1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,160 Welcome to the Album Nerds podcast with your hosts, Andy, Don, and Dude. 2 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,160 Hello everyone, it's the Album Nerds podcast. 3 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,200 Hey, I'm Dude. 4 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:21,560 I got Andy and Don with me. 5 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:22,800 Oh my gosh, did you hear that? 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,880 Neil Young just ran through the studio, man. 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:25,880 I know. 8 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,280 The Godfather of Grunge himself. 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:29,280 The Sultan of Swat. 10 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,440 Now that's another guy. 11 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:32,440 So Babe Ruth. 12 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:33,440 Yes, it is. 13 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,940 I watched Sandlot recently. 14 00:00:36,940 --> 00:00:39,000 Here we are, the Album Nerds. 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,000 As I said, I'm Dude. 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,120 Got Andy and Don with me. 17 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,120 How you fellas doing? 18 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:43,120 Doing pretty well, eh? 19 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:44,120 I'm sorry. 20 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:45,120 I don't know what you're talking about. 21 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,120 How about you, Don? 22 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:51,400 Just been craving some Reese peanut butter cups. 23 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:52,400 Did you guys know that? 24 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,480 There's no apostrophe S in Canadian Reese's peanut butter cups. 25 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:56,480 I didn't know. 26 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:57,480 No. 27 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:58,480 Why? 28 00:00:58,480 --> 00:00:59,480 I don't know. 29 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:00,480 Hoser says what? 30 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,000 No one fell for it. 31 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,480 All right, let's get to business. 32 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,680 We're the Album Nerds and this is the Album Nerds podcast. 33 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,000 We love music. 34 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,360 We love talking about albums and apparently we like hanging out with each other. 35 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,300 So today we're going to be talking about three albums, answering a question. 36 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:22,440 We'll then reflect on what we learned and then spin the wheel of musical destiny at 37 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,520 the end of the show to find out what kind of albums we'll talk about next time. 38 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,600 But this week it's all about Canada. 39 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,600 That's what I'm talking about. 40 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,600 Well, you guys might not know this, but Canada is a country in North America that borders 41 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:37,600 the United States. 42 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,160 It's the world's second largest country by area. 43 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,880 The list of Canadians who have made significant contributions to popular music is long. 44 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,760 Includes acts like Paul Anka, The Band, Joni Mitchell, Steppenwolf, Gordon Lightfoot, The 45 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:56,320 Guess Who, Leonard Cohen, Anne Murray, Brian Adams, Rush, Celine Dion, Tragically Hip, 46 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,600 Michael Buble and Drake. 47 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,960 Today each of us will present an album from a Canadian artist. 48 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:03,920 A message from the government of Canada. 49 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:04,920 Hola. 50 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:05,920 Isn't that Canadian? 51 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,720 Rock side of the border, buddy. 52 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:10,720 Yeah. 53 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:16,720 So I think sometimes you don't even know an artist is Canadian because we share so much 54 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,680 cultural DNA with our friends up North. 55 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:26,520 But there are those bands and I kind of went in a lot of obvious directions and with things 56 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,720 that I already like when I was exploring this past week. 57 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:35,400 Bachman Turner Overdrive, Rush listened to a bunch of their albums. 58 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,920 Moving Pictures was the closest. 59 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:42,400 But I figure maybe we'll get to them when we get into a prog rock week or something. 60 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,840 And in that context, it might be more interesting discussion. 61 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,800 But of course, I have favorite artists from Saskatchewan. 62 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,200 One Bad Son is like a hard rock band. 63 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,480 The Sheepdogs are a Southern rock band. 64 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,200 Yeah, there you go. 65 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,240 The Guess Who, the Tragically Hip who we've talked about before. 66 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,480 Anne Murray in the country space. 67 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,360 Joni Mitchell Blue and of course, a bunch of Gordon Lightfoot again. 68 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:09,640 So yeah, there's a lot of great music and artists that I think people may not even know 69 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:10,640 are Canadian. 70 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:11,640 So how'd you guys do? 71 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:16,800 Yeah, there's just a plethora of Canadian high quality music. 72 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,160 Yeah, lots of Rush for me. 73 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,000 Listen to The Weeknd's discography. 74 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,160 She's really developed a lot as an artist from when he started out. 75 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,400 Cowboy Junkies, I kind of forgot they were from Canada. 76 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,320 They have some good early records. 77 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:34,840 A country group by the name of Blue Rodeo, really cool record in the mid 90s called Five 78 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:35,840 Days in July. 79 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:37,640 I was impressed by that. 80 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,880 And something I never thought I would hear, there's a like 60s sounding rock group from 81 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:42,880 the 70s. 82 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:49,120 They're from the UK called Teenage Head and they put out a soft titled record in 1979 83 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:54,480 that is pretty delightful and unlike anything I would ever thought would come out of Canada. 84 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:55,480 So that was pretty cool. 85 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:56,480 How about you Don? 86 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:03,600 You know, had I not already done them in recent history, I would have maybe done Arcade Fire. 87 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,020 We covered that album I last year. 88 00:04:06,020 --> 00:04:09,920 We just did the band songs from Big Pink. 89 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,480 That's probably one of the great Canadian albums of all time. 90 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:19,800 I almost went with Leonard Cohen, the songs of Leonard Cohen, which was his debut. 91 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:25,880 Back when we did the Judy Collins album, I really was kind of ready to do Leonard Cohen. 92 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,920 But again, I went in a different direction. 93 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,280 You know, there's one I thought about too late to really explore. 94 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:40,340 The 47 Eastern Standard Time, EST, the debut album from Clatou. 95 00:04:40,340 --> 00:04:42,280 You guys ever hear about this from 1976? 96 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:43,280 No. 97 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:48,760 It was rumored at the time because it had some Beatles-esque psychedelia to be a hidden 98 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:53,720 Beatles album that they made after breaking up and changed their name and it's a Canadian 99 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,780 band called Clatou. 