my weekly mixtape is going intergalactic this
is dt carol the host of space castle and you're
listening to my weekly mixtape with brian colburn
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time jesus Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast
that takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me tonight as guest curator is DT Carell,
host of the YouTube program Space Castle. DT,
thank you so much for joining me on the show.
Dude, it is my absolute genuine pleasure. You
know, I love you. I've been dying to do this
show since you kicked it off, so I'm super, super
psyched to be here. Well, I am super, super psyched
to have you on. We had a great time over on Playlist
Wars, and I'm sure tonight's going to be no different.
But I get to start by asking you the same question
I ask all my guests. And DT, what does the word
mixtape mean to you? It means so many different
things, honestly. I mean, there's the obvious
choice where a mixtape is trying to convey a
message using somebody else's poetry. It might
be a girl you're into, or, you know, it's...
Father's Day gift for your dad or something like
that. And you maybe not be able to articulate
those words yourself. So you use songs to do
it. And it might also just be like a vibe you're
trying to go for. I made tons and tons of mixtapes
and CDs in high school and junior high of just
bands that I really enjoyed listening to. And
I would just set it up so I was being my own
DJ and setting up so the vibe would carry me
through a terrible day of school or something
like that. It's just trying to convey emotion
and trying to build ebb and flow with music that
you love. And tonight we are going to try to
build an ebb and flow with the 2000s garage rock
revival scene, which is an interesting topic
in and of itself because the 2000s garage rock
revival was not just garage rock music. There
was a mixture of different. genres that kind
of came together under this garage rock umbrella
to the point that when i posted it out on social
media some people would say i don't know if this
song is considered garage rock however it has
that feel and that was the struggle tonight because
i look at some of the bands on my list and i'm
seeing some punk i'm seeing some indie i'm seeing
some alternative and then bands that are just
classified as garage rock did you have that same
issue Sure. Yeah. So, I mean, the garage rock
revival of the early 2000s, a lot of people also
refer to it as the post -punk revival. And it
was basically a bunch of indie rock bands who
were trying to recapture that sort of grungy,
high energy, like devil may care attitude of
garage rock of the 60s. And that carried over
beyond just like hard rock bands and garage rock
bands as you would traditionally know them. It
was a lot of like punk rock bands. A lot of new
wave bands, which I'm sure we're going to discuss
tonight. I've got a couple. And yeah, it was
more about just that sort of attitude and sort
of recapturing that spirit of what was going
on with music in the 60s. And a lot of different
people from a lot of different walks of life
and a lot of different genres jumped on board.
And that's what makes that whole era of music
like super fun and eclectic and really interesting
to talk about. And what I also think is interesting
about this genre is we are both based out of
the US. However, a lot of people that chimed
in chimed in from all over the world. And garage
rock has different meanings when you go to different
territories around the world. I've got people
that tune in from Australia and the UK, and they're
very curious to hear what bands we bring to the
fold tonight from the American garage rock revival,
because some might be bands that in Australia
aren't considered garage rock. But here in the
US, they are. So I thought that was a real interesting
angle to this. Absolutely. And garage rock wasn't
just American. It was really big in Australia
and Europe at the time, too. I got a couple of
bands I'll talk about as far as the whole European
angle, because I got a cool little anecdote from
my adolescent days. We'll jump into that. But
yeah, it wasn't just America. It was very much
like the Northern Hemisphere and Australia, too.
It was really cool. So what were you looking
for in the songs that you brought to the table
this evening? Pretty much all my favorite bands,
honestly. I am a huge, huge geek and nerd when
it comes to garage rock revival. Honestly, some
of my favorite bands of all time, some of my
current favorite bands are going to be on my
list, and I'm sure some of them are going to
be on your list as well. So yeah, it's a genre
I love talking about. I can talk about ad nauseum.
And if Gomez was here and we were doing Playlist
Wars, I would whip the crap out of both of you
with my list. Absolutely. Oh, boy. Well, unfortunately.
You have to be reliant on what I'm bringing to
the table to make this mixtape something worth
listening to. So hopefully I'm up to the challenge
for this one. I'll carry you if not. But no,
it's co -op. It's not PVP this time around, which
is cool. That's kind of the beauty of this show
is the fact that instead of just bringing the
10 songs that you feel best represent that topic.
We have to kind of bounce off each other and
make a tape slash playlist that somebody listening
would say, you know what? These songs make sense
together. And that, my friend, is the challenge.
Exactly. Exactly. No, it's going to be fun. We're
going to collaborate and tell a story, just like
what a mixtape should be. It's going to be fantastic.
Well, let's get down to business tonight. As
we mentioned, we are talking 2000s garage rock
revival, and we're going to create a playlist,
but we're going to use the old cassette deck
approach. DT is my special guest. We'll begin
side A with his first song choice, and then I'll
add a song that I feel best follows up that choice.
We'll then flip flop choosing songs until we've
mapped out 10 songs for side A. We'll then give
our mixtape a proverbial flip. And we'll map
out Side B, only this time I'll kick things off
with DT choosing second. Our overall goal for
this episode is to craft the best 2000s garage
rock revival mixtape possible through only 20
songs. At the end of the show, you can take our
conversation to the next level by visiting the
episode page at myweeklymixtape .com to give
our final mixtape a listen via the embedded playlist.
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patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape. And
I'd like to give a shout out to a few of the
Patreon mixtapers who chimed in tonight with
what they feel would best kick off a 2000s garage
rock revival mixtape. And I'd like to shout those
out now. Cactus Pete chimed in with Kings of
Leon's fans, adding the asterisk of if that is
considered garage rock revival. And this is exactly
what I'm talking about. Ben from the Too Vague
podcast chimed in with the Hives walk idiot walk.
And Kevin Seeker said to kick off his mix, he
can't go past the White Stripes, Seven Nation
Army, but he would definitely have 10 a .m. automatic
or Have Love Will Travel by the Black Keys in
his mix as well. Excellent. Also, some of the
fellow mixtapers who follow me at My Weekly Mixtape
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and
Spoutable have chimed in with their ideal opening
track. And just to give you a small sample of
those picks, we're talking about The Vines Get
Free. The Strokes, Hard to Explain, The Helicopters,
I'm in the Band, Rooney's Blue Side, The Dandy
Warhols, We Used to Be Friends, The Deadly Snakes,
I Can't Sleep at Night, D4's Get Loose, and The
Black Keys, Your Touch. So DT, with that musical
thought out in the atmosphere, I'm going to officially
press the record button on our mixtape and pass
the mic over to you. Why don't you dive into
what song you're choosing to kick? things off
tonight. First of all, I'm going to need you
to DM me the ads of all those people who chimed
in because those are my people. Those are some
fantastic choices. They really are. I mean, I
feel like the mixtapers brought it and we have
some lofty expectations tonight. Totally. Yeah.
Whoever had that choice of the helicopters, that's
one of my favorite bands ever. So you are in
the family now. Yeah, that is seven rock lists
and he is based out of Australia. Fantastic.
Right on. My first choice of the night to build
this playlist for a garage rock revival is by
a band called Black Rebel Motorcycle Club based
out of San Francisco, California. They had this
fantastic album. It was the first one I heard
by them. Came out in 2007. It's called Baby 81.
