1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,440 Welcome to the Album Nerds podcast with your hosts, Andy, Don, and Dude. 2 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:15,360 Hi Don, I don't want to do this anymore. 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,560 It's the Album Nerds podcast. 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:18,560 That's good. 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,720 Hi dude, I got Andy and Don with me. 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,640 How you guys doing this beautiful summer of Don? 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:30,480 You about to turn this car right around and take us back home on our summer vacation, 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:31,480 man? 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:32,480 Don't make me do it. 10 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:35,480 I'm going to put my hand behind the seat and start slapping randomly, see what knees I 11 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:36,960 can get. 12 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:38,560 Don? 13 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:39,560 You know what? 14 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:45,000 I went to the eye doctor yesterday and I got a new prescription for my contacts and now 15 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,600 I have inner visions. 16 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:48,600 Wow. 17 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,200 That felt like a long one. 18 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:54,200 Swing and a miss. 19 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:55,200 Oh yeah. 20 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,200 That was rough. 21 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:01,040 All right, so this is the Album Nerds podcast. 22 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,740 We love albums, the album format. 23 00:01:03,740 --> 00:01:06,400 We love music and we hope you do too. 24 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,200 We've got a great show for you this week. 25 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:14,960 We're going to continue this beautiful summer of Don and revisit Stevie Wonder's inner visions. 26 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:17,920 We'll get into the nitten grid on that one. 27 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,280 Don is going to ask us a deep and probing question. 28 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,160 Then we're going to have some shout outs to some albums and album related items that we're 29 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,640 digging and then we're going to spin that wheel of musical discovery to find out where 30 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,040 this kooky summer of Don is going to take us next. 31 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,680 But this week it's time to look inward. 32 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:43,400 I proclaim this the summer of Donnie Lakey. 33 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,880 That's what I'm talking about. 34 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:53,680 So the summer of Don continues and if you've been basking in the rays with us, you know 35 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:59,320 that I went back into the Album Nerds archives and made a list of records that were previously 36 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,760 covered before I joined the show. 37 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,360 I gave that list to Wadbot. 38 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:09,180 She put it on the wheel of musical discovery and she keeps providing us records to talk 39 00:02:09,180 --> 00:02:10,420 about each week. 40 00:02:10,420 --> 00:02:18,120 So this week we're going to revisit an album you discussed in episode 138 Stevie Wonder's 41 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:19,120 Inner Visions. 42 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,760 I think in a sense being able to make a person be so emotionally involved in a particular 43 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,840 thing that they can cry about it or can smile about it. 44 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:30,480 It can be any kind of song but as long as you're really for real about it. 45 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:35,520 So Inner Visions was released in August 1973. 46 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:51,840 Let's hear a song called Living for the City. 47 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:57,600 And the vocal accompaniment that is an instrument in and of itself kind of adds some depth to 48 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:58,600 it. 49 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:04,080 Living for the City depicts the story of a young black man born in hard time Mississippi 50 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,880 experiencing discrimination while looking for work. 51 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:11,160 He eventually goes to New York City in hopes of a better life but basically gets framed 52 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,880 for a crime and ends up in jail. 53 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:19,500 Like most of the album Stevie Wonder plays a majority of the instruments on that track. 54 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:25,360 So this is the 16th studio album by the American singer, songwriter and musician. 55 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,760 Actually his real name is Steve Lynn. 56 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,880 I've never heard that before. 57 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,640 Steve Lynn Hardaway Morris of Saginaw, Michigan. 58 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:34,640 In 1950. 59 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:36,240 So that means when this came out he was 23. 60 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:37,240 Wow. 61 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,080 Yeah, it's his 16th album. 62 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:46,760 And so this kind of falls in the middle of I guess what critics call his classic period. 63 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:52,240 There's a stretch of like five albums in a row that are considered his perhaps best or 64 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:53,240 most important. 65 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:58,120 Well, yeah, it's when he for the first time in his career total creative control. 66 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:03,480 So I think probably the passion in the writing for those that handful of records over the 67 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:08,480 five year period or so would just must he must have been bursting with ideas. 68 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,200 He stopped being little Stevie Wonder. 69 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,200 Yeah. 70 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,240 So as I said, you guys discussed the album in episode 138. 71 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:17,240 What were your thoughts then? 72 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:18,240 What are they now? 73 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:25,920 I think back in 138 I was mostly struck by the positivity and just kind of the high energy, 74 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,040 the vibe that's pervasive on each of the tracks here. 75 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:35,120 And yeah, Stevie's able to like makes this very bouncy happy sounding music and mix in 76 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:41,120 some really hard hitting truths of life and some good lessons and just makes it a really 77 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,440 interesting lesson on kind of like both sides of the brain. 