October 15, 2025 • 35 mins
We had to see (hear?) for ourselves if the hype was real. This week we listen to the latest album from Geese, count down ten songs that we never intend to listen to, and give you five more songs to renew your passion for music.
What do you think of “Getting Killed?” What songs do you hear all the time if you didn't plan on it? Let us know in the comments!
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We're going to talk about the new album by Geese called
Getting Killed that we're going to talk about the songs that you
listen to even though you didn'twant to.
And as always, we're going to serve you up a piping hot plate
of the extended playlist. Right now, an extended play.
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It's extended play, renewing your passion 5 songs at a time.
I'm E. I'm tank.
And you may or may not have heard that the new Taylor Swift
album came out. Yeah, I believe I saw it
somewhere. Yeah, and we're not going to
talk about it. Nope.
Not after right now, right And. Here's the reason, if anybody
was curious, because we did, I did have a couple people reach
out like personal friends that are like, are you guys going to
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talk about the album? We're not going to talk about it
because it's not for us. And I think that it's not
intended for us. It's not the type of music we
listen to anyway, right? There's no need to get into why
it's not for us or what we don'tlike about it.
It's that seems cruel, kind of, right?
It's just unnecessary. And plus the the the mission
statement of yes, the show and believe it or not, there is a
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point to it all is to, you know,to help people like us, you
know, our age, our whatever way of life.
Yeah. To kind of help point towards
music they may not have known about.
And everyone is aware of Taylor Swift, right.
Whether we like it or not reallydoesn't matter.
We're not going to be making youaware of anything you didn't
already know. That's exactly right.
So it's really kind of pointlessfor us to do it.
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Yeah. Anyway, so we're not going to
talk about it much after this, probably not for another year or
two, unless she, I don't know, like makes the news for some
unsavory event. Maybe then we'll talk about.
It Yeah, maybe then. Yeah, but let us know should we
actually listen to the album? Like is is it a cop out to say
this is not for us? We're fine, Say it.
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Just tell us. Let us know in the comments.
Yeah, but the album we are goingto talk about today is from a
new ish band. It's not their first album.
Yeah, I didn't, I was not aware of them until this week.
Yeah. And they're they're all the
hotness currently. So this definitely fits in our
current and these are probably they're my favorite, maybe your
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favorite kind of ones to do because everyone's talking about
it and those everyone's are 10 to 20 years younger than us.
Right. And we?
Come into it very curious of allright, what is this going to do
for me because I'm not the target audience.
That's exactly Yeah. Again, we're not the target
audience here, but but the stylistically we are more than
we are like a Taylor Swift, right.
Yeah. So I first heard about it.
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I was in the Speaking of I was in the local, my local record
store and we were talking about new music and one of the guys
there was like, do you listen togeese?
And I'm like, no, I'm like, which one is that?
I know there's geese and goose is geese the jam band One?
Like no goose is the jam band 1 Geese is something different.
It's kind of, I don't remember how he described it, but I'll
always take a music recommendation from a dude who
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works in a record stop shop. Right.
Like they've listened to a lot of shit.
I should probably check it out. And then as soon as he said
that, I feel like I went home that day and I saw all of a
sudden started to see all this scuttlebutt on online of the
best album of the year, best, not the best pop album, best
album in the sort of right indietastemaker world.
So I'm like, oh, I got to check it out.
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So I realized I had listened to it before I had started it and
then was immediately turned off by the first track.
And I'm like, I don't have time for this right now.
I don't want to do it. Yeah.
So let's talk about that. Let's talk about that.
Yeah. So that first track is named
Trinidad. Yes, and it is a choice.
It is a choice. My first impression, which is
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always probably my best. I probably should just go on
that first impression and just stop that.
This is this is what it would sound like.
It's the talking heads after getting high on something you
would buy in a gas station. OK, All right.
I like it. I like it.
Yeah, it's weird. It starts off kind of
unassuming, slow and funky, and then all of a sudden JPEG mafia
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is screaming there's a bomb in my car.
It's really weird and unsettlingand yeah, as again, imagine this
is the first time you've ever heard this band and this is the
first song you hear. Yeah, Which?
It is for me. Yeah, and you're so you're not
starting off great. And I think a lot of my
experience over the next week oflistening to this album, which I
listened to multiple times, was getting over that hump and then
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trying to figure out how I really feel about it.
But I I don't know why artists do that.
