1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,880 Welcome to the album nerds podcast with your hosts Andy, Don and dude. 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:14,640 What's up fellas. 3 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:16,080 I'm trippin balls. 4 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:18,160 I don't think I could say that. 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,520 Trippin ball is. 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,600 That was my Dave Matthews. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,280 It was great. 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:26,240 Okay. 9 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,280 So this is the album nerds podcast. 10 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:34,000 Next time, dude, I got Andy and Don with me and you ready to get psychedelic. 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,280 I mean, neo psychedelic red pill, blue pill. 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,840 You take the red pill. 13 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,240 You stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. 14 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:45,600 I got this orange pill too. 15 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:46,600 I don't know. 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,240 I might try that one later and see what happens. 17 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:49,840 I think that's called a day quill. 18 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,720 Oh, well, it'd be fun to. 19 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,560 How are you doing over there, Don? 20 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:55,560 Wow. 21 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,440 When you just moved your arm, I saw trails. 22 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:03,320 Oh man, we're, we're reaching. 23 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,520 So as I said, this is the album nerds podcast. 24 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:10,160 We love albums, the album format, and we've got a great show for you today. 25 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,840 We're going to be highlighting three neo psychedelic albums. 26 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,480 We'll each pick one and break it down for you. 27 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,480 Don's going to ask us a deep question. 28 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,600 We have some shout outs to some album related items that we're digging. 29 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,200 And then of course we'll spin that wheel of musical discovery to find out what we're talking 30 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,740 about on the next show. 31 00:01:27,740 --> 00:01:30,000 This week, it's time to take a trip. 32 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,120 So happy if I had a psychedelic lava lamp. 33 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:39,000 That's what I'm talking about. 34 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:45,200 Neo psychedelia, a genre that draws inspiration from the sounds of 1960s psychedelia has produced 35 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,860 a diverse array of albums that blend classic psychedelic elements with modern production 36 00:01:49,860 --> 00:01:53,520 techniques and alternative music influences. 37 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,180 Psychedelic albums have continually pushed the boundaries of psychedelic music while 38 00:01:57,180 --> 00:01:59,520 maintaining a connection to its roots. 39 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,200 Today each of us will present a neo psychedelic album. 40 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,200 Trippy. 41 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,200 Totally. 42 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,960 Yeah, I guess I never really thought about it. 43 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,880 There's psychedelic elements in music, but I hadn't ever really explored or thought about 44 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,180 this as a movement or genre. 45 00:02:16,180 --> 00:02:18,080 So it's been an interesting week. 46 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,520 What other albums did you consider for this before making your final choice? 47 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,200 Anything stick out for you guys? 48 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,200 Yeah, this is a pretty wide genre. 49 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,560 There's a lot of interesting stuff in there. 50 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,320 I listened to most of the stuff in the 90s and 2000s. 51 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:37,520 Things like Primal Scream, Super Fury Animals, Spiritualized, Ween actually had some pretty 52 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,720 fun records in the 90s there. 53 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,600 The one I almost went with was from Animal Collective. 54 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,840 They had a really bunch of good records in the 2000s. 55 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,640 Merry Weather Post Pavilion was the one I came back to. 56 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:54,880 Really fun experimental elements of electronica, but also 60s pop is a big part of their sound 57 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:55,880 as well. 58 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,480 Yeah, I really love this genre personally. 59 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,600 It's one of my go-tos. 60 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,600 Of course you do. 61 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,600 Yeah. 62 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,120 Does that make sense? 63 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,160 What did you find in your excursions then? 64 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:15,000 Well, I didn't go too far from my comfort zone. 65 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:21,120 There's a side project for Robert Smith of The Cure and Steve Severin from Susie and 66 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,240 the Banshees called The Glove. 67 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,240 It was released in 1983 called Blue Sunshine. 68 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,760 It's this just gothy psychedelic pop music. 69 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:36,040 Unfortunately, apparently Robert Smith had something in his record deal where he wasn't 70 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,960 allowed to sing for another group. 71 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:44,280 Most of the lead vocals are done by this person named Jeanette Landry, but it's definitely 72 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:45,280 an interesting album. 73 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,280 Never heard of it. 74 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:47,280 Interesting, fun. 75 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:48,840 It's actually a reference to Yellow Submarine. 76 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,680 Remember The Glove, like the big blue. 77 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,400 Yes, flying around. 78 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:54,400 Yep. 79 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,960 A lot of the things that Andy mentioned at the top, I explored those including Foxygen, 80 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:06,040 which was a band in early 2000s that I was really into, but it was more straight up psychedelic 81 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,400 for me and a little less neo maybe. 82 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,560 Fine line. 83 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,280 One that I really did consider for this just because it's an interesting, I think now very 84 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,160 appreciated album, Mazzy Star, so that tonight I might see. 85 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:26,280 Dream pop duo known for that ethereal sound and Hope Sandoval's voice fade into you being 86 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:27,280 the big hit. 87 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:28,280 Yeah. 88 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:31,920 So yeah, I mean, it's a little more sleepy. 89 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:37,560 So maybe for the come down, if you have to put it in psychedelic terms, but yeah, I'd 90 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,960 never actually listened to it all the way through before, so it was an interesting experience, 91 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,440 but not quite right for what I was looking for here. 92 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,760 So why don't we get into our choo choo choices. 93 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,640 You choo choo choose me? 94 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,720 All right. 95 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:04,080 For my neo psychedelia selection, we are talking about Tame Impala and their 2012 album Lonerism. 96 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:11,360 This is the second studio album for the Kevin Richard Parker led projects from Sydney, Australia. 97 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:16,680 Got Parker handling all the writing, producing and recording of 99% of the instruments and 98 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,120 vocals on this record. 99 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,040 Even took the cover photo, which I thought was impressive. 100 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,040 Looks kind of like someone just took a snapshot. 101 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:26,040 It's a snapshot, yeah. 102 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,440 That's not giving too much credit for that. 103 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,440 One of those disposable cameras. 104 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:32,440 Disposable cameras, yeah. 105 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:33,440 I just pulled out of his pocket. 106 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,800 Anyway, let's play the second single from the album. 107 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,800 This is called Feels Like We Only Go Backwards. 108 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:54,800 If you've ever written in Impala, it does feel like you're going backwards. 109 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:55,800 Hey, yo. 110 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:56,800 It's out of the car joke. 111 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,800 I didn't see that coming. 112 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:58,800 Nice. 113 00:05:58,800 --> 00:05:59,800 No, me neither. 