78 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:50,460 In that living for the city song, that last verse he's like, oh, I hope this story teaches 79 00:04:50,460 --> 00:04:51,480 you a lesson or something. 80 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,200 So he turns it into like a positive thing. 81 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:54,200 It's not just sad. 82 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,200 Yeah. 83 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,800 I think he's trying to put a positive spin on all these situations, whether they're 84 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,720 good or bad and trying to get something good out of it. 85 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:01,720 Yeah. 86 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:07,520 For me, on our last talk about this, I focused a lot on living for the city and its ability 87 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:13,720 to tell a story with the skits within it where you hear the police and just the creativity 88 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:19,460 behind it of really selling this story and making it come to life. 89 00:05:19,460 --> 00:05:26,760 But we also, we got into a bunch of different songs, but still that mix of funk, soul, jazz, 90 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:31,640 rock and roll is as enjoyable now as it was then. 91 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:38,520 I think I had a really great week of listening and I was able to learn a few new things and 92 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:43,880 did a little more headphone time, listened more intently to the lyrics, I think, than 93 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:44,880 the last time. 94 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,320 I think I was trying to present more than experience. 95 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,360 So we'll see how it goes. 96 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:50,360 Yeah. 97 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,480 It was a pleasure for me to spend more time with Stevie Wonder. 98 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,560 He's grown up, to me he was Ebony and Ivory and part-time lover and that kind of stuff. 99 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,080 I just come to say I love you. 100 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,160 In my 20s, I think I kind of learned how significant he was. 101 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,240 So yeah, it's always a pleasure to listen to these classic albums. 102 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,400 So let's hear another track. 103 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,400 This is All in Love is Fair. 104 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:24,280 Man, that just... 105 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:28,600 Yeah, you really get to hear him sing on some of these songs. 106 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,000 It's not all funky, quick delivery. 107 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Yeah. 108 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,240 I mean, that song really stands out to me. 109 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:36,240 It's just been... 110 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:42,280 It's a lovely performance from his own, which just stands out because he has such a great 111 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:43,280 voice. 112 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:48,640 I don't know, to me, coming back to this, just the quality from track to track, even 113 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:49,640 though he does... 114 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,120 He's dealing with a variety of different sounds on the record. 115 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,480 We've got funk, electro pop, Latin, R&B, obviously soul. 116 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,160 But just the quality is so high on each track. 117 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,640 Each track really feels like its own thing, its own little piece of artwork that's kind 118 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,680 of worthy of spending time with. 119 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:06,680 Yeah. 120 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:11,880 So my clickbait headline for this album is Wonder plays 40 Chess against himself for 121 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:13,360 44 minutes. 122 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:19,000 Just kind of imagine if you clone Stevie Wonder and put five of them in a room together and 123 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,040 they're all playing these songs as a group. 124 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:27,000 It's just such a high level and to know that he's involved at every level of it is just 125 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,000 so impressive. 126 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,640 Is 4D chess a real thing? 127 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:35,520 I know there's 3D chess in Star Trek. 128 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,120 Is there 4D chess? 129 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,000 What would be the fourth dimension? 130 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,920 Stevie Wonder's creativity is the fourth dimension. 131 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:43,920 Stevie brings his own dimension. 132 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:44,920 Yeah. 133 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:45,920 Yeah. 134 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:50,280 It's just great that some of these serious songs can really still have a fun and funky 135 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:51,280 delivery. 136 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:55,640 I'm sure I'm going to do more comparing it to Marvin Gaye and what's going on. 137 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,640 But I don't think there's a lot of... 138 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,280 I could be mistaken, but I don't think there's a lot of strings on this album. 139 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,920 And I think it's more it's the synths are taking the place of the strings, which is 140 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:05,920 pretty common. 141 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:12,600 Especially in this period when those tools were fun for these artists to be able to, 142 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,440 in the studio, not have to wait for an orchestra to come, but to be able to play around with 143 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,080 at least what it would sound like with that kind of fill. 144 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:26,400 For me, this song, it's about the heartbreak as a part of a relationship, but it balances 145 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:33,120 out the euphoric feeling of Golden Lady where it's that new relationship. 146 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,320 It's all so rapturing. 147 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:42,880 And this is more the truths of sometimes the challenges that can come in relationships 148 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,640 and either giving up or continuing to fight for your loves. 149 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:48,640 Yeah. 150 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:49,640 Yeah. 151 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,960 So you mentioned Golden Lady, which butts right up to Living for the City. 152 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:59,640 And then we have All Is Fair, which butts right up to Don't You Worry About a Thing, 153 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,760 which is another high energy funky track. 