1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,880 Welcome to the Album Nerds podcast with your hosts, Andy, Don, and Dude. 2 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:14,880 Top of the morning. 3 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:15,880 No, I'm not going to do that. 4 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,900 I'm not going to say top of the morning to you. 5 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:23,400 That's probably quite annoying to the folks that we're paying homage to today in Ireland. 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:24,400 Homage. 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,400 This is the Album Nerds podcast. 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:26,400 I'm Dude. 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,480 I got Andy and Don with me. 10 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:29,840 Andy, how are you doing today? 11 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:30,840 Feeling lucky? 12 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:31,840 Punk, do ya? 13 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:32,840 Do you feel lucky? 14 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:33,840 No. 15 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:34,840 Yeah. 16 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:35,840 I'm feeling great. 17 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:44,440 I am Scottish, so I don't really have any Irish accents in my bag. 18 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,820 So I'm just going to pass on that whole thing. 19 00:00:47,820 --> 00:00:48,820 Good idea. 20 00:00:48,820 --> 00:00:50,920 Don, how are you doing, man? 21 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,360 Just enjoying a bowl of Lucky Charms. 22 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:59,400 Yeah, I have to take the marshmallows out, though, because I'm a vegetarian. 23 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:00,400 Because they're animals. 24 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,160 Yeah, there's gelatin in them. 25 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:03,160 The horseshoes. 26 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:04,160 Oh. 27 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,040 You can't eat the horseshoes. 28 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:10,040 Just the clovers. 29 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,040 They're okay. 30 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,040 All right, so this is the Album Nerds podcast. 31 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:23,240 We love albums, the album format, and discussing them, embracing them, and just dousing ourselves. 32 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,440 Rolling around. 33 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:27,440 We just love them. 34 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:28,440 That's all. 35 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:29,440 We love them. 36 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:30,960 All right, we've got a great show for you today. 37 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:38,320 We're going to, of course, be digging into three albums each of us picked of artists 38 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:40,280 and bands from Ireland. 39 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,320 Don's going to ask us a deep question. 40 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:46,240 We're going to talk about some other music that we're digging, and then we're going to 41 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,600 spin the wheel of musical discovery to find out what we're going to talk about next time. 42 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,160 But now it's time to go to Ireland. 43 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,080 That's what I'm talking about. 44 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,920 The indigenous music of Ireland has remained vibrant through the 20th and into the 21st 45 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,880 century, and has influenced music throughout the world. 46 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,160 But popular music from the rest of Europe and the United States has also invaded the 47 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:10,160 island. 48 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,200 The 1960s saw the emergence of rock music, including artists such as them, Thin Lizzy 49 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,000 and Gary Moore. 50 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,760 Irish artists have continued to find success domestically and globally since then. 51 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:27,680 The bestselling Irish acts of all time are U2, Enya, Westlife, and the Cranberries. 52 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:32,800 Today each of us will present albums by artists from Ireland. 53 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:38,400 It's interesting because of all the American bands, Dropkick Murphys and things like that, 54 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,840 that you think of as Irish, but then really digging into just artists from Ireland was 55 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,880 a kind of a different experience than I expected. 56 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:47,880 How did you guys do? 57 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,000 Yeah, I had a great time with this one. 58 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,840 Lots of good ideas. 59 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,800 You could say I went on a little bit of a bender here with these bands. 60 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,160 It seems like it. 61 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,720 Yeah, you were throwing all sorts of stuff at us. 62 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:06,080 I'll give a shout out to irisetimes.com, which had a couple of really helpful articles on 63 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,520 some up and coming and recent Irish groups. 64 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,320 I'll throw out a couple names here. 65 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:17,120 The Undertones, a band I was not familiar with, really cool. 66 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:25,240 Lots of punk rock and some ska and just rock in the early 80s, I believe. 67 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,800 Pretty enjoyable, a good I'd never heard of. 68 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,400 90s alternative rock group called Whipping Boy. 69 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,680 They had a really decent album called Heartworm in 1995. 70 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,280 Almost went with that one. 71 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:41,600 Rosen Murphy, the electronic music artist from the last couple of decades. 72 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,640 Enjoyed a few of her records. 73 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:44,880 She is from Ireland. 74 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:51,600 He had a girl band slash gilla band who had been popular last decade or so with some experimental 75 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,720 kind of like post-punk sound. 76 00:03:54,720 --> 00:04:00,160 A couple of interesting hip hop artists, one by the name of Denise Chilia, I believe is 77 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,160 how you say her name. 78 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,160 Her record is called Go Bravely from back in 2020. 79 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:09,800 Yeah, so I had a lot of options there, but I'm pretty happy with the one I went with. 80 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,000 I think you covered it for all of us. 81 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Don, how about you? 82 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,600 Well, I went back and listened to some records that I've spent time with in the past. 83 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:25,480 The Pogues are kind of a punk, post-punk band that always threw in elements of traditional 84 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:26,480 Irish sound. 85 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:31,080 So their album, If I Should Fall From the Grace of God from 1988 is really good. 86 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:36,440 Actually features a holiday song that I hear quite a bit at holiday time now, the fairy 87 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:37,440 tale of New York. 88 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,720 Sinead O'Connor's debut, The Lion and the Cobra. 89 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:41,720 We did. 90 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:47,440 I want what I haven't got maybe a year or two ago, but her debut is really strong. 91 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,600 Also I remembered a band called Black 47. 