Episode 53: Saliva's "Every Six Seconds", or How To Make the Perfect Album (For Us)

It's one of the longest episodes of the show ever, and how could it not be when we're discussing an album that so perfectly captures the strange gap period between nu-metal's brief dominance and butt rock's eventual takeover, Saliva's "Every Six Seconds". It's clear this was a band that was unashamedly shooting for the rafters of stadiums, going so far as to write a 90s alt-rock jangle-pop song in the middle of an album that also has "Click Click Boom" on it, a song clearly designed to be on movie soundtracks. A band that got famous by doing everything they could to become famous, we look at some of the more insane lyrics the genre has ever featured, we learn they got their start by coming second in a Grammys-sponsored nationwide battle of the bands (?), and it appears that if they had their way, they actually might've been a Christian band (???). Hey, it's just a secular world, man, and we're all living in it. If you want to live in our POD Kast world, you can head on over to patreon.com/thepodkast, where $4/month will get you THREE bonus episodes every single month! Last month, John's Blocked Party partner Stefan Heck returned to the show to discuss "Nightmare Revisited", a remixed version of the "Nightmare Before Christmas" OST that goes on far, far too long and includes far, far too many strange bands. We also have merch discounts, an exclusive Discord, AND you can tell us what to do for a bonus episode! So check it out and support the show today!