154 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:07,880 I thought you guys had all these ballads paired up against these more high energy tracks. 155 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:13,720 It makes for kind of a, I don't know, not necessarily uneven listen, but up and down 156 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:15,920 kind of energy scale. 157 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:21,000 I think it wasn't disconcerting to me. 158 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,320 I kind of like the up and down of it. 159 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:25,320 Yeah. 160 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:31,160 I mean, for me, I guess, Inner Visions and Stevie painting this picture of how he sees 161 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:36,240 life and life has its ups and downs, energy changes from moment to moment. 162 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,520 You can be having a great day and then you're having a bad day or you can be having a bad 163 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:46,000 day and something great can happen or something you've been waiting for comes through. 164 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,560 I think for me, it just sort of feels like the pulse and the pace of life. 165 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:52,560 Yeah. 166 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:53,560 It does feel alive. 167 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:57,840 There's a crackle of energy, I think, to this whole album. 168 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:58,840 There you go. 169 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,520 Okay, well, let's hear another cut. 170 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:15,240 This is the second track from the album called Vision. 171 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,960 This is actually what inspired me to go to the eye doctor this week. 172 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:24,760 Well, you came back around and you made it better. 173 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:30,080 Yeah, so the lyrics in that song basically just deal with sort of picturing this more 174 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:35,120 idealistic world where there isn't prejudice and hatred and stuff like that and I guess 175 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:40,880 kind of asking the question, how far are we from that vision? 176 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,120 That one, I don't even know what instrument that is there. 177 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:50,880 It's kind of like some jazzy notes going on there, sort of really interesting track. 178 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,200 And to have acoustic guitar sounds is nice too. 179 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,920 It makes it more organic and kind of feeling like a lullaby. 180 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:05,720 It's soothing, so its vision is painted in a dreamy way, so it does kind of feel like 181 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:10,180 you're in Stevie's mind picturing this utopia where we're kind to one another regardless 182 00:11:10,180 --> 00:11:12,400 of our differences. 183 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,800 But he also talks about, I'm aware where we are. 184 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,640 I'm aware that the green leaves turn brown. 185 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:24,280 I'm aware that things aren't always beautiful, but what if we just picture it for a while? 186 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:25,280 I like that. 187 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:30,880 Okay, well my clickbait headline is, wonder delivers stunning mid-career combination to 188 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,440 take progressive soul heavyweight title. 189 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:38,200 I don't know why I became a boxing man. 190 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:43,000 But I was kind of thinking of it, well here's another genre that I wasn't even really aware 191 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,320 existed before this progressive soul and it turns out I'm really into this stuff. 192 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:53,440 So Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone and Stevie Wonder. 193 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:59,660 And so I think what's going on, Marvin Gaye came out in like 71, the Sly Stone record 194 00:11:59,660 --> 00:12:01,920 we did, there's a riot going on. 195 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,200 Was that 71 or two or something like that? 196 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:10,120 So they came out with these amazing albums, but then you've got this period here where 197 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,440 Stevie's doing this stuff. 198 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:17,740 Kind of reminds me of that Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney rivalry, where Brian Wilson heard 199 00:12:17,740 --> 00:12:22,720 Rubber Soul and so he made Pet Sounds and then McCartney heard Pet Sounds and did Sergeant 200 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:23,720 Pepper. 201 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:33,000 And I wonder if there was kind of a rivalry between Marvin Gaye and Stevie. 202 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,760 They're both from Motown, they both had kind of similar career paths and they finally now 203 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,560 have control over the music they're putting out. 204 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:42,760 So interesting. 205 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,920 I can't imagine this record existing without what's going on coming out first. 206 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:54,380 I was thinking that none of those would have come out without like Miles Davis and other 207 00:12:54,380 --> 00:13:03,200 jazz artists, the Jazz Fusion Movement I think is the seed of a lot of this progressive soul 208 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:04,200 music. 209 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,520 I don't know, just an observation. 210 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:09,920 It's all connected man. 211 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,200 That's right, it is. 212 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:17,400 As we've already talked about, somehow Stevie Wonder just seems to have a more positive 213 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:18,400 vibe. 214 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:24,000 I feel like Sly Stone and Marvin Gaye kind of have these demons that they're trying to 215 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,680 work out and amazingly with Stevie Wonder, I don't really get that sense. 216 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:35,400 Here's somebody who's been faced with great challenges and he was a child prodigy and 217 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,320 we know those kinds of things. 218 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,000 People struggle with that as they get older. 219 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,120 But he seems like a guy at peace. 220 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:49,000 I think at 23 being unleashed with your creativity and being able to, he was little Stevie Wonder, 221 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,560 he played kind of jazzy songs, harmonica, he was controlled by Motown. 