April 11, 2025 • 29 mins
"Dare to Re-Sequence: Making Dare to Be Stupid Make Sense"
This week, Lauren and Russ take their marriage to the next level and take on a noble Weird Al challenge: rearranging the tracklist of Dare to Be Stupid into an order that (dare we say it?) makes more sense. We each came up with our own new sequence for the album, and we’re diving deep into the why behind our choices. Does “Like a Surgeon” really need to be Track 1? Should “One More Minute” hit earlier or later? We’ve got opinions—and so will you.
We also have links to both of our resequenced versions so you can listen along and decide which one reigns supreme. So put on your accordion hat and let’s get stupid… in a very deliberate way.
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Dare to Re-Sequence (Russ's)
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This week, Lauren and Russ take their marriage to the next level and take on a noble Weird Al challenge: rearranging the tracklist of Dare to Be Stupid into an order that (dare we say it?) makes more sense. We each came up with our own new sequence for the album, and we’re diving deep into the why behind our choices. Does “Like a Surgeon” really need to be Track 1? Should “One More Minute” hit earlier or later? We’ve got opinions—and so will you.
We also have links to both of our resequenced versions so you can listen along and decide which one reigns supreme. So put on your accordion hat and let’s get stupid… in a very deliberate way.
Dare to be Lauren (Lauren's)
Dare to Re-Sequence (Russ's)
Beer'd Al is a stupid member of the OddPods Media Network.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-d-al-podcast--5439475/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Hello everybody, and welcome to the beard Al Podcast, the
podcast about two of the greatest things.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
In the world, Beer and weird Al.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And we have come to the end, the very end
of this would seemed to be like a drawn out
there to be Stupid series, But we're drawing it out.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I would argue that there's enough with this album, like
I don't think, I mean, we may cross this bridge eventually,
but like I can't think of another weird Alm off
the top of my head that would require us to
reorder the tracks.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah, I can't, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So's there's a lot of uniqueness with this record.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
So what my dear husband Russ has just alluded to
is the fact that we're doing something that I'd kind
of been noodling about as a series has been going on.
Because my biggest problem with Dare to Be Stupid is
the sequencing of the tracks, I think, and so we
have each taken and re sequenced there to Be Stupid
(01:34):
in a way that we feel is better than the
way that it was originally done.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And did you you uh divide it up by sides? Right? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I did.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And so what we're gonna do is we're gonna do
our side one, and then we're gonna throw it to
some take a little break, and then come back and
throw it to side too, and we'll leave it to
you the people to decide who did a better job,
even though I'm sure Russ probably did because he's really good.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
If anybody once too, they can you can like make
a playlist, yeah, and just add these songs in this order,
and then, for the love of all things holy, don't
hit shuffle.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah yeah, So if you if you choose to do that,
you know, immerse yourself, experience it, and then let us
know who did a better job.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't know, So we're gonna go. Each one's gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Wait before we start. How many songs do you have
on side one?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Five?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Okay? So, and then six on side two? Yes, okay,
I have five, six on side one and five on
side two.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm also willing to bet that the first song and
the last song on side one are the same for us,
maybe just I with I should be clear that we
have in no way to discuss this the other time.
I'm just guessing that we have the same song as
the first song and the last song on side one.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Okay, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So what how about this just so we keep things
even right, since you have more on side one and
I have more on side two.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
M because I'm sure the outlier is George of the Jungle.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, I mean, so let's do as I did with this,
and just if George of the Jungle is is there,
just lump it in with whatever ever's either before or
after it as you're like.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You know what I'm saying, So even right makes sense.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So I have opened the Dare to Be Stupid album
with the title track there to.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Being match up on that I knew it. So, I
mean it's it would be a perfect album opener.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It wouldn't you know, because I mean it tells you what.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It would be a perfect, perfect album opener, like it
would just be like, well, it doesn't even like it
doesn't even tell you what the album's gonna be or
about or anything. It's just it's a mission statement for
where now like and besides that, people forget that this
was It wasn't the theme song, but it was featured
in the Transformers animated film, which we have to watch sometime.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
By the way, I've never seen it, but it's so good.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Like it starts with like twenty minutes of just straight heartache. Yeah,
like put you in a kid's movie, Like, like, imagine
if you saw a movie called like Mickey and Donald
and Minnie and what's Donald's old lady's name? Daisy go
on an adventure and then they weren't in the movie
anymore after the first twenty minutes on account of expiring.
(04:21):
That's how incredibly hard to watch the first twenty minutes,
says But anyways, dary by stupid, while now by any
means the theme of the movie, which was you Got
to Touch by stand Bush, which is a great song,
but it's featured in the movie. Yeah, And so I
don't know why you wouldn't open your record with like
(04:42):
because at the time I would have imagine, well, I mean,
I know I was into weird Al as a kid.
I would imagine most of the people buying weird Al
records would have been kids at the time, And like,
why wouldn't you just I mean, this is all besides
the fact that it's a great Yeah, So I like,
why wouldn't you open the record with like, hey, you
(05:03):
saw the Transformers, right because all of us did, Like
here's that song from the transformers. Yeah, I don't know
why you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know why you wouldn't either, And like also too.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I think anyone on earth who would who would re
re sequence this record would open it there.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, I mean we both did. I'm glad we both
did do that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And I also just feel that the energy is correct
for an album opener like this is just big, high
energy and it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
To be the thing that kicks off this record.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I agree, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
My second track on side one is like a surgeon
all right.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I don't even think I have that on side one.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So while you're figuring out what you know, what you
did there?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I put this here for for a couple of reasons,
right because you know, one of the things that Annel
traditionally does is have like the big single some where,
the big parody right somewhere in the beginning of the record.
