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Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that

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takes the classic mixtape approach to building

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a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.

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Joining me once again as guest curator is my

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good friend DT Carroll, host of the YouTube program

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Space Castle. DT, welcome back, man. Thanks,

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man. You make me sound so professional. It's

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awesome. Well, it's blast off time, so why wouldn't

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it be? It's blast off time. So if you don't get

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that throwback reference, go check out episode

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32, the Ultimate 2000's Garage Rock playlist.

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Tonight, we are not talking about Garage Rock.

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We are creating a time capsule of the year 2023.

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We're going to wrap it up with a nice little

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musical bow, if you will. If you had to describe

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2023 in one word, musically, what would you choose?

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Can it be two words hyphenated? I guess I'll

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allow it. I'm going to say comeback because we

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had so many classic bands drop brand new music

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that just blew everybody's minds. And we're going

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to talk about some of those bands tonight, obviously.

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But this is just a really interesting, like perfect

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storm year where so many bands came back and

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dropped a brand new album almost out of nowhere

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or a brand new track almost out of nowhere. And

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everybody was just freaking out. And it's just

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been super cool to see all those bands that I've

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loved growing up drop. new music for the first

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time in decades, some of them, and just rock

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out like they haven't missed a beat. Just super

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cool. So you use comeback. I am going to use

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the word cyclical. Ooh. And as we go through

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the night, at least with the songs I have in

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my bank, I feel like the word cyclical works

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because music comes and goes in trends. And there's

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always little nods and throwbacks to the past

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while continuing to move forward in that circle.

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And I think a lot of the songs I'm talking about

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tonight kind of follow that path. I think so,

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too. I think a lot of my songs are the same way.

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And I love that as like an end of the year wrap

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up, too. Like it's got a really good like. Let's

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close things out and start the next year off

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on the right foot type of thing. I like that,

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Brian. This is why they pay you the big bucks.

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So, yeah, if you just give me a second to move

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my piles of money off to the side, we can get

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started with this episode. Tonight, as I mentioned

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at the top of the show, DT and I are curating

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a Songs of 2023 playlist, and we're going to

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use the old cassette deck approach. DT is my

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special guest. We'll begin side A with his first

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song choice, and then I'll add a song that I

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feel best follows up that choice. We'll then

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flip -flop choosing songs until we've mapped

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out 10 songs for side A. We'll then give our

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mixtape a proverbial flip and we'll map outside.

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Be only this time. I'll kick things off with

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DT choosing second. Our overall goal for the

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episode is to craft the best songs of 2023 playlist

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possible through only 20 songs. And at the end

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of the show, you can take our conversation to

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the next level by visiting the episode page at

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myweeklymixtape .com to give our final mixtape

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a listen via the embedded playlist. And if you

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like what you're hearing on the show, you can

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help me out by either telling a friend. leaving

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the show a five -star review wherever you're

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tuning in, or by becoming a Patreon mixtaper

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at patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape.

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And since this episode is a time capsule for

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the year, I asked the Patreon mixtapers to chime

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in with both their song and album of the year,

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and they did not disappoint. Cactus Pete's songs

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of the year included Old Dominion's Memory Lane,

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Blink -182's One More Time, Extreme's Other Side

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of the Rainbow, and Mammoth WVH's Take a Bow,

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which also gets his guitar solo nod of the year,

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Me Too, as, spoiler alert, that one is in my

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bank for tonight. Cactus Pete's albums of the

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year are Old Dominion's Memory Lane and Extreme's

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Six, which was a close second. Jason Donchess

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said two ladies stole the show this year. The

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first, another one I have in my bank, is the

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incredible Grace Potter, with Jason saying that

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her Mother Road record is amazing and Good Time

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as a single should be song of the year. The concept

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of the record and wild variation of styles is

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amazing. But with that, he said his record of

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the year is Jax Hallows' Only the Wild Ones,

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saying that she's the new Grace Potter and the

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up -and -coming star that people need to hear.

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She could rip on guitar, rip in all capitals,

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and her song crafting and vocals are amazing.

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She could play full band or as a looper and still

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bring amazing energy. Amazing artist and amazing

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record. So that's one to check out. And if it

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gets Jason Donchus' stamp of approval, it's something

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I am most certainly going to be checking out

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as well. Sean Faust chimed in with three songs.

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The Beatles' Now and Then. The Rolling Stones

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with Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder, Sweet Sounds

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of Heaven. And something I recently talked about

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on episode 44 with singer -songwriter Kay Hanley

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from Letters to Cleo. And that is Keep Us Connected,

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Subspace Rhapsody from Star Trek's Strange New

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Worlds. I love Sean Faust. That guy rules. Yeah,

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Sean's been a great friend of mine for decades.

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And then obviously talking about Kay Hanley before,

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she is such a lovely human being. Even if you

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think you're not familiar with Letters to Cleo,

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go back and give that episode a listen because

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I am sure you will be very surprised by some

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of the things they have been included with, including

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10 Things I Hate About You, The Craft, Josie

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and the Pussycats, as we mentioned, Star Trek,

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Strange New Worlds, Doc McStuffins, yes, from

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Disney, so much more. So please go check that

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one out. Dude, I am jealous you got to talk to

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Kay and like Frank Hannon from Tesla. I feel

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like... Every time I blink, like your show is

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getting bigger with bigger and bigger guests.

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And then I come on and it's like, oh, what the

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hell am I doing here? I feel like one of these

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days, it's going to be like James Hetfield from

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Metallica one week. And then you're going to

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be like, oh, and the next week, here's my buddy

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DT, who's got 400 subs on YouTube. Hey, that's

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400 more subs than I have on YouTube, man, as

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far as I'm concerned. That's why we're an audio

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-only show here at My Weekly Mixtape. I would

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get negative subs if I started doing videos,

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but I digress. Oh, I disagree. That goatee is

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glorious, sir. Philip Bergman chimed in with

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two Song of the Year choices, both being from

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the Paranoid Styles' new album, Print the Legend

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and I Love the Sound of Structured Class. Seeker

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chimed in from Australia with Ghost's Jesus He

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Knows Me. And last but not least, Mally Hart

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chimed in with Bully's All I Do or Blanchelle's

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Salad for Song of the Year and Bully's Lucky

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for You or Superchunk's Mistakes for Album of

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the Year. So there's a lot to digest there. Yeah,

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that's an eclectic collection. And that's what's

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awesome about the mixtapers, man. They all have

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such great taste in music. And it's also varied.

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Oh, I'm not going to lie. There are several of

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the songs I just rattled off that are sitting

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in my bank. Yeah. Waiting to see if they'll work

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in this mix tonight. Nice. Well, with all of

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that musical food for thought out in the atmosphere,

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I'm officially pressing the record button on

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our mixtape and opening this 2023 time capsule,

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if you will. So, DT, it truly is blast off time

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now. I can't even get through it. What song are

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you diving into to kick off side A? There is

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only one track that can kick off the best songs

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of 2023, in my opinion, and it is Bogus Hoperande.

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by The Hives from The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons.

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Holy shit. I waited over a decade for this album.

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They are my favorite band. It did not disappoint.

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It is probably the best hard rock song of the

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decade, if not this year. I love everything about

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it. I think the song is just phenomenal. Hearing

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Nicholas Arsene just shred on guitar again and

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Howlin' Paley Almquist just screaming out vocals

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and... The whole album just feels like, and this

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song in particular, just feels like a culmination

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of all of their young, dumb punk stuff, all the

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way up to all the stuff they did with Pharrell

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and whatnot as their producer. And everything

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just culminates into this awesome, tight, matured

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package of The Hive's sound. And right from the

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get -go, that opening open E string is just,

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oh my God. And then the song kicks into gear.

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And I'm not going to lie. This is a goofy garage

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rock song. And I teared up the first time I heard

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it because it was just like... It's been over

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a decade and you guys did not disappoint me.

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You came back and you haven't missed a beat.

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It's wonderful. The whole album is fantastic.

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I can't stress enough how much you need to listen

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to this album and then go back and listen to

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their entire catalog. They're just wonderful.

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I love the Hives. And they are known as one of

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the best live bands ever. And I keep missing

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them every time they come on tour and I keep

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kicking myself. So I'm playing this song over

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and over again with my eyes closed, like pretending

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I'm like front row in a Hives concert. So yeah,

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Boga Saperande from the Hives from their first

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album in a decade. That's my track one. I have

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to give you a hat tip, man. One, that was definitely

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in my bank of songs. So scooped right from the

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jump here. I also think it's kind of poetic because

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your first episode was 2000s Garage Rock. Yeah.

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So now you could butt both playlists up and musically

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they're going to flow from 2000s Garage Rock

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into the songs of 2023 seamlessly. So bravo for

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that. And I think we can all agree. that the

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world is a better place when it includes new

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music from the hives. Absolutely. And I feel

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like this is one of those songs that kind of

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came out of nowhere. There wasn't this massive

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buildup all year. Like the hives are coming back.

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It just kind of came out and everybody kind of

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exploded with, Oh my God, they're back. Obviously

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people that are. massive hives fans probably

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knew that things were in the works leading up

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to it but i feel like the splash that they made

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was kind of out of nowhere for this one so i've

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been a huge fan for like 20 years now and no

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actually like they were like hey we're gonna

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do an album and i was like what everybody was

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like what are you talking about and they're like

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here here's the single and everybody's like holy

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shit okay like when are you guys gonna tour like

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right now like okay great here we go like all

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right cool thanks hives Yeah, no, it was almost

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like without warning. And I was texting everybody

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I know. I was on the internet talking about it.

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It came out of nowhere because it's been over

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a decade. There was talk about them deciding

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to hang it up and just be like a touring band

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or just break up altogether. And then they dropped

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this track and they dropped this album and it's

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just reignited everything. It's like 2001 all

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over again. And what I love about it is this

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song sits on my personal top tunes playlist.

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And it's always followed up by another song.

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So I'm just going to do that and follow it up

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here with that song. Another song that's sitting

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in my bank for songs of the year, because to

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follow up the energy that bogus operandi has,

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it's a tough energy to match because let's face

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it. 2023 is not the year of garage bands. That

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was back in the two thousands. There are some

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elements of it in music, but it's not as prevalent

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as it was in its heyday. Of course. However,

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an album came out early in the year where one

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of the singles incorporates a little bit of that

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garage rock sound, only they're mixing it with

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a touch of 70s arena rock. Think Cheap Trick,

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Thin Lizzy, those type of bands here. And I'm

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going to go with White Reaper from their Asking

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for a Ride album. And I'm going to go with Fog

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Machine. The drive, the energy, the guitar work

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in the beginning, you almost feel like I said,

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it's that cheap trick. You got the double guitars.

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It feels really 70s. But as you move through

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the song, you hear that garage rock bounce. And

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it's a very slick garage rock. And it's mixed

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with a little bit of... Elements of glam and

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punk and then they mix throughout the album some

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pop elements and everything else Just an all

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-around unique band that I think more people

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need to know about so following up the hives

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I'm going with White Reaper fog machine I love

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the pick. I love the band. This is Why We're

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Friends. Fantastic track. And I love the fact

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that you made the correlation between garage

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rock and also like 70s and 80s guitar rock, like

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anthemic rock. Because I remember listening to

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the album and then going online and having a

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discussion about it. I remember seeing somebody

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online early in the year. And one of the comments

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was, this is the most The Boys Are Back In Town

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-ass song I've ever heard in a good way. And

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I was like, after I stopped laughing, I was like...

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Yeah, like it is absolutely like in the same

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vein of like Thin Lizzy meets like modern garage

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rock. And like the bass riff throughout the song

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is like totally within the same vein of Fell

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Line It. Like it's a perfect marriage of anthemic

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old garage rock and like Chicago style rock and

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roll from that era with the stuff that's come

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out today. I love the pick. I love the band.

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Excellent track. Everybody should be listening

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to White Reaper. They're fantastic. They absolutely

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are. And I it's funny because they've been around

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for a long time. Yeah. So I'm talking about them

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like they're new. Make no mistake. I know that

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I have their earlier albums. And this is one

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of those albums that. Some longtime fans feel

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like it's deviating a little bit from what they're

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used to. But White Reaper kind of takes liberties

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and takes chances because I have a couple of

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their songs on some of my pop playlists that

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work extremely well from their earlier albums.

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It just has that feel to it. I'm not saying it's

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pop like you would say something from the Barbie

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soundtrack, but it's definitely got a little

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bit of a pop sensibility to it. Yeah, I mean,

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I wouldn't necessarily call it pop rock, but

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it's definitely like you said, it's got those

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those pop elements. But so does Cheap Trick.

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so does Thin Lizzy. Of course. So yeah, I mean,

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they're very much in that same family of music,

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and they do it very, very well. They're awesome.

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Well, let's follow it up now with track three.

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Okay, so I'm going to kind of go in sort of the

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same vein. My next track is very poppy. It's

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reminiscent of bands like Sparks. If you're familiar

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with Sparks, if you're not, you should be. Go

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and watch that documentary by Edgar Wright. It's

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phenomenal. Then go listen to their entire discography.

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But this band is from Britain, and they just

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broke out pretty much this year. And they dropped

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a couple of singles. They haven't even released

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an LP or an EP yet. And they're already topping

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the charts and blowing up. It's insane. It's

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a quintet of really, really talented women. The

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band is called The Last Dinner Party. The single

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is called Sinner. And it is just an absolute

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banger. And it starts out with this keyboard

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sequence that sounds like Sparks. And then it

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launches into a rock track that's, to me, reminiscent

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of Foo Fighters and OK Go and bands like that,

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where it's very poppy. But there's a lot of...

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nuance and stuff going on in the background too.

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There's multiple vocal tracks, multiple guitar

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players. You don't know who's singing at what

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time because they blend their vocals so well.

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The song is just really, really cool. And they've

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blown up. And they have to be on one of the best

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of 2023 song lists because they've blown up so

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quickly and so massively that there was backlash

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when they became really popular all of a sudden.

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People are like, this band is like a studio plant.

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They're manufactured. They're like the Spice

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Girls. And they're not. The music is just that

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freaking good. That they blew up and everybody,

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myself included, latched onto it. And yeah, I

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mean, for somebody to have that sort of like

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meteoric rise and just take over the airwaves

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with only two songs out there, like you got to

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give them some credit for that. It's insane.

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And also like all the people who are calling

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them plants, I hate to say it, but like all the

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most popular bands in the world are like studio

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plants in some level. There's marketing and there's

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like people behind those bands, like making them

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popular, trying to sell their music to you. So

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like don't knock musicians for making money,

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getting popular. That's what the goal is. Yeah.

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The Last Dinner Party. It's a quirky track. It's

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weird. It's awesome. It's cool. Sinner. It's

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a great track. Check it out right now. Just stop

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listening to Brian's show. It's all downhill

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from here. I'm kidding. But yeah, go check out

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those two singles from The Last Dinner Party.

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And then go watch their YouTube videos because

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their live performances are insane. Yeah, I liken

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this track to a vibe. When I listen to this song,

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it is a vibe that is very unique in and of itself.

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And I love the way the song gets your head kind

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of bobbing, but it's not a rocker where your

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head is bobbing like headbanging. It's like you're

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kind of grooving to this song because there's

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this groove throughout. But I love the fact that

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you found a way because there's a classic sound

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to the lead guitar that runs throughout this

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track. So coming out of the dual guitars of White

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Reaper, I still feel like there's this classic

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rock guitar sound that's woven throughout Sinner.

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And I'll say right now, we are recording this

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in 2023. Prelude to Ecstasy, the band's first

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album, drops in 2024. I'll be very curious to

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see if Sinner. is one of those songs that ends

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up on 2023's list and 2024's list because of

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the loophole that the album dropped in that year.

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Could be. Because this is one of those bands

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that looks like 2024 is set to be their year.

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Yeah, they've already exploded in 2023. And once

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that EP drops, I think they're going to be one

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of the biggest bands in the world. Well, following

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that up, man. Sorry to make it hard on you. No,

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I mean, look, that's what this is all about.

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I'm sure you got something in the chamber, though.

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I'm ready. Yeah. The vibe of this song is tough

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to come out of without a massive pivot in some

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way. But I think I have. All right. Well, there's

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certain artists I have to talk about tonight.

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But if I were to put one of these two artists

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in alone in and of itself, the pivot would be

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so strong. That it would blow us off the rails

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right by track four. So what I'm going to do

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is use this artist who I'm a huge fan of. And

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that artist is Chris Stapleton. But I'm going

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to use him in a guest spot. I'm going to kill

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two birds with one stone. Oh. And I'm going to

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go with Alana Springsteen from her 20 -something

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album. Love it. Featuring Chris Stapleton, Ghost

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in My Guitar. Sinner has two elements that really

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stand out to me from The Last Dinner Party, and

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that's Abigail Morris's voice, obviously combined

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with all the others in the harmonies they're

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doing, and that Emily Roberts Lee guitar riff.

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So sliding out of that, the haunting guitar that

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Chris Stapleton puts out in Ghost of My Guitar,

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I think flows very seamlessly. And again, I'm

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sticking with this female voice, but. When you

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hear Alana Springsteen, which I also want to

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point out, little sidebar, not related to Bruce.

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Just want to put that there. Yeah. Oh, and also

00:19:01.890 --> 00:19:03.609
there's going to be a Bruce Springsteen episode

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of My Weekly Mixtape coming your way in just

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a few short weeks. At this point, I wouldn't

00:19:08.069 --> 00:19:10.269
be shocked if Bruce isn't on that episode with

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you. You're blowing up, sir. You are my dinner

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party of podcasts. Well, the thing I love about

00:19:18.779 --> 00:19:21.339
Alana Springsteen is her voice is very smooth.

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And I think it shares the same qualities as Abigail

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from The Last Dinner Party. Now, it is a country

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song, but it's more of that country pop. So it

00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:37.000
blurs the lines and Chris's guitar, which is

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just freaking haunting. Yeah. And her vocals

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are just so sultry over this kind of. dark and

00:19:45.690 --> 00:19:49.089
reverb heavy riff. It works so, so well. I mean,

00:19:49.109 --> 00:19:52.710
look, Chris Stapleton's higher album is one of

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my top albums of the year. I really wanted to

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include a song from him, but when I heard the

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last dinner party, I said, you know what? I get

00:20:01.529 --> 00:20:03.569
to talk about how much I love that album because

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higher is an amazing album. but kill two birds

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with one stone and continue the vibe we've got

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going here by including Alana Springsteen. So

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Alana Springsteen featuring Chris Stapleton,

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Ghost in My Guitar. I love the fact that you

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used the word haunting to describe the song because

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that's exactly the word I would choose too. Like

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there's obviously it's a song about anger and

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resentment and that carries through without being

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like overbearing and kitschy. Like it's just

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a... dirge it's haunting and angry and it sticks

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with you and it's lovely that whole album is

00:20:35.660 --> 00:20:37.700
great like alana springsteen is just knocking

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it out of the park i am not the hugest fan of

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pop country but she is doing all the right things

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and there's another track on that album called

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tennessee is mine that i absolutely love and

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she's just killing it so more of that more alana

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springsteen more of that type of pop country

00:20:51.579 --> 00:20:54.720
because she's just she's nailing it she's nailing

00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:56.359
that vibe if we're going with that whole that

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whole vibe motif through the through the playlist

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she's Yeah. I mean, look a year ago before my

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weekly mixtape launched, I was singing the praises

00:21:04.890 --> 00:21:08.410
for Lainey Wilson and she just won entertainer

00:21:08.410 --> 00:21:11.450
of the year at the CMAs. I think next year is

00:21:11.450 --> 00:21:13.829
the year of Alana Springsteen. If she continues

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down the road, she did with this one. I agree

00:21:15.650 --> 00:21:17.809
completely. Yeah. All right. Well, we're back

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to you now for track five. You want to keep the

00:21:20.630 --> 00:21:22.450
vibe going? Let's, let's keep the vibe going.

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Here's one of the most vibey bands ever. And

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one of the bands we actually talked about on

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the Ultimate Playlist for 2000s Garage Bands,

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it is The Kills. And the track is 103 off of

00:21:33.990 --> 00:21:36.890
God Games. And it's Alison Moss Hart and Jamie

00:21:36.890 --> 00:21:38.509
Hintz. And if you're not familiar, they've been

00:21:38.509 --> 00:21:40.809
around since the 2000s. They're a very, very

00:21:40.809 --> 00:21:43.309
minimalist garage rock band where it's oftentimes

00:21:43.309 --> 00:21:46.529
just Alison Moss Hart just screaming over Jamie

00:21:46.529 --> 00:21:49.069
Hintz's very, very minimalist guitar riffs with

00:21:49.069 --> 00:21:51.210
oftentimes just a drum machine behind the two

00:21:51.210 --> 00:21:54.059
of them. And this album, God Games, is probably

00:21:54.059 --> 00:21:56.000
the most complex album they've ever put out.