I don't know. I feel like it's almost like
they're antagonizing. Yeah, yeah, it's like almost
gatekeeping too. Like if you want the good stuff,
you gotta get through this crazyavant-garde shit first.
Yeah, I don't like it either. Yeah, cuz that's not what the
rest of the album sounds. Like, no, no.
So it's it was pointless. Yeah.
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Now by the time you get to the next song, which is called
Cobra, it's at least now it's musical, Right?
It's right. And now and I did these kind of
stream of consciousness, which Ithink is important because
again, first exposure to something that is very
unorthodox. Yes, right.
So I wanted to document as yeah I will give them this it it
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sounds fresh. Yes.
And sounding fresh in 2025 is hard to do.
Absolutely. Because to quote bare naked
ladies, it's all been done. That's right.
So I I didn't mind the song and I was actually a load of a load
of excitement about like, OK, this it's something different
which is hard and different in anot terrible way.
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Yeah. And in rock music, I think
that's the other big thing. And I think that's a large, we
don't need to talk, spend too much time about the critics.
But that is a lot of what's got the critics excited is that this
is a band again, like now there's exciting music being
played by young people and it's the major.
It's guitar, bass, drums, right?Maybe a synth here and there.
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Yeah. So to do something fresh in
Rock'n'roll, it does seem it's impressive, yeah.
And then we we move on to husbands, which is it's a
little, it's novel, but it's a little mumbly.
And this is where ultimately where this ends up going for me.
And, you know, the, the newness and the revelation start to
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taper down as you listen to the album because it, you know, it
does start to kind of. Yeah, the voice is the the
problem for me. Yeah, yeah, we gotta talk about
that. I feel like if you had two knobs
or sliders and you had like the vocalist and the band, yes, if
you could put the vocalist low like A1 or A2, and if you could
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put the band at like a seven, you don't want them at a 10
because then they get too weird.Yes, yes.
But like, if you turn them to most of their capability and
kind of get the vocalist out, you really would have something.
Yes. No, that's just my preference.
I'm sure they would disagree. Yeah, but I that's the vibe.
Song after song. I kept thinking the same thing.
I'm like just a little bit of fine tuning here.
Yes, it's. Both, both in the mix itself.
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His vocals are very high in the mix and the fact that his voice
is so distinctive, it's so odd and challenging and I think it's
rewarded the first listen through.
I'm like, I don't think I can doa whole album of this guy's
voice. On multiple listens.
You are rewarded and you do start to get the vibe of of what
what he's trying to do. And it does feel like more, it
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sounds a lot more bluesy and it almost sounds like he's
testifying, like he's going, he's a lot of time delivering
his lyrics, offbeat, slightly off beat or over top of them.
And it's to me, it eventually became more and more endearing
as I went. Actually, I liked it more and
more. But getting killed the next song
is. It's my favorite on the album.
That's a jam, man. That's a really good song.
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Morning. Walked me out of here with no
shoes and 1/3 doesn't want to stay alive.
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I can't even hear myself. I can't even taste my.
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Love the energy it has randomness at the right time and
the right amounts. I wrote down Black Crows.
I got a tiny bit of Black Crows bluesy jam band vibe from this.
No. And and you know, per ES
recommendation, listening to it with headphones, there's a lot
there to unpack. Yeah, and sometimes I think it
was a bit. Extraneous.
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It could be noisy. Later on in the elements, like
you didn't need to add. Yeah, like it's like this isn't
like an interesting flourish. This is just like you added a
layer for this for the sake of adding a layer.
Sure, sure. But no, I mean, to me that was
the peak of the Elm. The Elm very much to me had kind
of a increase in a plateau and kind of stayed there.
Sure. Islands of men in addition to
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being but probably the great name of a gay porno Jesus it it
isolates the voice. Yes, yes, not to a good.
Effect No Yeah, no. The build is really good though.
The build is really good and this is another one of those
songs. I don't know if it's happened
already. I think it has in the 1st 4
songs before that where the songkind of cuts at a certain point
or transitions. It's either a transition to
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where they do a. Breakdown where transition where
they. Drop all the instruments save
one or the drum beat and then they build them back up again.
Or sometimes there's a complete shift and it's almost like a
second song that they do a few times.
Particularly in when you get to taxes where the music behind it
gets so different than it was inthe first half.
