WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.540 my weekly mixtape is going intergalactic this 00:00:02.540 --> 00:00:04.559 is dt carol the host of space castle and you're 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:06.839 listening to my weekly mixtape with brian colburn 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:11.039 it's blast off time that was terrible let's do 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:14.919 it it's blast just leave this in it's blast off 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:30.809 time jesus Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast 00:00:30.809 --> 00:00:33.950 that takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:33.950 --> 00:00:36.850 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:37.170 --> 00:00:40.429 Joining me tonight as guest curator is DT Carell, 00:00:40.450 --> 00:00:43.710 host of the YouTube program Space Castle. DT, 00:00:43.810 --> 00:00:45.929 thank you so much for joining me on the show. 00:00:46.109 --> 00:00:48.670 Dude, it is my absolute genuine pleasure. You 00:00:48.670 --> 00:00:50.590 know, I love you. I've been dying to do this 00:00:50.590 --> 00:00:52.450 show since you kicked it off, so I'm super, super 00:00:52.450 --> 00:00:55.079 psyched to be here. Well, I am super, super psyched 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:56.979 to have you on. We had a great time over on Playlist 00:00:56.979 --> 00:00:59.840 Wars, and I'm sure tonight's going to be no different. 00:01:00.500 --> 00:01:03.119 But I get to start by asking you the same question 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:06.260 I ask all my guests. And DT, what does the word 00:01:06.260 --> 00:01:10.319 mixtape mean to you? It means so many different 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.379 things, honestly. I mean, there's the obvious 00:01:12.379 --> 00:01:15.340 choice where a mixtape is trying to convey a 00:01:15.340 --> 00:01:17.659 message using somebody else's poetry. It might 00:01:17.659 --> 00:01:19.879 be a girl you're into, or, you know, it's... 00:01:20.170 --> 00:01:21.969 Father's Day gift for your dad or something like 00:01:21.969 --> 00:01:24.010 that. And you maybe not be able to articulate 00:01:24.010 --> 00:01:26.530 those words yourself. So you use songs to do 00:01:26.530 --> 00:01:30.230 it. And it might also just be like a vibe you're 00:01:30.230 --> 00:01:32.969 trying to go for. I made tons and tons of mixtapes 00:01:32.969 --> 00:01:35.250 and CDs in high school and junior high of just 00:01:35.250 --> 00:01:38.730 bands that I really enjoyed listening to. And 00:01:38.730 --> 00:01:41.489 I would just set it up so I was being my own 00:01:41.489 --> 00:01:43.909 DJ and setting up so the vibe would carry me 00:01:43.909 --> 00:01:45.689 through a terrible day of school or something 00:01:45.689 --> 00:01:48.599 like that. It's just trying to convey emotion 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:50.939 and trying to build ebb and flow with music that 00:01:50.939 --> 00:01:54.180 you love. And tonight we are going to try to 00:01:54.180 --> 00:01:59.420 build an ebb and flow with the 2000s garage rock 00:01:59.420 --> 00:02:03.459 revival scene, which is an interesting topic 00:02:03.459 --> 00:02:08.259 in and of itself because the 2000s garage rock 00:02:08.259 --> 00:02:13.520 revival was not just garage rock music. There 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:17.389 was a mixture of different. genres that kind 00:02:17.389 --> 00:02:20.849 of came together under this garage rock umbrella 00:02:20.849 --> 00:02:23.949 to the point that when i posted it out on social 00:02:23.949 --> 00:02:27.610 media some people would say i don't know if this 00:02:27.610 --> 00:02:32.060 song is considered garage rock however it has 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:35.039 that feel and that was the struggle tonight because 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:37.580 i look at some of the bands on my list and i'm 00:02:37.580 --> 00:02:40.479 seeing some punk i'm seeing some indie i'm seeing 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:43.060 some alternative and then bands that are just 00:02:43.060 --> 00:02:46.560 classified as garage rock did you have that same 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.099 issue Sure. Yeah. So, I mean, the garage rock 00:02:50.099 --> 00:02:52.259 revival of the early 2000s, a lot of people also 00:02:52.259 --> 00:02:55.120 refer to it as the post -punk revival. And it 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.620 was basically a bunch of indie rock bands who 00:02:57.620 --> 00:03:00.900 were trying to recapture that sort of grungy, 00:03:00.900 --> 00:03:03.500 high energy, like devil may care attitude of 00:03:03.500 --> 00:03:05.979 garage rock of the 60s. And that carried over 00:03:05.979 --> 00:03:08.219 beyond just like hard rock bands and garage rock 00:03:08.219 --> 00:03:09.699 bands as you would traditionally know them. It 00:03:09.699 --> 00:03:12.349 was a lot of like punk rock bands. A lot of new 00:03:12.349 --> 00:03:13.930 wave bands, which I'm sure we're going to discuss 00:03:13.930 --> 00:03:16.330 tonight. I've got a couple. And yeah, it was 00:03:16.330 --> 00:03:18.430 more about just that sort of attitude and sort 00:03:18.430 --> 00:03:20.189 of recapturing that spirit of what was going 00:03:20.189 --> 00:03:22.270 on with music in the 60s. And a lot of different 00:03:22.270 --> 00:03:23.949 people from a lot of different walks of life 00:03:23.949 --> 00:03:25.389 and a lot of different genres jumped on board. 00:03:25.629 --> 00:03:27.550 And that's what makes that whole era of music 00:03:27.550 --> 00:03:29.389 like super fun and eclectic and really interesting 00:03:29.389 --> 00:03:31.990 to talk about. And what I also think is interesting 00:03:31.990 --> 00:03:35.569 about this genre is we are both based out of 00:03:35.569 --> 00:03:38.370 the US. However, a lot of people that chimed 00:03:38.370 --> 00:03:41.740 in chimed in from all over the world. And garage 00:03:41.740 --> 00:03:44.219 rock has different meanings when you go to different 00:03:44.219 --> 00:03:46.439 territories around the world. I've got people 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.819 that tune in from Australia and the UK, and they're 00:03:49.819 --> 00:03:52.219 very curious to hear what bands we bring to the 00:03:52.219 --> 00:03:55.120 fold tonight from the American garage rock revival, 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:58.919 because some might be bands that in Australia 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:02.580 aren't considered garage rock. But here in the 00:04:02.580 --> 00:04:04.860 US, they are. So I thought that was a real interesting 00:04:04.860 --> 00:04:07.979 angle to this. Absolutely. And garage rock wasn't 00:04:07.979 --> 00:04:10.199 just American. It was really big in Australia 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:12.460 and Europe at the time, too. I got a couple of 00:04:12.460 --> 00:04:14.419 bands I'll talk about as far as the whole European 00:04:14.419 --> 00:04:16.439 angle, because I got a cool little anecdote from 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.040 my adolescent days. We'll jump into that. But 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:21.000 yeah, it wasn't just America. It was very much 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.379 like the Northern Hemisphere and Australia, too. 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:25.759 It was really cool. So what were you looking 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:27.959 for in the songs that you brought to the table 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.290 this evening? Pretty much all my favorite bands, 00:04:30.430 --> 00:04:34.910 honestly. I am a huge, huge geek and nerd when 00:04:34.910 --> 00:04:37.310 it comes to garage rock revival. Honestly, some 00:04:37.310 --> 00:04:39.389 of my favorite bands of all time, some of my 00:04:39.389 --> 00:04:41.730 current favorite bands are going to be on my 00:04:41.730 --> 00:04:43.050 list, and I'm sure some of them are going to 00:04:43.050 --> 00:04:46.370 be on your list as well. So yeah, it's a genre 00:04:46.370 --> 00:04:48.589 I love talking about. I can talk about ad nauseum. 00:04:49.149 --> 00:04:51.629 And if Gomez was here and we were doing Playlist 00:04:51.629 --> 00:04:53.730 Wars, I would whip the crap out of both of you 00:04:53.730 --> 00:04:56.930 with my list. Absolutely. Oh, boy. Well, unfortunately. 00:04:57.980 --> 00:05:00.639 You have to be reliant on what I'm bringing to 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.639 the table to make this mixtape something worth 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:06.680 listening to. So hopefully I'm up to the challenge 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:09.360 for this one. I'll carry you if not. But no, 00:05:09.420 --> 00:05:12.319 it's co -op. It's not PVP this time around, which 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.180 is cool. That's kind of the beauty of this show 00:05:15.180 --> 00:05:18.480 is the fact that instead of just bringing the 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:22.459 10 songs that you feel best represent that topic. 00:05:23.269 --> 00:05:25.529 We have to kind of bounce off each other and 00:05:25.529 --> 00:05:28.990 make a tape slash playlist that somebody listening 00:05:28.990 --> 00:05:31.870 would say, you know what? These songs make sense 00:05:31.870 --> 00:05:34.970 together. And that, my friend, is the challenge. 00:05:35.750 --> 00:05:38.069 Exactly. Exactly. No, it's going to be fun. We're 00:05:38.069 --> 00:05:40.230 going to collaborate and tell a story, just like 00:05:40.230 --> 00:05:41.790 what a mixtape should be. It's going to be fantastic. 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:44.459 Well, let's get down to business tonight. As 00:05:44.459 --> 00:05:48.379 we mentioned, we are talking 2000s garage rock 00:05:48.379 --> 00:05:51.259 revival, and we're going to create a playlist, 00:05:51.339 --> 00:05:54.139 but we're going to use the old cassette deck 00:05:54.139 --> 00:05:56.759 approach. DT is my special guest. We'll begin 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.240 side A with his first song choice, and then I'll 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.100 add a song that I feel best follows up that choice. 00:06:03.339 --> 00:06:06.199 We'll then flip flop choosing songs until we've 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:09.680 mapped out 10 songs for side A. We'll then give 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.019 our mixtape a proverbial flip. And we'll map 00:06:12.019 --> 00:06:14.399 out Side B, only this time I'll kick things off 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:18.120 with DT choosing second. Our overall goal for 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.639 this episode is to craft the best 2000s garage 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.300 rock revival mixtape possible through only 20 00:06:25.300 --> 00:06:27.720 songs. At the end of the show, you can take our 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.300 conversation to the next level by visiting the 00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:33.540 episode page at myweeklymixtape .com to give 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:36.459 our final mixtape a listen via the embedded playlist. 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.040 And if you like what you're hearing on the show, 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:41.720 please consider becoming a Patreon mixtaper at 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.620 patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape. And 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:47.399 I'd like to give a shout out to a few of the 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.040 Patreon mixtapers who chimed in tonight with 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:54.100 what they feel would best kick off a 2000s garage 00:06:54.100 --> 00:06:57.060 rock revival mixtape. And I'd like to shout those 00:06:57.060 --> 00:07:00.079 out now. Cactus Pete chimed in with Kings of 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.600 Leon's fans, adding the asterisk of if that is 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.379 considered garage rock revival. And this is exactly 00:07:06.379 --> 00:07:09.800 what I'm talking about. Ben from the Too Vague 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.720 podcast chimed in with the Hives walk idiot walk. 00:07:14.060 --> 00:07:17.319 And Kevin Seeker said to kick off his mix, he 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:19.920 can't go past the White Stripes, Seven Nation 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:23.839 Army, but he would definitely have 10 a .m. automatic 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:27.420 or Have Love Will Travel by the Black Keys in 00:07:27.420 --> 00:07:31.459 his mix as well. Excellent. Also, some of the 00:07:31.459 --> 00:07:34.319 fellow mixtapers who follow me at My Weekly Mixtape 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:37.220 on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and 00:07:37.220 --> 00:07:40.220 Spoutable have chimed in with their ideal opening 00:07:40.220 --> 00:07:42.839 track. And just to give you a small sample of 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:46.259 those picks, we're talking about The Vines Get 00:07:46.259 --> 00:07:50.620 Free. The Strokes, Hard to Explain, The Helicopters, 00:07:50.620 --> 00:07:54.459 I'm in the Band, Rooney's Blue Side, The Dandy 00:07:54.459 --> 00:07:57.699 Warhols, We Used to Be Friends, The Deadly Snakes, 00:07:57.740 --> 00:08:01.939 I Can't Sleep at Night, D4's Get Loose, and The 00:08:01.939 --> 00:08:05.759 Black Keys, Your Touch. So DT, with that musical 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.439 thought out in the atmosphere, I'm going to officially 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:11.579 press the record button on our mixtape and pass 00:08:11.579 --> 00:08:13.800 the mic over to you. Why don't you dive into 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:17.279 what song you're choosing to kick? things off 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:19.420 tonight. First of all, I'm going to need you 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:21.480 to DM me the ads of all those people who chimed 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:23.420 in because those are my people. Those are some 00:08:23.420 --> 00:08:25.740 fantastic choices. They really are. I mean, I 00:08:25.740 --> 00:08:27.939 feel like the mixtapers brought it and we have 00:08:27.939 --> 00:08:31.360 some lofty expectations tonight. Totally. Yeah. 00:08:31.620 --> 00:08:33.980 Whoever had that choice of the helicopters, that's 00:08:33.980 --> 00:08:36.440 one of my favorite bands ever. So you are in 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:39.240 the family now. Yeah, that is seven rock lists 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:42.320 and he is based out of Australia. Fantastic. 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.139 Right on. My first choice of the night to build 00:08:45.139 --> 00:08:48.360 this playlist for a garage rock revival is by 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:50.659 a band called Black Rebel Motorcycle Club based 00:08:50.659 --> 00:08:53.480 out of San Francisco, California. They had this 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:55.240 fantastic album. It was the first one I heard 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:58.159 by them. Came out in 2007. It's called Baby 81. 