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It's got a lot more going on in terms of just

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levels and depth and things going on as opposed

00:22:02.460 --> 00:22:04.920
to just guitar, drums, and Alison Mosshart's

00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:08.000
vocals. And this song, again, is haunting, even

00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:09.519
though it's kind of got almost like an upbeat

00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:13.950
feel to it. 103, and it's... just got this chord

00:22:13.950 --> 00:22:15.529
progression that just runs through the whole

00:22:15.529 --> 00:22:18.609
thing that just it's all minor chords but it

00:22:18.609 --> 00:22:20.809
feels like like major chords in the way it's

00:22:20.809 --> 00:22:23.990
played and it's just delightful it's just got

00:22:23.990 --> 00:22:26.390
that edge that kills are known for it's just

00:22:26.390 --> 00:22:28.630
really great to see them continuously evolving

00:22:28.630 --> 00:22:31.369
as musicians but also sticking to their roots

00:22:31.369 --> 00:22:33.210
like you watch their live shows when they're

00:22:33.210 --> 00:22:35.049
performing for this album and it's it's like

00:22:35.049 --> 00:22:37.170
it's still 2001 like i said before with the hives

00:22:37.170 --> 00:22:40.900
where they're putting out evolved and more mature

00:22:40.900 --> 00:22:43.000
and more nuanced and more layered music, but

00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:45.119
it's still very much in the same vein and same

00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:46.779
heart of what they've been doing for 20 years.

00:22:47.220 --> 00:22:49.779
And the entire album is fantastic. It is a vibe.

00:22:49.819 --> 00:22:51.279
It's not going to be for everybody because it's

00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:53.200
a little bit slow and it's just like a kickback

00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:55.819
and maybe do some graphic design or something

00:22:55.819 --> 00:22:58.380
work while you're listening to it. But 103, I

00:22:58.380 --> 00:23:01.180
think, is the pinnacle of the album. Yeah, it's

00:23:01.180 --> 00:23:04.180
the kills. 103 off the album God Games. Go check

00:23:04.180 --> 00:23:07.160
it out right now. It's fantastic. I'll just say

00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:09.920
this. 103... And I never thought I would use

00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:13.920
this word when describing the kills is a euphoric

00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:18.660
track. Yeah. The music is almost hypnotic in

00:23:18.660 --> 00:23:20.740
the way it's played. If you listen to that with

00:23:20.740 --> 00:23:23.380
a set of headphones, it almost puts you in a

00:23:23.380 --> 00:23:26.819
trance during the verses. But then that chorus

00:23:26.819 --> 00:23:29.640
kicks in and you've got that stanky lead guitar

00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:32.400
that she's singing over and it just brings it

00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:35.430
to this extra level. It's like if you took My

00:23:35.430 --> 00:23:37.329
Bloody Valentine and you just stripped it to

00:23:37.329 --> 00:23:39.710
a bass level without all the synth and the reverb

00:23:39.710 --> 00:23:41.569
and all that stuff. Or like I said, it's just

00:23:41.569 --> 00:23:44.690
dirty fucking guitars. Alison Mosshart just crooning

00:23:44.690 --> 00:23:47.549
with some levels of sound and design behind them.

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And like I said, it's their most layered and

00:23:50.329 --> 00:23:53.609
complex and less minimalist album I think they've

00:23:53.609 --> 00:23:55.990
ever done. But it still feels minimalist because

00:23:55.990 --> 00:23:58.049
it all just ties together seamlessly. It's gorgeous.

00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:02.140
Well, this is another example of that word cyclical

00:24:02.140 --> 00:24:05.099
I used at the beginning because the song was

00:24:05.099 --> 00:24:08.480
put out in 2023, but there's almost in this song,

00:24:08.579 --> 00:24:12.359
a throwback to some of the seventies sounds,

00:24:12.460 --> 00:24:15.920
maybe some of the early eighties too, but not

00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.779
really so much in the new wave vein. I'm thinking

00:24:18.779 --> 00:24:22.180
more of the weird kind of psychedelic classic

00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:27.039
rock sounds that I do hear woven underneath this

00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:30.150
really. indie i don't want to use the word grunge

00:24:30.150 --> 00:24:32.150
because when i say grunge people automatically

00:24:32.150 --> 00:24:35.250
think 90s grunge but there's a grungy sound to

00:24:35.250 --> 00:24:39.890
the kills it's not overproduced it's very minimalistic

00:24:39.890 --> 00:24:42.690
and that was something that a lot of the psychedelic

00:24:42.690 --> 00:24:46.990
rock bands in the 70s used and coming out of

00:24:46.990 --> 00:24:49.829
that i want to bounce off of it with a throwback

00:24:49.829 --> 00:24:54.910
feel and I know because I posted this album cover

00:24:54.910 --> 00:24:58.490
and all of a sudden I got equal amounts of praise

00:24:58.490 --> 00:25:02.710
and equal amounts of venom. So look, I'm all

00:25:02.710 --> 00:25:05.210
here for it, but I'm team praise when it comes

00:25:05.210 --> 00:25:08.450
to Greta Van Fleet. Okay. Yeah. And I'm going

00:25:08.450 --> 00:25:10.710
to go off their Starcatcher album with the track

00:25:10.710 --> 00:25:15.490
The Falling Sky. I get it. People say, oh, Greta

00:25:15.490 --> 00:25:19.869
Van Fleet is just a Led Zeppelin ripoff. I'm

00:25:19.869 --> 00:25:22.369
not 100 % on board with that because for me,

00:25:22.369 --> 00:25:27.430
I feel like Josh Kiska's voice is more in tune

00:25:27.430 --> 00:25:32.329
with Geddy Lee from Rush than Robert Plant. I

00:25:32.329 --> 00:25:36.230
hear more of the Geddy Lee movements in his voice.

00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:39.119
Now, musically, I'm not saying that Greta Van

00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:42.539
Fleet sounds like Rush. If they did, it would

00:25:42.539 --> 00:25:45.539
be Rush's first album, which was that blues rock

00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:48.200
that was very much in tune with Led Zeppelin

00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:53.019
sound. Do they rip Led Zeppelin off? Yes and

00:25:53.019 --> 00:25:56.319
no. But I mean, in the world of rock, in the

00:25:56.319 --> 00:25:58.579
world of music in general, who isn't ripping

00:25:58.579 --> 00:26:01.680
somebody else off? in some shape or form one

00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:03.140
thing about this track and one thing about this

00:26:03.140 --> 00:26:05.660
album is that they have i think evolved away

00:26:05.660 --> 00:26:08.420
from being what could almost be considered a

00:26:08.420 --> 00:26:10.680
carbon copy or a direct lift of led zeppelin

00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:12.980
i think the vocals i think the guitars i think

00:26:12.980 --> 00:26:14.680
the rhythm i think the harmonies i think just

00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:17.200
the writing of the songs in general have evolved

00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:20.140
from the point of being of just dismissing them

00:26:20.140 --> 00:26:22.859
as a led zeppelin ripoff band anymore i think

00:26:22.859 --> 00:26:25.380
the falling sky is a great track i think like

00:26:25.380 --> 00:26:27.450
you said the lead singer's vocals They're moving

00:26:27.450 --> 00:26:29.890
away from the Robert Plant style, and it's becoming

00:26:29.890 --> 00:26:32.410
more of his own. And I think he's going to have

00:26:32.410 --> 00:26:34.069
to do that as he gets older, because you can't

00:26:34.069 --> 00:26:37.269
sustain that type of singing all the time. You're

00:26:37.269 --> 00:26:39.710
going to blow out your vocal cords. But I think

00:26:39.710 --> 00:26:42.509
they've evolved past that. In the past, I've

00:26:42.509 --> 00:26:45.309
not always been a fan, but I do really like this

00:26:45.309 --> 00:26:46.730
album. I think it's the best thing they've put

00:26:46.730 --> 00:26:49.750
out. And if they continue on this trend, I can

00:26:49.750 --> 00:26:52.730
see myself being a fan at some point. But are

00:26:52.730 --> 00:26:55.430
they a ripoff? I don't think they're a rip off.

00:26:55.589 --> 00:26:58.630
I think they're very heavily influenced. It got

00:26:58.630 --> 00:27:00.269
their foot in the door. It got them noticed.

00:27:00.589 --> 00:27:02.390
Let's be fucking honest. Like Led Zeppelin ripped

00:27:02.390 --> 00:27:04.630
people off to left and right. Like they've had

00:27:04.630 --> 00:27:06.670
lawsuits. They've had court cases where people

00:27:06.670 --> 00:27:09.250
have sued them and won for stealing their music.

00:27:09.289 --> 00:27:12.849
So who's the bad guy? I mean, I don't know. It's

00:27:12.849 --> 00:27:15.390
a slippery slope. Yeah. My take on this, to be

00:27:15.390 --> 00:27:19.089
honest, is who cares? Really? Because at the

00:27:19.089 --> 00:27:21.549
end of the day, there are people that are out

00:27:21.549 --> 00:27:24.680
there saying, my God, I wish we had. New music

00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:28.299
from Led Zeppelin. My God, I wish they would

00:27:28.299 --> 00:27:31.019
have gotten back together in 2007 after the O2

00:27:31.019 --> 00:27:33.299
Arena show and gone on tour so I could have seen

00:27:33.299 --> 00:27:37.099
them maybe done one last album. If a band wants

00:27:37.099 --> 00:27:41.160
to carry that torch for that style of music,

00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:45.339
I'm all for it. Sure. Because I can't get new

00:27:45.339 --> 00:27:50.660
Led Zeppelin music. But I enjoy hearing kids

00:27:50.660 --> 00:27:54.089
that are much younger than me. embracing bands

00:27:54.089 --> 00:27:56.789
that were way before their generation and using

00:27:56.789 --> 00:27:59.029
it to move forward. Did they lean a little too

00:27:59.029 --> 00:28:01.609
heavy handed on it at the beginning? Maybe, but

00:28:01.609 --> 00:28:05.410
Daniel Wagner's drums in this song, the falling

00:28:05.410 --> 00:28:08.950
sky, he's got a drum groove in it where I is

00:28:08.950 --> 00:28:10.829
the first time I actually said to myself, wow,

00:28:10.930 --> 00:28:15.750
they're pulling away from the John Bonham stomp.

00:28:15.750 --> 00:28:18.730
Exactly. Yeah. And they're starting to come into

00:28:18.730 --> 00:28:22.279
their own now. And I think. It's always going

00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:26.640
to be over their heads that they're a clone of

00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:31.119
Led Zeppelin. But this groove, I think, is the

00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:33.480
starting point to bring the band out of the,

00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:39.599
Star Wars pun alert, Clone Wars, if you will.

00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:43.619
But Greta Van Fleet, The Falling Sky. I dig it.

00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:46.660
I like it a lot. Good pick. Following up Greta

00:28:46.660 --> 00:28:48.420
Van Fleet, how are you going to come out of that?

00:28:49.250 --> 00:28:54.789
I'm going to go right back to the vibe. So this

00:28:54.789 --> 00:28:56.990
next pick is by Jenny Lewis. It's off her new

00:28:56.990 --> 00:28:59.529
album, Joy All. And the song is called Psychos,

00:28:59.549 --> 00:29:01.170
which is the first track on the album. And it

00:29:01.170 --> 00:29:03.309
just sets the tone for this. I've been a huge

00:29:03.309 --> 00:29:05.230
Jenny Lewis fan for a long time. I was a big

00:29:05.230 --> 00:29:07.930
fan of Rilo Kylie. I just love their indie vibe.

00:29:08.329 --> 00:29:10.230
It was her. It was the dude from Salute Your

00:29:10.230 --> 00:29:12.930
Shorts on guitar. It was just tailor -made for

00:29:12.930 --> 00:29:14.990
me as a kid who grew up loving indie music and

00:29:14.990 --> 00:29:17.619
grew up in the 90s. You know, I have had a crush

00:29:17.619 --> 00:29:19.440
on Jenny Lewis since I saw her in The Wizard

00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:21.059
with Fred Savage when I was like eight years

00:29:21.059 --> 00:29:26.480
old. But this new album is it's actually I should

00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:28.900
have followed up The Ghost in My Guitar by Lana

00:29:28.900 --> 00:29:31.920
Springsteen with this track because Jenny goes

00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:35.000
in much more of like a folky country sort of

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:37.839
vein in this album. And it's really lovely. And

00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:40.940
she's able to, as such a versatile artist, be

00:29:40.940 --> 00:29:44.390
able to jump from genre to genre. And here she

00:29:44.390 --> 00:29:46.849
just goes like full on like twangy slag guitar,

00:29:47.029 --> 00:29:50.329
like banjo, like country ballads. And it's super

00:29:50.329 --> 00:29:53.589
fun. But she also does it with like, she's always

00:29:53.589 --> 00:29:56.809
had this like this delightful sense of pretentiousness,

00:29:56.829 --> 00:30:00.109
which I mean, all rock musicians have that sort

00:30:00.109 --> 00:30:02.410
of pretentiousness to them. But she wears it

00:30:02.410 --> 00:30:04.589
on her sleeve and it becomes an accessory for

00:30:04.589 --> 00:30:07.769
like her persona and her music. And I don't mean

00:30:07.769 --> 00:30:09.589
that in a bad way at all, because it's delightful.

00:30:09.690 --> 00:30:13.079
It's snarky. It's satirical almost. There's a

00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:14.799
song on the album that's called A Truck and a

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.460
Puppy. This is where she's going with this album.

00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:20.519
And you could say that she's almost making fun

00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:23.099
of country music, but she's not because she's

00:30:23.099 --> 00:30:26.359
just embracing it, but embracing it in that pretentious

00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:28.880
way that she always does. And if you see the

00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:31.319
album art, it looks like something from an ABBA

00:30:31.319 --> 00:30:34.240
poster, like a concert poster or something. She's

00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.200
just all over the place with the aesthetics,

00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:38.059
but it all ties together beautifully and wonderfully.

00:30:38.460 --> 00:30:42.240
And this song, Psychos, it's biting. And there's

00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:43.740
some lines in there that just make you go like,

00:30:43.779 --> 00:30:47.460
oh, damn. What's going on, Jenny? But that's

00:30:47.460 --> 00:30:49.119
the way she's always been. She's been somebody

00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:51.059
who's not afraid to just bear it all and just

00:30:51.059 --> 00:30:53.200
tell you to go fuck yourself if you don't like

00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:55.579
what she's doing. But yeah, no, this album is

00:30:55.579 --> 00:30:58.619
a blast. Again, it's a vibe. There's not a whole

00:30:58.619 --> 00:31:01.180
lot besides just some twangy, fun country and

00:31:01.180 --> 00:31:02.740
her just having a blast with that aesthetic.

00:31:03.380 --> 00:31:06.059
But it's really dope. It's cool. It's awesome.

00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:08.880
Jenny Lewis, Psychos, off the album Joy All.

00:31:09.549 --> 00:31:11.430
Well, I'm going to challenge you on the country

00:31:11.430 --> 00:31:13.849
thing in just a moment. But before I do that,

00:31:13.950 --> 00:31:17.049
I do want to say bravo on the wizard bringing

00:31:17.049 --> 00:31:19.789
that up. Oh, dude, love that movie, man. I mean,

00:31:19.809 --> 00:31:22.150
to me, that was the greatest 90 -minute commercial

00:31:22.150 --> 00:31:24.650
for a video game I'd ever seen in my entire life.

00:31:24.930 --> 00:31:27.670
My buddy and I left the theater going, we need

00:31:27.670 --> 00:31:30.869
Super Mario Brothers 3 right now. Like, oh, my

00:31:30.869 --> 00:31:33.579
God, our minds were blown. yeah that's all the

00:31:33.579 --> 00:31:35.839
movie basically was was a 90 minute setup for

00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.119
oh it's fantastic yeah when like the little brother

00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:39.839
gets to the competition like the game playing

00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:42.420
competition in california and like he wins and

00:31:42.420 --> 00:31:44.420
the thing that always kills me is like fred savage

00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:46.259
is in the crowd he's like use the warp whistle

00:31:46.259 --> 00:31:48.240
the warp whistle it's like dude nobody's ever

00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:49.799
fucking heard of this game before how do you

00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:51.400
know about the warp whistle already man like

00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:56.839
nintendo ease up well the thing i'm gonna challenge

00:31:56.839 --> 00:31:59.730
you on though You hear country in this, and yes,

00:31:59.829 --> 00:32:02.069
that is woven throughout the whole album. But

00:32:02.069 --> 00:32:04.130
I heard something a little different when I listened

00:32:04.130 --> 00:32:06.589
to Psychos for the first time. Okay. And again,

00:32:06.809 --> 00:32:10.759
cyclical. I hear a song that's rooted in early

00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:15.299
Fleetwood Mac rumors era vibes. 100%, yeah. She's

00:32:15.299 --> 00:32:17.559
got that Stevie Nicks vibe for sure going on,

00:32:17.619 --> 00:32:20.279
yeah. Yeah, and I mean that with the utmost respect,

00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:23.400
and I'm complimenting when I say that. It has

00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:26.440
that rumors vibe, and that's not easy to accomplish.

00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:28.980
You need separation between the instruments.

00:32:29.220 --> 00:32:32.259
You need room to breathe musically for the vocals.

00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:35.559
And to me... You can take Dreams from Fleetwood

00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:38.400
Mac, Ravenous from Nicky Bloom and the Gramblers,

00:32:38.539 --> 00:32:41.200
and Psychos from Jenny Lewis, play them back

00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:43.940
to back to back, and there's a vibe going. Totally.

00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:49.500
Again, 1977, 2023. It's cyclical, and this song

00:32:49.500 --> 00:32:51.980
fits under that as well. Yeah. Dude, awesome

00:32:51.980 --> 00:32:53.779
call. Awesome pull on that one. You're absolutely

00:32:53.779 --> 00:32:55.640
right. It's definitely got that Fleetwood Mac

00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:58.200
vibe to it for sure. Well, coming out of that,

00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.589
I'm going to... continue right down that road

00:33:01.589 --> 00:33:05.150
of kind of a throwback sound a throwback vibe

00:33:05.150 --> 00:33:08.150
and this is another one of my favorite albums

00:33:08.150 --> 00:33:12.009
of the year it came out very very recently as

00:33:12.009 --> 00:33:15.569
for when we're recording this in the end of november

00:33:15.569 --> 00:33:18.930
and that is the struts pretty vicious album love

00:33:18.930 --> 00:33:22.289
this album and i love the struts awesome struts

00:33:22.289 --> 00:33:24.829
i fell in love with them the first time i heard

00:33:24.829 --> 00:33:28.420
could have been me absolutely As soon as I heard

00:33:28.420 --> 00:33:30.900
the song once, I'm like, who is this band? This

00:33:30.900 --> 00:33:34.319
is unique. This is amazing. I need to get everything

00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:35.980
they've ever done. By that point, they only had

00:33:35.980 --> 00:33:39.220
an EP in the US. And I've been a fan ever since.

00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:41.380
Thankfully, the Foo Fighters have brought them

00:33:41.380 --> 00:33:43.119
out to really help them get a name for themselves.

00:33:43.740 --> 00:33:46.000
They're getting picked up a lot right now. And

00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.460
I feel like Pretty Fish, this is the album that's

00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:51.140
going to make them explode, at least in the US.

00:33:51.220 --> 00:33:54.559
They're already very popular in the UK. But the

00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:57.450
song I'm going to go with. As much as I love

00:33:57.450 --> 00:34:00.049
the opening track, Too Good at Raising Hell,

00:34:00.210 --> 00:34:05.150
that is just a Rolling Stones -esque bravado

00:34:05.150 --> 00:34:09.349
stomper that has just such a dirty groove to

00:34:09.349 --> 00:34:12.050
it. It's so catchy. It's got horns in it. It

00:34:12.050 --> 00:34:15.690
really feels like a modern Rolling Stones. But

00:34:15.690 --> 00:34:17.449
I'm actually going to go with track two on the

00:34:17.449 --> 00:34:19.170
album, which is the album's title track, Pretty

00:34:19.170 --> 00:34:22.809
Vicious. Oh, okay. The only critique I have of

00:34:22.809 --> 00:34:25.369
the song is that it is track two on the album.

