WEBVTT 00:00:06.570 --> 00:00:09.710 Welcome to the Single Nerds Podcast with your 00:00:09.710 --> 00:00:14.689 hosts, Andy, Don, and Dude. Single Nerds? Hmm. 00:00:14.869 --> 00:00:18.170 Single Nerds Podcast, this beautiful day in the 00:00:18.170 --> 00:00:25.390 month of April. I am Vince Clortho, and I'm a 00:00:25.390 --> 00:00:29.309 level 20 dungeon master, tier 4, and I'm a nerd, 00:00:29.449 --> 00:00:33.750 so all you fair maidens out there, am I doing 00:00:33.750 --> 00:00:38.899 this right, guys? Wow, you definitely are a single 00:00:38.899 --> 00:00:42.039 nerd, man. We all were at one point, I think. 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:45.939 So I'm Dude, and I got Andy and Don with me here, 00:00:46.020 --> 00:00:47.799 but what exactly are we doing? I think we're 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:51.659 talking about singles instead of albums. Oh, 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:55.259 that makes more sense. This is not your dating 00:00:55.259 --> 00:00:58.460 club. Sorry. I mean, I'm taken, but I played 00:00:58.460 --> 00:01:00.920 the role very well. Very happily married, but 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:03.340 I sold it, right, guys? Yeah, you'd be a great 00:01:03.340 --> 00:01:07.659 D &D master. Thank you, thank you. So, this is 00:01:07.659 --> 00:01:12.560 the single nerds podcast. We love singles and 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:17.260 the single format. All things music. And we've 00:01:17.260 --> 00:01:20.439 got a great and slightly different show for you 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:23.859 today. We will each be bringing forth to the 00:01:23.859 --> 00:01:28.299 table a single and its B -sider sides to discuss 00:01:28.299 --> 00:01:31.599 in depth rather than an album. Don's going to 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:34.689 ask us a shallow question. No, it'll be deep. 00:01:34.810 --> 00:01:36.890 It'll be deep. It's always deep at dawn. Can't 00:01:36.890 --> 00:01:39.769 help it. Yeah. Then we'll have some shout -outs 00:01:39.769 --> 00:01:42.930 to some other singles and single -related items 00:01:42.930 --> 00:01:45.430 that we're digging, and then we'll find out what 00:01:45.430 --> 00:01:47.750 we're doing next week. But for now, let's get 00:01:47.750 --> 00:01:51.650 to them singles. That's what I'm talking about! 00:01:52.409 --> 00:01:54.849 Singles have long been a cornerstone of the music 00:01:54.849 --> 00:01:56.930 industry, showcasing both the chart -topping 00:01:56.930 --> 00:01:59.069 brilliance of A -sides and the hidden gems of 00:01:59.069 --> 00:02:01.989 B -sides. In this special episode, we will dive 00:02:01.989 --> 00:02:04.689 deep into the art of the single, exploring these 00:02:04.689 --> 00:02:07.870 compact musical statements. So today, we each 00:02:07.870 --> 00:02:11.009 present a single. Not an album, but a single. 00:02:11.389 --> 00:02:13.849 Thank you for making that clear. A very special 00:02:13.849 --> 00:02:16.689 episode. I hope nothing controversial happens 00:02:16.689 --> 00:02:18.629 to anyone here, so that everyone can learn a 00:02:18.629 --> 00:02:22.830 lesson. Singles, yeah. I mean, they certainly 00:02:22.830 --> 00:02:26.650 serve a purpose, and more so in different eras. 00:02:27.289 --> 00:02:31.210 So besides the brilliant singles you guys settled 00:02:31.210 --> 00:02:33.590 on, what else did you think about before coming 00:02:33.590 --> 00:02:35.669 to a final decision? Yeah, I mean, there's just 00:02:35.669 --> 00:02:40.750 like abundance of great singles. A couple that 00:02:40.750 --> 00:02:43.289 I was considering were from the Monkees. They 00:02:43.289 --> 00:02:45.810 were kind of like a singles machine. They had 00:02:45.810 --> 00:02:48.030 a pretty good single with I'm a Believer and 00:02:48.030 --> 00:02:50.789 I'm Not Your Stepping Stone, A and B sides. The 00:02:50.789 --> 00:02:53.599 one I almost picked was from Otis Redding. Sitting 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.219 on the dock of the bay and Sweet Lorraine came 00:02:56.219 --> 00:02:59.879 out in 67, a couple days before he died. A couple 00:02:59.879 --> 00:03:01.900 of really good tracks. Sweet Lorraine is actually 00:03:01.900 --> 00:03:04.000 kind of an underrated song I was not super familiar 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.639 with. Yeah, so I was kind of in that era of music, 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.750 my singles selection. How about you, Don? Yeah, 00:03:10.770 --> 00:03:13.449 well, in, you know, in sort of the post -punk 00:03:13.449 --> 00:03:17.669 and new wave era of Britain, you actually, you 00:03:17.669 --> 00:03:19.930 know, there are a lot of, you know, big singles 00:03:19.930 --> 00:03:23.370 with big B -sides. So one example is Joy Division. 00:03:24.030 --> 00:03:26.229 The single is actually given the title Licht 00:03:26.229 --> 00:03:30.409 und Blindheit. Oh, get some of that German in. 00:03:30.750 --> 00:03:35.849 Is that parental advisory? It's German for, I 00:03:35.849 --> 00:03:38.150 think, light and blindness or something. But 00:03:38.150 --> 00:03:40.210 even though the title is German, it was actually 00:03:40.210 --> 00:03:43.530 a French only or limited edition single. But 00:03:43.530 --> 00:03:45.870 it features the song Atmosphere, which is like 00:03:45.870 --> 00:03:48.430 one of their most known songs. And the B side 00:03:48.430 --> 00:03:51.530 was Dead Souls. Oh, well, it's kind of a banger. 00:03:51.629 --> 00:03:55.750 It was typical of bands like Joy Division and 00:03:55.750 --> 00:03:58.539 The Smiths. I mean, their B -sides were just 00:03:58.539 --> 00:04:01.639 as important as their A -sides. In fact, the 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.659 Smiths' How Soon Is Now was the B -side to William. 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:06.280 It was really nothing. That's like the biggest 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:11.719 Smith song ever. How about you, dude? Well, being 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:16.860 a 90s guy, I had a lot of CD singles. And one 00:04:16.860 --> 00:04:19.860 of the things I remember searching for was Stone 00:04:19.860 --> 00:04:24.350 Temple Pilots' Plush. from their album core. 00:04:24.569 --> 00:04:27.430 And I found a version of it. You had to buy these 00:04:27.430 --> 00:04:29.389 things. You couldn't go find them online or anything. 00:04:29.850 --> 00:04:32.209 It was a Japanese import. It was one of those 00:04:32.209 --> 00:04:36.589 mini discs CDs, the little ones. And it had the 00:04:36.589 --> 00:04:39.430 plush acoustic from the Headbangers Ball on MTV. 00:04:39.889 --> 00:04:43.110 But there's a break in it when people start applauding 00:04:43.110 --> 00:04:46.029 when they're not supposed to. It's too early. 00:04:46.129 --> 00:04:50.269 It's called Take One. And then the B side of 00:04:50.269 --> 00:04:52.610 that was Wicked Garden, but it's just a cool 00:04:52.610 --> 00:04:55.750 package. I paid like 12, this is like 93 or four. 00:04:55.930 --> 00:05:00.089 I paid like 12 or 15 bucks. Wow. For one freaking 00:05:00.089 --> 00:05:04.209 song. Well, then I put it on a mixtape and driving 00:05:04.209 --> 00:05:06.569 around with my buddies. It's like, I have this 00:05:06.569 --> 00:05:09.389 and you don't. That's cool. All right. So enough 00:05:09.389 --> 00:05:12.750 about what we almost picked. What singles did 00:05:12.750 --> 00:05:17.329 we choo -choo -choo -choose? Choo -choo -choose 00:05:17.329 --> 00:05:25.550 me? All right. For my single selection, we are 00:05:25.550 --> 00:05:29.850 talking about The Penguins and their 1954 single, 00:05:30.089 --> 00:05:34.389 Hacin' Rita Slash Earth Angel. This is the debut 00:05:34.389 --> 00:05:37.430 single for the Los Angeles -based doo -wop group. 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:42.040 four -piece earth angel chart at number one on 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:44.600 the billboard r &b chart and sold over four million 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.699 copies in the next 10 years let's jump in and 00:05:47.699 --> 00:05:50.279 play the big cut this is the the b -side earth 00:05:50.279 --> 00:06:03.000 angel so it's on uh Very popular. Even today, 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:06.540 I think most people would recognize that. Famously 00:06:06.540 --> 00:06:10.399 recorded in a home garage on a single tape recorder, 00:06:10.699 --> 00:06:14.439 which is what the Duo Tune Record Studio consisted 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:18.899 of, apparently. Just in someone's garage. Wowee. 00:06:19.180 --> 00:06:22.060 That's crazy. Well, to think that the recording 00:06:22.060 --> 00:06:25.220 process that I used as a kid making my own songs. 