And like, looking at the parodies on this, I was like,
you know what, this is a good spot for this
because you're probably having a lot of people picking this
(06:12):
up because they want to hear that, And I'm like,
you know what, spot two is fine with it because
I feel like, if you have you ever listened to
there to be Stupid and then have like a surgeon
follow it immediately, because it's like the opposite of how
how it is on the album as it exists. Yeah right,
it's a fun energy shift in the opposite way.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I don't disagree, but I went at this with more
traditional I don't know rules or like the way the
music industry used to do album sequencing on purpose, so
my second track goes completely in another direction one more minute, okay,
because I feel strongly that coming out of there to
(06:49):
be Stupid, like as far as like to use the
term you used earlier, like mission statement like dare to
be Stupid is frantic and crazy, and the song I
don't see this very often, but the song looks like
the cover of the album sounds or sounds like the album.
The cover of the album looks you know what I mean.
And then I think going right to one more minute
(07:10):
would be like there is going to be some skill
and variety on this album.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
M hmm. I hear that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And to me, there to be Stupid counts as a
single because it would have been well known.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So I'm saying following it with like a surgeon for
me wasn't necessary because that would be single single.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, see the way I thought of it too.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Is one of my issues with part of the original
sequencing of this album is the parodies aren't peppered enough,
so I didn't want to go original original.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So that reason, I just feel like the way there
to be stupid ends with the like loud and frantic,
and then just to go right to a d wop
song would make anybody be like, well, there's gonna be
some stuff going on in.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
This record, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So track three I had a similar thought with like, huh,
this is be a weird shift, right, So I went
from like a surgeon into this is the life.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I can't I can't really disagree. I think I think
the the biggest things that we're gonna I guess I
have to explain is the placements of the polkas and
why you know or I'm the polkas the parodies rather
and why there I wish there was more than one polka.
But yeah, I can see this as the life going
there for me again. To me, I'm thinking of this
(08:33):
as if if a if I'm trying to sell records,
how I would keep someone's attention so daring to be
stupid then into one more minute. And for anyone who
is a kid or a younger person who bought the
record and was like, yeah, okay, but I don't I
don't think so I want a new Duck Okay, because
(08:55):
that way, it's like, Okay, I know this song from
the Transformers. Yeah, my mom plays Elvis a lot, and
then oh, okay, I totally know that he was listened
the news.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah that that also makes sense. That also makes sense. Man.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I'm I'm probably gonna end up like putting both of
these together and listening to the which one. You know what,
maybe I'll make the playlist and I'll share them out
and we'll have the people.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Vote the battle of the stupid stupid battle.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
My title by the way of my record, because I
think I've mentioned it on your show before that bands
do rerecords and things like that, And Twisted Sister did
a re record of Stay Hungry and it's called Still Hungry.
So my album is called dar to re sequence.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Man, I didn't even think of doing anything. No, no,
I can't do it. I was gonna say Lauren's version,
but I'm not going to go.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I wanted to be released the My seat track listing
I want to be released on like vinyl with like
like with like gold foil in the cover and all that,
and like to double LP forty five rpm pressing of
of I almost said the rowing title dre to re
sequenced to re.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Sequence, Oh my gosh. Yeah, well you got a solid
gold Cadillac, right.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Right, all right?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
So for three to four, for me, I go from
this is delight, this is the life into Yoda.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And I'll tell you why because looking at this, I
did a thing that.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I wasn't setting out to do necessarily on purpose. But
I like what happened because having dare to be stupid,
this is the life in Yoda. On side one, it
all kind of tips the cap to the movies.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah no, that's yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And this was a parody following an original well said.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
As I want a new Duck. If you consider that
it was sripped off from Ghostbusters, or no Ghostbusters were
stripped off from, it's rather apologized to apologies to Huey
and the News. It was actually Ghostbusters that was to
rip off. So for me, in order is there to
be stupid one more minute, I want a new Duck
and then Cable TV and George of the.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Jungle okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
And I think cable TV coming out of I Want
a New Duck is perfect. Like it's just like when
when I want to do Duck Fades Away, you got
cable TV, And it's just like if you listen, if
you hear it in your head, do you hear the
I want to do Duck fade Away? Like it's it's
fine with that. And then George of the Jungle, there's
no other other than just getting rid of it altogether.
(11:31):
I just think right after an original, then a cover
is fine there.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, that's that's totally fair and reasonable. I got no
issue with it. I got no issue with it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And so like again, I so I was kind of
maybe like almost too cognizant of the I went original parody,
original parody kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You don't have to. They're not all not all weird albums.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I like that, No, no, no, no, I know, and the
rest of it isn't necessarily like that, but like that's
what felt comfortable for me for this. And so my
side one closer is hooked on Polkas.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, that's I knew we were gonna match up on.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That too, because that's what's correct.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I know how that Poka is not the finisher of
Side one is beyond me.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's such a good polka and it's like bear.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Read So what do you? I know this is going
to be a shorter episode than that. I want to
elongate it for no reason, but go through your sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yes I will.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
My Side one is dare to be stupid like a surgeon.
This is the life Yoda hooked on Polkas.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Okay, and then there to be stupid one more minute.
I want a new cable TV George of the Jungle
and hooked on Polkas. I would dare to say, if
you listen to the songs in this order, Georgia of
the Jungle isn't even bothersome like coming out of cable TV.
And right before the polka Georgia the Jungle being there,
you're just like you would just be like oh neat.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Uh huh oh yeah, because it makes sense for the cable.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Coming out of an original. It's a cover. And then
the only thing I think if again, I'm talking to
the person who bought this and I'm as the person
who puts the sequence together. I'm trying to get them
to continue listening to the record. So my thought is
coming out of cable TV. When it starts, there's that
familiarity of like, oh, I remember the song from when
(13:16):
I was a kid, but wait, isn't this just like
a minute long? And then when it ends, being like, oh, yeah,
that was only man, and then the polka kicks in yeah,
and you're like pleased greatly.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
We have similar logic with how we've employed George of
the Jungle, but I've done mine on side too, so
that side one, we're gonna take a little break here,
pay some bills, and come back on the other side
with the other side fantastic.