00:34:25.610 --> 00:34:28.409
I feel like if this was a vinyl record, this

00:34:28.409 --> 00:34:31.789
should be the song that closes outside A because

00:34:31.789 --> 00:34:35.650
it just builds and builds and builds. And Luke

00:34:35.650 --> 00:34:37.690
Spiller shows off his vocal range throughout

00:34:37.690 --> 00:34:40.630
the whole track because you've got this verse

00:34:40.630 --> 00:34:42.889
chugging along and he's just singing in this

00:34:42.889 --> 00:34:47.130
really deep, low register. And the musical backdrop

00:34:47.130 --> 00:34:49.570
that they're playing behind it almost feels like

00:34:49.570 --> 00:34:51.329
it'd be something that you would see on the early

00:34:51.329 --> 00:34:55.349
days of MTV. Yeah. It just has that, I don't

00:34:55.349 --> 00:34:58.469
want to say 80s feel because it's not very new

00:34:58.469 --> 00:35:00.610
wavy, but there's definitely elements in it.

00:35:00.630 --> 00:35:03.369
And the guitar with a lot of the reverb on it

00:35:03.369 --> 00:35:06.250
again, just like Chris Stapleton did on Ghost

00:35:06.250 --> 00:35:08.829
of My Guitar. It's that same kind of sound. I

00:35:08.829 --> 00:35:10.210
would almost liken it to something you would

00:35:10.210 --> 00:35:13.269
hear on the Miami Vice soundtrack almost. But

00:35:13.269 --> 00:35:16.400
anyway. As the song continuously builds, Luke's

00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:18.579
voice goes into the stratosphere, and then this

00:35:18.579 --> 00:35:20.880
jam kicks in at the end, and you've got a killer

00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:24.340
guitar solo and an amazing piano solo, and the

00:35:24.340 --> 00:35:27.480
song is over five minutes long. And every time

00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.710
it ends... It took me probably a good hour to

00:35:30.710 --> 00:35:33.090
get past that track because I just kept going

00:35:33.090 --> 00:35:36.110
back. I was like, I'm literally spellbound by

00:35:36.110 --> 00:35:38.909
this song. And I had to listen to it at least

00:35:38.909 --> 00:35:41.530
five or six times in a row before I can continue

00:35:41.530 --> 00:35:43.070
on with the rest of the album. And that speaks

00:35:43.070 --> 00:35:45.690
volumes to me. So the struts pretty vicious.

00:35:45.849 --> 00:35:49.070
Yeah. So, I mean, it's a track that if it wasn't

00:35:49.070 --> 00:35:51.349
the struts and it being five minutes along, other

00:35:51.349 --> 00:35:52.909
bands probably couldn't get away with the same

00:35:52.909 --> 00:35:55.190
thing just for what the song is. But it's such

00:35:55.190 --> 00:35:57.329
a vibe and it's such a jam and they pull it off

00:35:57.329 --> 00:35:58.789
so beautifully because they're one of those bands

00:35:58.789 --> 00:36:00.909
that's theatrical. I think they're very much

00:36:00.909 --> 00:36:02.329
in the same vein, or at least they were when

00:36:02.329 --> 00:36:04.510
they first kind of hit it big. Very much the

00:36:04.510 --> 00:36:06.110
same vein of like Queen, where you've got, you

00:36:06.110 --> 00:36:07.510
know, the lead singer strutting around with this

00:36:07.510 --> 00:36:10.369
incredible vocal range, just the powerful guitars

00:36:10.369 --> 00:36:12.110
in the same vein of like Brian May and whatnot.

00:36:12.349 --> 00:36:15.489
And okay, let me throw this at you. And the whole

00:36:15.489 --> 00:36:18.050
cyclical thing in terms of like music coming

00:36:18.050 --> 00:36:20.710
full circle and whatnot. This track reminds me

00:36:20.710 --> 00:36:23.570
a lot of Chris Isaac from the late 80s, early

00:36:23.570 --> 00:36:25.289
90s. Oh, yeah. Do you get that? I get to feel

00:36:25.289 --> 00:36:27.449
that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. I mean, they're

00:36:27.449 --> 00:36:29.050
a band that's kind of riffed on the whole Queen

00:36:29.050 --> 00:36:30.670
thing. And now with this track, they're riffing

00:36:30.670 --> 00:36:34.030
on that really sexy kind of vibey sort of love

00:36:34.030 --> 00:36:36.929
ballad song. We're not talking about being in

00:36:36.929 --> 00:36:38.610
love. We're talking about the other thing. You

00:36:38.610 --> 00:36:40.610
know what I mean? But yeah, I get a total Chris

00:36:40.610 --> 00:36:43.150
Isaac vibe from this song. And I just love the

00:36:43.150 --> 00:36:44.590
struts. I love the fact that they're able to

00:36:44.590 --> 00:36:47.739
just kind of cherry pick. Really cool things

00:36:47.739 --> 00:36:49.239
about rock and roll music, but also give it their

00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:51.300
own twist and make it their own. That's another

00:36:51.300 --> 00:36:53.900
band I'm dying to see live because I've seen

00:36:53.900 --> 00:36:56.840
live footage and whatnot, and they just look

00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:58.920
like they're having so much fun. They look like

00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:01.239
they just love music. They love their fans. And

00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:03.440
that's a band that, like you said, I hope they

00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:05.099
make it big this year. I hope this is the year

00:37:05.099 --> 00:37:06.780
that they just explode in the scene in the States

00:37:06.780 --> 00:37:09.300
because people are not going to know what hits

00:37:09.300 --> 00:37:11.039
them when that band makes it big. They're wonderful.

00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:13.500
Yeah, we better see them soon because I feel

00:37:13.500 --> 00:37:16.320
like that's a definite. I just don't see any

00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:19.179
universe where a band that's this talented and

00:37:19.179 --> 00:37:22.739
has this much charisma and this much uniqueness

00:37:22.739 --> 00:37:26.239
is going to go unnoticed. Yeah. And I would rather

00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:28.400
see them in a smaller venue now while I still

00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:30.519
have the chance. So that way I could say, Hey,

00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:33.599
I saw them back when, because I really feel like

00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:35.280
this album is going to be what launches them.

00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:38.119
Just like I've said several times tonight. Yeah.

00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:40.960
All right. We each have one track left for side

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:43.780
a, so we're back to you now for track nine. All

00:37:43.780 --> 00:37:45.340
right. I'm going to keep the vibe going once

00:37:45.340 --> 00:37:49.739
again. Vibe, vibe, cyclical vibes. Yeah, absolutely.

00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:52.519
Yeah. The whole thing is cyclical in the fact

00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:54.679
that it's cyclical. This is a different vibe

00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:57.300
though. It's more upbeat, a little more poppy,

00:37:57.340 --> 00:37:59.619
a little bit more kind of makes you want to put

00:37:59.619 --> 00:38:01.480
on some running shoes and go for a jog or just

00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:03.500
go outside and enjoy like the autumn air and

00:38:03.500 --> 00:38:05.550
just be outside. Just take a look at the world

00:38:05.550 --> 00:38:08.150
around you. It's a track by an artist named Bakar

00:38:08.150 --> 00:38:11.469
from the UK. He hit it big in 2019 with a hit

00:38:11.469 --> 00:38:13.650
single called Hell and Back. And you've no doubt

00:38:13.650 --> 00:38:15.550
heard it on the radio, even if you don't recognize

00:38:15.550 --> 00:38:18.030
the name. If you wouldn't listen to it on Spotify

00:38:18.030 --> 00:38:20.389
right now, you'd know the track. He's still kind

00:38:20.389 --> 00:38:22.429
of underground. Hasn't really struck it big,

00:38:22.610 --> 00:38:25.650
even though he's on the charts and getting regular

00:38:25.650 --> 00:38:28.250
rotation on the pop radio stations. The track

00:38:28.250 --> 00:38:30.329
is To Open My Heart, and it's the track that

00:38:30.329 --> 00:38:32.449
closes out his latest release this year called

00:38:32.449 --> 00:38:35.619
Halo. He's been a mainstay in pop music very

00:38:35.619 --> 00:38:38.179
quietly since 2019 when he first released that

00:38:38.179 --> 00:38:41.380
track, Hell and Back. His music just feels good.

00:38:41.539 --> 00:38:44.019
It's a vibe. It's a combination of pop and hip

00:38:44.019 --> 00:38:46.820
hop with some sort of like ballady sort of elements.

00:38:47.309 --> 00:38:49.530
And he's just got a very sort of casual way of

00:38:49.530 --> 00:38:51.809
singing and writing his lyrics. And it's something

00:38:51.809 --> 00:38:55.010
that you would like to simplify it probably in

00:38:55.010 --> 00:38:56.530
terms that it doesn't deserve to be simplified

00:38:56.530 --> 00:38:59.190
into. It's like something you'd hear on the Spider

00:38:59.190 --> 00:39:01.150
-Verse soundtrack. Something like Miles Morales

00:39:01.150 --> 00:39:03.389
would jam to when he's doing some art and whatnot.

00:39:03.710 --> 00:39:06.349
It's just got that sort of chill hop vibe to

00:39:06.349 --> 00:39:09.030
it where it's just cool and hip and sweet and

00:39:09.030 --> 00:39:11.670
melancholy and sad and happy at the same time.

00:39:11.989 --> 00:39:15.329
And he's just got this incredible way of conveying

00:39:15.329 --> 00:39:18.079
the emotion of the song with... simple lyrics

00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:21.059
and simple beats and melodies, but it just envelops

00:39:21.059 --> 00:39:23.019
you. And it just, it feels like a warm hug every

00:39:23.019 --> 00:39:24.739
time you listen to this album. It's just wonderful.

00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:28.480
So Bakar track is to open my heart off of his

00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:32.380
album. Halo. Amazing song. I like that. You said

00:39:32.380 --> 00:39:36.619
pop with a hip hop feel. I kind of add in. r

00:39:36.619 --> 00:39:39.900
&b to that even though it's not necessarily a

00:39:39.900 --> 00:39:42.000
don't please don't get me wrong it's not an r

00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:45.139
&b track but there's definitely hints of r &b

00:39:45.139 --> 00:39:47.199
in some of the vocal delivery oh yeah and in

00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:48.980
some of the elements that are sprinkled throughout

00:39:48.980 --> 00:39:51.860
this track this is a very unique and original

00:39:51.860 --> 00:39:55.280
sound yeah and i love it for that yeah it's hard

00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:57.579
to just say this sounds like blank like when

00:39:57.579 --> 00:40:00.099
we say greta van fleet you could just tell somebody

00:40:00.099 --> 00:40:02.260
oh they kind of sound like led zeppelin and when

00:40:02.260 --> 00:40:04.719
you play it somebody listening can go can hear

00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:07.559
that but with bakar you can't just say well he

00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.679
sounds like and when you're drawing a blank that

00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:13.639
means you have an original artist yeah if you

00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:15.659
have to paint a picture of what this person's

00:40:15.659 --> 00:40:17.860
music's like by naming more than three or four

00:40:17.860 --> 00:40:21.059
different sounds you're getting uniqueness and

00:40:21.059 --> 00:40:24.340
you get that here but what i'm gonna do now to

00:40:24.340 --> 00:40:26.679
close out the side because this song is a little

00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:28.820
slower it's a little bit more it's bringing the

00:40:28.820 --> 00:40:32.070
tempo down a little bit I'm going to bring the

00:40:32.070 --> 00:40:35.949
tempo down, but the energy up. God, if you told

00:40:35.949 --> 00:40:38.429
me in January that I'd be closing out side A

00:40:38.429 --> 00:40:42.530
of my 2023 songs of the year mix with the Rolling

00:40:42.530 --> 00:40:46.070
Stones, I would not have believed you. But holy

00:40:46.070 --> 00:40:49.650
shit. And I don't curse often on this show. The

00:40:49.650 --> 00:40:52.250
first time I heard the Rolling Stones with Lady

00:40:52.250 --> 00:40:55.110
Gaga and Stevie Wonder's Sweet Sounds of Heaven,

00:40:55.269 --> 00:40:58.750
I played it six times in a row. And then I went

00:40:58.750 --> 00:41:02.849
online and said, It's 2023 and the Rolling Stones

00:41:02.849 --> 00:41:05.849
just released their best song they've recorded

00:41:05.849 --> 00:41:10.090
since the 1970s. And I will stand by that. Yeah.

00:41:10.150 --> 00:41:14.889
And it is so powerful. I am not the most massive

00:41:14.889 --> 00:41:18.090
Lady Gaga fan. I respect her. I think she's very

00:41:18.090 --> 00:41:21.610
talented. This song made me a fan of hers now.

00:41:21.789 --> 00:41:25.550
Like I'm in. She sings rock. The way her and

00:41:25.550 --> 00:41:28.670
Mick Jagger, their voices were bouncing off each

00:41:28.670 --> 00:41:31.010
other. There's so much power. Then you add in

00:41:31.010 --> 00:41:34.030
Stevie Wonder on the keys. And oh my God, it's

00:41:34.030 --> 00:41:35.909
just amazing. And the song ends around the five

00:41:35.909 --> 00:41:39.829
minute mark for the radio cut. I'm not including

00:41:39.829 --> 00:41:41.750
the radio cut. Screw the radio cut. Absolutely.

00:41:41.769 --> 00:41:43.630
We're putting in the full seven plus minutes

00:41:43.630 --> 00:41:45.789
because at the end, it's just a two minute jam.

00:41:46.070 --> 00:41:50.889
Yeah. Mick Jagger is 80 years old, 80 years old,

00:41:50.949 --> 00:41:56.230
and he sounds frigging amazing. Keith Richards,

00:41:56.369 --> 00:41:59.230
who's going to outlive all of us, is playing.

00:41:59.389 --> 00:42:01.590
I mean, I'm not going to go out and say it's

00:42:01.590 --> 00:42:04.050
the best guitar solo he's ever done, but oh,

00:42:04.050 --> 00:42:07.530
my God, this song is just incredible. And look.

00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:10.519
I give a little bit of flack to Andrew Watt as

00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:13.500
a producer. I was not the biggest fan of what

00:42:13.500 --> 00:42:15.699
he did with Ozzy's albums. I felt they were a

00:42:15.699 --> 00:42:18.840
little too slick, a little too much auto -tune,

00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:22.000
a little too overproduced. He let the Rolling

00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.260
Stones be the Rolling Stones. When I first heard

00:42:24.260 --> 00:42:26.800
that he was producing this album, I was really

00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:30.920
expecting a Ozzy Osbourne treatment to the Rolling

00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:34.260
Stones. Lots of auto -tune, lots of slick production.

00:42:35.210 --> 00:42:38.510
He didn't. And to me, this is Andrew Watt's best

00:42:38.510 --> 00:42:42.289
album in terms of production. And easily, it's

00:42:42.289 --> 00:42:45.409
the Rolling Stones' best album since I'd go as

00:42:45.409 --> 00:42:48.690
far back as Tattoo You, maybe before that. So

00:42:48.690 --> 00:42:51.769
closing out Side A, Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga,

00:42:51.889 --> 00:42:54.949
and Stevie Wonder, Sweet Sounds of Heaven. I

00:42:54.949 --> 00:42:56.809
love the pick. And like you said, I love the

00:42:56.809 --> 00:42:58.269
production of this album because the Rolling

00:42:58.269 --> 00:43:00.909
Stones are such a unique sound that trying to

00:43:00.909 --> 00:43:02.929
auto -tune and clean them up just wouldn't work

00:43:02.929 --> 00:43:05.860
because it would just... It would rob the music

00:43:05.860 --> 00:43:07.960
of its essential essence, basically. Like you'd

00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:09.599
be taken away what makes them unique and interesting

00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:12.570
and just fucking awesome. You'd be sanitizing

00:43:12.570 --> 00:43:14.250
down and dirty rock and roll and you don't do

00:43:14.250 --> 00:43:16.010
that. Yeah. It would be like quantizing John

00:43:16.010 --> 00:43:18.070
Bonham's drums or something. You'd be taking

00:43:18.070 --> 00:43:20.869
away the heart and soul of it. John Bonham didn't

00:43:20.869 --> 00:43:22.929
play perfectly on time and it makes Led Zeppelin

00:43:22.929 --> 00:43:25.829
as a result. It's wonderful. Mick Jagger being

00:43:25.829 --> 00:43:27.769
80 years old and still hitting those notes, but

00:43:27.769 --> 00:43:31.929
singing in this... He's got that signature raspiness,

00:43:32.070 --> 00:43:34.670
that sassiness, that edginess, that rawness to

00:43:34.670 --> 00:43:36.809
his voice. And trying to clean that up would

00:43:36.809 --> 00:43:38.630
be awful. He would rob it of what's made him

00:43:38.630 --> 00:43:40.909
an enduring and... beloved musician for all these

00:43:40.909 --> 00:43:44.309
decades. I love the track. And I know you said

00:43:44.309 --> 00:43:47.789
you're not a huge Lady Gaga fan, but even if

00:43:47.789 --> 00:43:49.469
you're not a huge Lady Gaga fan, you have to

00:43:49.469 --> 00:43:50.949
listen to this track and not only respect the

00:43:50.949 --> 00:43:52.670
talent and the range on display, but the fact

00:43:52.670 --> 00:43:55.570
that she never oversteps the boundaries of the

00:43:55.570 --> 00:43:58.989
duet. Yes. Lady Gaga in Sweet Sounds of Heaven

00:43:58.989 --> 00:44:01.750
is what Mary Clayton was in Gimme Shelter. Yeah.

00:44:01.869 --> 00:44:04.889
And she did some music with Tony Bennett too.

00:44:04.989 --> 00:44:07.130
And she... Whatever you think of her, whatever

00:44:07.130 --> 00:44:08.909
you want to say about her, she has a reverence

00:44:08.909 --> 00:44:11.389
for the big artists that came before her. And

00:44:11.389 --> 00:44:14.469
you can understand it from her. And she could

00:44:14.469 --> 00:44:16.510
have easily overpowered Mick Jagger if she wanted

00:44:16.510 --> 00:44:17.989
to, and everybody would have still thought it

00:44:17.989 --> 00:44:20.469
was fine. Mick probably wouldn't because he's

00:44:20.469 --> 00:44:24.869
got an ego the size of the sun. It's Mick Jagger

00:44:24.869 --> 00:44:27.949
and Lady Gaga singing this duet, and they're

00:44:27.949 --> 00:44:30.250
equals throughout the entire track. Nobody is

00:44:30.250 --> 00:44:32.550
singing over the other. No one's overpowering.

00:44:32.550 --> 00:44:34.309
Nobody's trying to steal the spotlight. It's

00:44:34.309 --> 00:44:36.590
just this perfect fusion of these two vocal styles

00:44:36.590 --> 00:44:39.429
that just come together, almost polar opposites

00:44:39.429 --> 00:44:41.190
in terms of what they're known for doing, but

00:44:41.190 --> 00:44:43.969
they come together so beautifully. And Gaga is

00:44:43.969 --> 00:44:47.130
just masterful in knowing when to extend herself

00:44:47.130 --> 00:44:49.809
and put her talent on display and when to reel

00:44:49.809 --> 00:44:52.309
back because... It's Mick Jagger's song. Like

00:44:52.309 --> 00:44:54.949
you don't, you don't F with that. So it's a great

00:44:54.949 --> 00:44:57.610
track and it's Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga on

00:44:57.610 --> 00:44:59.670
the Rolling Stones. Like that's like magical.

00:44:59.829 --> 00:45:01.489
That's insane. Like that shouldn't be happening

00:45:01.489 --> 00:45:04.690
in 2023, but it is. It's fantastic. And I agree.

00:45:04.789 --> 00:45:07.210
It's a fun album. This is by far the best track

00:45:07.210 --> 00:45:09.690
on the album, I think. And that's not to sort

00:45:09.690 --> 00:45:12.469
of discount any other tracks on the album. And

00:45:12.469 --> 00:45:14.050
the fact that we got a brand new Rolling Stones

00:45:14.050 --> 00:45:17.050
album, that's really, really good. And the fact

00:45:17.050 --> 00:45:18.389
that it's better than some of the music they

00:45:18.389 --> 00:45:21.559
were putting out back then is just. It's cyclical,

00:45:21.579 --> 00:45:22.639
I guess. I don't know. Everything comes full

00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:25.300
circle. It's like I said before, earlier in the

00:45:25.300 --> 00:45:28.559
episode that so many of these bands in 2023 have

00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:31.340
chosen this year to make a comeback of sorts

00:45:31.340 --> 00:45:33.699
and just blow everybody's mind to be like, oh

00:45:33.699 --> 00:45:36.119
yeah, these guys are still really, really fucking

00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:38.400
good at what they're doing and what they've done

00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:40.880
for decades. And they're not slowing down at

00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:42.980
any point. They're still going to keep tearing

00:45:42.980 --> 00:45:45.360
it up for as long as they're on this earth. Yeah,

00:45:45.380 --> 00:45:47.239
I think that's when the Rolling Stones would...