100 00:04:55,780 --> 00:04:59,200 So maybe we'll find occasion to get into that sometime. 101 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,440 It's a very interesting record. 102 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,360 I haven't listened to it in a while, but just figure I should throw that one out. 103 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,320 Andy reminded me when he said that something sounded like it was from the UK and I was 104 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,960 like, oh, the Beatles one, the Beatles one. 105 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:12,760 But that'd be a fun story to dig into. 106 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:13,880 But not today. 107 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,320 So why don't we talk about what we're talking about? 108 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,320 You choo-choo-choose me? 109 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:26,320 And what to say about this next band? 110 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,560 They're our neighbors to the north. 111 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:29,560 They're from Canada. 112 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:30,560 It's Broken Social Scene. 113 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:31,560 All right. 114 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,680 Let's get things started off here with some indie rock from Toronto, Canada. 115 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:42,200 We're talking about Broken Social Scene and their 2002 record You Forgot It in People. 116 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:58,320 Let's play a little bit of Stars and Sons. 117 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,360 Did you know that they have a big band? 118 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,840 Five of the members are clapists and they handle the clapping on that track. 119 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:07,320 Professional clappers. 120 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:08,320 Wow. 121 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,720 That's how they do it up in Canada. 122 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:11,720 All right. 123 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:17,800 So this is the second studio album for the ever expanding rock group from Toronto, as 124 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:18,800 I mentioned. 125 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:24,240 At the time of recording this record, they were at about 10 members or so, credited up 126 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,520 to 15 on this record specifically. 127 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:32,080 They started out as just a duo, Kevin Drew and Jarenan Canning. 128 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,320 The first record is a very ambient instrumental record. 129 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,760 Pretty chill in comparison to this record, which is also chill, but in a different way. 130 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:46,120 You Forgot It in People won Alternative Album of the Year and the Juno Awards in 2003. 131 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,120 Yeah. 132 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,840 My three words to describe this record are dress in layers. 133 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:55,240 Obviously, when you get 10 people together, they make a lot of different sounds and they're 134 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:59,200 all kind of mish-mashed or layered together on this record. 135 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,480 I would describe it as a fairly eclectic sound. 136 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,280 At times it's kind of like mumbly. 137 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:08,200 At other times it's kind of anthemic and there's a lot of space in between. 138 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:12,440 I found this record pretty interesting when it came out and coming back to it, I was surprised 139 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:13,440 how much it stuck with me. 140 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,880 I think my biggest criticism of You Forgot It in People is just the general production 141 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,000 style is like super thin. 142 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,200 It doesn't really sound like a big group to me. 143 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,240 It sounds almost like it was recorded in someone's bedroom, even though it'd be a very crowded 144 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,240 bedroom. 145 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:29,240 Yeah, it would be. 146 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,080 I kind of like that it sounds like a small band. 147 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:37,440 It's hard to describe, but I kind of like how it feels like a group of five, but it's 148 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,240 like how the hell would five people do this? 149 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:40,240 Right. 150 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:41,240 Yeah. 151 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:46,440 I think there's moments where it feels very intimate, especially the topics they discuss 152 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,040 are a little more intimate than you might expect with a big group. 153 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,840 I think part of that is just the Canadian music itself, for me, always feels a little 154 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:55,320 more intimate than American music. 155 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,480 I don't know, it's just going to be they're colder and have to huddle closer together, 156 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,640 so they're a little bit more up on the microphone. 157 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,120 I don't know, I played on the cap from the record. 158 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,520 This is a little bit of Pacific. 159 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:24,560 Surprise, surprise, Robert Smith makes an appearance on the Broken Social Scene record. 160 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:30,480 Yeah, that little clip there could be from 50 different albums I own from previous artists. 161 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,600 A little guitar riff. 162 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,640 Yeah, I'm just a sucker for that kind of sound. 163 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:43,280 Yeah, so that song, Pacific Theme is an instrumental, which as you heard there, just kind of has 164 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:48,640 a lot of those post-punk sounds and of course that melodic bass that I like. 165 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:54,920 But they throw in some horns to give it kind of a different feel, which I appreciate. 166 00:08:54,920 --> 00:09:00,560 The three words I chose to describe the album are ambient rock ambivalence. 167 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:07,080 I actually went back and listened to their first album, which was more like an ambient 168 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,840 sort of approach. 169 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:15,040 And then in this album, it was kind of more of a traditional rock sound, but I think they 170 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:19,640 are sort of blending those two approaches together. 171 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,600 That's a space in music that I like a lot. 172 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:28,560 The rock that I like is often very ambient or atmospheric and dreamy. 173 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:31,200 And they do a really good job with that. 174 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:37,400 There's sort of that early 2000s where you had bands like The National and Interpol that 175 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,960 were kind of working in that space as well. 176 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,000 So it was actually a pretty good time for this sound. 177 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,480 And I guess you guys hinted at it before. 178 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:52,720 It is so eclectic and it's kind of seemingly unfocused, but somehow it does sort of play 179 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:54,560 as one record. 180 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:58,360 And that's a pretty good accomplishment, I think, because you have different voices on 181 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,360 there. 182 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,880 But somehow there's something tying the whole record together, which I think is impressive. 183 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:13,520 Well, also, during my research, there is a following of this band, like people who just 184 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,960 find life's meaning from their records. 