1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,080 Welcome to the Album Nerds podcast with your hosts Andy, Don, and Dude. 2 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:17,320 Beep boop boop boop, beep boop boop, beep boop boop boop. 3 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,160 That's electronic music for y'all. 4 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:21,400 This is the Album Nerds podcast. 5 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:22,400 I'm Dude. 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:23,920 I got Andy and Don with me. 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,080 How you gentlemen doing, Andy? 8 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:27,560 Doing great, man. 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:28,560 Doing great. 10 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,760 I got my stack of punch cards here ready. 11 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:36,320 I'm going to load them in my computer here and make some music. 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,840 It's a callback from all the 70s. 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:40,840 Yes. 14 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,320 My mom was a key punch operator. 15 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,720 You type on this thing, it punch holes in a card, you'd slip the card into the computer 16 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:49,120 and put light through it. 17 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,160 And that's how it was reading your input. 18 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:52,160 You couldn't type directly in. 19 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,880 You stack all your cards up and then that would mean something in the end somehow. 20 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:57,880 Yeah. 21 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:59,760 I think people need to know this stuff. 22 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:00,760 Doc. 23 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:01,760 What's up? 24 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,560 I'm programmed to say fine. 25 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:05,560 Okay. 26 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,560 Is that the hamsters? 27 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:13,160 I have no idea. 28 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,720 That is a, that's happy hardcore guys. 29 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,200 You need to be careful with that stuff. 30 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,440 It'll rot your teeth out in two minutes. 31 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:30,960 So indeed album nerds podcast time, we love albums, the album format, talking about them, 32 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:34,800 sharing them, discussing them and just reveling. 33 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,180 So today we've got a great show for you. 34 00:01:37,180 --> 00:01:41,960 We're going to be talking about some electronic albums of the 2000s. 35 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:47,000 And that's going to kind of be up for debate on what that definition is. 36 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,480 So that'll be three of those. 37 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,880 Don's going to be asking us a deep question. 38 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,440 Then we're going to do some shout outs to some album related items we're digging. 39 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,960 And then we're going to spin that wheel of musical discovery to find out what we're talking 40 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,840 about next time. 41 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:07,880 This week, let's groove. 42 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,940 Electronic music refers to works that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry 43 00:02:11,940 --> 00:02:17,560 based music technology and software, or general purpose electronics, such as personal computers 44 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:19,480 in its creation. 45 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,640 Electronic innovation has found its way into rock and roll, R&B, jazz, hip hop and country. 46 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:30,480 And many electronic specific genres evolved over the years, including breakbeat, synthpop, 47 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,560 drum and bass, trance, dubstep, EDM and techno. 48 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,040 Electronic music had a strong presence in the first decade of the 2000s, including a 49 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:44,040 significant increase in the popularity of EDM, which is electronic dance music. 50 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:48,320 Today each of us will present an electronic album from the first decade of this century. 51 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:49,840 Cool, cool. 52 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,480 Of course, the first thing that came to mind when this topic came up was dance music is 53 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,280 what I first thought about. 54 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,480 But then as I did some research about electronic music, I was able to find some wiggle room 55 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,560 in those other influenced sub genres. 56 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:06,560 How did you guys do? 57 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:11,560 Yeah, this is maybe a little more broad than we initially thought. 58 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,440 I used to listen to this music quite a bit back in the early 2000s. 59 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:20,960 So I brought back some old friends and I'll throw out a few and find a few new ones as 60 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,280 well. 61 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:28,560 A few solely electronic comprised albums I mentioned here, Wagon Crys, MusiPole. 62 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:34,560 It's a really fun just like bedroom DJ kind of sounding record, all sorts of clicks and 63 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:35,560 boops. 64 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:36,560 Bedroom DJ, sure. 65 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:41,120 Well, the nice thing about electronic music is you can pretty much make it by yourself. 66 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,840 You don't really need a lot of extra components to create it. 67 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,160 That can be good and that can be bad. 68 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,000 I'm watching a few more records here. 69 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,200 Boards of Canada, they were doing some pretty interesting stuff and kind of more experimental 70 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:54,480 psychedelic space. 71 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:00,920 The record GeoGadi from 2002, really fun sort of like trance sounding record from a group 72 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:01,920 called Fuck Buttons. 73 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:02,920 Terrible name. 74 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:03,920 Kind of a fun record. 75 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,720 You know, why not go with... 76 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:12,040 I think Buck Buttons would have been even a funnier name. 77 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,440 It depends how you feel about buttons. 78 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,720 I mean, maybe they really hate buttons. 79 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:20,760 Or one of them had a pet named Buttons that they were angry with. 80 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,760 Freaking Buttons. 81 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:24,720 Get out of here. 82 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,320 All right, and one last one. 83 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:34,080 Dan Deacon, DJ and producer, listened to his 2009 record Brompsed, which was a lot of fun. 84 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,120 Very innovative creative record there from Dan Deacon. 85 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,080 How about you, Don? 86 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:47,320 Well, listeners of the show probably know that synth pop is a space that I enjoy. 87 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:48,320 It's in your blood. 88 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:49,320 Yes. 89 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:55,120 Of course, a lot of my favorite synth pop acts from the 80s made records in the first 90 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,200 decade of the 2000s. 91 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,440 In particular, the Pet Shop Boys, I've mentioned them a lot lately. 92 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:05,760 One of my favorite albums from them, Yes, came out in 2009. 93 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:11,880 I think that album stands up against any of their 80s and 90s work. 94 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:17,040 Another group that I haven't had a chance to explore before is this duo called Sparks. 95 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,920 They've actually been around since the early 1970s. 96 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:27,680 They've redefined themselves over the years, but they did a techno-y album in 2000 called 97 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:28,680 Balls. 98 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:29,680 Wow. 99 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:30,680 Yeah, I've heard of them a little bit lately. 100 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:31,680 They're interesting. 101 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:32,680 Yeah. 102 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:33,680 They're weird. 103 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:34,680 Yeah. 104 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:39,480 I panicked basically, and I worked at a record store around this time, so I went for things 105 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:47,640 I'd heard of like Moby Play, which I found quite bland and long. 106 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,080 You have a lot of special guests on it and stuff. 107 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,560 Yeah, Gwen Stefani and things like that. 108 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:54,560 It was very popular. 109 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:55,560 Very popular. 110 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,040 Yes, it was very, very popular. 