WEBVTT 00:00:01.580 --> 00:00:33.670 Are you listening Hey, are you listening? This 00:00:33.670 --> 00:00:36.329 is a podcast exploring the past, present, and 00:00:36.329 --> 00:00:39.130 future of Christian music. My name is Joel, and 00:00:39.130 --> 00:00:41.710 I'm here with my good friend Brandon. We connected 00:00:41.710 --> 00:00:43.729 over mutual love of some particular artists, 00:00:43.729 --> 00:00:46.509 but also have pretty different tastes. And so 00:00:46.509 --> 00:00:48.590 we get to experience some new stuff from each 00:00:48.590 --> 00:00:51.490 other while inviting some friends along for the 00:00:51.490 --> 00:00:57.770 ride. Brandon, can you hear it? In the distance, 00:00:57.770 --> 00:01:01.590 I can. You know what this means, right? It's 00:01:01.590 --> 00:01:04.870 Christmas. It's Christmas. It's Christmas. How's 00:01:04.870 --> 00:01:07.349 Christmas going for you? I don't know, Joel. 00:01:07.409 --> 00:01:09.590 I hate to admit this, but we're barely in December 00:01:09.590 --> 00:01:14.010 and I feel like I'm already in Grinch mode. Already? 00:01:14.150 --> 00:01:18.230 What led to that? So what what led to it was, 00:01:18.230 --> 00:01:20.969 um, it was like the day after Christmas or whatever. 00:01:21.689 --> 00:01:24.650 Um, I ran to the store. Wait, the day after Thanksgiving? 00:01:24.849 --> 00:01:31.560 Yeah. I got my time machine and like, I was excited 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:36.000 to think, man, I wonder what weird or cool Christmas 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.680 drinks or snacks are going to be out. And then 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.019 it dawned on me that all that stuff was released 00:01:41.019 --> 00:01:44.900 back in like, at Halloween. So it's kind of like, 00:01:45.340 --> 00:01:48.019 it feels sometimes with we celebrate Christmas 00:01:48.019 --> 00:01:50.980 so early, that what it feels like is that we 00:01:50.980 --> 00:01:53.420 all open our Christmas presents back at Halloween. 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:56.780 And now we're like, oh, there's nothing to open. 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:59.569 We've already like had that excitement. so i 00:01:59.569 --> 00:02:02.310 think maybe i just need to do a better job of 00:02:02.310 --> 00:02:05.950 staying away from like the weird coca -cola and 00:02:05.950 --> 00:02:09.550 santa gummies or whatever um whenever halloween 00:02:09.550 --> 00:02:11.750 so maybe it's maybe i need to look and take a 00:02:11.750 --> 00:02:17.370 look at myself instead of uh yeah i i do feel 00:02:17.370 --> 00:02:21.150 like um i'm a pretty staunch um i don't want 00:02:21.150 --> 00:02:25.330 a christmas until thanksgiving is over um but 00:02:25.330 --> 00:02:28.740 literally we we finished thanksgiving like lunch 00:02:28.740 --> 00:02:32.939 on Thanksgiving Day and hopped in the car and 00:02:32.939 --> 00:02:35.919 I turned on Christmas for the first time. And 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:37.939 I'm like, I know it's still Thanksgiving, but 00:02:37.939 --> 00:02:40.400 we've already had the meal. Like it's okay now. 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:45.039 We can transition. But yeah, I feel like Thanksgiving 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:47.979 is like part of the Christmas season now. And 00:02:47.979 --> 00:02:50.840 that's kind of a strange thing. I don't know 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:55.259 how to feel about that. Well, it is fun for us 00:02:55.259 --> 00:02:59.240 to step into December with this because we're 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:02.780 actually going to be looking at some Christmas 00:03:02.780 --> 00:03:05.539 Christmas stuff, which would be kind of a fun 00:03:05.539 --> 00:03:08.300 thing. And so I think the way we're tackling 00:03:08.300 --> 00:03:13.520 this is both you and I are going to bring a Christmas 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:18.900 record for discussion and then And then we're 00:03:18.900 --> 00:03:21.699 just gonna cover one that seems sort of current 00:03:21.699 --> 00:03:26.139 And then and then kind of go from there so Brandon 00:03:26.139 --> 00:03:29.199 what what have you brought? To the table for 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:32.479 us to to talk about today today I have brought 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:37.000 tis the season to be goatee is a sampler goatee 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:42.199 records released believe in 2008 maybe 2009 And 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:45.120 it was something that was pretty near and dear 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:49.219 to me growing up And so whenever we decided to 00:03:49.219 --> 00:03:52.539 bring CDs, I thought it was like, well, it's 00:03:52.539 --> 00:03:54.460 pretty cool. How about if we do, you know, we'll 00:03:54.460 --> 00:03:57.740 do one kind of the sampler one and then one of 00:03:57.740 --> 00:04:00.580 just a particular artist. So whenever I was thinking 00:04:00.580 --> 00:04:02.680 of samplers, I was like, well, this one's right 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:05.939 up there with a lot of the artists I grew up 00:04:05.939 --> 00:04:10.139 really enjoying. So yeah, I'm really excited 00:04:10.139 --> 00:04:12.629 to talk about this one. We're going to do that 00:04:12.629 --> 00:04:15.490 in a little bit, but I think before we do, you 00:04:15.490 --> 00:04:17.670 have a game for us today, right? Yeah, Joel, 00:04:17.709 --> 00:04:20.670 I've got some really good news. So a lot of the 00:04:20.670 --> 00:04:22.850 Christian industry, they came together and they 00:04:22.850 --> 00:04:26.009 want to release a, Hey, are you listening? Christmas. 00:04:26.730 --> 00:04:29.449 So they reached out to us and we're going to 00:04:29.449 --> 00:04:31.949 decide which songs they're going to be covering. 00:04:32.550 --> 00:04:35.529 So in today's game, we've got two cups. One cup 00:04:35.529 --> 00:04:37.769 is going to be the artist. The other cup is going 00:04:37.769 --> 00:04:40.939 to be the song they are covering. Okay. All right, 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:45.639 so we're gonna draw and decide, and then we gotta 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.019 say, do we think this is gonna be a good or a 00:04:48.019 --> 00:04:52.420 bad cover? So I feel like this should probably, 00:04:52.819 --> 00:04:54.740 we need to start doing video or something to 00:04:54.740 --> 00:04:56.959 make this a little more dramatic. All right, 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.259 so I'm drawing these. Yeah, Joel. So you're gonna 00:04:59.259 --> 00:05:04.819 tell us who's gonna be opening up this CD. Okay, 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.970 so this is the song. Oh, okay. No, I got them 00:05:08.970 --> 00:05:11.029 in the wrong order here. All right, let me grab 00:05:11.029 --> 00:05:18.370 an artist. Okay, so artist here is Forrest Frank. 00:05:18.449 --> 00:05:24.490 Okay. So current. And then the song will be, 00:05:24.750 --> 00:05:31.110 you're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. I kind of feel 00:05:31.110 --> 00:05:36.350 like I could see this happening. Definitely would 00:05:36.350 --> 00:05:39.800 be, yeah. Forrest's own little version of it. 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.180 The voices would be interesting though. I feel 00:05:42.180 --> 00:05:44.319 like he would need a featuring There's gonna 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.439 be some dance to it as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:49.879 Who do you have featured on there like to be 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:54.899 like the Grinch in there? I Don't know maybe 00:05:54.899 --> 00:05:57.079 like a Toby Mack. Uh -huh. Okay, there been a 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:59.439 Toby Mack Forrest Frank crossover Yeah, they 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.300 they covered I think heaven on my mind earlier 00:06:02.300 --> 00:06:05.199 this year. Okay, they did a Another version of 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.379 it. Gotcha. Yeah, I'll have to check that out 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:09.800 Yeah, I could, I could feel that happening. Yeah, 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:11.160 I don't know. What do you, what are your thoughts 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:13.339 on that? Yeah, I think so. It'd be, I feel like 00:06:13.339 --> 00:06:15.660 the bridge or something, it would be him sharing 00:06:15.660 --> 00:06:17.740 the gospel to the Grinch or something. So I feel 00:06:17.740 --> 00:06:21.220 like that would be, we've, we've yet to see anyone 00:06:21.220 --> 00:06:25.480 mix that in with the, with the Grinch. Yeah. 00:06:25.819 --> 00:06:27.759 Like, you know, we, we know how his wellbeing 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:29.639 is when it comes to the Christmas, but we don't 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:33.259 know how his spiritual wellbeing is. So. Yeah, 00:06:33.259 --> 00:06:35.160 that could be really interesting. I like it. 00:06:35.259 --> 00:06:38.139 All right, so we're in favor of seeing that happen. 00:06:38.379 --> 00:06:47.199 Okay, let's see. Next one we've got here is Danielson 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:52.879 family. All right. I mean, I feel like anything 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:59.509 works. Danielson family covering blue Christmas. 00:06:59.930 --> 00:07:03.670 I'm here for it all day long. There wasn't a 00:07:03.670 --> 00:07:05.970 song in the cup that I wouldn't want to hear 00:07:05.970 --> 00:07:10.389 Danielson cover. But that one especially, I feel 00:07:10.389 --> 00:07:13.509 like really, really just works. I remember singing 00:07:13.509 --> 00:07:19.089 blue Christmas in the car with my family, driving 00:07:19.089 --> 00:07:24.790 my mom crazy with the parts. So it fits, it fits. 00:07:25.069 --> 00:07:43.529 that's good all right next we've got nf nf covering 00:07:43.529 --> 00:07:52.050 i celebrate the day by reliant k uh tell me your 00:07:52.050 --> 00:07:56.980 thoughts first and then uh I cover an NF album 00:07:56.980 --> 00:08:00.519 years ago and I was feeling every song he's, 00:08:00.819 --> 00:08:03.480 it's like he's, it's a journal entry but he's 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.939 just really mad when he was like writing it. 