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MPS (MIXTAPE PRESERVATION SOCIETY HOUR 36)

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Ednaswap, a '90s underground pop group led by singer/songwriter Anne Preven, is the focus of this podcast. I think all of us who consider ourselves diehard music fan would concede that, at one time or another, we have had that awful feeling when a band or song you like suddenly becomes huge for all the wrong reasons. It's like when AFI (or whoever it was) covered Don Henley's "The Boys Of Summer". What did I ever do to them to make them hate me in such a manner that they desecrated such a great pop tune? I mean, other than hate and detest all that pop-punk to its rotten, putrid core, what exactly did I do? In the case of "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia, it's almost the inverse: an underrated song by a marginal cult band gets enormous thanks to her cover of said tune, and even though she kind of ruined it, she also did something no hipster record label or West Coast A&R guy could do for a group like Ednaswap: parlay the song into a massive po