114 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:06,320 Parker said he wrote that to be inspired by the Beach House song Walk in the Park. 115 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,960 You guys familiar with that kind of material, dream pop group Beach House? 116 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:10,960 No, sir. 117 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,320 I'll have to revisit them someday also from this era. 118 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:21,160 My clickbait headline for Lonerism is Parker's breakthrough success feeds an indulgence in 119 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,280 studio trickery and pop curious sounds. 120 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:28,120 I was a big fan of their debut album Inner Speaker. 121 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,720 I think we may have talked about it on the show at some point. 122 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:36,680 Big rock psychedelic sounds, kind of like spacey vibe to the whole thing. 123 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,640 This record is kind of a response to that, I would say. 124 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:45,840 This is much more of a shimmery, much less guitar sound, much more in that synthesizer 125 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:46,840 vibe here. 126 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:50,280 This is a lot more just studio wizardry happening here. 127 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:55,880 He spent over two years kind of recording and tweaking and bedazzling this record, I 128 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:56,880 guess you could say. 129 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,000 Bedazzling, that's about right. 130 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,000 It feels still very spacey, but more like inner space. 131 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,480 Is this the Martin Sharp movie you're talking about? 132 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:06,480 That too, I love that movie. 133 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:07,480 Somebody help me! 134 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:12,120 Not as funny as it was to me when I was 14, but it's still funny. 135 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:17,480 It's more of an inner exploration than an outer exploration. 136 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,880 It just sounds like someone, when you close your eyes and just let your mind wander. 137 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:26,240 Yeah, kind of like your inner thoughts, like being stuck in your own head sort of. 138 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,320 Yeah, there's a lot of sounds bouncing around in there and it does feel kind of contained 139 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:36,200 in this shimmering goo, I guess you would say, a cocoon of psychedelia. 140 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:37,200 Okay. 141 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:43,880 All right, why don't we play the first single from the record? 142 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,960 This is Apocalypse Dreams. 143 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:59,840 It's actually kind of hard to choose a clip from that song because it is kind of all over 144 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:00,840 the place. 145 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:01,840 So, you know. 146 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,240 A lot of these songs are for all of our picks, I think. 147 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:05,240 Yeah, that's true. 148 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,240 It's kind of the nature of the genre. 149 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,320 Yeah, do you want to get the vocals? 150 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:10,840 Do you want to get the jam thing? 151 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,240 Do you want to get the psychedelic sounding moments? 152 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:14,920 You know, it's tough. 153 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:19,880 So Kevin Parker supposedly recorded that track after watching the 2011 film Melancholia. 154 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,640 Have you guys ever seen that? 155 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,520 Kirsten Dunst, really kind of a dark movie. 156 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,080 There's like a meteor that's going to hit the earth or something like that. 157 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,200 I don't know, but it's kind of melancholy. 158 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:32,200 Yeah. 159 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,320 Meteor, you're my only friend. 160 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:40,920 I make a Joe Dirt reference to give you some context as to where my movie tastes lie and 161 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,920 why I'm not familiar with that film Don mentioned. 162 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,240 So Apocalypse Dreams, I would say it's epic. 163 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:52,400 I mean, a lot of songs, I think, on this album are kind of epic, but it's kind of all over 164 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:53,400 the place. 165 00:08:53,400 --> 00:09:01,080 But it's got that sort of lush, dreamy sound, seemingly complex chord progressions, just 166 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,080 a lot of dramatic changes and stuff. 167 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:09,080 It's a lot to take in, but it's also, I think, kind of pleasing to the ear, which I think 168 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,360 is again true for most of the album. 169 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:18,720 The lyrics explore kind of existential questions, change, anxiety, personal growth, yada, yada, 170 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:19,720 yada. 171 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:20,720 But yeah, one of my... 172 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:21,720 Wow. 173 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:23,760 So in other words, it really stuck with you. 174 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,360 Well, it was a hell of a yada, yada. 175 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,160 Please, Mr. Impala, make with the pretty noises. 176 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,160 No more yada, yada, yada. 177 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:31,160 It is. 178 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,040 I mean, the vocals and the lyrics, they do seem sort of incidental. 179 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,320 I mean, it's such a musical experience. 180 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,280 It's kind of hard to... 181 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,960 Yeah, it's more like one of the instruments. 182 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,480 Yeah, it really kind of buries it in the mix there, I think intentionally. 183 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:47,480 Yeah. 184 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:53,280 So my clickbait headline is, Lonely Stoner discovers synths and accidentally creates 185 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:54,280 psychedelic masterpiece. 186 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:55,960 That might be a little strong. 187 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:00,320 I'm not sure it's a masterpiece, but it's a damn good album. 188 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:01,320 It's peace. 189 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:02,320 Yeah. 190 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,320 It's peace. 191 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,680 Not a peace-o, but a peace. 192 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:08,040 Yeah, it's interesting. 193 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:12,680 I went back and listened to the first album and there is significant growth, I think, 194 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:14,000 between both. 195 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,560 I think he is embracing more, I guess, electronic instruments. 196 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:21,880 And then I think after this album, he goes even further down that road. 197 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,840 I'm not even sure there's guitar on the albums that follow. 198 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:32,560 It's a good blend of sort of pop sounds, but also that sort of crazy, sort of psychedelic 199 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:33,560 vibe. 200 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:39,240 And even back to the 60s, I think we listened to that Zombies record, Odyssey and Oracle. 201 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:44,680 A lot of the best psychedelic things still has that pop hook or something to it, but 202 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:46,960 just surrounded by goofiness. 203 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:53,760 I think this and the other albums we're going to talk about, these seem less rooted in drugs 204 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,160 or trips or anything. 205 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:02,000 It's just more about the dreamy soundscapes being painted with psychedelic sounds and 206 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,160 music rather than some specific path. 207 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:06,160 Yeah. 208 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:11,280 Yeah, weirdly, this seems less focused on the trip and more the sound of the 60s. 209 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,840 Yeah, it's interesting how much pop has to do with psychedelia. 210 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:18,720 I didn't think about that originally before we started doing this episode, but it really 211 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:24,120 was like a focus for him on this record was making really kind of disposable pop-orientated 212 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:25,120 songs. 213 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:26,760 I found a ton of quotes for this album. 214 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,720 It must have been interviewed a lot during this. 215 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,480 The record said, pop music is in a way so much more pure than all other types of music. 216 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,040 There's no intellectual level. 217 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,040 It's just pure feeling. 218 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,280 That feels like what a lot of ways get into here. 219 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:39,280 There's not a lot of substance. 