222 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:58,960 I think the wave was cresting for him. 223 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,240 So being a torture artist wasn't in the cards. 224 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:07,600 I think the euphoria we feel through some of these songs is what he was feeling as he 225 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:08,600 was creating it. 226 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,200 It's like higher ground. 227 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,160 I'm just kidding. 228 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,040 Well, let's play another song. 229 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaking of, here is Higher Ground. 230 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:33,480 So the word is Stevie wrote and recorded the song in a three hour burst of creativity 231 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:38,720 in May of 1973 playing all the instruments, kind of moving through the phases of life 232 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:45,440 and perhaps touching on concepts like reincarnation, like the things you do in this life. 233 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,320 Well, karmically, where's that going to take you in the next? 234 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:55,520 So the clickbait headline I chose for this album, Stevie Wonders about spirituality, 235 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:01,600 love and humanity on intervisions, 44 minutes of introspective perfection. 236 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,920 This song, I think, is a great example of that. 237 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:11,080 Looking back at what you've done, what you will do, how does that size you up as a human 238 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:12,080 being? 239 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,040 And just trying to live your life with that in mind. 240 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,520 You guys are a couple of evil sons bitches, so I'm not sure, but I think this song could 241 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:20,520 do you some good. 242 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:27,720 It's hard to resonate with someone whose soul is as black as mine. 243 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,680 So me, like Stevie, I was thinking of him as being a humanitarian, just kind of looking 244 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:37,400 out for his fellow brother or sister and trying to get us all to a better place. 245 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:42,560 It's not so much about individuals, but kind of as a collective getting us to a higher 246 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,760 ground, I guess you could say. 247 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:49,960 I think his trick or what is special about this record or that track in particular was, 248 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:56,840 that message at its core, I think, sounds very sappy and kind of pandering or something 249 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:01,240 like maybe your parents would tell you or something wouldn't really resonate with me. 250 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:02,800 Or you'd hear it in church, maybe. 251 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,680 Yeah, it sounds kind of religious. 252 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:11,280 He makes it sound just deeper and more elevated and more of a spiritual thing, and less of 253 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,640 something you're being told or for your own good kind of thing. 254 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,880 I really like the, I mean, of course I like the baseline. 255 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:18,880 Yes, you do. 256 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:19,880 It's a good baseline. 257 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:26,400 But there's something about it, it's almost like the, it feels like the pulse of life 258 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,720 for everything moving on. 259 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:29,720 It's really effective. 260 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:36,400 Well, the lyrics revolve around second chances and something that's come out since a few 261 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,320 weeks after the album was released. 262 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:39,680 Stevie got in a car accident. 263 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,320 It was in a coma for quite a while. 264 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:48,280 And apparently during his coma, his road manager, Ira Tucker Jr. was singing higher ground into 265 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,520 his ear and eventually his fingers started moving to the beat of the song and that's 266 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,520 when he started to come out of the coma. 267 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:59,720 And so there's this conjecture out there that this was prophetic and that this, he got a 268 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,280 second chance at life, which he had already written about. 269 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:12,120 So his thinking about it and his desire to be better served him well after he was injured. 270 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:13,120 It's interesting. 271 00:17:13,120 --> 00:17:16,960 So it's like Stevie Wonder in the past saves Stevie Wonder in the future. 272 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,160 You take it however you want, but I saw it. 273 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:23,000 That's a 4D chess set, man. 274 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,080 It is an interesting way to think about it. 275 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:27,080 Yeah. 276 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:28,080 Okay. 277 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,760 Well, this already lives in the Album Nerds Hall of Fame. 278 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:31,760 So. 279 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:32,760 Damn straight it does. 280 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:33,760 No need to nominate. 281 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:34,760 Is there like another level we can elevate it? 282 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:39,080 Is there like a special floor where they- 283 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,680 The platinum room? 284 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:41,680 Yes. 285 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,000 If there was, this would go there for sure. 286 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:51,040 I mean, of this period, I know that like perhaps Talking Book is by many considered the best 287 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,600 of this era, but I think Intervisions is my favorite. 288 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:55,600 Yeah. 289 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,160 I like songs in the Key of Life, but because it's a double album, I think it's a little 290 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:00,160 harder to process. 291 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,160 Yeah. 292 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,160 Yeah. 293 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:03,160 You can't go wrong with this era. 294 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,600 I mean, really, I think Stevie Wonder is pretty great, but this is definitely the classic 295 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:08,600 period. 296 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:09,600 All right. 