111 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,600 That's why I knew it existed. 112 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,080 And then Tricky, I tried a little trip hop blowback. 113 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:09,360 There were moments that I enjoyed, but all in all, it was a little much for the old dooder. 114 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:16,800 And then I thought about some industrial type stuff, and this band Deadsy was quite boopy. 115 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,120 Be bop boop boop boop in their songs. 116 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:22,120 The album was Commencement. 117 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:28,600 It was just really, really long, and they had a cover of Tom Sawyer by Rush on there. 118 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:29,600 Oh, wow. 119 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:30,600 That was interesting. 120 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:31,600 Industrial Tom Sawyer. 121 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:32,600 Interesting. 122 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,880 And then there's one other notable thing about Deadsy, Elijah Blue Almond. 123 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:37,880 It's his band. 124 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,720 He's the son of Cher and Greg Almond. 125 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,280 Oh, interesting. 126 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:47,440 Okay, so before we get into our picks, why don't we hear from a listener in front of 127 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:48,440 the show? 128 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,600 He's an event promoter and organizer at a variety of New York clubs and a big fan of 129 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:53,600 electronic music. 130 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,360 Why don't we listen to his recommendation? 131 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,000 So my name is Drew, and that's about D-R-I-E-W. 132 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:05,960 And yes, when you think of it backwards, it is weird. 133 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,840 So I appreciate you guys having me on the podcast. 134 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:13,560 EDM is definitely my favorite genre of music. 135 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:18,800 The album and artist that I picked is Deadmau5. 136 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,520 Deadmau5 got his name by actually finding a deadmau5 in his computer. 137 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,680 He is a DJ and producer. 138 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,400 Interesting is a lot of DJs don't produce their own music. 139 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:35,160 So having an album is really something that's unique to this world. 140 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:42,700 The album that I picked is For Lack of a Better Name that came out in 2009. 141 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:46,600 It starts off with a track called FML. 142 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:54,880 The beat, the drops, really the bass line are just unique and something that were very 143 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,180 different at the time. 144 00:07:56,180 --> 00:08:01,960 They were this electro tech and the sounds that he created were all sounds that no one 145 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,480 had heard before. 146 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:10,120 There's also a couple of tracks that were hits like Ghost N Stuff, Hi Friend, Soma, 147 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,240 and the 16th Hour and also Strobe. 148 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:13,960 Strobe was a big track. 149 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:19,520 So a lot of these tracks are dance tracks and these were really fun tracks and I remember 150 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,680 hearing them for the first time and I was like, holy cow, this CD is amazing from start 151 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:25,760 to finish. 152 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:31,640 So this, For Lack of a Better Name is something definitely to check out and I would definitely 153 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,240 check out Deadmau5 in the future. 154 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:35,800 He has a lot more to bring. 155 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:41,520 He makes a good point about how a lot of electronic music at this time period was more like DJ 156 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:46,440 mix type stuff, which really is more just playing other people's music as opposed to 157 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,720 a handful of producers who are really creating music that's original. 158 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,320 So I think that's a good distinction to create. 159 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,800 That's part of why it was a challenge when I started to find actual albums. 160 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,800 Like I was looking for electronic dance music albums. 161 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:01,720 I didn't seem to find much. 162 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,240 Some of what Drew said really did explain that. 163 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:06,680 So that was helpful. 164 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:07,680 Thanks. 165 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:08,680 Okay. 166 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:11,480 Well, it's time for us to get into our album picks. 167 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:12,480 Let's do it. 168 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:21,800 You chew, chew, choose me? 169 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,640 A lot of people that only know me now have this vision of me as being very on top of 170 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,880 things, which is like I was the worst disaster. 171 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:30,880 Don't worry about it. 172 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:31,880 Just make it. 173 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:32,880 Stop overthinking it. 174 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:33,880 Just make it and put it out. 175 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:34,880 All right. 176 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,920 That was James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem. 177 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:43,120 I'll be talking about their second studio album entitled Sound of Silver that came out 178 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,840 back in March of 2007. 179 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:54,480 So LCD Soundsystem is a five-piece dance punk rock electronica collective formed in Brooklyn, 180 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,840 New York in the early 2000s. 181 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:01,340 Came into a lot of notoriety pretty early on in their career, nominated for a few Grammys. 182 00:10:01,340 --> 00:10:06,040 This album in particular was nominated for best electronic dance album. 183 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,360 We are going to play the lead single. 184 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:21,000 This is North American Scott. 185 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,600 Kind of sings like Jack White sometimes. 186 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:23,600 Yeah. 187 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,120 Much more musical than I expected. 188 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,360 I'd heard of LCD Soundsystem, but just assumed it was stuff. 189 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:32,360 So. 190 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:33,360 Yeah. 191 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,960 I mean, so they have an electronic component to their music, obviously. 192 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,680 Synthesizers and other electronics in the mix here. 193 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:41,360 But they do have like live components too. 194 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,760 I mean, there's like live drums and bass, et cetera. 195 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,600 So I think they walked that line pretty well. 196 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:52,680 My clickbait headline for this album is LCD Soundsystem's album Sound of Silver takes 197 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:57,320 gold in best made album with severe bedhead competition. 198 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,160 What's up with that guy's hair? 199 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,280 His hair is like all over the place every interview I see of him. 200 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:04,880 Looks like he just woke up. 201 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:10,360 Yeah, so I think this is a pretty polished up version of what their debut was trying 202 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:11,360 to do. 203 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,960 Yeah, their self-taught debut, a very lengthy double album. 204 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,280 But at the time it was really exciting because it was mixing these elements of like punk 205 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:23,480 rock and electronic and all these other influences. 206 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:24,480 It was cool. 207 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,800 It was exciting, but it felt very stretched out and maybe just didn't have a lot of really 208 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:29,800 focused ideas. 209 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:34,160 That's all I think really takes his ideas and presents them in a much more polished 210 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,120 up digestible sort of way. 211 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:41,240 And it feels like he's kind of really found his niche here on this record. 212 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:46,560 What really struck me listening to this is that taking electronic music, the next level 213 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:50,240 of electronic music that was happening in the early 2000s and mixing it with these other 214 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,160 genres is what pop music is now. 215 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:58,120 It's just interesting how much this sounds like music that is being recorded now. 216 00:11:58,120 --> 00:11:59,120 I'll buy that. 217 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:00,120 Yeah, yeah, totally. 