Yes, but I think what takes talking about in the layers and
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what's fun about it is it's it'sthe percussion on this album
there is. So not only are there multiple
layers of percussion where you've got drums and then
whatever else fucking little shakers they're holding and
marimbas and all that kind of stuff, but also the guitars and
bass are often played in a percussive style.
Yeah. Where it's like, it's like this
steady, sort of almost tribal drum beat going behind
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everything. I don't know, I found that kind
of fun. It was way more jammy than I
thought it would be. Yeah.
You know which I which I dig. Yeah, yeah, 100 Horses.
I really liked the open. I was like popping along and I
really funky, but then the vocals came in and completely
ruined it for me. And and I agree.
I mean, I probably had gave it about 3 listens and I'm sure
that it's an acquired taste kindof thing, but again, I don't
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know that I like like again, this is supposed to be I, I
shouldn't have to work at it. Yeah, I.
It doesn't have to be spoon fed but I also shouldn't have to be
like put my time in. This did have me questioning
everything that's in a weird way, everything I think about
music, because I am a big fan ofbeing challenged, but also it's
a lot of fucking work. It was a lot of work to listen
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to this and to to and to treat it fairly.
And I think I just wonder, yeah,anyway, I'm always going to talk
about critics and how much they're listening to it and how
how much effort they're putting in.
But I do really like being challenged and I like the reward
of fighting through something toget to a different understanding
of it. And I and I eventually got
there. But but certainly I would think
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most of our listeners, viewers are going to put this on for the
first time and be like, no thanks.
It's not worth the second. Listen.
And that's The thing is like, and they're not wrong for that.
Yeah, I don't. Think they're wrong for that?
The the track I'll pay do cocaine, which is it's basically
the land of cocaine, the nation of cocaine, Gippo Francais.
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It's terrible. Yeah, it's a single too.
Yeah, it's not great. I do.
Pass Yeah, I do find. I do find redeeming stuff, even
in the crappy songs, they'll be like a So as far as lyrically,
there's not a again, not a lot to grab onto here.
But also these are like 23 year olds.
I was, I had this is where I washaving like an existential
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crisis where I'm like, what is a23 year old going to tell me?
I'm 49? Like, to think I'm going to find
some truth about life. Yeah.
That's kind of why I don't care about lyrics so much anymore.
It's because unless you're presenting a completely
different experience that I can't identify with at all.
And it's novel. And like, that's, again, I've
said it a million times. That's what hip hop does for me.
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I don't know what those lives are like.
And so hearing about them is fascinating, even if they're 30
years younger than I am here, you know, singing about lost
love or loneliness. Like I did that a long time ago.
But there are some really beautiful line.
Like there's a couple lines where like in how do you say
that the title of that song we're just.
I'll pay, do cocaine, OK? Where he talks about, you know,
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you can be free and still and still stay with me.
I thought was really interestingtalking about like you can, I'll
allow you to be who you are if you'll just stay.
It's kind of sad and beautiful. There are a few lines like that
that like, you know, Hitch in the fields.
But overall I didn't know what each.
I don't know if there was a coherent thread within each
song. No, I mean and this that some
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particular gave me the Neutral Milk Hotel vibe, yes, which is
not. Good for me.
You're not the only one who's compared his voice to yeah, that
where it's like it's a deal breaker for some people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The rambling at the end of the
album to me is unfortunate. Yeah, it ends not on a bang, but
with a whimper. In Long Island City.
Here I come. Yeah.
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That's not a great album closer,not a great opener, Not a great
closer, no. Maybe if you just trim those
songs off the album, you've got something a little bit stronger.
I was gonna say my summary of itin one line is that I, I think
this band is capable of a Radiohead level album, but this
isn't it, Yeah. But it shows signs.
Yes, the potential is there. Like if I could buy stock, I
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would buy stock in this band. Absolutely.
They seem to be incredibly talented players who are in like
always in the pocket with one another.
Like, I don't know if how much of this was recorded live, but
it has that feel, right? I I thought the same thing.
This is this album feels alive and breathing.
And it's what I like about Rock'n'roll is you can, you can
feel it. Yeah, on multiple levels.
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So I think there's a ton of potential there.
I know this isn't their first album, but I do think that
they're probably going to createa maybe not an OK computer, a
kid A, but they're going to do something that is universally
received. Well, Yes, yes.
And again, I I think this is theproblem with critics, too, is
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every. They're all rushing to be the
next guy. Yeah.