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.360 But then by the end sometimes he's like a little 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.040 less mad. So I feel like in this one it would 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:16.079 be like, like reliant case is kind of this dramatic 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:19.060 like where am I? I feel like NFs would be way 00:08:19.060 --> 00:08:23.839 more. dramatic of him listing probably he'd probably 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.620 list out what he's done um because I think a 00:08:27.620 --> 00:08:29.600 lot of times whenever you have a rap artist cover 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:32.799 something like this they'll keep the chorus right 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:36.639 but then just add like rap verses yeah or a bridge 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.899 that's like yeah they get to do their own thing 00:08:38.899 --> 00:08:41.659 on yeah that would be interesting I feel like 00:08:41.659 --> 00:08:44.440 I'd have to hear it um to know how it's gonna 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:47.899 go um I mean, I celebrate the day's a little 00:08:47.899 --> 00:08:52.960 moody. Um, and so I, I think I could see it. 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:55.539 Um, but yeah, I felt like that would be, that 00:08:55.539 --> 00:08:59.360 one would be really interesting. All right. The 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.000 album's shaping up to be pretty good so far. 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:08.340 Next up we've got Neon Horse. That's another 00:09:08.340 --> 00:09:10.080 one like Danielson that I'm like, I'm excited 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:13.360 to see anything that they cover. Neon Horse, 00:09:13.580 --> 00:09:17.789 Carol of the Bells. Yeah, I think that could 00:09:17.789 --> 00:09:20.070 work. Oh, you know, that'd be like this creepy, 00:09:20.370 --> 00:09:24.110 eerie approach to it. I think May did a carol 00:09:24.110 --> 00:09:28.190 of the bells, which was interesting. Yeah, yeah. 00:09:28.309 --> 00:09:35.710 No, I totally see that. I think. Switch fit. 00:09:37.309 --> 00:09:41.029 They better get a good one. I'm going to be really 00:09:41.029 --> 00:09:50.840 disappointed. You know, which one this is oh 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:53.940 Switch foot covering I saw mom kissing Santa 00:09:53.940 --> 00:09:58.340 Claus. Oh I think the album just got ruined for 00:09:58.340 --> 00:10:01.120 me. How upset would you be if you saw switch 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:02.740 foot? Oh, they're gonna be on this album that 00:10:02.740 --> 00:10:05.840 you saw that they're covering a song like that 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.360 Somebody did a cover of I saw mommy kissing Santa 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:12.399 Claus and kind of a rock and roll and I can't 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.730 remember who it was Taylor Swift I don't think 00:10:15.730 --> 00:10:22.289 so. Yeah. We've talked about this before, but 00:10:22.289 --> 00:10:26.429 this is not one of my favorite songs. Do you 00:10:26.429 --> 00:10:27.950 mean draw another one while you're pulling that 00:10:27.950 --> 00:10:31.450 one up on there? I'm just trying to see who I 00:10:31.450 --> 00:10:35.730 can remember that has covered this. I don't, 00:10:35.870 --> 00:10:38.129 I'm probably not going to find it very easily. 00:10:38.710 --> 00:10:45.269 So twisted sister. Yeah, I don't know. I'm just 00:10:45.269 --> 00:10:47.909 really disappointed that that's the one that 00:10:47.909 --> 00:10:52.169 SwitchFit has decided. Or we are telling them 00:10:52.169 --> 00:10:55.590 together. That's a bummer. That's the one they're 00:10:55.590 --> 00:11:03.289 bringing to us. John, let's rethink this. Steven 00:11:03.289 --> 00:11:08.830 Curtis Chapman. Okay. It's a Christmas version 00:11:08.830 --> 00:11:13.750 of Got To Be True. And the song is the 12 days 00:11:13.750 --> 00:11:19.049 of Christmas. This is a like not often covered 00:11:19.049 --> 00:11:22.850 Christmas song because I feel like nobody wants 00:11:22.850 --> 00:11:25.230 to keep repeating all of those things over and 00:11:25.230 --> 00:11:28.830 over again. Yeah, that could be interesting. 00:11:29.149 --> 00:11:31.490 I think that'd be solid. I mean, it would work 00:11:31.490 --> 00:11:49.309 for sure. Next up. We've got Toby Mac Mm -hmm 00:11:49.309 --> 00:12:01.909 You're the big Toby Mac fan like I think modern 00:12:01.909 --> 00:12:05.750 Toby Mac like it's not that out there because 00:12:05.750 --> 00:12:09.940 it's maybe adding in like a little like Rap like 00:12:09.940 --> 00:12:11.960 at the end of it or something. I'd like to see 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.360 like 2002 era Toby Mac because that song's gonna 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:21.440 be just so crazy Yeah, do you feel like Toby 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:25.340 Mac is a Little more sentimental in his old age. 00:12:25.340 --> 00:12:28.539 I think he's Mel. It's just it's way more singing 00:12:28.539 --> 00:12:32.779 because it was and I Think welcome the diver 00:12:32.779 --> 00:12:35.700 city is when he released gone and he was like, 00:12:35.700 --> 00:12:39.720 oh I can sing Because there's this documentary, 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:42.899 it's a series called Faith and Fame that Gospel 00:12:42.899 --> 00:12:45.320 Music Channel used to do. I watched that thing 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:48.740 probably 100 times. And that was one thing he'd 00:12:48.740 --> 00:12:50.820 mentioned is that when he was in DC Talk, he's 00:12:50.820 --> 00:12:52.340 like, well, the other two guys are the singers. 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:55.279 So I'm just the rapper. So whenever he released 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:57.799 his first solo stuff, it was like, yeah, that's 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:00.879 all I am. And then with that one, so if you see 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.019 like, This is progression from like portable 00:13:04.019 --> 00:13:07.100 sounds to now where there is like more of Toby 00:13:07.100 --> 00:13:11.259 singing versus Him like rapping or him having 00:13:11.259 --> 00:13:18.899 a guest singer to sing those parts. So yeah I 00:13:18.899 --> 00:13:22.360 Toby sing a little bit. I mean, I guess it depends 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:25.460 on what you call singing. Yeah, but um, like 00:13:25.460 --> 00:13:30.139 on free at last the song the hard way It's sort 00:13:30.139 --> 00:13:35.250 of him singing Anyways. Yeah. Um, I feel like, 00:13:35.250 --> 00:13:37.669 uh, that I would be interested to listen to that. 00:13:37.710 --> 00:13:40.490 I'm all of these. I want to listen to you. Um, 00:13:40.490 --> 00:13:42.750 I would love to see like a neon, neon horse, 00:13:42.750 --> 00:13:48.169 um, Christmas shoes. All right. Rebecca St. James, 00:13:51.049 --> 00:13:59.629 Rebecca St. James Christmas and Dixie. I haven't 00:13:59.629 --> 00:14:04.929 heard that song in a while. um um she wanted 00:14:04.929 --> 00:14:10.009 to sing it so i'll play well okay i don't know 00:14:10.009 --> 00:14:13.429 i don't know um yeah that's that i just know 00:14:13.429 --> 00:14:16.190 her from like she's from australia so it's very 00:14:16.190 --> 00:14:18.970 ironic that she'd be singing christmas in tixie 00:14:18.970 --> 00:14:21.330 she moved to nashville and just fell in love 00:14:21.330 --> 00:14:28.250 with it um who sang that originally uh alabama 00:14:28.250 --> 00:14:31.059 yeah That's one of those songs where if you're 00:14:31.059 --> 00:14:33.320 not from the south you hear it and you can kind 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:35.940 of like Maybe chuckle a little bit at it. Yeah, 00:14:35.940 --> 00:14:38.279 but like I've seen people cry with that song. 00:14:38.700 --> 00:14:45.600 So I've learned to be quiet Amy Grant. Mm -hmm. 00:14:45.659 --> 00:14:50.700 I want a hippopotamus for Christmas That would 00:14:50.700 --> 00:14:52.740 have been really fun for like young Amy Grant 00:14:52.740 --> 00:14:57.620 I feel like Although I could maybe see older 00:14:57.620 --> 00:15:00.039 Amy Grant doing that Do you think there's an 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.340 age on that song? Like once you get over like 00:15:03.340 --> 00:15:05.600 40 or 50, like the older you get, the weirder 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.539 it is that someone wants a hippopotamus for Christmas? 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:09.799 I don't think it's weirder. I think it's just 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:15.659 more like looking back on life in a nostalgic 00:15:15.659 --> 00:15:19.759 kind of way, thinking about your grandkids than 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:22.379 like actually wanting a hippopotamus for Christmas. 