185 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:23,440 And whenever a band is able to do that, regardless of what scale they are in terms of popularity, 186 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:28,880 how many fans, it's still pretty awesome when a group of artists is able to capture hearts 187 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:29,880 and minds so much. 188 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:30,880 Yeah. 189 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:35,200 That's one thing I think we're kind of sheltered from, just how popular some of these artists 190 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,200 are in Canada. 191 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:41,960 You think about Tragically Hip or something like that, kind of popular in the US. 192 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,760 Huge rock stars in Canada, you know? 193 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:45,920 And similar with these guys. 194 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:50,680 You may have heard them on college radio, but very big name up in Toronto. 195 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:55,440 It's not that far away, but there's a big cultural divide with some of these artists, 196 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:56,440 unfortunately. 197 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,680 Why don't we play another cut from the record? 198 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:14,120 This is a little bit of Cause Equals Time. 199 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,360 So Cause Equals Time, I really dug that track. 200 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:23,880 It did remind me a ton of Jay Mascis, Dinosaur Jr. 201 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:31,080 That lo-fi sound, the way that they're using the vocals, the harmonies just really had 202 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:32,780 that same kind of effect on me. 203 00:11:32,780 --> 00:11:35,760 And that's one of the things that sucked me in to this record. 204 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:41,560 The song was written by members of Broken Social Scene, Kevin and Brandon, largely indie 205 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:43,480 rock, post rock, chamber pop. 206 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:44,640 Good energy in the song. 207 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:46,440 The guitar riffs are cool. 208 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:51,500 Many of their songs touch on the themes of love, complexities of relationships, but those 209 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:56,120 harmonies really do, and the layered instrumentals really do kind of set the scene of what they 210 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:57,560 do best. 211 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:02,480 It's supposedly a play on words, the title, juxtaposing the concept of causality with 212 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,880 the passage of time. 213 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,480 See, that's why they have a cult following, because they're all thinky, you know what 214 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:08,480 I mean? 215 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,240 These equations and stuff. 216 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:17,960 So the three words I used to describe this album are broken music scene, feel like the 217 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,160 scene at the time was breaking down. 218 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:28,500 This was the tail end of like new metal and the tail end of really alt rock and rock being 219 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:31,880 the king of the jungle in terms of popularity. 220 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:40,180 And so they were able to take these 15 people and while being informed by the sounds before 221 00:12:40,180 --> 00:12:47,120 them of Dinosaur Jr, U2, like in that spit song, there's definitely a very zu ropa-ish 222 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:48,840 vibe from what it's called. 223 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,560 Yeah, love her spit. 224 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:56,440 And that echoey guitar sound, that janglier, kind of like the edge, you know? 225 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:03,220 But then the swelling instrumentals and all of that, the no choruses. 226 00:13:03,220 --> 00:13:04,880 Apparently that was not on purpose. 227 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,400 It's just the way the songs came together, but it's really just bridges and verses. 228 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,240 There are not choruses in these songs. 229 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:17,840 And so I think they took a broken music scene and found a way to kind of cobble together 230 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,040 the pieces and make something pretty awesome. 231 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,280 That's a good way to put it in, man. 232 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:23,280 I know. 233 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:24,280 I mean, thank you. 234 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,280 I actually thought about this a little bit. 235 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:28,280 I appreciate that. 236 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:29,280 That's what I do. 237 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:30,280 All right. 238 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,440 Well, that was a broken social scene. 239 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:33,440 You forgot it. 240 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:40,120 They are still together, ever expanding, probably up to about 30 people now up in Toronto. 241 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,600 But yeah, they're still active. 242 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,840 The entire city is now just broke with social media. 243 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,480 No, but they're still putting out music, still doing their thing. 244 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:51,840 So yeah, definitely check them out. 245 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:57,640 If you're not familiar, You Forgot It in People is available on all the usual streaming platforms. 246 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:58,640 I'm good enough. 247 00:13:58,640 --> 00:13:59,720 I'm smart enough. 248 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:01,560 And doggone it, people like me. 249 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:06,640 If you're enjoying the show and we hope you are, do us a solid and leave a review on Apple 250 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,400 podcasts or your favorite podcast app. 251 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,720 Maybe we made you laugh or you discovered an album you enjoy. 252 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:17,760 Leaving a review keeps the show going and helps other music fans find out about us. 253 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,760 It's your boy, Neil. 254 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:27,120 I think I'll pack it in by a pickup. 255 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:33,800 I think the whole time we should all talk like this. 256 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:40,120 Your speaking voice isn't really as nasal as that. 257 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,240 No, he's got a pretty low voice. 258 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:47,720 So my pick for an artist from Canada is Mr. Neil Young. 259 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,640 I actually think he has one of those like Canadian night ships. 260 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,960 I don't know if they're called SIRS or whatever, or COs or something. 261 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:59,120 So this is Neil Young's 1972 album, Harvest. 262 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:14,480 And here's the big number one hit from that album, Heart of Gold. 263 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,800 Heart of Gold features backing vocals from Linda Ronstadt. 264 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,800 Oh boy, here we go. 265 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:21,800 And James Taylor. 266 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:28,560 I think Linda needs to take out some kind of protective order, man. 267 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,320 I think you are obsessed. 268 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:36,960 So Heart of Gold is one of several more acoustic tracks on the album. 269 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:42,000 And of course, that song and a couple others feature harmonica from Neil. 270 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:47,560 This track, along with I believe the title track, and A Man Needs a Maid are supposedly 271 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:52,240 inspired by his love for the actress Carrie Snodgrass. 272 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:58,080 The three words I chose to describe Harvest are from Hank to Hendrix. 273 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:03,020 So many years later, he kind of did like a sequel to this album called Harvest Moon. 274 00:16:03,020 --> 00:16:05,960 And there's a song on it called From Hank to Hendrix. 275 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:11,480 But I chose those words just because I think Neil comes from both of those places. 