00:06:25.819 --> 00:06:29.459 was actually used professionally is crazy. Makes 00:06:29.459 --> 00:06:31.379 our podcast seem like a really high -tech outfit. 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:34.459 There's a great quote from one of the singers 00:06:34.459 --> 00:06:36.839 here, Curtis Williams, who said, every time the 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:38.439 dog barked next to her, you have to go out and 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:39.860 shut him up, and then we'd have to do another 00:06:39.860 --> 00:06:43.420 take. Wow. So funny. Well, I clicked the headline 00:06:43.420 --> 00:06:47.220 for the Penguins' Hey Senorita Earth Angel is, 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.740 the Penguins remind us that all good things start 00:06:49.740 --> 00:06:52.439 in a garage. You definitely want your car to 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:56.240 start. Yeah, that's true. I was conceived in 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:05.319 a garage. I think it was a basement. Okay. So 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:07.240 this is a pretty interesting little snippet of 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.480 time here. Definitely this record is credited 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.379 as kind of bridging the gap between like R &B, 00:07:12.379 --> 00:07:16.019 doo -wop, and what would become rock in the next 00:07:16.019 --> 00:07:20.379 few years. The single itself really exploded 00:07:20.379 --> 00:07:23.560 in popularity. Some members of the group, Duncan 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:26.279 and Williams, two of the vocalists here, were 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:30.040 classmates in high school in Los Angeles at Fremont 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.819 High. Williams had previously belonged to another 00:07:32.819 --> 00:07:35.540 doo -wop group called the Hollywood Flames, who 00:07:35.540 --> 00:07:37.920 had rose to some notoriety. They formed this 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.360 new group, quickly cut this demo, which really 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:42.660 was just a rough demo of Earth Angel in this 00:07:42.660 --> 00:07:45.089 garage. Got played at a local record store by 00:07:45.089 --> 00:07:48.209 a DJ who favored the B -side. Just really overnight, 00:07:48.589 --> 00:07:51.069 the song blew up based on some listeners at the 00:07:51.069 --> 00:07:53.290 radio station. And they ended up cutting the 00:07:53.290 --> 00:07:55.709 track without any sort of additional instrumentation. 00:07:55.709 --> 00:07:57.949 There was going to be a big orchestral accompaniment. 00:07:57.970 --> 00:08:00.430 It all got scrapped. Covered by a bunch of groups, 00:08:00.589 --> 00:08:03.410 including this all -white group called The Crew 00:08:03.410 --> 00:08:06.949 Cuts from Canada. Oh, God. Actually got a little 00:08:06.949 --> 00:08:09.290 bit more popularity out of it. That sounds made 00:08:09.290 --> 00:08:11.970 up. I had to double -check that, too. Also covered 00:08:11.970 --> 00:08:14.709 by The Temptation. Joan Diaz, Death Cab for Cutie, 00:08:14.750 --> 00:08:17.129 a bunch of other people, Elvis. Marvin Barry. 00:08:17.550 --> 00:08:20.949 Yes, Marvin Barry. Your cousin, Marvin Barry. 00:08:21.230 --> 00:08:25.129 Great Scott. I just, I think what's so doo -woppy 00:08:25.129 --> 00:08:27.829 and cool about this is that it accidentally was 00:08:27.829 --> 00:08:30.610 stripped down and focused on the voices and the 00:08:30.610 --> 00:08:32.610 harmonies more than anything else. And I think 00:08:32.610 --> 00:08:34.690 that really helped shape this whole doo -wop 00:08:34.690 --> 00:08:37.389 thing, right? Where it was about the voices. 00:08:37.570 --> 00:08:40.309 Those harmonies were the most important part. 00:08:40.610 --> 00:08:42.879 Yeah, I think. From what I'd read a lot, it was 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.259 the sincerity of the delivery of the performance 00:08:45.259 --> 00:08:49.100 and how aching they were over this woman, this 00:08:49.100 --> 00:08:51.940 earth angel, that really sold people on on this 00:08:51.940 --> 00:08:55.000 whole idea. That's just a great two -word phrase 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:59.320 to say a whole lot about somebody's personality 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.080 and who they are. Yeah. It's just very powerful. 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:04.679 It fits. I wonder if it was considered sacrilegious 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:07.750 or something. That's true. No, I don't think, 00:09:07.809 --> 00:09:09.950 I think if it had been an earth devil, people 00:09:09.950 --> 00:09:11.470 would have gotten all freaked out, but I think 00:09:11.470 --> 00:09:13.470 people were fine with calling people angels. 00:09:14.750 --> 00:09:16.409 All right, why don't we jump in here and play 00:09:16.409 --> 00:09:18.809 the A side on the record. So the song I thought 00:09:18.809 --> 00:09:21.250 was going to be a hit, it's called Hey Senorita. 00:09:29.289 --> 00:09:32.009 So as Andy said, this was actually the A -side 00:09:32.009 --> 00:09:34.809 of the Penguins' debut single, and it was recorded 00:09:34.809 --> 00:09:40.389 in that same garage as Earth Angel. So the producer, 00:09:40.549 --> 00:09:44.129 Dootsie Williams, initially pressed Hey Senorita 00:09:44.129 --> 00:09:46.909 as the primary track, anticipating that it... 00:09:47.289 --> 00:09:50.470 It's like an up -tempo doo -wop style would resonate 00:09:50.470 --> 00:09:53.769 with audiences. But radio DJs quickly flipped 00:09:53.769 --> 00:09:57.049 it over and favored the more ballad -y Earth 00:09:57.049 --> 00:10:00.129 Angel, which became a huge hit and still sort 00:10:00.129 --> 00:10:03.549 of in our culture. For sure. I just think the 00:10:03.549 --> 00:10:06.789 whole A -B side thing with 45s, and we should 00:10:06.789 --> 00:10:09.929 probably explain this, it was a small record. 00:10:10.110 --> 00:10:12.389 They had one song on one side and another song 00:10:12.389 --> 00:10:14.730 on the other side. And just because they said 00:10:14.730 --> 00:10:18.309 one or two or A or B, for DJs or anyone else, 00:10:18.350 --> 00:10:21.809 it's like you slap it on the record player and 00:10:21.809 --> 00:10:24.490 who's to say what really, it's the intention 00:10:24.490 --> 00:10:26.809 of the record label or artists for one to be 00:10:26.809 --> 00:10:29.470 an A, one to be a B, but leave it up to the listeners. 00:10:29.490 --> 00:10:32.210 They're the ones that choose what song is the 00:10:32.210 --> 00:10:35.929 good one or the better one. Yeah, they do. The 00:10:35.929 --> 00:10:39.490 song Hey Señorita is actually credited to Curtis 00:10:39.490 --> 00:10:42.990 Williams of the band. But later, Carl Green, 00:10:43.309 --> 00:10:45.590 who was another person sort of on the doo -wop 00:10:45.590 --> 00:10:48.309 scene, received some songwriting contribution 00:10:48.309 --> 00:10:50.870 credit. So, you know, kind of novel in that it 00:10:50.870 --> 00:10:53.490 has sort of a Latin -tinged rhythm. And obviously, 00:10:53.629 --> 00:10:58.669 it's literally Spanish. It has like the call 00:10:58.669 --> 00:11:01.649 and response thing. You know, again, it's sort 00:11:01.649 --> 00:11:06.740 of an R &B staple. I mean, we're in this era 00:11:06.740 --> 00:11:08.960 where you have sort of black music and white 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:12.879 music. And one of the first aspects of R &B really 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:15.740 to cross over was this doo -wop scene. And I'm 00:11:15.740 --> 00:11:19.500 not sure why that is. Maybe just something about 00:11:19.500 --> 00:11:23.299 the vibe. You know, I think the four freshmen 00:11:23.299 --> 00:11:27.419 and things like that, so the harmony groups were 00:11:27.419 --> 00:11:31.519 a thing. And I think this added a little bit 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.809 of that R &B. a little bit of rock and roll to 00:11:35.809 --> 00:11:39.289 come swing to it. And so I think it was the kids, 00:11:39.450 --> 00:11:41.669 you know, the kids were driven by new sounds 00:11:41.669 --> 00:11:45.210 and things you could dance to and stuff like 00:11:45.210 --> 00:11:49.230 that. And I think the doo -wop sound is certainly 00:11:49.230 --> 00:11:53.350 the foot in the door for the R &B and soul music 00:11:53.350 --> 00:11:57.230 to come. Well, my clickbait headline for the 00:11:57.230 --> 00:12:00.090 Hey Senorita single is, Hey Senorita, show us 00:12:00.090 --> 00:12:06.259 your backside. Wow. That's