220 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,560 This is a lot of kind of style, which I think is, it's cool. 221 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:44,560 It's a cool sound. 222 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:49,520 I think this record to me does feel a little bit more disposable than his earlier album 223 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,440 and maybe even the one after this. 224 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:52,440 Not in a bad way. 225 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,080 It does leave an impact, but more of the collective sound, I think, leaves an impact on me, unless 226 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,280 the individual songs. 227 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,120 There are moments that do stick out. 228 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:06,720 I think one of those is probably this next song we're going to play called Elephants. 229 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:19,200 A bit of a departure from the dreamy tone of the rest of the album, but it's kind of 230 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:24,120 glam rock, arena rock almost. 231 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,840 Jock jams kind of vibes to it as well. 232 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,080 It's sort of of the time too. 233 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,640 The Black Keys were hot around this time, so I think this song was just goofing around 234 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:42,160 with that sound, but Kevin Parker described it as a satire of the bully archetype. 235 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,440 It's a guy who thinks he's great. 236 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,040 He's the jock. 237 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,080 He also said something about that he doesn't really like that song, but it paid for his 238 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:51,560 house or half of his house. 239 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:52,560 I read that. 240 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:54,560 He has mixed feelings about it. 241 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:57,520 Yeah, it was really popular for them. 242 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,480 It doesn't really fit with the rest of the record, I would say. 243 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:00,480 Maybe you like it. 244 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,000 You like it in there? 245 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,000 I kind of like the break. 246 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:08,680 It was kind of like a couple slaps in the cheek wake you up a little bit and then you 247 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:12,200 can ease back into the spacey journey. 248 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,120 Mike Clickbait headlined to describe the album, Lonerism. 249 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:20,440 What happens when Kevin Parker goes full Lenin on psychedelic soundscapes? 250 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,360 Never go full Lenin. 251 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:31,840 Yeah, the Lenin-esque nasal tones, particularly on this album, I think more so than some of 252 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:37,320 the others, maybe because of all the effects on the vocals across the universe by John 253 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,880 Lenin really came to mind at times here. 254 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,880 I'm surprised it doesn't get talked about more when it comes to Tame Impala. 255 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,840 The first thing I noticed about them, I think I heard this song and I was like, oh, kind 256 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:50,440 of sounds like John Lenin. 257 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,560 It's neo-psychedelia, but not. 258 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:59,120 It's also, I think it's a modern technology take on more of a traditional psychedelic 259 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:00,120 sound. 260 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:05,060 All in all, I thought it was a very pleasant listen, especially, I mean, I was cleaning 261 00:14:05,060 --> 00:14:09,120 records at the time I was listening to this primarily and it was a perfect soundtrack 262 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:15,520 for just kind of being lost in this, I'm doing this repetitive motion and then this music 263 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,120 kind of fit it really well and I was able to focus on both things simultaneously. 264 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:21,120 It was nice. 265 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:22,840 It was a nice afternoon. 266 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:23,840 Thanks, Kev. 267 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:30,280 Well, if you're looking for a good accompaniment piece on whatever you're up to on your afternoon 268 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:36,280 or evening, check out this very modern take on the psychedelic sound from Tame Impala, 269 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:37,280 Lonarism. 270 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:45,080 Before we continue our neo-psychedelic journey, why don't we hear a few words from our friends 271 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,000 over at Getting Down and Wordy. 272 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Riz. 273 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Greetings. 274 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Gendered language. 275 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,680 Onomatopoeias. 276 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:52,680 The Ick. 277 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,400 What makes some words sound funny. 278 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,240 Why just listen to music when you can overanalyze the words in the songs? 279 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:02,320 Music, language, and Eurovision all crammed into one podcast. 280 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:11,800 Getting Down and Wordy with Russell and Hannah. 281 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,960 Find us anywhere you listen to podcasts. 282 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,680 So go check out Getting Down and Wordy. 283 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:21,080 It's a very interesting way of analyzing music, really getting into what the words are. 284 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:25,320 So check them out. 285 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:30,600 My pick for a neo-psychedelic album comes from 1986. 286 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,280 It's XTC's Skylarking. 287 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:39,840 It's the ninth studio album by the band formed in Swindon, Wiltshire, England in 1972. 288 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:44,360 The band at the time featured singer, songwriter, and guitarist Andy Partridge, not part of 289 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:45,360 the Partridge family. 290 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:49,520 Well, I guess technically he is probably part of a Partridge family. 291 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,560 Not the one. 292 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,080 Not the musical family. 293 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:59,760 Also singer, songwriter, and bassist Colin Moulding, and guitarist, keyboardist Dave 294 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:00,760 Gregory. 295 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:05,400 The album also features drums by Prairie Prince of The Tubes. 296 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,040 Remember The Tubes? 297 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,520 And it's produced by Todd Rundgren. 298 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:11,800 He's coming up a lot lately. 299 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:12,800 Yes. 300 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:13,800 Yeah. 301 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:14,800 It was Psychedelic Furs. 302 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:19,560 And I think I also read that he did some remix on one of the Tim and Paula songs, right? 303 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:20,560 Oh, that's right. 304 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:22,640 There was a Todd Rundgren connection. 305 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:29,320 So actually, I guess the record label just was not happy with XTC's sales and they thought 306 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,800 part of the problem was they just sounded too English. 307 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,240 So they gave them a list of American producers and Todd Rundgren was like the only name they 308 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,440 recognized so they went with him. 309 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:40,440 Interesting. 310 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,540 So anyway, here's the opening cut. 311 00:16:42,540 --> 00:16:44,520 This is called Summer's Cauldron. 312 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,520 Mom, do you ever get that not so fresh feeling? 313 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:48,520 Oh, God. 314 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:49,520 Oh, Peter Gabriel-y. 315 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:50,520 Yeah. 316 00:16:50,520 --> 00:17:04,080 I see myself laying in the fields out there. 317 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:05,080 It's nice. 318 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:09,760 So Summer's Cauldron is an extension of an original poem Partridge wrote called Drowning 319 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,560 in Summer's Cauldron. 320 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,080 It's the opening cut of the record. 321 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,520 It kind of sets the psychedelic tone of the album. 322 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,600 Lots of droning sounds. 323 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:22,920 There's a wobbly chorus to organ, which Partridge said it actually reminded him of the Beatles 324 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,160 Blue Jay Way from Magical Mystery Tour. 325 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:26,680 Yeah, I hear that. 326 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,000 Some melodica in there played by Todd Rundgren. 327 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,680 And so Prairie Prince, the drummer, was encouraged to play spastic drum fills in the style of 328 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,320 Jethro Tull's Sweet Dream. 