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how I wished I could have seen one of Billy
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Speaker 6 (13:51):
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Speaker 5 (13:56):
Well, today my phone said I should read an interview
with Billy Joel where he talks about both retirement and
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Till Man, it's always so creepy when that happens.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
We should do a podcast about how our devices are
always listening to us.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
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talk about how technology is always spying on us and
how those tech corporations are such big buttholes.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
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Speaker 3 (14:51):
Can't get back of that.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I just love it so much. So we're going to
do the same thing with side two of Dare to
Be Stupid. I have opened Side too of Dare to
Be Stupid with I want a New Duck all right,
because in my opinion, that's the best parody on this record,
and I think it's a phenomenal way to kick off
Side too, because it is just so darn funny.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I don't disagree. But the reason why I didn't save
it for the spot is because it wasn't the lead single.
And again I'm mostly going by record label reasoning at
that time, Like, there's the reason why I beat it
is the first song on side too, a thriller, do
you know what I'm saying? M And then Billy Jean's
right after it. They're like, hey, by the way, stay
(15:37):
for side too, won't you? You know, So that's why
that's that's where like if like.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
A surgeon goes for me, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Because that's the lead single off the record. And I think, again,
I think it works really well there, Like you flipped
the record over and drop the needle and the beep
starts and you're like, oh, this is why. Yeah, this
is when I heard the radio.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I don't have any qualms with what you've done either,
So I go from I want a new duck into
one more minute.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I mean, yeah, it's just kind of like.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Bringing the vibe, you know, down, chilling out a little
bit after all the ducks, you know, for.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Me, after like a surgeon comes, this is the life.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Oh so we both had like this is a life
follow like a surgeon, just in different places.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, different places on the record that's interesting. Yeah, I
think it's it's fine coming out of that into the
you know, such a silly, ridiculous song. And and again,
like you said, that's also there's a movie tie in
there as well. So if you were listening on side
one and you liked the did the Transformers cut and
all that, then you're like, oh, yeah, that's he did
(16:42):
that in this other movie too.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, so we've got that. That's fun. That's fun.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, Like I was having a hard time because like
there's part of me that griped so much about where
things were originally on this album, but and when I
went to go do it, I was having a hard
time moving things from side one down to side two
or vice versa, because I'm like, no, but that's the
side one song. But it's not, you know, because it's
(17:10):
just what you're used to.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Shouldn't be right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I know, it's just what I'm used to.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
So my next track on side two, after one more
minute is girls just want to have Lunch.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And that's your track three. Yes, the same for me. Yeah,
girls just want to have Lunch, which I maintain. So
I've talked about this before and I think I probably
brought this up. This is probably one of the reasons
why we're doing this. There's a Pearl Jam record called
No Code that is filled with fantastic songs that absolutely
do not go in the order that they are on
(17:45):
that record. Now, does this get to make girls just
want to have lunch, like less lazy or anything? No,
But I think putting it at this point in the record,
it's a Okay, let me give you an example that's
that's tied right into Weirdel and hopefully I don't make
it all the Melanie fans a man again. I don't
(18:08):
love a complicated song because I don't like the original.
I don't hate the original, but I don't like the
original all that much. And I also don't like when
Weird al like like blame it on the Drain and
the Plumber song where he has to like switch in
the middle of a song topics, you know what I mean. Like,
I'm like, well, just no, just do it. You know,
(18:29):
it's to me it seems like, well these three things.
Ryan was complicated, so right, So that's why I don't
like that one. But where it is in the record,
by the time I get there, I've laughed enough to
where every time it starts, I always like, nah, that too,
ye right, And I feel like putting this track this
late in the record saves it because it doesn't make
(18:52):
it any better. But what it does do is you've
already laughed so hard at Terry to be stupid and
like a surge and and I want to do duck
and everything by this point that when this comes up
in the rotation, you're like, oh, oh yeah, you totally
did that to the Cydney Opera song. Yeah, yeah, ra even
Piano Man the Spider Man on same thing, like it's
(19:13):
a thing where. But by the time it comes up
on the record, you're like, you you know what I mean.
It doesn't make it any better, but I think the
track listing makes it like a thousand times better as
in the listening experience.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I agree with you. I agree with you. So I
follow girls Just want to have Lunch with Cable TV
and George of the Jungle.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, which is funny because we have those two paired, Yes,
but I have them on side one. So the second
to last song on it for me is on Sline Creatures,
which again I think it's I think this is a stronger, weird,
al original than it gets credit for absolutely and I
think placing it right after lunch makes the listener be like, like,
(20:03):
by the time the first verse is done, you're like, oh,
hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, no, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I mean, I've got a lot of good things to
say about slime Gregious from Outer Space.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I think it's I think it's a great track.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, but I feel like it doesn't where I feel
like where it's at on.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
The record kills it absolutely does.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And here, if you put it right behind or right
after girls just want to have lunch. People can you're
coming out of a Soso parody and then when a
great original kicks in, you're like, oh, this song is
great too, you know for sure?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So like my thinking here was, you know, I wanted
to keep cable to I wanted Cable TV and George
of the Jungle together, right because I figure cable TV
is talking all about cable TV, and then you get
the George of the Jungle theme, and I was just like,
I struggled with where to put George of the Jungle
until I figured this bit out. Okay, because my by
(20:53):
process of elimination and figured out what your closer is too.