It's the first track on the album. And it's Took
Out Alone. Nice start. So you start this track
up. And you're immediately greeted with just
this grungy, heavy, awesome guitar riff that
just kicks the track off. And it just builds
up into this just attitude, this dirty motorcycle
racing, just devil may care attitude. And it
carries out through the entire album. And I've
got a great story because I'd never heard of
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club before seeing them
in concert for the first time. And they opened
for Stone Temple Pilots on their reunion tour
back in the early 2000s. And I'm always open
to like new opening acts and whatnot. I try and
get there earlier for a show and see everybody
and support everybody. up on the stage doing
their thing. And these three people walk out
and there's no smoke. There's just three white
spotlights. They walk out. They don't even say
hi to the crowd. They didn't say, hey, how you
doing, Phoenix? Blah, blah, blah. They just start
playing. And they started off with this song,
Took It Alone. It's a... And it was just 45 minutes
of just pure, dirty, ugly, wonderful, melodic,
fantastic rock and roll. And I was like, holy
crap. Before Stone Temple Pilot comes on, I need
to go to the lobby and grab this CD because I'm
worried the CD is going to sell out because it
was one of the best rock and roll shows I've
ever seen. I was an immediate fan and I've been
a fan ever since. It's almost 20 years now since
I saw them live. And it just blew me away. Their
attitude is great. It's aviator shades and leather
jackets and just no nonsense, no BS. It's just
awesome, dirty rock and roll. And I just adore
it. And I think that's the perfect place to kick
off this Garage Rock revival because that just
sets the tone for the entire attitude of what
we're going to achieve tonight. I absolutely
love it. And I love the nod to Stone Temple Pilots
because throughout the years, Stone Temple Pilots
always seem to bring out bands from the Garage
Rock revival scene with them when they would
go out on tour because another band that I know
we'll be talking about tonight. is one of the
bands I saw with Stone Temple Pilots several
years down the road from when you saw them. Nice,
that's awesome. Now getting back to Black Rebel
Motorcycle Club, this is one of the most underrated
bands of the 2000s because when people think
garage rock, they immediately go to the White
Stripes, Jack White. They're bands like this
that... I don't want to say they're a B -level
band because they're in no way, shape, or form,
but there was other bands that radio seemed to
latch onto, and I don't understand why terrestrial
radio didn't latch onto these guys because they
have such a unique and attention -grabbing sound
that it was very shocking that they're not bigger
than they were. So I absolutely love the pick
that you went to start with, and I'm going to
follow that up, and I'm going to... go with something
that came out in 2003. So right now we are in
the 20th anniversary of this album and this band
just reformed after a little bit of a hiatus.
And to me, this song screams track two, because
I see you started with a vibe. And now I want
to bring in something that's immediately going
to keep that energy level at a 10 and set that
bar being a bass player. I am too. Oh, yeah,
duh. So you're going to appreciate this one.
You start off with the drums, and then you've
just got a simple... And we are heading to Australia.
Well, I guess this means it's going to be no
surprise to you that I'm going with Jet. Are
you going to be my girl from 2003's Get Born?
Hopefully, because this band just reformed to
celebrate 20 years of Get Born. We're going to
get new material out of them because Get Born
is a great album. However, Shine On was a great
album. And Shaka Rock is one of my favorite albums
of the 2000s. It's so fantastically underrated,
at least here in the US. I'm sure overseas it
got a lot more praise than it did. And what a
shame, because that is such a killer track. And
I want to give a shout out to KJ Draven on Twitter,
who also chimed in with this one. I mean, come
on, we're talking garage rock. And as far as
I'm concerned, Jet helped carry that torch. Oh,
absolutely. It's one of the pillars of the garage
rock revival for sure. It's such a catchy tune
that immediately baseline the guitar riff that
kicks in. The vocals are amazing. Jet was one
of those bands that was. Able to shift gears
from Beatles -esque music to ACDC at the drop
of a hat. And it all works, too. Just brilliant.
All right. Now we're throwing it back to you
to what you're going to follow that up with for
track three. Okay. I'm going to cool things down
because that's a pretty hot track. I'm going
to bring it down just a little bit because the
intro of the song is a little bit slow, but it
kicks up into high gear. It's going to be one
of those new wavy type bands that we talked about
in the intro. It is a band that started out in
New York City. They formed in 2000. They've been
touring nonstop and putting out albums forever
since then. They're fantastic. They're amazing
live. It is from an album called It's Blitz from
2009. It's the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Zero. All
right. I love this track. This is another band
that I sort of semi -discovered live. I took
a girlfriend and her little sister back in the
early 2000s to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the
Marquee Theater in St. Pete, Arizona. And I'd
heard the tracks. I'd heard maps and all those
songs. I mean, you couldn't get away from it
at that point. They were another one of those
pillars of the garage rock revival scene. And
they were fun. Like I dug them. Like I wouldn't
change the channel when they came on the radio
and whatnot. But so we got through the opening
acts, which are great. And then they come out
and they start off with this track zero and they
just tear it up. And if this band does not love
touring and playing live, they are the greatest
actors in the world because those three people
get up on stage and it is nothing but smiles
and giggles and dancing and just. having a blast
amongst themselves and with the crowd at the
same time. Karen O is strutting around and doing
all her poses and putting the entire microphone
in her mouth and winking at the crowd. The drummer
is never without a smile on his face. They're
all having a blast. It's incredibly infectious.
It was one of those turning points in my life
where I discovered a brand new band that I loved.
And again, I went up to the lobby and I bought
the CD before the crowd could get there to the
merch table. I bought the CD. We listened to
it on the way home. And I've been a huge, huge
fan ever since. They're just a blast. And again,
it's like the eclecticness of the Garage Rock
revival is the fact that a lot of people are
going to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not Garage
Rock. Totally is. Talking about putting on your
leather and shaking it like a ladder to the sun.
They're totally Garage Rock revival, but they
were another one of those brilliant bands that
was able to meld and merge multiple genres into
something unique and wonderful and enduring.
I love the way you summed it up. I could not
have put it any better. This is one of those
bands that truly carved a piece of the garage
rock revival sound out and melded it with other
areas. And so it's almost a subset of the garage
rock revival. But make no mistake, had that early
2000s garage rock not hit. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
could have leaned fully indie and it still would
have worked. But by adding that garage rock sound
to their mix, I think it set them apart even
more than had it not been there. Yeah, I mean,
they're new wavy and they're indie and whatnot,
but the synth and whatnot just enhances the crunchy
guitars and, you know, that just boundless, endless
attitude that Karen O sings with and the awesome,
fantastic, like polyrhythmic drums that they've
got going on. And yeah, it was just. Just an
awesome alchemy, an awesome chemistry. And it's
awesome to see them live. If you've never seen
them live, I would honestly just 100 % recommend
it. One of the most fun shows I've ever been
to. It's just the energy was incredible. Well,
I also want to tip my hat to you, sir, because
you've said something twice tonight that really
hits my heart. Because you said, I've seen...
This band opened for somebody else and I immediately
went and bought their album. And I was talking
about this on Twitter a few weeks ago and someone
tried to call me out on this notion because I
said, I love going to see opening bands. If there's
10 bands on a bill, I'm going to see all 10 because
I can't tell you how many times I've bought.
CDs of bands I've never heard before just from
seeing them live once. And somebody tried calling
me out saying, well, name three times you did
that. I can name a dozen right now. Exactly.
Some of my closest friends over the years and
some of my favorite bands, my favorite band of
all time, who we won't be discussing here because
they weren't part of the Garage Rock Revival,
but they were an opening band for a punk rock
band I went to see in Arizona. And of all the
seven or eight bands that played on that bill,
that one band just stood out to me. I immediately
went to Zia Records, which is the big indie record
chain in Arizona, and tracked down their album
in the indie section and grabbed it. And then
just started following them on Facebook and internet
and whatnot. Went to shows, became friends with
them. I'm still friends with them like 20 years
to this day. And they're still some of the best
musicians I've ever met. So man, those opening
acts. And that is? They're called Redfield. And
they broke up many years ago. The guitar player
is actually part of another group called Surf
Through Death, which is an incredible death metal
slash stoner metal band. Nice. If you're able,
I would totally look them up on Spotify because
they're just fantastic. But he's an amazing guitar
player. Alfie Lucero, who is the singer and the
bass player for that band, is still somebody
I text with every once in a while. But man, those
opening bands are the people who are holding
it down. They're supporting those big acts. They're
playing like little clubs and bars like their
stadiums because they're trying to get their
name out. And you'll never find bands that are
more passionate and just hungry than those opening
acts. So support them, buy the T -shirt, buy
the album, do everything you can to make sure
those opening bands don't go away because they
are the lifeblood of the music industry and creativity
in general. Amen. And I do want to give a shout
out to, and I hope I'm pronouncing this right,
Ute Zerdheide, who also chimed in with the yeah,
yeah, yes. Only she chimed in with bang. That's
a good track, too. Another great track. Yeah.