218 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,320 I think it was pretty influential at the time. 219 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:06,240 Also, all the records we're talking about today are kind of like fusions of different 220 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:10,080 genres kind of being mixed together here, which I think is a nice element of electronic 221 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:11,080 music. 222 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:12,680 It can really complement things well. 223 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:18,080 When we play this, the next cut here is kind of like got an old synth pop feel. 224 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,080 This is called Someone Great. 225 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:35,920 Yeah, I actually had like a visceral reaction to that sound. 226 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,920 It just takes me back to like the first two Depeche Mode albums. 227 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:40,920 Oh, in a good way. 228 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:41,920 Oh, okay. 229 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:42,920 Yes, yeah. 230 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:43,920 Yeah. 231 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,440 I thought you see his glow. 232 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,560 I mean, the audience can't, but yeah, he's beaming. 233 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:57,880 Yeah, so that was really the first moment where I really started to enjoy this album. 234 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:04,440 It's truly just like a synth pop song, but kind of an interesting subject. 235 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,680 It seems to be about loss, somebody dying. 236 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:14,360 Then on the fan boards or whatever, there's people suspect that it's about James Murphy's 237 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:20,160 Therapist, which actually makes some sense lyrically because they're talking about the 238 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,440 conversations they had and stuff like that. 239 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:28,200 But yeah, I really enjoyed that song and that I think really helped me kind of get through 240 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:29,720 the rest of the album. 241 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,960 It's actually a pretty eclectic album, I'd say. 242 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:39,400 The first track is more what I expected and then kind of gets a little funky in there. 243 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:44,920 Then we get to the synth pop stuff and then some songs just seem much more rock. 244 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:52,280 But anyway, my clickbait headline is LCD Sound System Proves Worthy of D.O.N. Sound System. 245 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:53,280 Sorry. 246 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,800 Oh, that spells your name. 247 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:58,800 Yes. 248 00:13:58,800 --> 00:13:59,800 Yeah. 249 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:00,800 You like it. 250 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:01,800 Exactly. 251 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:06,520 Are you bumping this in the house? 252 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:07,520 Yeah. 253 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:08,760 I enjoyed this record a lot. 254 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,000 I actually enjoyed it while running. 255 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,520 It was a good record for that. 256 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,080 Actually I think all these records were good for that. 257 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,880 But it's not what I expected from Andy. 258 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:23,360 I thought Andy was really going to challenge us with some real dance floor. 259 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:24,360 I do too. 260 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,760 Well, there's more episodes to come. 261 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:28,760 Yeah. 262 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:34,960 So this certainly flirts with kind of that EDM stuff, but it doesn't go too far. 263 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,720 All the songs have a structure to them. 264 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:39,560 They're all catchy and hooky. 265 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,320 There's a lot of sounds like real instrumentation in there. 266 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,320 Yeah. 267 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:45,320 I just expected a bunch of... 268 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:49,480 It does have that element. 269 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,720 It's in there, but it's mixed in. 270 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:56,720 But yeah, I'm very happy that I spent some time with this record. 271 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,280 I think that track there he picked out on someone great. 272 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,320 Along with really a lot of the tracks in the middle of the record there along with that 273 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:08,400 he does a great job of building the pace or kind of building some emotion out of these 274 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,680 tracks over the pretty long tracks, six, seven, eight minutes long. 275 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,600 I mean, one of the great things about dance music is you can kind of build momentum and 276 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:21,320 builds energy over the length of a good mix or a long song. 277 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:25,400 I think they really capture that here in a way that felt pretty organic to me, which 278 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,840 is kind of cool to have those two components in a nice mix. 279 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:33,560 I mean, they even make it clear at the end with that sort of traditional song about New 280 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:34,560 York. 281 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,560 I mean, these guys, I mean, they're musical, right? 282 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,840 This isn't just two guys with a computer. 283 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:41,840 Right. 284 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:42,840 Yeah. 285 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,320 James plays quite a few instruments. 286 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:48,920 I think bass being his primary instrument of choice, but yeah, they all have background 287 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,600 in playing actual instruments, not just clicking buttons. 288 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:52,600 All right. 289 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,200 Why don't we play the most dance floor-orientated track on the record? 290 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:10,080 This is the opener, Get Immaculous. 291 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,120 This is not my favorite track on the album. 292 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:16,680 I picked it because this is what I expected the whole thing to be. 293 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:21,840 I think there's some like Kraftwerk sample stuff in there. 294 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:26,680 It sounds like what I expected and then the record took off from there in a much more 295 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:31,920 accessible, I guess, way that I didn't see coming. 296 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:36,080 That song is a commentary on the search for authenticity in an artificial society. 297 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,400 I think we hear a lot of that in music. 298 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:46,480 It delves into the anxieties and uncertainties of modern life and pretty much kind of reflect 299 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,200 on your own pursuit of genuine experience in life. 300 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:55,160 The clickbait headline that I chose to go with for this album is LCD Sound System picks 301 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,640 up where Don left off with his Casio SK-1. 302 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:02,680 Snarky synth punk lives. 303 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:11,000 I believe that if Don were a musician, this is the kind of music he would be making. 304 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:17,240 That's just what I felt when I was listening to it because it had all the elements of the 305 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:23,840 synth pop stuff that he loves, but it also sort of had a sarcastic vibe and it just seemed 306 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:29,360 like what he would have tinkered on as a bedroom DJ. 307 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:33,240 Picture Ross on Friends, remember his music? 308 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,680 I think that's more my style. 309 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:46,760 We always end with an explosion. 310 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:53,080 The rest of the album though, moving on from that song, was inventive, poppy, emotive with 311 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:55,120 a sense of humor underneath. 312 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:58,480 To me it kind of was like a techno talking heads. 313 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:04,140 It had some of the same New York City feel, some of the same vibe to it. 314 00:18:04,140 --> 00:18:05,140 It doesn't sound like that. 315 00:18:05,140 --> 00:18:07,800 There's no African sounds mixed in. 316 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,960 It's not quite as goofy in the vocal delivery, but it had an undercurrent of the talking 317 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:13,960 heads to me. 318 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,200 But I enjoyed the album, surprisingly. 319 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,200 It was a good listen. 320 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,400 Yeah, I think talking heads definitely are among their influences. 321 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,840 These guys really wear their influences around their sleeves, I would say. 322 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:30,520 They're not too shy about pulling from some previous group pretty closely, which can be 323 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:31,520 good and bad, I think. 