00:45:47.420 --> 00:45:49.119
Say they're not a band anymore is when they're

00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:51.059
just not here anymore. Exactly. No, they're going

00:45:51.059 --> 00:45:55.679
to drop dead on stage. I hope not. I hope not

00:45:55.679 --> 00:45:58.260
too. But I feel like those guys are going to

00:45:58.260 --> 00:46:00.239
be on stage performing until they take their

00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:02.179
last breath. It's just who they are. It's in

00:46:02.179 --> 00:46:04.940
their blood. And yeah, it's just incredible to

00:46:04.940 --> 00:46:08.199
me that Mick Jagger still sounds as incredible

00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:12.760
as he did 20, 30 years ago. Keith Richards could

00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.139
take the easy route and be like, oh, I'm 125

00:46:15.139 --> 00:46:16.900
years old. I'm just going to play some simple

00:46:16.900 --> 00:46:19.159
guitars. He's still shredding. Like, it's just

00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:22.360
it's insane. I love the pick. I love the album.

00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:25.179
Perfect song to wrap this this first side up.

00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:27.920
It's just fantastic. Well, that mixtapers conclude

00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:32.199
side A of our songs of 2023 mixtape, which consists

00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:36.000
of the Hives bogus operandi. White Reaper's Fog

00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.980
Machine, The Last Dinner Party's Sinner, Alana

00:46:38.980 --> 00:46:41.139
Springsteen with Chris Stapleton's Ghost in My

00:46:41.139 --> 00:46:44.780
Guitar, The Kills 103, Greta Van Fleet's The

00:46:44.780 --> 00:46:48.219
Falling Sky, Jenny Lewis's Psychos, The Struts'

00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:51.360
Pretty Vicious, Picard's To Open My Heart, and

00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:53.940
The Rolling Stones with Lady Gaga and Stevie

00:46:53.940 --> 00:46:57.340
Wonder, Sweet Sounds of Heaven. Head over to

00:46:57.340 --> 00:47:00.059
MyWeeklyMixTape .com to hear all the songs we've

00:47:00.059 --> 00:47:02.840
discussed in this mix through the playlist embedded

00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:06.329
on the episode. page. Now, before we flip our

00:47:06.329 --> 00:47:08.570
proverbial mixtape over to Side B, I don't know

00:47:08.570 --> 00:47:10.989
about you, DT, but there were certain songs that

00:47:10.989 --> 00:47:15.110
came out in 2022 that I most certainly rocked

00:47:15.110 --> 00:47:18.829
all throughout 2023, the holdovers in quote marks,

00:47:19.090 --> 00:47:22.050
if you will. So if you had to choose a pair of

00:47:22.050 --> 00:47:25.929
songs, a cassette single, if you will, of 2022

00:47:25.929 --> 00:47:29.349
songs that you rocked throughout the year, which

00:47:29.349 --> 00:47:31.690
two would they be? I've got one obvious pick

00:47:31.690 --> 00:47:33.869
and one pick that probably nobody else has ever

00:47:33.869 --> 00:47:35.150
heard of that's going to throw everybody for

00:47:35.150 --> 00:47:38.630
a loop. So the first of which I desperately wanted

00:47:38.630 --> 00:47:42.030
to include this on my list. But I mean, if we

00:47:42.030 --> 00:47:45.170
were having this episode recorded in 2022, it'd

00:47:45.170 --> 00:47:49.050
be top of it for me. It was SZA. The album was

00:47:49.050 --> 00:47:52.230
SOS, just an incredible hip hop album. The track

00:47:52.230 --> 00:47:53.570
I would have chosen would have been Kill Bill.

00:47:53.909 --> 00:47:57.269
Just a gorgeous track and just a melancholy,

00:47:57.309 --> 00:48:00.960
just sort of... Again, I want to go back to the

00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:02.880
notion of listening to the song and be like,

00:48:03.019 --> 00:48:06.480
damn, Cesar, are you okay? Whatever you're going

00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:09.079
through has transferred itself onto this amazing

00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:11.500
track. But can I buy you a beer and let you cry

00:48:11.500 --> 00:48:13.320
on my shoulder for a little while? What's going

00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.900
on? The song is just, it's a knife to the heart.

00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:19.000
It's gorgeous. It's haunting. It's beautiful.

00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:22.480
It's angry and sad at the same time. Obviously,

00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:25.480
it's got some maybe trigger warning content.

00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:28.760
But if you're the one person on the planet who

00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:31.900
hasn't heard Kill Bill by SZA on the SOS album,

00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:34.500
check it out immediately. It's just, it's fantastic.

00:48:34.980 --> 00:48:39.360
I keep saying fantastic. It's cyclical. We're

00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:41.420
turning this episode into a drinking game. Jeez.

00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:45.139
And your other one. The second track is when

00:48:45.139 --> 00:48:47.940
you and I talked about garage rock bands in that

00:48:47.940 --> 00:48:50.639
sort of episode, there was one band that I kind

00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:53.199
of talked about. Just briefly, because obviously

00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:55.599
they weren't from the 2000s. But there's a band

00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:58.139
in Japan called Sakura and Zenshin that I really,

00:48:58.219 --> 00:49:00.840
really love. And it's five kids from, I think,

00:49:00.860 --> 00:49:02.880
the Tokyo area. And they're just tearing it up.

00:49:02.940 --> 00:49:04.940
I think they may have broken up since they released

00:49:04.940 --> 00:49:07.659
this album, which is really sad. But very much

00:49:07.659 --> 00:49:10.659
just in the vein of loud punk rock, garage rock

00:49:10.659 --> 00:49:14.460
sounds. They put an album in 2022 called Odd

00:49:14.460 --> 00:49:17.039
Royo. And the track is Good Morning. And it just

00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:19.989
shreds. Like if you go back and listen to their

00:49:19.989 --> 00:49:21.989
entire discography, it's just these five kids

00:49:21.989 --> 00:49:24.889
just making noise in like the most beautiful,

00:49:24.949 --> 00:49:29.070
harmonious and like logical way, but like contained

00:49:29.070 --> 00:49:31.449
chaos. And if you watch videos of their live

00:49:31.449 --> 00:49:34.010
performances on YouTube, the lead singer is climbing

00:49:34.010 --> 00:49:36.429
up onto like the subwoofers, the speakers and

00:49:36.429 --> 00:49:38.630
jumping off them or like climbing on the guitar

00:49:38.630 --> 00:49:41.449
shoulders while he's playing a solo, all kinds

00:49:41.449 --> 00:49:43.949
of ridiculous stuff. But the track is a banger.

00:49:44.090 --> 00:49:46.570
The whole album is great. The band is super high

00:49:46.570 --> 00:49:49.079
energy. I wish they would make it big so they

00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:50.639
can tour in the United States so I could be the

00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:54.039
one person who would go and see them. But yeah,

00:49:54.380 --> 00:49:57.440
again, like those two picks for me are SZA's

00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:01.039
Kill Bill off of SOS and Zachary Stenson's Good

00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:04.380
Morning off of Odd Royal. All right. Well, for

00:50:04.380 --> 00:50:09.260
my 2022 holdovers, I have one extremely upbeat

00:50:09.260 --> 00:50:11.920
song and one that's a little more introspective.

00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:15.849
Okay. Side A of that, the upbeat song I am going

00:50:15.849 --> 00:50:18.989
with from his self -titled album, Youngblood

00:50:18.989 --> 00:50:22.750
and the Funeral. Nice. This song to me, when

00:50:22.750 --> 00:50:26.630
I first heard it, I did not know that Youngblood

00:50:26.630 --> 00:50:28.710
had gone kind of into the pop realm because I

00:50:28.710 --> 00:50:30.610
knew him for hip hop and other stuff he had done

00:50:30.610 --> 00:50:32.869
in the past. And when I listened to the song,

00:50:32.909 --> 00:50:36.289
I'm saying, what is this Billy Idol 80s sounding

00:50:36.289 --> 00:50:40.010
tune? This is incredible. Yeah. And when I looked

00:50:40.010 --> 00:50:42.690
it up and saw it was Youngblood. I was all in

00:50:42.690 --> 00:50:44.989
on it. And I swear to you, I've probably listened

00:50:44.989 --> 00:50:48.769
to this song just as much as any other 2023 song

00:50:48.769 --> 00:50:51.650
throughout this whole year. And it's still just

00:50:51.650 --> 00:50:56.289
as fresh. Again, I apologize. Cyclical. It sounds

00:50:56.289 --> 00:50:59.130
like that 80s rock. It has that bravado about

00:50:59.130 --> 00:51:02.469
it. But it's so damn catchy. You are literally

00:51:02.469 --> 00:51:05.349
singing the chorus along with him by the second

00:51:05.349 --> 00:51:07.269
time you hear the chorus, even if it's the first

00:51:07.269 --> 00:51:10.150
time you've heard the song. Yeah. Just unbelievable.

00:51:10.570 --> 00:51:12.750
And the second one's a little bit more serious,

00:51:12.809 --> 00:51:14.809
but I'm going to go off their Planet Zero album

00:51:14.809 --> 00:51:17.969
and I'm going to go with Shinedown and A Symptom

00:51:17.969 --> 00:51:21.710
of Being Human. I had the chance to take my wife

00:51:21.710 --> 00:51:24.690
and kids to see Shinedown, Papa Roach and Spirit

00:51:24.690 --> 00:51:28.849
Box at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

00:51:28.929 --> 00:51:33.869
And when Shinedown played this song, I swear

00:51:33.869 --> 00:51:36.900
to you. I don't know why, but the person in front

00:51:36.900 --> 00:51:39.760
of me just started cutting onions and holding

00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:43.219
them right under my eyes because a symptom of

00:51:43.219 --> 00:51:47.059
being human is a song that kind of normalizes

00:51:47.059 --> 00:51:51.019
mental health. Yeah. You're not alone in this.

00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:54.500
Nobody is. And it's just such a powerful moment.

00:51:54.579 --> 00:51:57.420
They had all these white lights up around. the

00:51:57.420 --> 00:51:59.960
stage and they asked everybody to turn their

00:51:59.960 --> 00:52:03.139
phones on. So it was just this glowing sea of

00:52:03.139 --> 00:52:06.480
white lights and my hair on my arms and goosebumps

00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:10.519
are starting as I'm telling the story. And I

00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:13.019
just sat there listening to the lyrics and taking

00:52:13.019 --> 00:52:16.960
it in. And I was overwhelmed by it. And I liked

00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:20.300
planet zero and that song meant something to

00:52:20.300 --> 00:52:22.960
me. But once I saw it live, I've listened to

00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:26.420
that song more times. In the last half of 2023

00:52:26.420 --> 00:52:30.539
than I did all of 2022, the song has to be recognized.

00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:33.199
I love the fact that they're normalizing the

00:52:33.199 --> 00:52:35.739
anxiety and depression that people deal with

00:52:35.739 --> 00:52:38.840
because there's so many things going on. People

00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:41.260
don't ever take a moment to see what maybe somebody

00:52:41.260 --> 00:52:43.320
else is going through when they're just struggling.

00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.079
And a song like this really tries to, again,

00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:48.780
normalize it. And to me, that's a powerful thing.

00:52:49.539 --> 00:52:52.110
There's so many. songs out there with negative

00:52:52.110 --> 00:52:54.730
messages and bad messages. I'm happy to see that

00:52:54.730 --> 00:52:58.010
people are embracing songs like this that embrace

00:52:58.010 --> 00:53:00.610
the fact that this is a struggle that a lot of

00:53:00.610 --> 00:53:03.769
us deal with. So it's a very powerful tune, obviously

00:53:03.769 --> 00:53:06.449
a lot slower in comparison to Youngblood, but

00:53:06.449 --> 00:53:09.409
I think a nice yin and yang for the 2022 holdovers

00:53:09.409 --> 00:53:11.429
for me. Yeah, absolutely. I love both picks.

00:53:11.570 --> 00:53:14.599
Yeah. Shinedown rules. They kick ass, man. And

00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:16.119
I remember seeing you post the videos and stuff,

00:53:16.139 --> 00:53:17.780
that concert on your social media and me like

00:53:17.780 --> 00:53:19.679
banging along to it. Like it was awesome. Yeah.

00:53:20.460 --> 00:53:22.699
They were so great. And then Papa Roach opening

00:53:22.699 --> 00:53:27.980
up Papa Roach's 2022 album. Ego trip is my holdover

00:53:27.980 --> 00:53:30.679
album for 2023. Nice. I've listened to that album

00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:33.320
probably a dozen times this year. It's not old

00:53:33.320 --> 00:53:35.760
from start to finish. I can't wait to see what

00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:38.579
they come up with next, but moving on to side

00:53:38.579 --> 00:53:41.440
B because we're going long already. We're going

00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:44.380
to jump right into it. Here's a band that if

00:53:44.380 --> 00:53:48.840
you told me in 2023, they would release a song

00:53:48.840 --> 00:53:54.099
with the same energy as 1983's kill them all.

00:53:54.219 --> 00:53:58.400
Oh, I would have laughed in your face. And Metallica

00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:02.239
did that on 72 seasons with the track Lux Eterna.

00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:06.659
It has the manic hit the lights energy. And to

00:54:06.659 --> 00:54:09.079
be honest, the reason I'm putting it here. Given

00:54:09.079 --> 00:54:11.340
what the first side looked like, if I don't start

00:54:11.340 --> 00:54:12.980
with this, there's no way I'm going to find a

00:54:12.980 --> 00:54:18.579
place for this song. But honestly, this is Metallica

00:54:18.579 --> 00:54:22.679
at their thrash best. Metallica is in their 60s.

00:54:22.679 --> 00:54:26.619
James Hetfield is 60. If you told me that the

00:54:26.619 --> 00:54:29.079
Metallica I grew up with, Master of Puppets,

00:54:29.099 --> 00:54:30.739
Ride the Lightning, Black Album, would still

00:54:30.739 --> 00:54:33.579
be putting out quality music in 2023, it's kind

00:54:33.579 --> 00:54:35.360
of hard to believe because those guys were going

00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:39.360
110 miles an hour through the 80s. happy they're

00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:43.360
still doing it yeah and yes metallica doesn't

00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:46.579
put out albums often their last album was 2016's

00:54:46.579 --> 00:54:50.539
hardwired to self -destruct going by that i can't

00:54:50.539 --> 00:54:53.579
talk about metallica in a song of the year compilation

00:54:53.579 --> 00:54:57.800
until 2030 so i want to do it now so metallica

00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:01.269
luxie turner from 72 seasons God bless James

00:55:01.269 --> 00:55:03.690
Hetfield's vocal coach because the guy still

00:55:03.690 --> 00:55:06.150
sounds like he's 21 years old and screaming.

00:55:06.489 --> 00:55:08.190
Right? You listen to this track and you hear

00:55:08.190 --> 00:55:10.550
him scream out, Luxie, turn up! And it's like,

00:55:10.610 --> 00:55:13.769
how old are you? What? How are you still doing

00:55:13.769 --> 00:55:16.590
this? It's insane. I saw them at Giant Stadium

00:55:16.590 --> 00:55:19.730
this summer and they did it live and he absolutely

00:55:19.730 --> 00:55:22.769
crushed it. I'm sure he did. Yeah. I've seen

00:55:22.769 --> 00:55:26.090
hundreds and maybe thousands of live videos of

00:55:26.090 --> 00:55:28.789
Metallica on the internet. And the man always

00:55:28.789 --> 00:55:30.769
sounds flawless. Like, it's just incredible.

00:55:30.869 --> 00:55:34.349
But Lux Eterna is just an awesome track. I love

00:55:34.349 --> 00:55:36.530
the pick to kick off this side of the mixtape.

00:55:37.449 --> 00:55:39.570
I'm hard pressed to match that now. Thanks, man.

00:55:39.630 --> 00:55:43.429
I was going to say that's a tough energy to unless

00:55:43.429 --> 00:55:45.630
you've got some metal picks in your bucket. I

00:55:45.630 --> 00:55:47.489
know I'm kind of throwing a curveball here for

00:55:47.489 --> 00:55:50.530
you. So I'm going to match the energy in a weird

00:55:50.530 --> 00:55:53.610
way. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. So it's not

00:55:53.610 --> 00:55:56.250
like a hard rock, like crazy speed metal, like

00:55:56.250 --> 00:55:59.230
Lexi Turner type track, but it is a little manic,

00:55:59.349 --> 00:56:02.250
a little crazy, a little wild. And my pick is

00:56:02.250 --> 00:56:06.650
Perfect by JPEG Mafia and Danny Brown. Wow. It's

00:56:06.650 --> 00:56:09.510
a rap track. It's a hip hop track. And obviously

00:56:09.510 --> 00:56:11.889
it's a weird thing to pivot from like a classic,

00:56:12.010 --> 00:56:14.110
you know, Metallica, you know, speed metal type

00:56:14.110 --> 00:56:16.750
of thing. But if we're keeping with that vibe

00:56:16.750 --> 00:56:19.710
and that energy and that manicness. That's what

00:56:19.710 --> 00:56:21.929
I'm going with. So if you're not familiar, JPEG

00:56:21.929 --> 00:56:24.110
Mafia, he was a kid who started out way back

00:56:24.110 --> 00:56:26.050
in the day as basically a homegrown producer.

00:56:26.170 --> 00:56:28.710
He was making his own mixes and beats and whatnot.

00:56:29.190 --> 00:56:31.269
And he was trying to get out there and get noticed.

00:56:31.329 --> 00:56:32.670
And he would play his stuff for people and people

00:56:32.670 --> 00:56:34.809
just didn't get it. So he's like, okay, well,

00:56:34.949 --> 00:56:38.050
F it. I'll be a rapper. And it turns out he's

00:56:38.050 --> 00:56:40.750
a really fucking good rapper too. So he's been

00:56:40.750 --> 00:56:44.809
quietly a part of the experimental hip hop scene

00:56:44.809 --> 00:56:47.239
for a long time, like two decades now. He's been

00:56:47.239 --> 00:56:49.880
a producer and all kinds of stuff. And he's been

00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:51.519
somebody that I've looked up to and really respected

00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:53.920
and listened to for a lot of years. And he's

00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:56.000
really kind of come into his own and really sort

00:56:56.000 --> 00:56:58.639
of hit sort of kind of sort of mainstream fame

00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:01.480
within the last few years. And he became friends

00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:03.539
with Danny Brown, who I think is one of the most

00:57:03.539 --> 00:57:06.079
electric rappers of the last like 10, 15 years.

00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:08.360
I've seen live a couple of times. He puts on

00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:11.360
an amazing show. He's just got this manic, crazy.

00:57:12.259 --> 00:57:14.500
He sounds like he's trying to be immature, but

00:57:14.500 --> 00:57:17.019
he's just all over the place, just throwing you

00:57:17.019 --> 00:57:19.480
for a loop with both of his vocal styling and

00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:22.340
his lyrics. And he's just insane to watch live

00:57:22.340 --> 00:57:24.360
and listen to on album. He's just all over the

00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:26.760
place in a beautiful, awesome, kick -ass, crazy,

00:57:27.159 --> 00:57:29.980
just dope way. And when the two of them became

00:57:29.980 --> 00:57:31.579
friends and they started throwing around the

00:57:31.579 --> 00:57:33.360
idea of doing an album together, I was like,

00:57:33.440 --> 00:57:36.800
oh my God, this is going to be nuts. This is

00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:38.559
just going to be the most unique and crazy hip

00:57:38.559 --> 00:57:40.820
hop album ever. And sure enough, they did it.

00:57:40.840 --> 00:57:43.000
They got together and they produced this album

00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.519
called, excuse my language, this is the title

00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:49.679
of the album, Scaring the Hoes. And what it is,

00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:53.019
is just this smorgasbord of samples and beats

00:57:53.019 --> 00:57:55.699
and really clever, rapid fire lyrics. And these

00:57:55.699 --> 00:57:59.340
two just crazy rappers and lyricists just spitting

00:57:59.340 --> 00:58:02.059
back and forth to who I think is one of the best

00:58:02.059 --> 00:58:05.730
producers in the last 20 years, JPEG Mafia. And

00:58:05.730 --> 00:58:07.590
some people have almost called the album like

00:58:07.590 --> 00:58:10.369
too dense, like there's too much going on. But

00:58:10.369 --> 00:58:12.670
I think it's just a perfect distillation of Danny

00:58:12.670 --> 00:58:15.610
Brown's energy and his craziness and JPEG Mafia's

00:58:15.610 --> 00:58:18.590
ability to sample and layer and craft a really,

00:58:18.630 --> 00:58:20.809
really dense and interesting and challenging

00:58:20.809 --> 00:58:22.570
hip hop song. This is not for the mainstream

00:58:22.570 --> 00:58:24.570
hip hop fans. This is straight up experimental

00:58:24.570 --> 00:58:27.610
stuff. This entire album samples everything from

00:58:27.610 --> 00:58:30.170
Famicom commercials from the 80s, like Nintendo

00:58:30.170 --> 00:58:33.150
commercials from Japan to like Michael Jackson.