So following that up, I'm debating if I want
to lean into the synth or if I want to go back
and pivot away from the synth a little bit. But
I think I'm going to stick with the synth and
I'm going to go with my first curveball of the
night. Because if I didn't know a thing or two
about music, I would think that this next band.
was just a bunch of the members of Green Day
playing some garage rock. When in fact, this
band, Foxborough Hot Tubs, is just the members
of Green Day playing garage rock. And in 2008,
they put out one of my favorite albums of that
year, a little disc called Stop, Drop, and Roll,
which if you saw the movie Get Him to the Greek,
you might know the title track from that movie.
To me, I'm going to go with one that adds a little
bit more synth to the sound. And to me is the
standout track from this fantastic garage rock
offset of Green Day. And it's the song called
Ruby Room. Fun fact, when Green Day is going
to play a surprise show, they book it under the
name Foxborough Hot Tubs. So if you ever see
them playing at a small club in town, make sure
you buy a ticket. That is what I am going to
follow up the yeah, yeah, yeahs with. Foxborough
Hot Tub's Ruby Room. I love the track. I love
the pic. I love the concept of like secret bands.
That's something that I absolutely loved growing
up because, again, growing up in Arizona, I grew
up in the golden age of local music in Arizona
in the early 2000s. And there was a lot of bands
that we would see get signed by major labels
and go off and tour the world and whatnot. And
they'd want to come home and play shows, but
they'd be beholden to the contracts of the record
label. So they would make up a bunch of BS fake
names so they could play the clubs and the bars
and whatnot they used to play when they were
younger. So I love the fact that they do that.
I love the fact that they still do it, which
is really dope. I love the energy of it. Green
Day is always a blast. You can't go wrong with
a pick. And I love the fact that we're kind of
bending the rules a little bit because there's
going to be some more rule bending coming. But
I love it. I think it's a fantastic pick. Yeah.
And Green Day is no secret to the hidden persona
because they also have the network, which is
another version of Green Day. And to me. When
everybody complained about the father of all
MFers Green Day album, I didn't because I said,
oh, Jesus, I know what they're doing here. And
I have a conspiracy theory on it. They had one
album left on their contract. I think in my heart
of hearts that Green Day handed a Foxborough
Hot Tubs album to the label. under the name green
day because if you listen to father of all mfers
after listening to stop drop and roll father
of all mfers makes a lot more sense than if you
listen to it after american idiot i like that
conspiracy theory a lot that makes total sense
wow yeah as soon as i heard that album i'm like
this is foxborough hot tubs 2 under a green day
banner absolutely Dude, I love talking music
with you so much. Like you just get it. You're
the most knowledgeable and just fun people to
talk about music because you've always got these
conspiracy theories and these stories. And you're
like me, like you nerd out about it. And it's
awesome, man. Well, I appreciate that. And now
I am looking to see how you're going to follow
that curveball up with because I know it's a
little odd, but it is garage rock. It is literally
listed on Wikipedia as Green Day's garage rock
album. Yeah. I think I'm going to go with...
It's going to slow things down once again, but
kind of kick it up into high gear as we go along.
And it's a band called The Kills, which if you're
familiar with the realm of Jack White, you know
that Alison Mosshart joined up with him and they
did The Dead Weather and whatnot. But before
that, she was part of a two -piece band called
The Kills. And they were a band that fully embodied
the spirit of garage rock revival, but it was
very, very minimalist, which I think is very
key in a lot of cases to the garage rock scene.
So lots of samples, a lot of drum machine, a
lot of dirty, grungy, gritty guitar, and Alison
Moss Hart's vocals, which are just freaking haunting.
The album came out in 2005. It is called No Wow.
It is the first track and the self -titled track
on the album No Wow. It's excellent. Alison Moss
Hart is every girl I knew was bad for me, but
I had a crush on anyway. She's just got this
vein of danger and excitement in her. And she's
terrifying and mesmerizing at the same time to
watch on stage. And I just loved what they did.
I love the anger and the vengefulness of their
music. And the no holds barred, just, we're going
to go for it. We're going to use a drum machine
on this angry track with Alison Mosshart, just
like ripping the shit out of her voice. I don't
know if I can cuss. I apologize. While she's
singing all the tracks on every album they've
ever done. And it's just a wonderful track. I
think it fully embodies the spirit of Garage
Rock. And if you listen to the track again, I'm
bringing it down. I'm cooling it down, but I'm
going to kick it up in a high gear and set you
up for another high. So that is my next pick.
I think you and Zerhide would be great friends
because she also picked the kills with fried
my little brains. Awesome track to another good
one. This is a great band. Another underrated
something about the garage rock bands besides
the big. There are a lot of underrated bands
that are going to come into this mix. And I think
I'm going to go with one that falls under that
underrated category. And I want to give a first
a shout out to Jason Whistle at the It's Not
That Bad cast who chimed in with this as one
of his picks. And I'm going to go to 2008's album
Jackson Square. I'm going to pick up the pace
a bit and make it a little heavier. A song that
is garage rock, but... bleeds into the hard rock
stoner rock vibe a little bit and i'm gonna go
with arkell's oh the boss is coming great track
it's grimy it's heavy it's aggressive but it
still holds that garage rock i don't want to
use the word simplicity because that's almost
insulting but it's a no frills meat and potatoes
this is what you get sound and i feel like there
was a effort in the garage rock scene to kind
of strip away some of the layers of production
at the beginning of the scene at least and then
a lot of the indie bands kind of stuck with that
where some of the bigger names started toying
with taking production elements and layering
them on top of the garage rock sound which we
will talk about at some point tonight i'm sure
but arkell's oh the boss is coming is that stripped
down you're in a sweaty bar with hundreds of
people crammed in wall to wall and this band
is just melting your face so i'm going with arkell's
oh the boss is coming i think you absolutely
nailed it i think you nailed the spirit of it
and You do get that sense from their music of
being 18 years old again, being in a punk rock
club for the first time with a barbed wire fence
behind the merch table and jumping in your first
circle pit and whatnot. I love the pick. It's
fantastic. We're doing good work here tonight.
This is the tag team effort here. Absolutely.
I'm going to not cool it down. I'm going to kick
it right back up because my next pick is a borderline
hard rock band, but still very much in the...
Bane of Garage Rock, and they came up in that
same scene and whatnot. It is a track from an
album called Leave No Ashes. It came out in 2004,
I believe. It's a band called The Burning Brides,
and the track is Heartful of Black. Holy crap,
this is another opening band that I discovered
at a concert. They opened for Audioslave in 2002.
So no, the album had to have come out in 2001,
2002, because they played all the tracks from
that at that show. It was a three -piece band.
It was a guitar player slash singer. Just an
absolute smoke show of a bass player who could
just freaking wail and a fantastic drummer on
top of that. And it was just, again, like I didn't
know what to expect with the opening bands for
Audioslave. You expect like Tom Morrell to come
out and make noises and Chris Cornell to like
belt his lungs out and whatnot. But this band
comes out and it's just immediately like rolling
guitar riffs and bass riffs that just match the
speed and intensity and just awesome, awesome,
like hard hitting. drum beats at the same time.
And the singer just starts screaming. And it
was just amazing to watch these three people
just put it all out there. They've since broken
up because the lead singer and the bass player
were in a relationship. They had a kid. They
decided to take it back and devote their lives
to the kid and whatnot. But man, the band just
rocked so freaking hard. It was, again, one of
those bands that I saw as an opening act, immediately
bought the CD, fell in love with them. And have
been following them off and on because they don't
do much anymore for the last 20 years. But Heart
Full of Black by Burning Brides on the album
Leave No Ashes. I absolutely love that pick because
you're getting heavier. And when you get heavier,
that hard rock side of me, it makes me smile.