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.820 It's the first track on the album. And it's Took 00:09:01.820 --> 00:09:05.259 Out Alone. Nice start. So you start this track 00:09:05.259 --> 00:09:07.570 up. And you're immediately greeted with just 00:09:07.570 --> 00:09:10.470 this grungy, heavy, awesome guitar riff that 00:09:10.470 --> 00:09:12.549 just kicks the track off. And it just builds 00:09:12.549 --> 00:09:15.710 up into this just attitude, this dirty motorcycle 00:09:15.710 --> 00:09:18.909 racing, just devil may care attitude. And it 00:09:18.909 --> 00:09:20.769 carries out through the entire album. And I've 00:09:20.769 --> 00:09:22.330 got a great story because I'd never heard of 00:09:22.330 --> 00:09:24.490 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club before seeing them 00:09:24.490 --> 00:09:26.570 in concert for the first time. And they opened 00:09:26.570 --> 00:09:28.470 for Stone Temple Pilots on their reunion tour 00:09:28.470 --> 00:09:31.210 back in the early 2000s. And I'm always open 00:09:31.210 --> 00:09:33.029 to like new opening acts and whatnot. I try and 00:09:33.029 --> 00:09:34.590 get there earlier for a show and see everybody 00:09:34.590 --> 00:09:36.200 and support everybody. up on the stage doing 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.679 their thing. And these three people walk out 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:40.820 and there's no smoke. There's just three white 00:09:40.820 --> 00:09:43.179 spotlights. They walk out. They don't even say 00:09:43.179 --> 00:09:44.600 hi to the crowd. They didn't say, hey, how you 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:46.720 doing, Phoenix? Blah, blah, blah. They just start 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:48.720 playing. And they started off with this song, 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:54.080 Took It Alone. It's a... And it was just 45 minutes 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:58.159 of just pure, dirty, ugly, wonderful, melodic, 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.320 fantastic rock and roll. And I was like, holy 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.409 crap. Before Stone Temple Pilot comes on, I need 00:10:04.409 --> 00:10:06.570 to go to the lobby and grab this CD because I'm 00:10:06.570 --> 00:10:07.990 worried the CD is going to sell out because it 00:10:07.990 --> 00:10:10.169 was one of the best rock and roll shows I've 00:10:10.169 --> 00:10:12.409 ever seen. I was an immediate fan and I've been 00:10:12.409 --> 00:10:14.610 a fan ever since. It's almost 20 years now since 00:10:14.610 --> 00:10:17.809 I saw them live. And it just blew me away. Their 00:10:17.809 --> 00:10:20.129 attitude is great. It's aviator shades and leather 00:10:20.129 --> 00:10:23.409 jackets and just no nonsense, no BS. It's just 00:10:23.409 --> 00:10:25.929 awesome, dirty rock and roll. And I just adore 00:10:25.929 --> 00:10:28.269 it. And I think that's the perfect place to kick 00:10:28.269 --> 00:10:30.629 off this Garage Rock revival because that just 00:10:30.629 --> 00:10:32.629 sets the tone for the entire attitude of what 00:10:32.629 --> 00:10:34.629 we're going to achieve tonight. I absolutely 00:10:34.629 --> 00:10:37.350 love it. And I love the nod to Stone Temple Pilots 00:10:37.350 --> 00:10:40.049 because throughout the years, Stone Temple Pilots 00:10:40.049 --> 00:10:45.129 always seem to bring out bands from the Garage 00:10:45.129 --> 00:10:47.570 Rock revival scene with them when they would 00:10:47.570 --> 00:10:50.870 go out on tour because another band that I know 00:10:50.870 --> 00:10:53.399 we'll be talking about tonight. is one of the 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:56.220 bands I saw with Stone Temple Pilots several 00:10:56.220 --> 00:10:59.019 years down the road from when you saw them. Nice, 00:10:59.019 --> 00:11:01.580 that's awesome. Now getting back to Black Rebel 00:11:01.580 --> 00:11:04.759 Motorcycle Club, this is one of the most underrated 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:09.220 bands of the 2000s because when people think 00:11:09.220 --> 00:11:13.639 garage rock, they immediately go to the White 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:17.100 Stripes, Jack White. They're bands like this 00:11:17.100 --> 00:11:19.759 that... I don't want to say they're a B -level 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:21.759 band because they're in no way, shape, or form, 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:24.519 but there was other bands that radio seemed to 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:29.039 latch onto, and I don't understand why terrestrial 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.720 radio didn't latch onto these guys because they 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:36.539 have such a unique and attention -grabbing sound 00:11:36.539 --> 00:11:39.899 that it was very shocking that they're not bigger 00:11:39.899 --> 00:11:42.059 than they were. So I absolutely love the pick 00:11:42.059 --> 00:11:44.120 that you went to start with, and I'm going to 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:47.639 follow that up, and I'm going to... go with something 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:51.679 that came out in 2003. So right now we are in 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:55.320 the 20th anniversary of this album and this band 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:58.840 just reformed after a little bit of a hiatus. 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:04.500 And to me, this song screams track two, because 00:12:04.500 --> 00:12:08.120 I see you started with a vibe. And now I want 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:10.019 to bring in something that's immediately going 00:12:10.019 --> 00:12:14.080 to keep that energy level at a 10 and set that 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.529 bar being a bass player. I am too. Oh, yeah, 00:12:17.590 --> 00:12:19.789 duh. So you're going to appreciate this one. 00:12:19.889 --> 00:12:22.149 You start off with the drums, and then you've 00:12:22.149 --> 00:12:28.470 just got a simple... And we are heading to Australia. 00:12:29.149 --> 00:12:30.990 Well, I guess this means it's going to be no 00:12:30.990 --> 00:12:33.490 surprise to you that I'm going with Jet. Are 00:12:33.490 --> 00:12:36.509 you going to be my girl from 2003's Get Born? 00:12:37.669 --> 00:12:41.230 Hopefully, because this band just reformed to 00:12:41.230 --> 00:12:45.980 celebrate 20 years of Get Born. We're going to 00:12:45.980 --> 00:12:48.440 get new material out of them because Get Born 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:52.279 is a great album. However, Shine On was a great 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.320 album. And Shaka Rock is one of my favorite albums 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:00.700 of the 2000s. It's so fantastically underrated, 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.700 at least here in the US. I'm sure overseas it 00:13:04.700 --> 00:13:07.690 got a lot more praise than it did. And what a 00:13:07.690 --> 00:13:10.090 shame, because that is such a killer track. And 00:13:10.090 --> 00:13:13.210 I want to give a shout out to KJ Draven on Twitter, 00:13:13.309 --> 00:13:16.049 who also chimed in with this one. I mean, come 00:13:16.049 --> 00:13:18.250 on, we're talking garage rock. And as far as 00:13:18.250 --> 00:13:21.490 I'm concerned, Jet helped carry that torch. Oh, 00:13:21.529 --> 00:13:23.230 absolutely. It's one of the pillars of the garage 00:13:23.230 --> 00:13:25.610 rock revival for sure. It's such a catchy tune 00:13:25.610 --> 00:13:28.309 that immediately baseline the guitar riff that 00:13:28.309 --> 00:13:31.210 kicks in. The vocals are amazing. Jet was one 00:13:31.210 --> 00:13:34.039 of those bands that was. Able to shift gears 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:36.740 from Beatles -esque music to ACDC at the drop 00:13:36.740 --> 00:13:39.500 of a hat. And it all works, too. Just brilliant. 00:13:40.100 --> 00:13:42.000 All right. Now we're throwing it back to you 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:43.779 to what you're going to follow that up with for 00:13:43.779 --> 00:13:46.940 track three. Okay. I'm going to cool things down 00:13:46.940 --> 00:13:48.940 because that's a pretty hot track. I'm going 00:13:48.940 --> 00:13:51.480 to bring it down just a little bit because the 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:53.379 intro of the song is a little bit slow, but it 00:13:53.379 --> 00:13:55.379 kicks up into high gear. It's going to be one 00:13:55.379 --> 00:13:57.000 of those new wavy type bands that we talked about 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.639 in the intro. It is a band that started out in 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.039 New York City. They formed in 2000. They've been 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:03.779 touring nonstop and putting out albums forever 00:14:03.779 --> 00:14:06.240 since then. They're fantastic. They're amazing 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.600 live. It is from an album called It's Blitz from 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:13.100 2009. It's the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Zero. All 00:14:13.100 --> 00:14:15.980 right. I love this track. This is another band 00:14:15.980 --> 00:14:19.000 that I sort of semi -discovered live. I took 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:20.779 a girlfriend and her little sister back in the 00:14:20.779 --> 00:14:22.960 early 2000s to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:25.389 Marquee Theater in St. Pete, Arizona. And I'd 00:14:25.389 --> 00:14:27.009 heard the tracks. I'd heard maps and all those 00:14:27.009 --> 00:14:28.450 songs. I mean, you couldn't get away from it 00:14:28.450 --> 00:14:29.669 at that point. They were another one of those 00:14:29.669 --> 00:14:32.389 pillars of the garage rock revival scene. And 00:14:32.389 --> 00:14:34.429 they were fun. Like I dug them. Like I wouldn't 00:14:34.429 --> 00:14:36.289 change the channel when they came on the radio 00:14:36.289 --> 00:14:37.950 and whatnot. But so we got through the opening 00:14:37.950 --> 00:14:39.610 acts, which are great. And then they come out 00:14:39.610 --> 00:14:42.590 and they start off with this track zero and they 00:14:42.590 --> 00:14:45.110 just tear it up. And if this band does not love 00:14:45.110 --> 00:14:46.789 touring and playing live, they are the greatest 00:14:46.789 --> 00:14:48.769 actors in the world because those three people 00:14:48.769 --> 00:14:51.750 get up on stage and it is nothing but smiles 00:14:51.750 --> 00:14:54.379 and giggles and dancing and just. having a blast 00:14:54.379 --> 00:14:55.960 amongst themselves and with the crowd at the 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:58.820 same time. Karen O is strutting around and doing 00:14:58.820 --> 00:15:01.580 all her poses and putting the entire microphone 00:15:01.580 --> 00:15:04.779 in her mouth and winking at the crowd. The drummer 00:15:04.779 --> 00:15:07.460 is never without a smile on his face. They're 00:15:07.460 --> 00:15:09.539 all having a blast. It's incredibly infectious. 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.240 It was one of those turning points in my life 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:14.000 where I discovered a brand new band that I loved. 00:15:14.340 --> 00:15:16.500 And again, I went up to the lobby and I bought 00:15:16.500 --> 00:15:18.440 the CD before the crowd could get there to the 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:20.360 merch table. I bought the CD. We listened to 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:21.879 it on the way home. And I've been a huge, huge 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:25.309 fan ever since. They're just a blast. And again, 00:15:25.629 --> 00:15:28.350 it's like the eclecticness of the Garage Rock 00:15:28.350 --> 00:15:30.230 revival is the fact that a lot of people are 00:15:30.230 --> 00:15:31.590 going to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not Garage 00:15:31.590 --> 00:15:34.690 Rock. Totally is. Talking about putting on your 00:15:34.690 --> 00:15:37.549 leather and shaking it like a ladder to the sun. 00:15:38.129 --> 00:15:40.269 They're totally Garage Rock revival, but they 00:15:40.269 --> 00:15:41.629 were another one of those brilliant bands that 00:15:41.629 --> 00:15:44.769 was able to meld and merge multiple genres into 00:15:44.769 --> 00:15:46.850 something unique and wonderful and enduring. 00:15:47.500 --> 00:15:50.399 I love the way you summed it up. I could not 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.980 have put it any better. This is one of those 00:15:52.980 --> 00:15:58.519 bands that truly carved a piece of the garage 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:03.419 rock revival sound out and melded it with other 00:16:03.419 --> 00:16:07.539 areas. And so it's almost a subset of the garage 00:16:07.539 --> 00:16:11.639 rock revival. But make no mistake, had that early 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:15.399 2000s garage rock not hit. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.539 could have leaned fully indie and it still would 00:16:17.539 --> 00:16:20.700 have worked. But by adding that garage rock sound 00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:24.899 to their mix, I think it set them apart even 00:16:24.899 --> 00:16:28.379 more than had it not been there. Yeah, I mean, 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:30.120 they're new wavy and they're indie and whatnot, 00:16:30.259 --> 00:16:33.139 but the synth and whatnot just enhances the crunchy 00:16:33.139 --> 00:16:36.620 guitars and, you know, that just boundless, endless 00:16:36.620 --> 00:16:39.259 attitude that Karen O sings with and the awesome, 00:16:39.299 --> 00:16:41.620 fantastic, like polyrhythmic drums that they've 00:16:41.620 --> 00:16:44.029 got going on. And yeah, it was just. Just an 00:16:44.029 --> 00:16:47.429 awesome alchemy, an awesome chemistry. And it's 00:16:47.429 --> 00:16:49.149 awesome to see them live. If you've never seen 00:16:49.149 --> 00:16:51.789 them live, I would honestly just 100 % recommend 00:16:51.789 --> 00:16:54.669 it. One of the most fun shows I've ever been 00:16:54.669 --> 00:16:57.570 to. It's just the energy was incredible. Well, 00:16:57.610 --> 00:17:00.730 I also want to tip my hat to you, sir, because 00:17:00.730 --> 00:17:03.750 you've said something twice tonight that really 00:17:03.750 --> 00:17:07.269 hits my heart. Because you said, I've seen... 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:10.420 This band opened for somebody else and I immediately 00:17:10.420 --> 00:17:13.960 went and bought their album. And I was talking 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:16.740 about this on Twitter a few weeks ago and someone 00:17:16.740 --> 00:17:19.880 tried to call me out on this notion because I 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.359 said, I love going to see opening bands. If there's 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.539 10 bands on a bill, I'm going to see all 10 because 00:17:26.539 --> 00:17:28.960 I can't tell you how many times I've bought. 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.400 CDs of bands I've never heard before just from 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:35.180 seeing them live once. And somebody tried calling 00:17:35.180 --> 00:17:37.140 me out saying, well, name three times you did 00:17:37.140 --> 00:17:39.700 that. I can name a dozen right now. Exactly. 00:17:40.099 --> 00:17:42.059 Some of my closest friends over the years and 00:17:42.059 --> 00:17:43.980 some of my favorite bands, my favorite band of 00:17:43.980 --> 00:17:46.339 all time, who we won't be discussing here because 00:17:46.339 --> 00:17:47.640 they weren't part of the Garage Rock Revival, 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:49.619 but they were an opening band for a punk rock 00:17:49.619 --> 00:17:52.220 band I went to see in Arizona. And of all the 00:17:52.220 --> 00:17:53.839 seven or eight bands that played on that bill, 00:17:53.980 --> 00:17:56.240 that one band just stood out to me. I immediately 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:58.700 went to Zia Records, which is the big indie record 00:17:58.700 --> 00:18:01.480 chain in Arizona, and tracked down their album 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:03.579 in the indie section and grabbed it. And then 00:18:03.579 --> 00:18:05.500 just started following them on Facebook and internet 00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:07.839 and whatnot. Went to shows, became friends with 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:09.380 them. I'm still friends with them like 20 years 00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:11.640 to this day. And they're still some of the best 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:14.140 musicians I've ever met. So man, those opening 00:18:14.140 --> 00:18:17.259 acts. And that is? They're called Redfield. And 00:18:17.259 --> 00:18:19.319 they broke up many years ago. The guitar player 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:21.559 is actually part of another group called Surf 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:24.339 Through Death, which is an incredible death metal 00:18:24.339 --> 00:18:27.559 slash stoner metal band. Nice. If you're able, 00:18:27.700 --> 00:18:29.380 I would totally look them up on Spotify because 00:18:29.380 --> 00:18:32.279 they're just fantastic. But he's an amazing guitar 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.740 player. Alfie Lucero, who is the singer and the 00:18:34.740 --> 00:18:36.220 bass player for that band, is still somebody 00:18:36.220 --> 00:18:38.519 I text with every once in a while. But man, those 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:40.359 opening bands are the people who are holding 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:43.019 it down. They're supporting those big acts. They're 00:18:43.019 --> 00:18:45.319 playing like little clubs and bars like their 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:46.539 stadiums because they're trying to get their 00:18:46.539 --> 00:18:48.740 name out. And you'll never find bands that are 00:18:48.740 --> 00:18:51.079 more passionate and just hungry than those opening 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:53.559 acts. So support them, buy the T -shirt, buy 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:55.339 the album, do everything you can to make sure 00:18:55.339 --> 00:18:57.400 those opening bands don't go away because they 00:18:57.400 --> 00:18:59.339 are the lifeblood of the music industry and creativity 00:18:59.339 --> 00:19:02.059 in general. Amen. And I do want to give a shout 00:19:02.059 --> 00:19:04.220 out to, and I hope I'm pronouncing this right, 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:07.819 Ute Zerdheide, who also chimed in with the yeah, 00:19:07.819 --> 00:19:11.119 yeah, yes. Only she chimed in with bang. That's 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:13.579 a good track, too. Another great track. Yeah. 00:19:13.740 --> 00:19:18.859 So following that up, I'm debating if I want 00:19:18.859 --> 00:19:24.000 to lean into the synth or if I want to go back 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:28.220 and pivot away from the synth a little bit. But 00:19:28.220 --> 00:19:30.720 I think I'm going to stick with the synth and 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.059 I'm going to go with my first curveball of the 00:19:33.059 --> 00:19:36.920 night. Because if I didn't know a thing or two 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:39.420 about music, I would think that this next band. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.640 was just a bunch of the members of Green Day 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:46.980 playing some garage rock. When in fact, this 00:19:46.980 --> 00:19:51.339 band, Foxborough Hot Tubs, is just the members 00:19:51.339 --> 00:19:55.059 of Green Day playing garage rock. And in 2008, 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:58.119 they put out one of my favorite albums of that 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:02.519 year, a little disc called Stop, Drop, and Roll, 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:04.599 which if you saw the movie Get Him to the Greek, 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:07.640 you might know the title track from that movie. 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:10.720 To me, I'm going to go with one that adds a little 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:13.759 bit more synth to the sound. And to me is the 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:17.400 standout track from this fantastic garage rock 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:21.519 offset of Green Day. And it's the song called 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:25.539 Ruby Room. Fun fact, when Green Day is going 00:20:25.539 --> 00:20:28.779 to play a surprise show, they book it under the 00:20:28.779 --> 00:20:31.940 name Foxborough Hot Tubs. So if you ever see 00:20:31.940 --> 00:20:35.000 them playing at a small club in town, make sure 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.480 you buy a ticket. That is what I am going to 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:39.839 follow up the yeah, yeah, yeahs with. Foxborough 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:43.279 Hot Tub's Ruby Room. I love the track. I love 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:46.440 the pic. I love the concept of like secret bands. 00:20:47.130 --> 00:20:48.849 That's something that I absolutely loved growing 00:20:48.849 --> 00:20:51.589 up because, again, growing up in Arizona, I grew 00:20:51.589 --> 00:20:54.150 up in the golden age of local music in Arizona 00:20:54.150 --> 00:20:56.809 in the early 2000s. And there was a lot of bands 00:20:56.809 --> 00:20:58.650 that we would see get signed by major labels 00:20:58.650 --> 00:21:01.109 and go off and tour the world and whatnot. And 00:21:01.109 --> 00:21:02.990 they'd want to come home and play shows, but 00:21:02.990 --> 00:21:05.490 they'd be beholden to the contracts of the record 00:21:05.490 --> 00:21:08.529 label. So they would make up a bunch of BS fake 00:21:08.529 --> 00:21:10.950 names so they could play the clubs and the bars 00:21:10.950 --> 00:21:12.269 and whatnot they used to play when they were 00:21:12.269 --> 00:21:14.819 younger. So I love the fact that they do that. 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:16.339 I love the fact that they still do it, which 00:21:16.339 --> 00:21:19.319 is really dope. I love the energy of it. Green 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:21.279 Day is always a blast. You can't go wrong with 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:24.140 a pick. And I love the fact that we're kind of 00:21:24.140 --> 00:21:26.059 bending the rules a little bit because there's 00:21:26.059 --> 00:21:27.700 going to be some more rule bending coming. But 00:21:27.700 --> 00:21:30.039 I love it. I think it's a fantastic pick. Yeah. 00:21:30.099 --> 00:21:34.599 And Green Day is no secret to the hidden persona 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:36.799 because they also have the network, which is 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:41.369 another version of Green Day. And to me. When 00:21:41.369 --> 00:21:43.750 everybody complained about the father of all 00:21:43.750 --> 00:21:48.049 MFers Green Day album, I didn't because I said, 00:21:48.049 --> 00:21:50.230 oh, Jesus, I know what they're doing here. And 00:21:50.230 --> 00:21:53.470 I have a conspiracy theory on it. They had one 00:21:53.470 --> 00:21:57.750 album left on their contract. I think in my heart 00:21:57.750 --> 00:22:01.369 of hearts that Green Day handed a Foxborough 00:22:01.369 --> 00:22:04.720 Hot Tubs album to the label. under the name green 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.940 day because if you listen to father of all mfers 00:22:07.940 --> 00:22:12.420 after listening to stop drop and roll father 00:22:12.420 --> 00:22:15.519 of all mfers makes a lot more sense than if you 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:19.240 listen to it after american idiot i like that 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:22.099 conspiracy theory a lot that makes total sense 00:22:22.099 --> 00:22:25.259 wow yeah as soon as i heard that album i'm like 00:22:25.259 --> 00:22:27.819 this is foxborough hot tubs 2 under a green day 00:22:27.819 --> 00:22:30.809 banner absolutely Dude, I love talking music 00:22:30.809 --> 00:22:32.910 with you so much. Like you just get it. You're 00:22:32.910 --> 00:22:35.390 the most knowledgeable and just fun people to 00:22:35.390 --> 00:22:37.009 talk about music because you've always got these 00:22:37.009 --> 00:22:39.250 conspiracy theories and these stories. And you're 00:22:39.250 --> 00:22:40.869 like me, like you nerd out about it. And it's 00:22:40.869 --> 00:22:44.250 awesome, man. Well, I appreciate that. And now 00:22:44.250 --> 00:22:47.109 I am looking to see how you're going to follow 00:22:47.109 --> 00:22:49.829 that curveball up with because I know it's a 00:22:49.829 --> 00:22:52.589 little odd, but it is garage rock. It is literally 00:22:52.589 --> 00:22:56.269 listed on Wikipedia as Green Day's garage rock 00:22:56.269 --> 00:23:03.569 album. Yeah. I think I'm going to go with... 00:23:03.569 --> 00:23:05.569 It's going to slow things down once again, but 00:23:05.569 --> 00:23:07.890 kind of kick it up into high gear as we go along. 00:23:08.329 --> 00:23:11.869 And it's a band called The Kills, which if you're 00:23:11.869 --> 00:23:13.690 familiar with the realm of Jack White, you know 00:23:13.690 --> 00:23:16.150 that Alison Mosshart joined up with him and they 00:23:16.150 --> 00:23:17.990 did The Dead Weather and whatnot. But before 00:23:17.990 --> 00:23:19.710 that, she was part of a two -piece band called 00:23:19.710 --> 00:23:22.150 The Kills. And they were a band that fully embodied 00:23:22.150 --> 00:23:23.910 the spirit of garage rock revival, but it was 00:23:23.910 --> 00:23:25.470 very, very minimalist, which I think is very 00:23:25.470 --> 00:23:27.849 key in a lot of cases to the garage rock scene. 00:23:28.329 --> 00:23:30.750 So lots of samples, a lot of drum machine, a 00:23:30.750 --> 00:23:33.509 lot of dirty, grungy, gritty guitar, and Alison 00:23:33.509 --> 00:23:36.210 Moss Hart's vocals, which are just freaking haunting. 00:23:36.809 --> 00:23:39.529 The album came out in 2005. It is called No Wow. 00:23:39.690 --> 00:23:42.029 It is the first track and the self -titled track 00:23:42.029 --> 00:23:46.890 on the album No Wow. It's excellent. Alison Moss 00:23:46.890 --> 00:23:50.130 Hart is every girl I knew was bad for me, but 00:23:50.130 --> 00:23:53.069 I had a crush on anyway. She's just got this 00:23:53.069 --> 00:23:56.390 vein of danger and excitement in her. And she's 00:23:56.390 --> 00:23:58.349 terrifying and mesmerizing at the same time to 00:23:58.349 --> 00:24:01.190 watch on stage. And I just loved what they did. 00:24:01.269 --> 00:24:04.730 I love the anger and the vengefulness of their 00:24:04.730 --> 00:24:07.569 music. And the no holds barred, just, we're going 00:24:07.569 --> 00:24:09.829 to go for it. We're going to use a drum machine 00:24:09.829 --> 00:24:12.329 on this angry track with Alison Mosshart, just 00:24:12.329 --> 00:24:14.410 like ripping the shit out of her voice. I don't 00:24:14.410 --> 00:24:16.549 know if I can cuss. I apologize. While she's 00:24:16.549 --> 00:24:18.809 singing all the tracks on every album they've 00:24:18.809 --> 00:24:21.289 ever done. And it's just a wonderful track. I 00:24:21.289 --> 00:24:22.750 think it fully embodies the spirit of Garage 00:24:22.750 --> 00:24:25.740 Rock. And if you listen to the track again, I'm 00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:27.519 bringing it down. I'm cooling it down, but I'm 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:29.200 going to kick it up in a high gear and set you 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:31.779 up for another high. So that is my next pick. 00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:35.759 I think you and Zerhide would be great friends 00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:39.160 because she also picked the kills with fried 00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:42.880 my little brains. Awesome track to another good 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:46.259 one. This is a great band. Another underrated 00:24:46.259 --> 00:24:48.339 something about the garage rock bands besides 00:24:48.339 --> 00:24:52.589 the big. There are a lot of underrated bands 00:24:52.589 --> 00:24:55.670 that are going to come into this mix. And I think 00:24:55.670 --> 00:24:59.009 I'm going to go with one that falls under that 00:24:59.009 --> 00:25:02.970 underrated category. And I want to give a first 00:25:02.970 --> 00:25:05.230 a shout out to Jason Whistle at the It's Not 00:25:05.230 --> 00:25:07.450 That Bad cast who chimed in with this as one 00:25:07.450 --> 00:25:11.029 of his picks. And I'm going to go to 2008's album 00:25:11.029 --> 00:25:13.410 Jackson Square. I'm going to pick up the pace 00:25:13.410 --> 00:25:16.250 a bit and make it a little heavier. A song that 00:25:16.250 --> 00:25:19.589 is garage rock, but... bleeds into the hard rock 00:25:19.589 --> 00:25:22.670 stoner rock vibe a little bit and i'm gonna go 00:25:22.670 --> 00:25:27.349 with arkell's oh the boss is coming great track 00:25:27.349 --> 00:25:32.589 it's grimy it's heavy it's aggressive but it 00:25:32.589 --> 00:25:36.190 still holds that garage rock i don't want to 00:25:36.190 --> 00:25:37.849 use the word simplicity because that's almost 00:25:37.849 --> 00:25:41.630 insulting but it's a no frills meat and potatoes 00:25:41.630 --> 00:25:46.430 this is what you get sound and i feel like there 00:25:46.430 --> 00:25:51.009 was a effort in the garage rock scene to kind 00:25:51.009 --> 00:25:55.289 of strip away some of the layers of production 00:25:55.289 --> 00:25:58.549 at the beginning of the scene at least and then 00:25:58.549 --> 00:26:01.369 a lot of the indie bands kind of stuck with that 00:26:01.369 --> 00:26:04.490 where some of the bigger names started toying 00:26:04.490 --> 00:26:07.549 with taking production elements and layering 00:26:07.549 --> 00:26:11.000 them on top of the garage rock sound which we 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:12.920 will talk about at some point tonight i'm sure 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:17.339 but arkell's oh the boss is coming is that stripped 00:26:17.339 --> 00:26:21.720 down you're in a sweaty bar with hundreds of 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:24.140 people crammed in wall to wall and this band 00:26:24.140 --> 00:26:27.539 is just melting your face so i'm going with arkell's 00:26:27.539 --> 00:26:30.420 oh the boss is coming i think you absolutely 00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:32.299 nailed it i think you nailed the spirit of it 00:26:32.299 --> 00:26:35.269 and You do get that sense from their music of 00:26:35.269 --> 00:26:37.690 being 18 years old again, being in a punk rock 00:26:37.690 --> 00:26:40.589 club for the first time with a barbed wire fence 00:26:40.589 --> 00:26:43.369 behind the merch table and jumping in your first 00:26:43.369 --> 00:26:45.569 circle pit and whatnot. I love the pick. It's 00:26:45.569 --> 00:26:48.130 fantastic. We're doing good work here tonight. 00:26:49.190 --> 00:26:51.970 This is the tag team effort here. Absolutely. 00:26:52.430 --> 00:26:55.230 I'm going to not cool it down. I'm going to kick 00:26:55.230 --> 00:26:59.809 it right back up because my next pick is a borderline 00:26:59.809 --> 00:27:02.650 hard rock band, but still very much in the... 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:04.859 Bane of Garage Rock, and they came up in that 00:27:04.859 --> 00:27:07.759 same scene and whatnot. It is a track from an 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:10.759 album called Leave No Ashes. It came out in 2004, 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:13.660 I believe. It's a band called The Burning Brides, 00:27:13.779 --> 00:27:17.559 and the track is Heartful of Black. Holy crap, 00:27:17.700 --> 00:27:19.559 this is another opening band that I discovered 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:22.539 at a concert. They opened for Audioslave in 2002. 00:27:23.539 --> 00:27:25.400 So no, the album had to have come out in 2001, 00:27:25.740 --> 00:27:27.759 2002, because they played all the tracks from 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:30.200 that at that show. It was a three -piece band. 00:27:30.380 --> 00:27:32.559 It was a guitar player slash singer. Just an 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:35.279 absolute smoke show of a bass player who could 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.480 just freaking wail and a fantastic drummer on 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:42.619 top of that. And it was just, again, like I didn't 00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:43.799 know what to expect with the opening bands for 00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:45.700 Audioslave. You expect like Tom Morrell to come 00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:47.420 out and make noises and Chris Cornell to like 00:27:47.420 --> 00:27:49.839 belt his lungs out and whatnot. But this band 00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:52.599 comes out and it's just immediately like rolling 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:54.720 guitar riffs and bass riffs that just match the 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:57.220 speed and intensity and just awesome, awesome, 00:27:57.240 --> 00:27:59.619 like hard hitting. drum beats at the same time. 00:27:59.940 --> 00:28:04.099 And the singer just starts screaming. And it 00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:05.880 was just amazing to watch these three people 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:07.920 just put it all out there. They've since broken 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:10.700 up because the lead singer and the bass player 00:28:10.700 --> 00:28:12.819 were in a relationship. They had a kid. They 00:28:12.819 --> 00:28:16.059 decided to take it back and devote their lives 00:28:16.059 --> 00:28:19.079 to the kid and whatnot. But man, the band just 00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:21.079 rocked so freaking hard. It was, again, one of 00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:23.000 those bands that I saw as an opening act, immediately 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.130 bought the CD, fell in love with them. And have 00:28:25.130 --> 00:28:26.890 been following them off and on because they don't 00:28:26.890 --> 00:28:30.049 do much anymore for the last 20 years. But Heart 00:28:30.049 --> 00:28:32.170 Full of Black by Burning Brides on the album 00:28:32.170 --> 00:28:36.190 Leave No Ashes. I absolutely love that pick because 00:28:36.190 --> 00:28:38.029 you're getting heavier. And when you get heavier, 00:28:38.190 --> 00:28:41.430 that hard rock side of me, it makes me smile. 