297 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:18,080 Well, so the album is Intervisions released in 1973 by Stevie Wonder. 298 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,080 Excuse me. 299 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,200 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 300 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:27,160 Well, it's time again for Deep Questions by Don. 301 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:28,160 Ow. 302 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,160 It's so deep. 303 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:32,760 Okay. 304 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,800 All right. 305 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,720 This one actually might be deep. 306 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,720 So let's imagine Re-Unit and the Carnation is real. 307 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,760 How would you want to come back? 308 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,520 The Blaze of Glory on the third day. 309 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:51,320 I mean, I kind of hope Re-Unit is a thing. 310 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,800 I like the idea of it. 311 00:18:54,800 --> 00:19:00,200 That makes sense to me as a logical person that the things you do in this life would 312 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,400 carry on to the next one. 313 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:03,400 So yeah, I don't know. 314 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,840 I guess the goal is just to come back and be better than you were before, right? 315 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,160 So even if it's a little bit better. 316 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:15,440 But the Andy of today, what's that next step or is it a step back, you evil son of a bitch? 317 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,720 I'm going to go to the higher ground, man. 318 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:19,720 I can't go backward. 319 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:24,000 I mean, going backward, you come back like it was a horse or something. 320 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Horse? 321 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 A horse is majestic. 322 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,040 You'd come back as a slug or something if you're bad. 323 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:31,040 Oh, geez. 324 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:32,040 All the way down a slug? 325 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:37,080 I assume it was like a scale of some kind you could rate this on, right? 326 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,360 So what do you think? 327 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:42,280 Are you at least a human in the next life or something? 328 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:43,280 Fingers crossed for at least human. 329 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:44,280 Maybe not. 330 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,280 As handsome of a human as I am. 331 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:48,640 Yeah, I don't know. 332 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,160 Do you want to come back as a different creature, dude? 333 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:56,120 No, I want to come back as myself or at least something very close. 334 00:19:56,120 --> 00:20:03,520 I am happy with life and I try to think about other people and be kind except you guys. 335 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,920 And maybe that's what will knock me back a bit. 336 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:12,720 But like the life I lived growing up in a, you know, every family's got its stuff. 337 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:18,280 I grew up in a generally happy home, happy childhood, had food to eat, a roof over my 338 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:19,280 head. 339 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,560 I had a lot that a lot of people don't have. 340 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,160 So I'd be lucky to come back and just have the same level, you know? 341 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,400 I'm not asking for more. 342 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,840 I don't want to be a superstar or any of that stuff. 343 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,120 If I could just get this again, that'd be good. 344 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:33,680 Yeah, that's a good point, man. 345 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:38,000 The three of us got pretty lucky, I would say, with our lives so far. 346 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,160 That sounds pretty healthy. 347 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,760 I definitely wouldn't want to come back as Don. 348 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,960 Too much crying in my pillow listening to The Cure. 349 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:47,960 Oh, jeez. 350 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:52,040 No, you probably will come back as someone. 351 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:56,280 Here, I was going to say, you've probably, sounds like you've already reached the highest 352 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,280 level. 353 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:58,280 I just dropped out. 354 00:20:58,280 --> 00:20:59,280 There it goes. 355 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,200 Well, I said, you guys are the exception of my kindness. 356 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,200 Yeah. 357 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,680 So it sounds like we're kind of operating under the assumption that you kind of go levels, 358 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,320 which I think is kind of like the Buddhist thing. 359 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:17,400 But I was also thinking, if it was just random, your odds of becoming anything other than 360 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:22,280 bacteria, or just a single cell, like a cell or something. 361 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:28,080 So whatever the next thing that's being created, whether it's a human being born, a calf being 362 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:32,600 born, whatever it is, or a paramecium, that's what you're going to be. 363 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:33,600 Interesting. 364 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:34,600 That kind of blows my mind. 365 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:39,080 Like I wonder, because as human beings, we have consciousness. 366 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,440 We sort of know we exist. 367 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,400 And I assume my dog knows he exists. 368 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:49,400 But I wonder for plants and little single celled organisms, if they have any sort of 369 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:50,720 consciousness at all. 370 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,760 Well, you really should think about that, since you're a vegetarian and your whole thing 371 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,360 is that you don't want to hurt any creature. 372 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:03,400 I mean, every piece of lettuce you chew on, it's like, ah, ah. 373 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,680 Boy, have science ever discovered that lettuce has feelings? 374 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,120 So then I just don't eat? 375 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:10,120 Yeah. 376 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,040 Just the water diet. 377 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:16,560 Yeah, but the water is like hitting the acid in your stomach. 