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.659 What if let's remove the song aspect and let's 00:15:26.659 --> 00:15:28.179 say at church you have like a five -year -old 00:15:28.179 --> 00:15:30.279 come up to you and say I want a hippo for Christmas 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.240 or if you had a 75 year old walk up and say man 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:35.360 I've got my fingers crossed I think my family's 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.519 getting a hippo for Christmas. I would say let's 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:45.980 start making funeral arrangements. I didn't expect 00:15:45.980 --> 00:15:48.639 to take that turn. I mean they're one of the 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:54.659 deadliest animals in the world. Casting crowns 00:15:54.659 --> 00:15:58.539 are number one Greatest artist of all time. We've 00:15:58.539 --> 00:16:01.740 got one song left in here. All right, you probably 00:16:01.740 --> 00:16:03.879 remember what this is I forgot what I put down 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:08.379 to be honest Casting crowns covering somehow 00:16:08.379 --> 00:16:13.940 I can just see it. I Yeah, it makes perfect sense 00:16:13.940 --> 00:16:19.240 to me. Mm -hmm. I don't know so Well, this is 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:21.879 gonna be a really fascinating Christmas album. 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:25.879 So I'm looking forward to hearing everybody's 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:29.000 renditions now that we've green lit it. I gotta 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:31.039 thank all of them for just doing that for us. 00:16:31.139 --> 00:16:33.879 It was really nice of them. Yeah. It's pretty 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:36.159 cool. We'll have to have them all on the podcast 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:41.419 to talk about their experiences. So pretty fun. 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:44.379 Brandon, thanks for that. That was a fun journey 00:16:44.379 --> 00:16:48.029 to imagine what what's going on there let's talk 00:16:48.029 --> 00:16:49.970 real quick about um what we've been listening 00:16:49.970 --> 00:16:53.990 to lately um what's uh what's been in your ears 00:16:53.990 --> 00:16:57.789 lately um i feel like kind of running around 00:16:57.789 --> 00:17:01.049 i haven't been able to really dive into um a 00:17:01.049 --> 00:17:04.650 lot of christmas music yet um i think one thing 00:17:04.650 --> 00:17:07.789 i'm excited to listen to is like some of jars 00:17:07.789 --> 00:17:10.150 of clay's christmas yeah because i've listened 00:17:10.150 --> 00:17:13.410 to it but i it's been years since i've gone through 00:17:13.410 --> 00:17:15.809 because they had like I think it was two Christmas 00:17:15.809 --> 00:17:20.269 albums. There's one Christmas songs. I think 00:17:20.269 --> 00:17:22.829 there's one that's maybe, I don't know, like 00:17:22.829 --> 00:17:25.289 a Pieces Here or something like that. They had 00:17:25.289 --> 00:17:28.849 a really early EP, Little Drummer Boy. Yeah, 00:17:28.930 --> 00:17:33.170 yeah. Yeah. I actually just saw somebody was 00:17:33.170 --> 00:17:36.579 selling that vinyl for like five bucks. which 00:17:36.579 --> 00:17:38.839 is a steal, but the shipping's probably way more 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:42.299 than that. But they've got a song that it's been 00:17:42.299 --> 00:17:45.900 on repeat since it came out, but in 2023 it's 00:17:45.900 --> 00:17:49.799 called, uh, leaving the lights up. And, um, essentially 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:51.819 it's just about having like that joy of Christmas, 00:17:51.819 --> 00:17:54.440 like year round that it's like in the song, they're 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:55.680 just like, yeah, we're going to leave. They're 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:59.099 going to call us crazy and all, but like, um, 00:17:59.420 --> 00:18:01.579 like you might be that, like that light that 00:18:01.579 --> 00:18:04.539 people need. And, um, so I feel like it's a pretty 00:18:04.539 --> 00:18:07.470 cool song. I think it's whenever I start feeling 00:18:07.470 --> 00:18:10.589 like cynical around Christmas time, I go listen 00:18:10.589 --> 00:18:14.109 and Dan and the boys helped me. I love that. 00:18:14.309 --> 00:18:17.390 I love that. That, um, I'll have to check that 00:18:17.390 --> 00:18:18.910 one out. I don't think I've ever heard that song. 00:18:19.029 --> 00:18:24.190 So, um, for me, I, um, was working on my Advent 00:18:24.190 --> 00:18:26.930 playlist, kind of leading into Christmas and 00:18:26.930 --> 00:18:29.450 I allowed myself to start listening to that, 00:18:29.450 --> 00:18:34.250 um, moving into Thanksgiving. And so, um, I always 00:18:34.250 --> 00:18:37.390 every year like to kind of search around and 00:18:37.390 --> 00:18:39.829 see what's out there that I haven't heard yet. 00:18:40.349 --> 00:18:43.690 That's like, um, Advent kind of music, um, just 00:18:43.690 --> 00:18:47.009 to get me kind of in a spirit of longing and 00:18:47.009 --> 00:18:52.369 waiting. And, um, so I found an album, um, by 00:18:52.369 --> 00:18:57.220 a woman named Caroline Cobb. called Seed Sunrise 00:18:57.220 --> 00:19:00.240 Advent to Christmas Songs. And she has some great 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:02.539 songs on there. And so I actually added a couple 00:19:02.539 --> 00:19:06.519 of those to my Advent playlist. But I've been 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:09.279 listening to that record a little bit. It's really 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:12.700 good. And so that's one that I've spent some 00:19:12.700 --> 00:19:15.799 time with as of late. All right, well, let's 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:19.920 transition and talk a little bit about this sampler 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:29.180 album. All right Tis the season to be goatee. 00:19:29.180 --> 00:19:31.980 I pulled a tiny bit of information from the internet 00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:34.880 about this It's a compilation Christmas record 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:40.000 that was released on October 5th 2010 Was off 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.319 by a little bit earlier. Yeah, it's mostly made 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:44.859 up of already released Christmas songs by goatee 00:19:44.859 --> 00:19:47.740 artists with the exception of one recording You 00:19:47.740 --> 00:19:51.099 know which one that is Yeah, I think it either 00:19:51.099 --> 00:19:55.349 be I celebrate the day or silver bells Could 00:19:55.349 --> 00:19:57.609 be I was thinking it was one of the oh, I thought 00:19:57.609 --> 00:20:02.970 you had Well, I think from what I can remember 00:20:02.970 --> 00:20:06.609 it was one of the Aisha Wood songs that was I 00:20:06.609 --> 00:20:09.890 don't know them I'd have to go back and figure 00:20:09.890 --> 00:20:13.089 that out and we don't time for it now. So Alright, 00:20:13.150 --> 00:20:16.990 so tell me this one. Like you said this one kind 00:20:16.990 --> 00:20:19.150 of sits with you. It's been with you for a while 00:20:19.950 --> 00:20:24.069 Tell me about your history with this and like 00:20:24.069 --> 00:20:26.829 what made Brandon pull this up and listen to 00:20:26.829 --> 00:20:30.269 it for the first time. Yeah so for me growing 00:20:30.269 --> 00:20:33.390 up I didn't care for Christmas music like it 00:20:33.390 --> 00:20:36.869 felt I don't know like I didn't didn't care for 00:20:36.869 --> 00:20:39.829 it didn't really listen to it and it wasn't until 00:20:39.829 --> 00:20:44.289 I think it was like maybe third day's Christmas 00:20:44.289 --> 00:20:46.740 album. that it was the first time i had heard 00:20:46.740 --> 00:20:48.980 people kind of put their own spin which i mean 00:20:48.980 --> 00:20:51.880 even looking back i feel like it wasn't that 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:53.940 big of one it was more of them just having like 00:20:53.940 --> 00:20:57.140 a southern rock or just a little tweak so it 00:20:57.140 --> 00:20:59.619 wasn't just you know it almost felt like people 00:20:59.619 --> 00:21:02.599 would just have the music and then add their 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:06.599 vocals in and um and then reliant k and family 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:10.539 force 5 christmas was way more of oh these people 00:21:10.539 --> 00:21:13.339 took it and made it their own um so whenever 00:21:13.339 --> 00:21:16.480 goatee released this it was something that i 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:20.819 um i think aisha woods i maybe listened to like 00:21:20.819 --> 00:21:24.180 a song or two of hers back in the day but like 00:21:24.180 --> 00:21:28.220 i gravitated towards to uh house of heroes reliant 00:21:28.220 --> 00:21:32.759 k um abandoned kansas so whenever this came out 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:36.220 i was like this is perfect because i love all 00:21:36.220 --> 00:21:38.380 of these artists and this is going to be amazing 00:21:38.380 --> 00:21:42.259 and um So yeah, as a kid, it was just so cool 00:21:42.259 --> 00:21:45.240 to be like, here's the artist I love putting 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.039 their own spin on Christmas. And I think too, 00:21:48.259 --> 00:21:51.019 I always love whenever someone wanted music, 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:54.079 I loved making mixtapes or handing them CDs. 00:21:54.759 --> 00:21:56.839 So whenever someone was like me and they're like, 00:21:56.859 --> 00:21:58.680 I don't really care for Christmas. I remember 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:01.559 like telling them to check out this one or physically 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:04.160 like, I don't know the statute of like limitations, 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:06.960 but like burning my own copies of the CD and 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:11.569 giving them out. So. if joey or toby's listening 00:22:11.569 --> 00:22:17.130 i'm sorry yeah let's uh beware be careful you 00:22:17.130 --> 00:22:19.609 know i was gonna say real fast that was i was 00:22:19.609 --> 00:22:21.509 thinking that was a thing that kind of gravitated 00:22:21.509 --> 00:22:25.809 me towards um goatee records too was that back 00:22:25.809 --> 00:22:29.529 in the day