00:28:41.609 --> 00:28:44.769 And that's definitely what that song does. And 00:28:44.769 --> 00:28:47.450 I want to lean into that a little bit and maybe 00:28:47.450 --> 00:28:49.869 a little too much now. Oh, there's no such thing 00:28:49.869 --> 00:28:51.970 as too much, man. Yeah, I think I'm going to 00:28:51.970 --> 00:28:55.069 go too much. However, this is a band that when 00:28:55.069 --> 00:28:57.250 I say the name, a lot of people are going to 00:28:57.250 --> 00:29:00.289 go, wait a minute, that's not garage rock. And 00:29:00.289 --> 00:29:03.769 for the most part, they're right. However, this 00:29:03.769 --> 00:29:07.250 hard rock stoner rock band out of Australia a 00:29:07.250 --> 00:29:12.869 second time had a garage rock turn in 2005 with 00:29:12.869 --> 00:29:16.990 one song that I feel like coming out of Arkell's 00:29:16.990 --> 00:29:19.490 and the Burning Brides actually makes sense. 00:29:20.029 --> 00:29:23.369 So I'm going to say the band name. I'll pause 00:29:23.369 --> 00:29:25.769 for a second so everybody could yell and get 00:29:25.769 --> 00:29:28.470 it out of their system. And then I'll say the 00:29:28.470 --> 00:29:32.450 song and then think about it coming out of Arkell's 00:29:32.450 --> 00:29:35.849 The Boss is Coming and The Burning Bride's Heartful 00:29:35.849 --> 00:29:42.470 of Black. The band is Wolf Mother. Oh, man. The 00:29:42.470 --> 00:29:46.599 song, The Joker and the Thief. Love that song. 00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:49.180 Oh, I was a little bit worried, but also okay 00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:51.460 with if you're going to say like a woman, because 00:29:51.460 --> 00:29:53.599 woman's a great tattoo. But The Joker and the 00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:55.559 Thief is by far my favorite Wolf Mother song. 00:29:56.019 --> 00:29:58.519 I love the pick. I love that album. I love that 00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:00.880 band. This was a band that was pigeonholed for 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.099 a long time as being like a knockoff of Led Zeppelin. 00:30:03.220 --> 00:30:05.160 And people could not have been more wrong. It 00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:07.400 was similar, but they did such a different and 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:09.859 unique thing with sort of an homage to what came 00:30:09.859 --> 00:30:12.579 before them. And I love Wolf Mother. It's one 00:30:12.579 --> 00:30:13.839 of those things where actually in the office, 00:30:13.900 --> 00:30:16.420 me and my desk mate. Listen to Wolf Mother all 00:30:16.420 --> 00:30:18.319 the time because we both just appreciate the 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:20.839 band so much. They're a blast to listen to. That 00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:22.980 is an awesome pick. I'm sorry for interrupting. 00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:24.859 I'll let you explain why you made the pick, but 00:30:24.859 --> 00:30:27.039 just know that I am fully on board. This is an 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:29.099 awesome choice. Thank you. Because honestly, 00:30:29.259 --> 00:30:31.680 if I said woman, I would have smacked myself 00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:34.700 because woman is the song that kind of unfortunately 00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:38.339 got them that, oh, this is a Led Zeppelin sounding 00:30:38.339 --> 00:30:41.440 band. Yeah. Long before Greta Van Fleet came 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:44.640 along and stole that. This is a Zeppelin band 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:47.019 thunder. I don't think any other band has ever 00:30:47.019 --> 00:30:50.920 gotten a, this is a Zeppelin sounding band more 00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:54.819 than kingdom come did in the late eighties. There 00:30:54.819 --> 00:30:57.140 has not been a, wow, this sounds like Led Zeppelin 00:30:57.140 --> 00:31:00.220 band more, but there was a while where people 00:31:00.220 --> 00:31:02.619 always tried to compare wolf mother to Zeppelin. 00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:05.750 And I never heard it. I heard hints of it. but 00:31:05.750 --> 00:31:09.549 never all in. And Joker and the Thief is one 00:31:09.549 --> 00:31:11.250 of the songs where in the opening, the opening 00:31:11.250 --> 00:31:14.230 guitar, it's almost Van Halen -esque with the 00:31:14.230 --> 00:31:15.950 doodle -a -doodle -a -doodle -a -doodle. And 00:31:15.950 --> 00:31:19.690 that doesn't sound garage rock. So I get where 00:31:19.690 --> 00:31:22.349 that would be the curveball. But once the song 00:31:22.349 --> 00:31:29.930 kicks in, that to me is rooted in garage rock 00:31:29.930 --> 00:31:34.349 and fits so well coming out of... The last two 00:31:34.349 --> 00:31:37.829 songs. I completely agree. I love the buildup 00:31:37.829 --> 00:31:39.450 in the track. I love it when it kicks into full 00:31:39.450 --> 00:31:41.769 gear. The guitar riffs and the bass riffs just 00:31:41.769 --> 00:31:43.329 playing off each other, and then the vocals kick 00:31:43.329 --> 00:31:44.849 in, and it's garage rock through and through. 00:31:45.470 --> 00:31:47.390 I would argue anybody who would say it's not 00:31:47.390 --> 00:31:49.250 garage rock. I think it fully embodies the spirit 00:31:49.250 --> 00:31:51.630 of garage rock. I think the fact that they were 00:31:51.630 --> 00:31:53.990 chasing down that sound of the 60s and 70s just 00:31:53.990 --> 00:31:57.329 solidifies and absolutely makes them part of 00:31:57.329 --> 00:31:59.529 the garage rock scene as one of the pillars, 00:31:59.650 --> 00:32:02.940 honestly. Yeah. Excellent band. All right. Well, 00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:05.819 you've got one last song on side A, so let's 00:32:05.819 --> 00:32:09.099 hear what you got. Okay. I am going to go with 00:32:09.099 --> 00:32:12.619 The Helicopters from Sweden and an album that 00:32:12.619 --> 00:32:16.440 came out in 1999. I know it's on the cusp, but 00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:19.140 I'm going to allow myself to do it because one, 00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:22.259 it's my favorite Helicopters song. Two, it's 00:32:22.259 --> 00:32:24.440 my favorite Helicopters album. It's Grande Rock. 00:32:24.660 --> 00:32:26.720 The song is The Devil Stole the Beat from the 00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:29.849 Lord. Holy crap. It's another one of those just 00:32:29.849 --> 00:32:32.470 iconic guitar riffs that kicks in and then follows 00:32:32.470 --> 00:32:34.150 in with the rhythm guitar and then the drums 00:32:34.150 --> 00:32:36.329 kick in. And then the lead singer just goes, 00:32:36.369 --> 00:32:38.410 oh, and you just right at that point, you know, 00:32:38.470 --> 00:32:40.210 you're listening to a garage rock song like that's 00:32:40.210 --> 00:32:42.829 it. It's just so much fun. I said I was going 00:32:42.829 --> 00:32:44.549 to talk about Europe and the whole garage rock 00:32:44.549 --> 00:32:49.009 thing. And I came up in the late 90s, early 2000s. 00:32:49.009 --> 00:32:51.690 So online gameplay. I'm going to get really nerdy 00:32:51.690 --> 00:32:54.339 here, like playing online. like internet games 00:32:54.339 --> 00:32:55.500 with your buddies was like a big thing at the 00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:57.720 time. And I became really good friends with a 00:32:57.720 --> 00:32:59.400 bunch of people across the world, which is really 00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:01.200 dope. I ended up becoming really good friends 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:04.220 with this kid named Ole Larsson in Norway. And 00:33:04.220 --> 00:33:06.480 he was just all about the crunchy rock and roll 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.019 and stuff. And a lot of these bands in the garage 00:33:09.019 --> 00:33:11.880 rock revival scene. started out becoming really 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:13.500 big in Europe, whether or not they were American 00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:15.539 bands who crossed over to Europe and toured a 00:33:15.539 --> 00:33:17.880 bunch, became famous, came over here, or they 00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:20.400 were just born, bred and raised in Europe. And 00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.740 the Helicopters was one of those bands that my 00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:25.079 old friend Oli Larson introduced me to and was 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:27.240 like, hey, you guys don't have this in America 00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:29.039 yet, but it's going to be pretty big in like 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:31.259 two or three years. And he said the same thing 00:33:31.259 --> 00:33:34.039 about like the Strokes and the Flaming Lips and 00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:35.920 the Hives, bands I'm sure we're going to talk 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:39.099 about later on tonight. And he was a big part 00:33:39.099 --> 00:33:41.039 of me discovering what is now my favorite genre 00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:43.680 of music and one of my multiple favorite bands 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.460 of all time. So I have awesome, awesome memories 00:33:46.460 --> 00:33:49.160 of like, he's at like three o 'clock in the morning. 00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:51.480 I'm at like noon on a Saturday. We're about to 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:53.579 play some like Quake or like Jedi Knight Dark 00:33:53.579 --> 00:33:55.539 Forces 2 or something stupid. And we're like, 00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:57.559 let's let's sync up the helicopters and like 00:33:57.559 --> 00:33:59.420 run together and like run the game and like kill 00:33:59.420 --> 00:34:02.940 everybody. So besides that, the band is just. 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:05.579 Again, one of those no nonsense, no bullshit, 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:07.319 but still having a really good time on stage 00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:11.059 bands. Nothing but wailing guitars. And that's 00:34:11.059 --> 00:34:12.940 one of the things I love most about garage rock 00:34:12.940 --> 00:34:15.380 is the fact that it's a marriage between the 00:34:15.380 --> 00:34:18.480 punk rock sensibilities and attitude that I was 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:21.019 raised on in high school and whatnot. And then 00:34:21.019 --> 00:34:25.019 also the hard rock that I inherited from my parents, 00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:28.000 the ACDC, the Aerosmith, the Led Zeppelin, all 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:30.019 those types of things. And it was a melding of 00:34:30.019 --> 00:34:32.139 all these musicians from what they knew and what 00:34:32.139 --> 00:34:34.400 they were raised on. and their own sensibilities 00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:36.400 and the music that was coming out in their time 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:40.099 as well. And it's a full embodiment of who I 00:34:40.099 --> 00:34:42.639 was at that time in my life. And I think in a 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:44.780 lot of cases, most of my generation was at the 00:34:44.780 --> 00:34:47.739 time too. So I got a lot of love for the genre, 00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:49.820 a lot of love for the bands. And a lot of these 00:34:49.820 --> 00:34:52.539 bands have a lot of sentimental value to me because 00:34:52.539 --> 00:34:54.460 of really good friends who introduced me to these 00:34:54.460 --> 00:34:56.619 bands, because they were cool and they were in 00:34:56.619 --> 00:34:58.519 Europe and they got these bands years before 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:00.840 they became popular in the States. So I was a 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:02.460 cool guy who was like, yeah, the Flaming Lips. 00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:04.980 You guys in America, you're going to go ape shit 00:35:04.980 --> 00:35:09.260 over this pretty soon. So, yeah, I love it. And 00:35:09.260 --> 00:35:11.940 I'm going to allow the little faux pas of 1999, 00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:15.739 you know, because, look, the helicopters are 00:35:15.739 --> 00:35:17.760 a fantastic band. I think you and seven rock 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:20.199 lists are becoming best friends without knowing 00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:23.119 each other here on Twitter, because. He obviously 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:24.860 chimed in, like I said, at the top of the show. 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:27.519 Let's go. I'm in the band. I'm in the band. It's 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:29.719 a great track. He said, these guys are a must. 00:35:29.980 --> 00:35:32.199 And I think coming out of it, I'm going to stay 00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:34.940 on the other side of the pond here. Okay. And 00:35:34.940 --> 00:35:36.760 I'm going to go with a band you just mentioned. 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.320 I'm going to go with a little bit more of a controversial 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:43.940 pick to close out Side A. Uh -oh. And we talked 00:35:43.940 --> 00:35:47.019 about the fact that Garage Rock was this stripped 00:35:47.019 --> 00:35:51.219 down sound. But then some bands tried to. toy 00:35:51.219 --> 00:35:53.440 with that stripped down sound and add some layers. 00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:57.019 And a little band from Sweden called The Hives 00:35:57.019 --> 00:36:01.820 tried that in 2007. Yes. On the Black and White 00:36:01.820 --> 00:36:04.519 album. I know this is a controversial album because 00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:07.500 this album used pop producers like the Neptunes 00:36:07.500 --> 00:36:11.679 and Timbaland and people lost their minds. But 00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:18.809 my God, it's a great, great album. It still brings 00:36:18.809 --> 00:36:23.170 that unique Hives sound to the table, but just 00:36:23.170 --> 00:36:25.369 changes the sound enough. And the song that I'm 00:36:25.369 --> 00:36:29.090 going to go with is not even a hit. It's not 00:36:29.090 --> 00:36:32.429 a single. It's a deeper cut from the album, but 00:36:32.429 --> 00:36:37.050 I love it so, so much. When I went to go see 00:36:37.050 --> 00:36:41.309 the Giants beat the New England Patriots for 00:36:41.309 --> 00:36:45.050 the Super Bowl. Which time? The first time, the 00:36:45.050 --> 00:36:49.469 18 -0. My wife and I flew into Las Vegas and 00:36:49.469 --> 00:36:52.789 drove to Phoenix because to fly into Phoenix, 00:36:52.889 --> 00:36:56.389 it was $4 ,000 a ticket to fly into Las Vegas. 00:36:56.409 --> 00:36:59.969 It was $400 a ticket. So we did that, rented 00:36:59.969 --> 00:37:02.789 a car and drove a few hours and made a nice trip 00:37:02.789 --> 00:37:04.929 out of it. And one of the albums we listened 00:37:04.929 --> 00:37:08.889 to was the hives black and white album. And the 00:37:08.889 --> 00:37:12.849 song that jumped out at me on that trip was try 00:37:12.849 --> 00:37:17.409 it again. Yes. And when you add the cheerleaders 00:37:17.409 --> 00:37:23.550 into the song, as Howlin' Pete Almquist is screaming 00:37:23.550 --> 00:37:27.369 the chorus, but you add the cheerleaders behind 00:37:27.369 --> 00:37:30.650 it and the driving drumbeat, it's infectious 00:37:30.650 --> 00:37:35.329 and it's creative. And on paper, it doesn't sound 00:37:35.329 --> 00:37:37.389 like it works. Because when I try to think in 00:37:37.389 --> 00:37:40.889 my brain, how many songs really utilized cheerleaders? 