1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,280 Welcome to the Album Nerds podcast with your hosts, Andy, Don, and Dude. 2 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:18,280 Andy's back. 3 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:19,280 Yay. 4 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:20,280 Aw, shit. 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,120 This is the Album Nerds podcast. 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:23,120 I'm Dude. 7 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,800 And of course we got Andy and Don with me. 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,480 Andy, welcome back from Safari, my friend. 9 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,560 And you're part the adventurer. 10 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:31,560 Thanks guys. 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:32,560 Yeah, I missed you guys. 12 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:37,280 It was rough out there in the outback. 13 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:38,800 My thoughts and prayers are with you guys. 14 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,520 So, glad to be back. 15 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:46,160 Sometimes when we were doing the show, I could like feel you moving through me. 16 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:49,120 That's why I was so brilliant on those episodes. 17 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:55,320 Yeah, I set mine in spirit as a little guide for you guys. 18 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,600 I kept calling everyone sell-outs. 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:58,600 That's how I knew. 20 00:00:58,600 --> 00:00:59,600 Okay, yeah, that was me. 21 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,600 Don, how are you doing, my friend? 22 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:08,400 Well, when I was a kid, we had a dog that if you went away on vacation or something, 23 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,400 when you got home, he'd ignore you. 24 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,400 So, I'm going to give Andy that treatment. 25 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,400 That is a unique dog. 26 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,440 I like it. 27 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,000 All right, so this is the Album Nerds podcast. 28 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,080 We love albums in the album format. 29 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:24,960 So we've got a great show for you this week. 30 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:29,640 We're going to be talking about some albums that feature Anger. 31 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,080 So we'll each pick one and present them. 32 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,080 Don's going to ask us a deep question. 33 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,240 We're going to have some shout outs to some albums and album related items that we're 34 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,560 digging and then we're going to spin that wheel of musical discovery to find out what 35 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,400 we'll talk about next time. 36 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,600 This week, it's all about the anger. 37 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,760 That's what I'm talking about. 38 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,640 Anger has long been a powerful driving force in music, fueling some of the most iconic 39 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,840 and influential albums across various genres. 40 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,300 From the raw aggression of punk rock to the searing social commentary of hip hop, albums 41 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:07,440 that channel anger have resonated deeply with listeners, often becoming cultural touchstones 42 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:11,520 that reflect the frustrations and discontent of their times. 43 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,600 So today, each of us will present an album that expresses anger. 44 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:17,600 God damn it. 45 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,640 Wow, he's even angry now. 46 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:27,960 Yeah, so anger is definitely fuel for the fire and can create some great art, right? 47 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:33,840 It also can create destruction and war and other things, but it being channeled healthily 48 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,220 and it's through music. 49 00:02:35,220 --> 00:02:36,520 So how'd you guys do? 50 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,800 Find some other stuff that didn't quite make the cut? 51 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,240 Yeah, I got a couple things here. 52 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:46,580 Well, the first one that came to mind and I think has often appeared on lists for various 53 00:02:46,580 --> 00:02:51,120 shows here is NWA's Straight Outta Compton, 1988. 54 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:57,640 I'm sure you guys remember this record, Fuck the Police, kind of being the calling card 55 00:02:57,640 --> 00:02:58,640 of the anger. 56 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,760 But it's all of the good tracks on that record too. 57 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:07,960 Still a solid, listen, an hour solid of pretty angry dudes. 58 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:13,280 It also was an opportunity to shine light on why they're so angry for those that maybe 59 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,400 were unaware of what was going on. 60 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,840 You would think Ice Cube would cool things off. 61 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,360 Oh, that's awful. 62 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,640 That's awful. 63 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:25,760 That's why they were so angry, because of jokes like that. 64 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:34,240 The other one I mentioned is from Boston, Massachusetts punk rock group Converge and 65 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:41,560 their 2004 album You Fail Me, which is a very dark album kind of about personal failures. 66 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:47,160 It's more of a deep depression kind of anger, which I got a lot to stay away from. 67 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:51,400 But it is a good record as well and deals with some pretty raw emotions there. 68 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,360 How about you, Don? 69 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,240 Well, I keep returning to that Phil Ox record. 70 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,960 You guys remember we did that, the protest album, I Ain't Marching Anymore? 71 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,960 Yeah, where it's like, I'm really mad. 72 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:03,960 I'm really, really mad. 73 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:04,960 It's like, are you? 74 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:05,960 Yeah. 75 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:06,960 Well, the lyrics are pretty rough. 76 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,600 The lyrics are, yeah, pretty in your face. 77 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:10,960 I was quite shocked by it. 78 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,600 I think a metal band should make a cover of that entire album. 79 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:15,600 Oh, yeah. 80 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,600 A crowd of anger. 81 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:18,600 Yeah. 82 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,560 And another one I checked out was Black Flag, their album Damaged, which I haven't spent 83 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:24,560 a lot of time with. 84 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,280 I knew the song Rise Against, but that's actually a really good album. 85 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:31,680 And of course, Henry Rollins is the front man and he does anger well. 86 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:32,680 Yes, he does. 87 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:33,680 He does. 88 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,680 He does anger, but it's somehow kind of civilized for a couple of minutes and then it ain't 89 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:38,680 so civilized. 90 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,720 How about you, dude? 91 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,240 I mean, I thought of a funny one. 92 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,840 I thought that'd be funny to talk about St. Anger by Metallica, but we talk about Metallica 93 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:53,360 so much and this isn't the reason to talk about that album. 94 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,080 It made fans pretty angry. 95 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:59,960 Yeah, I was going to say, if you want to instill some real anger on the show. 96 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:05,560 But that would be a better discussion for something along the lines of career fails 97 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,880 or whatever that, you know, whether you like it or not. 98 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:13,160 I mean, I enjoy the album, but I'm saying it loud and proud right here. 99 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:20,680 I also considered Power Trip, Nightmare Logic, their 2017 album. 100 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,420 They're a thrash metal band and a modern day one. 101 00:05:24,420 --> 00:05:29,240 Their lead singer passed away tragically, so their career is kind of in a holding pattern, 102 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,460 but lots of anger, frustration and more about the current world we live in. 103 00:05:33,460 --> 00:05:35,460 So I thought that would be fun. 104 00:05:35,460 --> 00:05:37,160 So it seems like there's a lot of anger out there. 105 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,240 Why don't we get into our three angriest picks? 106 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,320 You choo choo choose me? 107 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:53,000 For my angry selection, we're going with... 108 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Could you crank up the angry? 109 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,280 You sound very friendly and likable right now. 110 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:57,280 Come on. 111 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:00,280 For my angry selection, we're going with this. 112 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:06,320 Now we're going with the Oakland, California four piece groove metal band Machine Head 113 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,840 and their debut 1994 album, Burn My Eyes. 114 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:11,600 That sounds like it'd make a guy pretty angry. 115 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:12,600 Yeah, sure. 116 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:13,600 Playing with eyeballs. 117 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,160 All right, let's put the opening cut here. 118 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:27,400 This is the video. 119 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:32,040 Now I believe that was a line in the original Star Spangled Banner. 120 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,040 That was right there. 