324 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:35,320 But yeah, I think this record is their strongest overall and it's the one I come back to the 325 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:36,320 most. 326 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:42,580 I'm looking for that kind of cool New York City punk dance vibe, which I think they do 327 00:18:42,580 --> 00:18:43,580 really well. 328 00:18:43,580 --> 00:18:48,360 So if you're not familiar, check out LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver. 329 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:55,640 I'll put my shirt back on. 330 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:56,640 I'm good enough. 331 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,240 I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me. 332 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,600 If you're enjoying the show and we hope you are, do us a solid and leave a review on Apple 333 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,480 podcasts or your favorite podcast app, maybe Spotify. 334 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,300 Hopefully we made you laugh or you discovered an album you enjoy. 335 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:12,960 So go ahead and leave us a review. 336 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,640 It keeps the show going and helps other music fans find us. 337 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:20,360 There are guitars on the record, but they're definitely more in the background than they 338 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:21,360 used to be. 339 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:25,600 We've always used synths and things on our songs, but yeah, they've definitely come to 340 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,240 the forefront on this record. 341 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:34,920 So my electronic album from the 2000s is from Editors, an album called In This Light and 342 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:39,760 On This Evening, released in October 2009. 343 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:44,760 It's actually the third studio album from the English rock band formed in Birmingham 344 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,640 in 2002. 345 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:53,480 On the album notes, they don't actually specify what instruments the band members play, but 346 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:59,460 Tom Smith is the vocalist, Chris Urbonowitz traditionally plays guitar, Russell Leach 347 00:19:59,460 --> 00:20:01,740 on bass and Edward Lay on drums. 348 00:20:01,740 --> 00:20:05,640 But I guess maybe because it's an electronic album, I get the sense that maybe all of them 349 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,520 were messing around on the keyboards and stuff. 350 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,240 Really press the buttons. 351 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:11,240 Exactly. 352 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:16,280 It's a much more electronic album than their previous two efforts. 353 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:22,120 Here's a cut called Bricks and Mortar. 354 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:32,440 So again, a very comfortable sound for me. 355 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:33,440 Yeah. 356 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,580 It just sounds a lot like the 80s. 357 00:20:37,580 --> 00:20:38,880 It's funny that this counts. 358 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:40,680 I mean, it does. 359 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:47,720 It's electronic for sure, but my God, man, this couldn't be more Don-ish. 360 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,160 And the fact that it existed in 2009 is just shocking to me. 361 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:58,260 It was actually important because in that time period, I started looking for new music 362 00:20:58,260 --> 00:21:00,240 to listen to. 363 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,880 And this is one of the bands that I found. 364 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,280 Actually, I even purchased the vinyl. 365 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:06,280 I have that. 366 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:07,280 Oh. 367 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:08,280 Yeah. 368 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:12,360 So real quick, were you familiar with their previous records before you heard this one? 369 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:17,200 No, I don't remember how I became acquainted with it, but it was the first time I was kind 370 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,440 of excited about a new artist for a long time. 371 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,440 Cool. 372 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:27,520 Anyway, my clickbait headline is English band channels English greats, but fails to capture 373 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,040 Don's heart. 374 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:30,040 What? 375 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,080 I loved this record for a while. 376 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:34,080 I was really into it. 377 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,080 And I don't know. 378 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:36,080 I kind of left it behind. 379 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:40,680 And I mean, I still like it, but for some reason, it's I don't know. 380 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,840 It doesn't have like staying power with me. 381 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,840 I don't know. 382 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:46,840 Really? 383 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:47,840 Yeah. 384 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,600 You would think it would because it's everything I like. 385 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:50,600 Yeah. 386 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:51,600 Yeah. 387 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:57,400 But you know, it also could have something to do with the emotional and memory connections 388 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:02,560 that you built with it, you know, like you did with the music that inspired this. 389 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:03,560 Yeah. 390 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:09,360 I can't really put my finger on why, you know, this album, you know, kind of leaves me wanting. 391 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:11,840 But anyway, well, let's let's hear more. 392 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:17,960 Here's a song called You Don't Know Love. 393 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:31,960 Yeah, this this song gave me strong Don singing into a brush. 394 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:38,840 Yeah, vibes like both the LCD sound system and this album. 395 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:45,200 I just it was like it's the Don show this week. 396 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,760 I'm sorry it leaves you wanting because this maybe it's just two on the nose. 397 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,120 Maybe that's the problem. 398 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:52,120 Yeah. 399 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:56,300 So the song probes the depths of change in human emotion. 400 00:22:56,300 --> 00:23:01,000 And it's you know, it's about affection and detachment and all that kind of stuff. 401 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,280 And it's pretty clear. 402 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,760 I mean, the lyrics are pretty straightforward. 403 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:12,680 I mean, when you don't know love like you used to kind of from that Dracula singing style. 404 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,680 The Dracula School of Music. 405 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,140 Yeah, a little bit. 406 00:23:16,140 --> 00:23:18,500 The song is emotional just because of the chorus. 407 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:21,020 I mean, the rest of the lyrics are cool, too. 408 00:23:21,020 --> 00:23:24,960 But that chorus sets the entire tone very effectively. 409 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:30,400 My clickbait headline for this album, editors found to be time travelers in 1982. 410 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,560 Moody synth pop lost in time. 411 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,040 Dark London streets, anyone? 412 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,480 Smiths Morrissey with since anyone? 413 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:43,280 Like it's it's just it evokes that stuff so effectively that if you had played this for 414 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:47,360 me and said it was from 1982, I would have believed you and thought, wow, really clean 415 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:49,440 production for 1982. 416 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,120 It's true. 417 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:56,480 It just sounds so authentic to that time and that feel and that vibe and lyrically, they 418 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:57,480 pull it off. 419 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,240 Musically, they pull it off. 420 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:05,680 And the electronic elements are, again, well woven into the fabric of it where it doesn't 421 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,360 overwhelm. 422 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:12,720 It's just the right amount where someone like me that ekes at too much electronic sound. 423 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,800 This is a very nice mix and I enjoyed it quite a bit. 424 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:17,800 Quite surprised. 425 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,080 The song, The Big Exit. 426 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,000 I really like the sound of that one as well. 427 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,880 See, that one for me, I thought they got a little too dramatic on that track. 428 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,200 It went a little bit to that campy zone for me. 429 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:30,200 Right. 430 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:37,760 But that's kind of what makes it feel 80s to me is very over the top. 431 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,040 Yeah, that's true. 432 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,760 Well, let's hear another. 433 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,560 This is Eat Raw Meat Equals Blood Drool. 