And that's definitely what that song does. And
I want to lean into that a little bit and maybe
a little too much now. Oh, there's no such thing
as too much, man. Yeah, I think I'm going to
go too much. However, this is a band that when
I say the name, a lot of people are going to
go, wait a minute, that's not garage rock. And
for the most part, they're right. However, this
hard rock stoner rock band out of Australia a
second time had a garage rock turn in 2005 with
one song that I feel like coming out of Arkell's
and the Burning Brides actually makes sense.
So I'm going to say the band name. I'll pause
for a second so everybody could yell and get
it out of their system. And then I'll say the
song and then think about it coming out of Arkell's
The Boss is Coming and The Burning Bride's Heartful
of Black. The band is Wolf Mother. Oh, man. The
song, The Joker and the Thief. Love that song.
Oh, I was a little bit worried, but also okay
with if you're going to say like a woman, because
woman's a great tattoo. But The Joker and the
Thief is by far my favorite Wolf Mother song.
I love the pick. I love that album. I love that
band. This was a band that was pigeonholed for
a long time as being like a knockoff of Led Zeppelin.
And people could not have been more wrong. It
was similar, but they did such a different and
unique thing with sort of an homage to what came
before them. And I love Wolf Mother. It's one
of those things where actually in the office,
me and my desk mate. Listen to Wolf Mother all
the time because we both just appreciate the
band so much. They're a blast to listen to. That
is an awesome pick. I'm sorry for interrupting.
I'll let you explain why you made the pick, but
just know that I am fully on board. This is an
awesome choice. Thank you. Because honestly,
if I said woman, I would have smacked myself
because woman is the song that kind of unfortunately
got them that, oh, this is a Led Zeppelin sounding
band. Yeah. Long before Greta Van Fleet came
along and stole that. This is a Zeppelin band
thunder. I don't think any other band has ever
gotten a, this is a Zeppelin sounding band more
than kingdom come did in the late eighties. There
has not been a, wow, this sounds like Led Zeppelin
band more, but there was a while where people
always tried to compare wolf mother to Zeppelin.
And I never heard it. I heard hints of it. but
never all in. And Joker and the Thief is one
of the songs where in the opening, the opening
guitar, it's almost Van Halen -esque with the
doodle -a -doodle -a -doodle -a -doodle. And
that doesn't sound garage rock. So I get where
that would be the curveball. But once the song
kicks in, that to me is rooted in garage rock
and fits so well coming out of... The last two
songs. I completely agree. I love the buildup
in the track. I love it when it kicks into full
gear. The guitar riffs and the bass riffs just
playing off each other, and then the vocals kick
in, and it's garage rock through and through.
I would argue anybody who would say it's not
garage rock. I think it fully embodies the spirit
of garage rock. I think the fact that they were
chasing down that sound of the 60s and 70s just
solidifies and absolutely makes them part of
the garage rock scene as one of the pillars,
honestly. Yeah. Excellent band. All right. Well,
you've got one last song on side A, so let's
hear what you got. Okay. I am going to go with
The Helicopters from Sweden and an album that
came out in 1999. I know it's on the cusp, but
I'm going to allow myself to do it because one,
it's my favorite Helicopters song. Two, it's
my favorite Helicopters album. It's Grande Rock.
The song is The Devil Stole the Beat from the
Lord. Holy crap. It's another one of those just
iconic guitar riffs that kicks in and then follows
in with the rhythm guitar and then the drums
kick in. And then the lead singer just goes,
oh, and you just right at that point, you know,
you're listening to a garage rock song like that's
it. It's just so much fun. I said I was going
to talk about Europe and the whole garage rock
thing. And I came up in the late 90s, early 2000s.
So online gameplay. I'm going to get really nerdy
here, like playing online. like internet games
with your buddies was like a big thing at the
time. And I became really good friends with a
bunch of people across the world, which is really
dope. I ended up becoming really good friends
with this kid named Ole Larsson in Norway. And
he was just all about the crunchy rock and roll
and stuff. And a lot of these bands in the garage
rock revival scene. started out becoming really
big in Europe, whether or not they were American
bands who crossed over to Europe and toured a
bunch, became famous, came over here, or they
were just born, bred and raised in Europe. And
the Helicopters was one of those bands that my
old friend Oli Larson introduced me to and was
like, hey, you guys don't have this in America
yet, but it's going to be pretty big in like
two or three years. And he said the same thing
about like the Strokes and the Flaming Lips and
the Hives, bands I'm sure we're going to talk
about later on tonight. And he was a big part
of me discovering what is now my favorite genre
of music and one of my multiple favorite bands
of all time. So I have awesome, awesome memories
of like, he's at like three o 'clock in the morning.
I'm at like noon on a Saturday. We're about to
play some like Quake or like Jedi Knight Dark
Forces 2 or something stupid. And we're like,
let's let's sync up the helicopters and like
run together and like run the game and like kill
everybody. So besides that, the band is just.
Again, one of those no nonsense, no bullshit,
but still having a really good time on stage
bands. Nothing but wailing guitars. And that's
one of the things I love most about garage rock
is the fact that it's a marriage between the
punk rock sensibilities and attitude that I was
raised on in high school and whatnot. And then
also the hard rock that I inherited from my parents,
the ACDC, the Aerosmith, the Led Zeppelin, all
those types of things. And it was a melding of
all these musicians from what they knew and what
they were raised on. and their own sensibilities
and the music that was coming out in their time
as well. And it's a full embodiment of who I
was at that time in my life. And I think in a
lot of cases, most of my generation was at the
time too. So I got a lot of love for the genre,
a lot of love for the bands. And a lot of these
bands have a lot of sentimental value to me because
of really good friends who introduced me to these
bands, because they were cool and they were in
Europe and they got these bands years before
they became popular in the States. So I was a
cool guy who was like, yeah, the Flaming Lips.
You guys in America, you're going to go ape shit
over this pretty soon. So, yeah, I love it. And
I'm going to allow the little faux pas of 1999,
you know, because, look, the helicopters are
a fantastic band. I think you and seven rock
lists are becoming best friends without knowing
each other here on Twitter, because. He obviously
chimed in, like I said, at the top of the show.
Let's go. I'm in the band. I'm in the band. It's
a great track. He said, these guys are a must.
And I think coming out of it, I'm going to stay
on the other side of the pond here. Okay. And
I'm going to go with a band you just mentioned.
I'm going to go with a little bit more of a controversial
pick to close out Side A. Uh -oh. And we talked
about the fact that Garage Rock was this stripped
down sound. But then some bands tried to. toy
with that stripped down sound and add some layers.
And a little band from Sweden called The Hives
tried that in 2007. Yes. On the Black and White
album. I know this is a controversial album because
this album used pop producers like the Neptunes
and Timbaland and people lost their minds. But
my God, it's a great, great album. It still brings
that unique Hives sound to the table, but just
changes the sound enough. And the song that I'm
going to go with is not even a hit. It's not
a single. It's a deeper cut from the album, but
I love it so, so much. When I went to go see
the Giants beat the New England Patriots for
the Super Bowl. Which time? The first time, the
18 -0. My wife and I flew into Las Vegas and
drove to Phoenix because to fly into Phoenix,
it was $4 ,000 a ticket to fly into Las Vegas.
It was $400 a ticket. So we did that, rented
a car and drove a few hours and made a nice trip
out of it. And one of the albums we listened
to was the hives black and white album. And the
song that jumped out at me on that trip was try
it again. Yes. And when you add the cheerleaders
into the song, as Howlin' Pete Almquist is screaming
the chorus, but you add the cheerleaders behind
it and the driving drumbeat, it's infectious
and it's creative. And on paper, it doesn't sound
like it works. Because when I try to think in
my brain, how many songs really utilized cheerleaders?
Well, I think of Faith No More. Yeah, totally.
Who did Be Aggressive, and then The Hives tried
again. It's a two -song playlist for cheerleaders
and rock music, basically. It just works so,
so well. And I know this is going to be a controversial
pick because a lot of people chimed in with The
Hives songs, but no one chimed in with this one.