00:58:33.639 --> 00:58:36.480
one of the track samples in sync and the track

00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:39.559
i've picked from this album perfect actually

00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:42.780
samples a classical composition by richard smallwood

00:58:42.780 --> 00:58:46.420
called procession of the levites and it's these

00:58:46.420 --> 00:58:48.679
two crazy guys just going off and rapping to

00:58:48.679 --> 00:58:50.820
like this really really sort of dramatic and

00:58:50.820 --> 00:58:53.800
epic classical composition and it just works

00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:56.699
and the entire album is just weird and strange

00:58:56.699 --> 00:58:59.679
and high energy and crazy and challenging and

00:59:01.049 --> 00:59:03.150
Fantastic. If you haven't heard of JPEG Mafia

00:59:03.150 --> 00:59:05.489
or Danny Brown, I don't know if you should listen

00:59:05.489 --> 00:59:07.409
to this first because it's just a distillation

00:59:07.409 --> 00:59:09.949
of their two styles of producing music together.

00:59:10.550 --> 00:59:12.429
And it may not make a whole lot of sense, but

00:59:12.429 --> 00:59:15.210
go listen to JPEG Mafia's LP. That's the name

00:59:15.210 --> 00:59:17.309
of the album. It's LP. And then go listen to

00:59:17.309 --> 00:59:18.809
everything Danny Brown has done and then come

00:59:18.809 --> 00:59:20.469
back and listen to this so you'll be ready for

00:59:20.469 --> 00:59:23.530
it. But it is one of the most layered and nuanced

00:59:23.530 --> 00:59:25.969
and fun and interesting and experimental and

00:59:25.969 --> 00:59:29.219
weird. ultimately genius hip hop albums i've

00:59:29.219 --> 00:59:32.880
heard in a really long time and perfect is almost

00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:34.559
interchangeable with every track on the album

00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:36.519
because they're all really really great but i

00:59:36.519 --> 00:59:40.320
had to pick one so it's perfect absolutely manic

00:59:40.320 --> 00:59:45.429
yeah track yeah like this is a song that I don't

00:59:45.429 --> 00:59:48.769
know how, but you've managed to capture the manic

00:59:48.769 --> 00:59:51.329
energy of a Metallica thrash song in hip hop

00:59:51.329 --> 00:59:54.090
form. Right. So I am very impressed listening

00:59:54.090 --> 00:59:57.190
to this song. This is not the hip hop that you

00:59:57.190 --> 01:00:00.329
hear on current top 40 radio, the hip hop songs

01:00:00.329 --> 01:00:03.829
that are popular. This is a lot different. This

01:00:03.829 --> 01:00:07.210
to me almost sounds like a modern day version

01:00:07.210 --> 01:00:10.449
of Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, only

01:00:10.449 --> 01:00:16.019
maybe with an extra layer of. insanity so i think

01:00:16.019 --> 01:00:19.360
if you take your most manic ad rock moment and

01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:22.639
multiply it by 10 yeah you've got jpeg mafia

01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:25.260
and danny brown so it's sometimes it's not an

01:00:25.260 --> 01:00:27.960
easy album to digest if you don't know where

01:00:27.960 --> 01:00:30.460
they're coming from yeah so i like the warning

01:00:30.460 --> 01:00:32.280
you gave with that because if people go into

01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:35.320
this album thinking they're going to get a hip

01:00:35.320 --> 01:00:39.480
-hop album the way 2023 hip -hop has been They're

01:00:39.480 --> 01:00:41.679
going to be thrown for a loop. Yeah, in a good

01:00:41.679 --> 01:00:43.139
way. Whether they like it or not is different.

01:00:43.219 --> 01:00:45.019
Yeah, I think in a good way as well. Yeah, I

01:00:45.019 --> 01:00:47.360
think music should be just as much challenging

01:00:47.360 --> 01:00:50.079
as it is enjoyable. And I think me being honestly

01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:52.880
a self -professed music snob, I like stuff that

01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:55.280
I may not like the first time I listen to it.

01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:57.659
I like going back and challenging myself to listen

01:00:57.659 --> 01:01:00.119
to something and being like, wait, what? What

01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:02.409
the hell is this? There's a lot of that with

01:01:02.409 --> 01:01:05.710
JPEG Mafia. He is very much in the realm of experimental

01:01:05.710 --> 01:01:08.650
hip hop. He is trying all kinds of weird stuff

01:01:08.650 --> 01:01:11.010
and just seeing what sticks. And Danny Brown

01:01:11.010 --> 01:01:13.329
has had such a weird very career where he's done

01:01:13.329 --> 01:01:15.550
straight up hip hop albums. He was part of a

01:01:15.550 --> 01:01:17.070
group back in the day that was very much in a

01:01:17.070 --> 01:01:19.710
line of NWA and your traditional hip hop groups

01:01:19.710 --> 01:01:22.190
and whatnot. He's done collaborations with churches,

01:01:22.289 --> 01:01:25.230
stuff all over the spectrum. These are two musicians

01:01:25.230 --> 01:01:28.570
who love to challenge themselves and love to

01:01:28.570 --> 01:01:30.659
challenge their audience. And if you're there

01:01:30.659 --> 01:01:32.920
for it, if you're there ready to see what they've

01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:35.059
got to show you, you're going to really love

01:01:35.059 --> 01:01:38.559
it. Absolutely. Now, coming out of that from

01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:42.039
Metallica. Oh, Lord. I mean, there's nothing

01:01:42.039 --> 01:01:44.460
that I have left in my list that's going to match

01:01:44.460 --> 01:01:47.099
the energy. So I need to bring this down a little

01:01:47.099 --> 01:01:52.860
bit. However, Metallica is metal rock, if you

01:01:52.860 --> 01:01:56.679
want to call it that. JPEG Mafia and Danny Brown

01:01:56.679 --> 01:02:00.429
is hip hop. So I think I have a really weird

01:02:00.429 --> 01:02:02.989
way to connect the dots. This is like going from

01:02:02.989 --> 01:02:06.670
A to Q to go to B, but I think it'll make sense.

01:02:06.809 --> 01:02:09.869
Because this artist started out as a hip hop

01:02:09.869 --> 01:02:13.690
artist. Then he started incorporating rock elements

01:02:13.690 --> 01:02:17.409
into his sound. And then he toured with Shinedown.

01:02:17.530 --> 01:02:20.519
But now. Oh, okay. All right. You know where

01:02:20.519 --> 01:02:24.219
I'm going with this. He just won the CMA New

01:02:24.219 --> 01:02:27.619
Artist of the Year Award. Yeah, yeah. For country.

01:02:27.820 --> 01:02:30.619
So I'm finding a way to squeeze in a country

01:02:30.619 --> 01:02:35.159
song after a metal song and a hip hop song. So

01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:38.519
the ship is veering right now, but I think this

01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:41.769
makes sense. Because Jelly Roll was a hip hop

01:02:41.769 --> 01:02:44.829
artist that has evolved his sound to include

01:02:44.829 --> 01:02:48.250
more rock and country vibes. And Whitsitt Chapel

01:02:48.250 --> 01:02:51.969
is an amazing album. And being somebody who went

01:02:51.969 --> 01:02:56.650
to a Catholic high school growing up, Need a

01:02:56.650 --> 01:03:01.980
Favor spoke to me in a very big way. So when

01:03:01.980 --> 01:03:03.800
you think about the lyrics to this song, I only

01:03:03.800 --> 01:03:06.460
talk to God when I need a favor and I pray when

01:03:06.460 --> 01:03:09.739
I ain't got a prayer. So who the hell am I to

01:03:09.739 --> 01:03:13.039
expect the savior? I only talk to God when I

01:03:13.039 --> 01:03:16.280
need a favor, but God, I need a favor. And the

01:03:16.280 --> 01:03:21.440
video for it is so gut wrenching. Yeah. This

01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:24.039
man has been through a lot. He has been to hell

01:03:24.039 --> 01:03:26.820
and back in his life. He has been on the wrong

01:03:26.820 --> 01:03:29.539
side of the tracks and he has righted his personal

01:03:29.539 --> 01:03:34.019
ship. And when he won the CMA awards, he actually

01:03:34.019 --> 01:03:36.219
put out a statement that to me, I thought was

01:03:36.219 --> 01:03:39.280
very prolific. And it's one that I'm going to

01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:41.139
probably take with me moving forward because

01:03:41.139 --> 01:03:42.840
he said, I want to tell you, it's going to be

01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:45.650
okay. I want to tell you that the windshield

01:03:45.650 --> 01:03:49.389
is bigger than the rear view mirror for a reason,

01:03:49.429 --> 01:03:52.489
because what's in front of you is so much more

01:03:52.489 --> 01:03:55.610
important than what's behind you. Love that.

01:03:55.630 --> 01:03:59.889
That is some preacher level stuff that just resonated

01:03:59.889 --> 01:04:05.230
with me so much. And this song, it is so memorable.

01:04:05.429 --> 01:04:08.599
And I think it's more for the lyrics. As much

01:04:08.599 --> 01:04:10.260
as I love his voice and I love the music and

01:04:10.260 --> 01:04:12.420
I love the song, I think the message of this

01:04:12.420 --> 01:04:14.260
song is what really resonated with me at the

01:04:14.260 --> 01:04:16.539
end of the day. So Jelly Rolls need a favor.

01:04:16.860 --> 01:04:19.480
Great pick. I love the track. He's a blast. He's

01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:23.320
just fun. I dug him as a rapper beforehand, and

01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:26.239
I like it when artists challenge their audiences

01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:28.420
by switching genres like that, just for the hell

01:04:28.420 --> 01:04:30.900
of it. And the fact that he did it so effortlessly

01:04:30.900 --> 01:04:33.000
and it's like kicking ass and like winning awards

01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:35.320
as a country musician now. It's like when Taylor

01:04:35.320 --> 01:04:37.119
Swift went from being a country musician to like

01:04:37.119 --> 01:04:39.340
a straight up pop musician and everybody just

01:04:39.340 --> 01:04:40.920
kind of followed her over and it all just kind

01:04:40.920 --> 01:04:42.940
of worked. The dude is like versatile. He's got

01:04:42.940 --> 01:04:45.340
a lot going on. Like you said, he's had some

01:04:45.340 --> 01:04:47.940
life experiences and he translate all that experiences

01:04:47.940 --> 01:04:50.659
into his music and you see it in a genuine way.

01:04:51.309 --> 01:04:53.090
This song could very easily in someone else's

01:04:53.090 --> 01:04:55.150
hands come off as disingenuous and cheap and

01:04:55.150 --> 01:04:57.530
kind of lame, but it's heartfelt and honest.

01:04:57.690 --> 01:04:59.369
And that's what gets me about this track the

01:04:59.369 --> 01:05:03.309
most. Yeah. You know, he means this when he sings

01:05:03.309 --> 01:05:06.150
it. Yeah. There's nothing disingenuous about

01:05:06.150 --> 01:05:07.949
it. And to me, that's what it speaks volumes.

01:05:08.190 --> 01:05:11.289
Yeah. So now this ship is going metal, hip hop,

01:05:11.289 --> 01:05:13.730
country. You could go anywhere with this, honestly.

01:05:14.690 --> 01:05:17.250
I know where I'm going to go with it, but I don't

01:05:17.250 --> 01:05:20.139
know how to define it. How do you define Sparks?

01:05:20.219 --> 01:05:24.880
What genre is Sparks? New age? Pop? I don't know.

01:05:25.019 --> 01:05:27.360
But again, this is another band that has been

01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:29.139
around forever and they put out a new album in

01:05:29.139 --> 01:05:32.579
2023 and it rocks. And it's just as awesome and

01:05:32.579 --> 01:05:34.179
kick -ass as everything they've done beforehand.

01:05:35.019 --> 01:05:37.079
Like I said earlier in the episode, if you haven't

01:05:37.079 --> 01:05:39.099
listened to Sparks before, go and check out the

01:05:39.099 --> 01:05:40.980
documentary by Edgar Wright, who did Shaun of

01:05:40.980 --> 01:05:44.000
the Dead and Hot Fuzz and whatnot. He did a really,

01:05:44.019 --> 01:05:46.159
really beautiful and honest and heartfelt and

01:05:46.159 --> 01:05:48.480
just killer documentary on these two brothers

01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:51.619
who have been musicians for about as long as

01:05:51.619 --> 01:05:53.980
I've been alive. And they've put together album

01:05:53.980 --> 01:05:56.619
after album after album without ever having like...

01:05:56.730 --> 01:05:59.150
really crazy mainstream success. But they're

01:05:59.150 --> 01:06:02.010
also like a direct influence on everybody in

01:06:02.010 --> 01:06:04.849
a weird way. You listen to this documentary and

01:06:04.849 --> 01:06:06.889
you've got people like flee from the Red Hot

01:06:06.889 --> 01:06:08.670
Chili Peppers saying like, yeah, you talk to

01:06:08.670 --> 01:06:11.449
any musician in like a bar or a party and the

01:06:11.449 --> 01:06:14.090
conversation inevitably goes to Sparks. And most

01:06:14.090 --> 01:06:15.489
people are like, who the hell is Sparks? But

01:06:15.489 --> 01:06:17.849
anybody who knows and loves music is like, fuck

01:06:17.849 --> 01:06:21.269
yeah, Sparks. And it's these two brothers and

01:06:21.269 --> 01:06:23.489
their music is very eccentric and very strange

01:06:23.489 --> 01:06:26.230
and very weird. And on the surface level, it

01:06:26.230 --> 01:06:28.630
seems really kind of simplistic and goofy and

01:06:28.630 --> 01:06:31.550
silly and dishonest. But there's a nuance to

01:06:31.550 --> 01:06:34.429
it and like an irony to it that I've just loved

01:06:34.429 --> 01:06:37.949
forever. And the track I picked is off their

01:06:37.949 --> 01:06:41.530
new album. And that album is The Girl Is Crying

01:06:41.530 --> 01:06:45.269
In Her Latte. And the track is not that well

01:06:45.269 --> 01:06:48.989
defined. So Sparks is interesting. And again,

01:06:49.090 --> 01:06:51.380
I... Don't think I'm following the vibe anymore.

01:06:51.539 --> 01:06:53.280
I think I've gone fully off the rails with this

01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:56.500
one. Actually, I'm going to challenge that. I

01:06:56.500 --> 01:06:58.860
think you're riding the ship a little bit because

01:06:58.860 --> 01:07:02.360
Sparks does fit in with Side A a little bit.

01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:04.860
So I feel like you're kind of like, let's bring

01:07:04.860 --> 01:07:07.679
back Side A's vibe into this. And instead of

01:07:07.679 --> 01:07:10.360
swinging like a pendulum, we're kind of now just

01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:13.780
kind of teetering back to where Side A was. We've

01:07:13.780 --> 01:07:16.019
kind of righted it back to where that sound.

01:07:16.699 --> 01:07:19.860
worked really well okay yeah because we did we

01:07:19.860 --> 01:07:22.659
we had uh the last dinner party early on inside

01:07:22.659 --> 01:07:26.340
one and now we're like circling right back to

01:07:26.340 --> 01:07:28.360
one of their obvious main influences so okay

01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:30.480
okay all right cool thanks i feel better about

01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:32.760
this well it's funny because you had said when

01:07:32.760 --> 01:07:34.300
you mentioned them you're like i don't know how

01:07:34.300 --> 01:07:37.510
to define this next band it says it right in

01:07:37.510 --> 01:07:40.230
the damn title not that well defined but they

01:07:40.230 --> 01:07:42.969
are that well defined but i mean yeah i mean

01:07:42.969 --> 01:07:45.170
it's it's hard to say what sparks is but if you

01:07:45.170 --> 01:07:48.530
know sparks you get it you get it but again even

01:07:48.530 --> 01:07:51.250
if someone who gets it how do you define it yeah

01:07:51.250 --> 01:07:54.889
it's like to me it speaks to the name a little

01:07:54.889 --> 01:07:58.530
bit fair yeah uh not that well defined by sparks

01:07:58.530 --> 01:08:02.090
it's three minutes and 30 seconds of This really

01:08:02.090 --> 01:08:05.670
grandiose and theatrical and silly and irreverent,

01:08:05.670 --> 01:08:08.150
but also like a band that carries a lot of gravitas

01:08:08.150 --> 01:08:10.710
at the same time in a weird way. They're most

01:08:10.710 --> 01:08:12.730
grandiose. Like they've got a full orchestra

01:08:12.730 --> 01:08:15.579
behind them in this track. And the lyrics are

01:08:15.579 --> 01:08:17.060
just amazing. It's like, you're not that well

01:08:17.060 --> 01:08:18.819
-defined. You're like a contract that's left

01:08:18.819 --> 01:08:21.460
unsigned. And the lyrics just, they seem like

01:08:21.460 --> 01:08:23.380
surface level, like really shallow and whatnot.

01:08:23.539 --> 01:08:25.000
But if you listen to the context of the song,

01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:28.319
it's biting and jabbing and catty. And it's been

01:08:28.319 --> 01:08:30.439
Sparks their entire career where you think like

01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:32.039
they're just writing like a fun, silly song,

01:08:32.180 --> 01:08:34.960
but it's got this twinge of irony and depth to

01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:37.739
it. And that's just Sparks where it's like, if

01:08:37.739 --> 01:08:39.100
you take them at their surface level, you're

01:08:39.100 --> 01:08:40.979
going to bop to it. It's fun. But if you really

01:08:40.979 --> 01:08:43.399
pay attention, like these guys are geniuses and

01:08:43.399 --> 01:08:45.380
they're like. throwing everybody for a loop just

01:08:45.380 --> 01:08:47.079
because they can and they've been doing it for

01:08:47.079 --> 01:08:50.060
like 40 years go listen to the track go listen

01:08:50.060 --> 01:08:52.619
to the whole album the album is phenomenal and

01:08:52.619 --> 01:08:54.500
if you're good with that go and listen to their

01:08:54.500 --> 01:08:57.399
entire discography because it's wild and crazy

01:08:57.399 --> 01:09:00.779
and you will pick up influences on modern bands

01:09:00.779 --> 01:09:03.920
from sparks that are there despite the fact that

01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:06.600
nobody knows who sparks is it's so weird it is

01:09:06.600 --> 01:09:08.560
the weirdest thing in the world that everybody's

01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:10.680
influenced by sparks but nobody knows who they

01:09:10.680 --> 01:09:13.750
are it's just crazy to me but The track is super

01:09:13.750 --> 01:09:16.829
fun. They're super fun. They're very theatrical

01:09:16.829 --> 01:09:19.350
and silly and goofy, but they know exactly what

01:09:19.350 --> 01:09:21.210
they're doing. It's very, very strategically

01:09:21.210 --> 01:09:24.189
engineered, like their sound and their persona

01:09:24.189 --> 01:09:27.010
and their performances. It's really neat to watch,

01:09:27.170 --> 01:09:31.220
actually. It's fascinating. Well... I think you've

01:09:31.220 --> 01:09:33.760
said everything that could be said about Sparks.

01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:35.840
And coming out of that, I mean, you've really

01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:37.819
thrown me a middle finger here because I don't

01:09:37.819 --> 01:09:40.760
even know where to go from here. But I think

01:09:40.760 --> 01:09:43.060
because we said that it kind of fit with the

01:09:43.060 --> 01:09:45.260
Side A vibe, I'm going to lean into that a little

01:09:45.260 --> 01:09:47.439
bit. Okay. And I'm going to go with a song that

01:09:47.439 --> 01:09:50.060
I know would fit perfectly on Side A. But I think

01:09:50.060 --> 01:09:53.960
because of the vibe, this actually works. This

01:09:53.960 --> 01:09:57.520
is a band whose last album was released in 2000.