92 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:56,520 They're actually from New York, but the main guy actually immigrated when he was a teenager. 93 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,600 So technically from Ireland. 94 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,280 Album called Fire of Freedom from 1983. 95 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:08,160 Another kind of, again, taking that traditional Irish sound and applying it to alternative 96 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:09,160 rock. 97 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:14,400 Yeah, I found some stuff that did that, that applied Irishness to it. 98 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,320 I also found stuff that didn't, to me, sound Irish at all. 99 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:24,000 It may have in the lyrics, but the band called Gamma Bomb, thrash metal band from the early 100 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 2000s. 101 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,240 I was thinking about the album Untouchable Glory from 2015. 102 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,640 Sounds very like peak anthrax. 103 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:37,000 It's playful and fast. 104 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,200 They also had an album come out in 2023 called Bats. 105 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,560 I listened to the Cranberries for the first time on purpose all the way through their 106 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,800 first two albums. 107 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:54,360 No Need to Argue was in consideration just because they're a seminal Irish band, but 108 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,200 very long and I had a hard time getting into it, into it. 109 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,600 And I realized that's where Alanis Morissette may have gotten her. 110 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,160 Enough of that. 111 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,880 U2, of course, was on the list, but we've talked about them a lot of times, but I would 112 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,760 have gone with The Unforgettable Fire or Zeropa if I had gone that direction. 113 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:19,720 And then another metal band, Black Metal, Doom and Celtic called Primordial, and they'd 114 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:20,800 been around quite a while. 115 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,480 Their tenth studio album, How It Ends from 2023 might have been their last, but it was 116 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,320 a very interesting listening as well. 117 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:27,920 I listened to them too. 118 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:28,920 Yeah, did you? 119 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:29,920 Yeah. 120 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,120 Ultimately, I went with something a little more now, a little more today. 121 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,560 So why don't we get to our choices? 122 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:45,200 You choo-choo-choose me? 123 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,120 Which is the biggest city in Ireland? 124 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,560 Dublin, because it keeps on doubling and doubling. 125 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:59,960 All right, that was a little bit of a L-E-G, if you guys ever watched this show a couple 126 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:00,960 decades ago. 127 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,880 We existed and it was the Boret, the other mustache dude. 128 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,240 Yeah, I say Leonard Cohen, but it's Sasha Barracota. 129 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:16,160 All right, for my Irish selection here, we were talking about hip hop artist, Nilo, and 130 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,640 his second studio album for Neil Ketting. 131 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:26,160 The album was entitled November Medicine, deals with the dissolve of a 10-year relationship 132 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,200 and some mental health issues that may have come from that. 133 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,800 We are going to play what I believe is a lead single. 134 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:34,800 This is called Forest. 135 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:51,680 All right, so the vocals there from Morgana, artists I was not familiar with. 136 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,560 Nilo was not an artist I was familiar with. 137 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,640 Actually, any of the artists featured on this record I was not familiar with. 138 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:57,640 Same. 139 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,080 It's a pretty small project. 140 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,600 Nilo is an independent artist. 141 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,800 Actually, he first himself is a fully independent artist, which I've not heard that term before. 142 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:11,720 Basically, that means someone who manages his own marketing and promotion, his own tours, 143 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:16,560 he does the – he writes his own music, he's involved with the production, very hands-on 144 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:17,560 sort of DIY. 145 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,440 The album Nerds Podcast is also fully independent. 146 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:22,440 That's right. 147 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:23,440 That's right. 148 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,640 So I give a little love to someone doing it themselves. 149 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,240 Yeah, I found this record to be really enjoyable. 150 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,560 In terms of the sound that he's going for here, there's a lot of like kind of like 151 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:41,480 lush soul and jazz samples being interwoven here with some nice vocals as well, kind 152 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:42,480 of accompanying him. 153 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:47,620 But he has a – I mean, he's a rapper, but he also has kind of like a singing song quality 154 00:08:47,620 --> 00:08:53,720 to his voice where it's maybe not as hard-hitting as like West Cope's rap in the US, but it's 155 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:59,800 more about introspection and he's not afraid of using some melodies from time to time too, 156 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,680 which I think makes this a little bit different from US rap, but also interesting. 157 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:12,000 There were moments flow-wise where it felt like he was Emineming or trying to, you know, 158 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,880 8-moiled kind of style. 159 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,640 That's just what sometimes it felt like in those, especially when he got very frantic 160 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:25,080 and loud, that's when it was like, okay, go back to the chill vibe, dude. 161 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,760 Yeah, I definitely preferred the chiller approach. 162 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:33,080 Yeah, the record starts out a little bit more intense in the Eminem space, but I think as 163 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,840 it goes on, it chills out and gets him more into like a ethereal kind of space. 164 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:43,020 Well, did he have a background – like I thought I saw that he kind of did like rock 165 00:09:43,020 --> 00:09:45,400 or punk or something beforehand. 166 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,160 Yeah, I read he was in a punk rock group before this. 167 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,960 I couldn't find any information on that group or any recordings or anything. 168 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:56,600 But yeah, he's got a little aggression in him, but I think, you know, he's a father. 169 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,760 He's went through a long divorce and marriage. 170 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:04,360 He sounds like he's gotten to a place where maybe he's matured a little bit. 171 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:09,880 All right, my click pay headline for this record is this just in, Irish rapper name 172 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,240 generator tool discovered simply just add an O. 173 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:18,320 His name is Neil, his rapper name is Neelo, come on. 174 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:19,320 It's a little weird. 