they had for every artist, there was 00:22:29.529 --> 00:22:31.990 one to sometimes like four songs for free you 00:22:31.990 --> 00:22:34.609 could download. So like that was where I first 00:22:34.609 --> 00:22:36.490 found like John Rubin was I just went through 00:22:36.490 --> 00:22:40.430 and downloaded like a song from each person and 00:22:40.430 --> 00:22:42.609 went and listened to it. So back in the day, 00:22:42.890 --> 00:22:44.490 like before we had stream, I feel like there's 00:22:44.490 --> 00:22:46.130 people that's blowing their mind right now that 00:22:46.130 --> 00:22:49.690 there was not streaming back in the day. But 00:22:49.690 --> 00:22:53.740 I remember just being like a, you know, 14 15 00:22:53.740 --> 00:22:56.160 16 year old and being like I don't have all this 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:58.599 money to go buy music so whenever I could found 00:22:58.599 --> 00:23:01.859 places where I could like Like download it like 00:23:01.859 --> 00:23:05.000 legally. It was always really exciting. And so 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:08.400 yeah, I think that's really cool, too Yeah, I 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:12.339 so I've never listened to this sampler before 00:23:12.339 --> 00:23:16.380 but I know a lot of these songs because like 00:23:16.380 --> 00:23:23.299 you I was a big house of heroes fan I had I think 00:23:23.299 --> 00:23:28.299 all the band in Kansas albums and obviously Reliant 00:23:28.299 --> 00:23:34.640 K and so I Yeah, so I knew like half of this 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.059 going in going into it even though I'd never 00:23:37.059 --> 00:23:39.700 like listened to it before which is kind of an 00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:43.160 interesting thing about the sampler that That 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:46.079 they're mostly pulling from releases that their 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:49.059 artists have like already put out but it seems 00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:53.740 like their goatee is pretty like Intentional 00:23:53.740 --> 00:23:56.019 about having their artists do Christmas music 00:23:56.019 --> 00:23:58.140 or maybe they just have a bunch of artists that 00:23:58.140 --> 00:24:00.160 really like Christmas music Yeah, it seems like 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.559 there's a lot of it going around So I think that's 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:06.880 cool. But so yeah, I'm aware of a lot of this 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:10.480 music already and so That made it helpful for 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:12.480 me kind of kind of going through it So well, 00:24:12.500 --> 00:24:14.160 let's walk through it kind of track by track 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:17.779 and talk about the songs and the artists and 00:24:17.779 --> 00:24:21.079 and what our thoughts are a little bit so The 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:26.279 first one on the record is Silver Bells by Reliant 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:30.559 K. I had actually never heard this one before. 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:35.039 So yeah, that was interesting for me. What do 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:37.859 you think about this one? Yeah, I really liked 00:24:37.859 --> 00:24:40.759 it. I think that it already sets the tone for 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:43.839 you're not going to get a ton of your traditional. 00:24:44.019 --> 00:24:45.460 Like if that's what you're looking for, go ahead 00:24:45.460 --> 00:24:49.460 and walk out the door. Which you love, I think. 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.980 Yeah, so, like, I hear this and, you know, I 00:24:53.980 --> 00:24:56.740 think with all of the stuff we're covering, it's 00:24:56.740 --> 00:24:58.779 kind of important to note that I feel like as 00:24:58.779 --> 00:25:02.220 someone who did not enjoy Christmas music, I'm 00:25:02.220 --> 00:25:05.259 very aware of the stuff that I love is the stuff 00:25:05.259 --> 00:25:07.559 that a lot of people are not going to love. Because 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:09.720 even like, you know, I remember showing my mom, 00:25:09.880 --> 00:25:11.980 like, check out this Christmas music, and her 00:25:11.980 --> 00:25:15.079 going, that's... They ruined Little Drummer Boy. 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:18.640 She was just like, you don't mess up that song. 00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:24.240 I'm fully aware that a lot of the stuff that 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:27.400 I'm going to like and not like on the albums 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:30.500 we cover, most for audience, there's a good chance 00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:36.900 they feel completely different. I'll say too 00:25:36.900 --> 00:25:42.160 for me. I really enjoy the different stuff. And 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:48.059 I think that 15 years ago, I would be in the 00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:51.200 exact same boat that you're in. And then I didn't 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:53.539 really enjoy much of the classic stuff at all. 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.819 But I think time has kind of shifted a little 00:25:57.819 --> 00:26:00.619 bit of that for me. And that now I've learned 00:26:00.619 --> 00:26:03.700 you can actually like both. It doesn't like... 00:26:03.710 --> 00:26:06.130 it doesn't hurt your credibility or whatever. 00:26:07.230 --> 00:26:10.269 And so I've warmed up a lot to some of the more 00:26:10.269 --> 00:26:14.869 classic stuff while still enjoying the different 00:26:14.869 --> 00:26:18.269 takes on it. Yeah, I think Silver Bells, it's 00:26:18.269 --> 00:26:23.809 like a classic Reliant K sound here. You've got 00:26:23.809 --> 00:26:30.720 the piano and... But it's a pretty standard version 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:33.619 of Silver Bells. It doesn't do anything crazy 00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:38.000 except for the fact that they add this new bridge 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:40.420 to the song. I really love the bridge on that. 00:26:40.420 --> 00:26:42.839 Which I feel like was a real highlight of it 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:46.180 just because it does bring in something new. 00:26:48.779 --> 00:26:52.380 For me, once you hit the bridge, the bridge to 00:26:52.380 --> 00:26:55.420 the end, I'm like, yes, I really like this a 00:26:55.420 --> 00:26:59.309 lot. I feel like it went some nice places. How 00:26:59.309 --> 00:27:01.829 do you feel about um our next track all I want 00:27:01.829 --> 00:27:04.849 for christmas is you by house of heroes man I 00:27:04.849 --> 00:27:07.930 love this I love this song so much um there's 00:27:07.930 --> 00:27:12.809 a few house of heroes songs on this sampler and 00:27:12.809 --> 00:27:16.849 um this one's my favorite um because I feel like 00:27:16.849 --> 00:27:21.849 it just fits house of heroes yeah um like tim's 00:27:21.849 --> 00:27:25.650 vocals are perfect on it like they showcase his 00:27:25.650 --> 00:27:30.740 ability uh as a singer really well um not saying 00:27:30.740 --> 00:27:33.099 that he sounds like Mariah Carey but yeah but 00:27:33.099 --> 00:27:36.380 um uh it just like this is the kind of House 00:27:36.380 --> 00:27:38.940 of Heroes it reminds me of like I mean obviously 00:27:38.940 --> 00:27:41.039 it's Christmas but it just feels like a song 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:43.339 that would have been on Suburba yeah um which 00:27:43.339 --> 00:27:45.839 is one of my favorite like House of Heroes records 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:50.460 that just a lot of energy um kind of upbeat and 00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:55.480 um I just yeah I feel like This song was the 00:27:55.480 --> 00:28:00.099 perfect fit for them as a band to cover. It just 00:28:00.099 --> 00:28:03.000 matches their sound so well. I know that since 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:05.880 then I've heard other people cover it, but I 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:08.900 remember at the time I can't think of another 00:28:08.900 --> 00:28:12.220 band that I had heard that could cover it. And 00:28:12.220 --> 00:28:15.319 I feel like the original is people either love 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:17.460 or hate it. So it makes it difficult when you're 00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:19.500 covering something that... already going into 00:28:19.500 --> 00:28:21.759 it people who love it are like why are you touching 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:24.160 this people who hate it are like why are you 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:27.559 covering this yeah but yeah i just i listen and 00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:32.720 i think that really with like their christmas 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:35.839 stuff it just highlights everything that's just 00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:39.099 good about house of heroes yeah um like the group 00:28:39.099 --> 00:28:44.359 vocals just the the backing of it um yeah like 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:48.190 i i really enjoyed and um I think it's another 00:28:48.190 --> 00:28:51.470 one that at the time it was like I would have 00:28:51.470 --> 00:28:53.930 never listened to the original I would have been 00:28:53.930 --> 00:28:55.789 like oh okay I'm gonna change to the channel 00:28:55.789 --> 00:28:59.509 but then they cover it and I think it makes you 00:28:59.509 --> 00:29:02.329 be able to like appreciate the song because you're 00:29:02.329 --> 00:29:06.250 getting a different um perspective um so yeah 00:29:06.250 --> 00:29:08.509 can you like handle listening to the Mariah Carey 00:29:08.509 --> 00:29:10.230 version now that you like the House of Firas 00:29:10.230 --> 00:29:15.089 version I think that like Brandon back then and 00:29:15.089 --> 00:29:17.859 Brandon now I think when people listen to the 00:29:17.859 --> 00:29:20.220 Mariah Carey version, I go, oh yeah, this one's 00:29:20.220 --> 00:29:22.440 like good, but like you guys want like the real 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:27.859 version. Go check out Tim and guys. Um, yeah, 00:29:27.859 --> 00:29:31.019 like I, I think, I think that there's some Christmas 00:29:31.019 --> 00:29:35.099 songs that people cover that I walk away like 00:29:35.099 --> 00:29:38.099 now appreciating anytime I hear it. But then 00:29:38.099 --> 00:29:40.720 I think there's other ones that I'm like, Yeah, 00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:42.980 I like when this person does it. Yeah, but like 00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:44.519 I don't it's like Star Wars There's a lot of 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:46.839 people that love Star Wars, but like they'd never 00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:49.579 watch any other like sci -fi Hmm, and there's 00:29:49.579 --> 00:29:52.160 other people that opens the door for oh man There's 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:54.960 things that I like way better than like Star 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:57.759 Wars. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I'll just go ahead and 00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:00.259 say this is my favorite track on the sampler 00:30:00.259 --> 00:30:03.160 And but maybe it's because I have like a long 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:05.279 history with it Yeah, because I listen to it 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:08.799 every year multiple times but But yeah, I just 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:12.519 it's so good. The bridge is amazing. I think 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:16.740 it's a great song. Track three is Jingle Bells 00:30:16.740 --> 00:30:19.799 by Aisha Woods. What were your thoughts on this 00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:22.359 one, Brandon? So I remember back in the day not 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:25.200 being really familiar with her work for whatever 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.440 reason, like I just didn't like gravitate towards 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:31.880 her like music like I did a lot of other go to 00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:37.089 records. I feel like. I was explaining to Jordan 00:30:37.089 --> 00:30:39.170 that I felt like, I remember back in the day, 00:30:39.250 --> 00:30:43.950 this was like a skip track for me. And now, like, 00:30:44.029 --> 00:30:46.589 this was one of the highlights. I think that 00:30:46.589 --> 00:30:48.690 her as a whole was one of the highlights of this 00:30:48.690 --> 00:30:52.970 whole album. And I think it works because like 00:30:52.970 --> 00:30:55.529 hers feels like it's more of this classical, 00:30:55.529 --> 00:30:57.470 like, I don't know how to describe it, but it 00:30:57.470 --> 00:31:01.109 sounds like the 50s or 60s or whatever. Yeah, 00:31:01.109 --> 00:31:03.950 jazz, yeah. Yeah, that's what I was looking for. 00:31:04.650 --> 00:31:08.009 and i think that it fits so well because everyone 00:31:08.009 --> 00:31:10.630 else is doing their own thing so i think that 00:31:10.630 --> 00:31:13.750 on an album where everyone else is going outside 00:31:13.750 --> 00:31:16.970 the box it really shines when you have someone 00:31:16.970 --> 00:31:19.710 who's just had something there for maybe the 00:31:19.710 --> 00:31:22.910 classical fan yeah um so i think this is a song 00:31:22.910 --> 00:31:26.910 that like it aged like really well yeah for me 00:31:26.910 --> 00:31:30.210 yeah no i would agree this is a highlight um 00:31:30.210 --> 00:31:34.319 on the album on the album for me too Um, it's 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:38.400 jazzy, but like in a way that most people, I 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:41.259 agree with you, like it, it leans in the direction 00:31:41.259 --> 00:31:45.160 of like a classic Christmas kind of song. But, 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:49.339 um, but it goes a little harder into jazz than 00:31:49.339 --> 00:31:51.160 like most people would be willing to do with 00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:53.819 a Christmas song. Um, just how fast and kind 00:31:53.819 --> 00:31:58.299 of random, random kind of jazzy that it is. I 00:31:58.299 --> 00:32:01.059 think this one is really great. Yeah. Yeah, I 00:32:01.059 --> 00:32:03.480 really, really, really like it a lot. And I think 00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:06.359 it's the first of her music that I've ever listened 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:10.559 to. Yeah. Next we move to Okomaii Faithful by 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:12.980 Abandoned Kansas. How do you feel about this? 00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:16.380 It's so good. It's one of my favorite versions 00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:20.599 of Okomaii Faithful. Yeah, I love it. I love 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:24.460 the, like, just piano, simple opening with the 00:32:24.460 --> 00:32:27.670 vocals, like, classic feeling. And then like 00:32:27.670 --> 00:32:31.230 you've got the YouTube base coming in. Like, 00:32:31.970 --> 00:32:36.690 um, and the song just goes places. Um, I love 00:32:36.690 --> 00:32:39.650 the key change that happens in it when seeing 00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:44.230 choirs of angels hits. Um, yeah, I, this will 00:32:44.230 --> 00:32:46.650 always be, it might be my favorite version of 00:32:46.650 --> 00:32:50.029 Oh Come All Ye Faithful. Um, it's, it's so good. 00:32:50.369 --> 00:32:53.589 Yeah. I um, I really like um, like you said, 00:32:53.710 --> 00:32:55.609 it's like this um, this kind of like journey 00:32:55.609 --> 00:32:58.710 you go on where it starts soft Because I feel 00:32:58.710 --> 00:33:00.789 like if it if it stayed there I don't know how 00:33:00.789 --> 00:33:03.829 I feel about it, but I like that the song has 00:33:03.829 --> 00:33:06.849 Like you're going back and forth and like has 00:33:06.849 --> 00:33:09.710 a little bit of that. Um I remember thinking 00:33:09.710 --> 00:33:13.410 like even now. I wonder if it I guess you would 00:33:13.410 --> 00:33:15.130 disagree because you feel like this is but your 00:33:15.130 --> 00:33:18.029 best version or favorite version But I was wondering 00:33:18.029 --> 00:33:22.680 if it maybe was the best like song for them um 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:24.500 which i think there's you know going forward 00:33:24.500 --> 00:33:27.740 there's a couple of tracks on here that like 00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:31.019 it makes me wonder were they like given this 00:33:31.019 --> 00:33:35.500 or did they like choose it um so like it just 00:33:35.500 --> 00:33:37.660 made me wonder like because i think that they 00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:42.220 have on the second one it's um do you hear what 00:33:42.220 --> 00:33:45.079 i hear yeah and i think it like it's amazing 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:48.970 and then they did um I think it's What Child 00:33:48.970 --> 00:33:52.670 Is This? They were on Jamie Grace's Christmas 00:33:52.670 --> 00:33:59.809 EP, and it's amazing. And I think that it's a 00:33:59.809 --> 00:34:02.089 great song, but I guess it's knowing their other 00:34:02.089 --> 00:34:07.450 stuff. It kind of is like, oh man, is this the 00:34:07.450 --> 00:34:10.449 best abandoned Kansas Christmas one they've had? 00:34:12.269 --> 00:34:15.809 I admit I haven't heard the other ones. So I 00:34:15.809 --> 00:34:18.789 need to check those out. But I think this is 00:34:18.789 --> 00:34:21.110 a song they definitely take and make it feel 00:34:21.110 --> 00:34:24.409 like an abandoned Kansas song. Which his vocals 00:34:24.409 --> 00:34:26.889 are just so good at doing that, going interesting 00:34:26.889 --> 00:34:31.829 places. And so yeah, I love it. I feel like it 00:34:31.829 --> 00:34:35.110 works really well. Next we have Silent Night, 00:34:35.250 --> 00:34:37.989 House of Heroes. What do you think about it? 00:34:38.219 --> 00:34:40.699 Yeah. I mean, this is, so this is like a chill 00:34:40.699 --> 00:34:43.760 house of heroes, kind of acoustic. The vocals 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.880 get kind of big at the end. I just feel like 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:50.019 with this one, I like it a lot. I just, I wanted 00:34:50.019 --> 00:34:53.519 it to go somewhere that it never really goes. 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:55.820 Then again, it's Silent Night and Silent Night's 00:34:55.820 --> 00:34:58.199 not really supposed to go that many places musically. 00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:01.280 You don't want like a skill at Silent Night? 00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:04.820 No. But I just kind of felt like I was going 00:35:04.820 --> 00:35:08.940 to get something and it never... it never like 00:35:08.940 --> 00:35:13.420 went went too far but it's great yeah i i wrote 00:35:13.420 --> 00:35:16.059 down that i feel like this track your hands are 00:35:16.059 --> 00:35:21.099 tied because it's a song that you it's so hard 00:35:21.099 --> 00:35:24.460 to stray because it's so well known and it's 00:35:24.460 --> 00:35:26.460 just so that that's what it's known so it's like 00:35:26.460 --> 00:35:30.659 you can't have like a screaming like silent night 00:35:30.659 --> 00:35:34.719 and um like i wish that we could have gotten 00:35:35.019 --> 00:35:41.079 maybe an original song or maybe like replaced. 