WEBVTT 00:00:10.709 --> 00:00:13.470 Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.470 --> 00:00:16.350 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:16.350 --> 00:00:18.809 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:18.949 --> 00:00:21.890 Joining me once again as guest curator is DT 00:00:21.890 --> 00:00:25.190 Carell, host of Space Castle. DT, welcome back, 00:00:25.210 --> 00:00:27.429 my friend. What's up, dude? I'm happy to be here. 00:00:27.890 --> 00:00:30.109 Glad to have you back on. And tonight we're doing 00:00:30.109 --> 00:00:32.630 something a little different because the topics 00:00:32.630 --> 00:00:35.109 I've had you on in the past, you've had preparation. 00:00:35.789 --> 00:00:39.490 I did. Tonight, I reached out to you what about? 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:42.340 15 minutes ago? Yeah, a little less than that. 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:47.659 I'm not nervous. Not at all. Tonight is the second 00:00:47.659 --> 00:00:52.320 ever no topic episode of my weekly mixtape. So 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.420 it's a little bit different. You don't pre -plan 00:00:55.420 --> 00:00:57.799 for something like this. You can't pre -plan 00:00:57.799 --> 00:00:59.920 for something like this. It's like having a baby. 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:06.549 Yeah. You're not ready until it's here. For those 00:01:06.549 --> 00:01:09.909 that don't know what the first No Topic episode 00:01:09.909 --> 00:01:12.810 was like, let me explain. Tonight, as like a 00:01:12.810 --> 00:01:16.930 regular episode, DT and I will be curating this 00:01:16.930 --> 00:01:21.090 No Topic mixtape. And due to the nature of this 00:01:21.090 --> 00:01:24.129 kind of episode, we're only going to do one side. 00:01:24.650 --> 00:01:27.469 Before the show, we flipped a coin, and I won 00:01:27.469 --> 00:01:30.390 the coin flip, so I get to choose the first song 00:01:30.390 --> 00:01:33.780 of the night. And then DT will choose the song 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:35.920 that follows me up, and we'll flip -flop choosing 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:40.140 songs until we've mapped out this 10 -song playlist 00:01:40.140 --> 00:01:42.780 that each one of us are going to have to try 00:01:42.780 --> 00:01:46.219 to name. At the end of the show, you can take 00:01:46.219 --> 00:01:48.540 our conversation to the next level by visiting 00:01:48.540 --> 00:01:51.560 the episode page at myweeklymixtape .com, where 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:54.569 you can give our final mixtape a listen. via 00:01:54.569 --> 00:01:56.950 the embedded playlist. And if you like what you're 00:01:56.950 --> 00:01:58.629 hearing on the show, you can help me out by either 00:01:58.629 --> 00:02:01.150 telling a friend, leaving the show a five -star 00:02:01.150 --> 00:02:03.609 review wherever you're tuning in, or becoming 00:02:03.609 --> 00:02:07.109 a Patreon mixtaper at patreon .com forward slash 00:02:07.109 --> 00:02:10.729 myweeklymixtape. There you can enjoy ad -free 00:02:10.729 --> 00:02:13.669 episodes of the show, be a future guest, and 00:02:13.669 --> 00:02:19.830 so much more. All right. We have no topic. And 00:02:19.830 --> 00:02:23.830 instead of me just picking a song, Off the top 00:02:23.830 --> 00:02:26.629 of my head, I'm going to let my phone do the 00:02:26.629 --> 00:02:29.009 talking here, and I'm just going to open up all 00:02:29.009 --> 00:02:33.569 of my songs and give it a big scroll. I got about 00:02:33.569 --> 00:02:36.789 10 ,000 songs. It's kind of like if you watch 00:02:36.789 --> 00:02:39.069 The Price is Right when you spin the wheel, that's 00:02:39.069 --> 00:02:42.229 happening right now. So you got to get through 00:02:42.229 --> 00:02:47.530 9 ,000 Kenny G tracks. All right. We're going 00:02:47.530 --> 00:02:52.960 to start off tonight's episode in 1993. One of 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:56.039 my favorite soundtracks of the entire decade. 00:02:56.699 --> 00:02:59.800 And the opening song on that. So it's almost 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:02.580 poetic that an opening song popped up here. Yeah. 00:03:02.699 --> 00:03:05.460 But we are going to go with Helmet and House 00:03:05.460 --> 00:03:11.039 of Pain. Just Another Victim from 1993's Judgment 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:17.960 Night soundtrack. Holy shit. Okay. This song, 00:03:17.979 --> 00:03:21.900 honestly. is so the soundtrack as a whole was 00:03:21.900 --> 00:03:26.819 so unique and so much fun and it really kind 00:03:26.819 --> 00:03:30.000 of set the bar for what new metal needed to become 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:33.740 for it to become a viable genre in and of itself 00:03:33.740 --> 00:03:36.060 i feel like the movie believe it or not i've 00:03:36.060 --> 00:03:37.879 never seen i've talked about this before because 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.000 