X: A Deep Dive takes an in-depth trip through the music of punk-rock legends X. Join Hollis for a deep dive into the recorded legacy of X, one of the greatest bands this country ever produced, from their critically acclaimed 1980 debut Los Angeles to last-year's surprise comeback-album Alphabetland.


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As promised, here are Hollis's Top 5 X Songs:

Nausea: (Somehow the band capture that drunk-about-to-pass-out feeling.)
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The World's A Mess, It's In My Kiss (The song that made me fall in love with X.)
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Blue Spark (Live on Jerry Lewis's MDA telethon. Yeah, you read that right!)
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Riding With Mary (Containing some of my favorite music, and directly dealing with the death of Exene's sister Mirielle, this song gets me every time.)

Burning House of Love (A late-era classic, proving X never lost their magic!)
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Here's Los Angeles off X's debut album. If any song could be called the band's theme song, it's this one:
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Here's the ultra-charming and super-lo-fi video for The New World:
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Here's the band live on David Letterman's old show, doing their cover of Breathless (originally made famous by Jerry Lee Lewis--and John Doe would later be in Great Balls of Fire, which is crazy!)
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Here's the stellar documentary X: The Unheard Music. Such a great time capsule!
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Here are the songs 4th of July & Suprise Surprise, from the LP See How We Are, because I want you to hear the best this alblum has to offer:
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Here's my deep cut off the underrated Ain't Love Grand: Around My Heart!
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Here's the band's cover of The Trogg's Wild Thing, which the 1989 film Major League would later make famous:
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00:00 Intro
01:43 Los Angeles
06:00 Wild Gift
10:26 Under The Big Black Sun
14:17 More Fun In The New World
16:19 Wild Thing
16:44 Ain't Love Grand
19:30 See How We Are
23:41 Hey Zeus!
26:19 Destroying Angels (John/Exene/Garbage single)
26:34 Alphabetland!
29:19 X The Unheard Music (documentary)
29:43 John Doe, Under The Big Black Sun (book)
29:59 Outro


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