175 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,000 Yeah, I mean, for the Irish tradition, it should be O'Neil. 176 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 That's right. 177 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Right, exactly. 178 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Yeah, I like adding O. Andy O, Dono. 179 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Dudo. 180 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Dudo. 181 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Dudo. 182 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Dudo. 183 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Mega Dudos. 184 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,720 Why don't we play one of the more ethereal cuts that appears right at the end of this 185 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:38,720 record. 186 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:39,720 This is Only Human. 187 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,720 I was born in a town with songs and speakers building, maybe a lesser man. 188 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:49,000 A heart like this might leave him ruined, but I was born from stars and spores, more 189 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,000 alien. 190 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Is that a harp? 191 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Sounds like it. 192 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Sounds like it. 193 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,960 I don't think I've heard harp in hip hop before. 194 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,360 Underutilized in the genre, for sure. 195 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:06,000 Yeah, so I found a quote from Mr. Neelo about this song. 196 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,480 It's about the overwhelming feeling of meeting someone and knowing that your whole lives 197 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,120 are now intertwined forever. 198 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,080 It's about meeting your soulmate in a messed up world where things seem to be falling apart. 199 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:19,000 You attach yourself to this feeling because it is so beautiful and it makes you feel safe 200 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 and connected. 201 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,440 Yeah, so sort of a gentle end to the record. 202 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:30,240 My clickbait headline for this album is Hip Hop Ditches the Bronx for Dublin. 203 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:36,480 So I had trouble kind of just getting past the idea of hip hop being from somewhere else, 204 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:42,400 somewhere other than urban United States. 205 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:48,520 But there's no reason why it can't exist in inner city Dublin or wherever. 206 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:54,400 Because you still have the working class vibe and poverty and racism and just all the same 207 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,800 issues exist everywhere. 208 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,120 I think it's so Irish in terms of like his accent isn't hidden. 209 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:06,160 He's not trying to sound like rappers of America. 210 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:07,760 And I think that's key here. 211 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:13,760 If he was trying to sound like something else that might be a little off putting and not 212 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:15,440 give it its own stamp. 213 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:22,160 And he's so forthright and so straightforward in those little tracks where he's just talking 214 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,640 like his little journal entries or whatever. 215 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,720 Yeah, it sounds like they're actually like voice memos on his phone or something. 216 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,120 Yeah, kind of like a voicemail sort of. 217 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:32,720 Yeah, to himself. 218 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:37,040 Yeah, experiences like feeling hopeless and having a moment in the woods where all these 219 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:41,360 birds are flying around and it gives him hope and that things can turn around and if you 220 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,480 see a beautiful thing, it inspires you. 221 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,760 Just an interesting experience with this guy. 222 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:52,280 There was a good balance there between that inspirational stuff and then there's the one 223 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:58,520 clip where he's talking about doing acid for the first time and he's like, oh, we're seeing 224 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:03,080 the air of life or something around his hands and you think he's going to talk about how 225 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,520 it was some big epiphany, but it turns out it was just cat hair. 226 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,600 Yeah, it was floating in the sunbeams. 227 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:14,520 So I like his sense of humor and sort of self-deprecating vibe there. 228 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,880 Yeah, the record gets pretty heavy at times, but he does have these little touches of humor 229 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:24,720 that kind of keep things on the ground and it's nice. 230 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:29,000 It seems like a very personal and vulnerable record and it works. 231 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:34,520 I had very low expectations for it and it definitely exceeded them. 232 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,520 Would you say they were knee-low? 233 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:42,000 All right, why don't we play another cut from the record? 234 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,080 This is one of the more overly produced tracks I would say. 235 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,080 This is called Tears You Cry. 236 00:13:46,080 --> 00:14:05,080 This one definitely has a very R&B, dreamy sort of vibe to it. 237 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:10,320 Soulful, jazz-infused, it's featuring Jenova and Civ. 238 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:11,320 Yeah. 239 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,200 Again, these guys are huge. 240 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:14,600 I think they add something to it. 241 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,160 It definitely has a different sound to it from some of the other tracks. 242 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:22,600 Themes of friendship, shared struggles, optimism for the future, which there's a lot of optimism 243 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,080 here even through the pain throughout the album. 244 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,500 Optimism. 245 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:35,560 The narrative style in the song is kind of a mix of that reflection and hope. 246 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:40,480 The saxophone line that adds in there, very shoddy to me. 247 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,320 For some reason it evoked that feel to me, but very dreamy. 248 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:50,440 By clickbait headline for this album, knee-low keeps it re-low and gets all up in his felos. 249 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,520 Irish rapper holds nothing back. 250 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,320 So bad. 251 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,720 Come on. 252 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:05,800 Yeah, I mean, he's very, like we discussed before, it seems like he's being very genuine, 253 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:10,600 very forthright, not necessarily using examples from other people's life, but just himself. 254 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:16,600 This is very journal-esque and he really does lay it all out there and I appreciated that 255 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:17,600 quite a bit. 256 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,200 The first couple of listens were a bit of a struggle, but the more I listened to it, 257 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:26,120 the more I kind of got to know him and understand what he was doing and it got better and better 258 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:27,520 with every spin. 259 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,520 So good on you, knee-low. 260 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:34,600 He makes enough money to buy his dad a new bike. 261 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,880 His dad's bike got stolen. 