121 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,040 Yes. 122 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,480 The first draft. 123 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:37,960 Live Freedom Ring with a shotgun blast. 124 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:38,960 Yeah. 125 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:39,960 Eventually got edited out. 126 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:45,280 That song is about the branch Davidians. 127 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:49,720 I just remember them in Waco, Texas back in the early 90s. 128 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:50,720 David Koresh. 129 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:51,720 Yes. 130 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:52,720 Who was also a musician. 131 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:53,720 Oh, was he really? 132 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:54,720 I didn't know that. 133 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:55,720 Yeah. 134 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:56,720 So was Charlie Manson. 135 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:57,720 What's up with these psychos being musicians? 136 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:58,720 It's a fine line. 137 00:06:58,720 --> 00:06:59,720 Yeah, it is. 138 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:00,720 All right, let's see. 139 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:09,480 So that song, the album as a whole, I would say deals with different forms of anger, different 140 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:10,480 ways of... 141 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:16,720 The lead singer, who is Rob Flynn, the founder of the group, has experienced anger in his 142 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:17,720 life. 143 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:22,880 My clickbait headline for the album is Flynn and crew makes angry s'mores with my sweet 144 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,880 roasted eyeballs. 145 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:30,080 I mean, I don't like s'mores, so I guess... 146 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:31,080 Yeah, I mean... 147 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:32,080 They're overrated. 148 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,800 At least that sounds like an interesting ingredient. 149 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:35,800 Marshmallows are pretty gross in the room. 150 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,680 That'd be a fun Halloween treat, you know, marshmallows that look like eyeballs. 151 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,680 Yeah, that was a good idea though. 152 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:42,680 Yeah. 153 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,360 Why don't you put that on Pinterest, dude? 154 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,760 Let's see here. 155 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:56,440 So yeah, Flynn takes on a variety of different institutions, including church, economic oppression. 156 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,720 The only other thing that really struck me listening back to this album now, it's just 157 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:01,560 how much unrest there was in the early nineties. 158 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,800 I think that has been such a nostalgic, kind of like peaceful, good time, you know, good 159 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:06,800 time to be alive. 160 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:12,400 There was a lot of really kind of extreme stuff going on just out in the public. 161 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:18,160 The three of us were lucky enough to be in living situations where most of that was over 162 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:19,160 our heads. 163 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:24,240 You know, it was stuff on the news, you know, the younger you are, the more you can ignore 164 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:25,240 stuff. 165 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,640 But then you look back, it's like, damn, there's some dark times. 166 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,920 I was like, woohoo, and then there were people suffering. 167 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:31,920 Yeah. 168 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,840 All right, why don't we dig into another track here. 169 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:37,800 This is towards the end of the album. 170 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,800 It's called I'm Your God Now. 171 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:51,160 I feel like that's the calm before the storm does. 172 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,160 Yeah, it is. 173 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,560 I think that's maybe what drew me to the track. 174 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:58,920 So it does start out kind of, I mean, quiet relative to the rest of the album. 175 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:00,840 So it's kind of like a brooding intro. 176 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:05,200 And that's some of the only, I guess, what you would say clean singing on the album. 177 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:10,400 But yeah, it ends up rocking out as much as the other tracks eventually. 178 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:16,520 Kind of reminded me of Tool there, you know, like it has the vocals and that little groove. 179 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,840 It's not on Alice in Chainsey either. 180 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:19,840 Yeah. 181 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,800 And, you know, it builds an intensity, which, you know, I love songs like that. 182 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:29,600 So Flynn dedicated the song to a friend who died from a heroin overdose. 183 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:35,160 And so the metaphor is just that the drug becomes like an all consuming, godlike force 184 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,160 in an addict's life. 185 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:38,160 Yeah. 186 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:39,800 That'll make you angry. 187 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,000 It will. 188 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,880 So my clickbait headline is Introduction to Groove Metal Pushes Dawn One Step Closer 189 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,240 to Full Headbanger Status. 190 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:49,500 Whoa. 191 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:56,080 So this kind of this journey I've been on, you know, slowly getting into thrash. 192 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,440 I planted the seeds 20 years ago. 193 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,440 Slowly getting there. 194 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:01,440 Slow germination process. 195 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:06,360 And so now I hear about this groove metal stuff, which is kind of, I mean, I knew, I 196 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,040 had heard of Pantera and Sepultura and that stuff. 197 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:14,560 And I didn't know the difference before, but I do kind of hear it here. 198 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:20,480 So I guess like your thrash is more typically fast and aggressive, whereas the groove is 199 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:21,480 in the heart. 200 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:30,800 It's more mid tempo and it's, I'm not sure that it's more elaborate, but more, what's 201 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:31,800 the word, like syncopation? 202 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,160 Well, it's just consistent. 203 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:34,840 It's more consistent, I think. 204 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:35,840 Yeah. 205 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,960 Seems like the guitar riffs are maybe a bit more loud or harder. 206 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:40,960 I'm not sure. 207 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:41,960 Crunchy. 208 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:42,960 Crunchy. 209 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:43,960 Yeah. 210 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,720 So my understanding is that this is kind of like a hybrid between sort of the two styles. 211 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:49,720 Yeah. 212 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:55,400 It feels like kind of a bridge between the two areas of the, of I guess the bay where 213 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,680 these genres were kind of established. 214 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,800 A bridge over very troubled waters. 215 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:01,800 Yeah. 216 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,160 Yeah, totally. 217 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,600 So also, you know, my understanding is that the lyrics are a little different from, you 218 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,600 know, what other groove metal bands would have been singing about at the time, you know, 219 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,440 where they're dealing with like fantasy oriented stuff, whereas this is about what's going 220 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,680 on in reality and the harshness of it. 221 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:22,280 It's, it's if Marvin Gaye went metal. 222 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:25,280 No, there you go. 223 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:26,280 Wow. 224 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:27,280 What's going wrong? 225 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,280 I would love to hear that. 226 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:35,040 But yeah, you know, social disorder and urban decay, political corruption, substance abuse, 227 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,040 you know, it's heavy. 228 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:37,040 Check, check, check. 229 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:38,040 It's all there. 230 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:39,800 It's all, what's going on right there. 231 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,040 One thing I would say about the lyrics, I mean, I, well, I do think they are pretty 232 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:45,040 good and pretty interesting. 233 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,920 They're also, I would say they're metal lyrics. 234 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:48,920 They're pretty vague. 235 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:49,920 They don't go into a lot of detail. 236 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,720 It doesn't really offer a lot of solutions to these problems. 237 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,280 It's really just kind of like pointing them out. 238 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:56,480 But that's good though, right? 239 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,600 Like I think sometimes that's the problem. 240 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:03,240 When, when, you know, we talked about John Lennon a few weeks ago and pointing things 241 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:08,160 out is one thing, but trying to say what the solutions are, it's like, are you qualified? 