My closer is Slime Creatures because it's a weird song
and I like it as a closer for this album
because if you think about, like opening with There to
Be Stupid, which sounds like it belongs in outer space
in the first place, and ending with Slime Creatures from
outer space, I think that's a good bookend.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Or you could do it I did, and close with
a song that is about outer space.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You could do that too. You could do that too.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Just my logic here, right, is going from Cable TV
into George of the Jungle into Slime Creatures. Is it's
that just doing those three things in a row is
a good, weird, weird out album ending thing to do.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, No, I don't disagree, I know, I just but
I think Yoda is just so darn epic. That's why
I close with it. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's yeah,
I I you know. Of course I don't have never
spoken to him about it, But where Yoda is placed
on the original track listing almost makes it feel like
a throwaway, and I think it's ridiculous to treat that
(21:53):
song in that way. This in every way deserves the
closing slot for me, And again it's it would be
because you know, the before a certain company bought it
and ran it into the ground. Kids used to love
Star Wars and uh again, the way my track listing
(22:14):
happens all the way up to the end of the record,
at least every other song, the intended audience goes, oh, yeah,
I love that, right, Whereas like, by the time kids
get to the last track on this, they're going to
be like, oh, I totally remember going to see and
virus strikes back and you know, love that and whatever.
(22:34):
So yeah, that's I think. I think it's an epic
enough song to where it should be the closer on
the record, like get that, I don't know, a distinction
of closing the record. And then I also think it's
the thing. There's another thing too that I think a
final track should do on a final track on an album.
(22:56):
Absolutely should And if people are listening to this and
they're like, final track's never done that, then like you
don't listen to albums that are properly a final track
on an album should make you be like, hey, can
we start this over?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Right, yeah, And I feel like by the time Yoda's done,
it fades away, you'd be like, I want to listen
to this album.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Again that kind of Yeah, I feel like mine kind
of does that in a similar way too, right, because like, what.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Do they want from us? Who do they think they are?
You know that it fades out and you can.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Hear that almost going back into there to be stupid
like that. Yes, so oh man, so let's do quickly.
I'm going to do a rundown of what our side,
my side two is, and you do yours for the
folks keeping track at home, No pun intended, because it's right,
that's funny.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So my side too is as follows, I want a
new duck one more minute, Girls just want to have lunch,
Cable TV George of the Jungle, and it closes out
with slime creatures from outer space.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Whereas mine starts with like a surgeon, this is the life.
Girls just want to have lunch, slign creatures, and then yoda.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So I think these are two different similar perspectives on
how this could have been redone, and I would pause
it that both are better than the way it's originally
been done.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh, I think anything's better than the way it was originally.
I think I'm not a fan of bands that do
that thing where they put out like they put their
album out in a box set of forty five's, you
know that would still be better than this, Like the
way the way I don't understand, and if it's Al himself,
like I would really like him to explain it to me,
(24:37):
like there's not much I would question him on. But
I in no way understand the track listing on this album.
I can't even get used to it. Like I've listened
to this album a million times since it came out,
and like there's the thing where and I mentioned Thriller earlier,
but it was just like easy to use an example.
(24:58):
So like when when I hear beat, it fade out
in my where it's on a jukebox, whether it's on
History sits album, whether it's on streaming, the Billy Jean
beat is just coming in my head right after. And
no song on this album. But if you ask me
right now the original track listing, I probably couldn't even
(25:18):
tell you. And I've you know what I mean, But
that's ridiculous, right exactly, I can tell you the original
track the track list, I'm like, I don't know a
million other albums, so you don't even need to look
it up.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
No, but I just have one one thing that I
wanted to double check before we wrapped all over.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
What you Oh my god, I'm You're right.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Wait a minute, I'll go check.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So I'm gonna go check something on a weird al podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
So yeah, you know what what's crazy is? You know
we were both talking about where do you have?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Girls just want to have lunch? Is it the third
track on side two?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
It is? Yes, Girls just.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Want to have lunch? Is in reality the third track
on side two? I know, but it's but everything else
around it still makes it.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, that's the thing. It's like the Pearl Jam album
I was talking about. You don't have to move every
song around just to move it all around. You just
have to put things on either side of it that
make more damn sense.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yes, So that's ultimately what I feel like ended up
happening here.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Girls just want to have lunch to me wherever where
it's at, Like side two of the record feels like
it's like strongly promoting that you listen to side two,
Like side two knows it's not good enough, and it's
like you should please listen to all these songs that
are together on the side and they're the wrong songs
that are together on that.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Side, Yep, I couldn't agree more so, folks, I think
we did it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I think we did it. We resequenced there to be stupid.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I will of all the things you've done on this show,
this is the episode I would want wheord Ol to hear, like,
I want him to know that people sit around and
think about this type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
This is just a fun thing that we do as
a married couple.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Saying though, like I would if I was an artist,
I would I would want to know that people care
that much. And also, if he does hear this, ever,
I would very much like for him to contact Mobile
Fidelity about doing a to LP forty five rpm pressing
of dertit re sequence.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, I mean to talk to the man, this is
what it is. We would buy it.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I have contacts at Mobile Fidelity, so I mean he
could probably get hold someone faster than probably.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
This has been delightful. I thank you for doing this
with me.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Next time we're here, we're kicking off the Polka Party Palooza.
And because time is a flat circle, we've actually already
recorded that episode and so you have my personal guarantee
that it is a good time because we have our
friend Casey from the Itch Rocks here to talk.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
About from their parade of awesome interviews that they're doing constantly. Yeah,
which I'm saying in a dryway, but I mean and
with reverence, and I think it's awesome that they all
they do is support new rock constantly. And a lot
of these artists that a lot of artists that around
on social media complaining about how nobody buys music anymore,
(28:20):
but a bunch of these artists know and understand what
they're doing on that show and have reached out and said, hey,
I would like to talk to you about the music
that we're making. And so I say that with no
comedy whatsoever, that like, I like that kind was able
to take time out of his schedule of interviewing everyone
in music to come chit chat about many types of
(28:42):
her news that you can get.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, you may not be familiar with the different
types of her news that you can get, but.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
We'll Yeah, don't tell everyone, now.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Settle down.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So yeah, the stay tuned in two weeks to as
we kick off the Polka Party Party.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
But for now, I'm Lauren, and I want to thank
my husband Russ again for rolling in here.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
This is two nights in a row that I know.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I know, this is this is what you get when
you're married to me. But anyway, we'll come at you
again next time. People with the the aforementioned polka party party.