329 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,760 So definitely a trippy way to start the record. 330 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:49,240 My clickbait headline for Skylarking is turn on, tune in, and drop out with nerdy Beat 331 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,080 Eleven Englishmen. 332 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:55,240 So it's very 60s. 333 00:17:55,240 --> 00:18:00,560 I think a lot of it just feels like that British psychedelic scene. 334 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:02,560 Is it more British or is it more 60s? 335 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,180 It's a battle there. 336 00:18:05,180 --> 00:18:10,400 So apparently Rundgren had convinced the band that the songs they had written could be a 337 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,080 concept album. 338 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:18,480 So it's supposed to be like a cycle of life or a year or something with significant milestones. 339 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:24,280 So there's like birth, young love, family, labor, illness, death, and then just kind 340 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,120 of random moments throughout your life. 341 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:29,600 Because you have like two distinct songwriters in the band. 342 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,800 So kind of like Lennon and McCartney, they would sing their songs. 343 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:37,520 Yeah, Molding and Partridge sort of have their own distinct styles. 344 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,960 That concept sort of made them connect in some way. 345 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:46,040 Just hear a track that is debatable whether it actually is on this album or not. 346 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:50,160 This is Dear God. 347 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:58,800 I found this one fascinating. 348 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,120 It's the potentially album closer. 349 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:07,220 I just I like the sort of simpler sound of it. 350 00:19:07,220 --> 00:19:12,000 Maybe the more British sound of it and less psychedelic in ways. 351 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,400 But the critique of religion framed as a letter questioning God's existence. 352 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,160 Like how can you let these things happen and that kind of stuff. 353 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,720 I think it's something a lot of people think about and go through. 354 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,320 And it just felt very relatable. 355 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,360 Regardless of what side of that argument you fall on. 356 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:34,280 It's just nice to really connect with something because throughout the album it's kind of 357 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,200 hard to tell if they're being silly or serious. 358 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,400 And this one seems serious in the use of a little kid singing at the beginning really 359 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,360 adds some weight to it as well. 360 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:49,480 So I appreciate that about that song and it showed me that they take their craft seriously 361 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,600 and there's some real poetic deep thinking going on here. 362 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:58,200 My clickbait headline to describe the album, Forget Ecstasy, XTC's Skylarking will give 363 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,680 you a natural high. 364 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:07,840 It's dreamy and psychedelic, catchy, quirky lyrics at times. 365 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,360 What was that one song? 366 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:10,360 That's Super Supergirl? 367 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:11,360 Yeah. 368 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:13,920 It was moments like that where I'm like, what are they doing? 369 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,280 Parody or are they doing serious? 370 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:18,920 And it's okay either way I suppose. 371 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,960 It's just sometimes I wasn't sure what direction they were doing. 372 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,220 And maybe that had something to do with the different songwriters. 373 00:20:25,220 --> 00:20:28,480 But it's lush and it really does channel that psychedelic sound. 374 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,520 It probably sounds the most like that. 375 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:35,520 It sounds the most like an album that could have fit in in the 60s. 376 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,680 There aren't a lot of modern elements. 377 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,960 I mean there's some post-punk sounds here but it leans more psychedelic. 378 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,040 Well, let's hear some more. 379 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,960 This is Season Cycle. 380 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:58,040 There's some of those claw-tooth moments right there. 381 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:04,360 Yeah, they'll play it pretty heavily from that 60s secondillia sound there. 382 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:07,320 In fact, there were rumors that XDC was actually claw-tooth. 383 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,320 Oh for real? 384 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:10,320 No. 385 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:16,600 No, because claw-tooth was rumored to be the Beatles. 386 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,320 It just continues with every generation. 387 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:20,320 Pass on the myth. 388 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:27,520 That's how I originally was inspired by the Beach Boys and their 60s album Smiley Smile 389 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,280 as Donald alluded to earlier. 390 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,480 The song particularly focuses on cycles of life and death. 391 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:37,480 That's the larger theme of the record, which I found to be pretty interesting and I kind 392 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:42,440 of appreciate that the more I listened to it and got more depth from these songs. 393 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:48,200 My click-bait headline for Skylarking is XDC continues England's tradition of creating 394 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,160 well-crafted pop songs and being kind of a prick in the studio. 395 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:57,880 From what I read, there was a good amount of tension between the producer there, Mr. 396 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,480 Rundgren and Andy Partridge, one of the primary songwriters here. 397 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,040 Definitely led to some well-crafted songs though. 398 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,480 I was really impressed with the quality of every track on here. 399 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,440 I think this album as a whole is really impressive. 400 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,080 My biggest critique of it is more the pacing. 401 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:18,880 I kind of had a hard time finding good moments on it to kind of separate the songs. 402 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,600 It kind of did all blur a little bit for me, but once I did take the time to really appreciate 403 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,320 the individual tracks, I thought they all held up really well. 404 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:30,840 There's some really interesting moments and some cool studio wizardry going on that you 405 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,640 might expect in a psychedelic record. 406 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:37,280 Yeah, I mean, I do agree with you as a point about the vocals maybe being a little cartoonish 407 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:38,280 at times. 408 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,240 You can kind of even hear it in the season cycle there. 409 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:47,440 It's a little bit kind of like a little show tune you sort of sounded. 410 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,200 But I think they pulled off. 411 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,200 I think it works generally. 412 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:51,440 It just keeps things interesting. 413 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,160 So yeah, I was pretty positive on this. 414 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:55,640 I would like to listen to it some more. 415 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,240 I think there's a lot of depth here that I'm probably not appreciating. 416 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:06,280 Yeah, I think revisiting it now, I'm surprised by how complex the music seems. 417 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:11,000 There's like a main melody going on and then there's usually like some sort of countermelody, 418 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,920 which is often like kind of distracting from the main melody. 419 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:19,280 And so I think sometimes it's not as receptive to the ear or something like on first listen. 420 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,680 I feel like after you hear these three or four times, they kind of make more sense. 421 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:27,000 It's kind of similar to like a Brian Wilson song in that way. 422 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,680 Yeah, I mean, I think in some cases you could say maybe some of the songs are a little too 423 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,240 busy or a little too, maybe they're not simple enough. 424 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,080 Sometimes it feels like they're being too clever. 425 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,080 Yeah, yeah. 426 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,080 You could maybe say that. 427 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:40,080 Yeah. 428 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,200 And that could have to do with all these kind of big personalities maybe having a lot of 429 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,760 different ideas in the direction. 