01:09:58.510 --> 01:10:01.529
And the album was called Ready, Sex, Go. Oh,

01:10:01.590 --> 01:10:04.869
all right. Yeah. And they are back this year

01:10:04.869 --> 01:10:07.829
with their first album in 23 years. It's another

01:10:07.829 --> 01:10:10.829
one of those bands. Yeah. Yes. The Marvelous

01:10:10.829 --> 01:10:14.750
Three. And the album is called Four. Butch Walker,

01:10:14.869 --> 01:10:18.130
you and I talked about on episode 32 in Garage

01:10:18.130 --> 01:10:22.529
Rock. He had a great solo career from 2000 until

01:10:22.529 --> 01:10:25.630
still does. He still does. And he's an amazing

01:10:25.630 --> 01:10:29.039
producer. But he got the band back together and

01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:32.880
they put out a new album. And it is unbelievably

01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:37.699
amazing. If you liked Marvelous 3 from Freak

01:10:37.699 --> 01:10:41.319
of the Week and Sugar Buzz and all the different

01:10:41.319 --> 01:10:44.079
songs they put out up until 2000, they picked

01:10:44.079 --> 01:10:46.600
up right where they left off. And the song I'm

01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:49.779
going to go with, I think, to get as close to

01:10:49.779 --> 01:10:54.640
the not that well -defined vibe is a tune called

01:10:54.640 --> 01:10:58.600
Growing All My Hair Out. It's just got this drive

01:10:58.600 --> 01:11:03.699
to it. It is anthemic. Yes. And big. And it's

01:11:03.699 --> 01:11:06.300
one of those songs where it's a very creative

01:11:06.300 --> 01:11:09.720
song structure. And it's Butch kind of taking

01:11:09.720 --> 01:11:11.840
a little bit of his elements from his solo career

01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:13.880
and kind of merging it with the Marvelous Three

01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:16.619
sounds. So this one, I feel like if Butch was

01:11:16.619 --> 01:11:19.819
doing a solo show would fit in perfectly. But

01:11:19.819 --> 01:11:22.060
by giving the guitars a little bit more of that

01:11:22.060 --> 01:11:25.220
edge. It works perfectly for Marvelous 3. So

01:11:25.220 --> 01:11:28.420
following up Sparks, Marvelous 3, growing all

01:11:28.420 --> 01:11:30.899
my hair out. I love the track. I love the band.

01:11:30.939 --> 01:11:33.060
And I love the album. This is another band that's

01:11:33.060 --> 01:11:34.800
like a blast from the past. They came out of

01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:36.979
nowhere with a new album. I just haven't missed

01:11:36.979 --> 01:11:39.800
a beat. I remember the song Freak of the Week.

01:11:39.859 --> 01:11:42.319
And what album was that? Was it Hey Album? Yeah.

01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:44.500
Great album. And I remember listening to that.

01:11:44.520 --> 01:11:47.319
And shit, it must have been like 97, 98. It was

01:11:47.319 --> 01:11:51.260
a great, great album. I really dug it. That song

01:11:51.260 --> 01:11:52.960
in particular, the one that you listed off growing

01:11:52.960 --> 01:11:55.100
all my hair out is almost like a continuation

01:11:55.100 --> 01:11:57.600
of the vibe of that era, but also like a love

01:11:57.600 --> 01:11:59.600
letter to it. And one of the things I picked

01:11:59.600 --> 01:12:00.680
up on the song and one of the things I really

01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:03.420
like about it is the fact that it's anthemic,

01:12:03.439 --> 01:12:05.899
like you said, but also maybe it's just me reading

01:12:05.899 --> 01:12:08.140
into it and my own sense of nostalgia. It's got

01:12:08.140 --> 01:12:10.180
a little bit of like a melancholy to it where

01:12:10.180 --> 01:12:12.279
like, this was a great era to grow up and like

01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:14.239
be a musician and be a kid and like hang out

01:12:14.239 --> 01:12:16.920
and do all the things. And you kind of... Don't

01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:18.920
want to leave that. So you're still hanging out

01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:20.880
at the bar, doing all the things, kind of, sort

01:12:20.880 --> 01:12:23.340
of. Great track, though. I love the track. Love

01:12:23.340 --> 01:12:25.939
the band. I love seeing that band come out of

01:12:25.939 --> 01:12:27.979
nowhere with a new album and just kick ass. And

01:12:27.979 --> 01:12:30.239
yeah, one of the bands that was heavy in my rotation

01:12:30.239 --> 01:12:32.859
in the 90s. And this album has been heavy in

01:12:32.859 --> 01:12:35.050
my rotation this year, too. It's wonderful. From

01:12:35.050 --> 01:12:37.170
out of nowhere, man. That's like, just like you

01:12:37.170 --> 01:12:38.949
had said earlier with the hives. It's just kind

01:12:38.949 --> 01:12:40.989
of like, wait, what? They're back. Right. Exactly.

01:12:41.170 --> 01:12:43.590
Yeah. And I'm all here for it. Stick around.

01:12:43.689 --> 01:12:46.329
Do both Butch Walker and Marvelous three. Keep

01:12:46.329 --> 01:12:50.210
them both going. So now we've got the second

01:12:50.210 --> 01:12:54.130
half of side B and we're back to you for track

01:12:54.130 --> 01:12:57.649
six. Okay. So modern artists, but also kind of

01:12:57.649 --> 01:13:00.829
a throwback sound. My next pick is off the Barbie

01:13:00.829 --> 01:13:05.109
album from the movie that took this year by absolute

01:13:05.109 --> 01:13:07.890
storm. This is an artist who's taken this year

01:13:07.890 --> 01:13:10.869
by storm, too, who took last year in 2021 by

01:13:10.869 --> 01:13:14.010
storm as well. It is Dua Lipa. The track is Dance

01:13:14.010 --> 01:13:16.909
the Night. We're kind of weaving and bobbing

01:13:16.909 --> 01:13:20.029
a little bit. We're going from rock to pop. Holy

01:13:20.029 --> 01:13:22.329
crap, dude. Like just the fact that the movie

01:13:22.329 --> 01:13:24.729
was such a huge smash hit and just kind of took

01:13:24.729 --> 01:13:27.310
over the cinemas this year. How could you not

01:13:27.310 --> 01:13:29.689
have at least one track off that album on the

01:13:29.689 --> 01:13:32.550
best of 2023? Especially when it was one of those

01:13:32.550 --> 01:13:35.390
banging and awesome pop songs of the year. I

01:13:35.390 --> 01:13:38.090
am an unabashed lover of pop music. I think Dua

01:13:38.090 --> 01:13:40.430
Lipa is just top of the heap right now. I think

01:13:40.430 --> 01:13:42.449
she's setting the world on fire. As of right

01:13:42.449 --> 01:13:44.449
now, she just put out another single called Houdini,

01:13:44.590 --> 01:13:47.829
which is fantastic. I adore her. I love her music.

01:13:47.909 --> 01:13:50.680
I love the vibe. I'm not a dancer. I can't help

01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:52.460
but dance every time that lady comes on the radio.

01:13:52.760 --> 01:13:55.140
I am making an ass of myself in rush hour traffic

01:13:55.140 --> 01:13:58.060
listening to this track. It's just great. It's

01:13:58.060 --> 01:14:00.640
just so much fun. It's just a no -nonsense dance

01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:03.079
track. She's talking about her house might be

01:14:03.079 --> 01:14:04.640
burning, but you'll never see it on her face

01:14:04.640 --> 01:14:06.640
because there's never a hair out of place. She's

01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:08.600
just dancing the night away. And it's just awesome.

01:14:08.720 --> 01:14:11.079
It's a great vibe. It's one of the best dance

01:14:11.079 --> 01:14:13.000
anthems I've heard in a long time. And I think

01:14:13.000 --> 01:14:16.199
it's probably the best one of 2023. the barbie

01:14:16.199 --> 01:14:19.699
album huh you're the right yeah like i i'm look

01:14:19.699 --> 01:14:21.800
i'm shocked you like when you said i'm gonna

01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:24.560
go with barbie the album i was just waiting for

01:14:24.560 --> 01:14:27.890
you to say ryan gosling's i'm just ken Because

01:14:27.890 --> 01:14:29.710
I'll tell you right now, my kids, that's their

01:14:29.710 --> 01:14:31.550
favorite song of the year. Really? Every time

01:14:31.550 --> 01:14:34.029
it comes on, they were singing it so loud in

01:14:34.029 --> 01:14:35.789
the car the other day. I honestly thought I was

01:14:35.789 --> 01:14:37.729
having an aneurysm. I didn't know what was happening.

01:14:38.090 --> 01:14:40.689
They love it so, so much. And I've seen the movie

01:14:40.689 --> 01:14:43.630
with them and they sang it just as loud. And

01:14:43.630 --> 01:14:46.289
obviously the music throughout that entire soundtrack,

01:14:46.390 --> 01:14:48.649
because, you know, I've got two girls. Obviously

01:14:48.649 --> 01:14:51.550
we own the soundtrack. It's ridiculous between

01:14:51.550 --> 01:14:56.079
Tame Impala. Lizzo's song is really catchy. Haim's

01:14:56.079 --> 01:14:59.819
song is good. Ice Spice's Barbie World is good.

01:14:59.880 --> 01:15:03.239
Charlie XCX's Speed Drive is good. I mean, it

01:15:03.239 --> 01:15:07.600
is just a fantastic album. Yeah. And heck, we

01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:11.359
have the extended expanded edition that has Ryan

01:15:11.359 --> 01:15:16.279
Gosling's cover of Push by Max Fox 20. That's

01:15:16.279 --> 01:15:18.399
awesome. I honestly, when you were saying the

01:15:18.399 --> 01:15:19.859
Barbie soundtrack, I thought you were going to

01:15:19.859 --> 01:15:23.500
go to I'm Just Ken. Man, Dance the Night. I'm

01:15:23.500 --> 01:15:26.439
almost tempted to continue down the pop road.

01:15:26.659 --> 01:15:31.020
Uh -oh. But I only have two picks left. And there's

01:15:31.020 --> 01:15:33.500
two albums I need to get in. So I'm going to

01:15:33.500 --> 01:15:37.520
stretch here a little bit. Okay. And I'm going

01:15:37.520 --> 01:15:40.899
to go with the theme of dance. Okay. Only it's

01:15:40.899 --> 01:15:43.939
not the genre of dance. Although you could dance

01:15:43.939 --> 01:15:46.880
to it. So maybe it is. But this would be pop

01:15:46.880 --> 01:15:50.680
punk dance. And here's another band that... dropped

01:15:50.680 --> 01:15:53.319
an album and i don't want to say from out of

01:15:53.319 --> 01:15:56.760
nowhere because they toured this whole year back

01:15:56.760 --> 01:15:59.420
together once again but i'm gonna bring blink

01:15:59.420 --> 01:16:02.659
182 into the conversation okay and we're gonna

01:16:02.659 --> 01:16:05.739
dance the night right into dance with me from

01:16:05.739 --> 01:16:10.260
their 2023 album one more time no i'm sorry i

01:16:10.260 --> 01:16:11.539
don't mean to laugh because it's a great pick

01:16:11.539 --> 01:16:13.779
i'm just remembering how that that song starts

01:16:13.779 --> 01:16:17.380
yes and following dance the night with the intro

01:16:17.380 --> 01:16:22.220
to Wow, that's awesome. Yeah, the way Dance With

01:16:22.220 --> 01:16:25.800
Me starts, I would just say if you are with kids

01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:27.199
in the car, you probably shouldn't have been

01:16:27.199 --> 01:16:29.100
listening to this episode at this point considering

01:16:29.100 --> 01:16:32.060
the F -bombs that have been throughout. But regardless,

01:16:32.260 --> 01:16:34.779
if you're still listening, when you play the

01:16:34.779 --> 01:16:38.180
playlist over at myweeklymixtape .com, I would

01:16:38.180 --> 01:16:40.159
just lower the volume for about the first six

01:16:40.159 --> 01:16:43.079
seconds of the song and then kick it up. Just

01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:47.550
like Youngblood's The Funeral. This song has

01:16:47.550 --> 01:16:51.550
a very Billy Idol -esque punk sound to it. Absolutely,

01:16:51.729 --> 01:16:55.069
yeah. I'm not the biggest fan of Travis Barker's

01:16:55.069 --> 01:16:57.609
production on the album. I feel like it's a little

01:16:57.609 --> 01:17:01.520
overly compressed and very loud. But at the end

01:17:01.520 --> 01:17:04.960
of the day, the songs on this album are amazing.

01:17:05.279 --> 01:17:07.560
I talked about Cactus Pete earlier in the night,

01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:10.079
mentioned one more time. I could have easily

01:17:10.079 --> 01:17:12.279
included that if we were kind of dipping down

01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:15.140
to a slower moment. But coming out of Dance of

01:17:15.140 --> 01:17:18.300
the Night, I couldn't go into that. So Dance

01:17:18.300 --> 01:17:20.979
With Me is one of those songs that you are up

01:17:20.979 --> 01:17:23.380
dancing and singing along. It is one of the most

01:17:23.380 --> 01:17:27.579
infectious Blink -182 choruses maybe ever. And

01:17:27.579 --> 01:17:30.340
I'll say this, Tom's voice has gotten better.

01:17:30.860 --> 01:17:33.720
Yeah. Now that he's back, he's older and it's

01:17:33.720 --> 01:17:36.479
a little more raspy, a little more gravelly and

01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:40.819
a little less nasally kind of nasally where it

01:17:40.819 --> 01:17:44.100
actually fits the music even better than it was

01:17:44.100 --> 01:17:47.739
on the neighborhoods album. And I, I'm happy

01:17:47.739 --> 01:17:49.640
to see them back together. I feel bad for Matt

01:17:49.640 --> 01:17:51.220
Skiba. I think they should have made it maybe

01:17:51.220 --> 01:17:55.939
a four piece, but it is what it is. Blink 182

01:17:55.939 --> 01:17:58.260
is back. And I couldn't not talk about dance

01:17:58.260 --> 01:18:00.600
with me because. I have rocked that song since

01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:02.260
the first time I heard it. I'm like, now that's

01:18:02.260 --> 01:18:04.619
what I'm talking about. Edging is another good

01:18:04.619 --> 01:18:06.760
one that they put out last year that I've played

01:18:06.760 --> 01:18:08.880
throughout the whole year, but Dance With Me,

01:18:08.899 --> 01:18:10.260
the first time I heard it, I'm like, oh yeah,

01:18:10.300 --> 01:18:13.699
that's on my list. Yeah, no, that ole, ole, ole,

01:18:13.779 --> 01:18:16.100
ole, like that's so catchy. Like it is a dance

01:18:16.100 --> 01:18:17.880
tune. Like it's a pop punk tune, but you can

01:18:17.880 --> 01:18:20.840
dance to it for sure. I can see people just bopping

01:18:20.840 --> 01:18:23.079
to it in the shows for sure out in the pit for,

01:18:23.140 --> 01:18:25.409
yeah, absolutely. It's a great album. It's a

01:18:25.409 --> 01:18:28.069
great pick. I agree that Tom DeLonge's vocals

01:18:28.069 --> 01:18:30.649
have matured. And I think he's a better match

01:18:30.649 --> 01:18:34.310
for Mark Hoppus' vocals now. I was always out

01:18:34.310 --> 01:18:37.090
of mind. And I grew up, obviously, in high school

01:18:37.090 --> 01:18:39.289
when Blink -182 hit it big. Loved them back in

01:18:39.289 --> 01:18:41.369
the day. But there was always sort of a weird

01:18:41.369 --> 01:18:43.390
dichotomy between the two vocalists. And now

01:18:43.390 --> 01:18:44.789
that they've gotten older, they've kind of settled

01:18:44.789 --> 01:18:47.470
into a level. And I think you're right. I think

01:18:47.470 --> 01:18:49.649
it's a maturity and an evolution of the music

01:18:49.649 --> 01:18:52.350
that I really appreciate. And it's not a betrayal

01:18:52.350 --> 01:18:54.149
of what made them famous in the first place.

01:18:54.270 --> 01:18:56.670
It's still really fun pop punk. You can get up

01:18:56.670 --> 01:18:59.430
and skank to it and jump around to it and drive

01:18:59.430 --> 01:19:03.050
a shopping cart through a drive -thru at McDonald's

01:19:03.050 --> 01:19:04.850
too or something. All the stupid shit we were

01:19:04.850 --> 01:19:06.189
doing in the 90s when we were kids and whatnot.

01:19:06.390 --> 01:19:09.130
But yeah, it's a great pick. I do agree that

01:19:09.130 --> 01:19:12.130
it's a little overproduced. But I mean, Blink

01:19:12.130 --> 01:19:14.720
-182 was one of those weird bands where... I

01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:17.640
don't think it's a betrayal of their sound to

01:19:17.640 --> 01:19:19.699
kind of a little bit overproduce their albums.

01:19:19.960 --> 01:19:22.500
I have never seen them as sort of like rancid

01:19:22.500 --> 01:19:24.619
or like any of those type of like punk bands

01:19:24.619 --> 01:19:27.699
where the rawness of it and sort of the edginess

01:19:27.699 --> 01:19:30.960
and the shitty recording of it was part of the

01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:33.619
package. The only one that comes even close is

01:19:33.619 --> 01:19:36.119
Cheshire Cat, and that went out on Cargo, which

01:19:36.119 --> 01:19:38.300
was an indie label. So anything from their major

01:19:38.300 --> 01:19:39.859
label on it, I completely get what you're saying.

01:19:40.060 --> 01:19:43.020
Yeah. They are a mainstream pop punk band, and

01:19:43.020 --> 01:19:44.600
I think it's okay for them to be a little bit

01:19:44.600 --> 01:19:47.079
more polished than other bands that sort of skirt

01:19:47.079 --> 01:19:49.380
the same genre. They're not in the same vein.

01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:52.399
I do consider them more like pop punk than like

01:19:52.399 --> 01:19:54.079
punk rock, and I think they've always been that

01:19:54.079 --> 01:19:56.939
way. So the overproduction, a little grating

01:19:56.939 --> 01:19:59.159
at times, a little much at times maybe, but...

01:19:59.560 --> 01:20:01.699
I don't think it's a betrayal of what Blink -182

01:20:01.699 --> 01:20:04.560
has always been. And what they are is not a bad

01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:06.100
thing. I'm not one of those people who are like,

01:20:06.119 --> 01:20:08.359
oh, they're a bunch of effing sellouts. I mean,

01:20:08.380 --> 01:20:11.279
you become a musician to get with girls, to make

01:20:11.279 --> 01:20:13.579
a lot of money, and to tour the country and have

01:20:13.579 --> 01:20:15.260
fun. And that's what they've done their entire

01:20:15.260 --> 01:20:16.899
careers. And I don't begrudge them for that at

01:20:16.899 --> 01:20:21.699
all. And it is a absolute Travis Barker drumming

01:20:21.699 --> 01:20:24.180
masterclass. Oh, absolutely. Some of the songs

01:20:24.180 --> 01:20:27.840
on this new album, I sat there and turned to

01:20:27.840 --> 01:20:30.640
my wife and said, If any other drummer was playing

01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:32.699
on this song, this would be a throwaway track.

01:20:32.939 --> 01:20:35.739
But I said, just listen to the nuances that Travis

01:20:35.739 --> 01:20:38.000
is throwing into this song to make it complex

01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:39.939
and make it interesting and keep your attention.

01:20:40.239 --> 01:20:42.899
Little fills and little hi -hat nuances that

01:20:42.899 --> 01:20:45.520
he's just kind of... And it's so effortless.

01:20:45.619 --> 01:20:48.859
And he makes the most simplistic Blink -182 songs

01:20:48.859 --> 01:20:51.840
amazing. Yeah. And I truly feel that if Travis

01:20:51.840 --> 01:20:54.720
Barker... did not join Blink -182, they would

01:20:54.720 --> 01:20:56.920
not be at the level they are. Well, that's kind

01:20:56.920 --> 01:21:00.180
of the fun irony of Blink -182 is that the drummer

01:21:00.180 --> 01:21:03.560
is by far the best musician in the band. That's

01:21:03.560 --> 01:21:05.899
kind of Blink -182 in a nutshell. The drummer

01:21:05.899 --> 01:21:08.119
is the best musician in the band. They're a bunch

01:21:08.119 --> 01:21:10.560
of guys who just had a blast and had fun just

01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:13.119
messing around their entire careers. And that's

01:21:13.119 --> 01:21:15.439
great. That's awesome. So what are you going

01:21:15.439 --> 01:21:19.100
to come out of Dance With Me and Dance the Night

01:21:19.100 --> 01:21:25.430
With? I'm going to make everybody cry. I'm going

01:21:25.430 --> 01:21:27.850
to bring it down way low. We're going to just

01:21:27.850 --> 01:21:30.310
move away from the dance vibe. We're going to

01:21:30.310 --> 01:21:33.210
get right down to the box of Kleenex and a box

01:21:33.210 --> 01:21:35.430
of chocolates and maybe a nice bubble bath with

01:21:35.430 --> 01:21:37.930
some bath bombs and some candles and whatnot.

01:21:38.250 --> 01:21:41.550
So it is I'm Just Ken. Exactly. No. Oddly enough,

01:21:41.609 --> 01:21:44.369
it is actually from the Barbie album once again.

01:21:44.489 --> 01:21:48.149
And I didn't plan this. But I mean, holy crap.