In the meantime, be cool, be awesome, be nice, and
stay weird.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Bye bye,
Hello everybody, and welcome to the beard Al Podcast, the
podcast about two of the greatest things.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
In the world, Beer and weird Al.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And we have come to the end, the very end
of this would seemed to be like a drawn out
there to be Stupid series, But we're drawing it out.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I would argue that there's enough with this album, like
I don't think, I mean, we may cross this bridge eventually,
but like I can't think of another weird Alm off
the top of my head that would require us to
reorder the tracks.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah, I can't, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So's there's a lot of uniqueness with this record.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
So what my dear husband Russ has just alluded to
is the fact that we're doing something that I'd kind
of been noodling about as a series has been going on.
Because my biggest problem with Dare to Be Stupid is
the sequencing of the tracks, I think, and so we
have each taken and re sequenced there to Be Stupid
(01:34):
in a way that we feel is better than the
way that it was originally done.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And did you you uh divide it up by sides? Right? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I did.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And so what we're gonna do is we're gonna do
our side one, and then we're gonna throw it to
some take a little break, and then come back and
throw it to side too, and we'll leave it to
you the people to decide who did a better job,
even though I'm sure Russ probably did because he's really good.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
If anybody once too, they can you can like make
a playlist, yeah, and just add these songs in this order,
and then, for the love of all things holy, don't
hit shuffle.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah yeah, So if you if you choose to do that,
you know, immerse yourself, experience it, and then let us
know who did a better job.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't know, So we're gonna go. Each one's gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Wait before we start. How many songs do you have
on side one?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Five?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Okay? So, and then six on side two? Yes, okay,
I have five, six on side one and five on
side two.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm also willing to bet that the first song and
the last song on side one are the same for us,
maybe just I with I should be clear that we
have in no way to discuss this the other time.
I'm just guessing that we have the same song as
the first song and the last song on side one.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Okay, I believe it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So what how about this just so we keep things
even right, since you have more on side one and
I have more on side two.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
M because I'm sure the outlier is George of the Jungle.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, I mean, so let's do as I did with this,
and just if George of the Jungle is is there,
just lump it in with whatever ever's either before or
after it as you're like.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You know what I'm saying, So even right makes sense.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So I have opened the Dare to Be Stupid album
with the title track there to.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Being match up on that I knew it. So, I
mean it's it would be a perfect album opener.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It wouldn't you know, because I mean it tells you what.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It would be a perfect, perfect album opener, like it
would just be like, well, it doesn't even like it
doesn't even tell you what the album's gonna be or
about or anything. It's just it's a mission statement for
where now like and besides that, people forget that this
was It wasn't the theme song, but it was featured
in the Transformers animated film, which we have to watch sometime.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
By the way, I've never seen it, but it's so good.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Like it starts with like twenty minutes of just straight heartache. Yeah,
like put you in a kid's movie, Like, like, imagine
if you saw a movie called like Mickey and Donald
and Minnie and what's Donald's old lady's name? Daisy go
on an adventure and then they weren't in the movie
anymore after the first twenty minutes on account of expiring.
(04:21):
That's how incredibly hard to watch the first twenty minutes,
says But anyways, dary by stupid, while now by any
means the theme of the movie, which was you Got
to Touch by stand Bush, which is a great song,
but it's featured in the movie. Yeah, And so I
don't know why you wouldn't open your record with like
(04:42):
because at the time I would have imagine, well, I mean,
I know I was into weird Al as a kid.
I would imagine most of the people buying weird Al
records would have been kids at the time, And like,
why wouldn't you just I mean, this is all besides
the fact that it's a great Yeah, So I like,
why wouldn't you open the record with like, hey, you
(05:03):
saw the Transformers, right because all of us did, Like
here's that song from the transformers. Yeah, I don't know
why you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know why you wouldn't either, And like also too.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I think anyone on earth who would who would re
re sequence this record would open it there.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, I mean we both did. I'm glad we both
did do that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And I also just feel that the energy is correct
for an album opener like this is just big, high
energy and it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
To be the thing that kicks off this record.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I agree, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
My second track on side one is like a surgeon
all right.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I don't even think I have that on side one.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So while you're figuring out what you know, what you
did there?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I put this here for for a couple of reasons,
right because you know, one of the things that Annel
traditionally does is have like the big single some where,
the big parody right somewhere in the beginning of the record.
And like, looking at the parodies on this, I was like,
you know what, this is a good spot for this
because you're probably having a lot of people picking this
(06:12):
up because they want to hear that, And I'm like,
you know what, spot two is fine with it because
I feel like, if you have you ever listened to
there to be Stupid and then have like a surgeon
follow it immediately, because it's like the opposite of how
how it is on the album as it exists. Yeah right,
it's a fun energy shift in the opposite way.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I don't disagree, but I went at this with more
traditional I don't know rules or like the way the
music industry used to do album sequencing on purpose, so
my second track goes completely in another direction one more minute, okay,
because I feel strongly that coming out of there to
(06:49):
be Stupid, like as far as like to use the
term you used earlier, like mission statement like dare to
be Stupid is frantic and crazy, and the song I
don't see this very often, but the song looks like
the cover of the album sounds or sounds like the album.
The cover of the album looks you know what I mean.