430 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:52,120 I picture a lot of middle fingers being held up through the booth to the studio like while 431 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:55,920 singing or whatever. 432 00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:02,800 So XDC's Skylarking brings kind of 60s psychedelia to the 1980s with kind of a charming English 433 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:03,880 pop sound. 434 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:04,880 So check it out. 435 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:11,640 Excuse me, I'd like to ask you a few questions. 436 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,880 It's time for deep questions, fellas. 437 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:22,640 There's never a better time to ask deep questions than when you're dabbling in some substances, 438 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:23,640 I guess. 439 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:28,200 Anyway, if you will. 440 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:32,280 Do you guys have any memorable psychedelic experiences? 441 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:33,280 So psychedelic. 442 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:38,200 Well, I can share one that was particularly memorable for me. 443 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:45,400 In my college years, I had just enjoyed a morning and afternoon tea with my girlfriend 444 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:50,960 at the time and I was just kind of coming down from that experience and I was driving. 445 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,960 Tea is code for lovemaking? 446 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:53,960 No. 447 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,960 No, it's a literal cup of tea. 448 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:57,960 Okay. 449 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:02,960 The tea was steeped with a vegetable which got too specific here. 450 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:03,960 Fungus. 451 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:04,960 Fungus, yes. 452 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:05,960 Fungus tea. 453 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,480 You were a fun guy in college. 454 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,960 Oh my gosh. 455 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,960 I mean, you get through this. 456 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:18,680 Anyway, I was coming down from that experience and was driving home along the river which 457 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:19,680 was near my college. 458 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:25,360 It was a beautiful sunny day, clouds around, blue skies and I was just like super at peace 459 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:26,360 with the world. 460 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:30,160 Just felt very happy with where I was in my life and with everything around me. 461 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,240 Just a moment of peace, you could say. 462 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:37,320 Then about two, three miles down the road, I had the unfortunate... 463 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,800 Unfortunately I ran over a family of possums that were crossing the street. 464 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:41,800 A family? 465 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:42,800 Jesus. 466 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:43,800 Yeah. 467 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,600 It just totally wrecked me mentally. 468 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,440 I was in such a good vibe in such a good place. 469 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,280 It totally wrecked me. 470 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,920 I still think about it and get emotional. 471 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,720 That's the universe's way of punishing you for taking that fungus tea. 472 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:02,200 It really did feel like some sort of message was being delivered to me. 473 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,520 How dare you feel good about the world? 474 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,240 How about you, dude? 475 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,440 So I never intentionally had psychedelic experiences. 476 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:18,920 Even through college and stuff, I was more of a booze hound than I really enjoy smoking 477 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,800 things or any of that stuff ever. 478 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,860 It's just never been my bag. 479 00:26:22,860 --> 00:26:26,960 But one night a buddy and I had driven to a different college to visit some friends 480 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:32,680 of his and got really drunk on my signature cocktail at the time of Captain Morgan and 481 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,520 Dr. Pepper. 482 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:39,680 And got talked into taking a rip off the old bong. 483 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:45,720 I don't know if something was in it, but I immediately started feeling like I was melting. 484 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,160 My head hit the... 485 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,120 I was sitting on the floor and my head hit the floor and I thought I was in virtual reality. 486 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:55,400 And there were these gold circles in front of me that I had to push out of the way. 487 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,120 It turns out I ripped and bent my glasses off my face. 488 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:07,280 And then for hours I was silently puking and melting into the stairs I was sitting on. 489 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,320 Yeah, it was great. 490 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:15,520 So to this day, I just am not a fan of... 491 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,720 Even the smell makes me unhappy. 492 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,680 So yeah, that was my psychedelic experience. 493 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:21,680 Similar to you, Andy. 494 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:22,680 It was like, don't do that. 495 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,200 Someone was telling me, don't do that. 496 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,480 Number two, Don. 497 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:34,240 Well, I was thinking back to maybe the first few times that I tried the smoking. 498 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,400 And I just remember how good the music sounded and stuff. 499 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,220 That was the best part of it. 500 00:27:39,220 --> 00:27:44,800 But for some reason, I guess I just must have really been off my head, but I would have 501 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,000 the urge to speak in tongues. 502 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,560 I can't do it when I'm sober. 503 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:52,560 But just sort of like... 504 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:53,560 So you just make gibberish sounds. 505 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,080 Yeah, just gibberish. 506 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,440 And so I would just be doing that. 507 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,400 And I just can't imagine what my friends would think of me. 508 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,840 I mean, they just must... 509 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,520 Are these people still in your life? 510 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,360 Because I have a guess as to why they're not. 511 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:13,320 That's exactly what I'd be doing minutes at a time. 512 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,280 Were you trying to channel something or was it just... 513 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:17,280 Yeah, maybe. 514 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:18,280 I don't know. 515 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,280 Yeah. 516 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,280 He was trying to catch the muse. 517 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,280 Yeah. 518 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:22,280 I was just being an ass, I think. 519 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:23,280 Oh, man, I thought it was interesting. 520 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,280 It's not one I've ever heard before. 521 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,280 Yeah. 522 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:32,400 Anyway, tell us about one of your memorable psychedelic experiences. 523 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,800 Hit us up on Instagram and Facebook or leave a comment on our website, albumnerds.com. 524 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,440 All right. 525 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:47,520 So for my selection, I went with the Stone Roses and their self-titled debut album, formed 526 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:53,200 in Manchester, England in 1983 by Ian Brown and John Squire. 527 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,400 By the late 80s, their sound with the psychedelic elements and danceable rhythms had started 528 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,080 to take off in the clubs. 529 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:06,160 And it was all part of this mad Chester scene with indie dance, indie rave, just this cultural 530 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,080 scene that developed in Manchester at the time. 531 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,800 So if we throw that term out there, I just want to get it loosely defined. 532 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:17,320 The Stone Roses recorded an album released in May of 1989. 533 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:23,400 It combines the jangly guitars, the groovy bass lines, cryptic lyrics, and a lot of swagger, 534 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,520 which I really like. 535 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:29,200 And it kind of marked a moment in British music, kind of bridging that gap between 80s 536 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,760 indie and that Brit pop explosion of the 90s that was to come. 537 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:33,760 It's dreamy. 538 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:34,760 It's cool. 539 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:35,760 Very atmospheric. 540 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,760 So why don't we jump in with a little bit of the track Waterfall. 541 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:51,200 It's kind of cascading, kind of like a waterfall. 