01:21:49.050 --> 01:21:51.149
billy eilish like anytime billy eilish releases

01:21:51.149 --> 01:21:53.210
anything it's automatically going to be one of

01:21:53.210 --> 01:21:55.689
the best songs of the year she's had a quiet

01:21:55.689 --> 01:21:57.630
year aside from being a part of this massive

01:21:57.630 --> 01:21:59.590
soundtrack which was tied to this massive movie

01:21:59.590 --> 01:22:02.829
the track is what was i made for and it's beautiful

01:22:02.829 --> 01:22:06.069
and haunting and gorgeous and amazing and here's

01:22:06.069 --> 01:22:08.670
the thing is greta gerwig makes an existential

01:22:08.670 --> 01:22:13.890
comedy about the plastic doll. Everybody wants

01:22:13.890 --> 01:22:15.689
to work with her. She's got this amazing talent,

01:22:15.750 --> 01:22:17.949
both in front of and behind the camera. And the

01:22:17.949 --> 01:22:19.590
musicians who jumped on board to be a part of

01:22:19.590 --> 01:22:21.970
the soundtrack was no exception. Billie Eilish

01:22:21.970 --> 01:22:23.649
is one of the best musicians and best singers

01:22:23.649 --> 01:22:25.470
on the planet right now. She's one of the most

01:22:25.470 --> 01:22:29.090
nuanced and talented and layered and mature beyond

01:22:29.090 --> 01:22:31.989
her years. And this song is all of that. For

01:22:31.989 --> 01:22:34.909
a song that was made for a comedy, this song

01:22:34.909 --> 01:22:37.729
does not need to be this good. Billie Eilish

01:22:37.729 --> 01:22:40.550
always knows the assignment. And she doesn't

01:22:40.550 --> 01:22:42.750
shoot for the A+. She shoots for beyond that.

01:22:42.869 --> 01:22:45.170
She's going for extra credit. She's going for

01:22:45.170 --> 01:22:48.609
the 4 .2 GPA. You ask her to write a Bond song,

01:22:48.810 --> 01:22:50.789
and she's going to be the best part of that Bond

01:22:50.789 --> 01:22:53.930
movie. It's just incredible. This track is sad

01:22:53.930 --> 01:22:56.710
and tragic and beautiful and haunting and wonderful

01:22:56.710 --> 01:22:59.949
and just displays maturity beyond her years.

01:23:00.189 --> 01:23:02.130
I think she's probably half my age, and she's

01:23:02.130 --> 01:23:04.460
probably... Twice as world traveled and more

01:23:04.460 --> 01:23:07.880
mature and intelligent than I am. And this song

01:23:07.880 --> 01:23:10.520
is wonderful. And it's sad. And it's about thinking

01:23:10.520 --> 01:23:12.880
you knew your place in this world and having

01:23:12.880 --> 01:23:15.079
that carpet ripped out from underneath your feet

01:23:15.079 --> 01:23:17.199
and free falling and not knowing what to do next.

01:23:17.619 --> 01:23:19.539
And there's a line in the song that sticks with

01:23:19.539 --> 01:23:22.539
me. And it's, I'm sad again. Don't tell my boyfriend.

01:23:22.699 --> 01:23:24.960
It's not what he's made for. And up to that point,

01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:27.220
the entire song is about what is she made for?

01:23:27.300 --> 01:23:30.340
Like, why is she here? And the fact that everything

01:23:30.340 --> 01:23:32.699
she's... Obviously, the character that she's

01:23:32.699 --> 01:23:34.920
writing about in the song, it's not necessarily

01:23:34.920 --> 01:23:38.439
her herself and her life experiences. But the

01:23:38.439 --> 01:23:40.899
fact that in that one line, the song shifts from,

01:23:40.960 --> 01:23:43.199
what was I made for? What am I doing? I used

01:23:43.199 --> 01:23:44.859
to be happy. I don't remember how to be happy.

01:23:45.239 --> 01:23:47.399
That one line is like a realization that everything

01:23:47.399 --> 01:23:49.810
that is... built up around her in this life,

01:23:49.989 --> 01:23:52.569
whoever's speaking in terms of being the character

01:23:52.569 --> 01:23:55.390
in the song, is realizing that there's no stability

01:23:55.390 --> 01:23:58.090
anywhere. The boyfriend doesn't know how to handle

01:23:58.090 --> 01:23:59.569
somebody who isn't happy all the time because

01:23:59.569 --> 01:24:01.829
this person has pretended to be happy their entire

01:24:01.829 --> 01:24:05.229
life and can't do it anymore. And it's just struggling

01:24:05.229 --> 01:24:06.970
to figure out what their place is in the world,

01:24:07.010 --> 01:24:09.149
what they're supposed to be doing. And do they

01:24:09.149 --> 01:24:11.350
want to try and recapture that happiness and

01:24:11.350 --> 01:24:12.989
go along with what they've been doing their entire

01:24:12.989 --> 01:24:15.850
lives? Or do they want to embrace this sadness

01:24:15.850 --> 01:24:17.869
and follow it through and figure out who they

01:24:17.869 --> 01:24:20.510
really are? And holy shit, this is a song written

01:24:20.510 --> 01:24:23.149
for a Barbie movie. And I know the movie is about

01:24:23.149 --> 01:24:25.789
existentialism and self -discovery and whatnot.

01:24:25.989 --> 01:24:29.149
But holy crap, Billie Eilish, please don't ever

01:24:29.149 --> 01:24:32.010
stop doing 210 % at all times. You're incredible.

01:24:32.839 --> 01:24:36.460
amazing track i obviously i mean you broke the

01:24:36.460 --> 01:24:39.279
rule of pulling two from the same album however

01:24:39.279 --> 01:24:41.899
it's different artists they were released separately

01:24:41.899 --> 01:24:44.819
as singles so i allowed myself that loophole

01:24:44.819 --> 01:24:48.619
i will give you the bravo on the loophole i love

01:24:48.619 --> 01:24:51.640
it um i honestly was a little disappointed you

01:24:51.640 --> 01:24:55.800
didn't go with i'm just ken because but honestly

01:24:56.439 --> 01:24:58.819
Coming out of Billie Eilish's What Was I Made

01:24:58.819 --> 01:25:01.140
For, because I think you basically said everything

01:25:01.140 --> 01:25:03.319
that needs to be said about that song so perfectly

01:25:03.319 --> 01:25:05.619
that I don't know what I would add to it. You

01:25:05.619 --> 01:25:08.939
hit the nail on the head. There's two songs left.

01:25:08.979 --> 01:25:12.119
We each have one. And I have two songs that I

01:25:12.119 --> 01:25:16.619
want to put in this spot. And I'm going to gamble

01:25:16.619 --> 01:25:21.640
and go with one that I didn't plan on closing

01:25:21.640 --> 01:25:26.079
with. in hopes that you'll close with the other

01:25:26.079 --> 01:25:28.760
song that I'm holding in my pocket. Okay. No

01:25:28.760 --> 01:25:31.300
pressure. You have no idea what that song is,

01:25:31.380 --> 01:25:33.979
but... Probably not. I mean, I've had my final

01:25:33.979 --> 01:25:37.420
song ready for... This is the one song I'm not

01:25:37.420 --> 01:25:40.420
just riffing on. This is the one song... When

01:25:40.420 --> 01:25:42.699
you approached me about doing the best of 2023,

01:25:42.939 --> 01:25:44.520
I was like, okay, I got to end with this one.

01:25:44.579 --> 01:25:47.319
I have to. Okay, so it's I'm Just Ken. So let

01:25:47.319 --> 01:25:50.680
me think of how I'm going to... No, but coming

01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:52.960
out of the serious vibe that you were talking

01:25:52.960 --> 01:25:56.319
about in what was I made for very melancholy.

01:25:56.319 --> 01:25:58.819
I want to think I'm going to hone in on that

01:25:58.819 --> 01:26:03.060
and I want to bring us to a bigger place to close

01:26:03.060 --> 01:26:06.020
out. And I think the only way we could do that

01:26:06.020 --> 01:26:10.319
is by going with a song. That's a touch over

01:26:10.319 --> 01:26:15.399
10 minutes of just heartbreak and power and emotion

01:26:15.399 --> 01:26:20.270
all rolled up in one. One of the hardest albums

01:26:20.270 --> 01:26:22.829
for me to listen to for the year. I mean, the

01:26:22.829 --> 01:26:25.050
lyrics on this album moved me to tears several

01:26:25.050 --> 01:26:28.229
times during the listen. And I love this band

01:26:28.229 --> 01:26:31.529
so much. And I don't know if I'll be able to

01:26:31.529 --> 01:26:33.449
go back and listen to this album over and over

01:26:33.449 --> 01:26:38.109
again because it just hits too hard. And obviously

01:26:38.109 --> 01:26:42.739
the loss of Taylor Hawkins. David Grohl's mother

01:26:42.739 --> 01:26:45.020
shine through on this track, but I am bringing

01:26:45.020 --> 01:26:47.720
in the Foo Fighters from their album. But here

01:26:47.720 --> 01:26:50.880
we are. I'm going with the teacher. The ending

01:26:50.880 --> 01:26:52.899
of that song where he just yells out goodbye

01:26:52.899 --> 01:26:56.399
and there's all this massive moment. I mean,

01:26:56.439 --> 01:26:59.659
it's just so powerful and so gut wrenching in

01:26:59.659 --> 01:27:02.479
the film that they have on YouTube is just so

01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:06.020
emotional. I know this is kind of bringing things

01:27:06.020 --> 01:27:08.619
a little bit down coming from Billie Eilish,

01:27:08.699 --> 01:27:11.930
but it's also a. big song and it's a song that

01:27:11.930 --> 01:27:14.949
i could foresee the foo fighters playing 10 years

01:27:14.949 --> 01:27:18.229
from now yeah because it's an epic love letter

01:27:18.229 --> 01:27:21.729
to two people that were loved very dearly yeah

01:27:21.729 --> 01:27:25.590
and i can't think of a bigger well i can think

01:27:25.590 --> 01:27:27.590
of one other way and i'm really hoping you're

01:27:27.590 --> 01:27:31.229
you and i are espn or whatever it is on the same

01:27:31.229 --> 01:27:34.250
wavelength here but i am going to follow up billy

01:27:34.250 --> 01:27:36.470
eilish's what was i made for with foo fighters

01:27:36.470 --> 01:27:39.890
the teacher from but here we are That is an awesome

01:27:39.890 --> 01:27:44.170
pick. It's tragic and epic and encompassing and

01:27:44.170 --> 01:27:47.090
so much going on with this track and this album

01:27:47.090 --> 01:27:49.390
in general. Yeah, obviously the passing of Taylor

01:27:49.390 --> 01:27:52.069
Hawkins was a shock and a blow to everybody.

01:27:52.689 --> 01:27:55.189
And that resonates with this entire album. And

01:27:55.189 --> 01:27:57.970
I think this album was needed as catharsis for

01:27:57.970 --> 01:28:00.390
everybody who obviously was involved with the

01:28:00.390 --> 01:28:04.369
band and needed to sort of not move on from,

01:28:04.529 --> 01:28:07.670
but understand and heal from the passing of their

01:28:07.670 --> 01:28:10.770
brother. And you feel that throughout this track.

01:28:10.949 --> 01:28:13.310
What's interesting to me about this track is

01:28:13.310 --> 01:28:16.170
the fact that it almost feels like a full circle

01:28:16.170 --> 01:28:17.890
encompassing of the Foo Fighters discography,

01:28:18.050 --> 01:28:19.930
if that makes sense. It's up to a certain point.

01:28:20.010 --> 01:28:22.189
The very beginning of the track reminds me of

01:28:22.189 --> 01:28:24.529
the title track from In Your Honor. Just so that

01:28:24.529 --> 01:28:27.229
very, very resonating, heavy guitar riff in the

01:28:27.229 --> 01:28:29.409
very beginning. And then it kind of speeds up

01:28:29.409 --> 01:28:31.210
and slows down and speeds up and slows down.

01:28:31.750 --> 01:28:34.409
And it becomes complex and simplistic. And it's

01:28:34.409 --> 01:28:36.630
just this epic sort of rollercoaster ride of

01:28:36.630 --> 01:28:39.739
emotions. And I don't know if Dave Grohl and

01:28:39.739 --> 01:28:42.159
the boys wrote it to be the way I perceived it,

01:28:42.239 --> 01:28:45.739
but it does feel like almost like a fast forwarding

01:28:45.739 --> 01:28:48.760
through several Foo Fighters albums. And maybe

01:28:48.760 --> 01:28:50.279
they did write it that way because it's sort

01:28:50.279 --> 01:28:52.239
of a culmination of all their memories with Taylor

01:28:52.239 --> 01:28:55.119
Hawkins and all the memories they have with him

01:28:55.119 --> 01:28:57.520
and all the music they wrote together up until

01:28:57.520 --> 01:29:00.659
the point where they've got to continue on as

01:29:00.659 --> 01:29:03.680
both people and a family and musicians and try

01:29:03.680 --> 01:29:05.739
and find a way to move on without him being there

01:29:05.739 --> 01:29:08.880
every day. But it's a beautiful track. It's a

01:29:08.880 --> 01:29:10.680
track that is 10 minutes long, but it feels like

01:29:10.680 --> 01:29:12.260
it's three minutes long because there's just

01:29:12.260 --> 01:29:15.899
so much going on. It's so succinct and well -written

01:29:15.899 --> 01:29:18.920
and beautiful that, I mean, I've listened to

01:29:18.920 --> 01:29:20.920
it. That's the one track I go back to over and

01:29:20.920 --> 01:29:22.279
over again from that album, and it's a beautiful

01:29:22.279 --> 01:29:25.500
album. It's a hard album to listen to, but the

01:29:25.500 --> 01:29:28.880
epicness of that song just brings me back over

01:29:28.880 --> 01:29:30.979
and over again because there's just so much going

01:29:30.979 --> 01:29:33.470
on there. And the heart of it is heartbreak and

01:29:33.470 --> 01:29:35.590
sadness and loss and that sort of thing going

01:29:35.590 --> 01:29:39.010
on. But there's also a little bit of hope and

01:29:39.010 --> 01:29:42.270
desire to move on and heal and become better

01:29:42.270 --> 01:29:44.729
and find some sort of understanding and acceptance.

01:29:44.970 --> 01:29:47.689
And I don't think the Foo Fighters get enough

01:29:47.689 --> 01:29:49.810
credit for being able to convey those types of

01:29:49.810 --> 01:29:52.550
emotions in their song. They get a lot of flack

01:29:52.550 --> 01:29:54.289
from people who aren't diehard fans for being

01:29:54.289 --> 01:29:56.989
like dad rock. You know what I mean? But Dave

01:29:56.989 --> 01:29:59.109
Grohl puts himself into every song he writes.

01:29:59.189 --> 01:30:03.050
He doesn't write superfluous surface level rock

01:30:03.050 --> 01:30:05.569
songs. The one thing you can say about Foo Fighters,

01:30:05.609 --> 01:30:08.109
whatever song it is, whether you like them or

01:30:08.109 --> 01:30:10.729
not, is that it's honest and genuine. And it

01:30:10.729 --> 01:30:13.829
comes from a place of life experience. They're

01:30:13.829 --> 01:30:15.970
not just writing lyrics that sound cool or whatever.

01:30:16.109 --> 01:30:17.949
It's shit that Dave Grohl is actually processing

01:30:17.949 --> 01:30:21.289
as he's writing each album. And this track is

01:30:21.289 --> 01:30:23.920
a culmination of that. And it's... tough listen,

01:30:24.000 --> 01:30:25.819
but it's a beautiful listen and it's an honest

01:30:25.819 --> 01:30:29.060
listen. And yeah, I think it follows up from

01:30:29.060 --> 01:30:31.100
Billie Eilish's What Was I Made For brilliantly

01:30:31.100 --> 01:30:33.619
because I'm sure those guys were asking themselves

01:30:33.619 --> 01:30:35.939
the same question. Any one of us at any time

01:30:35.939 --> 01:30:38.300
could depart this mortal coil and leave this

01:30:38.300 --> 01:30:41.359
earth. And what are we here for? What are we

01:30:41.359 --> 01:30:43.060
leaving behind? What are we teaching the people

01:30:43.060 --> 01:30:45.960
that we've been involved in the lives of? And

01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:48.739
what sort of legacy are we leaving? Not all of

01:30:48.739 --> 01:30:51.079
us have the luxury of being a multi -platinum

01:30:51.079 --> 01:30:53.420
musician who has like 20 years of music to leave

01:30:53.420 --> 01:30:57.420
behind as a sort of immortality. But every one

01:30:57.420 --> 01:30:59.960
of us, especially I'm going to turn 40 in a month.

01:31:00.119 --> 01:31:03.020
And I'm all over the place in terms of nostalgia

01:31:03.020 --> 01:31:05.220
and thoughts of like friends and family, both

01:31:05.220 --> 01:31:08.060
current and past and who I'm going to be in the

01:31:08.060 --> 01:31:09.939
future and who I'm growing into because we're

01:31:09.939 --> 01:31:13.600
always growing. But yeah, I mean, life is a process.

01:31:14.960 --> 01:31:17.399
The Foo Fighters have this beautiful knack of

01:31:17.399 --> 01:31:19.899
writing songs that convey the idea that life

01:31:19.899 --> 01:31:22.680
is a process and you're always growing and you

01:31:22.680 --> 01:31:24.760
have to be thinking about the past while also

01:31:24.760 --> 01:31:27.100
thinking about the future. And you can't let

01:31:27.100 --> 01:31:28.960
the one way the other one down. And I think that's

01:31:28.960 --> 01:31:31.500
what this album was. It was looking to the future

01:31:31.500 --> 01:31:34.060
and continuing to write music and continuing

01:31:34.060 --> 01:31:36.819
to do what they love and will enjoy doing for

01:31:36.819 --> 01:31:39.619
the rest of their lives, but also honoring the

01:31:39.619 --> 01:31:41.060
people that came before them, the people that

01:31:41.060 --> 01:31:42.699
they've lost. And it's not just Taylor Hawkins.

01:31:42.800 --> 01:31:45.310
You still see... twinges of nirvana and whatnot

01:31:45.310 --> 01:31:49.010
in foo fighter albums and dave girl doesn't get

01:31:49.010 --> 01:31:51.210
enough credit for and the band in general doesn't

01:31:51.210 --> 01:31:53.069
get enough credit for writing songs that are

01:31:53.069 --> 01:31:58.789
honest and just like a journal basically so yeah

01:31:58.789 --> 01:32:01.310
and i look i'll right now i'm fixated on the

01:32:01.310 --> 01:32:03.510
fact that you're only turning 40 because i just

01:32:03.510 --> 01:32:06.789
i just went into the second half of my 40s so

01:32:07.609 --> 01:32:09.409
I said that I said that my wife, I'm like, well,

01:32:09.470 --> 01:32:12.510
I haven't hit 47 and a half yet, so I won't tell

01:32:12.510 --> 01:32:15.170
people I'm in my late 40s. I could still say

01:32:15.170 --> 01:32:17.729
mid 40s. So I'm kind of jealous. I'm not going

01:32:17.729 --> 01:32:19.710
to lie. But yeah, I'm just going to say I'm in

01:32:19.710 --> 01:32:23.310
my really, really late 30s, really late 30s.

01:32:24.310 --> 01:32:26.670
What I will say about this song is this song

01:32:26.670 --> 01:32:30.729
to me for 2023 fits in more of the time capsule.

01:32:31.520 --> 01:32:34.840
esque nature of this mixtape yeah then it does

01:32:34.840 --> 01:32:38.220
the let's rock out to the songs of 2023 this

01:32:38.220 --> 01:32:41.899
is a song that 20 years from now i want people

01:32:41.899 --> 01:32:43.659
that listen back to this episode to remember

01:32:43.659 --> 01:32:47.760
this song because it's such an important powerful

01:32:47.760 --> 01:32:51.220
statement but it's not the song to jam out with

01:32:51.220 --> 01:32:53.779
your buddies too it's very introspective and

01:32:53.779 --> 01:32:56.680
powerful and emotional so it's kind of a weird

01:32:56.680 --> 01:32:58.939
twist that we're going towards the end of the

01:32:58.939 --> 01:33:01.909
side and i'm Very curious how you're going to

01:33:01.909 --> 01:33:06.310
wrap up all of 2023 in a bow, because if you

01:33:06.310 --> 01:33:08.770
follow up with I'm just Ken, I am deleting the

01:33:08.770 --> 01:33:14.949
rest. So my next pick. No offense, Ryan. Yeah.

01:33:15.010 --> 01:33:17.210
So my next pick is it's off the Barbie album.