262 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,080 I don't know how this gets, unfortunately. 263 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:45,160 Yeah, he seems like just a chill dude you could just hang out and have a pint with and 264 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:46,160 totally relate to. 265 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:47,160 Have a pint. 266 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:48,160 Wow. 267 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:49,160 So international. 268 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,160 Yeah, yeah. 269 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,160 There you go. 270 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:57,880 All right, well, I was fairly impressed with this record too after giving it some time, 271 00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:59,960 so I think you guys might be as well. 272 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:00,960 So check it out. 273 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,960 Knee-low, the record isn't called November Medicine. 274 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:09,240 I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me. 275 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:14,480 If you're enjoying the show and we hope you are, do us a solid and leave a review on Apple 276 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,560 podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcast app. 277 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,880 Maybe we made you laugh or you discovered an album you enjoy. 278 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:26,480 Leaving a review keeps the show going and helps other music fans find us at the end 279 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:27,480 of the rainbow. 280 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:28,480 Well, I'm walking down the street and my legs are on my feet and my feet are in my trousers, 281 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:29,480 and my trousers and my legs are on my feet. 282 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:30,480 I'm walking down the street and my legs are in my trousers. 283 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:35,480 I look at you with my eyes and my eyes are on my feet. 284 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:51,840 Well, my pick for an Irish artist is Van Morrison with the second studio album called Astral Weeks. 285 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:58,080 Van Morrison is an Irish singer-songwriter, actually from Northern Ireland, but he's still 286 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:06,560 Irish, born in Belfast in 1945, formerly of the rock group Them, which had that song Gloria 287 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:16,400 that is pretty well known. So Astral Weeks comes after a couple of years where he's got record 288 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:24,040 company battles. He kind of retreated to Boston where he kind of got like a folk trio going, 289 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:31,280 and basically the material on this album comes from that. So let's hear the title cut, 290 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,000 an opening cut, Astral Weeks. 291 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:44,840 We say kiss of my ass. 292 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:54,600 Is that the combination like Boston and Irish? 293 00:17:54,600 --> 00:18:01,200 I don't know. He is such an interesting vocalist. So Morrison described Astral Weeks, 294 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:06,560 the song is being like transforming energy or going from one source to another with it being 295 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:11,960 born again like a rebirth. He said, I remember reading about you having to die to be born. It's 296 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,080 one of those songs where you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and that's basically 297 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:21,760 what the song says. So my clickbait headline for this album is Morrison Proves Hooks Are Not 298 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:28,680 Necessary. So I mean, it's noticeable that after having this huge hit record, Brown Eyed Girl, 299 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:34,600 just like one of the catchiest songs ever made probably. I mean, this album doesn't really have 300 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:42,040 any pop hooks. I mean, it's catchy in parts, but it really doesn't feel like pop music at all. 301 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:42,760 Yeah. 302 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,280 It's like spherical, but quite pointy in parts. 303 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:57,320 Nice. So I would say, I guess it's a folk rock record, but it really feels kind of 304 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:05,680 more informed by jazz. There's a free form vibe to it. Well, let's hear more of it. Here's a 305 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,360 song called Madam George. 306 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:17,600 Yeah, caught up playing dominoes and drag. The one and only Madam George. 307 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:25,960 Very long song, many of these tracks are, which I think actually works. Usually a lot of times 308 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:35,560 that doesn't, but the feel and the vocal style really lends itself to long songs. And I think 309 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:43,800 that's part of why this album is interesting. It's explorations rather than pop stuff. Madam 310 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:49,880 George details nightlife on Sapris Avenue in Belfast. And it kind of revolves around this 311 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:56,120 character, Madam George who gambles parties. And many people interpret Madam George as a drag 312 00:19:56,120 --> 00:20:00,760 queen. Morrison at some point claimed it's a mix of people he has known, but lyrics suggest 313 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:08,760 otherwise, at least in that little bit we played there. So my clickbait headline is Astral Weeks, 314 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:14,040 more like Astral Days, Van Morrison's stream of consciousness outshines moon dances and brown eyes. 315 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:15,720 Brown eyed girl. 316 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,400 That is. 317 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,920 Not too hard to outshine a brown eyed. 318 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:31,560 This album was recorded in just three sessions. That's where the Astral Weeks to Astral Days 319 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:39,160 comes in. It's unbelievable just the creative force here, the musicians that worked on it, 320 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:45,080 and Van Morrison's vocals and lyrics. It's just very interesting how quickly this came together 321 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:50,040 and how different it is from a lot of his other output. And I like the songs like Madam George 322 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:55,320 and Sapris Avenue that have that sense of place and time and have vivid portraits of characters. 323 00:20:56,360 --> 00:21:03,800 This sound really leans itself toward storytelling and really seeing what's happening. 324 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:10,120 I don't dislike Van Morrison. I'm just bored of brown eyed girl and moon dance and stuff. 325 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:15,240 I'd never listened to this album before and it was refreshing. It was a different side of him, 326 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:20,840 a more creative side and I really dug it. Well, let's hear another cut. This is Ballerina. 327 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:35,880 Yeah, could use a vibraphone. 328 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:42,040 Is there ever a bad use of vibraphone? That's the question. 