00:35:41.780 --> 00:35:44.159 I think it's just like knowing what House of 00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:46.900 Heroes is capable of. It just I remember even 00:35:46.900 --> 00:35:49.380 when they because this is originally off of a 00:35:49.380 --> 00:35:52.300 like three song EP they did like Christmas songs 00:35:52.300 --> 00:35:56.440 and I remember just thinking like man it's like 00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:59.800 when you hear the other two they're doing this 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:02.460 one feels like your hands are tied but I mean 00:36:03.110 --> 00:36:05.530 Don't know. I feel like they they did everything 00:36:05.530 --> 00:36:07.210 right though. Like they checked all the boxes 00:36:07.210 --> 00:36:09.690 on it So it's not like it's they messed up the 00:36:09.690 --> 00:36:12.730 track or whatever And I mean there there could 00:36:12.730 --> 00:36:14.769 be a lot of people listening to this is the first 00:36:14.769 --> 00:36:17.769 one. They're like finally we have a normal song 00:36:17.769 --> 00:36:20.750 Yeah, I think I'm with you. It's probably my 00:36:20.750 --> 00:36:23.289 least favorite of the three house of era songs 00:36:23.289 --> 00:36:27.869 But it's still good um i love the vocals that 00:36:27.869 --> 00:36:29.869 come in when the drum like the drums kind of 00:36:29.869 --> 00:36:32.929 kick in a little bit towards the end but um but 00:36:32.929 --> 00:36:35.989 yeah i you bring up an interesting thing with 00:36:35.989 --> 00:36:40.650 that of just original christmas songs um yeah 00:36:40.650 --> 00:36:44.530 why why are there not any on this um that's kind 00:36:44.530 --> 00:36:46.969 of a bummer a little bit i feel like the only 00:36:46.969 --> 00:36:49.849 one is i celebrate the day but it's being covered 00:36:49.849 --> 00:36:53.789 by someone so yeah it's still a cover um and 00:36:53.789 --> 00:36:56.170 so it feels like kind of a missed opportunity 00:36:56.170 --> 00:37:01.469 to do something original yeah i think that maybe 00:37:01.469 --> 00:37:04.650 that is just a i remember the time that being 00:37:04.650 --> 00:37:07.150 one of the complaints was that people were like 00:37:07.150 --> 00:37:11.090 this is all um like all stuff that's already 00:37:11.090 --> 00:37:15.309 been done so there isn't a hey let's get in the 00:37:15.309 --> 00:37:19.429 studio and make this yeah like they did um They 00:37:19.429 --> 00:37:22.809 did one where it was a 10 -year anniversary of 00:37:22.809 --> 00:37:25.449 Jesus Freak, and it was all of their artists 00:37:25.449 --> 00:37:28.570 covering them. And then they did another one 00:37:28.570 --> 00:37:32.530 for 20 years where it was all of their artists 00:37:32.530 --> 00:37:37.940 covering different artists on the... The record 00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:40.280 don't know if you ever heard that but it's no 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:42.159 I need to check that out It's amazing because 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:44.360 they've got like Family Force 5 covering John 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.800 Rubin John Rubin covers love addict like it's 00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:51.880 a really cool one. So Yeah, I think that's something 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.400 that at the time I didn't really notice but now 00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:56.980 I kind of noticed when people are like, you know 00:37:56.980 --> 00:38:00.980 Why why isn't their original? Why is there not 00:38:00.980 --> 00:38:03.380 like other people who are on the label at the 00:38:03.380 --> 00:38:06.030 time like this aren't that aren't on there? I 00:38:06.030 --> 00:38:08.449 mean, you have like, I think Jamie Grace was 00:38:08.449 --> 00:38:10.530 maybe signed at this point, but even like John 00:38:10.530 --> 00:38:13.570 Rubin, he had been on there. So there's a lot 00:38:13.570 --> 00:38:17.670 of these like people who were big goatee people 00:38:17.670 --> 00:38:20.769 that aren't on here. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like 00:38:20.769 --> 00:38:25.110 with the tooth and nail samplers, the happy Christmas 00:38:25.110 --> 00:38:27.949 ones, you usually would get some original songs, 00:38:27.949 --> 00:38:31.510 which was always kind of fun. Sometimes could 00:38:31.510 --> 00:38:35.329 be a total. It's actually hard to write a good 00:38:35.329 --> 00:38:39.230 Christmas song. So I get why why people just 00:38:39.230 --> 00:38:43.010 kind of go to covering. All right. So next is 00:38:43.010 --> 00:38:47.050 I celebrate the day by Stephanie Smith. Brandon, 00:38:47.070 --> 00:38:50.070 tell me your thoughts on this. So this is a cover 00:38:50.070 --> 00:38:55.530 of Reliant K original. Yeah, I think for this 00:38:55.530 --> 00:38:58.050 one, like it's really torn because I celebrate 00:38:58.050 --> 00:39:01.150 the day is one of if not my favorite Christmas 00:39:01.150 --> 00:39:05.710 songs. so going into it you're already up against 00:39:05.710 --> 00:39:10.030 like that that oh this is something that I like 00:39:10.030 --> 00:39:13.070 all these other ones it's like oh finally we 00:39:13.070 --> 00:39:15.869 fixed the problems of the original whereas this 00:39:15.869 --> 00:39:19.030 one I feel like I change hats on and I'm like 00:39:19.030 --> 00:39:24.170 don't touch that that one's perfect but I think 00:39:24.170 --> 00:39:30.090 that like Stephanie does a good job of not not 00:39:30.090 --> 00:39:35.800 like Just taking it apart and like, you know, 00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:39.639 cuz like her style at the time Like we'll get 00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:41.699 into it. But like Jingle Bell Rock was a way 00:39:41.699 --> 00:39:43.980 more of what she was doing right this kind of 00:39:43.980 --> 00:39:48.139 like I guess like pop like Disney esque like 00:39:48.139 --> 00:39:52.280 type of stuff and so Like I'm really glad she 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:55.019 didn't go that that far because I feel like that 00:39:55.019 --> 00:39:58.039 would have been a miss I feel like this one is 00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:02.420 more of a like optimistic kind of like think 00:40:02.420 --> 00:40:05.679 to it. So it kind of feels like if I celebrate 00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.139 the day was the book, like Stephanie Smith's 00:40:08.139 --> 00:40:11.579 version is like the movie that's made off of 00:40:11.579 --> 00:40:16.480 the book. But yeah, I feel like all stuff considered 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:20.800 like it it checks all the boxes of like she she 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:24.519 made it her own without ruining what made like 00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:28.920 the original like good. And it it goes back to 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:32.280 it makes me wonder If like she's covering it 00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:34.500 because like she loves it or if it's just go 00:40:34.500 --> 00:40:36.880 to you saying Hey, we already own this song. 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:40.340 Like this would be fun if somebody yeah Yeah, 00:40:40.340 --> 00:40:47.239 I It doesn't stray that much um But like I kind 00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:50.139 of wanted it to um, just because I wanted to 00:40:50.139 --> 00:40:53.199 feel more of like who she was as an artist through 00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:56.840 it Um, and don't feel like I got that. Um, I 00:40:56.840 --> 00:40:59.679 just i'm a little bit with you brandon that I 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:05.920 love this song a bunch and so that I feel like 00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:07.780 that Reliant K version is always going to be 00:41:07.780 --> 00:41:10.260 a standard for me and I feel like it's pretty 00:41:10.260 --> 00:41:14.679 much perfect in every way and so trying to cover 00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:18.579 that one I think you've got it got to go somewhere 00:41:18.579 --> 00:41:21.119 else or do something different although if it 00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:23.039 had been like a pop punk version I would have 00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:27.519 hated it probably um so I don't know what I probably 00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:31.530 just wouldn't have wouldn't have covered it um 00:41:31.530 --> 00:41:34.610 i think that with what she went on to do with 00:41:34.610 --> 00:41:38.389 kind of copper lily um yeah in that kind of stuff 00:41:38.389 --> 00:41:42.670 it has more of a like dramatic or i don't know 00:41:42.670 --> 00:41:45.590 if like depth is the right word so it's like 00:41:45.590 --> 00:41:48.869 i feel like stephanie smith today i would be 00:41:48.869 --> 00:41:51.929 really interested to see what direction like 00:41:51.929 --> 00:41:56.429 she what she takes with it um yeah i hear that 00:41:56.429 --> 00:41:59.639 i hear that All right, it's track number seven. 