And then I think going right to one more minute
(07:10):
would be like there is going to be some skill
and variety on this album.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
M hmm. I hear that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And to me, there to be Stupid counts as a
single because it would have been well known.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So I'm saying following it with like a surgeon for
me wasn't necessary because that would be single single.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, see the way I thought of it too.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Is one of my issues with part of the original
sequencing of this album is the parodies aren't peppered enough,
so I didn't want to go original original.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So that reason, I just feel like the way there
to be stupid ends with the like loud and frantic,
and then just to go right to a d wop
song would make anybody be like, well, there's gonna be
some stuff going on in.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
This record, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So track three I had a similar thought with like, huh,
this is be a weird shift, right, So I went
from like a surgeon into this is the life.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I can't I can't really disagree. I think I think
the the biggest things that we're gonna I guess I
have to explain is the placements of the polkas and
why you know or I'm the polkas the parodies rather
and why there I wish there was more than one polka.
But yeah, I can see this as the life going
there for me again. To me, I'm thinking of this
(08:33):
as if if a if I'm trying to sell records,
how I would keep someone's attention so daring to be
stupid then into one more minute. And for anyone who
is a kid or a younger person who bought the
record and was like, yeah, okay, but I don't I
don't think so I want a new Duck Okay, because
(08:55):
that way, it's like, Okay, I know this song from
the Transformers. Yeah, my mom plays Elvis a lot, and
then oh, okay, I totally know that he was listened
the news.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah that that also makes sense. That also makes sense. Man.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I'm I'm probably gonna end up like putting both of
these together and listening to the which one. You know what,
maybe I'll make the playlist and I'll share them out
and we'll have the people.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Vote the battle of the stupid stupid battle.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
My title by the way of my record, because I
think I've mentioned it on your show before that bands
do rerecords and things like that, And Twisted Sister did
a re record of Stay Hungry and it's called Still Hungry.
So my album is called dar to re sequence.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Man, I didn't even think of doing anything. No, no,
I can't do it. I was gonna say Lauren's version,
but I'm not going to go.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I wanted to be released the My seat track listing
I want to be released on like vinyl with like
like with like gold foil in the cover and all that,
and like to double LP forty five rpm pressing of
of I almost said the rowing title dre to re
sequenced to re.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Sequence, Oh my gosh. Yeah, well you got a solid
gold Cadillac, right.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Right, all right?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
So for three to four, for me, I go from
this is delight, this is the life into Yoda.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And I'll tell you why because looking at this, I
did a thing that.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I wasn't setting out to do necessarily on purpose. But
I like what happened because having dare to be stupid,
this is the life in Yoda. On side one, it
all kind of tips the cap to the movies.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah no, that's yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And this was a parody following an original well said.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
As I want a new Duck. If you consider that
it was sripped off from Ghostbusters, or no Ghostbusters were
stripped off from, it's rather apologized to apologies to Huey
and the News. It was actually Ghostbusters that was to
rip off. So for me, in order is there to
be stupid one more minute, I want a new Duck
and then Cable TV and George of the.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Jungle okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
And I think cable TV coming out of I Want
a New Duck is perfect. Like it's just like when
when I want to do Duck Fades Away, you got
cable TV, And it's just like if you listen, if
you hear it in your head, do you hear the
I want to do Duck fade Away? Like it's it's
fine with that. And then George of the Jungle, there's
no other other than just getting rid of it altogether.
(11:31):
I just think right after an original, then a cover
is fine there.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, that's that's totally fair and reasonable. I got no
issue with it. I got no issue with it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And so like again, I so I was kind of
maybe like almost too cognizant of the I went original parody,
original parody kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You don't have to. They're not all not all weird albums.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I like that, No, no, no, no, I know, and the
rest of it isn't necessarily like that, but like that's
what felt comfortable for me for this. And so my
side one closer is hooked on Polkas.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, that's I knew we were gonna match up on.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That too, because that's what's correct.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I know how that Poka is not the finisher of
Side one is beyond me.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's such a good polka and it's like bear.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Read So what do you? I know this is going
to be a shorter episode than that. I want to
elongate it for no reason, but go through your sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yes I will.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
My Side one is dare to be stupid like a surgeon.
This is the life Yoda hooked on Polkas.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Okay, and then there to be stupid one more minute.
I want a new cable TV George of the Jungle
and hooked on Polkas. I would dare to say, if
you listen to the songs in this order, Georgia of
the Jungle isn't even bothersome like coming out of cable TV.
And right before the polka Georgia the Jungle being there,
you're just like you would just be like oh neat.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Uh huh oh yeah, because it makes sense for the cable.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Coming out of an original. It's a cover. And then
the only thing I think if again, I'm talking to
the person who bought this and I'm as the person
who puts the sequence together. I'm trying to get them
to continue listening to the record. So my thought is
coming out of cable TV. When it starts, there's that
familiarity of like, oh, I remember the song from when
(13:16):
I was a kid, but wait, isn't this just like
a minute long? And then when it ends, being like, oh, yeah,
that was only man, and then the polka kicks in yeah,
and you're like pleased greatly.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
We have similar logic with how we've employed George of
the Jungle, but I've done mine on side too, so
that side one, we're gonna take a little break here,
pay some bills, and come back on the other side
with the other side fantastic.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Hey, Jeff, Yeah, Jeff. Remember yesterday I was telling you
how I wished I could have seen one of Billy
Joel's sold out shows at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Yeah, I said, you should go see Taylor Swift instead.
She's the modern day Billy Joel.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Well, today my phone said I should read an interview
with Billy Joel where he talks about both retirement and
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Till Man, it's always so creepy when that happens.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
We should do a podcast about how our devices are
always listening to us.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
We already do. It's called Suggested Articles, a podcast we
talk about how technology is always spying on us and
how those tech corporations are such big buttholes.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Dude, you can't say buttholes on a podcast.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Promo, Dude, we already did twice.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
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Speaker 6 (14:28):
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Speaker 1 (14:32):
Come join Aaron, Gina and Kristen on the Linie, a
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Speaker 2 (14:38):
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Speaker 1 (14:45):
Part of the Odd Pods Media Network, and we're back badly.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Can't get back of that.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I just love it so much. So we're going to
do the same thing with side two of Dare to
Be Stupid. I have opened Side too of Dare to
Be Stupid with I want a New Duck all right,
because in my opinion, that's the best parody on this record,
and I think it's a phenomenal way to kick off
Side too, because it is just so darn funny.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I don't disagree. But the reason why I didn't save
it for the spot is because it wasn't the lead single.