00:37:40.949 --> 00:37:45.679 Well, I think of Faith No More. Yeah, totally. 00:37:45.820 --> 00:37:48.219 Who did Be Aggressive, and then The Hives tried 00:37:48.219 --> 00:37:50.940 again. It's a two -song playlist for cheerleaders 00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:54.960 and rock music, basically. It just works so, 00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:57.219 so well. And I know this is going to be a controversial 00:37:57.219 --> 00:38:00.039 pick because a lot of people chimed in with The 00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:02.500 Hives songs, but no one chimed in with this one. 00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:04.820 But I would love to hear if anybody out there 00:38:04.820 --> 00:38:07.039 is a fan of this one. So closing out Side A, 00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.559 The Hives tried again. So it's not controversial 00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:12.940 for me because The Hives might actually be my 00:38:12.940 --> 00:38:16.289 favorite band ever. So I feel like you and I 00:38:16.289 --> 00:38:18.610 are playing chicken with a couple of bands on 00:38:18.610 --> 00:38:21.289 our respective lists. And I was waiting to see 00:38:21.289 --> 00:38:22.789 which one of us was going to pull this one out 00:38:22.789 --> 00:38:25.150 first. I love the Black and White album. It's 00:38:25.150 --> 00:38:26.849 radically different from a lot of what they've 00:38:26.849 --> 00:38:28.869 done, a lot of what's in their discography. They 00:38:28.869 --> 00:38:30.269 worked with a lot of producers, like you said, 00:38:30.449 --> 00:38:32.570 and they were with Pharrell on this album too. 00:38:32.949 --> 00:38:35.429 And it was sort of a reinvention for them. And 00:38:35.429 --> 00:38:37.329 it was sort of a departure from their hardcore, 00:38:37.550 --> 00:38:40.360 more punk rock sensibilities. But I really dig 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:42.159 it. And Try It Again is a great track. I love 00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.300 the fact that it starts out with the stereo channels 00:38:44.300 --> 00:38:46.420 of the rhythm and the lead guitar player. And 00:38:46.420 --> 00:38:50.739 then they come together. It's a killer track. 00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:53.639 The whole album is so much fun. Tick, Tick, Boom 00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:55.079 is one of their best songs ever. That's the one 00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:57.719 that kicks the whole album off. I just love that 00:38:57.719 --> 00:38:59.860 band so much. They're putting out a new album 00:38:59.860 --> 00:39:02.360 in August. The first one in over a decade. And 00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:06.159 I literally, I'm not joking. I cried a little 00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:08.159 bit when I heard Bogus Operandi for the first 00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:10.699 time because it's just that hive's magic. There's 00:39:10.699 --> 00:39:13.659 a band that's been around for like almost 30 00:39:13.659 --> 00:39:16.099 years now. They started in the 90s. You can actually 00:39:16.099 --> 00:39:17.719 go back and listen to their very first album, 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:20.639 Sounds Like Sushi on YouTube. And it's ridiculous 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.219 and childish and moronic, but it's so much fun. 00:39:23.420 --> 00:39:25.820 But that band has gone through so many evolutions 00:39:25.820 --> 00:39:28.920 and so many changes. And I just, I've always 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:30.559 loved the black and white aesthetic. I love the 00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:33.059 attitude. Paley Almquist's vocals just match 00:39:33.059 --> 00:39:36.150 what they're going for perfectly. Dr. Matt Destruction 00:39:36.150 --> 00:39:37.889 is one of my favorite bass players of all time. 00:39:37.969 --> 00:39:40.530 He gets to shine on this song. Not a controversial 00:39:40.530 --> 00:39:42.869 pick. I will fight anybody who says it's controversial. 00:39:43.550 --> 00:39:46.010 Excellent band, excellent album, excellent track. 00:39:46.309 --> 00:39:48.690 I think you did a perfect job closing out Side 00:39:48.690 --> 00:39:51.889 A. Well, there you have it, folks. Side A of 00:39:51.889 --> 00:39:55.010 our 2000s garage rock revival playlist, which 00:39:55.010 --> 00:39:57.710 kicked off with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, 00:39:57.809 --> 00:40:01.039 took out Alone, Jet. Are You Gonna Be My Girl, 00:40:01.260 --> 00:40:05.420 Yeah Yeah Yeah's Zero, Foxborough Hot Tub's Ruby 00:40:05.420 --> 00:40:09.539 Room, The Kills' No Wow, Arkell's Oh The Boss 00:40:09.539 --> 00:40:12.300 Is Coming, The Burning Bride's Heart Full of 00:40:12.300 --> 00:40:14.960 Black, Wolf Mother, The Joker and the Thief, 00:40:15.139 --> 00:40:17.679 The Helicopters, The Devil Stole the Beat from 00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:21.679 the Lord, and The Hives' Try It Again. Head over 00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:24.320 to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs 00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:27.570 we've discussed in this mix. through the playlist 00:40:27.570 --> 00:40:30.909 embedded on the episode page. Now, before we 00:40:30.909 --> 00:40:33.869 flip our proverbial mixtape over to Side B, DT, 00:40:33.989 --> 00:40:36.570 why don't you tell people a little about the 00:40:36.570 --> 00:40:39.150 latest Space Castle happenings? Because there's 00:40:39.150 --> 00:40:41.250 been a lot of changes over there since the start 00:40:41.250 --> 00:40:45.170 of 2023. Yeah, so Space Castle used to be a podcast. 00:40:45.250 --> 00:40:47.449 And I would hope that some of the people listening 00:40:47.449 --> 00:40:50.349 to this show maybe gave the podcast a listen 00:40:50.349 --> 00:40:53.590 a couple times. So I ended up kind of going solo 00:40:53.590 --> 00:40:55.349 just because of some scheduling conflicts and 00:40:55.349 --> 00:40:56.909 whatnot that happened with my two co -hosts on 00:40:56.909 --> 00:40:59.730 the podcast. That happened in October. And I 00:40:59.730 --> 00:41:01.849 took a little bit of time off and kind of thought 00:41:01.849 --> 00:41:04.530 about what Space Castle kind of should be, what 00:41:04.530 --> 00:41:07.110 I love, what I would love to put into something 00:41:07.110 --> 00:41:10.369 different. And I decided that being a podcaster 00:41:10.369 --> 00:41:12.510 just going solo is kind of boring. Just kind 00:41:12.510 --> 00:41:14.230 of me just sitting there in front of a microphone 00:41:14.230 --> 00:41:16.750 just yammering about stuff. I come from a background 00:41:16.750 --> 00:41:19.389 of sound design and film production and graphic 00:41:19.389 --> 00:41:21.639 design. So I was like... I feel like this might 00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:23.519 be a YouTube channel. This might be me in front 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:25.719 of a green screen, pretending like I'm in outer 00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:29.019 space, like MST3K style, talking about nerdy 00:41:29.019 --> 00:41:31.619 stuff. And all the ideas just started flowing, 00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:34.360 like the designs and the concept and the color 00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:36.900 schemes and whatnot all came together. And I 00:41:36.900 --> 00:41:38.940 had a great foundation based on the theme song 00:41:38.940 --> 00:41:41.420 that I had co -written for the podcast. It translated 00:41:41.420 --> 00:41:43.500 beautifully because the exact feel we were going 00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:46.059 for was like Saturday morning cartoon. That matches 00:41:46.059 --> 00:41:48.099 the look and tone of the YouTube channel. And 00:41:48.099 --> 00:41:50.559 it's me goofing off and talking about nerdy stuff 00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:52.739 and creating all sorts of hijinks and whatnot 00:41:52.739 --> 00:41:55.699 on top of hopefully informing and educating people 00:41:55.699 --> 00:41:58.820 on certain nerdy topics like TV and movies and 00:41:58.820 --> 00:42:01.820 video games and that type of stuff. Well, I for 00:42:01.820 --> 00:42:05.059 one applaud the production on it is absolutely 00:42:05.059 --> 00:42:08.280 fantastic. Thank you. And someone once asked 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:12.920 me, why don't you do my weekly mixtape as a video 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:17.650 program? And my reasoning. to be perfectly blunt, 00:42:17.769 --> 00:42:21.349 is because it would have to look like Space Castle. 00:42:21.670 --> 00:42:25.170 And I would not have the time or effort to do 00:42:25.170 --> 00:42:28.869 that on a weekly basis because as much as I love 00:42:28.869 --> 00:42:31.789 podcasting, this is not my full -time career. 00:42:32.210 --> 00:42:35.590 I don't have the time either, honestly. Let me 00:42:35.590 --> 00:42:38.570 just say that. I'm doing one video every week. 00:42:38.789 --> 00:42:41.329 And I think that's just about the limit for me 00:42:41.329 --> 00:42:43.500 because... obviously it's you know it's 15 to 00:42:43.500 --> 00:42:45.440 20 minute long videos so there's a lot of writing 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:48.320 and then me actually recording and performing 00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:50.639 it and also going back and doing all the animations 00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:52.619 and the graphics and you know trying to tell 00:42:52.619 --> 00:42:54.019 a story with what i've written and performed 00:42:54.019 --> 00:42:56.539 but yeah one every other week i think is just 00:42:56.539 --> 00:42:58.280 about right for me because it gives me even a 00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:01.500 week off in between to kind of like gestate and 00:43:01.500 --> 00:43:03.860 think about ideas and once i decide what i want 00:43:03.860 --> 00:43:06.260 to talk about usually while i'm out drinking 00:43:06.260 --> 00:43:07.920 with friends or something the angle for it will 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:10.139 come out and i'll start writing from there and 00:43:10.139 --> 00:43:12.230 figure it out but Dude, it's been so much fun. 00:43:12.369 --> 00:43:14.969 And the reception has been phenomenal too. Like 00:43:14.969 --> 00:43:17.489 the comments and the subscriptions and the people 00:43:17.489 --> 00:43:18.929 who've jumped onto the Patreon even have just 00:43:18.929 --> 00:43:22.090 been so wonderful. And it's been a great thing 00:43:22.090 --> 00:43:23.949 to see the community that started with the podcast 00:43:23.949 --> 00:43:27.469 carry over onto the YouTube and people just like 00:43:27.469 --> 00:43:29.409 being like, yeah, dude, I love Teenage Mutant 00:43:29.409 --> 00:43:31.710 Ninja Turtles from 1992. Like that's my favorite 00:43:31.710 --> 00:43:33.449 movie. And just like going back and forth and 00:43:33.449 --> 00:43:35.630 just bonding with total strangers. That's what 00:43:35.630 --> 00:43:37.670 we always wanted to achieve with the podcast 00:43:37.670 --> 00:43:40.690 and being able to maintain that same sort of... 00:43:41.230 --> 00:43:44.769 with YouTube is great and it's just been incredibly 00:43:44.769 --> 00:43:47.289 rewarding. Everybody involved has been such a 00:43:47.289 --> 00:43:49.389 sweetheart and I'm going to keep it going for 00:43:49.389 --> 00:43:51.389 as long as I possibly can because I love it. 00:43:51.610 --> 00:43:54.730 It's authentic. It is informative and it's a 00:43:54.730 --> 00:43:57.090 hell of a lot of fun. And the fact that you're 00:43:57.090 --> 00:43:59.309 able to get Jeff Goldblum on there week after 00:43:59.309 --> 00:44:02.630 week is extremely impressive as well. He was 00:44:02.630 --> 00:44:04.670 really hesitant at first, but he's a nice guy 00:44:04.670 --> 00:44:07.150 once you get to know him. Pour some whiskey down 00:44:07.150 --> 00:44:10.309 his gullet and he's down for anything. All right. 00:44:10.329 --> 00:44:11.909 Well, I guess if you don't know what I'm talking 00:44:11.909 --> 00:44:14.070 about, you'll have to head over and give the 00:44:14.070 --> 00:44:17.369 show a watch. But now we are flipping over to 00:44:17.369 --> 00:44:20.789 side B and I'm kicking things off and I'm going 00:44:20.789 --> 00:44:22.590 to go with a song. I think I'm going to start 00:44:22.590 --> 00:44:28.710 things off. I'm torn between two songs. Do I 00:44:28.710 --> 00:44:30.710 want to start off with a little bit of a stranger, 00:44:30.730 --> 00:44:32.929 deeper cut, or do I want to start off with one 00:44:32.929 --> 00:44:36.110 that everybody's going to know? It's the first 00:44:36.110 --> 00:44:38.920 track of side B. It's the B -sides. I think you 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:40.400 can get a little obscure if you want to. I'm 00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:42.099 going to go a little obscure. I'm going to do 00:44:42.099 --> 00:44:43.579 a little bit of both. I'm going to go with an 00:44:43.579 --> 00:44:45.940 album that a lot of people that are fans of this 00:44:45.940 --> 00:44:48.639 genre will be familiar with. And that album is 00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:51.780 2006's Whatever People Say I Am, That's What 00:44:51.780 --> 00:44:54.539 I'm Not. And I'm going to go with the Arctic 00:44:54.539 --> 00:44:58.260 Monkeys. However, I'm going to start with my 00:44:58.260 --> 00:45:01.179 favorite song ever by that band. And it's not 00:45:01.179 --> 00:45:04.659 a single, but it's Red Light Indicates Doors 00:45:04.659 --> 00:45:08.280 Are Secured. It is funky. It's got a groove to 00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:11.679 it, but it still holds that garage rock vibe, 00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:16.239 but it's just a little bit more danceable, so 00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.880 to speak, where the first side leaned into the 00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:21.699 heavier side of garage rock. I started this side 00:45:21.699 --> 00:45:24.619 off with something a little bit more upbeat because 00:45:24.619 --> 00:45:27.920 the first side is a lot of fun, but it's pretty 00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:30.159 heavy and it's got some heft to it. This side, 00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:32.260 this is a little more light and airy and it gives 00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:35.509 you a new palette to work off of musically. So 00:45:35.509 --> 00:45:38.389 starting off side B Arctic monkeys, red light 00:45:38.389 --> 00:45:42.230 indicates doors are secured. I love the pick. 00:45:42.289 --> 00:45:44.969 I love the track. I'm going to be entirely honest. 00:45:45.010 --> 00:45:46.610 The Arctic monkeys, when they first came out 00:45:46.610 --> 00:45:48.409 with a band, I kind of wrote off and kind of 00:45:48.409 --> 00:45:51.349 didn't really vibe with it first. They, you know, 00:45:51.349 --> 00:45:52.849 they came out in the scene and they were playing 00:45:52.849 --> 00:45:55.309 danceable music, which I can totally respect. 00:45:55.409 --> 00:45:57.510 I'm a huge fan of pop and whatnot, but they kind 00:45:57.510 --> 00:45:59.489 of came out with like, you know, their pop collars 00:45:59.489 --> 00:46:01.170 and their polos and whatnot. It was like, what 00:46:01.170 --> 00:46:03.840 are these guys doing? But that was just me being 00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:06.139 ignorant and being closed -minded and still being 00:46:06.139 --> 00:46:08.280 somebody who was developing their musical taste 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:11.079 and whatnot. Because once you listen to the album 00:46:11.079 --> 00:46:12.780 and you get past the initial aesthetics of what 00:46:12.780 --> 00:46:14.639 they were trying to do in the early 2000s, everybody 00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:17.679 was goofy as hell in the early 2000s. It's those 00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:20.519 garage rock sensibilities with that danceability 00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:23.340 and that funkiness and that groove to it. And 00:46:23.340 --> 00:46:26.440 they are an immensely fun band to listen to. 00:46:26.519 --> 00:46:28.980 And they're a lot of fun live too. I love the 00:46:28.980 --> 00:46:32.019 pick. I love the band. Way to kick off Side B, 00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:34.239 my friend. And it's a good excuse to mention 00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:36.219 that they're one of the bands that kind of used 00:46:36.219 --> 00:46:39.980 MySpace to make a name for themselves. And now 00:46:39.980 --> 00:46:42.260 people are probably looking up MySpace because 00:46:42.260 --> 00:46:43.780 they're going, wait a minute, why does that sound 00:46:43.780 --> 00:46:49.239 familiar? Oh, MySpace. Oh, who among us did not 00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:51.440 have the glitter letters and the MIDI of the 00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.659 Star Wars theme on our MySpace page back in the 00:46:53.659 --> 00:46:56.239 day? Got people begging for my top eight spaces. 