (the whole album is missing from Spotify) so here's the video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSQ3U7UAsW0

And less surprisingly, Pilate (Pilot Speed) isn't on there either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUj9EUopQ2o

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This episode we got Sam Roberts, Theory of a Deadman, Nickleback, Trapt, All-American Rejects and the transcendentally awful fusion of Reggae and Nu-Metal courtesy of Newmarket, Ontario's finest: The Salads.

How did things ever get this bad? Is this actually for real?

Why does it seem like the compilation is mocking you, the listener, who dared to listen to it?

We uncover all that...and more!

Sincerely,

Big Shiny Podcast

P.S. We are definitely not a PsyOp and definitely not promoting Salvia usage

As always, listen along to the spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3LBFTx6GSgzPbVmOHucNtH?si=b008f6c25ddc4df1

Except for the horrendous The Salads song, in glorious 240p (the only version the world hasn't erased) which is right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczX_HNaR84&ab_channel=mgmtrust

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We get Deep into The DANKO/JRC Beef. Whatta beef it was.

The Lovercall, Babies!

Here's the playlist for you dirty wizards/witches: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6BTZskFkhR9J1YZ8CGs8Tc?si=70e8cf334bf2478e

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Same goes for this edition of Big Shiny Tunes! Epically ridiculous! One amazing song, a couple good ones, and a bonafide bouquet of jaw-droppingly terrible songs. So horrible it’s hilarious! 

Kid Rock Auto-Tune? - Check

Jeff Martin going Full-Orchestra Goth? Check

David Usher ripping off Oasis? Check

Fred Durst winning everything in life but still being a whine-gorilla? Check and CHECK.

Good thing we all learned our lessons 20 years later and have deescalated war, cleaned up our planet and figured out how to not make bad song anymore.

Listen along with this Spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4uamqsRtLRT6hG1IFCbmwf?si=6vGGMrp6TMyDw2s1Ug6www

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The vibe: Toxic Masculinity

A lot of ground is covered in this episode of Big Shiny Podcast as we discuss the ominous stirrings of the music industry and MuchMusic's decision to pander to bummed out dudes.

Whether it's the proto-incel whinings of J. Englisman or Wheatus, the post-heroin yawns of STP or RHCP, the Jingoist anthems of 3 Doors Down, or the Joe Rogan Gorilla-Vibes of Limp Bizkit and Disturbed - one question keeps getting asked over and over again: Why?

Listen along to the album on this spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5E49isDhiknEekM8UvKbv2?si=c200a814311a47f7 (if you don't have hyperlinks in your app just look for Big Shiny Tunes 5 in Spotify and it'll come up

The only missing song is track 17. More by J. Englishman but you can watch the music video for it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcb6kZN4h5E

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Some people said Y2K was bigger than The Beatles!

Remember when Prince thought this year was gonna be a party, though? Well, for the most part, the artists in this compilation are the ones who didn't get invited to the funtime rager because: they were banned for being jerks, or hated people too much, or were gonna go but decided they'd rather brood sipping absinthe instead (we're looking at you Jeff Martin!).

This is the moment in the compilation series when you realize that your parachute failed you - the ever faithful listener - and you begin your 10 year long descent toward the cold unforgiving end.

The new attitude at Much Headquarters as the century drew to a close: cynical, entitled, whiny and 99% Male. Why? Because apparently the good folk at MuchMusic saw a lot of money in it or something? That's what we're trying to figure out.

There are still a few bonafide jams on here however - and, as always, Chris and Jordan will help guide you through the many lows with some jokes and tokes.

You can listen along to the songs that appeared on the compilation here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/698SSL8TbW0lcNMOTqQAlv

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This interview starts at the beginning of his career in the music industry when he was 17 years old and rides through the years and hilariously strange vistas of being in arguably one of Canada's biggest 90's bands.

In this interview, Jeremy talked to us about Woodstock 99, Fred Durst, auditions, Eugene Levy, the Industry, getting Banged Up at the MuchMusic Video Awards, bad shows, getting recognized in Eaton's and MUCH more!

Subscribe to our Patreon if you want to hear the unedited version of this interview with over 22 more minutes of material: https://www.patreon.com/bigshinypodcast

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Ok, admittedly these aren't all Rob Zombie level Bangers and the compilation is tired of sticking to a strictly "alt-rock" format, which isn't necessarily a bad thing - so consider the third volume more like The Godfather III of the Big Shiny Tunes Series: tired, questionable but not without its over-the-top Pacino moments.

That might not be the best analogy, but we're just gonna roll with it and immortalize it in writing here - because that was the style in 1998. Tired of being pigeonholed as a guitar band? Put some trip-hop beats underneath, shave your head and pray to the Spacelords.

Listen along with our Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7H9HunUhcgHrxIhD4DDNn8

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This episode is a bountiful cornucopia of awkward douche-chills and 90's cringe.

Listen along with our Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4HlI9pj52GxWkRUYVkk2R8?si=08f3833e738c40a6

For some reason Spotify doesn't have Wide Mouth Mason's My Old Self so here it is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9hFKtsn-0s

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We go back to the year 1996 and discover how 90's the mid-90's really was! We're talking Kiedis in his glorious prime, folks. This was the year that gave us N64, Operation Desert Strike and France's last Nuclear Test (testing the radiation levels of the controversial "super baguette") - oh yeah: and also and a bunch of questionable music courtesy of Canada's version of MTV.

Listen to all the songs (except Ophelia which, for some reason, isn't on Spotify) on our Spotify playlist Big Shiny Podcast BST 1 Playlist

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