242 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:09,800 Let us know to think about things. 243 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,440 You don't need to tell us how to fix it. 244 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,440 And anger is a good first step in the process. 245 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:15,440 I think. 246 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:16,440 Yeah. 247 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:17,440 Yeah. 248 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:18,440 All right. 249 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,040 Why don't we dig into the second to last track here? 250 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:22,040 This one's a little different. 251 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:26,040 It's called Realize, Realize and Realize. 252 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:27,040 Yeah. 253 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:31,440 I picked it just so you'd have to go through that. 254 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:43,760 I really appreciate it. 255 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:50,480 So Realize, Realize and Realize was inspired by the 1992 LA riots. 256 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:55,080 The song reflects the racial tensions and violence following the acquittal of the four 257 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,880 white police officers for the beating of Rodney King. 258 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,200 And it captures the intense social unrest. 259 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:06,480 So they used police radio and news samples from the riots, heightening the sense of urgency. 260 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:12,280 So it's kind of an instrumental mostly, except for the clips and then the screaming. 261 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:17,600 So Rob Flynn, who was influenced by industrial bands like Ministry used sound bites to help 262 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:23,400 create that contrast with white supremacists, black nationalist views, all emphasizing those 263 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,080 extreme perspectives. 264 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:30,840 And I guess the title comes from Oakland Graffiti, where it was Realize, R-E-A-L-E-Y-E-S. 265 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:31,840 I can see that. 266 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,400 The word realize and then real lies. 267 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:36,880 And it struck a chord. 268 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,160 I think it's a really cool title and a cool way to get the title. 269 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:44,960 So someone probably could sue for copyright on that. 270 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:50,160 My clickbait headline to describe Burn My Eyes, the metal wake up call that turns 90s 271 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,120 rage into a soundtrack for change. 272 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,120 Grab your earplugs and your sense of justice. 273 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,120 I love it, man. 274 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,840 I remember it was around. 275 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:04,040 I just wasn't really seeking out a lot of metal at the time in that new wave with Pantera 276 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:05,040 and stuff. 277 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:06,880 I was kind of, I shrugged that off. 278 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:07,880 So intense. 279 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:13,080 I love what they did with the expression of anger channeled at something important. 280 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:17,160 Not, you know, we've talked about before, it's not anger about mom and dad not buying 281 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,240 you a car or, you know, about not getting into the right college. 282 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:28,400 But by harnessing this anger, Burn My Eyes transforms those destructive emotions into 283 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:33,280 a force for self-reflection and hope of unity amidst division. 284 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,040 Sound like something people might want to think about now? 285 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:37,040 Hope? 286 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,200 Finding unity amidst division? 287 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:40,200 Yeah. 288 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,520 Sounds good to me. 289 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,320 I was listening to it while I was cooking. 290 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:51,600 I almost burned myself a few times because I was moving around in ways that are not good 291 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:52,600 for being near fire. 292 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,600 Yeah, I don't want to be head banging in your hot oil. 293 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,600 Yeah, I'm like, realize. 294 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:03,440 That's probably how his eyes got burned in the first place. 295 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:04,440 That's right. 296 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:09,160 So yeah, Burn My Eyes was actually Roadrunner, which is the label that this came out on, 297 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:15,280 their best selling record from 1994 all the way to 99 when Slipknot's debut came out. 298 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,160 I don't know if that was pretty interesting. 299 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:22,080 Well, I hate to throw this in, but then Nickelback came and crushed all that. 300 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:23,560 They were on Roadrunner as well. 301 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,720 We won't talk about that. 302 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:30,280 We're watching a documentary about them and it's love to hate Nickelback. 303 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:31,280 Yeah. 304 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:32,400 Oh my God. 305 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:37,080 It's about that phenomenon where people love them and then hated them for whatever reason. 306 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,760 So anyway, I digress. 307 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,640 So yeah, it's definitely in that era of kind of transitional period for metal here, but 308 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,440 I think it's a good one. 309 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:51,600 I would still say it's got kind of an underground status and I think it holds up pretty well. 310 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,360 Machine head Burn My Eyes. 311 00:15:54,360 --> 00:16:00,920 Before we get to our next angry selection, why don't we hear a little bit from the folks 312 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,720 over at Kenai Pod with Madness. 313 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,880 Kenai Pod with Madness. 314 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:11,040 What we will be doing is looking through vintage Karang, Karanga metal hammer, all from late 315 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:12,040 80s. 316 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:18,440 I remember when someone lent me Somewhere in Time and by that time I'd heard Marillion 317 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,440 and I'd heard Death Leopard. 318 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,080 I heard Bon Jovi on the radio and I thought I knew what heavy metal was. 319 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,840 When this started, I thought, I'm going to take this. 320 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:26,840 It was so harsh. 321 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:27,840 It was so metal. 322 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,960 I thought, I think this is going to be too much for me. 323 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:35,040 But I put it to be and I pushed through. 324 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,040 And I think if you tell most maiden fans would probably think this has got a soft album, 325 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,680 it's got keyboards on it or synth guitars or something. 326 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:46,400 But yeah, for me it was a shock to the system. 327 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:54,200 I credit Alice Cooper with introducing me into type of music because when I heard that 328 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,440 it was like, yeah, two friends over. 329 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,240 I was like, listen to me. 330 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,000 Like, obviously this has blown my mind so it's going to blow your mind too. 331 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,680 This is going to be amazing. 332 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:10,120 I played it to them and then they went, oh, do you like heavy metal? 333 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:11,120 And I was like mortified. 334 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:16,120 And I've never forgotten that because she'd be like, yes, I fucking like heavy metal. 335 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:22,320 Kicked over the tape and walked out of my own room. 336 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:23,480 So what do they do there? 337 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:24,760 They talk about Iron Maiden. 338 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:25,760 Is it all Iron Maiden? 339 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:26,760 Okay. 340 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,120 So that was a little sample of what they do over at Can I Pod with Madness. 341 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:34,120 Go check them out. 342 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:35,120 Okay. 343 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:40,200 So my angry pick comes from Pink Floyd. 344 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,400 Surprise, surprise. 345 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:47,520 So this is actually a while since you've actually talked about it. 346 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:53,360 You name drop them constantly, but we haven't talked about an album in a while. 347 00:17:53,360 --> 00:18:00,120 So this is actually their final album with Roger Waters released in March 1983 called 348 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:01,680 The Final Cut. 349 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:03,680 It's actually their 12th studio album. 350 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,640 The band was formed in London in 1965. 351 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:12,640 The lineup at this time was just Roger Waters, who's the bassist, main songwriter and vocalist, 352 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,600 David Gilmour on guitar and vocals, and then drummer Nick Mason. 353 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,640 Keyboardist Richard Wright had been kind of pushed out of the band by Waters during The 354 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:21,640 Wall. 355 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:28,040 So yeah, I mean, this album is basically the culmination of Waters increased creative control. 