i talked about this entire album on the soundtrack 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.939 your life podcast and this soundtrack in my humble 00:03:44.939 --> 00:03:48.960 opinion was bigger than the movie Well, the soundtrack 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.500 was, if I remember right, it was all pairings 00:03:51.500 --> 00:03:55.120 of like metal and like new metal bands with rappers, 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.500 right? Yes, correct. Like all of it. So it was 00:03:57.500 --> 00:03:59.680 like Slayer and Ice -T and stuff like that. Like 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:01.280 it was like almost like they drew names out of 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:02.659 a hat or something and did like a compilation, 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:04.699 which ended up being like the soundtrack for 00:04:04.699 --> 00:04:06.979 the movie. Yeah, this is a great fucking soundtrack. 00:04:07.539 --> 00:04:11.199 And the problem is, well, here's the thing. With 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.330 this type of episode. You can go in any direction 00:04:14.330 --> 00:04:16.610 with this. You could jump on now because I kind 00:04:16.610 --> 00:04:18.990 of gave you this one's pretty easy to start with 00:04:18.990 --> 00:04:21.329 because you could take it the rock direction. 00:04:21.350 --> 00:04:24.149 You could take it the hip hop direction. You 00:04:24.149 --> 00:04:26.290 can kind of go anywhere because this song really 00:04:26.290 --> 00:04:29.329 is a blending of the two vibes there. Yeah. I 00:04:29.329 --> 00:04:30.689 mean, I love the whole soundtrack and I love 00:04:30.689 --> 00:04:33.029 this track in particular. As soon as you said 00:04:33.029 --> 00:04:36.449 it. That guitar riff, it immediately popped into 00:04:36.449 --> 00:04:37.850 my head, and I knew what this was going to be 00:04:37.850 --> 00:04:40.629 about. And I'm already kind of feeling a vibe, 00:04:40.750 --> 00:04:42.389 and I really dig it. I like the track a lot. 00:04:42.490 --> 00:04:46.350 I like the absolutely random pick. So, I mean, 00:04:46.410 --> 00:04:50.129 yeah. Crap, okay. Let me pick something at random. 00:04:51.550 --> 00:04:53.589 Okay, I don't know where we're going to go with 00:04:53.589 --> 00:04:55.269 this, but like you said, the door's wide open. 00:04:56.069 --> 00:05:02.449 It's Na Na Na by My Chemical Romance. So, I mean, 00:05:02.490 --> 00:05:04.310 it's the opening track off of their, what year 00:05:04.310 --> 00:05:07.329 was it? It was like 2010. Their album, The True 00:05:07.329 --> 00:05:10.209 Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. So, if you're 00:05:10.209 --> 00:05:12.370 not familiar, it was their fourth, third or fourth 00:05:12.370 --> 00:05:16.019 studio album. What's cool about this track is 00:05:16.019 --> 00:05:17.959 the fact that they were deliberately trying to 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.060 mimic the sound of Saturday morning cartoon anthems, 00:05:20.060 --> 00:05:22.660 like themes. Because when they wrote this album, 00:05:22.860 --> 00:05:24.660 they were so tired and exhausted emotionally 00:05:24.660 --> 00:05:27.839 after doing the whole Black Parade thing that 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:29.579 they deliberately went into the studio to write 00:05:29.579 --> 00:05:32.120 something happy and cheerful and crazy and zany 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:33.920 and whatnot. And they pulled it off in spades 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:35.959 with this track. I don't know what vibe we're 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:38.839 going for just yet, but I'm kind of happy with 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:41.040 the pick. I really dig it. It's got a little 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:43.889 anger to it. Little, like, sort of ironic anchor, 00:05:43.990 --> 00:05:47.250 similar to Helmet and House of Pain. Yeah, okay. 00:05:47.350 --> 00:05:49.269 We got some heavy guitar riffs in here anyway, 00:05:49.350 --> 00:05:52.269 which is pretty dope, so. Yeah, just another 00:05:52.269 --> 00:05:55.029 victim in the, na -na -na is very much, it's 00:05:55.029 --> 00:05:57.550 upbeat, it's fast, it's energetic. It's like 00:05:57.550 --> 00:06:00.310 anime music almost, yeah. But it maintains that 00:06:00.310 --> 00:06:04.410 emo vibe that My Chemical Romance was pretty 00:06:04.410 --> 00:06:07.870 much one of the big torchbearers for in the 2000s. 00:06:07.889 --> 00:06:12.680 Mm -hmm. Hmm. I think I'm going to stay on that 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:17.519 emo vibe. Okay. And bring it down tempo -wise 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:20.800 a little bit. But energy -wise, I think it's 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:23.420 going to be cranked up. Okay. And I'm going to 00:06:23.420 --> 00:06:26.500 go with the title track from the band's 2002 00:06:26.500 --> 00:06:28.839 album. So I'm definitely going to lean into this 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:32.639 punk 2002 emo vibe. And we're going to go with 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:37.660 Finch, What It Is To Burn. This song is absolutely 00:06:37.660 --> 00:06:42.910 massive. favorite finch songs ever when my wife 00:06:42.910 --> 00:06:45.129 and i were dating and we were doing the road 00:06:45.129 --> 00:06:48.329 trips back and forth from new jersey to new hampshire 00:06:48.329 --> 00:06:51.509 i always threw finch songs on mix cds that i 00:06:51.509 --> 00:06:53.310 was listening to heading up there and i would 00:06:53.310 --> 00:06:57.430 always put these songs on her mixes and there 00:06:57.430 --> 00:07:00.430 were two letters to you and stay with me that 00:07:00.430 --> 00:07:03.589 for some reason she has no recollection of ever 00:07:03.589 --> 00:07:06.850 hearing even though i put them on several dozen 00:07:06.850 --> 00:07:11.060 of these mix CDs I gave her. But what it is to 00:07:11.060 --> 00:07:13.079 burn is definitely one that stuck out to her. 00:07:13.379 --> 00:07:20.220 It is a very powerful song and very heavy. There's 00:07:20.220 --> 00:07:24.040 some visceral screams mixed with lush harmonies. 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:27.980 It's just such a fantastic tune. It blows my 00:07:27.980 --> 00:07:31.600 mind that Finch was not one of the biggest bands 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.300 in the punk emo scene in the 2000s. So I know 00:07:35.300 --> 00:07:41.670 we went from rap metal kind of this mashup to 00:07:41.670 --> 00:07:44.889 emo punk to emo punk so it's it's a weird vibe 00:07:44.889 --> 00:07:48.509 we got going on here but these three songs would 00:07:48.509 --> 00:07:51.329 fit on a playlist because they're all heavy so 00:07:51.329 --> 00:07:53.829 at least we've got that going all right i'm gonna 00:07:53.829 --> 00:07:55.810 throw you for a loop here because this is freaking 00:07:55.810 --> 00:07:59.069 wild so my next pick is it's hot water music 00:07:59.610 --> 00:08:03.009 The song is Remedy off of their 2002 album Caution. 00:08:03.350 --> 00:08:06.069 So Hot Water Music isn't necessarily emo. They're 00:08:06.069 --> 00:08:09.110 more like hardcore, post -hardcore. But all the 00:08:09.110 --> 00:08:10.930 emo kids that I grew up hanging out with back 00:08:10.930 --> 00:08:13.569 in the day going to the scene and whatnot were 00:08:13.569 --> 00:08:16.050 all about Hot Water Music. I knew people who 00:08:16.050 --> 00:08:17.889 had Hot Water Music tattoos who were going out 00:08:17.889 --> 00:08:20.149 to the scene shows and all that type of stuff. 00:08:20.290 --> 00:08:22.689 And musically, sonically, they're actually very 00:08:22.689 --> 00:08:27.480 similar to Finch, which is kind of weird. Yeah, 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:29.879 great album, great song. I love the Finch Pig, 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:31.579 by the way. I didn't mean to cut that short and 00:08:31.579 --> 00:08:33.500 not contribute to that conversation. Awesome 00:08:33.500 --> 00:08:35.039 band. And I do agree that they should have been 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:36.279 much bigger than they were, because like you 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:38.820 said, they had such a lush sound, and there was 00:08:38.820 --> 00:08:41.600 so much to offer besides just a sort of pseudo 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.259 -emo post -hardcore sound. I think Hot Water 00:08:44.259 --> 00:08:46.220 Music was the same way, where everybody knew 00:08:46.220 --> 00:08:48.379 about them, but they never really famous. They 00:08:48.379 --> 00:08:50.080 never really broke it big. They never had music 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.080 videos on MTV or anything like that back in the 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:54.629 day. But like I said, I knew so many people who 00:08:54.629 --> 00:08:57.110 had hot water music tattoos. Like, like they 00:08:57.110 --> 00:08:59.210 were just one of those quietly, incredibly famous 00:08:59.210 --> 00:09:01.370 bands that were never actually incredibly famous. 