But I would love to hear if anybody out there
is a fan of this one. So closing out Side A,
The Hives tried again. So it's not controversial
for me because The Hives might actually be my
favorite band ever. So I feel like you and I
are playing chicken with a couple of bands on
our respective lists. And I was waiting to see
which one of us was going to pull this one out
first. I love the Black and White album. It's
radically different from a lot of what they've
done, a lot of what's in their discography. They
worked with a lot of producers, like you said,
and they were with Pharrell on this album too.
And it was sort of a reinvention for them. And
it was sort of a departure from their hardcore,
more punk rock sensibilities. But I really dig
it. And Try It Again is a great track. I love
the fact that it starts out with the stereo channels
of the rhythm and the lead guitar player. And
then they come together. It's a killer track.
The whole album is so much fun. Tick, Tick, Boom
is one of their best songs ever. That's the one
that kicks the whole album off. I just love that
band so much. They're putting out a new album
in August. The first one in over a decade. And
I literally, I'm not joking. I cried a little
bit when I heard Bogus Operandi for the first
time because it's just that hive's magic. There's
a band that's been around for like almost 30
years now. They started in the 90s. You can actually
go back and listen to their very first album,
Sounds Like Sushi on YouTube. And it's ridiculous
and childish and moronic, but it's so much fun.
But that band has gone through so many evolutions
and so many changes. And I just, I've always
loved the black and white aesthetic. I love the
attitude. Paley Almquist's vocals just match
what they're going for perfectly. Dr. Matt Destruction
is one of my favorite bass players of all time.
He gets to shine on this song. Not a controversial
pick. I will fight anybody who says it's controversial.
Excellent band, excellent album, excellent track.
I think you did a perfect job closing out Side
A. Well, there you have it, folks. Side A of
our 2000s garage rock revival playlist, which
kicked off with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
took out Alone, Jet. Are You Gonna Be My Girl,
Yeah Yeah Yeah's Zero, Foxborough Hot Tub's Ruby
Room, The Kills' No Wow, Arkell's Oh The Boss
Is Coming, The Burning Bride's Heart Full of
Black, Wolf Mother, The Joker and the Thief,
The Helicopters, The Devil Stole the Beat from
the Lord, and The Hives' Try It Again. Head over
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs
we've discussed in this mix. through the playlist
embedded on the episode page. Now, before we
flip our proverbial mixtape over to Side B, DT,
why don't you tell people a little about the
latest Space Castle happenings? Because there's
been a lot of changes over there since the start
of 2023. Yeah, so Space Castle used to be a podcast.
And I would hope that some of the people listening
to this show maybe gave the podcast a listen
a couple times. So I ended up kind of going solo
just because of some scheduling conflicts and
whatnot that happened with my two co -hosts on
the podcast. That happened in October. And I
took a little bit of time off and kind of thought
about what Space Castle kind of should be, what
I love, what I would love to put into something
different. And I decided that being a podcaster
just going solo is kind of boring. Just kind
of me just sitting there in front of a microphone
just yammering about stuff. I come from a background
of sound design and film production and graphic
design. So I was like... I feel like this might
be a YouTube channel. This might be me in front
of a green screen, pretending like I'm in outer
space, like MST3K style, talking about nerdy
stuff. And all the ideas just started flowing,
like the designs and the concept and the color
schemes and whatnot all came together. And I
had a great foundation based on the theme song
that I had co -written for the podcast. It translated
beautifully because the exact feel we were going
for was like Saturday morning cartoon. That matches
the look and tone of the YouTube channel. And
it's me goofing off and talking about nerdy stuff
and creating all sorts of hijinks and whatnot
on top of hopefully informing and educating people
on certain nerdy topics like TV and movies and
video games and that type of stuff. Well, I for
one applaud the production on it is absolutely
fantastic. Thank you. And someone once asked
me, why don't you do my weekly mixtape as a video
program? And my reasoning. to be perfectly blunt,
is because it would have to look like Space Castle.
And I would not have the time or effort to do
that on a weekly basis because as much as I love
podcasting, this is not my full -time career.
I don't have the time either, honestly. Let me
just say that. I'm doing one video every week.
And I think that's just about the limit for me
because... obviously it's you know it's 15 to
20 minute long videos so there's a lot of writing
and then me actually recording and performing
it and also going back and doing all the animations
and the graphics and you know trying to tell
a story with what i've written and performed
but yeah one every other week i think is just
about right for me because it gives me even a
week off in between to kind of like gestate and
think about ideas and once i decide what i want
to talk about usually while i'm out drinking
with friends or something the angle for it will
come out and i'll start writing from there and
figure it out but Dude, it's been so much fun.
And the reception has been phenomenal too. Like
the comments and the subscriptions and the people
who've jumped onto the Patreon even have just
been so wonderful. And it's been a great thing
to see the community that started with the podcast
carry over onto the YouTube and people just like
being like, yeah, dude, I love Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles from 1992. Like that's my favorite
movie. And just like going back and forth and
just bonding with total strangers. That's what
we always wanted to achieve with the podcast
and being able to maintain that same sort of...
with YouTube is great and it's just been incredibly
rewarding. Everybody involved has been such a
sweetheart and I'm going to keep it going for
as long as I possibly can because I love it.
It's authentic. It is informative and it's a
hell of a lot of fun. And the fact that you're
able to get Jeff Goldblum on there week after
week is extremely impressive as well. He was
really hesitant at first, but he's a nice guy
once you get to know him. Pour some whiskey down
his gullet and he's down for anything. All right.
Well, I guess if you don't know what I'm talking
about, you'll have to head over and give the
show a watch. But now we are flipping over to
side B and I'm kicking things off and I'm going
to go with a song. I think I'm going to start
things off. I'm torn between two songs. Do I
want to start off with a little bit of a stranger,
deeper cut, or do I want to start off with one
that everybody's going to know? It's the first
track of side B. It's the B -sides. I think you
can get a little obscure if you want to. I'm
going to go a little obscure. I'm going to do
a little bit of both. I'm going to go with an
album that a lot of people that are fans of this
genre will be familiar with. And that album is
2006's Whatever People Say I Am, That's What
I'm Not. And I'm going to go with the Arctic
Monkeys. However, I'm going to start with my
favorite song ever by that band. And it's not
a single, but it's Red Light Indicates Doors
Are Secured. It is funky. It's got a groove to
it, but it still holds that garage rock vibe,
but it's just a little bit more danceable, so
to speak, where the first side leaned into the
heavier side of garage rock. I started this side
off with something a little bit more upbeat because
the first side is a lot of fun, but it's pretty
heavy and it's got some heft to it. This side,
this is a little more light and airy and it gives
you a new palette to work off of musically. So
starting off side B Arctic monkeys, red light
indicates doors are secured. I love the pick.
I love the track. I'm going to be entirely honest.
The Arctic monkeys, when they first came out
with a band, I kind of wrote off and kind of
didn't really vibe with it first. They, you know,
they came out in the scene and they were playing
danceable music, which I can totally respect.
I'm a huge fan of pop and whatnot, but they kind
of came out with like, you know, their pop collars
and their polos and whatnot. It was like, what
are these guys doing? But that was just me being
ignorant and being closed -minded and still being
somebody who was developing their musical taste
and whatnot. Because once you listen to the album
and you get past the initial aesthetics of what
they were trying to do in the early 2000s, everybody
was goofy as hell in the early 2000s. It's those
garage rock sensibilities with that danceability
and that funkiness and that groove to it. And
they are an immensely fun band to listen to.
And they're a lot of fun live too. I love the
pick. I love the band. Way to kick off Side B,
my friend. And it's a good excuse to mention
that they're one of the bands that kind of used
MySpace to make a name for themselves. And now
people are probably looking up MySpace because
they're going, wait a minute, why does that sound
familiar? Oh, MySpace. Oh, who among us did not
have the glitter letters and the MIDI of the
Star Wars theme on our MySpace page back in the
day? Got people begging for my top eight spaces.