276 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,160 So this album is kind of part Hank Williams. 277 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:20,120 But there's also maybe a little bit of that rock inside, the Hendrix side later in the 278 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:21,180 album. 279 00:16:21,180 --> 00:16:27,000 So this is the fourth studio album by Neil Percival Young, born in Toronto, Ontario in 280 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,520 1945. 281 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,520 Certainly one of his more accessible works. 282 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:36,080 If you go through his catalog, there's a lot of weird stuff in there. 283 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,960 Some loud, some quiet, some electronic stuff. 284 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:40,100 It gets weird. 285 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:45,840 Even after this album, I think the success of it drove him into a little bit of a, okay, 286 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:52,080 I'm going to be a freaking weirdo to sort of try and get people to keep their distance. 287 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:57,480 You know, in the 80s, he was actually sued by Geffen Records for making records that 288 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:58,880 were not Neil Young-ish. 289 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:04,720 Although there was that album, Trans, I think it was called. 290 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,520 Yeah, that's the one. 291 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,600 Anyway, well, let's hear another one. 292 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:23,640 This is a song called Alabama. 293 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:31,360 So Alabama is pretty obviously inspired by the state of Alabama here in the US of A, 294 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:32,660 the lower 48. 295 00:17:32,660 --> 00:17:37,520 It was really the racial tensions, political climate in the Southern United States in the 296 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,760 late 60s, early 70s. 297 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:46,560 And Young had on his previous album after the Gold Rush had the song Southern Man. 298 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:53,320 Between Southern Man and Alabama, that's the inspiration for Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home 299 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:54,320 Alabama. 300 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:55,320 And it's both of those songs. 301 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:59,760 And we talked about the Lynyrd Skynyrd album a while back and talked about this little 302 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,280 controversy with them calling out his name. 303 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:04,640 His intentions were good. 304 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:10,200 He was saying, hey, Alabama, you've got the entire country behind you. 305 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:11,400 Just do the right thing. 306 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:19,220 But in his book, Waging Heavy Peace, he later, Neil Young acknowledged that he deserved the 307 00:18:19,220 --> 00:18:24,840 reaction from Lynyrd Skynyrd and said that he doesn't like the words he used when he 308 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:30,160 hears it back, that they're accusatory and condescending and not fully thought out and 309 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,560 easy to misconstrue. 310 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:38,280 And I really love that he wishes he had done better. 311 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:39,940 And I appreciate that. 312 00:18:39,940 --> 00:18:42,120 But I like the sound of the song. 313 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:49,880 It's got sort of post-hair band grunge period, why sometimes he's called the Godfather of 314 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:50,880 grunge. 315 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:55,000 You can hear that crunchy guitar in there. 316 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:01,520 So Neil had the backing band, a country backing band that he called the Stray Gators. 317 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:07,400 And basically, it's a country rock record, but you hear banjo, you hear slide. 318 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:13,480 It does have Nashville tones to it, but the songs that are harder rocking tracks blend 319 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,420 somehow seamlessly. 320 00:19:15,420 --> 00:19:17,840 It somehow all fits together. 321 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:22,820 He manages to draw all these songs together where you have these harder rocking tracks. 322 00:19:22,820 --> 00:19:28,280 But still, I think what was smart about it is the song itself is about Southern stuff. 323 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,800 So it all does piece together. 324 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:37,160 And a lot of this album is about loneliness and relationships and wanting to be alone, 325 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,000 but not wanting to be alone. 326 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,800 The three words I used to describe this album are songs of gold. 327 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:50,240 And I think I kind of already shot my shot on that by my previous statements. 328 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,880 But I mean, these are some of his best songs. 329 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:59,720 He was at the peak of his Neil youngness that made the brand of who he is as a solo artist. 330 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,200 And it's a great record. 331 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,640 I mean, you got songs. 332 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,440 It's tough because we want to talk about all of them here. 333 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:14,600 But you got super impactful songs like Old Man, which is a story about him buying this 334 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,200 ranch in California and the old man that's the caretaker, The Needle in the Damage Done 335 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,460 recorded live at a college concert. 336 00:20:22,460 --> 00:20:25,280 So there's just like incredible songs. 337 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:26,460 And I love Neil Young. 338 00:20:26,460 --> 00:20:29,440 The weird stuff, the classic stuff, it's all good to me. 339 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,360 Well, let's let's hear another one. 340 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:34,200 Here's A Man Needs a Maid. 341 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:55,600 I was particularly struck by that track listening back to this record this time through it's 342 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:00,080 the London Symphony Orchestra there accompanying Mr. Young. 343 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,800 Nothing says country like the London Symphony Orchestra. 344 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,360 That is true. 345 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:05,360 Right? 346 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:10,160 It's kind of a weird combination of things, but I think it works fairly well. 347 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,640 There's a couple of records on here that have the orchestra or a couple of tracks on here. 348 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:18,320 Yeah, my three words describe this record are Thanksgiving at Neil's, and you have the 349 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,800 big harvest, get all the food together, come on over for a big meal. 350 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,400 Do they do Thanksgiving in Canada? 351 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,840 All right, don't get caught up in the details though. 352 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,160 Well, they do. 353 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:28,160 They have, yes, they do. 354 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:29,160 They have their own Thanksgiving. 355 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:30,160 Do they? 356 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:31,160 Yeah, something else. 357 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,120 They just call it Thanksgiving, by the way. 358 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:34,120 Sorry. 359 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:35,120 Do they celebrate at the same time? 360 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:37,680 No, it's in October. 361 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:44,480 This feels like a big cornucopia of different styles of Neil's career to this point of harvest. 362 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:49,440 Ah, I get it now. 363 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:54,560 It's that horn thing that looks like a giant bugle cracker and there's fruit and stuff 364 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:55,560 in it. 365 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:56,960 It might be a centerpiece at a Thanksgiving dinner. 366 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,640 Yes, I get it. 367 00:21:58,640 --> 00:21:59,640 Both Thanksgivings. 