00:09:01.409 --> 00:09:04.590 It's strange. Yeah. This is one of those bands 00:09:04.590 --> 00:09:08.690 that to me was ridiculously underrated and influential, 00:09:09.090 --> 00:09:13.090 completely influential to the point that I know 00:09:13.090 --> 00:09:14.809 where I'm going to go, but I want to talk about 00:09:14.809 --> 00:09:16.490 this album because I'm so glad you picked something 00:09:16.490 --> 00:09:20.009 off caution. Trusty chords to me. Is one of my 00:09:20.009 --> 00:09:23.990 go -to workout songs. Yeah. It's weird because 00:09:23.990 --> 00:09:29.309 it's a heavy, weightful song. Yeah. But it just 00:09:29.309 --> 00:09:32.389 feels so good when you're listening to it. It 00:09:32.389 --> 00:09:36.110 makes you happy. Lyrically, might not be the 00:09:36.110 --> 00:09:38.269 happiest band on the planet, let's just say. 00:09:38.370 --> 00:09:39.929 No, like I said, that's why they kind of fit 00:09:39.929 --> 00:09:42.509 in with the emo sort of vibe. It's just because 00:09:42.509 --> 00:09:44.490 they weren't the happiest of dudes when they 00:09:44.490 --> 00:09:47.139 were writing music. It's also music that ironically 00:09:47.139 --> 00:09:48.960 like fires you up and get you ready to go at 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:50.799 the same time. Like you want to jump into a circle 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:53.980 pit or like jump on the treadmill or yeah, just 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:55.440 change the vibe. It's something you'd listen 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.139 to while you're pissed off at work and you either 00:09:57.139 --> 00:09:59.559 want to lean into that or, or burn off some of 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.840 that energy. Yeah. And I'm going to lean into 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.440 hot water music because I think they're great. 00:10:05.500 --> 00:10:07.360 And I'm going to go with a band that has covered. 00:10:07.950 --> 00:10:10.929 hot water music in their live shows so every 00:10:10.929 --> 00:10:14.509 band for the 2000s yeah pretty much and you know 00:10:14.509 --> 00:10:16.629 coming from new jersey this is really leaning 00:10:16.629 --> 00:10:19.370 into it let's go with the gaslight anthem oh 00:10:19.370 --> 00:10:21.830 bring them into the fold they do a fantastic 00:10:21.830 --> 00:10:23.970 cover of trusty chords if you want to look that 00:10:23.970 --> 00:10:27.750 up but i'm going to go with one that it's probably 00:10:27.750 --> 00:10:31.409 my favorite gaslight anthem song ever i'm going 00:10:31.409 --> 00:10:35.190 to go with 45 yeah you got to yeah handwritten 00:10:35.190 --> 00:10:40.169 is such an amazing album but 45 has that vibe 00:10:40.169 --> 00:10:44.110 that my chemical romance finch hot water music 00:10:44.110 --> 00:10:46.970 house of pain and helmets kind of the outlier 00:10:46.970 --> 00:10:51.289 here but that's okay i'm okay with that but 45 00:10:51.289 --> 00:10:56.070 coming out of remedy it keeps that because 45 00:10:56.070 --> 00:11:00.809 is not lyrically a happy song No. But musically, 00:11:00.950 --> 00:11:03.870 I don't know why I feel so good every time I 00:11:03.870 --> 00:11:06.889 hear it. I think it's cathartic. I think it's 00:11:06.889 --> 00:11:08.730 really cathartic. I mean, it's about moving on 00:11:08.730 --> 00:11:10.309 from a shitty relationship and, you know, let 00:11:10.309 --> 00:11:11.909 somebody else lay at her feet, like that type 00:11:11.909 --> 00:11:13.970 of thing. Like, you're becoming a stronger, better 00:11:13.970 --> 00:11:15.529 person. You're moving on from a shitty situation. 00:11:16.350 --> 00:11:18.549 And I think that's kind of the same thing from 00:11:18.549 --> 00:11:20.429 all the songs we've picked so far, oddly enough. 00:11:20.750 --> 00:11:22.450 What's wrong with us, Brian? Are we okay? Do 00:11:22.450 --> 00:11:25.629 we need therapy? Well, here's the thing. House 00:11:25.629 --> 00:11:28.919 of Pain and Helmet, musically... Are the yin 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:32.379 and the yang so far. Yeah. But for the rest of 00:11:32.379 --> 00:11:35.000 the songs, it's been a lyrical musical yin and 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.379 yang in the sense of more upbeat musically, but 00:11:39.379 --> 00:11:42.860 maybe a little more downtrodden lyrically. So 00:11:42.860 --> 00:11:45.100 now we're up to track six. We're halfway there. 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.340 Where do you go with this? We're going to get 00:11:48.340 --> 00:11:50.159 sad and think about death and stuff is where 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.679 we're going to go with this, Brian. Oh, no. We're 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:54.100 going to keep with the same vibe because now 00:11:54.100 --> 00:11:55.860 I'm on this roller coaster ride with you and 00:11:55.860 --> 00:12:01.139 it's nothing but down. I am going to pick off 00:12:01.139 --> 00:12:03.860 of the Toxic Airborne Events self -titled album 00:12:03.860 --> 00:12:07.779 from 2009, Sometime Around Midnight. This song. 00:12:08.490 --> 00:12:10.870 much like the lyrics describe, ripped me in two 00:12:10.870 --> 00:12:12.730 the first time I heard it because I had just 00:12:12.730 --> 00:12:14.870 gone through a very terrible breakup. But it's 00:12:14.870 --> 00:12:16.889 also, again, a very cathartic song. It's about 00:12:16.889 --> 00:12:19.649 breaking up with somebody, seeing them in a concert 00:12:19.649 --> 00:12:20.950 or something for the first time after you've 00:12:20.950 --> 00:12:23.769 broken up, making small talk, trying to be happy, 00:12:23.850 --> 00:12:26.269 and inside you're just being ripped apart. And 00:12:26.269 --> 00:12:28.730 then you get incredibly freaking drunk. You stumble 00:12:28.730 --> 00:12:30.409 out of the venue, you make an ass out of yourself, 00:12:30.509 --> 00:12:32.440 and you somehow make it home. But you survived. 