All right, DT, what are you following up Arctic
Monkeys with? All right, I'm kicking it into
high gear. And because you stole the hives from
me, I had, hate to say I told you so, on my list.
I had to delete it. I'm going to steal one from
you. I'm sure you've got on your list. It's a
band from Detroit, Michigan. The album is White
Blood Cells from 2001. The track is Fell in Love
with a Girl from the White Stripes. I think this
is the song that probably introduced the majority
of the world to garage rock and stripped down
rock and roll. And just sort of minimalist rock
and roll with a blues element to it. The video
came out at MTV. It was directed by Michelle
Gondry. It's wonderful. It's the one with Meg
and Jack as Legos, like running around doing
all kinds of goofy stuff. The guitar just kicks
into high gear and the song just does not let
up. Jack White is just wailing. He's probably
not the best singer in the world, but he just
wails whenever he's singing a song. And it doesn't
matter that it's off time. And if you were to
quantize anything from the White Stripes. It'd
probably sound terrible and it would lose all
the heart because the fact of the matter is the
White Stripes is meant to be stripped down. It's
supposed to be minimalist. It's supposed to be
dirty. It's supposed to be crazy and wild and
offbeat and off -key sometimes. Jack White loves
to fight with guitars that are hard to keep in
tune while he's playing live. He likes every
live show to be a struggle. He wants to fight
with it and force everything he's got in him
out into that microphone and through those amps.
I think they are the full embodiment of the garage
rock movement. It's one of my favorite bands
of all time, one of my favorite tracks of all
time. And like I said, you stole the hives from
me, so I'm taking this one. And you are taking
it from a lot of people because on Twitter, any
man with a microphone, Michael Breen, LI sports
fan. D .R. Owens, and Fossil Records all chimed
in with the White Stripes. I had the White Stripes
on my list, obviously. I went with something
a little different, though. I went with the title
track from 2007's Icky Thump. However, Fell in
Love with a Girl is the song that got me into
the White Stripes, so I love the pick. I also
love the fact that Joss Stone covered it. from
the reverse angle and made it a soul song. So
when you listen to the two back to back, you're
like, oh, wow, these two genres are completely
different. They don't make sense. And then you
realize, wait a minute, it's the same effing
song. And that's what I love about it. Because
musically, it was a song that was written to
have that ability to shape shift, so to speak.
And it did it so well. That speaks volumes to
the kind of songwriter that Jack White is. Yeah,
and he's somebody who comes from that exact same
angle where a lot of his music is that sort of
transposition of stuff that he grew up on. He's
a big fan of Sawn House and blues, and a lot
of that stuff that is in the White Stripes comes
from Sawn House recording a song where it's just
him singing and clapping, and that's the entire
song. That incredibly stripped down, just bare
bones, burying your soul for all to see rock
and roll. That's one of the reasons why I love
them so much. Well, I'm going to follow that
up with... A name that is well known to musicians,
however, is not well known to the garage rock
scene because for the most part, he was more
aligned with indie rock, punk rock and singer
songwriter sounds. I think I know who you're
going to say. Are you thinking Butch Walker?
Yeah, right on. Okay, so he originally started
with The Marvelous Three and then he went on
to a solo career, but in 2011... He put out an
album with a band called the black widows and
the album is called the spade and it is a straight
up garage rock album. And the opening track on
that bodegas and blood is an absolutely amazing
track. And if you've ever watched live from Daryl's
house, you need to watch the episode with Butch
Walker because I don't think people realize what
an amazing. producer, songwriter, and musician
this guy is. He did a lot of stuff with Lit.
He's worked with The Wind and the Wave. He's
worked with Green Day. He's worked with pretty
much every band out there ever, ever, ever, ever.
Probably even Led Zeppelin too. Who knows? But
this guy is everywhere. He's an amazing producer.
But Bodegas and Blood showed that he was able
to tap into that garage rock sound and make it
sound as if he had been there the whole time.
It is so authentic and so real. And I could have
picked any song from the album. It's easily my
favorite Butch Walker album. And I don't feel
like his name is thrown around enough, period.
Yeah. And I really wanted to find an avenue to
talk about him. And as soon as I heard we were
doing Garage Rock, I kid you not, this was the
first song on my list. So Butch Walker and the
Black Widows, Bodegas and Blood. Yeah, I love
the track. I love. that screeching sort of guitar
right at the beginning. And then it kind of builds
up into that sort of indie rock style of vocals.
And it's just a solid track. It's great. It's
another one of those examples of garage rock
just being sort of just a melding and just a
blender of all kinds of different genres. Excellent
pick. Definitely somebody who is just not in
the conversation enough because like you said,
he's an amazing musician. He was a great producer
as well. Still out there doing stuff. Yeah, absolutely
great pick. I love it. Fantastic. And now you
get to follow it up with track four. Track four.
Oh, so I got a little of overlap because, you
know, Jack White was such a pillar of the garage
rock revival. Are you going to put in a Jack
White solo album and every other band? Actually,
I'm going to be I'm going to be entirely honest.
I'm not a big fan of Jack White solo stuff. I
appreciate it. It's not really for me, even though
the White Stripes is one of my favorite bands
ever. But there's so much overlap because Jack
White was in like 40 separate different bands
in the 2000s. So my next pick is going to be
another Jack White adjacent song. And it's going
to be from an album called Broken Boy Soldiers,
which came out in 2006. And the track is not
the one you're thinking of. It's actually Level.
Nice. So it's an excellent track. It's fun and
it's riffy and it bounces back and forth between
Jack White and Brendan Benson's vocals. They
kind of do like sort of like a Paul McCartney,
John Lennon duet where they're going back and
forth with the vocals and the guitars at the
same time. The bass riff is super fun to play.
Little Jack Lawrence is just a fantastic bass
player. You should check out his, I might even
talk about his bands at some point. Another band
he was in called the Greenhorns. Excellent bass
player, excellent songwriter. The Raconteurs
were just a phenomenal band. Not only a melding
of genres, but also a melding of multiple different
bands. You had Jack White from the White Stripes.
You had Brendan Benson, who was doing a bunch
of solo stuff at the time. He and Jack White
were roommates before the White Stripes became
big. And then Brendan Benson followed. And then
you've got the drummer and the bass player from
a band called the Green Horns. And they jumped
on as the rhythm section. And it's more complex
because obviously there's more moving pieces
in the White Stripes. But I think it's still
very, very succinctly maintained that garage
rock feel. and they'll go from everything to
like a blues track to like a like a western country
feeling track and i know a lot of people think
about like salute your solution and songs like
that but for me level especially uh there's one
live performance they do on um or it's available
on youtube where they're playing in like a warehouse
to a crowd of people and because they're live
and it's not an album they're able to kind of
improvise and go crazy and whatnot and jack white
and brenda benson just go off with Just this
dueling guitar solo halfway through the song.
It's phenomenal. But it's my favorite song about
the Raconteurs. It's an excellent album. And
it's almost impossible to escape Jack White when
you're talking about garage rock revival. He
was just one of just those mainstays, just the
pillars of it. And one of the people holding
it up and innovating the genre, which is in and
of itself was innovation. And maybe it's a cheat
having the Jack White song in there, but... I
don't think you can discredit Brendan Benson
and the other members of the band for their contributions
in writing those songs and pulling something
out of Jack White that we actually probably didn't
know existed because we were stuck on the White
Stripes for so long. I think you hit the nail
on the head. I had the rock and tours on my list
as well. I had steady as she goes. However, levels,
a fantastic song. I love the fact that you brought
up my one talking point about this band. It was
take garage rock and make it Beatles ask. And
I really feel like that separates them. from
the White Stripes. Now, I also had a Jack White
solo song on my list, the title track from Lazaretto,
but I don't want to go for a Jack White trifecta.