542 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,200 Yeah. 543 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,680 I think I'm getting a little wet over here. 544 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:57,680 Okay. 545 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:04,520 Jangly guitars there and the lyrics are sort of about, I guess, freedom and escape maybe. 546 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,560 And it has this really cool seamless transition into the next track, Don't Stop, which is 547 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:14,560 a reverse remix of Waterfall turned into this kind of trippy experimental thing. 548 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,000 It's an interesting choice. 549 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,520 I thought that works really well. 550 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,280 I think so too. 551 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,040 It's as if it's one song. 552 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:25,680 I think that's part of why I like it so much is it's just this perfect book ended beginning 553 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:26,680 and end. 554 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:27,680 I don't know. 555 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,660 I've never heard anything quite like that before. 556 00:30:29,660 --> 00:30:35,320 To me, it sets the tone for what this album is at moments where you just kind of get lost 557 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,480 in the flow of the water and just get soaked. 558 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:39,480 Right, Andy? 559 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:40,480 Yeah. 560 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,680 I clickbait headlined to describe the album. 561 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,920 The Stone Roses, the album that kicked off Britpop, even though no one told them to. 562 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:54,800 I guess the bands like Oasis were really inspired by these guys and they kind of missed out, 563 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:55,800 right? 564 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,720 On their own, the thing that they supposedly helped kick off. 565 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,480 In terms of the notoriety and the fame. 566 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:03,480 Yeah. 567 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:04,480 Yeah, especially in America. 568 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,880 There was a five-year gap between albums because they signed an eight-album deal with their 569 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:08,880 little record label. 570 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,000 They wanted out of it and it became a mess. 571 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:17,560 But there's this ease to this album and it's like if you throw a bunch of ingredients together 572 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,200 and you make this dinner and it's like, oh my God, that's perfect. 573 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,200 This is so delicious. 574 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,160 And you didn't write down the recipe. 575 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,040 That's what feels like happened here. 576 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,240 It all seems to have come together perfectly on this record. 577 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:40,280 And it has Beatles melodies, resonant guitars like the birds. 578 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,880 There's some Smiths-ness to this with the way that they use humor in some of the vocal 579 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:45,960 delivery. 580 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:51,280 And there's an arrogance to it as well, which I think for me is something I look for in 581 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,280 rock and roll. 582 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,880 That's what the British shunning through, I think. 583 00:31:54,880 --> 00:32:00,240 Why don't we jump into one of the other tracks on this record? 584 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,240 It's made of stone. 585 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:14,240 Yeah, I love the sound of that song. 586 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,720 So easy and breezy. 587 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,840 Yeah, it's got a nice flow to it. 588 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,400 That's the second single off the album. 589 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,760 Super cool guitar solo there. 590 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:28,560 We just heard the end of and some studio trickery kind of helping sell that psychedelic sound. 591 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:29,560 I think it works really well there. 592 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,320 And there's a handful of tracks on this album that I think are just super sharp and really 593 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:35,800 well-written songs. 594 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,960 The psychedelic moments seem like these little splashes. 595 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,000 It's not driving the sound. 596 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:47,240 There's these little breakdowns, little guitar solos, little sounds, little 30 second moments 597 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:48,240 in the song. 598 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,240 It's like, whoa. 599 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,280 There's some embellishments that come up and you're like, oh yeah, I see some trails, man. 600 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:54,760 All right, let's go back to the music. 601 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:55,760 Yeah, it's cool. 602 00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:01,080 All right, so I clicked the headline for the Stone Roses is an understated success that 603 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,880 helped proliferate a generation of music nerds with better taste than you. 604 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:11,100 This always feels like one of those records to me that music snobs point to as being like, 605 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:15,320 this is the greatest record no one's ever heard of, no one appreciates this kind of 606 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:16,320 thing. 607 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,960 I feel like it's a little bit overhyped from that standpoint. 608 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:26,360 I do enjoy the record, but I think it's maybe a little inconsistent throughout the playtime. 609 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,240 It gets lost in all the reverb and particularly the vocal. 610 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,760 I think it gets lost a lot. 611 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,800 I don't know, there's moments where it works great, especially when there's a good strong 612 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,960 drum beat, which there are many of the songs here. 613 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:42,280 And when the guitar has some space to play in the mix, I think it works really well. 614 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,280 John Squire on guitar, I think he's a really excellent guitarist. 615 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:50,120 But there's so much just happening in the sound here, I think is maybe detracts a little 616 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,960 bit from the overall strength of the album to me. 617 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,840 But I do enjoy this album. 618 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,400 I saw people saying this was like the best album released ever in the UK. 619 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,920 Like I'm more than a few publications. 620 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,680 I was like, come on. 621 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:08,380 I mean, it may have inspired a lot of young musicians in the 90s. 622 00:34:08,380 --> 00:34:13,260 That kind of talk I think is trying to make up for it being sort of ignored in America 623 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:16,120 anyway in the late 80s and early 90s. 624 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:20,320 So I think it's kind of overcompensation. 625 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:26,480 It reminds me a little bit of the story of the laws and sonically too, another what could 626 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,880 have been and they broke barriers. 627 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:36,520 But it's more after the fact that everyone's like, this is so awesome and you missed it. 628 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,120 All they wanted was to be loved and adored. 629 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:53,440 So why don't we listen to a little bit of the big one off of this one, I Want to Be Adored. 630 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:58,440 I like this song just because it has so few lyrics, but it's still like kind of powerful. 631 00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,960 It's basically just that line. 632 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:00,960 It's just that line over and over. 633 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,800 I don't need to sell my soul. 634 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:03,840 He's already in me. 635 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:04,840 I want to be adored. 636 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:05,840 So I don't know. 637 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,540 Is that the devil in you? 638 00:35:08,540 --> 00:35:11,360 That's kind of the spirit of rock and roll, I think. 639 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:12,360 Yeah. 640 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,100 I was actually listening to this and my dog was in front of me and kind of reminded me 641 00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:23,360 of him because he just kind of sits there and soaks up your adoration. 642 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:28,880 But there's definitely like a moody post-punk feel to this, which I certainly love. 643 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:35,760 It has kind of an iconic baseline from Gary Monty Moonfield, or Monty I think is his nickname. 644 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,440 But yeah, great track. 645 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:43,960 My clickbait headline for the Stone Roses is Post-Punk is Manchester's drug of choice. 