00:12:33.700 --> 00:12:36.919 But it very much fits with that vibe of 45 by 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:40.639 Gaslight Anthem, where it's just cathartically, 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:42.600 whether you're doing it in a healthy way or not, 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:44.679 getting out of a bad situation and a bad relationship 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:46.740 and moving on with your life and trying to pick 00:12:46.740 --> 00:12:52.279 up the pieces later on. So you're definitely 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:55.679 taking us out of the emo punk and definitely 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:59.370 more into the emo. side of things i'd say i would 00:12:59.370 --> 00:13:01.690 like in the airborne toxic event more to the 00:13:01.690 --> 00:13:06.169 cure than i would punk but this song definitely 00:13:06.169 --> 00:13:09.129 has a lot of different elements in it you factor 00:13:09.129 --> 00:13:11.649 in the americana part where the beginning almost 00:13:11.649 --> 00:13:14.450 with the violin and everything else and it kind 00:13:14.450 --> 00:13:17.490 of just builds and builds and builds but it's 00:13:17.490 --> 00:13:21.289 also definitely a slicker production than some 00:13:21.289 --> 00:13:24.309 of the other stuff we did On the first half of 00:13:24.309 --> 00:13:28.009 this mix. But the vibe is definitely there. And 00:13:28.009 --> 00:13:32.450 I have this weird feeling coming out of the end 00:13:32.450 --> 00:13:35.629 of this song. And I think I know where I'm going 00:13:35.629 --> 00:13:38.929 to go with this. And this is on paper might really 00:13:38.929 --> 00:13:45.309 seem weird. But hear me out. I trust you. Implicitly. 00:13:45.370 --> 00:13:49.830 I hope so. Because I'm going to go back to 2004. 00:13:50.809 --> 00:13:52.190 And I'm going to go with a group that I've seen 00:13:52.190 --> 00:13:56.590 open for the Counting Crows. And I just, at the 00:13:56.590 --> 00:13:59.269 end of the Airborne Talks event, I caught a vibe. 00:13:59.429 --> 00:14:02.029 And I'm diving into that vibe where it's not 00:14:02.029 --> 00:14:05.049 necessarily, I don't think these two bands would 00:14:05.049 --> 00:14:07.929 ever tour together. But musically, I feel like 00:14:07.929 --> 00:14:10.049 there's something happening here. And I'm going 00:14:10.049 --> 00:14:13.710 to go off of 2004's The Clarence Greenwood Recordings. 00:14:13.809 --> 00:14:15.870 And I'm going to go with Bullet and a Target 00:14:15.870 --> 00:14:21.039 by Citizen Cope. It reintroduces a little bit 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:24.519 of that hip hop delivery. But if you listen to 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.220 the song's vibe, you'll definitely melodically 00:14:28.220 --> 00:14:30.799 hear where it comes out of the airborne toxic 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.379 event. Yeah, I absolutely love the pick. And 00:14:33.379 --> 00:14:34.759 again, it's one of those people, like you said, 00:14:34.899 --> 00:14:37.279 who he should have been much bigger than he was 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.259 and just never quite made it huge because of 00:14:39.259 --> 00:14:41.600 his ability to combine those genres at just the 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.409 right time in the right decade as well. Super 00:14:44.409 --> 00:14:46.289 chill. Super dope. Still carrying along with 00:14:46.289 --> 00:14:48.090 the vibe we're somehow putting together miraculously 00:14:48.090 --> 00:14:50.909 here. But I also really, really love the pick. 00:14:51.190 --> 00:14:55.090 So, yeah. Bullet in a Target. Awesome pick. Love 00:14:55.090 --> 00:14:58.690 it. We got three songs left. We got three songs 00:14:58.690 --> 00:15:04.590 left. Give me a minute. Now I'm digging. It's 00:15:04.590 --> 00:15:09.970 not as easy as it. No. Yeah. Okay. So, I'm going 00:15:09.970 --> 00:15:14.250 to keep with this vibe from Citizen Cope. In 00:15:14.250 --> 00:15:16.049 kind of a weird way, but I think you're going 00:15:16.049 --> 00:15:17.610 to dig it. I think once you realize where I'm 00:15:17.610 --> 00:15:18.629 going with this, it's going to come together 00:15:18.629 --> 00:15:19.730 and you're really going to like it. It's going 00:15:19.730 --> 00:15:21.730 to convalesce. It's going to be beautiful. It's 00:15:21.730 --> 00:15:23.570 going to be fantastic. The pick I'm going to 00:15:23.570 --> 00:15:26.049 throw at you to match the energy in a strange 00:15:26.049 --> 00:15:27.789 way, at least for the first half of the song, 00:15:27.870 --> 00:15:30.649 is going to be Little One