On the very first episode of 120 MONTHS, we’re kicking off a decade of amazing music by surveying the cultural landscape as the 80s ended and a new era began. Musically speaking, the 90s came screaming out of the gates, with albums released in January 1990 that offered a weird prophecy of what was to come, from the lo-fi production of Daniel Johnston’s 1990, to the bodily-obsessed humor of Ween’s GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, to the hyper-literate nerd rock of They Might Be Giants’ Flood, to the poetic acoustic tones of bands like Toad the Wet Sprocket and The Sundays. In the very first month of the 1990s, you could already hear some of the trends that would take over the mainstream in the months and years to come.
Listen to the January 1990 playlist:
