Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1998. I've also got music from Built to Spill, Guillermo Sexo and Bill Janovitz.

Show notes:

• Recorded via Skype

• Check out Brian's comics podcast The Hour Cosmic

• Remember Blues Brothers 2000?

• Goo Goo Dolls went Hollywood

• Brian: QOTSA released its debut

• Rob Halford came out; first prominent metal dude to do so

• In retrospect, '80s heavy metal was steeped in gayness

• Bubbling under albums

• Jay: Fugazi, GVSB, RFTC

• Brian: Elliott Smith, The Catholics, Flin Flon, Tortoise, The Lounge Lizards

• Jay: Pearl Jam, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pulp, Beasties, Tragically Hip, Cat Power

• Brian's #5 album

• Hello Nasty is the last classic Beasties album

• Jay's #5 and Brian's #4

• Beck does a 180 from Odelay

• Later Beck material rehashes older sounds

• Jay's #4

• Afghan Whigs fully embrace soul and R&B

• Greg Dulli can do no wrong

• 1965 was the last Whigs album...until this year

• To be continued

Music:

Built to Spill - Jokerman

Guillermo Sexo - Color the Noise

Bill Janovitz - Matter Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!

The Built to Spill song is on the tribute album Bob Dylan in the '80s: Volume One on ATO Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at Stereogum.

The Guillermo Sexo song is a re-recording of an old track available for free at MobtownStudios.com.

The Bill Janovitz song is available for free download on Bandcamp.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.