329 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:43,400 I'm sure there is. 330 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,520 That song was written when Morrison was part of Them back in 1966, 331 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:56,440 supposedly after meeting his wife in Los Angeles. Them guitarist Jim Armstrong recalls 332 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,960 working on the song originally with Morrison saying, Morrison had all these words. We sort 333 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,960 of formalize it because there was no structure to it. I thought that was kind of funny because I 334 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:11,800 feel like this record really has hardly any structure to it, which I think is the strongest 335 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:16,920 quality of it. And I think it makes it just stand out in his discography, very much so, 336 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,960 but also just in folk music or folk rock in general. I really can't think of any record 337 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:27,000 I've heard that really fits this mold. And I think just for that alone, it makes it really 338 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:34,360 important and interesting. My clickbait headline is Morrison blows minds with extended freestyle 339 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:38,920 moon dance. Yeah, I think this is a pretty stunning record in my opinion. It feels like a burst of 340 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:44,360 creativity and just the musicianship throughout it is stellar. I don't know a lot about the 341 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:51,960 artists involved, but I think the results is just very impressive. Like you said, it seems to rely 342 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:57,080 more heavily on jazz than it does on folk, but the mixture I think is what makes it so interesting. 343 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:03,000 It's up and down, it's over and left. There's parts repeating seemingly and then just stopping. It 344 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,960 feels very unbreakable from song to song what's going to happen, which I think is great. And 345 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,400 for me, that's what I love about music, just that kind of unexpectedness to it. 346 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:17,560 Someone like Morrison, you kind of expect it to be more formalized, I guess, because he's such a good 347 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:22,840 songwriter, I guess, is why I think of Brown Eyed Girl and its other hits are so just sort of 348 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:27,720 pop-oriented, but this is not that at all. I think just for that alone, I think it should be 349 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:35,000 kind of held up and appreciated. Yeah. So speaking of holding things up and appreciating them, 350 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:41,080 I am going to nominate Van Morrison's Astral Weeks to the Album Nerds Hall of Fame. 351 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:49,880 So, I mean, this album came out in 1967 really at the peak of like folk rock, but I mean, 352 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:55,080 at least from what I know of that genre at the time and everything else that was going on at 353 00:23:55,080 --> 00:24:00,040 the time, I just don't think there was anything else that really sounded like this. I am actually 354 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:06,680 surprised by how much I love this album. So I vote yes, of course. Dude. 355 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,200 Yeah. I mean, I think one of the things I look for in nominees here, 356 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:17,560 even if it's stuff I'm not super familiar with, is did it elevate or move forward with its sound 357 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:23,800 or something? And I feel like this did take what was going on at the time and elevated it, made 358 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:31,480 sounds that weren't associated with folk rock and then jazz undercurrent. I thought it was an 359 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,920 interesting blend of things. And I'm going to say yes. 360 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:40,280 Yeah. I mean, for me, I just gushed about it for a couple nights, so I will just say yes. I think 361 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:48,120 it's a great record. All right. Congratulations. He's not sir Van Morrison, is he? I don't know. 362 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:51,480 He is now. It's on Album Nerds Hall of Fame. I think that's the equivalent. 363 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:58,520 Congratulations, Van Morrison. Your album Astral Weeks is now in the Album Nerds Hall of Fame. 364 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:05,080 Excuse me. I'd like to ask you a few questions. 365 00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:15,080 Now it's time for Deep Questions by Don. Do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day and how so? 366 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:17,960 So this is a deep one, Don. Yeah. 367 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:19,720 Yeah. Very deep. Wow. You really. 368 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,440 I'm moving into a subconscious here. Yeah. Yeah. You really, 369 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:29,960 you really outdone yourself this time. All right. St. Patrick's Day. Let's see. 370 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:36,360 Yeah. I mean, I used to drink a lot of beer. My mom used to put food coloring in her oatmeal. 371 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:40,600 Green food coloring, which is kind of, that's how it was fun. 372 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,480 It's like eating a bowl of mold. Yeah. 373 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:52,120 It's pretty spot on for English cooking, I would say. Yeah. My wife and I, we usually 374 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:59,640 watched the Leprechaun, the terrible horror movie with Jennifer Aniston and a terrible muppet. 375 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,040 Rubber. Yeah. 376 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:10,600 But yeah, I think probably the biggest change for me would be just, I had some beers this last 377 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,360 weekend and I don't think I can do it again for St. Patrick's Day, man. I'm still recovering. 378 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:21,080 It's been like three days. So I'm going to have a straight edge St. Patrick's Day, I think this year. 379 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:26,440 How about you guys? Yeah. I don't anymore specifically try to drink or get drunk. 380 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,800 That's kind of the problem with St. Patrick's Day, at least, I don't know if it's worldwide, 381 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:35,560 but in America it's just like, let's get drunk and then pretend like St. Patrick. There's 382 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,560 religious overtones and stuff there. It's sanctioned drinking day. 383 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:44,920 Yeah. It's just turned into an excuse to get drunk. I don't really do that part anymore. 384 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:49,880 Yeah. I mean, I usually wear green stuff from that whole, I don't know if people still pinch 385 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:54,600 each other. That's probably a salt now, but back when I was a kid, that was a thing. 386 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:59,880 Oh yeah. I totally forgot about that tradition. Pinch me, I'm Irish. Yeah. Or kiss me, I'm Irish. 387 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,520 Or I guess, either one. 388 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,760 But yeah, you'd get pinched if you weren't wearing green on St. Patrick's Day. But yeah, 389 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,720 after this experience, I might try and lean into listening to some Irish music, 390 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,600 maybe even traditional Irish folk stuff on St. Patrick's Day, just to do something that's 391 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,840 a tip of the hat to my Irish brethren. Your folk dancing. 392 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:27,480 Yeah, a little river dance. But yeah, I mean, I am of Irish heritage, so I should do something. 393 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:28,600 How about you, Dunn? 394 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:35,400 Well, I am not of Irish heritage, but I do like to adopt customs that involve drinking and food. 395 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,840 But I mean, it's been years since I've been out on St. Patrick's Day and that's not really something 396 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:47,000 that appeals to me anymore. But in recent years, I've said it before, I'm a vegetarian. And back 397 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:52,280 when I was a meat eater, I used to love corned beef. And so I actually found this vegetarian 398 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:52,680 corned beef. 399 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:53,480 Corned tofu. 400 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,920 I don't know what it's made of. I don't really care what it's made of. 401 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,520 What if it was made of humans? Is that okay? 402 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,480 Charlie Frieden's people. 