434 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:44,560 Yeah, obviously. 435 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:45,560 Sure. 436 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:46,560 Yeah. 437 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:47,560 Classic. 438 00:24:47,560 --> 00:25:02,560 Sounds a little Dave Matthews-y there, doesn't he? 439 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:09,120 So, interesting song. 440 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:11,600 I found that song pretty catchy immediately. 441 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,600 Lyrically, there's such odd phrasing in this album. 442 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,360 I didn't really know what to make it. 443 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:21,080 Lots of heavy metaphors or just richly steeped in metaphors. 444 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:22,080 Just odd though. 445 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,300 I don't know if it's like a British thing, the way he creates some wordings here. 446 00:25:25,300 --> 00:25:28,040 This feels strange to me, but I found it interesting. 447 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:33,920 My clickbait headline is, editors edit themselves into another genre. 448 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,520 I was vaguely familiar with this group. 449 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,840 Their debut record was pretty well received from what I recall. 450 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,800 That was much more guitar focused. 451 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,840 This record is interesting because they really kind of abandoned that almost completely and 452 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,200 go with this synth heavy sound. 453 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,920 You can still tell they're good musicians and they play well together. 454 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,400 I think it works pretty well. 455 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,800 Just maybe not quite as interesting to me as what they were doing in the past. 456 00:25:58,800 --> 00:25:59,800 Okay. 457 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:04,640 Yeah, I think for me, because of my expectations of what the show was going to be this week, 458 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:11,880 I was delighted with everything that was picked because it was rooted in pop or rock music 459 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:19,000 and with Electronica being a strong supporting cast member, but not all it was. 460 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,640 I think I probably have delusions of grandeur with these records because I was just so happy 461 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:29,800 that it wasn't an hour of boop, bop, boop, beep, beep stuff. 462 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:30,800 Yeah. 463 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:36,840 Well, there was one kind of beep, bop, boop component to this record that did stick out 464 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,960 to me as maybe not being, I didn't love as much. 465 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:46,000 There's a drone sound throughout this record of varying pitch that kind of seems to fill 466 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,360 in what the guitar distortion used to do for the band, just kind of like a background rumble. 467 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:52,360 Yeah. 468 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:57,880 For me, that type of drone sound just doesn't have nearly as much emotion in it as a guitar 469 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:04,140 distortion does, which feels more volatile to, I guess, than to sort of like can sort 470 00:27:04,140 --> 00:27:05,960 of version of that, which we get here. 471 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:10,320 I liked that sound because it sounded like London fog to me. 472 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,520 It's at that dark streets tone, but- 473 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,280 Yeah, it does lead into the darkness. 474 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,000 It's a good point you're making. 475 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,000 It might sound better if it were more organic. 476 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:25,880 Well, so the album is produced by Flood, who's another one who did my favorite Depeche Mode 477 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,360 album and U2 and stuff. 478 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:32,480 I think I decided why I am not in love with this record. 479 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:37,960 I think it's because it's like AI just generated a Dawn album. 480 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,240 I think it just doesn't challenge me. 481 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,720 I guess I still, like underneath, I still want to be challenged in some way, and I guess 482 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:46,720 it doesn't. 483 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,520 That's probably not fair to them. 484 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:57,040 Anyway, so that's Editors with In This Light and On This Evening. 485 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,040 Excuse me. 486 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:02,800 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 487 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,480 Now Deep Questions by Dawn. 488 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:10,840 All right, fellas, we're going really deep again this week. 489 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,840 What were your favorite electronic devices in the early 2000s? 490 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,600 Yeah, we're going to be dating ourselves here pretty quickly. 491 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:24,080 All right, we'll talk about my MP3 player, which is like probably from about 2002, I 492 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:25,080 want to say. 493 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,080 This was pre-iPod explosion. 494 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,200 It wasn't really an option. 495 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:36,520 So I had gotten this like $300 MP3 player, which was three gigabytes, which nowadays 496 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,640 could fit like your thumbnail. 497 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,760 But back then that was like an insane amount of space. 498 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:50,000 It had a spinning hard drive in it, so you couldn't really jostle it around at all, or 499 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,480 it would just stop working completely. 500 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,400 The battery life was about maybe 30, 40 minutes, I would say. 501 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,640 You could almost get through an album. 502 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,160 So you pretty much had it plugged in. 503 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,160 But I used that thing. 504 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:02,160 I used the hell out of it. 505 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,160 It was so great. 506 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,920 It had a really nice line in, so you could do recordings onto it, and you could fit like 507 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:13,160 maybe like 15, 20 hours of music on it, which at the time was like just mind blowing. 508 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,720 You could have that much music within your pocket. 509 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:16,720 I mean. 510 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,960 Right, not one of those giant folios with all your CDs. 511 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,640 Yeah, that was the alternative really. 512 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,760 It was just carrying like 15 pounds of CDs with you. 513 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:27,760 Yeah, I love that. 514 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:28,760 It's from Creative Arts. 515 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,360 I don't know if they're even around anymore, but they used to be popular doing computer 516 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:33,360 stuff. 517 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,360 Yeah, so that was fun. 518 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:35,360 Dude. 519 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:41,120 Yeah, for me, I'd go back a little earlier because I didn't have a computer in the early 520 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:42,120 2000s. 521 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,400 My roommate Don did. 522 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:48,920 But I didn't have like the idea of ripping CDs and taking my MP3s and putting them on 523 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,960 other, that just was beyond me at the time. 524 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,360 And I worked at a record store, so physical media was still predominant with me. 525 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:02,320 And CD Walkman with skip protection changed the game. 526 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,820 Because it's huge. 527 00:30:05,820 --> 00:30:09,080 That was one of the biggest problems with trying to have a portable CD player, which 528 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:14,280 you would plug in to an adapter that would go into your cassette deck in your car. 529 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,920 But every time you'd hit a bump or even turn, it would skip. 530 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:23,080 So having the skip protection on the CD player, that was huge. 531 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:29,140 It allowed me to put my folio of CDs in the car and be able to listen to them. 532 00:30:29,140 --> 00:30:37,520 So that and around the same time I got my first cell phone, one has become life. 533 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:43,680 The cell phone, the mobile phone, mobile device, and CD Walkman are three bucks on eBay. 534 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,200 It was cool at the time. 535 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,840 Well I remembered I had a Palm Pilot. 536 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,720 Do you guys remember those? 537 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,720 Sure. 538 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,200 I remember yours. 539 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,840 I just was like, what the hell is this thing for? 540 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:57,840 Yeah. 541 00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,400 It was a pen and everything. 