good, man. That's 00:12:06.259 --> 00:12:09.419 a good one. That was no bueno, sir. Yeah, so 00:12:09.419 --> 00:12:11.600 this is one of the rare but sort of famous examples 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.820 of a B -side sort of overtaking the A -side in 00:12:14.820 --> 00:12:17.779 significance. But, I mean, I'm glad that I got 00:12:17.779 --> 00:12:20.080 a chance to pay attention to Haseen Arita because, 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:22.220 I mean, it seems like it's kind of a groundbreaking 00:12:22.220 --> 00:12:27.149 track in its own way. But it's funny. you know 00:12:27.149 --> 00:12:30.210 going through their catalog i mean it's basically 00:12:30.210 --> 00:12:33.090 all compilations and pretty much all of them 00:12:33.090 --> 00:12:36.090 have earth angel but not all of them have hey 00:12:36.090 --> 00:12:38.570 seniorita so it just has a you know much more 00:12:38.570 --> 00:12:41.649 significant place in their in their history yeah 00:12:41.649 --> 00:12:44.309 they never really had a another hit so you kind 00:12:44.309 --> 00:12:47.009 of seem to want to recapture the magic of earth 00:12:47.009 --> 00:12:48.669 angel a few times but never really worked out 00:12:48.669 --> 00:12:51.799 for them so we only have two songs here so I 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:53.580 need to throw in my clickbait headline to describe 00:12:53.580 --> 00:13:00.299 this beautiful B -side. There's an A -side too. 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:02.559 The Penguins may have been a one -hit wonder 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:05.940 in commercial terms, but their role in doo -wop's 00:13:05.940 --> 00:13:09.600 golden age remains legend. Wait for it. Dairy. 00:13:10.259 --> 00:13:13.460 Legendary. So many of these groups got there, 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:15.519 these doo -wop groups got there, start harmonizing 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.620 on street corners and being, you know. friends 00:13:18.620 --> 00:13:20.860 and that was the case here where it was two friends 00:13:20.860 --> 00:13:23.000 that kind of started it yeah the high schools 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:26.299 seem to be a breeding ground for this music and 00:13:26.299 --> 00:13:28.440 they were discovered by small independent labels 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:31.419 like chess and vj and imperial and but their 00:13:31.419 --> 00:13:35.299 cultural impact lasted longer beyond the era 00:13:35.299 --> 00:13:38.320 which was like the the 50s and early 60s and 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:42.259 it started to kind of fade out some of the sounds 00:13:42.259 --> 00:13:45.120 carried on and evolved into that Motown's more 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:49.000 polished R &B sound. But, you know, the harmonies, 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:52.639 four or five vocalists, high falsettos, lead 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.059 and deep bass to provide contrast and nonsense 00:13:56.059 --> 00:13:59.240 syllables like doo -wop and shaboom and ooh -wah. 00:13:59.960 --> 00:14:02.259 We're a signature part of that sound, you know, 00:14:02.259 --> 00:14:05.399 adding to the rhythmic texture, but also making 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.519 it easy to sing along to, remember, and enjoy. 00:14:08.740 --> 00:14:11.799 You know, it wasn't complicated. So, yeah, I 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:14.940 think it was a great era, and the penguins are 00:14:14.940 --> 00:14:17.500 a very important piece of that. Whether they're 00:14:17.500 --> 00:14:19.519 remembered or not, Earth Angel will be forever. 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:22.960 Yes. Well said, well said. All right, we're looking 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.360 for an enduring look back at the doo -wop era 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.539 of the 50s. Earth Angel is kind of a cornerstone 00:14:29.539 --> 00:14:31.679 of that era. The single is a nice representation 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:35.340 of what was going on. So seek out The Penguins. 00:14:35.659 --> 00:14:41.600 Hey, Senorita. Earth Angel. Before we continue. 00:14:42.350 --> 00:14:45.889 on our journey of single exploration let's hear 00:14:45.889 --> 00:14:48.409 from our friends over at the six picks music 00:14:48.409 --> 00:14:51.070 club hey there i'm dave and i host six picks 00:14:51.070 --> 00:14:53.190 music club with my two buddies jeff rowe and 00:14:53.190 --> 00:14:56.129 russ we talk about six songs on a playlist that 00:14:56.129 --> 00:14:58.730 meet a theme to a topic that we've already decided 00:14:58.730 --> 00:15:01.889 on just real quick do you meet themes do you 00:15:01.889 --> 00:15:06.100 meet them Okay, no, I don't know. I guess that... 00:15:06.100 --> 00:15:08.340 What's the... Russ, can I get a ruling on the 00:15:08.340 --> 00:15:11.299 verbal phrase meet the theme? Jeff, I don't know. 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:13.799 I'm not fluent in the spoken word. People just 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.200 don't say meet the theme. They say fit a theme. 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.340 And every week we talk about six songs that fit 00:15:20.340 --> 00:15:23.840 a theme. All right. Okay, fit a theme. Guys, 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.559 we're going to have to re -record this. Ah, f*** 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:32.779 my d***. Okay, and Dave, don't forget, it's Six 00:15:32.779 --> 00:15:35.980 Picks Music Club, not your dark web pod, Sex 00:15:35.980 --> 00:15:39.659 Picks Booty Grub. Gotta check that one out, too. 00:15:40.700 --> 00:15:46.269 Thanks, guys. Well, the Beatles must have found 00:15:46.269 --> 00:15:48.909 out we talked about Mavis Staples again. They 00:15:48.909 --> 00:15:53.610 need to catch up. All right. Well, my pick for 00:15:53.610 --> 00:15:57.009 a single comes from the Fab Four. They're double 00:15:57.009 --> 00:16:00.070 A side, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane. 00:16:00.610 --> 00:16:02.950 So this, as I said, this double A side, which 00:16:02.950 --> 00:16:05.029 basically means like on the actual disc, it doesn't 00:16:05.029 --> 00:16:08.029 identify a side one or two or a side A or side 00:16:08.029 --> 00:16:11.850 B. Sounds like there may have been a discussion 00:16:11.850 --> 00:16:14.070 about that between Paul, who wrote one of the 00:16:14.070 --> 00:16:16.690 songs, and John, who wrote the other, who gets 00:16:16.690 --> 00:16:20.690 top billing. You're all special. I guess they 00:16:20.690 --> 00:16:22.269 had done the same thing with the previous single, 00:16:22.350 --> 00:16:25.629 which was Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine. But, 00:16:25.649 --> 00:16:28.009 of course, the Beatles were formed in 1960 in 00:16:28.009 --> 00:16:30.490 Liverpool, England. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, 00:16:30.549 --> 00:16:32.980 George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Strawberry 00:16:32.980 --> 00:16:36.019 Fields Forever and Penny Lane were the first 00:16:36.019 --> 00:16:39.559 tracks recorded after they had retired from touring. 00:16:39.740 --> 00:16:42.659 They began working on their next album, Sgt. 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:45.019 Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. So these two 00:16:45.019 --> 00:16:48.320 tracks were originally intended for that album, 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:51.200 but the record label really wanted a single. 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:54.379 And so they released, you know, this is a double 00:16:54.379 --> 00:16:56.759 A side. And they basically followed their tradition 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.379 of not putting previous singles on their albums. 