403 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:10,600 Sort of a gray area. But yeah, so I think the last couple of years on St. Patrick's Day, 404 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:15,880 I've actually made myself a Reuben sandwich. Although I don't think a Reuben is really Irish, 405 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:21,320 I feel like that's more like something out of Jewish delis. But I do love cabbage. I love 406 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:21,880 corned beef. 407 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,840 Yeah, corned beef and cabbage is awesome. 408 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,760 Well, what do you do on St. Patrick's Day? Let us know on Instagram and Facebook or 409 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,480 leave a comment on our website, albumnerds.com. 410 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,200 So I just wanted to get to a point where I could say in my own accent. I knew that I was on to 411 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,760 something because of how insecure I was about it. And you should follow those insecurities. If we're 412 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,760 to achieve one thing, it would be to influence people to be themselves. 413 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:54,120 So I went with Fontaines DC, an Irish post-punk band formed in Dublin in 2014. 414 00:28:54,120 --> 00:29:00,120 Grian Chattin on vocals. Carlos O'Connell on guitar. Connor Deegan III on bass. 415 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:05,880 Connor Curley on guitar. And Tom Cole on drums. Their music is often characterized, 416 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,720 with Chattin's spoken word, vocal delivery, raw energetic sound. 417 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,720 We're going to be talking about Skinty Fia, which is their third full length album. 418 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,720 So why don't we jump in with a little bit of the title track, Skinty Fia. 419 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:26,680 Well, I really don't care what you think of me, but someone gives me to the grovel. Every 420 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,840 opportunity I've got, I'm jealous. I'll probably end up sorry. 421 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,680 It's got more hip hop beat than we do. 422 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:39,960 That sound actually reminds me a little bit of some of what you two was doing on Zuroppa, 423 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:46,440 playing around with new sounds. And I like that there's some experimentation on this album, 424 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,960 including a song that's just accordion and Grian's voice. 425 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:56,920 So the song Skinty Fia is a phrase that drummer Tom Cole's great aunt used to use. And it 426 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:03,400 translates roughly to the damnation of the deer. There was apparently a particular species of deer 427 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,920 that went extinct in Ireland and it was huge. That was Scottish sounding dude. 428 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:18,600 Grian explained that the phrase embodies mutation, doom and inevitability. And he kind of thought of 429 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:24,280 it reflecting on his idea of Irishness abroad, such as the expression of Irishness in places 430 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:32,280 like Boston, how that's a new pure form of Irishness, but it is different. It's a mutation of 431 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,920 being Irish from Ireland. It's a different way of expressing it. 432 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:44,280 So this song also gets into some about a relationship. So it's a multi-layered, 433 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,640 hard to explain song, but it's a fun listen. 434 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:53,800 The clickbait headline I chose for this album, Fontaine's DC, Serve Up Irish Angst, 435 00:30:53,800 --> 00:31:00,680 accordion included, the Irish invasion London never saw coming. It's moody, unapologetically Irish, 436 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:07,560 poetic and dark, yet not depressing somehow. It's raw and it's just fascinating somehow. 437 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:27,960 CB Yeah, they've created an interesting soundscape here. I think all these things combined, it really 438 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,240 has a pretty unique quality to it that I've heard before. 439 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:37,880 RL That's hard to do these days. 440 00:31:37,880 --> 00:32:01,560 AC Alright, so why don't we jump into another track, a little bit of Jackie Down the Line. 441 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:13,240 RL Yeah, I like the do, do, do, la, la, la, which just sounds like a dismissive form of 442 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:19,400 doing music tropes, which I thought was funny. AC Right. Yeah, this whole record almost feels 443 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:27,160 like it's kind of fun, a little irreverent, definitely sort of vibe to it. Maybe it's just 444 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,560 the Irish quality to it, I'm not sure. RL Taking the piss. There you go. 445 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,640 AC Exactly. My clickbait headline is, 446 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:42,600 Deer House Pet Craze Sweeps Through Dublin City. The album cover has a frightened deer in the middle 447 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:47,640 of someone's entryway in their home. RL Probably representative of Skinty Fia. 448 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:54,840 AC Skinty Fia. Yeah, maybe that is a Skinty Fia. Anyway, yeah, I mean, this is a very moody, 449 00:32:54,840 --> 00:33:00,600 sort of distressed sounding record, but very thoughtful. It means poetic for sure. And 450 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,400 there's so much metaphor being used here. It's hard to really chip into, to really tell what 451 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:10,360 they're talking about. But the few times I did, I found it very interesting. Seems like it's a lot 452 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:16,280 dealing with social, political issues, racism seems to be a big part of the story here again, 453 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:22,280 as we touched on earlier. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I found it kind of like in some ways like Van Morrison, 454 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:27,160 so very unpredictable. I didn't really know what to expect from track to track and it kind of kept 455 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,400 me on my toes, which I appreciate. AC Even the songs with very few lyrics 456 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:38,360 and repetition somehow isn't boring. And the band has a lot to do with that. They make great 457 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:46,040 sounds underneath the vocals. I mean, there's a lot going on in all the songs and it's easy to kind of 458 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:52,520 get washed over by the vocals, but there's a lot going on that are lifting those vocals up and 459 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:59,080 making them what they are. So yeah, I just think it's a great band effort and that's not always 460 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:04,920 the case. All right, so why don't we get to the next track we're going to talk about. And Don, 461 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:15,960 I hate you. It's the opening track in our Chris good deal. Sorry. There it is. Just sorry. 462 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:34,200 Yeah, so I never really found the proper Gaelic pronunciation of that title. 463 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:40,440 It was in our growth good day. Oh, but there's so close. Yeah, that's closer than me. 464 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:46,680 The little course underneath there they're saying. But so apparently it translates to 465 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:52,200 in our hearts forever. And so I guess the band chose this title and the song, 466 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:58,280 because there was an Irish woman living in England and she put that or she wanted that those words 467 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:05,000 inscribed on her gravestone, but the Church of England ruled that she couldn't use it because 468 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,760 it could be political or provocative. Yeah, this is recently too, right? 