368 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,040 Yes, both countries use cornucopias. 369 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,040 Yeah. 370 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,040 All right. 371 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,280 Yeah, as diverse as this record is, I think each of these styles and each song really 372 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:14,680 does sound fully realized and kind of, to me, almost feels like its own mini album at 373 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,240 times, like going through each track. 374 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:21,240 It has such a big arc to each song and I feel like it's kind of doing this together almost 375 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,800 listening to this album, especially like Every Man Needs a Maid, just a strange message. 376 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,840 He was probably right, I guess. 377 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,720 On one hand, it feels kind of like a sexist thing to say, like, you know, is your wife 378 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:36,480 essentially just a maid or are you just a big baby you can't clean up after yourself? 379 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:43,200 My interpretation was that he wants none of the complication of a relationship but doesn't 380 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,200 want to be alone. 381 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,200 So if there was someone around... 382 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:47,200 Right, in between. 383 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:48,200 Yeah. 384 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,200 No, I think you're right. 385 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,440 I think that's what I got out of it eventually too, was like he just doesn't want to deal 386 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,960 with the heartbreak anymore but he acknowledges he has some shortcomings on his own. 387 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:56,480 Yeah, I mean, how bad could it have been? 388 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,960 He was 25 or something at this time, 26 when the album came out. 389 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:02,960 It's like, dude, come on. 390 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:08,240 Yeah, I mean, any record that's just as diverse as this record, I think, you know, maybe can 391 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,800 suffer from just some unevenness in terms of the pacing and the flow of it. 392 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,400 I think this record, for me at least, does kind of feel a little bit up and down and 393 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,840 it's hard to tell when it's beginning and ending. 394 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:23,560 But still, the strength of all the individual songs, I think, is so high that kind of smooth 395 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:24,560 things over. 396 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,720 Yeah, I mean, let's talk about his voice for a moment. 397 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,760 It's definitely unique. 398 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:37,280 I think it's maybe even at its most fragile in terms of or most nasally on this record 399 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,280 at times. 400 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,040 I think that's the weakest aspect of his career personally. 401 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,680 I don't know, you guys like his voice? 402 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,240 Oh my God, you're one of those guys. 403 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,560 Do you sing along in that fashion or do you sing in a normal voice? 404 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:51,560 It depends. 405 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,600 I mean, I try to because I love it. 406 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:56,600 You love it? 407 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,360 Well, that's what makes him him. 408 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:05,840 It carries emotion in a way that I don't think he could if he wasn't letting it go there, 409 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:10,360 letting it crack, letting it soar and sputter. 410 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,640 That's what's great about it. 411 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:12,640 Yeah, it feels very authentic. 412 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,640 It's gutsy. 413 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:14,640 Yeah, gutsy, totally. 414 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,640 I wouldn't say he has a traditionally good singing voice, but I mean, it's- 415 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,640 No, he's no Bob Dylan. 416 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,640 Perfect example. 417 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,720 Sometimes it doesn't matter as long as he has something good to say. 418 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:31,280 All right, well, I tend to know that something is Einhoff worthy. 419 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,800 When I find myself wishing we could cover more of the songs, because we didn't talk 420 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,860 about Harvest, we didn't talk about Out for the Weekend. 421 00:24:38,860 --> 00:24:45,280 So I'm going to nominate Neil Young Harvest for the Album Nerds Hall of Fame. 422 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:49,440 All right, what do you guys think? 423 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:50,440 I'm in, eh? 424 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:51,440 Totally. 425 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:57,280 I mean, there's a chunk of his albums that could, in my opinion, go Album Nerds Hall 426 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:02,400 of Fame, and this one is the top of the mountain for me. 427 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,600 I think it's his best. 428 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:04,600 It's his most complete. 429 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,640 It's diverse with all those strings and stuff. 430 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,300 It's like, what is this doing here? 431 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:10,300 But it works. 432 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:11,300 So absolutely. 433 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:15,760 There's actually a, I feel like every list I saw of the greatest Canadian albums of all 434 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,720 time, this was number one or number two. 435 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,720 Probably behind Rush. 436 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:21,720 Yeah. 437 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,120 Yeah, I'm on board with this one too. 438 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:29,640 I'm glad you nominated it, because I think we would have had to if you didn't. 439 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:30,640 Okay. 440 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:39,360 So, congratulations to Mr. Neil Young with your 1972 album, Harvest. 441 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:40,360 Excuse me. 442 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:44,160 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 443 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:45,720 Okay. 444 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,040 Time for our highest rated moment on the show. 445 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,320 The algorithm loves it, man. 446 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,120 This is when people turn up their speakers. 447 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:53,120 Right. 448 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:57,540 So we're going to ask ourselves a question about our neighbors to the north. 449 00:25:57,540 --> 00:26:01,920 Why do you most often visit Canada? 450 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,680 For me, I feel like we usually go over for entertainment. 451 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,400 They get a lot of bigger acts up in Toronto. 452 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,200 For me, at least it's closer than New York City. 453 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:16,560 So typically for that, I used to go over a lot growing up because you could drink there 454 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,040 at a younger age. 455 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,440 Plus their dollar and two dollars are coins. 456 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:26,120 So the Looney's and Toonies always were just nice to have a couple of those rattling in 457 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:27,120 your pocket. 458 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:28,120 The Looney's, yes. 459 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:34,160 And yeah, the exchange rate, good for shopping, I guess some would say. 460 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,120 There was a time when the beer was stronger too. 461 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:37,360 I don't think that's true. 462 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:41,520 Oh yeah, the Canadian XXX, the Molson Canadian XXX. 463 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,520 Oh yeah, XXX, yeah. 464 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,120 So yeah, I mean everything's just a little different in Canada. 