00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:00.900 All right, DT, what are you following up Arctic 00:47:00.900 --> 00:47:02.679 Monkeys with? All right, I'm kicking it into 00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:04.900 high gear. And because you stole the hives from 00:47:04.900 --> 00:47:08.159 me, I had, hate to say I told you so, on my list. 00:47:08.219 --> 00:47:10.639 I had to delete it. I'm going to steal one from 00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:12.880 you. I'm sure you've got on your list. It's a 00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:15.860 band from Detroit, Michigan. The album is White 00:47:15.860 --> 00:47:19.320 Blood Cells from 2001. The track is Fell in Love 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:21.860 with a Girl from the White Stripes. I think this 00:47:21.860 --> 00:47:23.940 is the song that probably introduced the majority 00:47:23.940 --> 00:47:27.260 of the world to garage rock and stripped down 00:47:27.260 --> 00:47:30.139 rock and roll. And just sort of minimalist rock 00:47:30.139 --> 00:47:32.780 and roll with a blues element to it. The video 00:47:32.780 --> 00:47:34.500 came out at MTV. It was directed by Michelle 00:47:34.500 --> 00:47:37.460 Gondry. It's wonderful. It's the one with Meg 00:47:37.460 --> 00:47:39.659 and Jack as Legos, like running around doing 00:47:39.659 --> 00:47:42.440 all kinds of goofy stuff. The guitar just kicks 00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:45.000 into high gear and the song just does not let 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:48.039 up. Jack White is just wailing. He's probably 00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:49.860 not the best singer in the world, but he just 00:47:49.860 --> 00:47:53.119 wails whenever he's singing a song. And it doesn't 00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:55.840 matter that it's off time. And if you were to 00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:58.130 quantize anything from the White Stripes. It'd 00:47:58.130 --> 00:47:59.670 probably sound terrible and it would lose all 00:47:59.670 --> 00:48:01.869 the heart because the fact of the matter is the 00:48:01.869 --> 00:48:04.010 White Stripes is meant to be stripped down. It's 00:48:04.010 --> 00:48:05.230 supposed to be minimalist. It's supposed to be 00:48:05.230 --> 00:48:07.730 dirty. It's supposed to be crazy and wild and 00:48:07.730 --> 00:48:11.190 offbeat and off -key sometimes. Jack White loves 00:48:11.190 --> 00:48:14.230 to fight with guitars that are hard to keep in 00:48:14.230 --> 00:48:16.349 tune while he's playing live. He likes every 00:48:16.349 --> 00:48:19.110 live show to be a struggle. He wants to fight 00:48:19.110 --> 00:48:21.309 with it and force everything he's got in him 00:48:21.309 --> 00:48:23.329 out into that microphone and through those amps. 00:48:23.809 --> 00:48:26.429 I think they are the full embodiment of the garage 00:48:26.429 --> 00:48:28.780 rock movement. It's one of my favorite bands 00:48:28.780 --> 00:48:30.320 of all time, one of my favorite tracks of all 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:33.920 time. And like I said, you stole the hives from 00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:37.300 me, so I'm taking this one. And you are taking 00:48:37.300 --> 00:48:39.579 it from a lot of people because on Twitter, any 00:48:39.579 --> 00:48:43.119 man with a microphone, Michael Breen, LI sports 00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:48.260 fan. D .R. Owens, and Fossil Records all chimed 00:48:48.260 --> 00:48:51.300 in with the White Stripes. I had the White Stripes 00:48:51.300 --> 00:48:52.960 on my list, obviously. I went with something 00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:55.159 a little different, though. I went with the title 00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:59.460 track from 2007's Icky Thump. However, Fell in 00:48:59.460 --> 00:49:01.980 Love with a Girl is the song that got me into 00:49:01.980 --> 00:49:05.780 the White Stripes, so I love the pick. I also 00:49:05.780 --> 00:49:08.789 love the fact that Joss Stone covered it. from 00:49:08.789 --> 00:49:12.349 the reverse angle and made it a soul song. So 00:49:12.349 --> 00:49:14.349 when you listen to the two back to back, you're 00:49:14.349 --> 00:49:16.409 like, oh, wow, these two genres are completely 00:49:16.409 --> 00:49:18.070 different. They don't make sense. And then you 00:49:18.070 --> 00:49:19.989 realize, wait a minute, it's the same effing 00:49:19.989 --> 00:49:22.090 song. And that's what I love about it. Because 00:49:22.090 --> 00:49:25.090 musically, it was a song that was written to 00:49:25.090 --> 00:49:27.610 have that ability to shape shift, so to speak. 00:49:27.969 --> 00:49:31.190 And it did it so well. That speaks volumes to 00:49:31.190 --> 00:49:34.639 the kind of songwriter that Jack White is. Yeah, 00:49:34.659 --> 00:49:36.219 and he's somebody who comes from that exact same 00:49:36.219 --> 00:49:38.460 angle where a lot of his music is that sort of 00:49:38.460 --> 00:49:41.659 transposition of stuff that he grew up on. He's 00:49:41.659 --> 00:49:44.400 a big fan of Sawn House and blues, and a lot 00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:46.679 of that stuff that is in the White Stripes comes 00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:49.599 from Sawn House recording a song where it's just 00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:51.300 him singing and clapping, and that's the entire 00:49:51.300 --> 00:49:55.400 song. That incredibly stripped down, just bare 00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:58.179 bones, burying your soul for all to see rock 00:49:58.179 --> 00:50:00.099 and roll. That's one of the reasons why I love 00:50:00.099 --> 00:50:02.460 them so much. Well, I'm going to follow that 00:50:02.460 --> 00:50:07.179 up with... A name that is well known to musicians, 00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:10.960 however, is not well known to the garage rock 00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:14.840 scene because for the most part, he was more 00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:19.980 aligned with indie rock, punk rock and singer 00:50:19.980 --> 00:50:22.280 songwriter sounds. I think I know who you're 00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:24.400 going to say. Are you thinking Butch Walker? 00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:28.719 Yeah, right on. Okay, so he originally started 00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:30.840 with The Marvelous Three and then he went on 00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:34.730 to a solo career, but in 2011... He put out an 00:50:34.730 --> 00:50:37.289 album with a band called the black widows and 00:50:37.289 --> 00:50:40.750 the album is called the spade and it is a straight 00:50:40.750 --> 00:50:43.829 up garage rock album. And the opening track on 00:50:43.829 --> 00:50:47.769 that bodegas and blood is an absolutely amazing 00:50:47.769 --> 00:50:52.110 track. And if you've ever watched live from Daryl's 00:50:52.110 --> 00:50:54.570 house, you need to watch the episode with Butch 00:50:54.570 --> 00:50:57.130 Walker because I don't think people realize what 00:50:57.130 --> 00:51:01.099 an amazing. producer, songwriter, and musician 00:51:01.099 --> 00:51:04.679 this guy is. He did a lot of stuff with Lit. 00:51:04.820 --> 00:51:06.619 He's worked with The Wind and the Wave. He's 00:51:06.619 --> 00:51:08.320 worked with Green Day. He's worked with pretty 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:11.980 much every band out there ever, ever, ever, ever. 00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:14.500 Probably even Led Zeppelin too. Who knows? But 00:51:14.500 --> 00:51:17.199 this guy is everywhere. He's an amazing producer. 00:51:17.420 --> 00:51:20.880 But Bodegas and Blood showed that he was able 00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:24.460 to tap into that garage rock sound and make it 00:51:24.460 --> 00:51:27.409 sound as if he had been there the whole time. 00:51:27.489 --> 00:51:31.949 It is so authentic and so real. And I could have 00:51:31.949 --> 00:51:34.030 picked any song from the album. It's easily my 00:51:34.030 --> 00:51:36.849 favorite Butch Walker album. And I don't feel 00:51:36.849 --> 00:51:39.929 like his name is thrown around enough, period. 00:51:40.289 --> 00:51:43.289 Yeah. And I really wanted to find an avenue to 00:51:43.289 --> 00:51:44.809 talk about him. And as soon as I heard we were 00:51:44.809 --> 00:51:47.510 doing Garage Rock, I kid you not, this was the 00:51:47.510 --> 00:51:50.110 first song on my list. So Butch Walker and the 00:51:50.110 --> 00:51:53.469 Black Widows, Bodegas and Blood. Yeah, I love 00:51:53.469 --> 00:51:57.440 the track. I love. that screeching sort of guitar 00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:00.000 right at the beginning. And then it kind of builds 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:02.440 up into that sort of indie rock style of vocals. 00:52:02.659 --> 00:52:05.139 And it's just a solid track. It's great. It's 00:52:05.139 --> 00:52:07.579 another one of those examples of garage rock 00:52:07.579 --> 00:52:11.199 just being sort of just a melding and just a 00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:13.380 blender of all kinds of different genres. Excellent 00:52:13.380 --> 00:52:16.159 pick. Definitely somebody who is just not in 00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:17.519 the conversation enough because like you said, 00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:19.280 he's an amazing musician. He was a great producer 00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:22.559 as well. Still out there doing stuff. Yeah, absolutely 00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:25.440 great pick. I love it. Fantastic. And now you 00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:28.840 get to follow it up with track four. Track four. 00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:32.559 Oh, so I got a little of overlap because, you 00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:35.659 know, Jack White was such a pillar of the garage 00:52:35.659 --> 00:52:37.780 rock revival. Are you going to put in a Jack 00:52:37.780 --> 00:52:40.239 White solo album and every other band? Actually, 00:52:40.239 --> 00:52:42.679 I'm going to be I'm going to be entirely honest. 00:52:42.780 --> 00:52:44.800 I'm not a big fan of Jack White solo stuff. I 00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:47.239 appreciate it. It's not really for me, even though 00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:48.360 the White Stripes is one of my favorite bands 00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:50.679 ever. But there's so much overlap because Jack 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:52.619 White was in like 40 separate different bands 00:52:52.619 --> 00:52:56.880 in the 2000s. So my next pick is going to be 00:52:56.880 --> 00:52:59.400 another Jack White adjacent song. And it's going 00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:02.159 to be from an album called Broken Boy Soldiers, 00:53:02.219 --> 00:53:05.619 which came out in 2006. And the track is not 00:53:05.619 --> 00:53:07.380 the one you're thinking of. It's actually Level. 00:53:08.059 --> 00:53:12.630 Nice. So it's an excellent track. It's fun and 00:53:12.630 --> 00:53:14.469 it's riffy and it bounces back and forth between 00:53:14.469 --> 00:53:17.130 Jack White and Brendan Benson's vocals. They 00:53:17.130 --> 00:53:19.170 kind of do like sort of like a Paul McCartney, 00:53:19.309 --> 00:53:21.170 John Lennon duet where they're going back and 00:53:21.170 --> 00:53:22.510 forth with the vocals and the guitars at the 00:53:22.510 --> 00:53:25.269 same time. The bass riff is super fun to play. 00:53:25.650 --> 00:53:27.929 Little Jack Lawrence is just a fantastic bass 00:53:27.929 --> 00:53:29.690 player. You should check out his, I might even 00:53:29.690 --> 00:53:32.030 talk about his bands at some point. Another band 00:53:32.030 --> 00:53:34.110 he was in called the Greenhorns. Excellent bass 00:53:34.110 --> 00:53:36.530 player, excellent songwriter. The Raconteurs 00:53:36.530 --> 00:53:40.019 were just a phenomenal band. Not only a melding 00:53:40.019 --> 00:53:42.460 of genres, but also a melding of multiple different 00:53:42.460 --> 00:53:44.440 bands. You had Jack White from the White Stripes. 00:53:44.460 --> 00:53:46.340 You had Brendan Benson, who was doing a bunch 00:53:46.340 --> 00:53:48.420 of solo stuff at the time. He and Jack White 00:53:48.420 --> 00:53:50.659 were roommates before the White Stripes became 00:53:50.659 --> 00:53:53.059 big. And then Brendan Benson followed. And then 00:53:53.059 --> 00:53:55.340 you've got the drummer and the bass player from 00:53:55.340 --> 00:53:56.719 a band called the Green Horns. And they jumped 00:53:56.719 --> 00:54:01.000 on as the rhythm section. And it's more complex 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:02.599 because obviously there's more moving pieces 00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:04.699 in the White Stripes. But I think it's still 00:54:04.699 --> 00:54:07.820 very, very succinctly maintained that garage 00:54:07.820 --> 00:54:10.050 rock feel. and they'll go from everything to 00:54:10.050 --> 00:54:13.010 like a blues track to like a like a western country 00:54:13.010 --> 00:54:15.769 feeling track and i know a lot of people think 00:54:15.769 --> 00:54:17.929 about like salute your solution and songs like 00:54:17.929 --> 00:54:21.170 that but for me level especially uh there's one 00:54:21.170 --> 00:54:24.030 live performance they do on um or it's available 00:54:24.030 --> 00:54:26.449 on youtube where they're playing in like a warehouse 00:54:26.449 --> 00:54:29.929 to a crowd of people and because they're live 00:54:29.929 --> 00:54:31.690 and it's not an album they're able to kind of 00:54:31.690 --> 00:54:33.909 improvise and go crazy and whatnot and jack white 00:54:33.909 --> 00:54:36.219 and brenda benson just go off with Just this 00:54:36.219 --> 00:54:38.519 dueling guitar solo halfway through the song. 00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:41.019 It's phenomenal. But it's my favorite song about 00:54:41.019 --> 00:54:43.539 the Raconteurs. It's an excellent album. And 00:54:43.539 --> 00:54:46.139 it's almost impossible to escape Jack White when 00:54:46.139 --> 00:54:47.659 you're talking about garage rock revival. He 00:54:47.659 --> 00:54:50.039 was just one of just those mainstays, just the 00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:52.380 pillars of it. And one of the people holding 00:54:52.380 --> 00:54:54.400 it up and innovating the genre, which is in and 00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:56.980 of itself was innovation. And maybe it's a cheat 00:54:56.980 --> 00:54:59.550 having the Jack White song in there, but... I 00:54:59.550 --> 00:55:01.409 don't think you can discredit Brendan Benson 00:55:01.409 --> 00:55:03.510 and the other members of the band for their contributions 00:55:03.510 --> 00:55:05.849 in writing those songs and pulling something 00:55:05.849 --> 00:55:08.010 out of Jack White that we actually probably didn't 00:55:08.010 --> 00:55:09.530 know existed because we were stuck on the White 00:55:09.530 --> 00:55:11.760 Stripes for so long. I think you hit the nail 00:55:11.760 --> 00:55:14.159 on the head. I had the rock and tours on my list 00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:17.840 as well. I had steady as she goes. However, levels, 00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:21.059 a fantastic song. I love the fact that you brought 00:55:21.059 --> 00:55:24.280 up my one talking point about this band. It was 00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:27.619 take garage rock and make it Beatles ask. And 00:55:27.619 --> 00:55:32.409 I really feel like that separates them. from 00:55:32.409 --> 00:55:35.510 the White Stripes. Now, I also had a Jack White 00:55:35.510 --> 00:55:39.090 solo song on my list, the title track from Lazaretto, 00:55:39.130 --> 00:55:41.730 but I don't want to go for a Jack White trifecta. 