Absolutely. So I'm not saying that I'm the
arbiter of truth, but I think the critics have trouble
accepting that it's not quite done baking yet because they
want to be the first to crown them.
Yes, yes. And they haven't learned any
lessons from like, The Strokes and that kind of stuff where
they lost their fucking minds and then had to go back and say,
OK, they're pretty good albums, right?
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But yeah. Yeah, I think everyone wants to
be the first to crown them. And then you end up with they
they jump the gun on saying how great it is.
Yeah. But it is certainly promising.
I give it the rating of fans of the genre, whatever genre this
is. Yeah, I guess it's rock.
It's. Just rock, really.
Yeah, I. Think if you like rock music you
should check it out for sure. Be patient, yes, acknowledge
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that the voice is not going to be great, but just, you know,
give it an hour of driving around or doing something and
you'll probably find a few little like, you know, like a
few little bright spots that maybe make you want to dig in
more. Yeah, and believe me, we both
came in low expectations or no expectations and we're mostly
won over. I think by the time we got
halfway through, we got there isenough to hang on to.
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I agree. I think it's fans of the genre.
Yeah. Again, trust in yourself that
you can make it through. Yeah.
And and and toss aside those preconceived notions about what
a person's singing voice is supposed to sound like in a
traditional rock band because it's.
This is not it. But I don't know if there it's
something. There's something very beautiful
in its imperfection. Now I will that that point you
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made about the vocals. I will be revisiting this during
the playlist because I have someparting thoughts on that.
Oh, OK. Great.
Yeah. What did you think of the new
Geese album? Go listen to it and come back
and tell. Let us know.
Let us know in the comments. Are we on?
Are we off? Yeah, I think this is, again, we
didn't put a rating on it, but II think if you like this kind of
music. Well, what was your rating?
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Fans of the genre. OK, fans of the genre, see we're
aligned. I don't think everyone needs to
listen to it. I'm not, as I think that's what
a Pitchfork person would say. Like this is an album that's
essential. That's important.
No, it's not. No, it's not.
No, it's not. Yeah.
All right. So that's how we felt about
that. That's that on.
That on that. And now we're going to cruise
right over to this was my suggestion for an EP 10.
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It's a little unusual, it is. But it occurred to me the other
day, something happened, which happens a lot.
And I am listening to a song that I didn't really want to.
And I was guessing that like, you know what, we probably all
deal with this. So these are songs that you hear
a lot and you didn't choose to so for.
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So this is not, this is certainly not a good or best.
This is just fucking 10 little stories of songs that you had to
hear all the time. Yeah, because of that, I'll kick
it off. My first one.
The name of the song is 3 exclamation points.
So it's not the band chick chickchick, no.
Right. No, it's it's just three
exclamation points. It's a root song, but I
mistakenly told my Co host it was a Beastie Boys song because
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it's the Beastie Boys playing onit.
But it's not a roots album. It's stupid, it's horrible, it's
everything that you wish the Beastie Boys would stop trying
to force down your throat, whichis the shitty pop punk stuff.
But the reason I keep hearing itis every time I I have Ausb in
in my car because I pro tip music fans stop listening to
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Bluetooth in your car. Oh yeah, it's shitty.
The the quality of let me put anasterisk on that.
If you paid for an up level stereo, and you probably did if
you're listing a Bluetooth, you might as well just, you know,
write me a check. You wasted the money.
You will be shocked when you when you plug in the music on a
USB and listen to it direct and not you'll be shocked at the
quality difference. Anyway.
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Every time I update that USB andplug it in it while it's cycling
and figuring everything out, it goes to the 1st and it keeps
fucking doing this song. That's pretty funny.
Yeah. OK.
So that's how I end up hearing that all the time.
What? Album is it on?
I could not find this song either by either by the Beastie
Boys or by The Roots. No, it's, it's a roots.
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I want to say it. It's either rising down or
phrenology. It's somewhere in that I forget
exactly. Spotify did not like the fact
that it was just characters likeI could not find it.
OK nice. Now for something completely
different song I heard in the supermarket in two or three
consecutive trips to the supermarket, which is John
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Sakata. Just another day.
It's such a good. And then every time you go to
Jay's house, you're going to. Oh, absolutely.
Every shout out to our buddy Jay, who really who owned the, I
think maybe even multiple John cicadas.
You might own John Cicada at this point.