01:33:17.670 --> 01:33:23.149
It's Ryan Gosling. No, actually, I mean, this

01:33:23.149 --> 01:33:25.890
for me is an obvious pick. I don't think you

01:33:25.890 --> 01:33:28.229
can close out 2023 without talking about this

01:33:28.229 --> 01:33:31.060
song. It's very much in the same vein of the

01:33:31.060 --> 01:33:33.260
time capsule and reflection and thinking about

01:33:33.260 --> 01:33:36.720
the past and the present and the future and people

01:33:36.720 --> 01:33:40.039
you've lost and just thinking about how you've

01:33:40.039 --> 01:33:41.520
become the person you've become based on the

01:33:41.520 --> 01:33:43.420
people who have sort of populated your life along

01:33:43.420 --> 01:33:46.859
the way. It's the Beatles now and then. Thank

01:33:46.859 --> 01:33:51.920
God. Okay. That was my pick. I was afraid if

01:33:51.920 --> 01:33:55.699
I threw it out at nine. Where would you go from

01:33:55.699 --> 01:33:59.159
there? Right, right. Because really, where? But

01:33:59.159 --> 01:34:01.260
go ahead. I think this is perfect, though, because

01:34:01.260 --> 01:34:04.000
you picking that Foo Fighters song and the meaning

01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:07.739
behind that song and the fact that this is essentially

01:34:07.739 --> 01:34:10.779
being called the last Beatles song ever. For

01:34:10.779 --> 01:34:13.180
now. Yeah, we'll see what happens, Paul McCartney

01:34:13.180 --> 01:34:15.300
and Enrico Starr. Yeah, they're always tooling

01:34:15.300 --> 01:34:18.060
around. But it was originally recorded in 1977.

01:34:18.579 --> 01:34:21.340
It was a demo that they just kind of messed around

01:34:21.340 --> 01:34:24.970
with for a while. And it's kind of sad. And it's

01:34:24.970 --> 01:34:27.470
been approached over the decades as being a project

01:34:27.470 --> 01:34:29.810
that they might come back to. At one point, they

01:34:29.810 --> 01:34:32.489
were actually going to restore it if they could

01:34:32.489 --> 01:34:34.229
and include it as part of the Beatles Anthology

01:34:34.229 --> 01:34:37.609
Project 20 years ago or whatever. 1985, I think.

01:34:37.789 --> 01:34:40.430
But it was a song that they'd recorded in 1977.

01:34:40.789 --> 01:34:43.289
And the demo, it was just garbage. There was

01:34:43.289 --> 01:34:46.189
no way to really do anything with it at the time

01:34:46.189 --> 01:34:50.029
or decades afterwards. But in a weird twist of

01:34:50.029 --> 01:34:53.149
fate... Peter Jackson, the guy who directed the

01:34:53.149 --> 01:34:55.729
Lord of the Rings movies, was working on a Beatles

01:34:55.729 --> 01:34:58.369
documentary, and his company developed technology

01:34:58.369 --> 01:35:02.710
to use machine learning to use, I don't want

01:35:02.710 --> 01:35:04.710
to say AI, because it's not really AI, but use

01:35:04.710 --> 01:35:08.050
systematically a way of extracting Lennon's vocals

01:35:08.050 --> 01:35:10.430
and cleaning them up. So all of a sudden, this

01:35:10.430 --> 01:35:14.130
song that's been threatened to be dug up, but

01:35:14.130 --> 01:35:16.850
has never really come to fruition for 40 years,

01:35:17.029 --> 01:35:20.880
50 years. has now been released in 2023. And

01:35:20.880 --> 01:35:24.380
it's Ledin's original vocals cleaned up. It's

01:35:24.380 --> 01:35:26.739
guitar tracks that George Harrison actually recorded

01:35:26.739 --> 01:35:30.460
in 1995 that have been restored. And it's Paul

01:35:30.460 --> 01:35:33.039
McCartney singing today and Ringo Starr playing

01:35:33.039 --> 01:35:37.239
drums today in a weird sort of time travel reunion

01:35:37.239 --> 01:35:39.779
where the four of them actually got to release

01:35:39.779 --> 01:35:43.239
one final song together. It's haunting because

01:35:43.239 --> 01:35:46.229
of that context. But also the fact that it's

01:35:46.229 --> 01:35:48.329
a really beautiful Beatles song. I know it's

01:35:48.329 --> 01:35:49.970
funny to say like, oh, it's a really beautiful

01:35:49.970 --> 01:35:51.670
Beatles song because all their songs are fucking

01:35:51.670 --> 01:35:55.529
beautiful. But it's a haunting song about recognition

01:35:55.529 --> 01:35:57.670
of people in your life that have helped you along

01:35:57.670 --> 01:36:00.630
the way. It's like, if I make it through, it's

01:36:00.630 --> 01:36:02.789
because of you, you know, like that type of thing.

01:36:02.930 --> 01:36:05.409
And it's an amazing track and it's historic.

01:36:06.579 --> 01:36:08.720
weird at the same time because like you're listening

01:36:08.720 --> 01:36:11.060
to vocals that are like from 1977 that have been

01:36:11.060 --> 01:36:13.800
fixed and repaired and sound really good thanks

01:36:13.800 --> 01:36:15.960
to peter jackson and his engineers for doing

01:36:15.960 --> 01:36:19.760
that and it's a track that has just such a weird

01:36:19.760 --> 01:36:23.779
bizarre history of 40 plus years at one point

01:36:23.779 --> 01:36:26.239
jeff lynn from electric light orchestra was going

01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:28.460
to be a producer on the track and that never

01:36:28.460 --> 01:36:30.920
came through and then they Found a new producer

01:36:30.920 --> 01:36:32.520
to do it who has actually worked with other Beatles

01:36:32.520 --> 01:36:34.239
tracks and restorations and whatnot before then.

01:36:34.560 --> 01:36:37.460
So it's a song that could not have existed until

01:36:37.460 --> 01:36:40.840
today. And it could not have been a culmination

01:36:40.840 --> 01:36:43.760
of the talents of those four musicians who are

01:36:43.760 --> 01:36:46.720
so influential and so iconic to come together

01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:48.720
one more time without the technology we have

01:36:48.720 --> 01:36:52.220
today. And it's the one brilliance and amazing

01:36:52.220 --> 01:36:55.760
and wonderful use of AI that I will allow. I

01:36:55.760 --> 01:36:58.960
was just going to say. People talk about AI all

01:36:58.960 --> 01:37:01.220
the time, and it's been a huge conversation in

01:37:01.220 --> 01:37:04.159
2023. And when I first heard this song, I said,

01:37:04.199 --> 01:37:08.100
okay, I'll allow it. They used it as a tool.

01:37:08.239 --> 01:37:11.880
Yes. They did not say into a computer, AI, create

01:37:11.880 --> 01:37:14.239
us a new Beatles song. Right. Exactly. This was

01:37:14.239 --> 01:37:16.779
written by the Beatles. And yes, it was considered

01:37:16.779 --> 01:37:20.960
a quote unquote throwaway back in 1977. They

01:37:20.960 --> 01:37:23.439
never completed it. Right. The humor I find in

01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:27.199
that is that what was. to John Lennon in 1977,

01:37:27.399 --> 01:37:30.340
a possible throwaway is one of the best songs

01:37:30.340 --> 01:37:34.020
in 2023. Yeah. And not just because of the history

01:37:34.020 --> 01:37:35.840
and the context, like it's a really beautiful

01:37:35.840 --> 01:37:39.039
song. It really is. The fact that they thought

01:37:39.039 --> 01:37:41.579
it wasn't good enough to me is a whole nother

01:37:41.579 --> 01:37:44.699
rabbit hole. I can go down, but this is the type

01:37:44.699 --> 01:37:48.380
of song that it's a moment. The ending of that

01:37:48.380 --> 01:37:53.300
music video just gutted me, but in a peaceful.

01:37:54.199 --> 01:37:58.140
happy way it was like when i was born this cassette

01:37:58.140 --> 01:38:03.619
was just recorded 1977 here we are 46 years later

01:38:03.619 --> 01:38:07.539
and they found a way to finish the job and it's

01:38:07.539 --> 01:38:11.779
done with such love and care yeah and the video

01:38:11.779 --> 01:38:14.159
showing them playing together even though it's

01:38:14.159 --> 01:38:16.800
old footage was so masterfully done by peter

01:38:16.800 --> 01:38:20.239
jackson and again the ending where it just fades

01:38:20.239 --> 01:38:22.180
on the instruments and it's just the instruments

01:38:22.180 --> 01:38:25.939
on stage, was just so poetic. Such a perfect

01:38:25.939 --> 01:38:29.159
exclamation point on the Beatles' legacy. Yeah.

01:38:29.260 --> 01:38:33.880
If you told me January 1st, 2023, that you and

01:38:33.880 --> 01:38:38.199
I would end a Songs of 2023 mixtape with the

01:38:38.199 --> 01:38:41.600
Rolling Stones on side A and the Beatles on side

01:38:41.600 --> 01:38:43.500
B, I would have laughed you out of the room.

01:38:43.560 --> 01:38:47.779
Right? But, like the Foo Fighters album is titled,

01:38:48.380 --> 01:38:51.680
But here we are. Yeah. And I'm all here for it.

01:38:52.039 --> 01:38:56.039
Yeah. Well, that, folks, concludes side B of

01:38:56.039 --> 01:39:00.340
our songs of 2023 mixtape, which consists of

01:39:00.340 --> 01:39:04.000
Metallica's Lux Eterna, JPEG Mafia with Danny

01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:08.020
Brown's Perfect, Jelly Roll's Need a Favor, Sparks'

01:39:08.100 --> 01:39:10.979
Not That Well Defined, Marvelous 3's Growing

01:39:10.979 --> 01:39:14.079
All My Hair Out, Dua Lipa's Dance the Night,

01:39:14.520 --> 01:39:17.859
Blink -182's Dance With Me, Billie Eilish, What

01:39:17.859 --> 01:39:20.539
Was I Made For, Foo Fighters, Hot For Teacher,

01:39:20.760 --> 01:39:24.840
and The Beatles, Now and Then. Head over to myweeklymixtape

01:39:24.840 --> 01:39:27.359
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in

01:39:27.359 --> 01:39:30.260
this mix through the playlist embedded on the

01:39:30.260 --> 01:39:32.739
episode page. Now, normally this would be the

01:39:32.739 --> 01:39:34.279
part of the show where we start winding things

01:39:34.279 --> 01:39:36.880
down, but it's the end of the year episode and

01:39:36.880 --> 01:39:38.659
they always go big or go home, and we're going

01:39:38.659 --> 01:39:41.079
to do the same here. We've talked about all our

01:39:41.079 --> 01:39:43.880
favorite songs of the year. We talked about our

01:39:43.880 --> 01:39:47.930
2022 holdovers. Everyone mentioned there, so

01:39:47.930 --> 01:39:50.689
it's time to mention ours. What is your album

01:39:50.689 --> 01:39:57.989
of the year 2023? Oh, it's the death of Randy

01:39:57.989 --> 01:40:01.539
Fitzsimmons by the hives. It is. It was such

01:40:01.539 --> 01:40:03.579
a surprise. It's such a delight. And they're

01:40:03.579 --> 01:40:05.640
my favorite band. And for them to just drop an

01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:08.380
album randomly with a kick -ass opening single

01:40:08.380 --> 01:40:10.659
and a great video. Oh my God, the video is great.

01:40:10.819 --> 01:40:13.119
It's such a great throwback to Sam Raimi, Evil

01:40:13.119 --> 01:40:15.800
Dead horror movies. And I just felt like I was

01:40:15.800 --> 01:40:17.880
20 years younger listening to this album, discovering

01:40:17.880 --> 01:40:20.460
The Hives for the first time and just completely

01:40:20.460 --> 01:40:23.199
taken back. Like I said, it's a crazy garage

01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:26.659
rock, hard rock song. And I started tearing up

01:40:26.659 --> 01:40:28.670
because... It was like going back in time. It

01:40:28.670 --> 01:40:30.069
was like a time capsule, like a time machine

01:40:30.069 --> 01:40:32.369
for me. It was just amazing. The whole album

01:40:32.369 --> 01:40:35.029
is a banger. It feels like a full culmination

01:40:35.029 --> 01:40:36.890
of their entire discography and them growing

01:40:36.890 --> 01:40:40.069
as musicians, but not moving away from that sound

01:40:40.069 --> 01:40:41.850
at the same time. There are tracks that feel

01:40:41.850 --> 01:40:45.109
like they're from Tyrannosaurus Hives or Vinny

01:40:45.109 --> 01:40:47.909
Vinny Vicious, but updated and more mature and

01:40:47.909 --> 01:40:50.090
more layered because they've grown as musicians

01:40:50.090 --> 01:40:53.289
and they're better musicians now. But yeah, man,

01:40:53.329 --> 01:40:56.890
that album shook me in a great way. And it moves

01:40:56.890 --> 01:40:58.949
me like literally like I can't listen to the

01:40:58.949 --> 01:41:01.010
album without air drumming and air guitaring.

01:41:01.090 --> 01:41:02.909
And I picked up my bass guitar. I learned half

01:41:02.909 --> 01:41:04.569
the songs on the album already. And it's just

01:41:04.569 --> 01:41:07.489
God, it was just it was just such a great surprise

01:41:07.489 --> 01:41:11.289
for this year. Absolutely love the album. Unfortunately,

01:41:11.390 --> 01:41:15.090
it's not my pick. That's fair. But I get it.

01:41:15.090 --> 01:41:17.750
It's up there. It's definitely in my top. I obviously

01:41:17.750 --> 01:41:19.810
had the song picked for my list in my bucket,

01:41:19.869 --> 01:41:22.890
but you kicked us off with it. For me, I have

01:41:22.890 --> 01:41:25.409
to give a quick shout out to three albums because

01:41:25.409 --> 01:41:28.569
my musical tastes are so all over the map. Before

01:41:28.569 --> 01:41:32.350
I pick my album of the year, for country, Chris

01:41:32.350 --> 01:41:35.630
Stapleton's Higher. Nice. Hands down. For rock

01:41:35.630 --> 01:41:39.390
and metal, Metallica's 72 Seasons. And for pop

01:41:39.390 --> 01:41:42.630
and dance, it's Ava Max's Diamonds and Dance

01:41:42.630 --> 01:41:47.350
Floors. But my album of the year, I can't believe

01:41:47.350 --> 01:41:50.380
I'm saying this. The Rolling Stones, Hackney

01:41:50.380 --> 01:41:54.140
Diamonds. Yeah. At the end of the day, here's

01:41:54.140 --> 01:41:57.939
an album that stands up to some of their 70s

01:41:57.939 --> 01:42:02.560
best stuff in 2023. This album features Bite

01:42:02.560 --> 01:42:05.319
Your Head Off, which is the first collaboration

01:42:05.319 --> 01:42:07.760
between the Rolling Stones and a member of the

01:42:07.760 --> 01:42:13.310
Beatles. To me, that. is so amazing because for

01:42:13.310 --> 01:42:16.210
decades it's always been who's better the beatles

01:42:16.210 --> 01:42:18.130
or the rolling stones the beatle or the rolling

01:42:18.130 --> 01:42:20.010
stones the beatles or the rolling stones here

01:42:20.010 --> 01:42:23.409
we are in 2023 we ended our sides with the rolling

01:42:23.409 --> 01:42:27.170
stones and the beatles and this album in no way

01:42:27.170 --> 01:42:30.710
shape or form had any reason to be as good as

01:42:30.710 --> 01:42:33.689
it is i saw andrew watt was producing it i was

01:42:33.689 --> 01:42:37.010
expecting an overproduced pop version of the

01:42:37.010 --> 01:42:39.109
rolling stones and he blew my mind with this

01:42:39.109 --> 01:42:43.539
one And if this is the final Rolling Stones album,

01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:47.159
they went out with pardon the pun on their old

01:42:47.159 --> 01:42:49.460
album, the biggest bang they could possibly go

01:42:49.460 --> 01:42:52.140
out with, because this is up there with some

01:42:52.140 --> 01:42:55.340
of their best ever. So the Rolling Stones Hackney

01:42:55.340 --> 01:42:58.060
Diamonds album of the year would not have thought

01:42:58.060 --> 01:43:00.520
I would be saying that on January 1st for sure.

01:43:00.760 --> 01:43:03.159
Yeah, I agree with it. I love it. It's crazy

01:43:03.159 --> 01:43:05.470
that. They're so legendary and they could so

01:43:05.470 --> 01:43:07.470
easily rest on their laurels and put out a new

01:43:07.470 --> 01:43:09.210
album and just be like, here's a new album. You're

01:43:09.210 --> 01:43:11.569
going to love it regardless. But for it to be

01:43:11.569 --> 01:43:14.949
as goddamn good as it is, like they didn't have

01:43:14.949 --> 01:43:17.210
to put the effort they did into it, but it is

01:43:17.210 --> 01:43:20.229
a really, really good Rolling Stones album. It's

01:43:20.229 --> 01:43:23.350
one of their best albums ever. And the fact that

01:43:23.350 --> 01:43:25.529
they put it out in 2023 at their age when they

01:43:25.529 --> 01:43:27.869
didn't have to, they weren't beholden to put

01:43:27.869 --> 01:43:30.890
forth this effort and did it anyway, just is...

01:43:31.260 --> 01:43:33.119
Honestly, it's a credit to them and their passion

01:43:33.119 --> 01:43:36.579
for what they do. And it's also the last album

01:43:36.579 --> 01:43:39.159
that will feature the core members of the Rolling

01:43:39.159 --> 01:43:41.239
Stones because Charlie Watts is on some of the

01:43:41.239 --> 01:43:43.899
tracks. There's just so many amazing things about

01:43:43.899 --> 01:43:46.579
this album. I can go on and on and on. But instead

01:43:46.579 --> 01:43:48.840
of going on and on and on about that, why don't

01:43:48.840 --> 01:43:51.960
you go on and on and on about Space Castle and

01:43:51.960 --> 01:43:54.840
where the mixtapers can find your amazing YouTube

01:43:54.840 --> 01:43:59.539
channel full of amazing nerd content? Well, thank

01:43:59.539 --> 01:44:02.100
you for calling it amazing. You can find me on

01:44:02.100 --> 01:44:05.060
youtube .com slash at space casual show. Thanks

01:44:05.060 --> 01:44:07.180
again to YouTube for making those new URLs really

01:44:07.180 --> 01:44:10.659
confusing and hard to articulate. It's me in

01:44:10.659 --> 01:44:12.420
front of a green screen out in deep space doing

01:44:12.420 --> 01:44:14.699
all kinds of weird things where I try and host

01:44:14.699 --> 01:44:17.579
a discussion about some pop culture topic that

01:44:17.579 --> 01:44:19.899
I've pulled out of thin air and also tell like

01:44:19.899 --> 01:44:22.560
a zany crazy story at the same time. I have a

01:44:22.560 --> 01:44:24.260
blast doing it. I put out a new episode every

01:44:24.260 --> 01:44:26.020
other week because they take a long time to produce.

01:44:26.750 --> 01:44:29.069
And I hope everybody who's listening takes a

01:44:29.069 --> 01:44:31.050
gander at it and enjoys it and find something

01:44:31.050 --> 01:44:33.189
they like. And we'll come back and check it out

01:44:33.189 --> 01:44:35.649
often because I'm having a blast doing it. And

01:44:35.649 --> 01:44:37.369
one of the most fun things about it has been

01:44:37.369 --> 01:44:39.189
the response to it and the community that's built

01:44:39.189 --> 01:44:41.670
up around it. It's been super, super fun, super

01:44:41.670 --> 01:44:44.430
cool. And thank you, Brian, for letting me plug

01:44:44.430 --> 01:44:47.109
it shamelessly. Of course, it's blast off time,

01:44:47.270 --> 01:44:52.729
man. It's blast. Let's blast off into 2024. That's

01:44:52.729 --> 01:44:56.189
the slogan. It's blast off time. DT, thank you

01:44:56.189 --> 01:44:58.590
so much for joining me on my weekly mixtape.

01:44:58.609 --> 01:45:00.149
Look forward to doing it with you again soon,

01:45:00.229 --> 01:45:03.069
man. Dude, it's always a pleasure to hang out

01:45:03.069 --> 01:45:04.729
with you on your show. I'm so proud of the work

01:45:04.729 --> 01:45:06.850
you're putting into it and the success you're

01:45:06.850 --> 01:45:08.890
having with it. I joked before about you talking

01:45:08.890 --> 01:45:10.869
to some really famous people that I really love

01:45:10.869 --> 01:45:13.829
and respect. Dude, I'm blown away that you are

01:45:13.829 --> 01:45:17.220
continuously growing and exploding. Just I'm

01:45:17.220 --> 01:45:18.899
super proud to know you, super proud to be your

01:45:18.899 --> 01:45:21.340
friend. And I feel like you're slumming it by

01:45:21.340 --> 01:45:25.880
having me on your show. Not at all, man. But

01:45:25.880 --> 01:45:28.460
yeah, it's my absolute pleasure. I will come

01:45:28.460 --> 01:45:30.569
back as many times as you'll have me. Well, thanks

01:45:30.569 --> 01:45:32.850
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