00:55:41.730 --> 00:55:45.050 So I'll probably leave that out now. And hearing 00:55:45.050 --> 00:55:47.090 that you're not a big fan of his solo stuff, 00:55:47.190 --> 00:55:49.710 I'm guessing this will be the last we talk about 00:55:49.710 --> 00:55:52.730 him. But following that up, I'm going to go with 00:55:52.730 --> 00:55:56.989 another band that, again, definitely leans more 00:55:56.989 --> 00:56:00.969 to the indie side of things. However. When a 00:56:00.969 --> 00:56:03.769 band is known as an alternative rock indie pop 00:56:03.769 --> 00:56:06.969 band, but their breakthrough song, which is one 00:56:06.969 --> 00:56:09.929 of, dare I say, the most memorable music videos 00:56:09.929 --> 00:56:14.230 of all time, crosses that threshold into garage 00:56:14.230 --> 00:56:18.590 rock and does so to the point where you think 00:56:18.590 --> 00:56:22.030 this band could have easily made this album again 00:56:22.030 --> 00:56:24.210 and again and again with this exact sound and 00:56:24.210 --> 00:56:28.750 still been successful, you get OK Go. And I'm 00:56:28.750 --> 00:56:32.750 going to go off of 2005's OK No, and I'm going 00:56:32.750 --> 00:56:35.750 to go with the Treadmill song, as everybody knows 00:56:35.750 --> 00:56:40.110 it. Here it goes again. It is obviously an alternative 00:56:40.110 --> 00:56:43.610 indie pop song, but if you listen to the guitar 00:56:43.610 --> 00:56:46.829 sound and the tones they use, they have taken 00:56:46.829 --> 00:56:51.090 the garage rock sound and melded it into what 00:56:51.090 --> 00:56:54.829 they do as a band in this almost one -time -only 00:56:54.829 --> 00:57:00.889 moment. And it is a vibe, this song. And it works 00:57:00.889 --> 00:57:03.250 so well. But then you look at some of their other, 00:57:03.289 --> 00:57:05.409 which again, if you want to go down a rabbit 00:57:05.409 --> 00:57:09.210 hole, just look up OK Go Music Videos. Any one 00:57:09.210 --> 00:57:12.150 of them will blow your mind. They are so innovative 00:57:12.150 --> 00:57:14.889 when it comes to music videos. Probably the best 00:57:14.889 --> 00:57:17.050 there's ever been when it comes to music videos. 00:57:17.630 --> 00:57:21.610 But this song, to me, works on a musical level. 00:57:21.909 --> 00:57:25.449 And I've always wanted to talk about that. music 00:57:25.449 --> 00:57:28.469 video because honestly the treadmill thing one 00:57:28.469 --> 00:57:30.809 of the most creative videos ever so okay go here 00:57:30.809 --> 00:57:33.989 it goes again awesome track again with the opening 00:57:33.989 --> 00:57:36.530 guitar riffs in garage rock revival it's just 00:57:36.530 --> 00:57:38.710 it's a staple and it's super important they've 00:57:38.710 --> 00:57:41.369 got one of the best and i love okay go i love 00:57:41.369 --> 00:57:43.610 the fact that they are more than just sort of 00:57:43.610 --> 00:57:46.139 like a musical experience they're like an audio 00:57:46.139 --> 00:57:48.340 visual, like full body experience. Like their 00:57:48.340 --> 00:57:50.139 videos are ridiculous. Like there's a treadmill 00:57:50.139 --> 00:57:52.099 video. There's the one where they went up in 00:57:52.099 --> 00:57:53.719 an airplane and then they dropped the plane. 00:57:53.780 --> 00:57:55.980 So it did the zero G effect and they're like 00:57:55.980 --> 00:57:58.639 bouncing around and whatnot. They're super fun. 00:57:59.019 --> 00:58:01.420 They are fantastic live and they seem to really 00:58:01.420 --> 00:58:03.340 genuinely love their fans and just love what 00:58:03.340 --> 00:58:05.300 they're doing. That whole album is excellent. 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:07.519 And you're right. It's like a like a weird sort 00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:09.179 of crystallization for them because they're a 00:58:09.179 --> 00:58:10.800 band who sort of reinvented themselves multiple 00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:13.460 times. And we're very fortunate to get that album 00:58:13.460 --> 00:58:15.420 with that whole garage rock vibe because it's 00:58:15.420 --> 00:58:17.820 my favorite OK Go album. Same here. And I just 00:58:17.820 --> 00:58:21.059 I love the vibe. I love the poppiness, the danciness 00:58:21.059 --> 00:58:24.179 to it, the bounciness to it. It's just it makes 00:58:24.179 --> 00:58:25.699 you want to get up out of your chair and like 00:58:25.699 --> 00:58:28.440 start. It's not ska music, but you almost want 00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:30.159 to like skank to it. It's just got that bouncy 00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:32.780 sort of like let's go for a jog type vibe to 00:58:32.780 --> 00:58:35.210 it. And it's an excellent pick. One that I wouldn't 00:58:35.210 --> 00:58:36.650 have if I didn't have them on my list because 00:58:36.650 --> 00:58:38.590 it's not one of those bands I considered. But 00:58:38.590 --> 00:58:40.309 since you brought it up and especially that album 00:58:40.309 --> 00:58:42.130 and that track in particular, it just it fits 00:58:42.130 --> 00:58:43.929 perfectly. It's brilliant. It's one of those 00:58:43.929 --> 00:58:46.150 bands that normally would not be considered a 00:58:46.150 --> 00:58:48.570 garage rock band. But if you listen to this playlist 00:58:48.570 --> 00:58:51.550 in its entirety, you're going to hear why this 00:58:51.550 --> 00:58:53.349 song makes sense. And that's what I love about 00:58:53.349 --> 00:58:56.710 this genre, because garage rock might as well 00:58:56.710 --> 00:58:59.369 be called the gray genre because it's a lot of 00:58:59.369 --> 00:59:02.369 gray area. Yeah. I love the pick. It's excellent. 00:59:02.489 --> 00:59:04.530 Well done, sir. Well, throwing it back to you 00:59:04.530 --> 00:59:07.489 for track six. We got five more to go here. All 00:59:07.489 --> 00:59:09.349 right. I'm going to slow it down again, and I'm 00:59:09.349 --> 00:59:11.010 going to go a little out of left field, and I'm 00:59:11.010 --> 00:59:14.650 going to go out of Japan, actually. My next pick 00:59:14.650 --> 00:59:18.050 for my next track is a song called Thank You, 00:59:18.070 --> 00:59:20.690 My Twilight. It's also the self -titled track 00:59:20.690 --> 00:59:23.050 from the album that came out in 2002 by a Japanese 00:59:23.050 --> 00:59:26.269 band called The Pillows. So a lot of nerds out 00:59:26.269 --> 00:59:27.929 there are probably going to recognize him as 00:59:27.929 --> 00:59:29.769 the band that did the music for the anime FLCL 00:59:29.769 --> 00:59:33.010 or FLCL. I actually discovered them before the 00:59:33.010 --> 00:59:35.150 anime came out because they were sort of like 00:59:35.150 --> 00:59:37.670 a garage rock revival band based out of Japan, 00:59:37.809 --> 00:59:39.630 which you didn't see a whole lot of. You see 00:59:39.630 --> 00:59:41.650 a lot of lo -fi garage rock bands coming out 00:59:41.650 --> 00:59:43.869 of Japan now, but the Pillows were something 00:59:43.869 --> 00:59:46.489 of an anomaly at the time. And they still kind 00:59:46.489 --> 00:59:48.969 of are. And they have been their entire careers, 00:59:49.050 --> 00:59:51.489 where especially this album is very much garage 00:59:51.489 --> 00:59:53.809 rock. It's bare bones. It's stripped down. It's 00:59:53.809 --> 00:59:56.389 just... crunchy guitars and really really awesome 00:59:56.389 --> 00:59:58.889 like bass guitar riffs and whatnot but they also 00:59:58.889 --> 01:00:02.010 employed like chiptune and synth and whatnot 01:00:02.010 --> 01:00:05.130 to their music and very very little of the lyrics 01:00:05.130 --> 01:00:07.230 are in english it's all in japanese because they 01:00:07.230 --> 01:00:09.369 became so popular because they composed so much 01:00:09.369 --> 01:00:11.809 music for that anime you can find a lot of translations 01:00:11.809 --> 01:00:14.969 of their music on the internet but you don't 01:00:14.969 --> 01:00:17.909 need to know what the lead singer is saying directly 01:00:17.909 --> 01:00:20.980 to understand the vibe and the feel and the spirit 01:00:20.980 --> 01:00:22.380 of what he's singing about with each of these 01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:24.659 songs. And I think that culminates into Thank 01:00:24.659 --> 01:00:27.820 You, My Twilight, which is such a sweet and sad 01:00:27.820 --> 01:00:31.539 and melancholy and beautiful song with really 01:00:31.539 --> 01:00:34.139 killer guitar riffs and just the drummer just 01:00:34.139 --> 01:00:37.480 wailing and this really, really sweet and succinct 01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:41.340 chiptune intro. And it's just like, if you can 01:00:41.340 --> 01:00:43.519 consider the Ramones as pop, you can consider 01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:45.940 the Pillows as garage rock, if that makes sense. 01:00:46.440 --> 01:00:48.900 They skirt along sort of almost being adjacent. 01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:51.820 The spirit is there. It's just a bunch of just 01:00:51.820 --> 01:00:53.900 high energy Japanese dudes just playing their 01:00:53.900 --> 01:00:57.059 hearts out, writing incredibly nuanced and wonderful, 01:00:57.179 --> 01:00:59.119 but also really simple music at the same time. 01:00:59.219 --> 01:01:01.239 And I love the fact that they're super poppy, 01:01:01.260 --> 01:01:04.019 but also can like get down to the trenches and 01:01:04.019 --> 01:01:06.440 do like some dirty, heavy garage rock stuff. 01:01:06.659 --> 01:01:08.940 But yeah, they've been around since like 1989, 01:01:09.019 --> 01:01:12.559 I think. But this album came out in 2002. It 01:01:12.559 --> 01:01:14.539 was before the anime came out and then the anime 01:01:14.539 --> 01:01:16.360 snatched them up and they kind of became synonymous 01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:18.760 and like they've toured all the comic cons and 01:01:18.760 --> 01:01:21.860 whatnot. But in their own right, this band is 01:01:21.860 --> 01:01:24.039 phenomenal. Whether you're a fan of anime or 01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:27.280 not. And yeah, I think they absolutely belong 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:29.179 on the definitive list of garage rock revival 01:01:29.179 --> 01:01:31.960 bands. I'm going to sum them up in two words. 01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:34.719 And I think these two words put together, even 01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:36.980 though it sounds a little bit of an oxymoron, 01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:41.869 will work. And that is complex simplicity. Totally. 01:01:42.070 --> 01:01:44.710 100%. And it's beautiful. Yeah. It really, really, 01:01:44.710 --> 01:01:47.650 really works. And I'm going to come out of that 01:01:47.650 --> 01:01:50.630 now because you took it down. So I'm going to 01:01:50.630 --> 01:01:54.789 bring it up a little bit, but then stop. So I'm 01:01:54.789 --> 01:01:56.070 not going to get heavy because we're getting 01:01:56.070 --> 01:01:57.969 close to the end here. So we're kind of in that 01:01:57.969 --> 01:02:01.469 mid -second set dip. So I like where we are. 01:02:01.670 --> 01:02:03.989 So I'm going to go with something that doesn't 01:02:03.989 --> 01:02:06.670 even have a lot of electric guitars in it. It's 01:02:06.670 --> 01:02:08.510 a little bit more acoustic. It even has a slide 01:02:08.510 --> 01:02:12.260 guitar in it. But somehow. Love that. Somehow 01:02:12.260 --> 01:02:16.579 this song works. Off the band's 2008 self -titled 01:02:16.579 --> 01:02:19.420 album. I'm going to go with the third single 01:02:19.420 --> 01:02:22.239 because the first two singles, Free Love and 01:02:22.239 --> 01:02:25.440 In One Ear, were released prior but didn't make 01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:28.980 a splash. However, Cage the Elephants Ain't No 01:02:28.980 --> 01:02:32.519 Rest for the Wicked, it was Splash Mountain in 01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:36.239 a musical sense. This song hit everywhere. It 01:02:36.239 --> 01:02:40.400 had the garage rock attitude, but almost an acoustic 01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:45.159 Americana vibe. So it was, again, blurring the 01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:48.219 lines of what garage rock was. And this is the 01:02:48.219 --> 01:02:51.420 band that I saw open for Stone Temple Pilots 01:02:51.420 --> 01:02:56.559 for their 2010 self -titled tour. When they toured 01:02:56.559 --> 01:03:00.059 the first Stone Temple Pilots self -titled album, 01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:03.000 which was the only self -titled album with Scott 01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:07.119 Weiland on vocals. And this song for me was a 01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:09.800 highlight. And I'm not a huge TV person, but 01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:12.219 one of my wife and I's favorite shows that we 01:03:12.219 --> 01:03:15.579 both agree on is Lucifer. And if you watch the 01:03:15.579 --> 01:03:18.639 pilot, this song opens up and closes the pilot 01:03:18.639 --> 01:03:21.760 episode of which I felt was a fantastically done 01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:24.260 show. Lucifer. I'm going to go with Cage the 01:03:24.260 --> 01:03:27.320 Elephant. Ain't no rest for the wicked. Excellent 01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:29.360 track. I love the track. I love the band too. 01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:32.250 And yeah, you're right. one of those bands that 01:03:32.250 --> 01:03:34.429 haven't really employed like like guitar a whole 01:03:34.429 --> 01:03:36.070 lot which is unique and awesome and interesting 01:03:36.070 --> 01:03:39.710 and fun and uh because i knew friends who are 01:03:39.710 --> 01:03:41.590 musicians and i played bass guitar i never bothered 01:03:41.590 --> 01:03:45.150 to play actual guitar i kind of looked to cage 01:03:45.150 --> 01:03:46.489 the elephant back when i was a kid and be like 01:03:46.489 --> 01:03:49.070 hey can we start a band like this maybe because 01:03:49.070 --> 01:03:50.429 we don't know anybody who plays guitar really 01:03:50.429 --> 01:03:52.829 well so what can we do to like start a band and 01:03:52.829 --> 01:03:55.559 kind of get around that but yeah one of those 01:03:55.559 --> 01:03:58.239 incredibly innovative bands definitely a pillar 01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:00.440 and a mainstay of the garage rock revival in 01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:03.539 the 2000s love the pick love the band knocking 01:04:03.539 --> 01:04:05.860 out of the park my friend all right you've got 01:04:05.860 --> 01:04:09.679 two songs left and i've got one so we gotta really 01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:11.619 i know we're playing chicken with some trains 01:04:11.619 --> 01:04:13.780 here so i'm i'm assuming the trains are gonna 01:04:13.780 --> 01:04:17.940 hit soon maybe uh we'll see i i think we're coming 01:04:17.940 --> 01:04:24.030 down to it honestly yeah my next pick is There's 01:04:24.030 --> 01:04:25.710 so many bands left on this that I really want 01:04:25.710 --> 01:04:27.409 to talk about, but I got to narrow it back down 01:04:27.409 --> 01:04:31.409 to two. I think it's going to be... The album 01:04:31.409 --> 01:04:33.929 was out of sight, out of mind. And a lot of people 01:04:33.929 --> 01:04:36.110 think that the song title is also the same thing 01:04:36.110 --> 01:04:38.469 because it's part of the chorus. The song is 01:04:38.469 --> 01:04:41.050 actually called Don't Come Knockin'. It's by 01:04:41.050 --> 01:04:43.130 the Datsuns. The album was out of sight, out 01:04:43.130 --> 01:04:45.230 of mind. It came out in 2004. It's one of those 01:04:45.230 --> 01:04:46.889 bands that, again, just embodies that sort of 01:04:46.889 --> 01:04:49.630 punk rock, like from the late 90s, early 2000s, 01:04:49.630 --> 01:04:52.090 and kind of shifted over into the garage rock 01:04:52.090 --> 01:04:55.239 revival. It's just rolling guitar riffs and super 01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:58.280 fun bass licks and screaming vocals. And it's 01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:00.880 one of those bands that can go from doing a goofy, 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:04.199 silly, really light sort of song into riff heavy 01:05:04.199 --> 01:05:05.980 and just going crazy and having a great time. 01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:08.659 