646 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:50,280 So I mean, I still would put this in kind of the post-punk category, but now it's sort 647 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:51,840 of going backwards. 648 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:57,440 So you're reaching back to the 1960s and adding some of that vibe to it. 649 00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,440 I forgot. 650 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,720 I think maybe it was the guy from OMD was talking about how with like Britpop and then 651 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:03,720 grunge. 652 00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:08,920 It was like finally like when music started going backwards again, because he felt like 653 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:14,120 the 80s was all a progression with synth pop and post-punk, but then all of a sudden we 654 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,000 started going back. 655 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,040 And so certainly this and then I mean, the Laws album came out just after this, kind 656 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:26,080 of recapturing some of that 60s British sound. 657 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,520 That track Elizabeth, My Dear, which I think is loosely based on Scarborough Fair. 658 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:35,280 Yeah, which is like a 16th century folk song or something. 659 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:40,040 But when I first heard it, I was thinking, oh, like was this from that zombies record? 660 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,040 Again, that Odyssey and Oracle album. 661 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,880 It feels like it belongs right on that album. 662 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:50,920 Yeah, it's not as overtly psychedelic as the other two records we talked about. 663 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:56,240 The close of the album, I Am the Resurrection and Fool's Gold probably sound the most mad 664 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:02,640 Chester and probably the most danceable and psychedelic of the tracks, like in a more 665 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:07,440 traditional sense, like more consistently throughout them. 666 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:08,440 They're good songs. 667 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:14,360 I mean, I can't really point to one song that I think is bad, but I Am the Resurrection 668 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:15,360 and This is the One. 669 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:21,400 She bangs the drums all just sound radiant and anthemic. 670 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,520 Instrumental jams, which I think they did a lot of live. 671 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,400 You could hear those moments. 672 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,880 I Am the Resurrection is almost fish-like in some ways. 673 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:30,880 That's true. 674 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,560 Yeah, there's just a magic on the album. 675 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,360 It's kind of just like an unexplainable thing. 676 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,880 But like, as you said before, it all kind of comes together. 677 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,080 I'm really surprised at how good it is. 678 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,480 I think it's so much better than anything Oasis ever did. 679 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,280 Yeah, I would agree. 680 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:54,160 I would say it's more like Oasis wrote some more memorable songs, probably catchy, I guess 681 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,160 you could say. 682 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:56,160 Maybe. 683 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:01,760 But yeah, this is the consistency of what this is, is a full album, which I think I 684 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,760 appreciated the most. 685 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:09,960 And the album cover just, you know, kind of Jackson Pollock style abstract painting, but 686 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:14,560 weird callbacks to things like either the French flag and the lemon slices that are 687 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:19,760 featured on the album cover that I guess were used as a tear gas remedy during the Paris 688 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:20,760 riots. 689 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:25,800 Just, you know, these little, there's all these details in this record that just all 690 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,560 kind of work and it's nice. 691 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:33,800 So yeah, if you haven't heard it or you haven't heard it in a while or you want to be a music 692 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:38,400 snob like us, go check out the Stone Roses self-titled album. 693 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,400 Can you dig it? 694 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:40,400 Can you dig it? 695 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,400 Can you dig it? 696 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:42,400 Can you dig it? 697 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:43,400 Can you dig it? 698 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:44,400 Can you dig it? 699 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:45,400 Can you dig it? 700 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,400 Can you dig it? 701 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,120 Well, this week was a long, strange trip. 702 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,320 Have you guys been digging anything? 703 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,320 Yeah, I've been digging a few other things here. 704 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:56,320 It's kind of like year-round time. 705 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,800 So we got a lot of year-round lists coming out from different personalities around the 706 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:01,800 internet. 707 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:02,800 In your satchel? 708 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:03,800 Oh, that's right. 709 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:04,800 I need to put them inside something. 710 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:10,160 I think they could be in Tupperware containers because it's 2024 leftovers, right? 711 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,160 From the holidays. 712 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,160 Yeah, we got a lot of leftovers here. 713 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:13,160 So it's perfect. 714 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,120 Yeah, we'll keep them fresh here. 715 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,120 We've got a couple. 716 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:20,880 First one up from Gordy Greep, the former frontman of Black MIDI. 717 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,960 He has a new album out called The New Sound. 718 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,960 Let's play, Jode Jode. 719 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:33,720 Yeah, I'm not sure what to make of this when I listened to it earlier in the year. 720 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:34,720 Yeah, it's pretty bizarre. 721 00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:36,720 It took me a while to get into it. 722 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:38,600 Kind of like rock, jazz, hybrid. 723 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,960 All the songs are kind of written from the perspective of different people he had met 724 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,400 in bars around England. 725 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,640 It does have that kind of eclectic personality. 726 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,040 I've been enjoying it. 727 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,080 But the album cover makes it look like it's going to be metal or something. 728 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,080 Yeah, no. 729 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,080 It's got some violent cartoon imagery on it. 730 00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:57,080 Not so much. 731 00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:01,360 And this one for me here is from English singer-songwriter Laura Marlene. 732 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,800 She has a new album out called Patterns in Repeat. 733 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,000 The eighth studio album for the singer-songwriter. 734 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:12,000 First after having her daughter, deals with kind of life cycles and tradition, passing 735 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000 things on. 736 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000 It's really pretty records here. 737 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,000 Patterns. 738 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:21,000 I thought it was going to be parallelograms. 739 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,000 No. 740 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000 It did have that vibe for a second. 741 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,000 Parallelograms, yeah. 742 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000 That's right. 743 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,000 Dental hygienist. 744 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,600 What you been digging on, Diane? 745 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,240 Well, I'm not sure I'm digging it. 746 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:40,040 But I just, you know, when I was looking at a list of kind of new things that are out, 747 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,680 I saw King Diamond, you guys familiar with King Diamond? 748 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:44,800 Yeah, scary. 749 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,000 Kind of this goofy metal singer. 750 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,200 It's like supposed to be kind of satanic. 751 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,200 Yeah. 752 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:52,200 Yeah. 753 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,200 And it's another one of those situations. 754 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:58,600 Well, he was in Merciful Fate, but then King Diamond is also the name of the band too, 755 00:40:58,600 --> 00:40:59,600 kind of like Alice Cooper. 756 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:00,600 Right. 757 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:01,600 You know, gets confused. 