00:17:00.190 --> 00:17:02.250 Until there was an album for the Magical Mystery 00:17:02.250 --> 00:17:04.569 Tour. Yeah, they threw those out. That seems 00:17:04.569 --> 00:17:06.589 more like a record label decision than a Beatles 00:17:06.589 --> 00:17:08.430 decision. Right, and that was just on the U .S. 00:17:08.450 --> 00:17:11.250 version of Magical Mystery Tour. Right. All right, 00:17:11.269 --> 00:17:14.029 well, let's hear one of the cuts. This is Strawberry 00:17:14.029 --> 00:17:18.190 Fields Forever. Let me take you down, cause I'm 00:17:18.190 --> 00:17:23.960 going to Strawberry Fields Forever. So Strawberry 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:27.460 Fields Forever is a reference to a place called 00:17:27.460 --> 00:17:30.160 Strawberry Field, which was a Salvation Army 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.640 children's home in Liverpool, where John Lennon 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.259 spent his childhood with his Aunt Mimi. So it 00:17:36.259 --> 00:17:38.539 kind of served as a sanctuary where Lennon played 00:17:38.539 --> 00:17:42.000 as a child. One of his childhood treats was the 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.839 garden party that they held each summer at a 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:48.579 park near the home where a Salvation Army brass 00:17:48.579 --> 00:17:51.089 band played. Maybe that's why you kind of have 00:17:51.089 --> 00:17:53.630 some of that Salvation Army band sound in it. 00:17:54.329 --> 00:17:56.950 Supposedly, and who knows, the words nothing 00:17:56.950 --> 00:18:00.190 to get hung about were inspired by Aunt Mimi's 00:18:00.190 --> 00:18:03.289 strict order not to play in the grounds of Strawberry 00:18:03.289 --> 00:18:06.369 Field, to which Lennon replied, they can't hang 00:18:06.369 --> 00:18:11.890 you for it. Maybe. I mean, that sounds like his 00:18:11.890 --> 00:18:13.650 personality. There's so much mythology around 00:18:13.650 --> 00:18:16.569 the Beatles, you never know. I've always really 00:18:16.569 --> 00:18:19.210 liked this song lyrically, although it doesn't, 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.900 truly seem to be about anything specific you 00:18:22.900 --> 00:18:25.180 know and i mean some people might sort of dismiss 00:18:25.180 --> 00:18:28.579 it as nonsense but i mean it is a it is a place 00:18:28.579 --> 00:18:32.579 yeah a real place so for me as a kid hearing 00:18:32.579 --> 00:18:35.039 this song that was enough like it was about a 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:37.599 real place and then he makes it sound more fanciful 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:42.650 than it was i like um sort of the spontaneous 00:18:42.650 --> 00:18:45.410 nature of the lyrics you know like i think i 00:18:45.410 --> 00:18:48.569 know uh i mean uh yes but it's all wrong you 00:18:48.569 --> 00:18:51.029 know corrected himself yeah yeah i like that 00:18:51.029 --> 00:18:54.009 always no sometimes i think it's right you know 00:18:54.009 --> 00:18:56.509 it's so i think that's pretty clever i don't 00:18:56.509 --> 00:18:58.130 know if anybody other than like dylan would have 00:18:58.130 --> 00:19:01.720 written something like that at the time But musically, 00:19:01.779 --> 00:19:05.200 it's also really complex. It was actually like 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:08.519 three different versions with different keys 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:11.119 and different tempos, and they ended up mixing 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.099 them together. I heard it took like 45 hours 00:19:14.099 --> 00:19:17.900 or something and 26 takes or something ridiculous. 00:19:18.569 --> 00:19:20.609 And then they blended some of the chunks, like 00:19:20.609 --> 00:19:23.130 Don said. Yeah, and innovative use of the Mellotron, 00:19:23.309 --> 00:19:26.029 which is that keyboard that uses tapes of real 00:19:26.029 --> 00:19:28.170 instruments. So that flute part at the beginning, 00:19:28.329 --> 00:19:31.869 that's Paul McCartney on Mellotron. And in fact, 00:19:32.069 --> 00:19:36.289 it's in between pitches, I guess, the key. So 00:19:36.289 --> 00:19:38.809 they sped it up just a little bit, so it's actually 00:19:38.809 --> 00:19:42.730 just below B -flat. Yeah, interesting. So it 00:19:42.730 --> 00:19:46.529 just has a unique, dreamy sound. I think it's 00:19:46.529 --> 00:19:49.279 actually my favorite Beatles song. really yeah 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:52.420 uh anyway well my clickbait headline for strawberry 00:19:52.420 --> 00:19:55.539 fields forever penny lane is fab four create 00:19:55.539 --> 00:19:58.700 ultimate psychedelic island single i guess instead 00:19:58.700 --> 00:20:01.079 of a desert island it's just some right this 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:06.440 acid or you know some acid fueled island uh but 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:10.039 from these two songs you could you can if you 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:12.519 had to pick singles to be on an island alone 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:15.700 with it It evokes enough of the Sergeant Pepper 00:20:15.700 --> 00:20:20.039 album feel that would sustain you. Like, it could 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:22.339 work as something that would give you that same 00:20:22.339 --> 00:20:24.880 vibe. And it's like the, it's the right kind 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:28.700 of psychedelia because it's, I mean, it's goofy. 00:20:28.819 --> 00:20:33.279 The right kind. Because I think it's appealing 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:36.059 even if you're not on drugs. You know, I mean, 00:20:36.099 --> 00:20:39.039 it's still kind of a song I think people can 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:41.740 relate to. I don't know. I mean, I think some 00:20:41.740 --> 00:20:44.420 things are just kind of noise for the, like, 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:46.000 ooh, here's a goofy sound that's going to bug 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:50.740 people out. And, you know, this is a song. It's 00:20:50.740 --> 00:20:55.420 a song. It's got some depth to it. Well, is John 00:20:55.420 --> 00:21:00.099 here? All right. Well, let's move to the other 00:21:00.099 --> 00:21:11.710 cut. This is Penny Lane. Okay, so Penny Lane 00:21:11.710 --> 00:21:15.369 was written by Paul during a nostalgic songwriting 00:21:15.369 --> 00:21:18.730 period in late 66. He and John were both reflecting 00:21:18.730 --> 00:21:21.589 on their Liverpudlian upbringings. I love saying 00:21:21.589 --> 00:21:25.609 that. Penny Lane is named after a Liverpool street 00:21:25.609 --> 00:21:27.990 that was a hub of activity and a meeting place 00:21:27.990 --> 00:21:30.789 for the young Beatles. And as we discussed, it 00:21:30.789 --> 00:21:32.569 was intended for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts 00:21:32.569 --> 00:21:35.880 Club Band. What McCartney does here is detail, 00:21:36.180 --> 00:21:38.720 and this is different than Lennon, very specific 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:43.720 memories about places and people, recurring characters, 00:21:43.900 --> 00:21:47.200 a barber showing photographs, a banker who never 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:50.000 wears a Mac in the rain, and then the nurse selling 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:54.740 the poppies, a Remembrance Day reference. But 00:21:54.740 --> 00:21:58.200 it's playful and wistful and blends childhood 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:01.859 memories and vivid lyrical storytelling, which 00:22:01.859 --> 00:22:04.809 is... Paul's thing and then this Baroque kind 00:22:04.809 --> 00:22:08.789 of sound as well. My clickbait headline to describe 00:22:08.789 --> 00:22:12.390 the single, the double A side that blended childhood 00:22:12.390 --> 00:22:15.970 memories with musical evolution. So you take 00:22:15.970 --> 00:22:19.829 what was, blend it with what is and will be. 00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:23.559 And that's what you get here, these look -backs, 00:22:23.700 --> 00:22:26.259 but also with this, at the time, cutting -edge 00:22:26.259 --> 00:22:30.700 view. And I think that's pretty cool, and I think 00:22:30.700 --> 00:22:34.480 it's pretty amazing that they had tracks of this 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:37.759 caliber available. It's interesting how well 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:40.180 they fit together as kind of being look -backs 00:22:40.180 --> 00:22:42.299 at their childhood, but then you do have these 00:22:42.299 --> 00:22:44.099 two distinct personalities and how they would 00:22:44.099 --> 00:22:46.779 do that within the group. It feels pretty cohesive 00:22:46.779 --> 00:22:51.099 to me as a Beatles outsider. And that just sums 00:22:51.099 --> 00:22:54.420 up, I think, you know, the magic of the Beatles, 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:58.339 but also why it had to end was really those two 00:22:58.339 --> 00:23:02.220 personalities. And, you know, you could say Yoko 00:23:02.220 --> 00:23:04.759 Ono or whatever else, but it was inevitable. 