And again I'm mostly going by record label reasoning at
that time, Like, there's the reason why I beat it
is the first song on side too, a thriller, do
you know what I'm saying? M And then Billy Jean's
right after it. They're like, hey, by the way, stay
(15:37):
for side too, won't you? You know, So that's why
that's that's where like if like.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
A surgeon goes for me, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Because that's the lead single off the record. And I think, again,
I think it works really well there, Like you flipped
the record over and drop the needle and the beep
starts and you're like, oh, this is why. Yeah, this
is when I heard the radio.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I don't have any qualms with what you've done either,
So I go from I want a new duck into
one more minute.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I mean, yeah, it's just kind of like.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Bringing the vibe, you know, down, chilling out a little
bit after all the ducks, you know, for.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Me, after like a surgeon comes, this is the life.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Oh so we both had like this is a life
follow like a surgeon, just in different places.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, different places on the record that's interesting. Yeah, I
think it's it's fine coming out of that into the
you know, such a silly, ridiculous song. And and again,
like you said, that's also there's a movie tie in
there as well. So if you were listening on side
one and you liked the did the Transformers cut and
all that, then you're like, oh, yeah, that's he did
(16:42):
that in this other movie too.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, so we've got that. That's fun. That's fun.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, Like I was having a hard time because like
there's part of me that griped so much about where
things were originally on this album, but and when I
went to go do it, I was having a hard
time moving things from side one down to side two
or vice versa, because I'm like, no, but that's the
side one song. But it's not, you know, because it's
(17:10):
just what you're used to.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Shouldn't be right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I know, it's just what I'm used to.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
So my next track on side two, after one more
minute is girls just want to have Lunch.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And that's your track three. Yes, the same for me. Yeah,
girls just want to have Lunch, which I maintain. So
I've talked about this before and I think I probably
brought this up. This is probably one of the reasons
why we're doing this. There's a Pearl Jam record called
No Code that is filled with fantastic songs that absolutely
do not go in the order that they are on
(17:45):
that record. Now, does this get to make girls just
want to have lunch, like less lazy or anything? No,
But I think putting it at this point in the record,
it's a Okay, let me give you an example that's
that's tied right into Weirdel and hopefully I don't make
it all the Melanie fans a man again. I don't
(18:08):
love a complicated song because I don't like the original.
I don't hate the original, but I don't like the
original all that much. And I also don't like when
Weird al like like blame it on the Drain and
the Plumber song where he has to like switch in
the middle of a song topics, you know what I mean. Like,
I'm like, well, just no, just do it. You know,
(18:29):
it's to me it seems like, well these three things.
Ryan was complicated, so right, So that's why I don't
like that one. But where it is in the record,
by the time I get there, I've laughed enough to
where every time it starts, I always like, nah, that too,
ye right, And I feel like putting this track this
late in the record saves it because it doesn't make
(18:52):
it any better. But what it does do is you've
already laughed so hard at Terry to be stupid and
like a surge and and I want to do duck
and everything by this point that when this comes up
in the rotation, you're like, oh, oh yeah, you totally
did that to the Cydney Opera song. Yeah, yeah, ra even
Piano Man the Spider Man on same thing, like it's
(19:13):
a thing where. But by the time it comes up
on the record, you're like, you you know what I mean.
It doesn't make it any better, but I think the
track listing makes it like a thousand times better as
in the listening experience.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I agree with you. I agree with you. So I
follow girls Just want to have Lunch with Cable TV
and George of the Jungle.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, which is funny because we have those two paired, Yes,
but I have them on side one. So the second
to last song on it for me is on Sline Creatures,
which again I think it's I think this is a stronger, weird,
al original than it gets credit for absolutely and I
think placing it right after lunch makes the listener be like, like,
(20:03):
by the time the first verse is done, you're like, oh,
hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, no, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I mean, I've got a lot of good things to
say about slime Gregious from Outer Space.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I think it's I think it's a great track.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, but I feel like it doesn't where I feel
like where it's at on.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
The record kills it absolutely does.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And here, if you put it right behind or right
after girls just want to have lunch. People can you're
coming out of a Soso parody and then when a
great original kicks in, you're like, oh, this song is
great too, you know for sure?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So like my thinking here was, you know, I wanted
to keep cable to I wanted Cable TV and George
of the Jungle together, right because I figure cable TV
is talking all about cable TV, and then you get
the George of the Jungle theme, and I was just like,
I struggled with where to put George of the Jungle
until I figured this bit out. Okay, because my by
(20:53):
process of elimination and figured out what your closer is too.
My closer is Slime Creatures because it's a weird song
and I like it as a closer for this album
because if you think about, like opening with There to
Be Stupid, which sounds like it belongs in outer space
in the first place, and ending with Slime Creatures from
outer space, I think that's a good bookend.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Or you could do it I did, and close with
a song that is about outer space.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You could do that too. You could do that too.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Just my logic here, right, is going from Cable TV
into George of the Jungle into Slime Creatures. Is it's
that just doing those three things in a row is
a good, weird, weird out album ending thing to do.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, No, I don't disagree, I know, I just but
I think Yoda is just so darn epic. That's why
I close with it. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's yeah,
I I you know. Of course I don't have never
spoken to him about it, But where Yoda is placed
on the original track listing almost makes it feel like
a throwaway, and I think it's ridiculous to treat that
(21:53):
song in that way. This in every way deserves the
closing slot for me, And again it's it would be
because you know, the before a certain company bought it
and ran it into the ground. Kids used to love
Star Wars and uh again, the way my track listing
(22:14):
happens all the way up to the end of the record,
at least every other song, the intended audience goes, oh, yeah,
I love that, right, Whereas like, by the time kids
get to the last track on this, they're going to
be like, oh, I totally remember going to see and
virus strikes back and you know, love that and whatever.