356 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,080 Well, anyway, let's hear the opening cut. 357 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:35,280 This is The Post War Dream. 358 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:43,720 Yeah, it's kind of like, stop it. 359 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:44,720 Stop it guys. 360 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:45,720 I'm really angry. 361 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:46,720 Seriously. 362 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,920 You don't feel the raw rage in his voice there? 363 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:50,920 I do not. 364 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:51,920 I don't. 365 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,280 Maybe I have a problem and I needed to be screaming. 366 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:55,640 I'm not sure. 367 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:56,640 That's on me. 368 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,840 Because I find myself at times being the other extreme like, okay, calm down. 369 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:04,040 When he wails like that, it's like, okay, we get it. 370 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:05,040 Interesting. 371 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:10,280 Anyway, so I mean, I feel like that song kind of sets the tone for the album's themes of, 372 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:16,320 I guess, disillusionment and criticism of like the post World War II society, British 373 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:17,320 society specifically. 374 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,760 And it actually references Margaret Thatcher, who was the prime minister at the time, calls 375 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,840 her Maggie, which is, I think, disrespect. 376 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:25,840 Yeah. 377 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:31,560 I'm kind of surprised that like all I hear now historically is that people didn't like 378 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:37,760 her but as a kid, I just thought it was cool that a lady was the big leader. 379 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:39,360 I thought that was cool. 380 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:42,720 I didn't really understand that she was not popular. 381 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,120 Yes. 382 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:48,720 Sort of ironic that it's kind of a progressive idea to have a woman leader but to have her 383 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,400 be this conservative force. 384 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,560 The song actually begins with sound effects of a radio tuning, which is like, I feel like 385 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,560 Roger Waters has done that. 386 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,160 Roger Waters. 387 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,160 Yeah. 388 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,160 Boy, how does he, on new albums, what does he do? 389 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:09,840 Does he have someone flipping through TikToks? 390 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,880 On the next one. 391 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:17,200 So that song as well as much of the album features the National Philharmonic Orchestra 392 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,200 arranged and conducted by Michael Kamen. 393 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,280 Is that the guy who did the Metallica? 394 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:23,280 With Metallica, yes. 395 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:24,280 Oh my gosh. 396 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,280 Wow. 397 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:26,280 Interesting connection there. 398 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:27,280 Yeah. 399 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:32,640 So my clickbait headline for the final cut is Waters copes with childhood loss and grownup 400 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,720 disillusionment with scream therapy session. 401 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,120 So a lot of this feels that way. 402 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:42,240 Could you change it to wailing therapy session? 403 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,720 Yeah, maybe it's wailing therapy. 404 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:52,280 I mean, this feels like a Waters solo album and it really kind of sets the tone for his 405 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:53,280 solo work. 406 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,240 I mean, I think it's an effective album. 407 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:59,760 It doesn't have the musical highlights of The Wall, but it does have some dramatic and 408 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,240 powerful moments. 409 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,520 And the anger is, it's the loss of his father. 410 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,520 His father died fighting in World War II. 411 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:12,640 I think the rage comes from the pointlessness of it all. 412 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:19,720 And then I think that was all brought to the surface with the Falklands, the Falkland Islands, 413 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:24,080 that conflict in the early 80s that dealt with Britain and Argentina. 414 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,200 So I think it's all, this is all senselessness. 415 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:27,200 Yeah. 416 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,820 And it has a lot of connections to The Wall. 417 00:21:29,820 --> 00:21:33,520 Some of these cuts were left over from that time. 418 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,640 A few of the songs deal with the schoolmaster character. 419 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,480 The Eater North Putting guy? 420 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:40,480 Yep. 421 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:45,720 So we kind of get behind him and it turns out he's a veteran of the war and dealing 422 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:46,720 with demons. 423 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,080 So that's why he's mean to children. 424 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:50,920 Trying to get them to have their nutrition. 425 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:51,920 Yeah. 426 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,920 What a jerk. 427 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,160 And then somewhere in there, there's the song, The Final Cut, that feels like that's the 428 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:06,640 character of Pink from The Wall, the rock star who's dealing with the loss of a wife. 429 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:11,240 So yeah, it's kind of The Wall, part two, informed by more modern events. 430 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,120 Well, let's keep going. 431 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:15,880 Here's the final cut from The Final Cut. 432 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,040 It's not to be confused with The Final Cut. 433 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,040 Right. 434 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,240 Realize, realize, realize, right? 435 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,040 This is Two Suns in the Sunset. 436 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:35,600 Yeah, I mean, I guess it is screaming. 437 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,320 It's just in a more civil way than I guess I'm used to. 438 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:43,360 It's a gentleman's scream. 439 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:45,360 Yeah. 440 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:53,640 So I guess this song kind of stands out for its rage and fear about nuclear annihilation. 441 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:59,040 It closes the album with a vision of destruction and a world on the brink of collapse. 442 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:04,120 The Anger in the Song is directed at the global leadership and systems that perpetuate wars 443 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:10,440 and waters describes the moments leading up to the catastrophic nuclear explosion, likened 444 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,480 to the two suns in the sunset. 445 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,280 Wow, that's pretty dark. 446 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,000 Yeah, kind of reminds me of that the day after. 447 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,400 Yeah, remember that made for TV movie thing? 448 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,320 Yeah, that scared the crap out of me. 449 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:22,320 Me too. 450 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,560 Yeah, it was about if America had been nuked. 451 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,600 Oh yeah, I did see that. 452 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,560 Yeah, that is creepy. 453 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:35,300 So the line in the song, the sun is in the east even though the day is done, two suns 454 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:40,520 in the sunset could be the human race is run. 455 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:41,520 You go, Roger. 456 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,880 Yeah, there you go. 457 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:49,400 It does feature a notable saxophone solo by Raphael Ravenscroft renowned for his work 458 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,200 on Jerry Rafferty's Baker Street. 459 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,400 Wow, we're having some weird connections here. 460 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:02,080 It adds some emotional depth to the song and makes it slightly sexy, which I'm not sure 461 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,160 is the correct choice. 462 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:09,560 But the song ends with this quiet fizzle like amplifying less anger and more despair about 463 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,560 the future. 464 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:11,560 Sure. 465 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:16,240 My clickbait headline to describe the album, Roger Waters final rant is the final cut a 466 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,720 farewell or just an ego trip? 467 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:19,720 Yes. 468 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:20,720 Kind of a farewell to both. 469 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,600 It is a farewell to Pink Floyd in some ways. 470 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,320 So I think it's more like his overwrought solo albums than it is Pink Floyd. 471 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,240 So as far as their catalog goes, this is not amongst my favorites. 472 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,520 I liked it when there was more of a collaborative band spirit behind the creation where there 473 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,580 was some, where the sounds varied a little bit. 474 00:24:39,580 --> 00:24:45,120 This is all very in the same lane, but Don loves it. 475 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:47,640 So I love it too. 476 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:48,640 All right. 