00:23:04.859 --> 00:23:07.599 These two dudes. You can't have two A -sides, 00:23:07.700 --> 00:23:11.119 man. Yeah, they were both A -sides in that band. 00:23:11.259 --> 00:23:13.740 I mean, there was, and George Harrison was a 00:23:13.740 --> 00:23:16.559 genius as well. So it was Ringo and all in their 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:19.619 own ways. But these two were the dominants. They 00:23:19.619 --> 00:23:27.779 couldn't be together forever. There's a little 00:23:27.779 --> 00:23:30.460 taste from the end of Strawberry Fields there 00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:33.700 with some muffled lyrics. I believe it's Lennon 00:23:33.700 --> 00:23:36.339 saying something along the lines of cranberry 00:23:36.339 --> 00:23:39.680 sauce, perhaps. Definitely led to some interesting 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:43.849 mythology around the band. Dig into that here 00:23:43.849 --> 00:23:47.349 in a second. Black Click Pay headline for Strawberry 00:23:47.349 --> 00:23:51.269 Fields Forever slash Penny Lane is the Feb 4 00:23:51.269 --> 00:23:53.470 take a walk through the fields and down the lane 00:23:53.470 --> 00:23:57.509 only to add to their mystique. Yes. I think Strawberry 00:23:57.509 --> 00:23:59.369 Fields is probably the song I associate most 00:23:59.369 --> 00:24:01.029 with the Beatles and it was one of the first 00:24:01.029 --> 00:24:07.309 MP3s I ever owned. Stole? Stole. Yeah, but I 00:24:07.309 --> 00:24:08.769 listened to a lot of that. I mean, that song 00:24:08.769 --> 00:24:11.490 was... To me, it's just iconic Beatles. At the 00:24:11.490 --> 00:24:13.410 end of Strawberry Fields we just played there, 00:24:13.650 --> 00:24:16.450 it was speculated that Lennon was actually saying, 00:24:16.529 --> 00:24:20.049 I buried Paul, as opposed to Cranberry Sauce, 00:24:20.269 --> 00:24:22.450 which I don't know. I definitely could hear it 00:24:22.450 --> 00:24:23.869 listening back to it. I don't know what you guys 00:24:23.869 --> 00:24:26.450 think, but it could go either way. Yeah. But 00:24:26.450 --> 00:24:27.769 I was definitely intrigued listening back to 00:24:27.769 --> 00:24:30.329 it here by some of the Paul is dead. Mythos. 00:24:30.769 --> 00:24:33.609 Conspiracy theory. Yeah. Mythos that was around 00:24:33.609 --> 00:24:35.890 at this time and really took on a lot of legs, 00:24:35.970 --> 00:24:37.869 man. There's a lot of aspects to this sort of 00:24:37.869 --> 00:24:40.809 mythology or this urban legend. I'll just mention 00:24:40.809 --> 00:24:42.789 a few and maybe you guys can chime in too, if 00:24:42.789 --> 00:24:45.549 you like. Apparently on Revolution 9, which is 00:24:45.549 --> 00:24:48.109 on the White Album, right? Yep. There's a backwards 00:24:48.109 --> 00:24:53.069 recording of Termion Deadman. Okay. Which is 00:24:53.069 --> 00:24:56.059 supposedly referencing Paul. Or necrophilia. 00:24:56.259 --> 00:24:59.980 Disgusting. Go on. The cover of Sgt. Pepper, 00:25:00.059 --> 00:25:03.319 the album artwork, McCartney is apparently the 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.079 only field not facing forward, which symbolizes 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:09.059 that he's no longer with us, apparently. Well, 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:11.220 on the Sgt. Pepper cover, I believe it was the 00:25:11.220 --> 00:25:15.980 inside gatefold where you see his back. Because 00:25:15.980 --> 00:25:17.740 on the cover, you see his face. But there were 00:25:17.740 --> 00:25:20.980 also rumors that they hired a lookalike. Right. 00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:26.619 So stupid. It was on the cover of magazines and 00:25:26.619 --> 00:25:29.059 it was pretty popular on the radio, I guess, 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:31.359 for this conspiracy. Yeah, obviously Paul is 00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:34.960 still alive. Ironically, one of the few members 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:37.960 left of the group. Yep. Or he's a robot. Or he's 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:41.279 been dead this whole time, yeah. Yes. I think 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:44.740 the power of the Beatles and these songs and 00:25:44.740 --> 00:25:48.140 just one throwaway line at the end of a song 00:25:48.140 --> 00:25:52.650 turned into a phenomenon. Even that has nothing 00:25:52.650 --> 00:25:54.410 to do with the music or the songs themselves. 00:25:54.829 --> 00:25:57.250 Cranberry Sauce turns into this whole thing that 00:25:57.250 --> 00:25:59.589 people are still talking about. And there's whole 00:25:59.589 --> 00:26:02.809 books about this shit. I mean, it's crazy. And 00:26:02.809 --> 00:26:06.950 it just shows the incredible power of this group 00:26:06.950 --> 00:26:10.450 and these songs and the era where that was possible. 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:13.279 We will never have anything like this, a cultural 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:16.839 phenomenon music group ever again, unless Bill 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:18.700 and Ted's Excellent Adventure is correct and 00:26:18.700 --> 00:26:22.240 Wild Stallion's music will save the future. Be 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:25.680 excellent to each other. But other than that, 00:26:25.819 --> 00:26:28.380 I don't think we're going to see anything of 00:26:28.380 --> 00:26:32.059 this magnitude ever again. Two songs of a 45 00:26:32.059 --> 00:26:35.170 record. carry all that weight. It's pretty cool. 00:26:35.289 --> 00:26:37.190 Well, each of the Beatles' primary songwriters 00:26:37.190 --> 00:26:39.890 contributes one of their best songs to this single. 00:26:40.089 --> 00:26:47.230 Check it out. Excuse me! I'd like to ask you 00:26:47.230 --> 00:26:51.410 a few questions. It's time again for Deep Questions 00:26:51.410 --> 00:26:56.029 by Don. So we're talking about stand -alone singles. 00:26:56.670 --> 00:27:00.779 What other things stand well on their own? Yeah, 00:27:00.779 --> 00:27:04.680 it's a deep one, Don. The one that came to mind 00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:06.579 for me first was the cheese, right? I mean, the 00:27:06.579 --> 00:27:08.539 cheese. Right, the cheese stands alone, sir. 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:11.319 Which I still don't understand. I will never 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:13.660 understand what that means, but. It's the power 00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:16.599 of cheese. Yeah, that's. The power of cheese. 00:27:17.339 --> 00:27:19.660 That's what I'm resting my head on. Are you working 00:27:19.660 --> 00:27:22.339 for the cheese lobby? Big cheese. They're very 00:27:22.339 --> 00:27:26.440 powerful. Part of the cheese, yeah. All right, 00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:28.769 how about you, Don? So another cheese related 00:27:28.769 --> 00:27:32.609 item, pizza by the slice, right? So pizza is 00:27:32.609 --> 00:27:36.069 delicious, but a big old slice of pizza, your 00:27:36.069 --> 00:27:38.369 favorite pizza spot, especially like a big New 00:27:38.369 --> 00:27:41.529 York style slice that covers an entire paper 00:27:41.529 --> 00:27:44.390 plate. Fills it with grease. And back in my college 00:27:44.390 --> 00:27:46.789 days, like, you know, for a buck or a buck 25, 00:27:46.930 --> 00:27:50.269 you get a small Coke and a slice, go stand out 00:27:50.269 --> 00:27:53.059 on the street. That was just. paved with discarded 00:27:53.059 --> 00:27:56.759 paper plates, like just mashed in like gum and, 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:00.279 and eat a delicious piece of pizza, especially 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:03.640 late at night when your tummy's full of noxious 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:07.339 liquids. Oh yeah. And in comes a delicious slice 00:28:07.339 --> 00:28:09.759 of pizza, usually with a lot of hot sauce poured 00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:12.759 on top at that time of night. But yeah, so pizza 00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:14.839 by the slice definitely stands alone. Definitely 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:17.299 awesome. And definitely cheese lobby. I love 00:28:17.299 --> 00:28:19.690 you. Yeah, well, it's actually, I mean, I think 00:28:19.690 --> 00:28:22.390 it's true for most food. I feel like the first 00:28:22.390 --> 00:28:25.430 bite is always the best. It's the best, yeah. 00:28:25.490 --> 00:28:27.130 If it doesn't stand alone, you can't put it down, 00:28:27.210 --> 00:28:31.109 you know. Right. But you're always chasing that 00:28:31.109 --> 00:28:34.609 first bite, you know. That's true. But I was 00:28:34.609 --> 00:28:37.029 thinking, and this is bad because I don't want 00:28:37.029 --> 00:28:39.309 to discourage people from owning multiple dogs. 00:28:40.179 --> 00:28:41.880 You know, because lots of dogs need homes and 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:44.500 stuff. But I do like the idea of just having 00:28:44.500 --> 00:28:47.920 one dog because I feel like they become sort 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:52.660 of a tighter part of your family unit. But yeah, 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:55.200 I know what you mean. Like having that one, you 00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:57.299 love them, they love you, and they don't have 00:28:57.299 --> 00:29:00.299 anything to be jealous of. Yeah, exactly. Well, 00:29:00.380 --> 00:29:02.299 what else stands on its own? Let us know. Hit 00:29:02.299 --> 00:29:04.460 us on Instagram and Facebook or leave a comment 00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:10.789 on our website, albumnerds .com. So Dude's got 00:29:10.789 --> 00:29:13.890 to stay on brand and go with a Pearl Jam single. 