758 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:07,560 But anyway, he has a new record coming out in 2025 called St. Lucifer's Hospital 1920, 759 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,720 which is supposedly going to be part one of this horror trilogy. 760 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:13,360 Anyway, here's a single Spider Lily. 761 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:18,760 His vocal style is no big. 762 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:19,760 Yeah. 763 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:20,760 Stubb. 764 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:21,760 Yeah. 765 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:22,760 Interesting. 766 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:23,760 Very wily. 767 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:24,760 That's the King. 768 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:25,760 Yeah. 769 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,240 And, you know, I guess just because I've been listening to a lot of conversation about music 770 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:34,600 of the past year, one of the big themes is how there's these, you know, female pop stars 771 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,360 that are kind of dominating. 772 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:37,880 So I figured I'd check out one of them. 773 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:44,240 So Chappelle Rhone, her album, which actually came out in 2023, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest 774 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:45,240 Princess. 775 00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:48,240 Here's a song called Femininominem. 776 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:49,240 Femininominem. 777 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:50,240 Femininominem. 778 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:51,240 Femininominem. 779 00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:52,240 Femininominem. 780 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:53,240 Femininominem. 781 00:41:53,240 --> 00:42:00,240 I've dabbled in some of this stuff that's coming out. 782 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:06,680 I mean, a lot of it has sort of a 80s Cyndi Laupery kind of feel. 783 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:07,680 I like that. 784 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:08,680 Yeah. 785 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:12,440 I think all these, like even the Charlie XCX and the Taylor Swift, like I feel like all 786 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:17,120 of it has sort of some like 80s synth mixed in. 787 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,480 I'm glad at least that that sound has come around. 788 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,440 And it's an interesting record. 789 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:22,800 Give it a closer listen. 790 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,040 How about you, dude? 791 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:29,200 I did some of the same kind of looking back at stuff and there was an album by a band 792 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:34,120 called Early Moods called The Sinner's Past, number 14 on my 2024 list. 793 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,120 And we never got a chance to mention it on the show. 794 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:43,700 They're a Los Angeles based traditional doom metal band formed in 2015, 70s inspired, kind 795 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:46,480 of New Wave of British heavy metal influenced. 796 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:47,940 This is their second album. 797 00:42:47,940 --> 00:42:50,720 So let's listen to a little bit of Blood Offerings. 798 00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:58,440 Well, it's a 70s move. 799 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,840 There's some moments in here where there's like voices like, oh, give me a blood and 800 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:03,840 stuff like that. 801 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:08,680 And I enjoy that kind of goofy and my metal. 802 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:14,160 So it's just a fun listen and it captures a lot of those sounds of, you know, they are 803 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,320 Iron Maidens, but even then you're your Black Sabbath type stuff. 804 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,200 So check that one out. 805 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,960 The next one on my list is Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish. 806 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:25,800 I have this one on vinyl. 807 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:34,080 It's live and off the record recorded in early 2024 by this Michigan based rock and roll 808 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:38,680 blues duo, swaggering vocals, bluesy guitar riffs. 809 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:43,860 It's very raw and that energy is captured live recorded off the record, which is the 810 00:43:43,860 --> 00:43:45,840 record store I go to. 811 00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:47,500 They've formed their own label. 812 00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:50,500 They have these live performances in the store and they're going to start pressing them and 813 00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:53,640 releasing them on vinyl and you can catch them on all the streaming services. 814 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:54,640 It's cool. 815 00:43:54,640 --> 00:44:02,560 Here's a little bit of Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish with Man's Back slash Parade Zone. 816 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:07,520 Oh, nice. 817 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,120 Yeah. 818 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,640 Some good acoustics off the record. 819 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:14,640 Yeah. 820 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,200 And you know, it's very high quality recording too. 821 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:21,700 I'm very impressed with what Benji and the crew were able to pull off getting this thing 822 00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:24,200 produced and released on vinyl. 823 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:30,040 Prada Benji for making his record store a place to be and a place that actually produces 824 00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:31,040 its own music. 825 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,120 So go check that out for sure. 826 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:34,120 So what are you digging? 827 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:35,120 Let us know. 828 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:39,140 Join us on the socials, Facebook, Instagram, threads, blue sky. 829 00:44:39,140 --> 00:44:44,800 Also on our website, albumnerds.com. 830 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,800 It will be a discovery of extraordinary value. 831 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:55,920 Well, it's about that time on the show and I'm reminded of the great British musician 832 00:44:55,920 --> 00:45:01,560 and pioneer of the psychedelic sound, John Lennon, who said, whenever in doubts, turn 833 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,680 off your mind, relax and float downstream. 834 00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,960 With that in mind, let's bring out my friend and yours, WildBot, who we'll be talking 835 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:17,320 about on next week's episode. 836 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:21,240 Get ready for a wild ride into the world of funny albums. 837 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:26,680 Next time you will be diving into three records that mix sharp satire, parody and musical 838 00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,480 mayhem, proving that humor and music are a perfect match. 839 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,040 Interesting funny albums that can be complicated. 840 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,040 What's funny? 841 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:36,760 But we'll have to figure it out. 842 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:40,560 Albums that are somehow lighthearted or does it amuse you? 843 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,760 Yeah, some sort of usual. 844 00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:48,800 Got to be some chuckles and a real challenge from the wheel of musical discovery. 845 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,600 She's kicking it off early in the year, making us think. 846 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,480 Just laughing in our faces. 847 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,480 Damn you. 848 00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:55,480 All right. 849 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:56,560 What's your favorite funny album? 850 00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:57,560 What else are you listening to? 851 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,600 Leave a comment on our website or email us at podcast at albumnerds.com. 852 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:06,440 You can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, threads and bluesky at albumnerds. 853 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,340 Please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast app and please tell your 854 00:46:10,340 --> 00:46:11,840 friends if you like the show. 855 00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,800 Thank you for joining us here on the Album Nerds podcast. 856 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,320 We'll catch you next time where we're going to yuck it up. 857 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:19,320 Some funny music. 858 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:20,320 Laugh it up, buzz ball. 859 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:21,320 That's good. 860 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:22,320 Yeah, that's a big episode. 861 00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:23,320 See you next week guys. 862 00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:24,320 Happy New Year everybody and thanks for listening. 863 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:25,320 Eat it, eat it, eat it. 864 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:26,320 Oh Lord. 865 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:27,320 This is what we're in for. 866 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:28,320 We didn't get any of our psychedelic jokes in here. 867 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:29,320 What's the psychedelic with you? 868 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:30,320 I don't know. 869 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:48,880 Bye bye.