477 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,800 Well, let's hear another cut. 478 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:58,080 This is also on side two, the Fletcher Memorial. 479 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:06,240 That's an equally dark song. 480 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,640 We had the nuclear war and the dudes back there. 481 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:13,000 This one's about gathering together all the world leaders, putting them in old folks home 482 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,480 and setting on fire. 483 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:20,080 Yeah, that's a little, I guess that is kind of angry. 484 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,080 Yeah, that's angry. 485 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,080 This is plotting sort of twisted. 486 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,120 I kind of like the imagery. 487 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:29,880 It's like they're there just like playing with each other so they can't harm the rest 488 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:30,880 of us. 489 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:37,080 I would be fine with it if it wasn't for the last line where he introduces the final solution, 490 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,800 which is pretty dark. 491 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:48,740 Yeah, Roger Waters is known for saying some pretty incendiary, hey-oh stuff about violence 492 00:25:48,740 --> 00:25:52,400 toward the people he disagrees with, which is odd. 493 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,400 He's angry. 494 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,400 He's angry. 495 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:59,480 Yeah, well, how many times are you going to channel that anger through your music? 496 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,840 Eventually, that's supposed to help get it out. 497 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,720 Fun fact about that song. 498 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:11,120 So Fletcher is a reference to his dad who was Eric Fletcher Waters. 499 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:12,120 Yeah. 500 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,800 He's really caught up on the death of his dad. 501 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,720 I didn't realize that he was just an infant when he passed away. 502 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,920 I thought maybe he was a little bit older based on the trauma it seemed to have caused 503 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:23,920 him. 504 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:24,920 But I'm a big fan of The Wall. 505 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,560 I think I really took to that in college and I still hold it in high regard. 506 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:34,720 I think a lot of these songs here feel like they could be on The Wall or at least feel 507 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,720 wall-esque, wall-esque. 508 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,040 But the quality, yeah, is a little hit or miss for me. 509 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:44,680 My clickbait headline for the final cut is, Water uses leftover bricks to build a ramshackle 510 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:45,680 monument to himself. 511 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:46,680 Ooh, well said. 512 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:57,280 Like I said, there's some parts of that good things I like about Water and his artistic 513 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:01,960 creativity here, but there's just not enough of the group. 514 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,000 Gilmour is such a talented guitarist, man. 515 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,160 I love his guitar playing and you get glimpses of it here, but there's not enough to really 516 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,800 sink your teeth into or feel like it's a consistent thread throughout the album. 517 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:13,800 Yeah. 518 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,960 I mean, there's Gilmour parts on it while they're good. 519 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,840 They feel like just a replica of licks he played on The Wall. 520 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:21,840 Yeah. 521 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:22,840 I felt the same thing too. 522 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:28,280 You get dusts of the good background singers and there's some horns and stuff throughout 523 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,960 and field recordings. 524 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:35,000 So it does feel a little bit more intentional than just thrown together than maybe some 525 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,000 other brands might do with this type of B-side material. 526 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,800 But it's still Roger Waters. 527 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:44,560 He's still a great artist in my opinion and these songs are way better than most that 528 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:45,560 I've heard. 529 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,120 So I'm not going to shit on it quite as much as some people maybe. 530 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:54,760 My issue is more with the style and the sound just in general. 531 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,720 I'm one of those weirdos that the wall's okay. 532 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,200 Like it's not my favorite Pink Floyd. 533 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,080 I like the dark side of the moon and that period more. 534 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,520 Or it's a little more rock and roll, a little less theatrics, but that's just me. 535 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:07,520 Yeah. 536 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,160 I wanted to mention just one other song. 537 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:15,520 When the Tigers broke free, that actually didn't appear on the original release. 538 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:20,280 It was recorded during The Wall session and it's actually in the film The Wall. 539 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:25,440 And then when it was remastered or re-released in 2004, it showed up on there. 540 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,320 So it's kind of hard to know if it belongs. 541 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,120 It actually fits quite well on the album and I think it ends up being a highlight because 542 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:34,360 it's, I mean that really is the story of his dad's death. 543 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:35,360 Yeah. 544 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:37,560 It's just a, I think a really powerful track. 545 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:38,560 It always moves me. 546 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,280 His vocal performance on that has always been very compelling to me. 547 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,360 He gets to some weird places during that. 548 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,040 I don't know about the consider us. 549 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:48,040 Yeah. 550 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,040 All right. 551 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:54,400 Well, it's barely a Pink Floyd album, but if you want an angry yet honest album about 552 00:28:54,400 --> 00:29:02,400 the harsh realities of our world, check out Pink Floyd, The Final Cut. 553 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,400 Excuse me. 554 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,400 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 555 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:07,800 All right. 556 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:13,120 Time for another deep question by Don. 557 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:18,800 So we're talking about anger and of course we've all probably had our moments. 558 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:24,840 What are your favorite freak outs that you've either experienced yourself or witnessed out 559 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:25,840 there? 560 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:34,680 On the days of social media, I feel like we're just inundated with freak outs now and then. 561 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,040 I had one happen to me. 562 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,560 I'm not the kind of person that freaks out very frequently. 563 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:43,320 I'm not sure I ever can think of, but I had somebody freak out at me once and it stuck 564 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:44,320 with me. 565 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:49,680 If you guys have ever had the case where you've been driving upset a driver near you, come 566 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:57,200 to a stop light and they decide it's come time to take this in a more personal approach 567 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,520 to this and get out of their car and come back and like, no, how would you? 568 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:01,520 It's never gone that far. 569 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,920 Just some flip offs and horn honks and tailgating. 570 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:11,720 I had a guy get out and come back to my car, stand in front of my window and yell at me 571 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:16,600 for a few moments until I just drove around him and put out my way. 572 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,600 But it was pretty surprising how somebody do that. 573 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:20,600 Oh, please. 574 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,240 I know you're cleaning this up to sound like a nice guy, but you got out and you kicked 575 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,240 his ass. 576 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,240 I know what really happened. 577 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:33,240 I'm not fucking with that guy because I was carrying my busy street to go yell at somebody. 578 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,600 That's not my cup of tea. 579 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,640 The other one I'll mention from pop culture that I always think about when I think of 580 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:39,640 a good freak out. 581 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,240 Do you guys ever see that clip of Bill O'Reilly a long time ago? 582 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,240 Yeah. 583 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,240 We'll do it live. 584 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:47,240 Yeah, exactly. 585 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:48,240 We'll do it live. 586 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:49,240 Fuck it. 587 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,240 That's a great one if you haven't seen it in a while. 588 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:51,240 Man, he really loses his cool pretty quickly. 589 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,240 How about you, dude? 590 00:30:52,240 --> 00:31:05,520 As a younger man and mostly kid, teenager, I was quick to anger over certain things. 