00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.639 We're back to Ayesha Woods. Merry Christmas, 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:06.360 baby. What were your thoughts on that? Yeah, 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:11.500 going back like it, it's just like the the track 00:42:11.500 --> 00:42:13.900 earlier. Like I love this. Like I used to skip 00:42:13.900 --> 00:42:17.360 it. I think that I don't know if I would have, 00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:20.079 I don't know if I've even listened to this track 00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:22.820 all the way through before covering this one, 00:42:23.059 --> 00:42:27.380 but like Loved it because I feel like it's even 00:42:27.380 --> 00:42:30.920 like a little like it's it's different from her 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:33.320 other one, too So it's not like here's Aisha 00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:37.659 just doing her one thing Like like if anything 00:42:37.659 --> 00:42:40.820 from this EP or this CD it's made me want to 00:42:40.820 --> 00:42:43.300 go check out Aisha Wood stuff and think that 00:42:43.300 --> 00:42:45.679 maybe I wasn't Appreciating as much as I did 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:49.340 back in the day. But yeah, I feel like it's it's 00:42:49.340 --> 00:42:51.940 really fun and I really liked it Yeah, I think 00:42:51.940 --> 00:42:55.639 that's I think it's a cool track for sure Kind 00:42:55.639 --> 00:42:59.039 of an R &B Christmas classic, but not a one that 00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:01.960 I feel like a ton of people know as well as some 00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:05.420 of these other songs. Yeah. And so it's a great 00:43:05.420 --> 00:43:09.039 song and it's fun to hear her step in and cover 00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:12.599 it. I feel like it does a little bit of a disservice 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:15.519 to her and the fact that I've been listening 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:19.820 for the last couple of years to Lawrence's version 00:43:19.820 --> 00:43:23.840 of this song. um that they did for the noel soundtrack 00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:29.000 and it's just like so good um so i'm like i hate 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:30.780 that that was in my head when i was listening 00:43:30.780 --> 00:43:33.599 to her do it um but i think i think her version 00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:36.360 of it's great yeah i really enjoy her stuff so 00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:42.440 far um track eight jingle bell rock we're back 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.099 to stephanie smith um yeah what do you think 00:43:45.099 --> 00:43:48.650 about this um I feel like it's weird the placement 00:43:48.650 --> 00:43:50.250 that like for some of them It's like you get 00:43:50.250 --> 00:43:51.829 reliant k at the beginning and then you don't 00:43:51.829 --> 00:43:53.829 get them to like the end Yeah, so I feel like 00:43:53.829 --> 00:43:57.670 it is weird that you like get Stephanie like 00:43:57.670 --> 00:44:01.690 right right away um, but this was so this was 00:44:01.690 --> 00:44:04.449 way more of her style that she was doing like 00:44:04.449 --> 00:44:10.909 at the time so like I felt like it um Like wasn't 00:44:10.909 --> 00:44:14.869 as strangle way. Um, but I feel like it's another 00:44:14.869 --> 00:44:18.300 one that it's Like it's it's a song that's covered 00:44:18.300 --> 00:44:21.639 so much that it's like it's hard to kind of make 00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:25.460 it your own. Yeah, I mean I felt like Like I 00:44:25.460 --> 00:44:27.940 felt like it wasn't just to let put this on here. 00:44:27.940 --> 00:44:31.500 I feel like it was like yeah, we're excited to 00:44:31.500 --> 00:44:36.139 do this and Like I feel like it's There's nothing 00:44:36.139 --> 00:44:37.900 like wrong with the track. Like I feel like it 00:44:37.900 --> 00:44:40.219 checks all of the boxes off of yeah, you'd wanted 00:44:40.219 --> 00:44:43.460 a cover Yeah, I think I think the opening of 00:44:43.460 --> 00:44:47.880 it's really fun It's definitely a fun version 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:51.679 of the song. Kind of like you said, it doesn't 00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:55.619 do much original to the song. It kind of puts 00:44:55.619 --> 00:44:59.659 it more in that pop -punk category, which is 00:44:59.659 --> 00:45:02.719 fun, and it fits super well for the song. But 00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:04.420 I feel like this is one that does get covered 00:45:04.420 --> 00:45:09.579 a lot in that world. And I think it's a good, 00:45:09.739 --> 00:45:12.489 pretty straight version of the song. in that 00:45:12.489 --> 00:45:15.230 territory. Next we move to God Rest Ye Merry 00:45:15.230 --> 00:45:18.730 Gentlemen by Reliant K. What are your thoughts, 00:45:18.929 --> 00:45:21.750 Joel? This was interesting to me. I don't think 00:45:21.750 --> 00:45:26.650 I'd ever heard this one before. The chord changes 00:45:26.650 --> 00:45:31.010 that they do were kind of interesting and it 00:45:31.010 --> 00:45:35.630 gets like heavy for Reliant K. Like it's not 00:45:35.630 --> 00:45:41.110 like a pop -punk song. There's like riffs and 00:45:41.309 --> 00:45:44.489 Um, yeah, it didn't like, it felt like Reliant 00:45:44.489 --> 00:45:47.250 K, but didn't feel like Reliant K. And so I thought 00:45:47.250 --> 00:45:49.730 that was kind of interesting. It was just unexpected. 00:45:49.730 --> 00:45:53.610 And so I liked it because it was, it was an unexpected, 00:45:53.610 --> 00:45:58.730 um, one for me, but I, it didn't feel like them, 00:45:58.849 --> 00:46:01.630 but I still enjoyed it. Does that make sense? 00:46:01.730 --> 00:46:07.269 Yeah. Um, I think for me if there was a skip 00:46:07.269 --> 00:46:12.530 track on this No, um, you like that classic really 00:46:12.530 --> 00:46:18.349 I think that it's more of Like the song like 00:46:18.349 --> 00:46:21.630 I I've really come to really love it and like 00:46:21.630 --> 00:46:24.469 jars of clay and house of fears. They both do 00:46:24.469 --> 00:46:29.030 this like Cinematic like yeah dramatic kind of 00:46:29.030 --> 00:46:31.829 like build to it and I feel like it's a song 00:46:31.829 --> 00:46:35.519 that I don't think it it fits kind of making 00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:39.840 into this like pop punk or whatever like I think 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:44.059 it's best like it's best experience in a dramatic 00:46:44.059 --> 00:46:48.699 one yeah um but like one thing I've always appreciated 00:46:48.699 --> 00:46:52.579 was that Reliant K has done done their own thing 00:46:52.579 --> 00:46:55.739 like for better or worse so I feel like there's 00:46:55.739 --> 00:46:58.679 for 95 % of what they've done for Christmas like 00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:01.119 I loved and this is just kind of the outlier 00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:05.119 that I feel like it's just hard to do a dramatic 00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:07.320 song and do that yeah like there's other songs 00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:10.940 that translate like better to doing something 00:47:10.940 --> 00:47:13.920 like that um so yeah I feel like for this one 00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:17.840 this was um just maybe out of all of them was 00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:20.519 it interesting like oh I wonder if this was something 00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:22.719 that they were just like yeah we wanted we want 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:26.599 to take take this song from this box to now put 00:47:26.599 --> 00:47:30.639 it in a whole other category yeah yeah yeah that's 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:36.670 true All right, um track 10 oh come oh come Emanuel 00:47:36.670 --> 00:47:41.090 Our last house of heroes song on here. Brandon. 00:47:41.090 --> 00:47:42.969 What would you think about this one? I think 00:47:42.969 --> 00:47:45.170 for me this was my favorite track off of this 00:47:45.170 --> 00:47:49.449 album. Um, I love that it has this like Eerie 00:47:49.449 --> 00:47:52.769 like haunting kind of build and then it like 00:47:52.769 --> 00:47:55.849 slows down for the at the end where it gets very 00:47:55.849 --> 00:48:00.250 like loud and all I feel like it's interesting 00:48:00.250 --> 00:48:02.880 that like you know the whole skillet thing gets 00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:06.219 this thing for being like why is it this heavy 00:48:06.219 --> 00:48:09.460 stuff and all and i'm like i feel like no one 00:48:09.460 --> 00:48:11.440 at the time i mean this isn't like a skillet 00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:15.900 version but i feel like it is like very big guitars 00:48:15.900 --> 00:48:19.960 like and all um but yeah i i love this and i 00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:24.679 feel like this and um all i want for christmas 00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:28.039 is that it just like for people who didn't know 00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.489 house of heroes that was something they they 00:48:30.489 --> 00:48:34.369 did almost like all songs even Silent Night is 00:48:34.369 --> 00:48:37.710 that they could do anything with it so they could 00:48:37.710 --> 00:48:40.449 do this kind of like fun little song they could 00:48:40.449 --> 00:48:43.230 do something that was slow and dramatic and then 00:48:43.230 --> 00:48:45.030 they could do something like this this just like 00:48:45.030 --> 00:48:48.789 this epic um song where just so much is kind 00:48:48.789 --> 00:48:53.860 of going on and um so I feel like it's Like it 00:48:53.860 --> 00:48:55.940 would have been nice to have other artists featured 00:48:55.940 --> 00:48:58.599 But also i'm glad that is for someone they have 00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:01.760 they get to experience like here's just showing 00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:04.239 the range that house of heroes has Yeah, you 00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:07.219 get the whole house of heroes christmas ep. Yeah 00:49:07.219 --> 00:49:12.059 Which is Maybe a little redundant, but um, yeah, 00:49:12.059 --> 00:49:14.920 I agree with you. I think this like um, this 00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:19.719 showcases their ability as a band um, it's like 00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:23.860 this is okama coming manual is the uh the end 00:49:23.860 --> 00:49:29.159 is not the end house of heroes dramatic moody 00:49:29.159 --> 00:49:35.460 yeah huge um yeah it's it's it's incredible