542 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:00,400 Yeah. 543 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,400 So it's kind of predated the Blackberry and then the smartphone. 544 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,400 But it had the little pen. 545 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,640 And you had to learn like a version of shorthand. 546 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:07,640 Oh yeah. 547 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:08,800 They had their own language. 548 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,800 So instead of doing a full letter, you would just do a couple of lines. 549 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,800 So there was a learning curve with it. 550 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:21,960 And off air, dude actually reminded me that I dropped it and the lid broke off of it and 551 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:22,960 stuff. 552 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,320 So it didn't last long for me. 553 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:29,760 Well you were doing a promotion for the radio station you worked for and you're running 554 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,800 down the field at the sporting event. 555 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:36,000 And I saw it pop out of your pocket and hit the ground to break it to pieces. 556 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,160 You didn't have one of those belt clips everybody had back then where you just put it on like 557 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,160 a... 558 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,160 It was probably in my giant cargo shorts. 559 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,160 That's what I was going to say. 560 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,160 Always with the shorts. 561 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,160 Very 2000s. 562 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:52,640 What were your favorite electronic devices of the 2000s? 563 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:57,560 Let us know on Instagram or Facebook or leave a comment on our website, albumnerds.com. 564 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:03,160 Boy, that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him. 565 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,160 Ooh. 566 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,160 Yeah. 567 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,160 Yeah. 568 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:12,600 So my electronic album choice is by a band that was originally called The Management, 569 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:18,960 but due to conflicts with other bands, they had to change their name to MGMT, American 570 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:24,520 sort of psychedelic rock band formed in 2002 by a couple of college freshmen, Andrew Van 571 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,760 Weingarten and Ben Goldwasser. 572 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:33,640 In 2007, they released their debut album, Irracular Spectacular, kind of a critical 573 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,480 success, breakthrough album. 574 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,640 Why don't we give a little listen to the first track, Time To Protect. 575 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:55,520 This song reminds me a lot of when the iPod came out. 576 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,960 I feel like this was featured on some commercials or just like I equate the two together. 577 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:00,960 Yeah. 578 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:01,960 That sounds about right. 579 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:07,480 So I mean, the album itself, just their sound is this catchy melodies, psychedelic influences, 580 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:13,040 electronic elements, and it's a little more interesting than I thought. 581 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,720 I just at the time wrote them off as a couple of rave kids. 582 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:17,880 I saw the album cover. 583 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:23,000 It looked like they had just gotten done at Burning Man and I never listened to any of 584 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,160 their music until last week. 585 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:31,360 The track, Time To Pretend, I guess the keyboard melody was inspired by their pet praying mantis 586 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,880 that was named Cuvilla. 587 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,280 It was named after their experimental music professor who advised them on their senior 588 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:42,160 project, which was music, which is what kind of turned into their whole thing. 589 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,440 Would have been cooler if this was the project, like this album. 590 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,440 Faithless. 591 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:52,160 The track was originally titled The Mantis Sailing Home and was inspired by the tempo 592 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,260 of Abba's Dancing Queen. 593 00:33:54,260 --> 00:34:01,320 So yeah, I guess a few years ago it was in the trailer for the movie, Spider-Man Homecoming 594 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:02,660 and went viral on TikTok. 595 00:34:02,660 --> 00:34:06,640 So it still has some legs in life and the band just released an album. 596 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,040 They're still doing their thing. 597 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:12,300 Clickbait headline, MGMT take garage rock to the dance floor and lost their shirts along 598 00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:13,300 the way. 599 00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:16,440 As you'll see on the album cover. 600 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:21,560 So why don't we listen to a little bit of, this is hard because it's got of. 601 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:32,160 Why don't we dig a little deeper and listen to the next track of Moons, Birds and Monsters. 602 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:42,400 Hard to connect what we just heard on the single there to that track. 603 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:43,400 Yeah. 604 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,440 Interesting though, from my perspective. 605 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:51,640 Another clickbait headline is management lets workers have free reign on the B side. 606 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:57,000 Yeah, so they definitely packed all the hits in the front half here and the B side, I feel 607 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,840 like there's kind of like, had free reign and got into some interesting psychedelic space 608 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:02,840 here at times. 609 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,000 They still have like that pop sensibility. 610 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,160 They have like the kinks and their songwriting here. 611 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:16,000 There's definitely a garage rock undercurrent where this is like in the eighties synth pop 612 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,600 kind of put synths on a punkier sort of sound. 613 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:24,640 And then I feel like they did this with the garage rock revival of the early 2000s kind 614 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:30,100 of turned into this because it does have some rolling stones swagger to it. 615 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:35,040 And there's some, especially on that second half, like you said, it's a little more straightforward 616 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,040 psych rock. 617 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,040 Yeah. 618 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:38,040 Surprising. 619 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,080 I think there's even some room for experimentation too. 620 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,640 They got into some interesting moments here. 621 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,440 Maybe they don't work perfectly. 622 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:50,840 Songs like The Handshake, I didn't think was great, but you can definitely hear the production 623 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:56,240 influences and a lot like flaming lips, I would say, especially the closing track, Future 624 00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:57,240 Reflections. 625 00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:58,240 Shared to producer. 626 00:35:58,240 --> 00:35:59,240 Yeah. 627 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:03,440 Yeah, overall, I mean, I guess I'd like this more than I expected to. 628 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,480 It's hard to deny that they can write a catchy hook and just have a good sense for writing 629 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,480 a good pop, a pop hook. 630 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:15,320 But yeah, it was cool to see that they maybe have roots in psychedelia and open to some 631 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:16,320 experimentation. 632 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,760 So yeah, I was overall pretty pleased with this. 633 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:19,760 All right. 634 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,000 Why don't we get to the big one, the big track. 635 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,000 It's called Kids. 636 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000 Yeah. 637 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:39,120 So that is a catchy little ditty. 638 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,160 All their lyrics are kind of strange. 639 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,640 I was reading some interpretations of it. 640 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:52,240 Most people were kind of interpreting it literally, about sort of growing up and learning to moderate, 641 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:53,960 take only what you need. 642 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,640 And actually, somebody compared it to, I guess, a children's book or a children's story called 643 00:36:58,640 --> 00:36:59,640 The Giving Tree. 644 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,120 Have you guys ever heard of that? 645 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,120 Of course. 646 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:03,120 Of course. 