465 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:49,880 Very similar but just the small differences. 466 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:54,000 So for me, Canada is known for many things. 467 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,840 One of the biggest things it's known for is fake girlfriends. 468 00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:58,840 When have you ever gotten laid? 469 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,880 I've laid lots of times. 470 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:01,880 Name one. 471 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,880 She lives in Canada. 472 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:09,600 That was something in high school that was pretty common because where I was living at 473 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,760 the time wasn't too far from Canada and you hear that one every once in a while and that's 474 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:15,760 a classic. 475 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:16,760 She lives in Canada. 476 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,920 The old fake girlfriends. 477 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:25,200 One trip I made to Canada with some friends in college was specifically to hunt down five 478 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,200 pin bowling. 479 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,200 You guys familiar? 480 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,520 Is that the one with like the little balls and the little pins? 481 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,680 Yeah, it's called candlestick bowling I think too. 482 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:39,120 So the pins are on strings and it's these small, they're like bigger than bocce balls 483 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:41,960 and there's no holes in them and I think you get to throw three times. 484 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:47,320 So we went over the border, we asked around and people were super polite and helpful and 485 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:52,040 there was some mall with a bowling alley in the basement I think in Toronto and a dude 486 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,240 led us, got in his car and led us to it. 487 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,280 It was really nice of him. 488 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:04,080 We did some five pin bowling and got treated like royalty up there in Canada. 489 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,160 Yeah, as Andy said, it's usually for entertainment. 490 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:13,840 So a lot of the artists that I like do not come to these medium sized cities around where 491 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,440 I live. 492 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,280 So often I have to make the trek to Toronto. 493 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:26,160 Yeah, one thing I just remembered, I haven't done this but my dad used to work for this 494 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,800 really rich guy and so one time when my dad had a business trip in Canada, he ended up 495 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:36,680 having to smuggle in for his boss some Cuban cigars because they don't have the trade embargo 496 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:37,840 with Cuba. 497 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:43,000 So yeah, you go for the Cuban cigars and then you got to sneak them under the seat or something. 498 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,600 I can't get away with that these days. 499 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,960 Yeah, they're brutal at the border man. 500 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,760 Come back into the US's. 501 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,600 All right, so why do you go to Canada? 502 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,540 Hit us up on the socials. 503 00:28:55,540 --> 00:29:05,280 Check out our discord album nerds.com slash discord. 504 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:06,840 Gotta go watch strange brew y'all. 505 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:14,480 All right, so my pick is very Canadian loves the prairies of Canada loves his country sings 506 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:20,080 about it a lot, which is part of what drew me to this particular album of his talking 507 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,440 about culture wall. 508 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,280 The album is songs of the planes from 2018. 509 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:37,640 Let's start off with the opening track plane to see planes. 510 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:49,760 They just like lives in your chest when when he's singing. 511 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,280 The guy's not even 30 years old. 512 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,280 I know. 513 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,880 He's like late 20s. 514 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,440 It's pretty amazing anomaly. 515 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,360 Yeah. 516 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:09,840 So culture wall born in 1995 raised in swift current Saskatchewan and country singer songwriter. 517 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:15,120 I love the country music scene up in Canada is very rootsy. 518 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,440 And I think people don't think about it too much. 519 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:28,280 Like Hank Snow and Wilf Carter, who was known as Montana slim down here in America in the 520 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,880 I believe he was in the 50s and 60s. 521 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:38,400 But a lot of these artists have been inspirations not only culture wall but to roots country 522 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,720 music here in America as well. 523 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:47,280 One of the interesting things about culture is not only his baritone voice and all the 524 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:53,000 awesome storytelling and love and loss that he really resonates in his songs and with 525 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,920 his audiences. 526 00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:02,160 His father was like the premier of Saskatchewan for years politician governor I think right 527 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,520 of province. 528 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,840 Yes, exactly. 529 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:10,940 And so he's from a small town of I think something like 15,000 people. 530 00:31:10,940 --> 00:31:16,920 But I think his father's love for country and for the planes and for where they live, 531 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,400 which is adjacent to Montana, it's above Montana. 532 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:26,520 I think that is part of what has informed his love of his home. 533 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:27,520 It's pretty cool. 534 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,240 When I first read that his dad was like some politician, I'm like, so how come he's so 535 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:32,240 cowboyish? 536 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,840 Okay, we're talking about politician in a very rural area. 537 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,600 Everybody's a cowboy. 538 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:46,400 The three words I used to describe this album are sitting by the fire. 539 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:52,000 His love of the Canadian prairies and his home is so poignantly expressed here, but 540 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,880 it feels like a night after a day of herding cattle and you're sitting by the fire and 541 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:03,160 he's noodling at the guitar and singing songs about the land that you work and love. 542 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,520 It really resonates. 543 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:10,680 Not surprisingly, that song was featured on Yellowstone, which their culture down there 544 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:11,680 is very similar. 545 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,780 Their love of the land, wanting to preserve their lifestyle and the way that they've done 546 00:32:15,780 --> 00:32:17,480 things for decades. 547 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,600 You're on a roll with these Yellowstone artists. 548 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:20,600 No kidding. 549 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:21,600 I know. 550 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,160 Well, I watched the show and then it's like, hey, culture walls on. 551 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,480 I was more into the show because I'm like, okay, they know what they're doing with the 552 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,480 music that they're playing. 