and 00:49:35.460 --> 00:49:37.719 all i want for christmas is you is like the suburb 00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:39.559 of house of heroes we're gonna get a little more 00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:43.360 fun and yeah um and so i love that you get the 00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:45.739 feel of both of those in these christmas songs 00:49:45.739 --> 00:49:49.099 and and like like i said about all i want for 00:49:49.099 --> 00:49:52.550 christmas is you felt like a perfect match. This 00:49:52.550 --> 00:49:54.670 one feels like a perfect match for them too, 00:49:54.750 --> 00:49:58.989 just in a different way, which is cool. And I 00:49:58.989 --> 00:50:01.429 think really, again, shows their versatility 00:50:01.429 --> 00:50:06.269 as a band that they're able to do so much. And 00:50:06.269 --> 00:50:09.369 so I love the riffs and all the stuff that happened 00:50:09.369 --> 00:50:11.690 at the end. It's a great one. All right. And 00:50:11.690 --> 00:50:16.849 we end with Oh Holy Night by Relain Cave. Yeah, 00:50:17.050 --> 00:50:19.469 this one's probably my struggle track for the 00:50:19.469 --> 00:50:24.050 record I have really high expectations for a 00:50:24.050 --> 00:50:26.710 whole night and I feel like if you're gonna if 00:50:26.710 --> 00:50:31.650 you're gonna do a holy night like It's it's one 00:50:31.650 --> 00:50:36.449 of the most Dramatic Christmas songs and this 00:50:36.449 --> 00:50:40.909 is like the most undramatic version of it And 00:50:40.909 --> 00:50:45.500 so yeah, it just I mean, it was fine. It was 00:50:45.500 --> 00:50:47.420 good. There was nothing wrong with it. Yeah, 00:50:47.420 --> 00:50:50.480 it just didn't go anywhere. Um, and so that was, 00:50:50.539 --> 00:50:54.300 that was my only struggle with it. Yeah. I, I, 00:50:54.300 --> 00:50:56.599 I wish that they would have taken this approach 00:50:56.599 --> 00:51:00.320 with Gotti, rest ye merry gentlemen. Um, cause 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:03.280 maybe that's how I feel about like, Oh, holy 00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:05.699 night and God rest. I feel like they're like 00:51:05.699 --> 00:51:08.300 almost in the same category of you need to have 00:51:08.300 --> 00:51:10.920 this like serious, like it's not a song you're 00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:14.730 laughing or joking during. Right. Um, And so 00:51:14.730 --> 00:51:17.230 I wish they would have done that I I did enjoy 00:51:17.230 --> 00:51:20.969 um, I love whenever people just do like little 00:51:20.969 --> 00:51:23.389 things in a song, um, but there's a part where 00:51:23.389 --> 00:51:26.070 they're like, um, the stars are brightly shining 00:51:26.070 --> 00:51:28.489 and there's this like I don't know if it's like 00:51:28.489 --> 00:51:30.710 a keyboard or bells or whatever, but there's 00:51:30.710 --> 00:51:33.230 this like twinkling like the ding ding ding and 00:51:33.230 --> 00:51:37.050 um I just I always enjoy when there's those little 00:51:37.050 --> 00:51:39.170 things like you didn't have to do that, right 00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:42.619 but I enjoy whenever you have those little touches. 00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:47.380 So for me, I felt like it was a solid ending 00:51:47.380 --> 00:51:51.119 to it. I felt like it kind of wrapped it all 00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:53.880 up, and I was still enjoying it by the end. Cool. 00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:56.860 That's great. All right. Let's talk about final 00:51:56.860 --> 00:52:00.420 thoughts and then ratings. Any thoughts you have 00:52:00.420 --> 00:52:02.579 just kind of wrapping up the conversation on 00:52:02.579 --> 00:52:06.159 this one? yeah i think for me it's it's always 00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:09.099 interesting to go back and listen um to something 00:52:09.099 --> 00:52:11.739 that you listen to when you're younger because 00:52:11.739 --> 00:52:15.199 i found myself like not enjoying some tracks 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:17.579 i used to love and really loving some tracks 00:52:17.579 --> 00:52:22.460 that i used to um always skip and um so i feel 00:52:22.460 --> 00:52:25.559 like it's it's cool to go back and get to maybe 00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:28.000 like learn like i said like yisha woods it's 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:30.719 like after this i want to go back and listen 00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:33.380 to more of her stuff because i think maybe i 00:52:33.320 --> 00:52:35.800 Didn't appreciate it. It was overlooked her back 00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:38.920 in the time or the back in the day. Yeah. Yeah 00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:41.760 Yeah, this was fun for me because like I said, 00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:44.420 I knew a lot of this going in but there's a lot 00:52:44.420 --> 00:52:49.099 of it that I didn't know and so to I Knew Stephanie 00:52:49.099 --> 00:52:51.699 Smith from house of hero stuff, but nothing outside 00:52:51.699 --> 00:52:54.300 of that and so being able to hear some first 00:52:54.300 --> 00:52:58.920 stuff and Aisha Woods I felt like I got um, I 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:03.380 got exposed to some new artists, which was a 00:53:03.380 --> 00:53:07.980 fun thing. I felt like I wanted more artist variety 00:53:07.980 --> 00:53:11.239 on this. I know these aren't the only artists 00:53:11.239 --> 00:53:14.639 on Goatee at this point in time. And so for there 00:53:14.639 --> 00:53:19.099 to be five artists over 11 tracks, it would have 00:53:19.099 --> 00:53:24.079 been nice to see a few different ones kind of 00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:27.969 along the way. Nonetheless, I thought it was 00:53:27.969 --> 00:53:30.269 fun and and I enjoyed it. So Brandon, what would 00:53:30.269 --> 00:53:32.949 you rate this one out of five? I think I'm gonna 00:53:32.949 --> 00:53:37.590 go with four. Okay. I think it's to me it's just 00:53:37.590 --> 00:53:39.610 it's funny because going into this I wouldn't 00:53:39.610 --> 00:53:43.969 have thought that like RelentK like brings it 00:53:43.969 --> 00:53:47.690 down but Aisha would like comes in to save the 00:53:47.690 --> 00:53:51.929 day. But yeah, so I feel like for me I go with 00:53:51.929 --> 00:53:54.690 the go with the four because I found myself really 00:53:54.690 --> 00:53:57.510 loving it and I don't know even the tracks like, 00:53:57.809 --> 00:53:59.949 you know, I I feel there's no track on here that 00:53:59.949 --> 00:54:02.630 I hated like You know, I didn't really care for 00:54:02.630 --> 00:54:06.329 some of them, but I don't know. Yeah I am i'm 00:54:06.329 --> 00:54:12.289 gonna give it a 3 .5. Okay on 3 .5 Silver bells, 00:54:12.590 --> 00:54:15.989 so I thought it was um, I thought it was great. 00:54:15.989 --> 00:54:18.130 I love getting to hear some new versions I added 00:54:18.130 --> 00:54:20.429 a few things to my christmas playlist that weren't 00:54:20.429 --> 00:54:24.550 on there before Which is really fun. And so um, 00:54:24.550 --> 00:54:29.539 yeah I really enjoyed it and I'm excited to dig 00:54:29.539 --> 00:54:32.039 into some more from some of these artists. What's 00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:35.719 funny Joel is that so for the viewer Joel always 00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:37.619 like hand writes all of his like notes for the 00:54:37.619 --> 00:54:40.139 songs and so like every so often like I'll just 00:54:40.139 --> 00:54:42.760 like glance down just kind of like a mid conversation 00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:46.139 and a little bit ago I glanced down and I thought 00:54:46.139 --> 00:54:48.880 I saw like a 1 .5 like at the bottom of the page 00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:51.480 and I was like And Joel seems like, I don't know 00:54:51.480 --> 00:54:53.119 what he's building towards, or he's like, I know 00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:54.880 I said some nice things, but I'll be honest, 00:54:55.840 --> 00:55:02.519 like these two tracks really just. Well, yeah. 00:55:03.139 --> 00:55:05.179 Um, three and a half, there were a couple that 00:55:05.179 --> 00:55:08.579 I just didn't super care for, but, um, but overall 00:55:08.579 --> 00:55:11.599 I think it was, it was really fun. So. Yeah. 00:55:11.800 --> 00:55:13.900 Well, this has been fun to kind of dig into this 00:55:13.900 --> 00:55:17.320 a little bit. Let's talk about what our lyric 00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:34.440 of the week is. I think for the lyric of the 00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:37.260 week, um, we got to go with, I celebrate the 00:55:37.260 --> 00:55:40.969 day by relying on Kay. Um, Just as we're not 00:55:40.969 --> 00:55:44.289 covering that album this year, right? So the 00:55:44.289 --> 00:55:48.130 part that always used to hit me was Because here's 00:55:48.130 --> 00:55:50.289 where you're finding me in the exact same place 00:55:50.289 --> 00:55:53.429 as New Year's Eve and from a lack of my Persistency 00:55:53.429 --> 00:55:56.389 we're less than half as close as I want to be 00:55:56.389 --> 00:56:03.110 mmm Yeah, man, that's not so good so many good 00:56:03.110 --> 00:56:05.889 lyrics to that one so Appreciate you bringing 00:56:05.889 --> 00:56:07.989 that one up. Well, it's been fun to kind of dig 00:56:07.989 --> 00:56:12.989 into some of our Christmassy stuff with this 00:56:12.989 --> 00:56:17.380 one. And so I'm excited to keep pressing into 00:56:17.380 --> 00:56:20.960 this as we get further along into the season. 00:56:21.420 --> 00:56:23.480 Brandon, thanks for bringing this one to our 00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:27.639 attention and focus today. People, you can find 00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:32.480 us at Hey Are You Pod on X. 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