You might be John Cicada. No, I heard that song twice in
two consecutive trips to the Hollywood Market down the street
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from me and I'm And after that happened because your phones are
listening to you, people think your phones are listening to
you. I was on social media and there
are multiple. There's like a whole meme about
when you're in a grocery store and you're just kind of walking
along and all of a sudden some fucking banger like that comes
on and you're like, you start, You realize you know every word
to it, and all of a sudden your shopping experience is
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different. Yeah, it's a good song.
I don't like anything else like this.
I would never put it on again. But it was nice to get you at
the. Supermarket.
That's a little throwback, too. Plus, pro tip #2 for this
episode, if you're in the supermarket and you're getting
pop Tarts, OK, cinnamon roll. Cinnamon roll Pop tarts.
Do they have frosting on them? Yeah, OK.
Yeah, you want to heat that shitup, but even if you don't, OK,
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I'm going to do a whole podcast on Pop Tarts.
Oh, OK. It's amazing the variety they
come. Up with a lot of variety.
All right. And then I mean, and then the
philosophical questions of I've opened a packet.
Do I need to eat another one of the same flavour or can I get
another flavour? Is that one going to get stale?
It was just yesterday. It's a lot.
There's a lot of moral crossroads here.
That's right. Next up on my list is from the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers. And it's a horrible song named
Catholic Schoolgirls Rule, because if they were good songs,
I'd be happy about it, right? So this is because, again, on my
car stereo, which is where I do most of my listening, if I'm
trying to listen to just one particular song, I'll be using
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the voice command, OK? And the unit is either on
shuffle or it's not OK. If it's not on shuffle, once I
say I want to listen to this song, it'll go right to it.
So there's Anthrax song Catharsis, OK.
And I really, I love that song. I've got my favorite song by
Anthrax. Listen to it probably once a
week. So I'm very often hitting the
little, you know, have the car listen to you and give it
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instructions. And I say play Catharsis.
And she's like, all right, I gotyou.
OK. She plays Catharsis, the next
song, alphabetically. Because now I'm out of album
mode. Gotcha.
So again, the alphabet, the alphabet monster strikes again.
And after Catharsis is Cal Schoolgirls rule and I just
angrily hit shuffle and next every time because any of the
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other 9000 songs are going to bebetter.
So do you own freaky styley or do is it on the greatest hits
that sounds like? What hits?
What hits? So that was greatest hits up to
mother's milk. OK, gotcha.
All right. Yeah.
Not a good song. I listen to it.
It is not good. Oh, I have another not good
song, a song I don't like, whichis a song called Going Up the
Country by Canned Heat. I wondered where that came from.
Yeah, I'm going to get flamed inthe comments for this.
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It's in commercials. It's in dozens and dozens of
commercials. And not like it's part of 1
automaker's campaign over a series of years, like like a
rock or something like that. Multiple people.
If it's about car insurance, about a car in general, about
going on a trip and taking, you know, you're taking photos,
whatever the advertisement is for that involves travel.
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This stupid fucking song is in it.
A song I wasn't aware of until commercials.
Yeah. It's a weird Blues song with a
guy with a high like. Yeah, not.
The country I fucking surprisingly accurate.
I do not like that song and I hear it way too much, yeah.
No, because I did when I listened to it this week,
because I didn't know the song and I'm like, OK now.
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Yes, I've right. This is everywhere.
Speaking of it being everywhere,at least in my life, there's a
song and I don't know if you canfind.
I'm sure you can on Spotify. It's called Long Way.
It's by a shitty rapper named Cochise.
God. This.
I listen to this. I'm like, how the hell did you
hear this song? Well, I don't want to.
That's the thing. Rocket League.
The video game OK. All right, so Rocket League,
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when you when you come into the game, every season there's a
different song they have playing, OK.
And what they what they do, thisis very smart of them.
They never pay for big artists. OK, it's mostly unknown artists.
But when you have the kind of audience they have, they kind of
can make them popular whether they do or not.
Now, this is particularly bad. There's a whole there's a whole
season where you could have Koshy's cars wheels.
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It was a nightmare, OK, And finally the next season came,
OK, new songs and they had actually lo fi girl.
It was one of the seasons. Oh, yeah, I saw that.
So there's lo fi stuff. Yeah, right.
Which is my default playlist. Oh, nice.
But it overrides your default with the new season's playlist.
Got it. So this Long way song, which I
think everyone agrees is terrible.
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You can pick a song to play whenyou score a goal.