So I'll probably leave that out now. And hearing
that you're not a big fan of his solo stuff,
I'm guessing this will be the last we talk about
him. But following that up, I'm going to go with
another band that, again, definitely leans more
to the indie side of things. However. When a
band is known as an alternative rock indie pop
band, but their breakthrough song, which is one
of, dare I say, the most memorable music videos
of all time, crosses that threshold into garage
rock and does so to the point where you think
this band could have easily made this album again
and again and again with this exact sound and
still been successful, you get OK Go. And I'm
going to go off of 2005's OK No, and I'm going
to go with the Treadmill song, as everybody knows
it. Here it goes again. It is obviously an alternative
indie pop song, but if you listen to the guitar
sound and the tones they use, they have taken
the garage rock sound and melded it into what
they do as a band in this almost one -time -only
moment. And it is a vibe, this song. And it works
so well. But then you look at some of their other,
which again, if you want to go down a rabbit
hole, just look up OK Go Music Videos. Any one
of them will blow your mind. They are so innovative
when it comes to music videos. Probably the best
there's ever been when it comes to music videos.
But this song, to me, works on a musical level.
And I've always wanted to talk about that. music
video because honestly the treadmill thing one
of the most creative videos ever so okay go here
it goes again awesome track again with the opening
guitar riffs in garage rock revival it's just
it's a staple and it's super important they've
got one of the best and i love okay go i love
the fact that they are more than just sort of
like a musical experience they're like an audio
visual, like full body experience. Like their
videos are ridiculous. Like there's a treadmill
video. There's the one where they went up in
an airplane and then they dropped the plane.
So it did the zero G effect and they're like
bouncing around and whatnot. They're super fun.
They are fantastic live and they seem to really
genuinely love their fans and just love what
they're doing. That whole album is excellent.
And you're right. It's like a like a weird sort
of crystallization for them because they're a
band who sort of reinvented themselves multiple
times. And we're very fortunate to get that album
with that whole garage rock vibe because it's
my favorite OK Go album. Same here. And I just
I love the vibe. I love the poppiness, the danciness
to it, the bounciness to it. It's just it makes
you want to get up out of your chair and like
start. It's not ska music, but you almost want
to like skank to it. It's just got that bouncy
sort of like let's go for a jog type vibe to
it. And it's an excellent pick. One that I wouldn't
have if I didn't have them on my list because
it's not one of those bands I considered. But
since you brought it up and especially that album
and that track in particular, it just it fits
perfectly. It's brilliant. It's one of those
bands that normally would not be considered a
garage rock band. But if you listen to this playlist
in its entirety, you're going to hear why this
song makes sense. And that's what I love about
this genre, because garage rock might as well
be called the gray genre because it's a lot of
gray area. Yeah. I love the pick. It's excellent.
Well done, sir. Well, throwing it back to you
for track six. We got five more to go here. All
right. I'm going to slow it down again, and I'm
going to go a little out of left field, and I'm
going to go out of Japan, actually. My next pick
for my next track is a song called Thank You,
My Twilight. It's also the self -titled track
from the album that came out in 2002 by a Japanese
band called The Pillows. So a lot of nerds out
there are probably going to recognize him as
the band that did the music for the anime FLCL
or FLCL. I actually discovered them before the
anime came out because they were sort of like
a garage rock revival band based out of Japan,
which you didn't see a whole lot of. You see
a lot of lo -fi garage rock bands coming out
of Japan now, but the Pillows were something
of an anomaly at the time. And they still kind
of are. And they have been their entire careers,
where especially this album is very much garage
rock. It's bare bones. It's stripped down. It's
just... crunchy guitars and really really awesome
like bass guitar riffs and whatnot but they also
employed like chiptune and synth and whatnot
to their music and very very little of the lyrics
are in english it's all in japanese because they
became so popular because they composed so much
music for that anime you can find a lot of translations
of their music on the internet but you don't
need to know what the lead singer is saying directly
to understand the vibe and the feel and the spirit
of what he's singing about with each of these
songs. And I think that culminates into Thank
You, My Twilight, which is such a sweet and sad
and melancholy and beautiful song with really
killer guitar riffs and just the drummer just
wailing and this really, really sweet and succinct
chiptune intro. And it's just like, if you can
consider the Ramones as pop, you can consider
the Pillows as garage rock, if that makes sense.
They skirt along sort of almost being adjacent.
The spirit is there. It's just a bunch of just
high energy Japanese dudes just playing their
hearts out, writing incredibly nuanced and wonderful,
but also really simple music at the same time.
And I love the fact that they're super poppy,
but also can like get down to the trenches and
do like some dirty, heavy garage rock stuff.
But yeah, they've been around since like 1989,
I think. But this album came out in 2002. It
was before the anime came out and then the anime
snatched them up and they kind of became synonymous
and like they've toured all the comic cons and
whatnot. But in their own right, this band is
phenomenal. Whether you're a fan of anime or
not. And yeah, I think they absolutely belong
on the definitive list of garage rock revival
bands. I'm going to sum them up in two words.
And I think these two words put together, even
though it sounds a little bit of an oxymoron,
will work. And that is complex simplicity. Totally.
100%. And it's beautiful. Yeah. It really, really,
really works. And I'm going to come out of that
now because you took it down. So I'm going to
bring it up a little bit, but then stop. So I'm
not going to get heavy because we're getting
close to the end here. So we're kind of in that
mid -second set dip. So I like where we are.
So I'm going to go with something that doesn't
even have a lot of electric guitars in it. It's
a little bit more acoustic. It even has a slide
guitar in it. But somehow. Love that. Somehow
this song works. Off the band's 2008 self -titled
album. I'm going to go with the third single
because the first two singles, Free Love and
In One Ear, were released prior but didn't make
a splash. However, Cage the Elephants Ain't No
Rest for the Wicked, it was Splash Mountain in
a musical sense. This song hit everywhere. It
had the garage rock attitude, but almost an acoustic
Americana vibe. So it was, again, blurring the
lines of what garage rock was. And this is the
band that I saw open for Stone Temple Pilots
for their 2010 self -titled tour. When they toured
the first Stone Temple Pilots self -titled album,
which was the only self -titled album with Scott
Weiland on vocals. And this song for me was a
highlight. And I'm not a huge TV person, but
one of my wife and I's favorite shows that we
both agree on is Lucifer. And if you watch the
pilot, this song opens up and closes the pilot
episode of which I felt was a fantastically done
show. Lucifer. I'm going to go with Cage the
Elephant. Ain't no rest for the wicked. Excellent
track. I love the track. I love the band too.
And yeah, you're right. one of those bands that
haven't really employed like like guitar a whole
lot which is unique and awesome and interesting
and fun and uh because i knew friends who are
musicians and i played bass guitar i never bothered
to play actual guitar i kind of looked to cage
the elephant back when i was a kid and be like
hey can we start a band like this maybe because
we don't know anybody who plays guitar really
well so what can we do to like start a band and
kind of get around that but yeah one of those
incredibly innovative bands definitely a pillar
and a mainstay of the garage rock revival in
the 2000s love the pick love the band knocking
out of the park my friend all right you've got
two songs left and i've got one so we gotta really
i know we're playing chicken with some trains
here so i'm i'm assuming the trains are gonna
hit soon maybe uh we'll see i i think we're coming
down to it honestly yeah my next pick is There's
so many bands left on this that I really want
to talk about, but I got to narrow it back down
to two. I think it's going to be... The album
was out of sight, out of mind. And a lot of people
think that the song title is also the same thing
because it's part of the chorus. The song is
actually called Don't Come Knockin'. It's by
the Datsuns. The album was out of sight, out
of mind. It came out in 2004. It's one of those
bands that, again, just embodies that sort of
punk rock, like from the late 90s, early 2000s,
and kind of shifted over into the garage rock
revival. It's just rolling guitar riffs and super
fun bass licks and screaming vocals. And it's
one of those bands that can go from doing a goofy,
silly, really light sort of song into riff heavy
and just going crazy and having a great time.