I think they might have been on a Tony Hawk soundtrack 01:05:08.659 --> 01:05:10.920 or two. I'm not sure. But I've loved this band 01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:13.039 since they first came out. I think it's an absolute 01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:16.000 mainstay of the genre. And I think they're still 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:18.280 making albums today and still rocking it out, 01:05:18.360 --> 01:05:21.059 which is awesome. But the Datsuns, off the album, 01:05:21.199 --> 01:05:23.159 out of sight, out of mind. The song is called 01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:26.900 don't come a knocking. I love it. Great pick. 01:05:27.139 --> 01:05:30.659 Love that song coming out of cage, the elephant, 01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:38.360 but man, I'm looking at my list and one, two, 01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:44.300 three, four, five different bands that have been 01:05:44.300 --> 01:05:48.019 talked about on people's chime ins. And we've 01:05:48.019 --> 01:05:50.829 only got one pick each. So I'm just going to 01:05:50.829 --> 01:05:53.949 throw the band names out there because all five 01:05:53.949 --> 01:05:56.889 of these bands have been mentioned heavily in 01:05:56.889 --> 01:05:59.769 the pre -show prep. And that would be the Black 01:05:59.769 --> 01:06:06.289 Keys, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Leon, The Strokes, 01:06:06.369 --> 01:06:12.219 and The Vines. The New Yorker in me. wants to 01:06:12.219 --> 01:06:15.239 go with the Strokes. Sure. Julian Casablancas 01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:18.019 is an awesome, unique voice. They were honestly 01:06:18.019 --> 01:06:19.880 one of the bands that, along with the White Stripes, 01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:21.960 really sort of kicked off the Garage Rock Revival 01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:24.980 whole thing. So, yeah, the Strokes were massive 01:06:24.980 --> 01:06:27.659 when they came out. It was insane. They really, 01:06:27.719 --> 01:06:32.519 really were. However, as much as I love the Strokes, 01:06:32.639 --> 01:06:36.239 I'm actually going to go with the Vines for my 01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:39.000 last pick of the night, and I'm not going to 01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:43.400 go with Get Free. Oh. I'm going to go with 2004's 01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:46.539 Winning Days and I'm going to go with Ride because 01:06:46.539 --> 01:06:49.179 I want to bring that touch of 90s alternative 01:06:49.179 --> 01:06:53.179 grunge into the garage rock sound because when 01:06:53.179 --> 01:06:56.260 you mix those two together on paper, that doesn't 01:06:56.260 --> 01:06:58.920 sound like it would work. But oh my God, did 01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:01.659 they pull it off flawlessly. And it sounds like 01:07:01.659 --> 01:07:06.000 the song was released in 1993. Yet it came out 01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:09.039 a decade later and it worked for both the garage 01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:12.090 rock sound and that. I don't want to leave the 01:07:12.090 --> 01:07:16.590 nineties kid inside of me. And it really hit 01:07:16.590 --> 01:07:19.650 in two different areas. And I know people are 01:07:19.650 --> 01:07:21.590 going to be mad that I veered away from get free, 01:07:21.650 --> 01:07:25.050 but the music video for ride is so much fun. 01:07:25.489 --> 01:07:28.590 It's just such a groove. It's such a vibe. And 01:07:28.590 --> 01:07:31.960 the vines are. Again, one of those underrated 01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:34.179 bands. I know everyone immediately goes to Get 01:07:34.179 --> 01:07:36.280 Free, but there's so much beyond that if you 01:07:36.280 --> 01:07:38.920 dig deeper. And I want people to dig deeper. 01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:41.159 So I'm going to go with Ride, which, again, was 01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:43.000 a song that people are familiar with. It was 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:45.860 a video. It was a single. But it's not the first 01:07:45.860 --> 01:07:49.860 song that comes to mind. But for me, it is. So 01:07:49.860 --> 01:07:52.519 I'm closing out my portion of this list with 01:07:52.519 --> 01:07:55.599 Divine's Ride. No disrespect to any of the other 01:07:55.599 --> 01:07:58.340 bands that I mentioned leading up to that, though. 01:07:58.789 --> 01:08:02.230 No, yeah. I prefer Ride to Get Free, honestly. 01:08:02.489 --> 01:08:06.230 I thought Get Free was a dope track. It was super 01:08:06.230 --> 01:08:08.530 heavy. Again, it was a lot of people's introduction 01:08:08.530 --> 01:08:11.389 to garage rock revival. It kind of got a little 01:08:11.389 --> 01:08:13.690 overplayed, I think. And I think Ride has the 01:08:13.690 --> 01:08:16.630 better guitar riff motif. I think it's got the 01:08:16.630 --> 01:08:19.010 better chorus. It's just so much fun to roll 01:08:19.010 --> 01:08:20.989 down the windows and sing along with. It's great. 01:08:21.010 --> 01:08:23.510 It's a lot of fun. The band itself was kind of 01:08:23.510 --> 01:08:25.770 divisive because they were kind of known for... 01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:28.100 putting out really good albums and then doing 01:08:28.100 --> 01:08:31.640 really really terrible live shows but that was 01:08:31.640 --> 01:08:33.880 kind of you know it kind of came along with the 01:08:33.880 --> 01:08:36.739 garage rock revival scene where that was kind 01:08:36.739 --> 01:08:38.779 of a crap shoot like you might see a band on 01:08:38.779 --> 01:08:40.619 a really good night and see an amazing show and 01:08:40.619 --> 01:08:43.880 other nights they might just have you know their 01:08:43.880 --> 01:08:47.380 heads firmly that don't give a crap sort of mindset 01:08:47.380 --> 01:08:50.539 and you'd get like a crappy show out of the vines 01:08:50.539 --> 01:08:52.079 like a lot of people still hate that band to 01:08:52.079 --> 01:08:54.340 this day i still think they're a lot of fun I 01:08:54.340 --> 01:08:57.220 get the attitude. I would be one of those people 01:08:57.220 --> 01:08:58.800 to be pissed off if I paid to see them live on 01:08:58.800 --> 01:09:00.800 a bad night where they just didn't care. But 01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:03.500 no, I mean, they were very, very important to 01:09:03.500 --> 01:09:06.079 not just the garage rock revival scene, but just 01:09:06.079 --> 01:09:08.319 music in the early 2000s as well. I mean, you 01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:10.119 couldn't get away from them. They were massive 01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:13.159 for a pretty long stretch of time. They were 01:09:13.159 --> 01:09:16.640 a lot of fun. Just great guitars, great vocals, 01:09:16.739 --> 01:09:19.979 great drums. I love the dual vocals, the back 01:09:19.979 --> 01:09:21.659 and forth with the choruses and the pre -choruses 01:09:21.659 --> 01:09:24.100 and whatnot. Really, really strong songwriting 01:09:24.100 --> 01:09:26.579 and just oozing with attitude. It was great. 01:09:26.819 --> 01:09:29.279 And some great harmonies as well, at least in 01:09:29.279 --> 01:09:32.699 Ride. The harmonies were perfect for that song. 01:09:33.159 --> 01:09:38.000 And again, it had that 90s grunge tinge to it, 01:09:38.079 --> 01:09:40.479 which is a little different than all the songs 01:09:40.479 --> 01:09:42.279 we've talked about. Because when we talk about 01:09:42.279 --> 01:09:45.189 garage rock, you think... white stripes and you 01:09:45.189 --> 01:09:47.229 think that sound i mean that was the image i 01:09:47.229 --> 01:09:49.770 used to kind of tease the episode and it put 01:09:49.770 --> 01:09:52.710 everybody in that frame of mind but if you weave 01:09:52.710 --> 01:09:55.470 through this playlist that we've crafted throughout 01:09:55.470 --> 01:09:58.189 the whole night tonight there's a lot of different 01:09:58.189 --> 01:10:01.569 elements that touch in and out of garage rock 01:10:01.569 --> 01:10:04.590 and i think the toughest challenge is going to 01:10:04.590 --> 01:10:06.569 you tonight because you have to put the exclamation 01:10:06.569 --> 01:10:11.489 point on this what i think is an amazing 2000s 01:10:11.489 --> 01:10:16.090 garage rock mixtape. So DT, the floor is yours. 01:10:16.470 --> 01:10:21.170 How are you closing out the evening? So I think 01:10:21.170 --> 01:10:22.930 it's going to be one of those songs where people 01:10:22.930 --> 01:10:24.390 are probably not going to know the name right 01:10:24.390 --> 01:10:25.750 off the bat, but they're going to know the song 01:10:25.750 --> 01:10:28.069 right off the bat when they hear it. I think 01:10:28.069 --> 01:10:30.069 it's going to make sense why I held on to this 01:10:30.069 --> 01:10:32.449 one and why I'm closing out this mixtape because 01:10:32.449 --> 01:10:35.069 I think it was quietly one of the most important 01:10:35.069 --> 01:10:37.729 bands in the garage rock revival scene. I think 01:10:37.729 --> 01:10:39.409 once you hear the track, when you go and listen 01:10:39.409 --> 01:10:41.390 to the playlist after Brian gets everything up 01:10:41.390 --> 01:10:43.529 online, it's going to make total sense. I think 01:10:43.529 --> 01:10:45.649 it's going to bring it all full circle. It's 01:10:45.649 --> 01:10:48.130 going to culminate in this. And it's by a band 01:10:48.130 --> 01:10:51.130 called The Subways. The album was Young for Eternity. 01:10:51.189 --> 01:10:54.449 It came out in 2005. And the track is Rock and 01:10:54.449 --> 01:10:57.090 Roll Queen. And it starts out with this awesome 01:10:57.090 --> 01:11:00.050 little chunky riff. And then it just slowly builds 01:11:00.050 --> 01:11:03.710 up into this badass garage rock revival anthem. 01:11:04.590 --> 01:11:07.449 And just, I love... The harmonization and the 01:11:07.449 --> 01:11:09.210 vocals between Billy Lunn and Charlotte Cooper. 01:11:09.329 --> 01:11:11.090 I love how they play off each other. I think 01:11:11.090 --> 01:11:13.010 Charlotte Cooper is one of the most underrated 01:11:13.010 --> 01:11:15.909 backup vocalists in all of rock and roll, not 01:11:15.909 --> 01:11:18.329 just garage rock. But the track is super fun. 01:11:18.670 --> 01:11:20.350 It's one of those things where, like I said, 01:11:20.449 --> 01:11:22.010 you're not going to probably know it until you 01:11:22.010 --> 01:11:23.789 listen to it. And then when it kicks into the 01:11:23.789 --> 01:11:25.489 chorus, you're going to be like, oh, DT is a 01:11:25.489 --> 01:11:30.250 goddamn genius. But yeah, Rock and Roll Queen 01:11:30.250 --> 01:11:33.109 by The Subways off the album Young For Eternity. 01:11:33.529 --> 01:11:35.149 They're from England, by the way. So another 01:11:35.149 --> 01:11:37.229 one of those European bands that kind of came 01:11:37.229 --> 01:11:38.869 under the radar. One of those bands I was hip 01:11:38.869 --> 01:11:40.909 to before they became popular in the States because 01:11:40.909 --> 01:11:45.069 I was just cool like that. Look, I love the pick. 01:11:45.170 --> 01:11:47.250 I was going back and forth with Samuel Jones, 01:11:47.550 --> 01:11:50.130 who's the co -host of the Records and Bands podcast. 01:11:50.649 --> 01:11:53.229 I was a guest on recently with his brother Rob 01:11:53.229 --> 01:11:55.350 hosting. Him and I were going back and forth 01:11:55.350 --> 01:11:57.510 on Instagram. He's out in the UK and he said 01:11:57.510 --> 01:11:59.750 he's looking forward to this episode because 01:11:59.750 --> 01:12:04.180 he wants to put together a group of. UK garage 01:12:04.180 --> 01:12:07.579 rock bands. I'll be very curious to see if he's 01:12:07.579 --> 01:12:10.560 standing up cheering right now, listening to 01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:14.140 this episode because of that pick. I think it's 01:12:14.140 --> 01:12:17.159 a perfect exclamation point to close outside 01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:20.539 B, which kicked off with Arctic monkeys. Red 01:12:20.539 --> 01:12:23.340 light indicates doors are secured. The white 01:12:23.340 --> 01:12:26.069 stripes fell in love with a girl. Butch Walker 01:12:26.069 --> 01:12:28.729 and the Black Widows, Bodegas and Blood, The 01:12:28.729 --> 01:12:32.250 Rockin' Tours, Level, OK Go, Here It Goes Again, 01:12:32.609 --> 01:12:35.649 The Pillows, Thank You My Twilight, Cage the 01:12:35.649 --> 01:12:38.550 Elephant, Ain't No Rest for the Wicked, The Datsuns, 01:12:38.569 --> 01:12:41.909 Don't Come Knockin', The Vines, Ride, and The 01:12:41.909 --> 01:12:45.250 Subways, Rock and Roll Queen. Remember to head 01:12:45.250 --> 01:12:47.930 to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs 01:12:47.930 --> 01:12:51.170 we've discussed in this mix through the playlist 01:12:51.170 --> 01:12:54.750 embedded on the episode page. I know there's 01:12:54.750 --> 01:12:58.210 some bands we left off. And my question to the 01:12:58.210 --> 01:13:01.329 mixtapers out there, what song would you add 01:13:01.329 --> 01:13:05.630 to this playlist? Make sure to chime in at my 01:13:05.630 --> 01:13:08.949 weekly mixtape on the site, on social media, 01:13:09.029 --> 01:13:12.689 or email me. What song would you add to this 01:13:12.689 --> 01:13:16.130 Garage Rock mixtape? DT, why don't you let the 01:13:16.130 --> 01:13:19.289 mixtapers know where they can find Space Castle 01:13:19.289 --> 01:13:23.119 on YouTube and connect with you? I am not kidding 01:13:23.119 --> 01:13:25.739 when I say it's one of the best YouTube produced 01:13:25.739 --> 01:13:28.720 shows that I've seen in a long time. And I think 01:13:28.720 --> 01:13:31.600 I'm going to be telling people six months from 01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:34.399 now, I had this guy on the podcast back when. 01:13:36.239 --> 01:13:38.640 I appreciate that, man. I hope that comes to 01:13:38.640 --> 01:13:40.659 fruition. And that's true. The best place to 01:13:40.659 --> 01:13:42.439 find me right now is probably SpaceCastlePod 01:13:42.439 --> 01:13:45.739 .com. That's sort of my home in deep space and 01:13:45.739 --> 01:13:47.640 on the internet. If you want to go straight for 01:13:47.640 --> 01:13:49.539 the YouTube channel, it's YouTube .com forward 01:13:49.539 --> 01:13:53.079 slash at SpaceCastlePod. YouTube, you could not 01:13:53.079 --> 01:13:54.800 have made that more confusing. Thank you very 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:57.420 much. I love the new ad system. It's wonderful. 01:13:58.140 --> 01:14:00.539 You can find me at Space Castle Pod on Twitter 01:14:00.539 --> 01:14:04.079 and Instagram and TikTok, actually. So, yeah, 01:14:04.180 --> 01:14:05.960 having a lot of fun there, just posting clips 01:14:05.960 --> 01:14:08.199 and goofing off and being silly and having a 01:14:08.199 --> 01:14:09.880 blast making YouTube videos that hopefully people 01:14:09.880 --> 01:14:12.520 are digging. Well, I certainly am. And I thank 01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:14.659 you so much for joining me tonight on my weekly 01:14:14.659 --> 01:14:17.039 mixtape. This has been a lot of fun. Thank you 01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:18.939 for talking music with me again, man. Had a great 01:14:18.939 --> 01:14:21.510 time. Dude, it is always my pleasure, man. Like 01:14:21.510 --> 01:14:23.310 I said, you are one of the most knowledgeable 01:14:23.310 --> 01:14:24.890 people when it comes to music and many other 01:14:24.890 --> 01:14:27.010 things that I've ever met. And you're just so 01:14:27.010 --> 01:14:28.409 much fun to talk to. You're one of my favorite 01:14:28.409 --> 01:14:30.630 people. I love you, man. I will be on anytime, 01:14:30.949 --> 01:14:34.069 any place, anywhere, whenever. Just say the word. 01:14:34.390 --> 01:14:36.590 Well, we're definitely going to make that happen 01:14:36.590 --> 01:14:39.369 because I've got a lot more avenues to dig down 01:14:39.369 --> 01:14:41.670 and you are a lot of fun to chat tunes with. 01:14:41.750 --> 01:14:44.569 So thank you again. And remember, Mixtapers, 01:14:44.689 --> 01:14:47.470 you can find me at My Weekly Mixtape on Facebook, 01:14:47.689 --> 01:14:50.630 Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Spoutable at 01:14:50.630 --> 01:14:54.270 My Weekly Mixtape. You can also head to MyWeeklyMixtape 01:14:54.270 --> 01:14:57.369 .com to check out the full catalog of My Weekly 01:14:57.369 --> 01:14:59.649 Mixtape episodes. And if you want to support 01:14:59.649 --> 01:15:02.130 the show, please consider becoming a Patreon 01:15:02.130 --> 01:15:05.989 Mixtaper at Patreon .com forward slash My Weekly 01:15:05.989 --> 01:15:08.409 Mixtape. 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