by Highly Suspect off 00:15:30.649 --> 00:15:34.590 of their 2016 album, The Boy Who Died Wolf. So 00:15:34.590 --> 00:15:37.330 it starts out with that light twangy guitar and 00:15:37.330 --> 00:15:39.750 you got those sort of moody vocals. And it's 00:15:39.750 --> 00:15:43.929 a song about... reflection and just not being 00:15:43.929 --> 00:15:46.389 healthy enough to be there for somebody else. 00:15:46.970 --> 00:15:49.330 It's, again, kind of a downer. But then the second 00:15:49.330 --> 00:15:50.970 half of the song kicks in with a full electric 00:15:50.970 --> 00:15:53.250 guitar and the full band, and it just goes off. 00:15:53.570 --> 00:15:55.490 And Highly Suspect is one of those bands from 00:15:55.490 --> 00:15:57.289 the 2010s that I just absolutely fell in love 00:15:57.289 --> 00:15:59.169 with the first time I heard them. Because again, 00:15:59.269 --> 00:16:01.429 their ability to combine genres. It's not necessarily 00:16:01.429 --> 00:16:05.070 just alternative rock or metal. It's very melodic. 00:16:05.070 --> 00:16:08.610 It's very introspective. And it's this dude who's 00:16:08.610 --> 00:16:10.950 got like a ninja side tattoo down the side of 00:16:10.950 --> 00:16:14.309 his face. And you wouldn't necessarily like expect 00:16:14.309 --> 00:16:16.470 him to write those sort of introspective and 00:16:16.470 --> 00:16:19.289 very personal and honest lyrics. But he does 00:16:19.289 --> 00:16:22.049 it with panache. He does it with style. An incredible 00:16:22.049 --> 00:16:24.350 voice, like that raspiness that Citizen Cope 00:16:24.350 --> 00:16:27.690 kind of also has too. And yeah, I think I've 00:16:27.690 --> 00:16:30.009 successfully built off that vibe. A little bit 00:16:30.009 --> 00:16:32.950 of a curveball. But if there's two people on 00:16:32.950 --> 00:16:36.399 this planet that know music, it's... Probably 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:39.039 you and somebody else, but I'm trying my best 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:46.419 here. Man, you really did capture the Bullet 00:16:46.419 --> 00:16:49.840 and the Target vibe, but you upped the intensity 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:53.580 because this has that chorus that is just so 00:16:53.580 --> 00:16:59.000 powerful and so big and so emotional. Yeah. Man, 00:16:59.179 --> 00:17:02.179 this is definitely not one to be like a happy, 00:17:02.220 --> 00:17:05.759 sunny Saturday road trip mix for sure. although 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:08.519 just another victim does kind of it kind of teases 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:10.640 you in a weird way at the beginning of this one 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:15.640 before this journey unfolds but when i think 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.359 of highly suspect and i think of little one i 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:20.460 immediately know the next song that needs to 00:17:20.460 --> 00:17:23.779 follow it up and it's one of my favorite songs 00:17:23.779 --> 00:17:28.259 that i saw live in 2019 from their album okay 00:17:28.259 --> 00:17:31.819 i'm sick i'm gonna go with bad flowers the jester 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:35.880 keeps that same vibe and that same intensity 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:39.500 from little one and again it's this really emotional 00:17:39.500 --> 00:17:46.900 powerful song that has found its home from the 00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:49.779 toxic airborne event woven through citizen cope 00:17:49.779 --> 00:17:52.680 and the highly suspect like this is a tale of 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.099 two vibes here and i'm loving it so coming out 00:17:56.099 --> 00:17:59.119 of little one by highly suspect we're gonna go 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.819 with bad flowers the jester Love the pic, and 00:18:02.819 --> 00:18:05.180 I think you matched the vibe perfectly. I think 00:18:05.180 --> 00:18:06.500 you and I have actually talked about Bad Flower 00:18:06.500 --> 00:18:08.839 before, not on a podcast episode, but just like 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:11.259 shooting shit, talking music. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, 00:18:11.339 --> 00:18:14.660 absolutely got that melodic sort of emotional 00:18:14.660 --> 00:18:16.960 lyrics. And then, like you said, it kicks in 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.119 the second half, just like Little One by Highly 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.980 Suspect. Yeah, that's a perfect choice. I really, 00:18:23.019 --> 00:18:32.049 really like it. I really dig it a lot. Finding 00:18:32.049 --> 00:18:34.750 the other bookend to Helmet and House of Pains, 00:18:34.789 --> 00:18:41.009 just another victim. So there's a band that immediately 00:18:41.009 --> 00:18:43.549 comes to mind after you mentioned Bad Flower, 00:18:43.670 --> 00:18:45.069 just because they recently toured with them, 00:18:45.109 --> 00:18:47.329 I think like last year. It's one of my favorite 00:18:47.329 --> 00:18:54.009 bands. And I don't know. I'm just going to go 00:18:54.009 --> 00:18:56.849 with it because we're just having fun here. Like, 00:18:56.849 --> 00:19:01.420 you know. You know, so keeping up with the high 00:19:01.420 --> 00:19:02.859 energy of the back end of the song, I'm just 00:19:02.859 --> 00:19:04.579 going to go full on energy and I'm going to keep 00:19:04.579 --> 00:19:08.099 with the sort of introspective, like very carefully 00:19:08.099 --> 00:19:09.920 crafted lyrics, but I'm going to go a little 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.339 less emo, a lot less emo. I'm going to bring 00:19:12.339 --> 00:19:14.299 full energy back towards where we were with, 00:19:14.380 --> 00:19:17.779 you know, the House of Pain and whatnot. Just 00:19:17.779 --> 00:19:19.640 because this band immediately just came to mind 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:22.200 as soon as you said Bad Flower. The song I'm 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:24.720 going with is It's Dead, Sarah. It's the song 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:26.680 Monumental Holiday off of their self -titled 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:29.769 album from 2012. Again, just because they toured 00:19:29.769 --> 00:19:31.529 together and I watched a whole bunch of videos 00:19:31.529 --> 00:19:32.849 on YouTube because they couldn't make the tour 00:19:32.849 --> 00:19:34.890 and it looked phenomenal. But I thought they 00:19:34.890 --> 00:19:36.890 were such a great pairing touring together. And 00:19:36.890 --> 00:19:38.529 I think they're going to be a great pairing for 00:19:38.529 --> 00:19:41.269 this playlist. The song is just slap you in the 00:19:41.269 --> 00:19:44.170 face, rock and roll. I think Susie Melody is 00:19:44.170 --> 00:19:46.230 one of the best guitar players just out there. 00:19:46.329 --> 00:19:48.609 I think she's phenomenal. I think the lead singer 00:19:48.609 --> 00:19:50.650 is just absolutely insane. Now that I think about 00:19:50.650 --> 00:19:51.890 it, I think we've actually talked about them 00:19:51.890 --> 00:19:55.490 on another episode, but I don't care. They are 00:19:55.490 --> 00:19:57.369 such a great band and they're so hardworking 00:19:57.369 --> 00:19:59.650 and they crank out such great music that they 00:19:59.650 --> 00:20:01.210 deserve to be recognized, to be talked about 00:20:01.210 --> 00:20:03.309 as many times as we can throw them out there. 00:20:03.430 --> 00:20:07.470 So the track is Monumental Holiday. it is a banger 00:20:07.470 --> 00:20:10.089 it is awesome and i feel like we've gone from 00:20:10.089 --> 00:20:12.450 high energy to real low energy to you know we 00:20:12.450 --> 00:20:15.269 need therapy to let's get angry and jump in the 00:20:15.269 --> 00:20:17.410 circle pit again so that's where i'm leaving 00:20:17.410 --> 00:20:20.809 us off i could have went with a bunch of different 00:20:20.809 --> 00:20:23.410 songs from dead sarah including weatherman like 00:20:23.410 --> 00:20:25.970 that would have fit in really well here and we 00:20:25.970 --> 00:20:28.430 definitely i think i remember you talked about 00:20:28.430 --> 00:20:31.490 it wasn't a my weekly mixtape episode you talked 00:20:31.490 --> 00:20:35.259 about dead sarah With a playlist wars. I want 00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:38.519 to say it was like the 2021 playlist wars. You're 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:42.140 right. It was the best of 2021. One of those 00:20:42.140 --> 00:20:43.599 two years. Cause they just put out an album. 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:47.079 Yeah. Yeah. Like it's laugh loud, pretend to 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:49.180 let go, live your life like an Eskimo, which 00:20:49.180 --> 00:20:52.000 is not a politically correct term now, but in 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:53.700 terms of just going out in the wilderness and 00:20:53.700 --> 00:20:56.680 being by yourself and telling society to go F 00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:59.180 itself. That's what the song is all about, but 00:20:59.180 --> 00:21:01.180 it's high energy. It's super killer. It's just 00:21:01.180 --> 00:21:05.180 awesome. Couldn't agree more on the song. I completely 00:21:05.180 --> 00:21:07.680 agree with everything you have to say about dead 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.599 Sarah. I'm so glad you brought them into the 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:12.880 fold because along with a couple of the other 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:15.119 bands we mentioned tonight, I feel like we've 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:19.819 brought some lesser known underrated groups to 00:21:19.819 --> 00:21:21.960 this playlist, which