378 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,560 It's like, no. 379 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,560 OK, what do you want to come back as in the next life? 380 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:22,560 Let us know. 381 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,320 Hit us up on the socials, Facebook, Instagram, and threads. 382 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,800 Also on our website, albumnerds.com. 383 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:29,800 Can you dig it? 384 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:30,800 Can you dig it? 385 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:31,800 Can you dig it? 386 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:32,800 Can you dig it? 387 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:33,800 Can you dig it? 388 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,800 Can you dig it? 389 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:35,800 Can you dig it? 390 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:36,800 Can you dig it? 391 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:37,800 Can you dig it? 392 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,560 All right, so it's the summer of dawn and we got to enjoy the sounds of Stevie Wonder. 393 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,200 But did you find time to dig anything else? 394 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,200 Oh, you know I did, man. 395 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:54,680 Yeah, yeah, I got my 70s duffel bag full of new releases over here. 396 00:22:54,680 --> 00:23:00,120 Let's start with Carolyn Shaw, the composer, violinist, and vocalist from Greenville, North 397 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:01,680 Carolina. 398 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,400 She has a new record out entitled Rectangles and Circumstances. 399 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,680 Good title, yeah? 400 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,720 Good album art as well. 401 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,480 Let's play a little bit of the title cut. 402 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:22,080 Kind of a Judy Collins situation going on there. 403 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,080 Yeah, her voice is on some similar. 404 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,080 Yeah, I guess she's a classical composer. 405 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,680 I don't really hear a lot of classical on this album. 406 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,520 Sounds more modern, but yeah, it sounds interesting to me. 407 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:38,200 Stole a trick from Tool and using geometry for song titles. 408 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,800 And that parallelogram lady. 409 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,800 Oh yeah, Linda Perhox. 410 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,400 Yeah, you always remember. 411 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,720 I can never remember her name. 412 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:46,720 The dental hygienist. 413 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:47,720 Yes, that's right. 414 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:53,280 All right, and take a sharp left turn for ulcerates next. 415 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,200 Cutting the throat of God. 416 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,840 I'm not sure how I feel about that title. 417 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:01,840 Sacrilege. 418 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,320 It is, but it's kind of their deal. 419 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,320 They're an extreme metal group from New Zealand. 420 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,120 This is their seventh full length. 421 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:11,040 We'll play a little bit of the second cut. 422 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,040 This is The Dawn is Hollow. 423 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,040 The Dawn? 424 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,200 Kind of a Judy Collins vibe. 425 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,200 Oh wait. 426 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,200 Wow. 427 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,200 Pretty much. 428 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:31,120 Very dense, intense record from them, but it seems to be in line with their previous 429 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:33,400 output if you're a fan. 430 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,840 And last one for me is from John Kell. 431 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,840 There's a new album called Popticle Illusion. 432 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:39,840 Popticle Illusion. 433 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:40,840 I get it. 434 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,840 I don't know how I feel about that title. 435 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:43,840 Popticle. 436 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,800 So was today the theme like cool titles? 437 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:48,800 Yeah. 438 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,240 Cool and questionable titles. 439 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,880 I could not figure out what number studio album this was for him. 440 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,680 The guy has a huge discography. 441 00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,360 I kind of underestimated it. 442 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:00,360 Yeah. 443 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:02,280 A lot of collaborations and stuff too. 444 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:03,280 Yeah. 445 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,120 Just involved a lot of music over the years. 446 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:08,680 Obviously a founding member of the Velvet Underground. 447 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:14,040 I believe the first single is this track here called How We See the Lights. 448 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:23,120 It sounds a little 80s synth pop beat to me. 449 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:24,120 I don't know. 450 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:27,680 It's got a little bit of a Thompson Twins vibe or something. 451 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:28,680 Yeah. 452 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:33,640 It reminds me of the album that he did with Brian Eno back in 1990 called Wrong Way Up. 453 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:39,320 Kind of a similar sort of pop, kind of synthy sound, which I think is really effective. 454 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,320 Yeah. 455 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,960 I've been enjoying the record quite a bit so far. 456 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,200 What you been digging on, Don? 457 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:48,760 Well, if you remember back a couple of years ago when I first joined the show, we did an 458 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,800 album from a duo called the Cactus Blossoms. 459 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:52,800 I do. 460 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:53,800 Nice. 461 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,440 They're back, brothers Jack Tory and Paige Berkham. 462 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,560 A new album coming out in August. 