647 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,120 She's also Silverstein, right? 648 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:05,120 Yeah. 649 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,120 Yeah. 650 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,120 Good stuff. 651 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,760 She's a witch from the tree, eventually the tree dies. 652 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,480 So I don't know if that's a family of trees haunting. 653 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,960 I don't know if that's really a reference to The Giving Tree or not. 654 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:17,960 It might be. 655 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:18,960 I don't know. 656 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,480 My clickbait headline is oracular spectacular. 657 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:26,400 No, but it's pretty good. 658 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,600 I think we'd all agree there. 659 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:29,600 Yeah. 660 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:34,400 I mean, I enjoyed the album and I'll probably return to it. 661 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:40,560 I love kind of psychedelic, goofy music and this is certainly that. 662 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:47,320 But they have a great sense of melody and they borrow from a lot of areas. 663 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:53,280 Even that like second song, Weekend Wars, it kind of reminded me of like Ziggy Stardust 664 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,040 era Bowie. 665 00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:02,380 I guess like all three of these albums, it's of its time, but it certainly refers back 666 00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:03,960 to the past. 667 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:12,240 And they effectively used electronica to carry some of the melodies, to modernize the sound 668 00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:19,080 and to this point because of the way that popular music has moved, this stuff still 669 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,120 sounds fairly modern. 670 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:28,000 It doesn't sound dated because it's got such a mix of influences that are familiar to everyone 671 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,320 that it feels comfortable. 672 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:34,880 It kind of shocks me with an electric feel. 673 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,440 I read one review and I just liked the one phrase. 674 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,520 It was out of Rolling Stone. 675 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:44,120 They called it Synthesized Heartache, I think is a cool thing. 676 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,440 And maybe that's like what I've always listened to, right? 677 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,440 It is Synthesized Heartache. 678 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:49,440 Synthesized Heartbreak. 679 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:50,440 Yeah. 680 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,900 Anyway, it's a nice album. 681 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:58,400 If you haven't or you just kind of forgot about them or they used to be your jam or 682 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:03,000 whatever it takes, I think you should listen to this MGMT album. 683 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,000 It's an interesting listen. 684 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000 There's something to grab onto for everyone. 685 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,240 Yeah, MGMT, oracular, spectacular. 686 00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:14,240 Can you dig it? 687 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:17,240 Can you dig it? 688 00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:20,080 Can you dig it? 689 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:27,640 Okay fellas, well, I guess we can unplug those synthesizers and talk about some other things 690 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:28,640 that we're digging. 691 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:29,640 What are you digging, Andy? 692 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,880 Yeah, I got a couple things I'm digging here. 693 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,800 It's instrumental music actually. 694 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,760 First one up from Julian Lange. 695 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:39,760 Lange? 696 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:40,760 Lange? 697 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:41,760 Lange? 698 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:42,760 Lange. 699 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:43,760 Lange. 700 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:44,760 I like Lange. 701 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:45,760 It could be like La-ye. 702 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:52,560 Isn't there the yogurt that's spelled like Faige, but it's Fa-ye? 703 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:53,560 Yes. 704 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:58,120 Okay, first one up here is from Julian Lange. 705 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:02,360 The record is called... 706 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:03,360 It's probably Laige. 707 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:04,360 It's probably Laige. 708 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,360 Poor Julian. 709 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,960 The record is called Speak to Me. 710 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,840 It's an instrumental guitar based record. 711 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,600 I found it pretty compelling. 712 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,320 My first listen through, got back to it a couple times since. 713 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,320 That sounds pretty cool. 714 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:19,320 I like it. 715 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:20,320 So the whole album is instrumental? 716 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:21,320 The whole album is instrumental. 717 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:22,320 Okay, okay. 718 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,640 I'll check that out. 719 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,320 It gets much more bluesy on some songs. 720 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,040 I can freestyle over it. 721 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,040 Yes. 722 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,040 That's perfect for you. 723 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:34,840 It's like a karaoke album for you to sing to. 724 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,960 I got one more for you to add your vocals to here, Don, from a... 725 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,720 A last name you guys may recognize, Sean Ono-Lennon. 726 00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:44,360 Ever heard of him? 727 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,360 No. 728 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:46,360 The album is called Asterisms. 729 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,360 First time hearing his music. 730 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:53,080 This guy just has like instrumental sort of jam band quality to it. 731 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,640 Very loose, only a handful of tracks, but a fairly long record. 732 00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,600 Enjoyed what I've heard from him so far. 733 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,400 So that sounds a little prog rocky. 734 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,400 Is that the vibe throughout? 735 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,400 Yes. 736 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,400 Okay. 737 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:05,680 All instrumental as well? 738 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:06,680 Pretty sure. 739 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:07,680 There's no vocals on that. 740 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:08,680 Yeah. 741 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:09,680 All right. 742 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,320 Last one for me is from an artist by the name of Moore Mother. 743 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,640 Her new album is entitled The Great Bella. 744 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,360 We've talked about that on the show. 745 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,440 We may have talked about her a couple of years ago. 746 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:20,440 Yeah. 747 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:21,440 Yes. 748 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:25,240 Very interesting, experimental, spoken word artist. 749 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:30,240 Though she does do elements of like hip hop, I would say, occasionally as well. 750 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:35,800 This album is very focused on like race relations, I would say, is the crux of this one. 751 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,840 Oh yeah, now I'm remembering. 752 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,200 Heavy duty stuff, even on the previous album. 753 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:44,080 It kind of sounds like something you would listen to like in a museum exhibit or something 754 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:45,080 like that. 755 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,080 Yeah. 756 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:47,560 Or a documentary. 757 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:48,560 Yeah. 758 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,560 That's what my nightmares sound like. 759 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:52,560 Guilty. 760 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:53,560 Guilty. 761 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:58,720 Oh boy, what secrets are you hiding? 762 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:05,880 Any one in law enforcement, his name is Don. 763 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:06,880 All right. 764 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:11,560 Well, I had the pleasure of seeing the legend John Mellencamp last week. 765 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:17,120 I really enjoyed the show in preparation for it, as I often do when I see artists. 