591 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:10,920 If I'd hit my head on something like a cabinet door or whatever, I'd slam it shut out of 592 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,600 anger, but it would pop back open, which would piss me off more. 593 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,640 And then slam it shut again and pop back open. 594 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,520 It would become this basically paddle ball thing of trying to get the damn thing to close, 595 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,200 but without giving in and doing it nicely. 596 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,400 But just over stupid stuff. 597 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:32,520 I was raking leaves once when I was 15 or 16, hit my head on a tree branch, beat the 598 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:41,000 tree with the rake, broke the rake, screaming and yelling. 599 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:47,160 Just unbridled, stupid anger that you learn not to act like that as you get older. 600 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,360 Well, most people do, except for the guy that got in Andy's face. 601 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,000 How about you, Don? 602 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,400 Well, I mean, personally, thinking back to when I was a kid, for some reason, video games 603 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,400 would set me off. 604 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:01,400 Oh yeah. 605 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,400 You want to throw the controller, dudes? 606 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,400 You can see under your skin. 607 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:05,400 Yeah. 608 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:10,720 I never broke a controller, but I'd start shaking a pillow or something. 609 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,160 I kept it. 610 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,280 Remember like the Atari joystick? 611 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:20,960 I remember ripping the rubber cover off of it and throwing it in the bathroom. 612 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:21,960 Rage quit. 613 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,160 I was thinking about this is another obscure example, and I can't believe I'm citing this 614 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,720 movie again because it's such a meh movie, but the film Amityville, the original Amityville 615 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,720 Horror. 616 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:32,720 Yeah. 617 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:38,400 There's the Lutzes, they're friends, like the guy he works with and his wife, or talking 618 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:39,400 to them. 619 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,440 His wife is, she's the one that's sort of in tune with psychic, spiritual energy or 620 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,440 something. 621 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,960 So she's talking and then the husband just like lays into her and all of a sudden he's 622 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,960 like, Oh, thank you very much for your cosmic views. 623 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:52,960 Now do me a favor. 624 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:53,960 Shut up. 625 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,360 It's just so like uncalled for. 626 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,680 Okay, man. 627 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:03,800 So he's definitely like suppressing some rage against his poor wife, I guess. 628 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,640 Anyway, what's your favorite freak out? 629 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,080 Let us know on Instagram and Facebook or leave a comment on our website, AlbumNerds.com. 630 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,760 Don't make me angry. 631 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,080 You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. 632 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:22,120 Okay, so Anger, the Angry Albums, a lot of different things came to mind, but one popped 633 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,160 in in particular that was from a different perspective. 634 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:33,080 So I went with Hole, Live Through This, released in April of 1994, produced by Paul Coldary 635 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,000 and Sean Slade. 636 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,520 The second studio album by the American alternative rock band Hole showcases a shift from their 637 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,920 raw hardcore roots to more polished melodies and structured songwriting. 638 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,440 The band consists of Courtney Love, of course, on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Eric Erlinson 639 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:54,960 on lead guitar and backing vocals, Kristin Pfaff on bass guitar and backing vocals. 640 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,200 And she tragically passed away from a heroin overdose shortly after the release of this 641 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:04,200 album, which adds to the list of tragedies that was occurring at this time. 642 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,280 And we'll get into that later. 643 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,760 Patty Schummel on drums and percussion. 644 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:14,280 And you know, Courtney was aiming to surprise listeners with softer edges while still maintaining 645 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,320 that fierce sensibility from the first record. 646 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,680 The Tackle Steams of Beauty, motherhood, anti-elitism and violence against women. 647 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,160 Why don't we jump in with the track Violet? 648 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:35,880 So that's the first track on the album. 649 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:41,360 It's a total explosion of anger and Courtney just unleashes everything in the song. 650 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:47,280 The lyrics explore anger, vulnerability, defiance and struggles with identity and the expectations 651 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:52,280 of a woman and femininity and all of that rolled into it, into the whole album, really. 652 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:57,640 I guess it's a song about a jerk and it's widely believed to be about Billy Corgan from 653 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:02,480 Smashing Pumpkins, who she dated before Kurt Cobain, who she famously was married to. 654 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:07,720 Interestingly, Love teased that she hexed him as Corgan had a full head of hair when 655 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:12,120 they dated but was losing it by the time Violet was released. 656 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,080 We all know how much hair he has today. 657 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:15,080 So there we go. 658 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,080 Courtney loves. 659 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,080 Wow. 660 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,240 Yeah, by 95 he was shaving his head. 661 00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:24,440 I hate comparing her to Nirvana, but for this song, like that chorus kind of sounds like 662 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,000 a Nirvana scream to me. 663 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,120 They had similar influences. 664 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,000 Yeah, the Pixies were the loud soft. 665 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,360 I think they pioneered that and that was Kurt and Courtney were both fans. 666 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,160 They met when their bands were both coming up. 667 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:44,560 So this album was written before Cobain's death and was released a week or so after 668 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,000 because that's when it was scheduled to be released. 669 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:52,680 So I can't imagine what it was like to have this whirlwind of popularity, the death, a 670 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:57,320 terrible death of your husband, the other issues that they already had and then having 671 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,880 people point fingers like you did this to him and stuff. 672 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,800 That must have been a very difficult time. 673 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:03,800 Oh my gosh. 674 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,800 Yeah, at least Yoko only broke up the band. 675 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:06,800 Oh boy. 676 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:12,600 Let's not get into that again. 677 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,800 Go back and listen to Imagine again, Don. 678 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,160 I think you missed the point. 679 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:21,200 So my clickbait headline to describe the album, live through this is a sonic middle finger 680 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:26,560 to the male dominated music scene using anger fueled anthems to raise it high. 681 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,760 The finger that is. 682 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,120 I recognized what she was, what was happening there. 683 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:37,080 There was like, there's a double standard and I'm going to shine a dark light on it, 684 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,080 you know? 685 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,080 So angry, definitely. 686 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,080 And yeah, she's very angry. 687 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:48,840 That loudsoft works really well for anger because it helps you get those punches in, 688 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:49,840 you know? 689 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,520 OK, so why don't we get into the final track on the album. 690 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:54,520 It's called Rockstar. 691 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:55,520 Or is it? 692 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:56,520 Oh yeah, great song. 693 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:57,520 Yeah, I think that one stands out. 694 00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:58,520 It was mainly being able to kind of above the rest of the song. 695 00:36:58,520 --> 00:36:59,520 I think it's a good one. 696 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:00,520 Yeah. 697 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:01,520 I think it's a good one. 698 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:02,520 I think it's a good one. 699 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:03,520 It's a good one. 700 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:04,520 It's a good one. 701 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:05,520 It's a good one. 702 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:06,520 It's a good one. 703 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:07,520 It's a good one. 704 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:08,520 It's a good one. 705 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:09,520 It's a good one. 706 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:10,520 It's a good one. 707 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:11,520 It's a good one. 708 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:12,520 It's a good one. 709 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:13,520 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 710 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,840 I think it was kind of above the rest of it originally called Olympia. 