OK, Normally if it's popular fora given season, the next season
you don't hear it much. OK, I keep hearing the song.
Really like people just won't change it.
OK, so there's a school of thought that this it's trolling.
People are doing it on purpose, they know.
But here's the thing. It was such a young leaning
crowd. I can't tell if they actually do
this many young people like thisterrible thing or are they like
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me and they have a good sense tohear and they're like this song
is so because I mean, it really is salt to know it.
You just got scored. Sure, right.
And you got to hear like the best use of this, by the way, is
you could give your your team a name if it's all people in a
club and there's a team called what's going on?
And I'm like, OK, whatever. One of the songs you can pick
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from is the four non blog song What's going on?
So every time they scored, it was like their theme song.
Like that's fucking smart. That's.
Pretty good. Yeah, but if you play Rocket
League, you can definitely empathize with this fucking
song. It is terrible.
It's a shitty trap. It's just a pop song.
Yeah. It's.
And I hear it five times every day.
Yeah. That's funny.
My next choice is another commercial song and it's Feeling
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Good by Nina Simone. It is a fine song, right?
And there are tons of covers of it too.
I do really love Nina Simone's voice.
I do need to investigate a little bit more and listen to
some of her other stuff. But for whatever reason, it's
like it can be used for like a spa commercial.
It can be like a Dove ice cream bar, like anything where you
want to feel good. They'll drop this song and it's
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just lazy. It must not be that expensive,
the license, but good on the Nina Simone own estate to be
raking in the dole for this. It's in a lot of commercials.
I, I mean, to that end, one thatI can, I don't hate this song,
OK, But so I, I have a, a business, a couple businesses,
one of which is a brick and mortar.
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And in that business we play music and we try to kind of
balance like, OK, what do we want to listen to?
Maybe what the customers want tohear.
So the different employees have playlists and the song Tennessee
Whiskey by Chris Stapleton, I don't know how it ends up.
It's on every playlist. That's so funny.
It's very particular. All I know is every time I go to
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work, I just, I'm like Tennesseewhiskey.
I'm like every fucking shift. It's kind of a.
It's not bad. No.
And it's, but it's kind of a slower a song for a business, I
guess. It's not offensive.
It's not. Offensive, it's fine, but it's
like, it's just, it's amazing. You would think that.
OK, it's on this playlist. Yeah, but I'll glance at it when
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I get in. Like, that's today's playlist.
I'm like, why is it on this one,too?
It's on all of them. Right next to Cochise, yeah.
Which I'm gonna add now. I should have a playlist of just
these, yeah. Jesus.
Yeah, yeah. My final choice is Daft Punk one
more time, and I hear this all the time, in a good way.
My family, we have the album, wehave the vinyl and we have dance
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parties to it on a regular basis.
Nice. Or my wife or my child or myself
will drop the needle and everything stops.
It's really good in the morning before school and work.
We just kind of want to let loose.
And you know, nobody wants to gowhere they're going.
You might as well make it fun and listen to Daft Punk.
Yeah, so. Students when I'm here one of
these days, sure, yeah, absolutely.
It's a good time my. Final one is a song I actually
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like a lot but just don't reallyplan on listening to it, and
that's Videotape by Radiohead. It's pretty clear to me now that
my favorite Radiohead album is In Rainbows.
It's really good. Yeah.
So I mean that's it's just what it is.
So no matter where, I'm a big shuffler.
Right, every day you shuffle. Every day I'm shuffle.
No matter where I pick up In Rainbows, I'm like, oh, I'm
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going to stay for Jigsaw Fallinginto Place because that's my
favorite song and it's track 9. So no matter where I end up, I'm
like, whether it's 2345, I'm going to stay.
And then I listen to Jigsaw and then there's just one more song
on the album and it's, it's fine.
Yeah. But I'm never like, out of
respect to Radiohead, I'm never like changing.
And I'm just like, well, I mightas well finish the album.
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Absolutely every time. That's fair.
There's a lot of tons of think pieces on YouTube about what
time Signature Videotape is in. It's an interesting watch, like
for music nerdy kind of shit because it is very tough to get
your arms around that song in particular, and it's the last
song on that album. But no, that's a good choice.
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What are some songs that you don't choose to listen to, but
you listen to anyway? Let us know in the comments.