469 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,600 Yeah. 2020. So yeah, it's crazy that that stuff is still. 470 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:18,840 What? Yeah. But I guess because of the outcry, the Church of England, I guess gave in. So she did get 471 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:25,720 that on her tombstone. Cool. Yeah, I mean, the album engaged me right away. I mean, the song is 472 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:34,520 just so intense. This is your stuff right here. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean, I love this post-punk sound. 473 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:41,160 That track is so hypnotic. And I guess when you have a vocalist that doesn't really sing much, 474 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:46,920 right? There's not a lot of melody in the vocal lines usually. I think where they can be effective 475 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:54,760 is in the rhythm of it. And he does a really good job with that. So I loved that song right away. 476 00:35:54,760 --> 00:36:00,440 My clickbait headline is post-punk outfit pay homage to extinct Irish deer. So blah, blah, 477 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:08,520 blah with the deer again. But yeah, I think overall, I mean, the album is more about just 478 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:14,680 like intensity and rhythm than it is melody, which maybe separates it from some of the other 479 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:21,080 post-punk out there. I mean, at times they reminded me of Interpol, who's another kind of 480 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:29,480 post-punk band from the 2000s. But this is less melodic, perhaps more raw. This feels less 481 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:37,480 contrived, I think. His vocal delivery actually reminds me of Lee Mavers from The Laws, who's 482 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:45,000 not Irish, but kind of has that, I don't even know what that style of singing is. The guy from Blur 483 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000 kind of does it too. And Gorilla, what's his name? Damon Albarn or whatever. 484 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,360 I know what you're talking about, but I don't know. Is there a name for that? 485 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:58,040 I don't know. But sort of like an over, like there's a syllable that they hold on to longer 486 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,600 or something. Yeah. It's kind of like Last Morse Up, but not as annoying. 487 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:13,320 But yeah, I mean, throughout the record, there's little surprises and a few 488 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:20,840 accordion licks mixed in. Yeah, definitely interesting. And as Dude said, it's Irish, 489 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:25,240 although they're not really, they're not throwing in traditional Irish sounds or anything like that, 490 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:31,240 but it just, it feels like how I pictured Dublin. Yeah. So good, good call. 491 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:37,320 Thanks. The closing track Nabokov, I think is a really nice closer. The album just feels like 492 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:45,160 an album, right? The songs, although it's not a story, they do fit together the back and forth 493 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:52,680 between the different sounds and the musical flirtations with other sounds. It all fits together 494 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:58,760 really nice. And that's a good closer. And of course makes a reference to the writings of 495 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,680 Nabokov and it's very- Like literary sort of- 496 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,200 Yes. Intellectual kind of sound. 497 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,680 Right. Yes, very much. But yeah, it was a lot of fun to listen to and get to know and get to know 498 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:16,600 this band. And I had heard the name Fontaine's DC, which from what we've read, it came from, 499 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:22,200 originally from Johnny Fontaine, a character in The Godfather. There's another band called Fontaine's, 500 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:27,800 so they added the DC for Dublin City and here we are. But they're definitely a known on the 501 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:33,720 rise band, especially over in Europe and I'll be paying attention. I really like what they're doing 502 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:40,760 and I hope to see them continue to grow. So that was Skinty Fia by Fontaine's DC. Check it out. 503 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:41,640 Can you dig it? 504 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,280 Can you dig it? 505 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,160 Can you dig it? 506 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:56,680 So on your journeys back from Ireland, have you guys been discovering anything new? What are you 507 00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:05,080 digging? I thought you were going to try and do it Irish. Digging, digging, digging. I don't know. 508 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,400 It just gets worse and worse. Is anything magically delicious? 509 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,640 I got a couple of things in my pot of gold here I would consider valuable. Actually, 510 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:21,320 there's been a plethora of new releases the last couple of weeks there, so I mentioned a few. 511 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,040 Plethora is a word which here means too many to list, but I will try. 512 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:32,920 Got you. We'll start out with Ali X. It's a new artist to me. Her album Girl With No Face. 513 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,240 This is sort of like gothic electro pop, I would describe it. Kind of like an emo 514 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:42,520 quality to it. Really can do. Can do. I'd appreciate this after a couple of listens. 515 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:43,640 It's Ali G's sister. 516 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,040 Sounds like something from 1986. 517 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:48,520 Yeah. 518 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:54,680 Yeah, definitely some shades of Madonna in there. Next record up, Latidia Sadier. 519 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,560 I think that's how you would say it. The album is called Rooting for Love. 520 00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,800 She's a vocalist from Stereolab. 521 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,120 I remember that. 522 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:08,440 Yeah. Okay. So it's a very kind of ethereal, electronic, sunny record. It has a very organic 523 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:09,800 quality to it I would say. 524 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,240 Don's eyebrows just went up. 525 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:21,080 And I got one up for you here, dude. Bruce Dickinson has a new solo product out called 526 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,920 The Mandrake Project. 527 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:23,720 Oh yes. 528 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:28,600 Of course Bruce from Iron Maiden fame. I guess he has a couple solo records out in your lines. 529 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,640 Sounds pretty good to be honest. I was going to write it off, but I'm enjoying it. 530 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:35,480 Against my better judgment. 531 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:41,480 Yeah, I've heard some talk that this is more maiden-y than some of the recent Iron Maiden 532 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:47,480 albums. I haven't yet listened to the whole thing. But interestingly enough, Blaze Bailey 533 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:52,120 also just came out with a solo album and he was the replacement for Bruce Dickinson in 534 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:57,240 the early to mid 90s. And so just figured he should get a shout out here too. 535 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,240 It's a cool thing to do when you're Iron Maiden singer. 