711 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,760 Obvious reasons, but all the media Washington. 712 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:24,080 And that was Olimpiada Dac 돌보� Do conecta x4? 713 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,240 A traded joke. 714 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:31,400 Yeah, I mean, did she want to Oscar or something like an 80 something steel magnolias. 715 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,200 Oh, I don't know. 716 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:39,600 But the song here is about the the right got二anm adjuston touched on at some point in 717 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,360 Bikini Kill. 718 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,440 Yeah. I was going to say car wash. 719 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:49,560 That's not quite what it was about. 720 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:54,400 I remember renting that from Blockbuster when I was like 16, me and my buddies, 721 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,240 bikini car wash. 722 00:37:56,240 --> 00:38:03,760 Yeah. That's a pretty funny song from Love there. She's got some interesting little vocal quirks 723 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,200 there. She does this kind of like halt start at the beginning of the track a couple of times, 724 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:07,920 and she's like, uh-huh. 725 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:13,120 Yeah. I think she's making fun of the Olympia gals. 726 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:19,200 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. My clickbait headline for Live Through This is, 727 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:24,080 in the midst of a cultural hurricane, Hole delivers one of the eras defining records. 728 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:30,640 I was really surprised at how good this record is. I really didn't listen to it a ton when it came 729 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:37,600 out of me. I knew of them and I liked her voice and stuff. But this felt like, I mean, it's so hard 730 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:42,080 not to tie this back to Nirvana. There's so many threads that are just interwoven between them. 731 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:48,480 But it felt like a really good representation of that Seattle grunge sound that there's not a lot 732 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,720 of really good records that I think capture that. And this one I would say is. So yeah, 733 00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:56,160 I was really surprised by how good this was. There's a lot of aggression, but there's a lot 734 00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:01,360 of soft moments too and a lot of diversity and dynamics to the sound. And it's lyrically 735 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:06,000 interesting. It feels like a very personal record for Courtney. I feel like I get to really 736 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:10,800 understand her a little bit as a person throughout this album. Especially probably for female 737 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,920 audiences, it's easy to take the lyrics and apply it to either what you've experienced. Or in my 738 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:21,360 case, I was applying it to maybe trying to recognize someone else's view on a time, 739 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:27,520 on that time in the nineties and the way that she came up and my opinions on her were probably 740 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:33,680 biased by what was in the media at the time that she was, that she was somehow on the coattails. 741 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:38,960 But I think she had all the talent and everything to make it on her own. She didn't need Kurt Cobain 742 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,920 for that. Totally agree. It was weird how much of a sort of like a tabloid character she became. 743 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:48,720 This was almost like an opportunity to give her side of it. It feels like a little bit. 744 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:55,680 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, especially after this with addiction issues and the media just 745 00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:02,880 hounding her and blaming her for Kurt's death and stuff. I'm sure the aftermath was maybe not 746 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:08,640 worth it. I don't know. Yeah. All right. Well, we move on and listen to a little bit of another 747 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:21,920 one of the big singles off the record, Doll Parts. That one line there just reminded me of that Taylor 748 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:28,240 Swift song we listened to about the guy who only breaks his favorite toys or something. 749 00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:33,360 Right. He only loves them because he likes to see them break. I'll leave that to you. You're the 750 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:41,680 Swifty of the group. So Doll Parts was supposedly written after she met Kurt Cobain, explores themes 751 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:48,080 of love, insecurity, and fear of rejection. She said that it was about Cobain expressing her 752 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:54,160 feelings of uncertainty about how interested he was in her. The song's only three chords, 753 00:40:54,160 --> 00:41:00,560 which I didn't notice because it sounds pretty sophisticated and complex. I think that is why 754 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:08,160 this whole album works because dealing with just huge emotional issues, but presenting it in a 755 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:16,480 relatively simple way, in a pop way. Well, even the Doll Parts metaphor where if she's 756 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:23,040 self-conscious about is he liking me, it's about her eyes, her hair, she's just a bunch of parts. 757 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:30,880 It's an interesting way to think about the way that women are viewed by men and then for them 758 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:36,080 to try to have to sift through all that when getting to know someone. Yeah, it's interesting. 759 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:42,160 My clickbait headline is love tell story of a young woman in a man's world and dares us to live 760 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:51,680 through this. Zing. Yeah, just I was quite surprised by how much I like this album. 761 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:58,080 Yeah. I do have Taylor Swift on the brain just because we recently discussed it. But 762 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:04,800 there are some parallels here, singing about these personal things that are very specific. 763 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:12,880 Taylor Swift in her own way says edgy things, she's in your face, but just the delivery is 764 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,200 so different. Yeah, it's a different era of music. 765 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:23,440 Yeah. But I really enjoyed a lot of the lyrics, just how dark they were in Miss World. I'm Miss 766 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:30,160 World, somebody kill me, kill me pills. No one cares, my friends. It's just so damn dark. 767 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:37,120 I don't even think she's being melodramatic like Morrissey is. It feels like she means it. 768 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:42,560 Yeah, I think that's the problem, especially this era of music. I think we saw the depression and 769 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:49,040 stuff from Soundgarden and others, Alice in Chains was metaphorical, but these people were, 770 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:56,160 a lot of these folks were suffering and trying to get it out in song and we were celebrating to it 771 00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:05,680 instead. Yeah, reading through her bio, she's just had such a life experience and you hear it in this 772 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:12,240 album. A couple little fun facts. The album was dedicated to Joe Cole, who was a roadie for 773 00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:17,040 Black Flag, who was shot and killed in 1991, apparently after a whole show. So that's why 774 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:21,680 they dedicated it to him. And then of course, there's the rumors that swirled that Kurt Cobain 775 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:27,840 was ghostwriting the album. That's been debunked for years. It's ridiculous. But Time Magazine in 776 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:33,120 2006 said something like, this is a quote, live through this is clearly a woman's work 777 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:39,840 and is far more swaggering than any album, any grunge man ever came up with. I like that. 778 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,360 I'm not even going to make it a sexist thing here. 779 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:49,840 Yeah. So the other great songs, Jennifer's Body deals with the kidnapping and abuse and murder of 780 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:57,120 Colleen Stan. A movie has been made, I believe, since then with that title. And Softer Softest 781 00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:01,040 about Courtney's troubled childhood with lyrics where it says, P girl gets the belt. 782 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:02,880 P girl gets the belt. 783 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:08,000 Emotional and physical abuse she endured while growing up. And she explained that the songs about 784 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,400 a girl who always smelled like pee in your class and it was her, which made me very sad. 785 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,160 Yeah. She lived through it. 786 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:25,600 She did. She did. So yeah, Live Through This is a dark, angry album with hopefully getting anger out, 787 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:31,520 giving people some comfort of their feeling that way. And you definitely need to check it out 788 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,040 if it was something that you kind of passed over back in the 90s. 789 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:35,920 Can you dig it? 790 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,560 Can you dig it? 791 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,440 Can you dig it? 792 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:48,800 Well, it's been an angry week, you know, where you guys able to dig anything else, 793 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,080 something to calm you down, explore some other emotions. 794 00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,640 Yeah. I got a few things in my, my knapsack here. 795 00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:58,640 Over my shoulder. 796 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,200 That's the one you took on your safari. 