00:29:14.269 --> 00:29:17.089 Shocking. Pearl Jam and the Beatles. Wow. I know. 00:29:17.230 --> 00:29:18.710 Couldn't fit the Foo Fighters in here for some 00:29:18.710 --> 00:29:20.869 reason. We're packing them in. I know. It's a 00:29:20.869 --> 00:29:23.809 good day for Dude. So we're going with Jeremy 00:29:23.809 --> 00:29:27.109 from the album 10, which we discussed just this 00:29:27.109 --> 00:29:30.170 past summer during the summer of dawn. Jeremy, 00:29:30.230 --> 00:29:32.710 inspired by a real -life incident involving a 00:29:32.710 --> 00:29:35.690 15 -year -old student from Richardson, Texas, 00:29:35.769 --> 00:29:37.650 who died by suicide in front of his classmates. 00:29:38.269 --> 00:29:41.789 culturally significant song you know bringing 00:29:41.789 --> 00:29:45.190 of the 90s and bringing uh the painful truths 00:29:45.190 --> 00:29:47.690 and realities of the world around us and stuff 00:29:47.690 --> 00:29:50.750 which i ate up and uh built my entire life around 00:29:50.750 --> 00:29:55.109 at the time this was 1992 and you were like a 00:29:55.109 --> 00:29:57.609 teenager is that right yep and yeah delicious 00:29:57.609 --> 00:30:00.029 stuff yeah just lapping up this this milk here 00:30:00.879 --> 00:30:04.000 Well, the pain, you know, I had so much to be 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:07.559 angry about and living in the suburbs and having 00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:10.019 every meal provided for me and a car to use. 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:16.519 Poor tortured youth. What a terrible life. I'm 00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:19.900 so disappointed in my young self. Total D -bag. 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.619 Anyway, let's jump in and listen to a little 00:30:22.619 --> 00:30:26.180 bit of Jeremy. This is the radio edit from the 00:30:26.180 --> 00:30:31.710 single that was released. for the time so let's 00:30:31.710 --> 00:30:41.369 let's listen to chairman i told you guys there's 00:30:41.369 --> 00:30:43.690 the radio edits so they can't say fuck on the 00:30:43.690 --> 00:30:47.509 radio it's maybe a few seconds shorter than the 00:30:47.509 --> 00:30:50.009 album version as well i think they shorten up 00:30:50.009 --> 00:30:53.509 the portion you know it just says fuck for a 00:30:53.509 --> 00:30:56.950 long time i just want to know how they got these 00:30:56.950 --> 00:30:59.509 three tracks onto a two -sided record like is 00:30:59.509 --> 00:31:04.069 there It's a pyramid situation. We got the CD 00:31:04.069 --> 00:31:06.730 single era here, the maxi single. And this one 00:31:06.730 --> 00:31:10.450 was actually the copy I bought for a ridiculous 00:31:10.450 --> 00:31:14.259 amount of money was from Austria. Austria. Yeah, 00:31:14.380 --> 00:31:16.740 because they released more CD singles in Europe 00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:19.319 than they did in America. It just wasn't as big 00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:21.640 of a thing. They weren't as successful. I think 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:24.640 it cut into album sales to some degree. But what 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:27.380 drew me to this was, yes, I already had the song 00:31:27.380 --> 00:31:30.039 Jeremy, but this had two other songs on it that 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:31.960 were unreleased that were from the recording 00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:35.519 sessions, and I had to have them. My clickbait 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:38.150 headline to describe the Jeremy single... Pearl 00:31:38.150 --> 00:31:42.130 Jam's 1992 gift to fans featuring b -sides that 00:31:42.130 --> 00:31:45.190 could have been a -sides people were hungry for 00:31:45.190 --> 00:31:48.029 this stuff you know when Pearl Jam and Nirvana 00:31:48.029 --> 00:31:50.910 and all that stuff was new anything anything 00:31:50.910 --> 00:31:54.390 like I was buying import live performances imports 00:31:54.390 --> 00:31:57.309 of covers they did and recorded randomly like 00:31:57.309 --> 00:31:59.690 anything that I could get my hands on that I 00:31:59.690 --> 00:32:02.750 didn't have and uh it was a magical time for 00:32:02.750 --> 00:32:05.670 me but yeah this music discovery and like give 00:32:05.670 --> 00:32:09.240 me more give me more was fun i mean it was a 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:11.279 it was a challenge and then all of the money 00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:13.559 i got from the sub shop i worked at went to this 00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:16.180 stuff and then i worked at the sub shop and a 00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:18.299 record store at the same time and still all of 00:32:18.299 --> 00:32:22.420 my money was going to this stuff well yeah i 00:32:22.420 --> 00:32:25.299 was i was uh special ordering them and and then 00:32:25.299 --> 00:32:29.420 in 1995 in the us epic records decided to release 00:32:29.420 --> 00:32:31.599 all of those singles on regular cds for like 00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:35.079 five bucks a pop and i was pissed It also deflated 00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.440 the value of the ones I had bought, the collector's 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.819 items. All right, why don't we jump into one 00:32:39.819 --> 00:32:42.740 of those other magical tracks? This one's called 00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:56.339 Footsteps. All right, so Footsteps is the second 00:32:56.339 --> 00:32:59.440 track on the Jeremy single, the third song in 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:03.440 this Mamasan trilogy, which is comprised of Once, 00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:07.240 Alive, and this track, Footsteps, kind of telling 00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:13.690 the story, mother, son, father. I won't go into 00:33:13.690 --> 00:33:16.609 the details too much. I mean, it was loosely 00:33:16.609 --> 00:33:19.829 based on Eddie Vedder's actual situation where 00:33:19.829 --> 00:33:21.930 his real father was a friend of the family and 00:33:21.930 --> 00:33:24.069 his stepfather he thought was his father. But 00:33:24.069 --> 00:33:26.869 in the story of these, it gets into some more 00:33:26.869 --> 00:33:30.130 culturally disturbing aspects of what happens. 