(22:34):
So yeah, that's I think. I think it's an epic
enough song to where it should be the closer on
the record, like get that, I don't know, a distinction
of closing the record. And then I also think it's
the thing. There's another thing too that I think a
final track should do on a final track on an album.
(22:56):
Absolutely should And if people are listening to this and
they're like, final track's never done that, then like you
don't listen to albums that are properly a final track
on an album should make you be like, hey, can
we start this over?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Right, yeah, And I feel like by the time Yoda's done,
it fades away, you'd be like, I want to listen
to this album.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Again that kind of Yeah, I feel like mine kind
of does that in a similar way too, right, because like, what.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Do they want from us? Who do they think they are?
You know that it fades out and you can.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Hear that almost going back into there to be stupid
like that. Yes, so oh man, so let's do quickly.
I'm going to do a rundown of what our side,
my side two is, and you do yours for the
folks keeping track at home, No pun intended, because it's right,
that's funny.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So my side too is as follows, I want a
new duck one more minute, Girls just want to have lunch,
Cable TV George of the Jungle, and it closes out
with slime creatures from outer space.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Whereas mine starts with like a surgeon, this is the life.
Girls just want to have lunch, slign creatures, and then yoda.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So I think these are two different similar perspectives on
how this could have been redone, and I would pause
it that both are better than the way it's originally
been done.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh, I think anything's better than the way it was originally.
I think I'm not a fan of bands that do
that thing where they put out like they put their
album out in a box set of forty five's, you
know that would still be better than this, Like the
way the way I don't understand, and if it's Al himself,
like I would really like him to explain it to me,
(24:37):
like there's not much I would question him on. But
I in no way understand the track listing on this album.
I can't even get used to it. Like I've listened
to this album a million times since it came out,
and like there's the thing where and I mentioned Thriller earlier,
but it was just like easy to use an example.
(24:58):
So like when when I hear beat, it fade out
in my where it's on a jukebox, whether it's on
History sits album, whether it's on streaming, the Billy Jean
beat is just coming in my head right after. And
no song on this album. But if you ask me
right now the original track listing, I probably couldn't even
(25:18):
tell you. And I've you know what I mean, But
that's ridiculous, right exactly, I can tell you the original
track the track list, I'm like, I don't know a
million other albums, so you don't even need to look
it up.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
No, but I just have one one thing that I
wanted to double check before we wrapped all over.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
What you Oh my god, I'm You're right.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Wait a minute, I'll go check.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So I'm gonna go check something on a weird al podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
So yeah, you know what what's crazy is? You know
we were both talking about where do you have?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Girls just want to have lunch? Is it the third
track on side two?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
It is? Yes, Girls just.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Want to have lunch? Is in reality the third track
on side two? I know, but it's but everything else
around it still makes it.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, that's the thing. It's like the Pearl Jam album
I was talking about. You don't have to move every
song around just to move it all around. You just
have to put things on either side of it that
make more damn sense.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yes, So that's ultimately what I feel like ended up
happening here.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Girls just want to have lunch to me wherever where
it's at, Like side two of the record feels like
it's like strongly promoting that you listen to side two,
Like side two knows it's not good enough, and it's
like you should please listen to all these songs that
are together on the side and they're the wrong songs
that are together on that.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Side, Yep, I couldn't agree more so, folks, I think
we did it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I think we did it. We resequenced there to be stupid.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I will of all the things you've done on this show,
this is the episode I would want wheord Ol to hear, like,
I want him to know that people sit around and
think about this type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
This is just a fun thing that we do as
a married couple.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Saying though, like I would if I was an artist,
I would I would want to know that people care
that much. And also, if he does hear this, ever,
I would very much like for him to contact Mobile
Fidelity about doing a to LP forty five rpm pressing
of dertit re sequence.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, I mean to talk to the man, this is
what it is. We would buy it.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I have contacts at Mobile Fidelity, so I mean he
could probably get hold someone faster than probably.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
This has been delightful. I thank you for doing this
with me.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Next time we're here, we're kicking off the Polka Party Palooza.
And because time is a flat circle, we've actually already
recorded that episode and so you have my personal guarantee
that it is a good time because we have our
friend Casey from the Itch Rocks here to talk.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
About from their parade of awesome interviews that they're doing constantly. Yeah,
which I'm saying in a dryway, but I mean and
with reverence, and I think it's awesome that they all
they do is support new rock constantly. And a lot
of these artists that a lot of artists that around
on social media complaining about how nobody buys music anymore,
(28:20):
but a bunch of these artists know and understand what
they're doing on that show and have reached out and said, hey,
I would like to talk to you about the music
that we're making. And so I say that with no
comedy whatsoever, that like, I like that kind was able
to take time out of his schedule of interviewing everyone
in music to come chit chat about many types of
(28:42):
her news that you can get.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, you may not be familiar with the different
types of her news that you can get, but.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
We'll Yeah, don't tell everyone, now.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Settle down.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So yeah, the stay tuned in two weeks to as
we kick off the Polka Party Party.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
But for now, I'm Lauren, and I want to thank
my husband Russ again for rolling in here.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
This is two nights in a row that I know.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I know, this is this is what you get when
you're married to me. But anyway, we'll come at you
again next time. People with the the aforementioned polka party party.
In the meantime, be cool, be awesome, be nice, and
stay weird.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Bye bye,
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