536 00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:07,160 Apparently. All right, last one here. I got a new hip hop record from LA rapper Schoolboy 537 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:12,040 Q. Records called Blue Lips. I was getting down pretty hard to this this weekend when 538 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:16,760 I was drinking. I guess I'm ahead of that. 539 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:22,200 See, now if I go do listen to this record, I'm just going to picture you mime rapping 540 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:26,040 while you're drunk. I really don't want that image. 541 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:29,880 No one does. Sorry Schoolboy. 542 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:34,760 I picture somebody like drinking a slush puppy or something. You get like the blue lips. 543 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,680 What you been listening to down? 544 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:47,720 Well, I'm still waiting for the elusive Cure album to finally come out. We're fingers 545 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:54,520 crossed that it happens in 2024. But it is the 30th anniversary of the live albums that they did 546 00:41:54,520 --> 00:42:01,960 from the Wish tour. So the Paris, which was kind of like a companion piece to the live album show, 547 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:07,880 which featured basically songs from like the main set of the tour with songs from Wish and singles. 548 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:13,400 Paris featured a lot of deep cuts from like pornography and 17 seconds. One of my favorite 549 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:18,280 live albums ever. So they're re releasing it in various formats, including vinyl. 550 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:24,120 And there's a couple of songs added to it, including Shake Dog Shake, which is always 551 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:32,120 one of my favorite live cuts. Even just a couple of seconds and I see Don doing the bobble head move. 552 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,320 Don is there in Paris right now. 553 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,520 Oh my God, Don smearing lipstick on right now. 554 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,720 Yeah, I don't think I've listened to any of the live stuff. Maybe I'll check some of that out. 555 00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:49,400 Yeah, they are a good, I would say they're a good live act. 556 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:54,840 Okay, so for me, I've been, you know, listen to a lot of Irish stuff, but I dug around for 557 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:59,880 other things as well and ran into Shane Smith and the Saints. The album is Norther. It's their fourth 558 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:04,920 album. They're kind of a red dirt country from Austin, Texas. They appeared on Yellowstone a 559 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:10,920 couple of times and it's like Americana alt country folk, lots of strings, lots of sounds, 560 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:16,440 but interesting listen so far. Vocally, sometimes he reminds me of culture wall, but with all the 561 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:22,520 spice behind it, it is not as desolate. A little more spicy country. Yeah, a little spicy. 562 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,880 That Yellowstone has really cultivated a lot of, yes. 563 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,920 He brought a few artists to the table from Yellowstone in the last couple of years. 564 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:37,000 Now I will mention briefly that I did pick up Skinty Fia on vinyl accidentally. I was looking 565 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:42,520 through the S's at my record store and it was there instead of under F for Fontaines. I yelled 566 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:48,760 it the proprietor, but I happened upon it so I thought it was fate so I picked it up. But more 567 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:54,840 fun. The luck of the Irish. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Just the luck of the Irish. I did find Barry 568 00:43:54,840 --> 00:44:01,960 White, Can't Get Enough. We talked about that on episode 194 of the Album Nerds podcast and it's 569 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:06,840 just, I didn't have any Barry White in my collection, so it was fun to pick that one up and listen to it 570 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:13,800 on vinyl and try to experience it in the way that those did when it was new. That's always fun. 571 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,800 I know what's going to be happening in your place. 572 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:22,200 Yes, I'm going to dance seductively for my wife. 573 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:29,000 Well, what are you digging? Let us know. Hit us up on the socials, 574 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:36,600 Facebook, Instagram, and threads. Also on our website, albumnerds.com. 575 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,560 It will be a discovery of extraordinary value. 576 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:49,640 Well, that's about that time on the show, boys and girls, and I'm reminded of the great Irish poet 577 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:56,440 W.B. Yeats who said, the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow 578 00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:01,640 sharper. With that in mind, let's bring out my friend and yours, Wadbot, and see what we'll be 579 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:14,760 talking about on next week's show. Popular music has taken many forms, starting with rudimentary 580 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:20,360 handcrafted instruments all the way to synth and electronic music composed on a laptop. 581 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:26,040 Next week, you will be exploring electronic albums released in the early 2000s. You may 582 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:32,040 have to put away your air guitars, but you never know. Okay, so a little direction change here. 583 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:38,680 We're going with 2000s electronic music. Hopefully find some things that are rock and roll with 584 00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:46,200 electronica mixing so that I don't drive myself insane. That should be very interesting to see 585 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,720 what you guys bring to the table here. You got to plug in a guitar. It's electronic. 586 00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:55,960 There you go. Andy's the expert. He was spinning those turntables with goggles on his head, 587 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,400 and doing some glow sticks. Yeah, this is my time period. Yeah, 588 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:06,680 you guys are in for a real treat here. Put on your giant pants for the next show. 589 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:17,080 Yes, yes. All right, well, don't forget, we do have an ongoing Elb Nerds Hall of Fame. Vote up 590 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:22,360 for your consideration, the listening audience. You can go to elbnerds.com and vote for Meat Loafs. 591 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:26,680 That out of hell. Do you think that album is worthy to be in the Elb Nerds Hall of Fame? 592 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:31,160 Go to our website, elbnerds.com or hit us up on the socials at Elbnerds. 593 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,880 What's your favorite electronic album from the 2000s? Does Bad Out of Hell belong in the 594 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:42,040 Elbnerds Hall of Fame? Let us know. Leave a comment on our website or email us at podcast.elbnerds.com. 595 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:47,080 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and threads at Elbnerds. Please subscribe, rate, and review on 596 00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:51,240 your favorite podcast app. If you'd like to support the show, you can do so via paypal 597 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:57,080 at elbnerds.com slash support. Thank you for joining us on the Elbnerds Podcast. We will catch you 598 00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:06,360 next time with that electronic noise from the 2000s. Turn down that noise. Excellent. We're 599 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:14,200 about to catch you next week. Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. 600 00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,480 I think that's all I know. From Glenn to Glenn. 601 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:21,480 Oh, sorry. You're the Irish boy. You're going to jump in there? 602 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,600 I've never even heard the second verse before. I have no idea. 603 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:26,680 I think that works. 604 00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:48,280 Hi.