might factor into where 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:25.660 I'm going with the name I'm coming up with. as 00:21:25.660 --> 00:21:27.700 I'm mulling it over. But before we even get to 00:21:27.700 --> 00:21:31.279 any of that, let's remind listeners of the 10 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.460 songs we've put together in this no topic playlist, 00:21:34.819 --> 00:21:37.519 which I got the good fortune to kick off tonight 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:40.200 with Helmet and House of Pains, just another 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:43.460 victim from the Judgment Night soundtrack. We 00:21:43.460 --> 00:21:47.460 then had My Chemical Romance's Na Na Na, Finch's 00:21:47.460 --> 00:21:51.799 What It Is to Burn, Hot Water Music's Remedy, 00:21:51.980 --> 00:21:57.250 Gaslight Anthem's 45, Toxic Airborne Events Sometime 00:21:57.250 --> 00:22:00.269 Around Midnight, Citizen Cope's Bullet and a 00:22:00.269 --> 00:22:04.569 Target, Highly Suspect's Little One, Bad Flower's 00:22:04.569 --> 00:22:08.309 The Jester, and Dead Sarah's Monumental Holiday. 00:22:08.710 --> 00:22:11.329 And just like a regular episode, head over to 00:22:11.329 --> 00:22:14.670 myweeklymixtape .com to hear the entire mixtape 00:22:14.670 --> 00:22:17.890 we've created tonight through the playlist embedded 00:22:17.890 --> 00:22:22.410 on the episode page. DT, what are you naming 00:22:22.410 --> 00:22:25.839 this mixtape? I think I'm calling this the, we 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:29.519 probably should be in a therapy mixtape. A lot 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:32.819 of emotions we need to purge and process, I feel 00:22:32.819 --> 00:22:36.660 like. It's a Monday and it's daylight savings. 00:22:37.099 --> 00:22:38.720 I feel like everybody's feeling a little down 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:40.440 right now. There's about to be a huge blizzard 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:43.160 outside in Denver, Colorado. So I don't know, 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.960 those feelings just surfaced. So what about you, 00:22:45.980 --> 00:22:49.319 Brian? Well, when I listen to this mix and I 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:52.640 hear these songs back to back to back, There's 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.480 only one thing you could possibly name this mixtape, 00:22:55.500 --> 00:22:59.099 and it's Finding Emo and the Musical Skateboard 00:22:59.099 --> 00:23:05.059 Ramp. That's it. Perfect. Never mind. Don't even 00:23:05.059 --> 00:23:08.119 put what I said in the episode. Just fucking 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:12.099 delete it. Amazing. Now I'm going to make it 00:23:12.099 --> 00:23:15.000 graphic so we can have a cover for this playlist 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:19.640 now. Because it starts so high and then there's 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:23.059 that dip in the middle that's just so gut -wrenching. 00:23:23.059 --> 00:23:25.859 But then as you come out of the Joker and into 00:23:25.859 --> 00:23:28.299 Dead Sarah, it brings you back up to the other 00:23:28.299 --> 00:23:31.099 end. And then there was such an emo theme through 00:23:31.099 --> 00:23:33.759 it. I just thought it was funny to call it Finding 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:36.380 Emo in the Musical Skateboard Ramp. It's fantastic. 00:23:36.700 --> 00:23:39.599 I love it. Well, if anybody out there listening. 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:42.900 has a name for this mixtape that they would like 00:23:42.900 --> 00:23:46.079 to chime in with, share it on social media or 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:50.259 hit me up at myweeklymixtape at gmail .com. DT, 00:23:50.380 --> 00:23:52.500 before we close things up, why don't you let 00:23:52.500 --> 00:23:55.160 people know where they can find all things Space 00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:57.700 Castle. Yeah, absolutely. You can find me at 00:23:57.700 --> 00:24:00.380 SpaceCastle .net. It's where you can find all 00:24:00.380 --> 00:24:01.859 the YouTube videos and all the stuff I'm doing. 00:24:02.180 --> 00:24:04.099 The YouTube is obviously the main feature. I'm 00:24:04.099 --> 00:24:05.680 out there doing nerdy videos like every couple 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:09.039 of weeks. So yeah, movies, video games, whatever 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.480 kind of strikes my fancy. So come and hang out. 00:24:11.539 --> 00:24:13.059 That would be amazing. I would appreciate it. 00:24:13.099 --> 00:24:16.180 And thank you. As always, DT, this has been an 00:24:16.180 --> 00:24:18.339 absolute blast. Thank you so much for joining 00:24:18.339 --> 00:24:20.779 me on my weekly mixtape. Dude, of course. 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