I think they might have been on a Tony Hawk soundtrack
or two. I'm not sure. But I've loved this band
since they first came out. I think it's an absolute
mainstay of the genre. And I think they're still
making albums today and still rocking it out,
which is awesome. But the Datsuns, off the album,
out of sight, out of mind. The song is called
don't come a knocking. I love it. Great pick.
Love that song coming out of cage, the elephant,
but man, I'm looking at my list and one, two,
three, four, five different bands that have been
talked about on people's chime ins. And we've
only got one pick each. So I'm just going to
throw the band names out there because all five
of these bands have been mentioned heavily in
the pre -show prep. And that would be the Black
Keys, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Leon, The Strokes,
and The Vines. The New Yorker in me. wants to
go with the Strokes. Sure. Julian Casablancas
is an awesome, unique voice. They were honestly
one of the bands that, along with the White Stripes,
really sort of kicked off the Garage Rock Revival
whole thing. So, yeah, the Strokes were massive
when they came out. It was insane. They really,
really were. However, as much as I love the Strokes,
I'm actually going to go with the Vines for my
last pick of the night, and I'm not going to
go with Get Free. Oh. I'm going to go with 2004's
Winning Days and I'm going to go with Ride because
I want to bring that touch of 90s alternative
grunge into the garage rock sound because when
you mix those two together on paper, that doesn't
sound like it would work. But oh my God, did
they pull it off flawlessly. And it sounds like
the song was released in 1993. Yet it came out
a decade later and it worked for both the garage
rock sound and that. I don't want to leave the
nineties kid inside of me. And it really hit
in two different areas. And I know people are
going to be mad that I veered away from get free,
but the music video for ride is so much fun.
It's just such a groove. It's such a vibe. And
the vines are. Again, one of those underrated
bands. I know everyone immediately goes to Get
Free, but there's so much beyond that if you
dig deeper. And I want people to dig deeper.
So I'm going to go with Ride, which, again, was
a song that people are familiar with. It was
a video. It was a single. But it's not the first
song that comes to mind. But for me, it is. So
I'm closing out my portion of this list with
Divine's Ride. No disrespect to any of the other
bands that I mentioned leading up to that, though.
No, yeah. I prefer Ride to Get Free, honestly.
I thought Get Free was a dope track. It was super
heavy. Again, it was a lot of people's introduction
to garage rock revival. It kind of got a little
overplayed, I think. And I think Ride has the
better guitar riff motif. I think it's got the
better chorus. It's just so much fun to roll
down the windows and sing along with. It's great.
It's a lot of fun. The band itself was kind of
divisive because they were kind of known for...
putting out really good albums and then doing
really really terrible live shows but that was
kind of you know it kind of came along with the
garage rock revival scene where that was kind
of a crap shoot like you might see a band on
a really good night and see an amazing show and
other nights they might just have you know their
heads firmly that don't give a crap sort of mindset
and you'd get like a crappy show out of the vines
like a lot of people still hate that band to
this day i still think they're a lot of fun I
get the attitude. I would be one of those people
to be pissed off if I paid to see them live on
a bad night where they just didn't care. But
no, I mean, they were very, very important to
not just the garage rock revival scene, but just
music in the early 2000s as well. I mean, you
couldn't get away from them. They were massive
for a pretty long stretch of time. They were
a lot of fun. Just great guitars, great vocals,
great drums. I love the dual vocals, the back
and forth with the choruses and the pre -choruses
and whatnot. Really, really strong songwriting
and just oozing with attitude. It was great.
And some great harmonies as well, at least in
Ride. The harmonies were perfect for that song.
And again, it had that 90s grunge tinge to it,
which is a little different than all the songs
we've talked about. Because when we talk about
garage rock, you think... white stripes and you
think that sound i mean that was the image i
used to kind of tease the episode and it put
everybody in that frame of mind but if you weave
through this playlist that we've crafted throughout
the whole night tonight there's a lot of different
elements that touch in and out of garage rock
and i think the toughest challenge is going to
you tonight because you have to put the exclamation
point on this what i think is an amazing 2000s
garage rock mixtape. So DT, the floor is yours.
How are you closing out the evening? So I think
it's going to be one of those songs where people
are probably not going to know the name right
off the bat, but they're going to know the song
right off the bat when they hear it. I think
it's going to make sense why I held on to this
one and why I'm closing out this mixtape because
I think it was quietly one of the most important
bands in the garage rock revival scene. I think
once you hear the track, when you go and listen
to the playlist after Brian gets everything up
online, it's going to make total sense. I think
it's going to bring it all full circle. It's
going to culminate in this. And it's by a band
called The Subways. The album was Young for Eternity.
It came out in 2005. And the track is Rock and
Roll Queen. And it starts out with this awesome
little chunky riff. And then it just slowly builds
up into this badass garage rock revival anthem.
And just, I love... The harmonization and the
vocals between Billy Lunn and Charlotte Cooper.
I love how they play off each other. I think
Charlotte Cooper is one of the most underrated
backup vocalists in all of rock and roll, not
just garage rock. But the track is super fun.
It's one of those things where, like I said,
you're not going to probably know it until you
listen to it. And then when it kicks into the
chorus, you're going to be like, oh, DT is a
goddamn genius. But yeah, Rock and Roll Queen
by The Subways off the album Young For Eternity.
They're from England, by the way. So another
one of those European bands that kind of came
under the radar. One of those bands I was hip
to before they became popular in the States because
I was just cool like that. Look, I love the pick.
I was going back and forth with Samuel Jones,
who's the co -host of the Records and Bands podcast.
I was a guest on recently with his brother Rob
hosting. Him and I were going back and forth
on Instagram. He's out in the UK and he said
he's looking forward to this episode because
he wants to put together a group of. UK garage
rock bands. I'll be very curious to see if he's
standing up cheering right now, listening to
this episode because of that pick. I think it's
a perfect exclamation point to close outside
B, which kicked off with Arctic monkeys. Red
light indicates doors are secured. The white
stripes fell in love with a girl. Butch Walker
and the Black Widows, Bodegas and Blood, The
Rockin' Tours, Level, OK Go, Here It Goes Again,
The Pillows, Thank You My Twilight, Cage the
Elephant, Ain't No Rest for the Wicked, The Datsuns,
Don't Come Knockin', The Vines, Ride, and The
Subways, Rock and Roll Queen. Remember to head
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs
we've discussed in this mix through the playlist
embedded on the episode page. I know there's
some bands we left off. And my question to the
mixtapers out there, what song would you add
to this playlist? Make sure to chime in at my
weekly mixtape on the site, on social media,
or email me. What song would you add to this
Garage Rock mixtape? DT, why don't you let the
mixtapers know where they can find Space Castle
on YouTube and connect with you? I am not kidding
when I say it's one of the best YouTube produced
shows that I've seen in a long time. And I think
I'm going to be telling people six months from
now, I had this guy on the podcast back when.
I appreciate that, man. I hope that comes to
fruition. And that's true. The best place to
find me right now is probably SpaceCastlePod
.com. That's sort of my home in deep space and
on the internet. If you want to go straight for
the YouTube channel, it's YouTube .com forward
slash at SpaceCastlePod. YouTube, you could not
have made that more confusing. Thank you very
much. I love the new ad system. It's wonderful.
You can find me at Space Castle Pod on Twitter
and Instagram and TikTok, actually. So, yeah,
having a lot of fun there, just posting clips
and goofing off and being silly and having a
blast making YouTube videos that hopefully people
are digging. Well, I certainly am. And I thank
you so much for joining me tonight on my weekly
mixtape. This has been a lot of fun. Thank you
for talking music with me again, man. Had a great
time. Dude, it is always my pleasure, man. Like
I said, you are one of the most knowledgeable
people when it comes to music and many other
things that I've ever met. And you're just so
much fun to talk to. You're one of my favorite
people. I love you, man. I will be on anytime,
any place, anywhere, whenever. Just say the word.
Well, we're definitely going to make that happen
because I've got a lot more avenues to dig down
and you are a lot of fun to chat tunes with.
So thank you again. And remember, Mixtapers,
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