463 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,500 They've dropped a couple of tracks. 464 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:06,080 This is There She Goes, not a cover of the Great Law song. 465 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,080 Thank God. 466 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:16,040 It sounds about right. 467 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:20,480 It's got that nice laid back vibe that I remember from the last record. 468 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,360 Is it kind of in their wheelhouse throughout? 469 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:24,440 I think so. 470 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,120 They've only dropped two so far. 471 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:31,760 Yeah, they all kind of sound like the last one, but we'll see if any ground is broken. 472 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,520 I'm hearing a little Tom Petty here. 473 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:34,520 Yeah. 474 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,440 He's pretty and kind of spiky. 475 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:38,440 Spiky. 476 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:39,440 I get it. 477 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:40,440 Cactus. 478 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:49,760 So actually, I went back in the past and I don't know something about the warm weather 479 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,080 and kind of driving around. 480 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,200 I kind of like to listen to oldies, stuff from the 50s. 481 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,520 They exist in different places, but there's an album by Elvis Presley compilation that 482 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:05,280 was released in 1999 called Sunrise, which is probably the best collection of his Sun 483 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,400 recordings that he recorded with Sam Phillips. 484 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,400 It's multi-discs. 485 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,400 You only have to listen to the first disc because the rest are kind of outtakes. 486 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,680 You listen to them once, but if you want an album experience, you just need disc one. 487 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,440 So here's Mystery Train. 488 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:30,360 Oh yeah, still a lot of country going on in his sound at this point. 489 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:32,320 Yeah, it's like true rockabilly. 490 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:37,440 I'm sure I just romanticize it or something, but I just love this era or this sort of clean 491 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:38,440 sound. 492 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,960 It really highlights just, I think, how much of a vocal talent he is. 493 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:48,480 Anyway, and then it's only music adjacent, but I watched a documentary from the actor 494 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,840 Andrew McCarthy called Bratz, and it's all about basically how that- 495 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,880 Self-promotion, maybe. 496 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:02,040 It's all about that term Brat Pack that he and his fellow actors from like The Breakfast 497 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:08,280 Club and St. Elmo's Fire, that term that was placed on them and how it affected their careers 498 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,400 and stuff like that. 499 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:10,400 So it's interesting. 500 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:16,560 It's kind of fun if you remember that period fondly, but it's less about reminiscing about 501 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:23,960 that time and more about the psychological impact having that label put on them ahead. 502 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,440 Yeah, that's on my radar to check out. 503 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,920 I do remember that period fondly as well. 504 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,640 Oh, it brought them down, huh? 505 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:32,640 I see. 506 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:33,640 Yeah. 507 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,560 I mean, this is like a take on the Rat Pack, right? 508 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:42,040 Yeah, because a lot of these people were appearing in movies together. 509 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:46,880 So there was like Molly Ringwald and Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez. 510 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:53,080 So these people were starring in youth-oriented movies for the most part together. 511 00:28:53,080 --> 00:29:02,040 So they had created this sort of subgenre of movie, and you expected at least one of 512 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,400 them to be in any given film. 513 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:05,400 Yeah. 514 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,960 And they were out supposedly partying, or at least some of them. 515 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,320 So it kind of had that, you know, the same vibe as Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and 516 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,640 Sammy Davis painting the town. 517 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:16,640 Okay. 518 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:17,640 Did. 519 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:18,640 Did. 520 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:19,640 All right. 521 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:20,640 Yeah. 522 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,440 So our friend, Luke Combs is back. 523 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,280 Fifth studio album called Fathers and Sons. 524 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,080 We'll play a little bit of Front Door Famous. 525 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:42,600 The song and the album are an ode to fatherhood and family. 526 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,200 Luke was involved in most of the songwriting. 527 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:49,080 It's a little bit more traditional country, a little less pop country vibes in it. 528 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,200 A little looser and less produced. 529 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,080 It's a nice Sunday album. 530 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,280 It came out last Friday, and it was good to listen to on Father's Day. 531 00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:58,800 Sounds pretty good. 532 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,200 Yeah, definitely check it out. 533 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:05,360 I mean, if you like any of Luke's songs, even if you don't like them all, this is kind of 534 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,120 the most hard on his sleeve record I've heard so far. 535 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:10,120 Okay. 536 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,120 Check it out. 537 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,120 I don't believe you. 538 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,200 Just added it to my Spotify library. 539 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,720 Motherfucker. 540 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,480 See how they treat each other. 