00:33:30.900 --> 00:33:33.420 families sometimes yeah so it comes to a conclusion 00:33:33.420 --> 00:33:36.380 here with uh the son character kind of being 00:33:36.380 --> 00:33:40.539 on death row confessing to his crimes seems like 00:33:40.539 --> 00:33:42.240 to me like he blames everything on his mother 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:47.059 but yes yes my clickbait headline for jeremy 00:33:47.059 --> 00:33:50.839 is the flannel boys show their dark side One 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.440 of the few essential singles of the era. This 00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:55.559 is a very, very moody record. I mean, even for 00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:57.940 Pearl Jam, I think this album, I mean, Footsteps 00:33:57.940 --> 00:34:01.420 has a very dark sound to it. It's just Eddie 00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:04.700 on vocals and Gossard on guitar. But even Jeremy, 00:34:04.819 --> 00:34:06.819 dark subject matter, obviously. And then we'll 00:34:06.819 --> 00:34:09.239 get to the last track here shortly. A lot of 00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:12.159 emotion on that one. Yeah, I could feel the dark 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:15.019 clouds of Seattle settling in on me as I was 00:34:15.019 --> 00:34:17.079 listening to this one. Yeah, there's some good 00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:19.360 moments on here, I think, for sure. I think Jeremy's 00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:21.400 a little overrated, and I think maybe the last 00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:23.619 track's a little underrated, but a lot of that 00:34:23.619 --> 00:34:26.260 has to do with radio play, too, in terms of that 00:34:26.260 --> 00:34:28.659 era. Well, it's odd to me that Footsteps didn't 00:34:28.659 --> 00:34:30.880 make the album when it's the third part of this 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:35.280 trilogy, but Temple of the Dog was recording 00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:37.659 around the same time, and so Times of Trouble 00:34:37.659 --> 00:34:40.340 on the Temple of the Dog album has the same... 00:34:40.340 --> 00:34:44.420 The basis is the same, so I think they didn't 00:34:44.420 --> 00:34:46.860 want to release... two songs based on the same 00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:50.219 riff around the same time. So that was also part 00:34:50.219 --> 00:34:53.760 of the whole mythos when I was a youth, finding 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:56.199 anyone that would listen to me spout this whole 00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:58.059 thing off. So that's what the podcast is for. 00:34:58.099 --> 00:35:00.940 I'm doing it again. I see how these singles seem 00:35:00.940 --> 00:35:04.219 to spur a lot of myth around these bands, or 00:35:04.219 --> 00:35:06.300 people like to exaggerate some of the details. 00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:07.760 I remember you read into the details a little 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:09.519 more than they would nowadays. All right, why 00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:11.260 don't we listen to that third and final track, 00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:22.969 Yellow Light Better. All three of us were swaying 00:35:22.969 --> 00:35:25.869 around and stuff. This is a great song. Yeah, 00:35:25.989 --> 00:35:28.090 it's got a great groove to it. So the lyrics 00:35:28.090 --> 00:35:30.449 were written by Eddie Vedder and the music co 00:35:30.449 --> 00:35:32.909 -written by bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist 00:35:32.909 --> 00:35:36.630 Mike McCready. The song title, Yellow Leadbedder, 00:35:36.730 --> 00:35:39.150 supposedly derived from the actual name of an 00:35:39.150 --> 00:35:42.349 old friend of Vedder's from Chicago named Tim 00:35:42.349 --> 00:35:44.559 Leadbedder. So supposedly written around the 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:46.800 time of the Gulf War. There's always been some 00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:49.000 mystery about what the song is about. But in 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:52.599 one, I guess, Q &A session or something, Vetter 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.539 claimed that a friend of his from Seattle, whose 00:35:55.539 --> 00:35:58.039 brother served in the first Gulf War, received 00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:01.039 a yellow letter in the mail informing him that 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:03.039 his brother died in the war. Then it goes on. 00:36:03.099 --> 00:36:05.539 Vetter and his friend went for a walk. On the 00:36:05.539 --> 00:36:09.079 walk, the friend who Vetter described as alternative 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:12.380 looking. which is how dude looked back then probably 00:36:12.380 --> 00:36:15.599 right were you oh my god i looked like such a 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:19.420 dink yes so um they walked by a house that had 00:36:19.420 --> 00:36:21.800 an american flag and i guess um this kid kind 00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.260 of gestured you know kind of like a as a salute 00:36:24.260 --> 00:36:27.039 to the flag um the people on the porch i guess 00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:30.579 you know glared at him disapprovingly and because 00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:32.280 of his appearance i wonder if he was wearing 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:35.000 two flannels like i used to One up top and one 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:39.300 around the waist. Full flannel. In case the one, 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:43.159 you know, doesn't work out. I don't know. Carry 00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:46.130 around a spare. Someone gets cold. Here, I've 00:36:46.130 --> 00:36:47.829 got a spare flannel. You should have put one 00:36:47.829 --> 00:36:53.849 around your shoulders too. But yeah, I mean, 00:36:53.889 --> 00:36:57.329 this is a big Pearl Jam song. And actually, I 00:36:57.329 --> 00:36:59.349 remember getting a lot of radio play despite 00:36:59.349 --> 00:37:02.969 being relegated to B -side status and not appearing 00:37:02.969 --> 00:37:08.539 on the album. I saw one video of Pearl Jam on 00:37:08.539 --> 00:37:11.699 Howard Stern where, you know, Eddie claimed that, 00:37:11.699 --> 00:37:15.320 you know, he didn't finish the lyrics. It sounds 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:17.820 unfinished to me lyrically. Yeah, it really does. 00:37:18.179 --> 00:37:24.119 It's like a lot of mumbo jumbo. Yeah. A lot of 00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:27.380 leaning on the hair, but singers do that to fill 00:37:27.380 --> 00:37:29.980 spaces they haven't put words to yet. And then 00:37:29.980 --> 00:37:39.429 inspired a young Scott Stapp. See? Right there. 00:37:39.530 --> 00:37:41.730 See, there's always consequences to every innovation. 00:37:43.849 --> 00:37:47.630 But that Mike McCready guitar. Oh, my gosh. It's 00:37:47.630 --> 00:37:51.130 so beautiful. Yeah. I mean, it's got a Stevie 00:37:51.130 --> 00:37:55.429 Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, bluesy. It's just 00:37:55.429 --> 00:37:58.329 beautiful. Really inspired. Yeah. Let's just 00:37:58.329 --> 00:38:02.150 listen to the whole thing. I know. Well, my clickbait 00:38:02.150 --> 00:38:05.070 headline for the Jeremy single is Jeremy spoke 00:38:05.070 --> 00:38:09.579 in class today, but he needs to enunciate. it's 00:38:09.579 --> 00:38:12.699 just it's just funny because um i mean i've known 00:38:12.699 --> 00:38:15.360 y 'all led better uh forever but i'm not sure 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:17.059 that i ever really looked up the lyrics before 00:38:17.059 --> 00:38:20.139 and i was like reading the lyrics as i'm listening 00:38:20.139 --> 00:38:23.579 and it's like you know why are you pronouncing 00:38:23.579 --> 00:38:27.519 it that way because like uh yeah because the 00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:30.920 first line is unsealed supposedly and he's like 00:38:35.169 --> 00:38:37.130 So anyway, but it works though. I get it, you 00:38:37.130 --> 00:38:38.969 know, that you have to make it fit the, you know, 00:38:38.969 --> 00:38:41.730 fit the melody, but it's, it's funny. Well, you 00:38:41.730 --> 00:38:43.889 know, and there's no proof that those are the 00:38:43.889 --> 00:38:45.789 lyrics. I mean, these are probably transcribed. 00:38:45.789 --> 00:38:47.369 I don't think they've ever been written down 00:38:47.369 --> 00:38:50.670 by Mr. Vedder necessarily. Yeah. I've heard when 00:38:50.670 --> 00:38:52.630 he, cause they do perform it live quite often 00:38:52.630 --> 00:38:55.469 and he often changes the lyrics. Yeah. Is that 00:38:55.469 --> 00:38:56.690 true? Hopefully one of these days he actually 00:38:56.690 --> 00:39:01.090 finishes them, you know, before he dies. I mean, 00:39:01.110 --> 00:39:03.269 I think this is when singles are at their best. 00:39:03.389 --> 00:39:05.650 It's kind of like a mini album. You know, there's 00:39:05.650 --> 00:39:08.929 three songs that kind of sort of, you know, work 00:39:08.929 --> 00:39:12.869 together. You know, there's gold in the B sides. 00:39:13.070 --> 00:39:16.610 You know, it's... It's worth the import price. 00:39:16.849 --> 00:39:19.170 So yeah, if you haven't heard these songs, they 00:39:19.170 --> 00:39:21.590 are available on Spotify. You look up the Jeremy 00:39:21.590 --> 00:39:25.170 single, it has all three in one nice little chunk. 