553 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,480 All right, so why don't we listen to another song? 554 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,480 This one is Wild Dogs. 555 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:45,800 It was the first blood and we tasted together. 556 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,800 We were wild dogs. 557 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:51,800 Wild dogs. 558 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:52,800 I love that. 559 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:53,800 Man, that guy is... 560 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,800 That's some heavy shit. 561 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,400 That little slide guitar there or pedal steel or whatever is awesome. 562 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,200 It actually sounds like a wild dog. 563 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:04,200 Yeah. 564 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,640 It works well on that track. 565 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,880 Yeah, I find this record to be very haunting. 566 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,000 My three words described it are echoes of the past. 567 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:17,880 Yeah, it feels almost like these are ghosts called back to life by Mr. Wild here to tell 568 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:22,880 their stories of growing up on the Canadian frontier. 569 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:28,160 And not also their individual stories, but it also ties back to just like we talked about 570 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,120 a couple of shows ago how country is very tied to its roots and its history. 571 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:37,720 You can hear a lot of Johnny Cash and Wily and Jennings on this record for sure. 572 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,600 I think my biggest criticism would be it's so sparse. 573 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,600 It's so minimal. 574 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,840 There's hardly any belishments or flourishes at all, I have to say, anywhere. 575 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,160 I'm sure that's completely intentional. 576 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,760 But if you look back on some of those Johnny Cash records, he has many sides to his sound 577 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:56,760 and personality. 578 00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,800 I'd be curious what Mr. Walls might sound like if he did a more traditional country 579 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:01,800 song. 580 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:02,800 I'm sure he'd still get curious. 581 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,400 Yeah, I'll expand out. 582 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,800 This album is produced by Dave Cobb, who did a good job with Chris Stapleton as well, but 583 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,680 definitely plays to the strengths. 584 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,440 And yes, they could have added a bunch of sounds, but some of the things they did add 585 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:23,080 were touches of like hearing a popping, crackling fire in the background during some of the 586 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:29,760 songs and things like that to bring you into this moment where all you need is the voice 587 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:35,640 and the words to be moved, especially if you're listening on headphones and you're just sitting 588 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,040 there and you're doing nothing else but paying attention. 589 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,120 And this album, his second full length. 590 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,760 When I got it, I wasn't as thrilled with it as the first one because the first one had 591 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,720 some more raggedy kind of sounds to it. 592 00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:49,840 But Coulter's voice is getting better. 593 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:55,480 He said that being out on the road, he's learning to sing and it's still that baritone, but 594 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,680 it's cleaner than it was before. 595 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,960 It sounds less forced and on this album, it really starts to come to life. 596 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,680 Yeah, I know his voice is something to behold. 597 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,720 It doesn't really sound like he's imitating anyone necessarily, but you can definitely 598 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:10,000 hear some similarities. 599 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:16,360 But the way he pronounces things and the way they just kind of like drip out of his throat 600 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:21,520 in a way, it feels like it's just kind of sliding out of him. 601 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:22,520 It's cool. 602 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:38,960 Why don't we check out a little bit of Tying Knots in the Devil's Tale. 603 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:44,720 So Tying Knots in the Devil's Tale is actually a song that goes back at least 100 years. 604 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:49,440 It was actually written by somebody known as a cowboy poet, Gale Gardner. 605 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:55,480 And this song also features vocals by a Cor Blund and Blake Berglund. 606 00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:00,800 But most of the songs on the album are Wall originals. 607 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,120 But yeah, but this one, it kind of stood out to me, maybe just because it had a little 608 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,360 more tempo to it. 609 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:12,800 But it also has that sort of the Johnny Cash kind of train sound, the clickety-dick. 610 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:13,800 You know? 611 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,840 The kind of like skiffle. 612 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,840 Yeah. 613 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,800 It's got that shuffly sound to it. 614 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:23,880 So the three words I chose to describe this album are actually similar to what Andy said. 615 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,480 I said ghost of outlaws past. 616 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:35,960 So again, it's Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson all brought into modern 617 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:36,960 times. 618 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:42,320 The more I think about it, it really does remind me, as you guys were talking about 619 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:47,960 the sort of the production of it and the sparseness of it, a couple of those American recordings 620 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:54,800 that Cash did with Rick Rubin have a similar sort of haunting feel because of the space 621 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,880 and the sparseness of it. 622 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:03,000 It's really cool that you have artists like this still carrying on the legacy of some 623 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,560 of these country roots. 624 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:10,800 A couple of weeks ago, we did the Billy Strings that is still celebrating bluegrass. 625 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,960 And here you have Wall doing these sort of outlaw sounds. 626 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,680 I mean, I'm always a bit torn with stuff that is just about the past. 627 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,280 And I'm always asking myself, how do we move forward from here? 628 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:25,760 Is any new ground being broken? 629 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:26,920 I don't know. 630 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,440 For some reason, I don't really think that way with this record. 631 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:37,240 I guess maybe there's just enough compelling songwriting and storytelling going on that 632 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:38,640 it just is what it is. 633 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:45,880 And I guess good songs are good songs, whether they're breaking ground or, you know, really 634 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,720 rehashing the past. 635 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:48,720 You're right. 636 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:49,720 This doesn't sound put on. 637 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:55,400 It doesn't sound like someone being a classic something act. 638 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,400 It's just what comes out. 639 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:05,180 But yeah, I mean, Wild Dill Hickok, The Trains Are Gone, Manitoba Man, those all have shades 640 00:38:05,180 --> 00:38:06,320 of the past in them. 641 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,120 But yeah, I just love this dude. 642 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,640 He's got a new album coming out. 643 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:10,640 I've already got it pre-ordered. 