541 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:22,480 All right. 542 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,360 So next one up, Paul McCartney and Wing's One Hand Clapping. 543 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:33,040 It's a live studio album recorded in 1974, in August of 74, and just released June 14th, 544 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,040 2024. 545 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:41,560 Here's a little bit of My Love Does It Good. 546 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:48,160 So apparently it was conceived as a documentary, and so it was filmed, and it was going to 547 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,560 go out to movie theaters, and an album was going to go out, but it never happened. 548 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:58,880 I guess in November of 2010, they released the film as a part of a box set, but they 549 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,800 finally released the album. 550 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,120 So it's the greatest hits. 551 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:07,000 There's some Beatles songs and McCartney and Wing's songs, but it's all live recorded in 552 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000 the studio. 553 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,600 And it's cool hearing these songs a little more raw. 554 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,920 Man, his voice sounds so good. 555 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:18,120 So it's kind of like Let It Be or Get Back, the live in the studio thing. 556 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:19,360 That's cool. 557 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,740 And lastly, got to get in one of my albums from my vinyl collection. 558 00:31:23,740 --> 00:31:26,080 My wife actually picked it up a few years ago. 559 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:32,120 Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual, with the classic song, like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and 560 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:36,260 Time After Time. 561 00:31:36,260 --> 00:31:43,320 So I recently very much enjoyed a documentary on Paramount Plus called Let the Canaries 562 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:44,320 Sing. 563 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:50,440 It's all about Cyndi's career, the band Blue Angel she was in before going solo, the struggle 564 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,200 to get her music out, her vocal talent that I never really thought about. 565 00:31:55,200 --> 00:32:00,240 But she has a beautiful voice and it's really highlighted well throughout the documentary. 566 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:05,360 It gets into some of the reasons why some of her social consciousness and some of the 567 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,440 work she's done for LGBTQ and all of that. 568 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,840 You get into the whys throughout her life. 569 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,600 It's a really great story, a fun watch. 570 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,600 Highly recommend. 571 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,800 You guys, Cyndi Lauper, familiar besides the singles? 572 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,280 I actually saw her open for somebody. 573 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,040 I think Tina Turner or something back in the day and I was impressed. 574 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,680 Yeah, she's always on my radar for these 80s episodes we do. 575 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,080 I'm surprised you haven't talked about her yet, honestly. 576 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:31,440 All right, so what are you digging? 577 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:32,440 Let us know. 578 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:37,120 Join us on the socials, Facebook, Instagram, and threads, and also on our website, AlbumNerds.com. 579 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:44,520 It will be a discovery of extraordinary value. 580 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:52,120 Well, it's about that point on the program and I'm reminded of the great Chinese philosopher 581 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:58,120 Confucius who said, by three methods we may learn wisdom. 582 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,080 First by reflection, which is noblest. 583 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,640 Second by imitation, which is easiest. 584 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,680 And third by experience, which is bitterest. 585 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:12,520 With that in mind, let's bring out my friend and yours, Wodbot, to see what we'll be talking 586 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:21,560 about on next week's episode. 587 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,640 The summer of Don continues. 588 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,160 With that in mind, I will be choosing which albums from Don's curated list you will be 589 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,740 exploring this summer. 590 00:33:29,740 --> 00:33:34,600 Next time, you will experience a true working class hero with Bruce Springsteen's Born in 591 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:35,600 the USA. 592 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,240 That's perfect timing to have Born in the USA come up while we're pushing into 4th of 593 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:45,200 July and all that stuff, especially if you're born down in a dead man's town. 594 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,400 I think everybody was. 595 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:54,240 Yeah, don't forget, you can suggest topics for the wheel on our website, AlbumNerds.com, 596 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,680 as well as vote for any ongoing Album Nerds Hall of Fame nominations. 597 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,640 What do you think of Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA? 598 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,240 How about Stevie Wonder's inner visions? 599 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,240 Let us know. 600 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,640 Leave a comment on our website or email us at podcast at AlbumNerds.com. 601 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,240 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and threads at Album Nerds. 602 00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:16,160 Please subscribe, rate, and review on your favorite podcast app. 603 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:21,800 If you'd like to support the show, you can do so via PayPal at AlbumNerds.com slash support. 604 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,920 Thank you so much for joining us on the program. 605 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:24,920 Album Nerds podcast. 606 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:25,920 We'll catch you next time. 607 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:26,920 Born in the USA. 608 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:27,920 Thanks for listening, my brother. 609 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:28,920 See you next week. 610 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:29,920 Hey, little girl, is your daddy home? 611 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:30,920 Did he go and leave you home? 612 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,920 Is it the babysitter coming? 613 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:44,840 You want to hear about my bad desire? 614 00:34:44,840 --> 00:35:01,880 I don't care if you're on fire.