00:39:25.309 --> 00:39:27.809 So go check them out and experience a little, 00:39:27.869 --> 00:39:30.570 some 10 extras that maybe you haven't heard before 00:39:30.570 --> 00:39:32.590 or haven't heard in a while. Can you dig it? 00:39:33.050 --> 00:39:42.320 Can you dig it? All right. Well, we've been, 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:46.099 I guess, enjoying the single life for the past 00:39:46.099 --> 00:39:49.480 week. Did you guys find anything else to dig? 00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:51.659 Yeah, I got something left over here for my single 00:39:51.659 --> 00:39:54.059 days where the condom used to be in my wallet. 00:39:55.099 --> 00:40:01.110 Yuck. First one up for me is from a stoner rock 00:40:01.110 --> 00:40:03.469 group from Newcastle, New England. Name of the 00:40:03.469 --> 00:40:06.090 group is Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, 00:40:06.090 --> 00:40:09.030 Pigs. Nice. Name of the album is Glib Tongued. 00:40:09.030 --> 00:40:11.849 Actually, this is a single. My mistake. Let's 00:40:11.849 --> 00:40:17.510 play that title cut. Glib Tongued. Title cut 00:40:17.510 --> 00:40:20.489 there actually features LP from Run the Jewels, 00:40:20.489 --> 00:40:23.360 a little hip hop. Element to the track there. 00:40:23.659 --> 00:40:27.619 The forthcoming album is titled Death Hilarious, 00:40:27.659 --> 00:40:30.519 which comes out on April 4th. Yeah, looking forward 00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:32.400 to that one. Should be interesting. And the last 00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:36.099 one for me is from Deerhoof, the experimental 00:40:36.099 --> 00:40:38.960 four -piece indie rock group from San Francisco. 00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:41.719 That's what they do in animals and violence this 00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:45.639 week. Yeah, animal theme lately, right? Sorry, 00:40:45.780 --> 00:40:48.940 the name of the single from Deerhoof is Immigrant 00:40:48.940 --> 00:40:55.599 Songs. Wait a little bit. Gotta say, that's not 00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:57.159 what I was expecting. I thought it was going 00:40:57.159 --> 00:41:00.880 to sound more pagan. This is nuts, that future 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.940 folk -tronic kind of stuff. Now, this is off 00:41:02.940 --> 00:41:05.460 their upcoming 20th full -length album. They've 00:41:05.460 --> 00:41:07.739 been around for quite a while now. Yeah, it sounds 00:41:07.739 --> 00:41:09.539 interesting. Definitely fits in line with their 00:41:09.539 --> 00:41:13.380 previous kind of experimental indie pop sound. 00:41:13.739 --> 00:41:16.619 Some doo -wop influence there with the na -na 00:41:16.619 --> 00:41:21.099 -na, na -na -na. Yeah. Dear UFOs, lots of the 00:41:21.099 --> 00:41:23.860 penguins, for sure. What you been digging on, 00:41:23.900 --> 00:41:27.519 Doc? Well, we recently lost Marianne Faithfull, 00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:32.119 who was just kind of a pop culture icon and muse 00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:35.300 to, you know, rock stars and everything. Well, 00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:38.820 she's actually coming out with an EP that she 00:41:38.820 --> 00:41:42.280 worked on with her grandson, Oscar Dunbar. But 00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:44.820 right now it's just a single track called Burning 00:41:44.820 --> 00:41:52.130 Moonlight. Burning moonlight. It got even deeper. 00:41:52.130 --> 00:41:57.610 Holy moly. Yep. So this was all recorded not 00:41:57.610 --> 00:42:00.690 long before she passed. That always makes for 00:42:00.690 --> 00:42:04.050 an interesting listening experience. Yeah. She's 00:42:04.050 --> 00:42:05.610 been on a few albums recently, I want to say, 00:42:05.630 --> 00:42:07.369 over the last couple of years. And there's really 00:42:07.369 --> 00:42:10.099 a lot of depth to that music. I enjoyed it. Looking 00:42:10.099 --> 00:42:13.099 forward to that one. And speaking of depth, Noah 00:42:13.099 --> 00:42:16.940 Cyrus, who was the youngest sister or sibling 00:42:16.940 --> 00:42:21.099 of Miley Cyrus, actually did a song with the 00:42:21.099 --> 00:42:24.920 Fleet Foxes. It's called Don't Put It All On 00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:33.619 Me. Sounds pretty fleet. I can hear the Cyrus 00:42:33.619 --> 00:42:35.900 though. It's actually interesting. Supposedly 00:42:35.900 --> 00:42:37.840 it was written by her older brother. I guess 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:42.380 his name is brazen Cyrus. Okay. But you know, 00:42:42.380 --> 00:42:45.760 I, and it's about Noah's, I guess her role in 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:47.500 the family. And I guess the family's having some 00:42:47.500 --> 00:42:50.599 issues, I think perhaps with their, their father. 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:54.119 So it's a, there's, it seems like there's, you 00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:56.119 know, something interesting there. Yeah. I can 00:42:56.119 --> 00:42:58.559 really hear that she's got a bit of an achy, 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:01.760 breaky heart going on there. Got a wrecking ball 00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:06.559 coming into it. How about you, dude? Okay, so 00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:09.619 singles. Yeah, this is weird for me, but one 00:43:09.619 --> 00:43:12.000 of my favorites, Mac Leapheart, just like a week 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:15.300 ago released a single called Ode to the Thirsty 00:43:15.300 --> 00:43:23.019 Beaver. You don't know that song. Oh, God. The 00:43:23.019 --> 00:43:25.760 track plays homage to the Thirsty Beaver Saloon 00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:29.599 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Apparently, developers 00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:31.800 bought up all the land around it and the guy 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:34.460 refused to sell, so they built this giant apartment 00:43:34.460 --> 00:43:37.639 complex around this tiny little building that 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.460 is still there. Oh, wow. Yeah. So let's check 00:43:40.460 --> 00:43:42.960 out a little bit of the Ode to the Thirsty Beaver. 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.900 Red -eyed critter on the side. Right there in 00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:50.739 Plaza Midwood, Avenue Central 122. Even gives 00:43:50.739 --> 00:43:56.320 the address. I just love Mackley Parts' vibe 00:43:56.320 --> 00:44:01.219 and his music. He did a video, I think it was 00:44:01.219 --> 00:44:03.500 on Instagram or something, where he's pretending 00:44:03.500 --> 00:44:06.179 to be a British guy reviewing the Ode to the 00:44:06.179 --> 00:44:09.860 Thirst. I don't know. Is it a British pub? It 00:44:09.860 --> 00:44:12.820 sounds like a British pub. Well, it's a saloon, 00:44:12.820 --> 00:44:15.820 so that was the idea that this guy did. Go to 00:44:15.820 --> 00:44:19.000 a pub. Gotcha. It was funny. And then secondly, 00:44:19.219 --> 00:44:21.139 instead of going to something from my record 00:44:21.139 --> 00:44:23.400 shelves, I mean, I do have some 45s and CD singles, 00:44:23.619 --> 00:44:26.539 but I decided to venture away from that. A lot 00:44:26.539 --> 00:44:28.519 of them were hard to find on streaming services. 00:44:28.699 --> 00:44:32.159 So why don't we check out this newer band, been 00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:35.000 around a little while, called The Jins. And this 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.920 is a new single called You're Going Far. You're 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:44.440 going far. Now they're a Vancouver -based alternative 00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:47.099 rock trio. Can't really tell what their influences 00:44:47.099 --> 00:44:50.380 might be, except for it sounds almost exactly 00:44:50.380 --> 00:44:54.079 like Nirvana. But yeah, so it's a grunge influence 00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:56.440 sound, and I hadn't really heard of them before. 00:44:56.500 --> 00:44:58.280 They do have some albums that I will go check 00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:00.400 out, but the B -side on this crutch is pretty 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:02.820 good too, available on your streaming services, 00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:05.960 so go check that out. Very interesting. Well, 00:45:06.099 --> 00:45:07.900 what are you digging? Let us know. 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