644 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:17,480 But yeah, I have his records on vinyl and that adds to the experience for me, especially 645 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,200 since the album covers do look a little old timey. 646 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,920 It adds to the growing legend that is Kulter Wall. 647 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,280 I was really surprised. 648 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,800 He's on Spotify where he shows the number of streams per song. 649 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,680 He's got like tens of millions of streams on each of these tracks. 650 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,720 He's doing pretty well for himself. 651 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:35,960 I thought he was kind of under the radar. 652 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,080 Maybe the Yellowstone exposure or something. 653 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,480 Oh, that could be. 654 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,080 Don, had you listened to Kulter Wall at all? 655 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:43,480 Had you heard of him, heard him? 656 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:44,480 Is this brand new? 657 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:45,480 Never. 658 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:46,480 Yeah, this is new. 659 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:47,480 Thank you. 660 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,480 Cool. 661 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:49,480 Go dig in. 662 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,480 All of you should. 663 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,920 So that was once again, Mr. Kulter Wall with Songs of the Planes. 664 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,920 Go check it out. 665 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,420 All right. 666 00:38:58,420 --> 00:39:05,560 So we took a trip up north and explored the various terrain. 667 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:06,560 What did we learn? 668 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:11,840 I mean, for me, let's just listen to like this large swath of Canadian artists. 669 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,520 This is totally stereotyping, but their music is like super chill, man. 670 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,520 Along with just the people up there are super chill as well. 671 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:23,000 I don't know if it's just the weather or what, but like very subdued in Canada. 672 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,600 Very calm, very contemplative. 673 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:26,600 I like that. 674 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:31,080 But in comparison to like US music, it sounds very distinct in my opinion. 675 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,080 Yeah. 676 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:37,760 I mean, I think there was more to sample than I expected. 677 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:42,920 I was surprised like what Andy was just saying and how there's just a slight different flavor 678 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:48,480 even when it's the song American Woman or hard rock stuff from Canada. 679 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:53,640 There's still something just a little different in the delivery or the sound or I don't know 680 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,680 what it is, but it is distinctive and I like that. 681 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:02,920 To being so close, you wouldn't expect to be able to hear it, but there is something 682 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:08,600 different in the way that the art is being delivered and I can't put my finger on it, 683 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,840 but I really love that. 684 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:16,600 I love being able to listen to something similar and accessible, but also makes me pay a little 685 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:17,600 bit more attention. 686 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,320 I had a similar experience when we did Australia. 687 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:21,320 Yeah. 688 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,680 It's still, it wasn't the same as English music, although it was very, very close, but 689 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:31,120 there's something about it that made it unique from American and English music. 690 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,840 We did neglect to do like a French Canadian act. 691 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,760 I don't know who the candidates would have been like Celine Dion. 692 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:38,760 Oh God. 693 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:39,760 Yeah. 694 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:40,760 I forgot about her. 695 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:41,760 Sorry. 696 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:42,760 Sorry, not sorry. 697 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:43,760 And that's one to grow on. 698 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:44,760 I'm your density. 699 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:57,640 I mean your destiny. 700 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:02,680 All right, boys and girls gather around for everyone's favorite part of the program. 701 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:09,000 Well, it's up there with the questions, I guess. 702 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,960 Like a neck in terms of popularity here, but let's bring out our favorite AI friend to 703 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,000 find out what our musical destiny has in store next week. 704 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,000 Wadboot. 705 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:27,440 That's right. 706 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:32,380 Music can be a wondrous thing, especially those special songs that are never forgotten. 707 00:41:32,380 --> 00:41:36,520 Next week, you will be searching for albums crafted by those who are considered one hit 708 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,320 oneders, I mean wonders. 709 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,240 Enjoy the oneders. 710 00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:47,320 We're going to be talking about one hit wonders. 711 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:48,320 One hit wonders. 712 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,320 Wow. 713 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:50,320 One hit wonders. 714 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:51,320 So they had one popular song. 715 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:57,880 So we have to find an album that has enough quality to it that we can discuss as a whole. 716 00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,600 That should be interesting. 717 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:00,600 All right. 718 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,580 Who's your favorite one hit wonder? 719 00:42:02,580 --> 00:42:04,240 What other music do you like from Canada? 720 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:05,240 What are you listening to? 721 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:06,240 Let us know. 722 00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:10,560 If you're a fan of Album Nerds on discord at albumnerds.com slash discord, you can email 723 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:16,720 us at podcast at albumnerds.com or follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Album Nerds. 724 00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:20,640 Please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast app. 725 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:25,240 And if you'd like to support the show, you can do so via paypal at albumnerds.com slash 726 00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:26,240 support. 727 00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:29,240 Thank you once again for joining us here on the Album Nerds podcast. 728 00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:31,600 It's all about our love of music. 729 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:36,880 We'll catch you next time when we talk about some one hit wonders and Andy talks about 730 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,360 Tub Something by Chumbly. 731 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,360 Oh, that's a good one. 732 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:42,360 I get knocked down. 733 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:43,360 Hey, he's saying. 734 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,920 See you guys next week. 735 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,200 I get knocked down, but I get up again. 736 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:50,200 Please stop. 737 00:42:50,200 --> 00:43:01,720 Please stop.