797 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:07,280 Yes, indeed. All right. Actually I've been circling back through some new releases from 2024, 798 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,800 seeing if there's anything I overlooked. And there were a couple of things. 799 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,000 The first one is from an artist by the name of Judith Hill, 800 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:19,520 bought a record a few months ago called Letters from a Black Widow. I may recognize Judith. She 801 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:25,200 was a backing singer for Prince and Michael Jackson, as well as some other pretty well-known artists. 802 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:29,120 She's learned to play guitar and she put out a really compelling record here. 803 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:35,200 Let's play, uh, Runaway Train. 804 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:39,440 Most catchy song on the album, but it's a really solid album overall. 805 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:44,960 Yeah. I mean, I think Don and I were both expecting a cover of Runaway Train by Soul Asylum. 806 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:45,600 Yeah. I know. 807 00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:48,320 All you up in the... 808 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:49,280 Yeah. Shut up. 809 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:52,560 I'll check it out. Yeah. 810 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,000 All right. And the last one for me is from Cosmozzy Washington. 811 00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,320 Album is called Fearless Movement. This is a double album, I believe. 812 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:04,240 It's his seventh studio for the saxophonist and band leader. 813 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:08,080 It's got a lot of different features on it, including Andre 3000. 814 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:09,040 On flute? 815 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:09,840 On flute. 816 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:10,720 All right. 817 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:18,560 Yeah. On flute. George Clinton and B.J. the Chicago Kid. Really interesting jazz album. 818 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:26,000 It's an ambitious record. This is Asha the First. 819 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,160 Cool. I haven't listened to any like modern jazz records this year, I don't think so. 820 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:30,880 Kind of funky. 821 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:36,320 It's got some funk. It's got some like some 70s throwback that I like sound to it. 822 00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:37,120 I'm digging it. 823 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:37,600 Cool. 824 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,600 Don, what would you dig on if you were digging? 825 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,840 Well, uh, it's finally happening. 826 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,720 Oh, Don, I'm so happy for you. 827 00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:47,840 I am pretty excited. 828 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:49,120 You're glowing. You're glowing. 829 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:55,280 So, The Cure are in fact releasing an album on November 1st. It's going to be called 830 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:59,520 Songs of a Lost World. I mean, Robert Smith has been talking about this since, 831 00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:05,440 you know, since the last one came out. So there is a song out there now called Alone. 832 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:06,960 It's actually the opening cut from the album. 833 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:11,840 Every song you ever sing. 834 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,640 Yeah, it sounds really up and happy and centric. 835 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:15,140 Nice. 836 00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:16,100 Yeah. 837 00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:17,940 It's a different guy. 838 00:47:17,940 --> 00:47:23,540 So I did see them last year and they performed a bunch of newer songs and I do think that's 839 00:47:23,540 --> 00:47:25,300 going to kind of be the mood of the album. 840 00:47:26,420 --> 00:47:30,660 And he lost his parents and a brother over the last 10 years. 841 00:47:30,660 --> 00:47:33,540 So that's too bad, but I'm sure it's going to make some good music. 842 00:47:33,540 --> 00:47:35,540 Yes. Yeah, they do that well. 843 00:47:35,540 --> 00:47:40,180 And then another thing I found, which was kind of interesting, Creed Bratton. 844 00:47:40,180 --> 00:47:42,020 Oh, I just heard. 845 00:47:42,660 --> 00:47:43,540 No, not that Creed. 846 00:47:43,540 --> 00:47:44,100 Oh, damn it. 847 00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:48,740 But Creed from the Office. That's actually his real name, Creed Bratton. 848 00:47:48,740 --> 00:47:52,980 He was a member of the Grassroots and I mean, he's been putting out music, 849 00:47:53,540 --> 00:47:57,380 you know, for a long time. He has a new one called, I think it's pronounced Dowel Pop, 850 00:47:57,380 --> 00:47:58,500 spelled Towel Pop. 851 00:47:58,500 --> 00:48:00,900 Yeah, here's a song called Tall Grass. 852 00:48:00,900 --> 00:48:09,220 Really, is that it? You're enjoying it too, huh? 853 00:48:09,220 --> 00:48:10,420 Yeah, it's pretty, it's... 854 00:48:10,420 --> 00:48:11,860 Hey, I want to check this out. 855 00:48:11,860 --> 00:48:14,100 Kind of rootsy and bluesy. 856 00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:16,020 Creed, wow. 857 00:48:16,020 --> 00:48:18,500 Not what my ears pictured. 858 00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:22,180 Wow, his like artist profile photo, he looks really good. 859 00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:24,820 Doesn't look like Creed at all. 860 00:48:24,820 --> 00:48:26,580 Yeah, that was just the makeup for the show. 861 00:48:27,860 --> 00:48:29,460 He's that good of an actor. 862 00:48:30,180 --> 00:48:31,220 What are you digging, dude? 863 00:48:32,260 --> 00:48:35,860 Well, Billy Strings is back with a new album. 864 00:48:35,860 --> 00:48:38,500 Seems like it's a double, it's 20 tracks. 865 00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:40,100 It's called Highway Prayers. 866 00:48:40,100 --> 00:48:43,140 Billy Strings is a, I guess, a genre defying musician. 867 00:48:43,140 --> 00:48:45,220 For those who don't know, plays bluegrass 868 00:48:45,220 --> 00:48:49,220 and it blends traditional elements of rock and other genres. 869 00:48:49,220 --> 00:48:52,020 Kind of a jam band-ish sort of guy. 870 00:48:52,660 --> 00:48:54,500 So why don't we check out a little bit of Ledfoot. 871 00:48:54,500 --> 00:49:06,180 So co-produced by John Bryan and features all those genres and influences and 872 00:49:06,180 --> 00:49:11,940 gets to his roots in Michigan while delivering that laid back, enjoyable sort of music. 873 00:49:11,940 --> 00:49:15,940 Sure, that's going to be making some year endless, I had a guess. 874 00:49:15,940 --> 00:49:18,740 I was at the record store the other day, the vinyl to double. 875 00:49:18,740 --> 00:49:20,740 50 Doll Hairs. 876 00:49:20,740 --> 00:49:22,740 Woohoo. 877 00:49:22,740 --> 00:49:23,940 Yoza. 878 00:49:23,940 --> 00:49:25,460 That's a lot of body parts. 879 00:49:25,460 --> 00:49:26,740 It certainly is. 880 00:49:28,740 --> 00:49:35,220 Also, we mentioned this album actually on our 1984 top albums episode. 881 00:49:35,220 --> 00:49:38,660 But it's ZZ Top Eliminator from 1983. 882 00:49:38,660 --> 00:49:40,580 I just picked up a vinyl copy. 883 00:49:40,580 --> 00:49:43,780 It's original pressing from that era. 884 00:49:43,780 --> 00:49:45,780 Let's listen to a little bit of Sharp Dressed Man. 885 00:49:50,580 --> 00:49:56,740 So legendary rock band with that distinctive blend of blues infused rock, catchy riffs, 886 00:49:56,740 --> 00:50:02,500 their beards, of course, and then the synthesizers that make their way onto this record and make 887 00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:06,260 it very 83 but also make it pretty fucking cool. 888 00:50:06,260 --> 00:50:09,780 If I had been on that 83 show, we would have been rocking this album guys. 889 00:50:09,780 --> 00:50:12,740 This was a staple at my house growing up. 890 00:50:12,740 --> 00:50:13,700 Nice. 891 00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:16,180 Give me all your loving, legs, other hits on there. 892 00:50:16,180 --> 00:50:18,980 But yeah, if you haven't listened to it in a while or ever, check it out. 893 00:50:18,980 --> 00:50:19,940 Well, what are you digging? 894 00:50:19,940 --> 00:50:20,500 Let us know. 895 00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:23,220 Join us on the socials, Facebook, Instagram and threads. 896 00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:25,620 Also on our website, albumnerds.com. 897 00:50:25,620 --> 00:50:32,420 It will be a discovery of extraordinary value. 898 00:50:36,740 --> 00:50:42,340 It's about that time on the show when I'm reminded of the great American writer, Mark Twain. 899 00:50:42,340 --> 00:50:43,540 I think about him every day. 900 00:50:44,900 --> 00:50:45,380 All right. 901 00:50:45,380 --> 00:50:50,420 He said anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than 902 00:50:50,420 --> 00:50:52,180 anything on which it is poured. 903 00:50:52,740 --> 00:50:53,540 Smart guy. 904 00:50:53,540 --> 00:50:57,220 With that in mind, let's bring out my friend and yours, Wadbot, to see what we'll be talking 905 00:50:57,220 --> 00:50:58,500 about on next week's episode. 906 00:51:06,660 --> 00:51:12,740 In the 1980s, hip hop solidified its place as a powerful musical force and evolved rapidly 907 00:51:12,740 --> 00:51:14,100 throughout the decade. 908 00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:17,700 Next time, you'll be diving into the wonders of 80s hip hop. 909 00:51:17,700 --> 00:51:21,060 And who knows, you might just find yourself busting a move. 910 00:51:21,060 --> 00:51:25,860 I said hip hop, hippie to the hippie to the hip, hip hop, you don't stop a rocking. 911 00:51:25,860 --> 00:51:26,580 What do you think guys? 912 00:51:26,580 --> 00:51:28,980 Oh, that sounds like some classic hip hop. 913 00:51:28,980 --> 00:51:30,100 1980s style. 914 00:51:30,100 --> 00:51:30,580 Cool. 915 00:51:30,580 --> 00:51:32,980 It's tricky to rock a rhyme, no rock a rhyme. 916 00:51:32,980 --> 00:51:33,860 That's right on time. 917 00:51:33,860 --> 00:51:34,500 It's tricky. 918 00:51:35,380 --> 00:51:36,900 These are very awkward moments. 919 00:51:36,900 --> 00:51:37,940 I thought we were battling. 920 00:51:41,460 --> 00:51:42,260 That's next week. 921 00:51:43,140 --> 00:51:45,380 Well, what's your favorite 80s hip hop record? 922 00:51:45,380 --> 00:51:46,500 What else are you listening to? 923 00:51:46,500 --> 00:51:50,420 Leave a comment on our website or email us at podcast at albumnerds.com. 924 00:51:50,420 --> 00:51:53,860 You can follow us on Facebook, Instagram and threads at Album Nerds. 925 00:51:53,860 --> 00:51:57,860 And please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast app. 926 00:51:57,860 --> 00:52:03,300 Also, if you'd like to support the show, you can do so via PayPal at albumnerds.com slash support. 927 00:52:03,300 --> 00:52:05,860 Thank you so much for joining us and welcome back. 928 00:52:05,860 --> 00:52:07,300 Andy, everyone. 929 00:52:07,300 --> 00:52:08,660 Welcome back. 930 00:52:08,660 --> 00:52:11,300 We'll catch you next time with some 80s hip hop. 931 00:52:11,300 --> 00:52:12,340 Thanks for listening, everybody. 932 00:52:12,340 --> 00:52:13,060 See you then. 933 00:52:13,060 --> 00:52:15,220 Go on, take it. 934 00:52:15,220 --> 00:52:15,940 No, I can't do it. 935 00:52:15,940 --> 00:52:16,900 I can't even hit the note. 936 00:52:18,180 --> 00:52:19,460 I think we started too high. 937 00:52:19,460 --> 00:52:20,500 Yeah, bring it down. 938 00:52:22,980 --> 00:52:29,060 Don hands, Don eyes, Don skin, Duffin eyes. 939 00:52:29,060 --> 00:52:45,540 See you next time, everybody.