766 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,640 I like to immerse myself in their latest work. 767 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:21,640 So I went back. 768 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,560 It's from last year, John Mellencamp's Orpheus Descending. 769 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,040 We've kind of flirted with doing it on the show before. 770 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,840 We may have even mentioned it, but we never actually did. 771 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,060 Yeah, I actually, it's a solid record. 772 00:42:34,060 --> 00:42:37,000 His vocal delivery has changed a little bit over the years. 773 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,040 He's much more, it's gravelly. 774 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:40,040 Yes. 775 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:46,000 But yeah, gravelly, but this album has a little bit more of the heartland rock sound. 776 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,040 A lot of his recent solo albums have not. 777 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,680 They've been more folky or just very dark. 778 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,800 So I can hardly even recognize his voice anymore. 779 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:56,800 Yeah. 780 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,120 And it's super political, which I enjoyed. 781 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:06,400 And he's just a little more laid back vocally than he used to be as well. 782 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,160 But aren't we all? 783 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:09,600 Still puts on a good show. 784 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:10,600 Awesome. 785 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:11,600 All right. 786 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:16,880 So I came across a surprise that I wasn't expecting. 787 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,680 Just looking at new releases, I happened to click on this band, Mild Life, their album 788 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:22,840 chorus. 789 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,040 They're an Australian jazz fusion band. 790 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:33,520 And just some of it struck me as very 70s, but modern and jazzy. 791 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:34,520 I'd never heard of them. 792 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:38,840 So it's a band to explore a sound you just kind of sink into. 793 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,480 So I found myself just kind of getting lost in it. 794 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,760 And we'll have to see where that leads. 795 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,880 But I didn't know there were jazz fusion bands anymore. 796 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,240 Especially in Australia. 797 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:50,240 That's cool. 798 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:51,240 Yeah. 799 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:52,240 All right. 800 00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:57,160 So then back to my usual Judas Priest Invincible Shield album is fully released. 801 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:01,600 And I don't know how Rob Halford sounds as good. 802 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,320 He's in his 70s. 803 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:04,760 The band sounds great. 804 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,280 It's an hour and four minutes long. 805 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:07,280 It's a long record. 806 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,800 And there's some of the songs that probably carry on longer than they need to. 807 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,480 But it's still fist pumping good times. 808 00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:20,000 Don't any of these guys have like roxoidus or anything? 809 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:25,080 Melon Camp on the Halford voice program. 810 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:28,360 Yeah, Halford plan. 811 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:34,080 And then as I like to do, I did pick up, actually, my wife bought it for me when we went to breakfast 812 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,220 and the record store this weekend. 813 00:44:36,220 --> 00:44:38,280 It's an album I've loved for a long time. 814 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:39,760 We've talked about it on the show. 815 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,160 Patti Smith Horses. 816 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,240 And I had it on CD, but I did not have it on vinyl. 817 00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:49,160 So we picked up a copy and it's been a lot of fun to have around. 818 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,160 Yeah, that's a good one. 819 00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,480 Did you say you had breakfast at the record store? 820 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,880 There's a breakfast place directly next to the record store. 821 00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:57,880 Cool. 822 00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,560 They share a wall. 823 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:00,560 It's very convenient. 824 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:01,560 Nice. 825 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:02,560 Okay. 826 00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:03,560 Well, what are you digging? 827 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:04,560 Let us know. 828 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:12,840 You can find us on the socials Facebook and Instagram or on our website, albumnerds.com. 829 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:19,960 It will be a discovery of extraordinary value. 830 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,200 Well boys and girls, it's about this time on the show and I'm reminded of the great 831 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:28,000 American innovator and businessman, Mr. Steve Jobs. 832 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,000 One more thing. 833 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,000 That's right. 834 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,000 One more thing. 835 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,800 He said, you can't connect the dots looking forward. 836 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,480 You can only connect them looking backwards. 837 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:39,640 You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future. 838 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:44,200 You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. 839 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:49,840 With that in mind, let's bring out my friend and yours, Wadbot. 840 00:45:49,840 --> 00:46:00,920 See what we'll be listening to on next week's show. 841 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:06,960 In the 1980s, hip hop began to establish itself as a musical movement to be reckoned with. 842 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:12,280 MTV assisted by bringing rap and hip hop into homes all over the world on the program, Yo 843 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,200 MTV Raps. 844 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:19,400 Next time, you will explore albums by artists that appeared on Yo MTV Raps. 845 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,400 Yo MTV Raps. 846 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:22,400 Nice. 847 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,360 I mean, I used to catch that when I could at friend's houses because we didn't have 848 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:26,360 cable. 849 00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:31,240 Obviously, he broke the door down, but Yo MTV Raps helped get hip hop to the masses. 850 00:46:31,240 --> 00:46:32,240 Into the living room. 851 00:46:32,240 --> 00:46:33,720 Dr. Dre and Ed Lover. 852 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:35,720 A different Dr. Dre. 853 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:37,840 Wait, there's two Dr. Dre's? 854 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:38,840 Yes. 855 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:39,840 Oh my gosh. 856 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,320 Things to learn. 857 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:42,320 Yeah. 858 00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,320 Exploring probably hip hop of the 80s and 90s. 859 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,320 So nice. 860 00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,200 Yeah, should be fun. 861 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,520 Don't forget, we do have one ongoing Elm Nerds Hall of Fame vote in progress. 862 00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:56,520 There's one week left to vote for Meatloaf's Bad Outta Hell. 863 00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:00,360 If you think that album belongs in the Elm Nerds Hall of Fame, sound off. 864 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:05,800 Go to our website, ElmNerds.com, or let us know on socials at Elm Nerds. 865 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:10,440 Get that album in its rightful place in the Elm Nerds Hall of Fame, or keep it out. 866 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,600 What's your favorite electronic record? 867 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,560 What do you remember from Yo MTV Raps? 868 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:15,560 What else are you listening to? 869 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,960 Leave a comment on our website or email us at podcast at elmnerds.com. 870 00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:23,800 You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and threads at Elm Nerds. 871 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,200 And please subscribe, rate, and review on your favorite podcast app. 872 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:31,800 And if you'd like to support the show, you can do so via PayPal at elmnerds.com slash 873 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:32,800 support. 874 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,240 Thank you for joining us once again here on the Elm Nerds podcast. 875 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:39,560 We'll catch you next time with some classic hip hop, Yo MTV Raps style. 876 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:40,560 Thanks for listening everybody. 877 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:41,560 See you next week. 878 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:46,560 I'm blue da ba dee da ba da ba da ba dee da ba da. 879 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,480 Bye bye, West Green. 880 00:47:49,480 --> 00:48:17,120 Bye for 65.