Might be some good shit out there that we haven't heard
before. Spouses, kids, Co worker, maybe
someone in the cube next to you.It's like, for fuck's sake,
yeah. If you work in the service
industry and you have to listen to a soundtrack every day, like
there's some songs there you probably never want to hear
again, let us know what those songs are.
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Now it's time for our extended playlist. 5 songs to renew your
passion for music. This is where we usually choose
a song or two from the album we just reviewed, a song or two
from the list, We just, and thena couple wild cards which we
think fit the overall vibe of the playlist.
If nothing else. If you get nothing else from
this whole thing that we're doing, you get 5 cool songs to
listen to. We'll link to the playlist
below. If you are one of our Patreon
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subscribers, you would get an overextended playlist of 10
songs. Plus I put on a newsletter every
week of some cool things going on in music.
So you get that first song we chose.
We chose 2 songs from the Geese album Getting Killed which we
both agreed we really like. Very jammy and loose and fun.
The other one I I lobbied for and Tank agreed which is taxes
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if you. Want me to pay my tax?
If you want me to pay my tax, you better come over with a
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cruise surface. You're going to have to nail me
down. I recommend watching.
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They performed it on Kimmel. Recently, OK.
It's kind of neat where there's a major shift in the song where
the instrumentation changes, andthe first half of the video was
in black and white, and then it slowly gets into color, and then
when the change happens, it's full color.
So kind of like Wizard of Oz. OK, But it's done a really nice
effect, I think. Yeah, those are good.
Two good representatives of that.
I was gonna say yeah, that that'll give you a decent flavor
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of what you're getting into if you're gonna listen to the album
and then one of your songs that we the one of the unintentional.
Songs. Yes.
Nina Simone feeling good. How you know how I feel.
Sun in the sky, You know how I feel.
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Breathe drifting on by, You knowhow I feel.
It's a new dawn, It's a new day,It's a new life for me.
Yeah, it's a new dawn, It's a new day.
It's a new life for me and I'm feeling good.
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Let's shake it up. Let's go into a whole different
genre and just a classic song and it'll be a very stark
contrast from someone who was not sort of classically seen as
a as a strong vocalist to someone who is one of the all
time greats. So that'll be a nice transition
there. And Speaking of vocals, So my
wild card is Smaller and Smallerby Faith No More off the
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potentially most underrated album of all time, Angel Dust.
When I was listening to the Geese, I kept thinking of Faith
No More in the sense that if youhave a Mike Patton as your
vocalist, you can pull it all together.
Yeah. So Geese to me was like Faith No
More without Mike Patton, OK. In the sense that it's doing
weird things. And if you listen to Angel Dust
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or just flip through it, there'sa lot of really weird songs.
Sure. But Patton can pull it off OK,
because when you know. Because he can rein it in and
change and yeah. I mean, arguably, you know, the
most talented vocalist in quite a while.
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The. Smaller, Smaller is a good
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example of, you know, there's Aboriginal instrumentation and
drums in the middle. It's it's kind of the same
thing. But he makes it work.
Yeah. Instead of getting in the way of
the progressive music interesting, he pulls it
together and enhances it. Yes.
Oh, I like that. Yeah.
My final choice is a song. We've already mentioned this
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band earlier, Radiohead Reckoner, and it's for the
drums. Music.
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yeah, there's dual track drums The where there's 22 drummers
playing on this track and they're overlapping and it
creates this crazy effect where you can't quite catch the
rhythm, but you do. And again, it feels sort of
tribal. That percussive element runs
throughout the not throughout the whole song, but most of the
song. It reminded me a lot of what
Geese is doing. Again, Geese did remind me of
Radiohead and Fish a little bit in these weird kind of ways.
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If you don't know the song Reckoner, it's fantastic.
There's also an amazing cover byGnarls Barkley.
That's right. I mean, I meant to listen to
that. So like Cee Lo hitting those
Thom York notes, it makes so much sense.
It does because he can. He can get there and a few
people can. So check the point.
I'll link to that below as well as in the whole playlist.
That's it. Another one in the books.
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Hell yeah. This is fun.
It was. Yeah.
Absolutely good times. Check us out.
Like, subscribe, Patreon, tip your waiter, try the fish.
That's right. And all that other good stuff.
But next week you'll see us again with more good music.
Yep, and more witty banter. Indeed.
Bye folks.
We're going to talk about the new album by Geese called
Getting Killed that we're going to talk about the songs that you
listen to even though you didn'twant to.
And as always, we're going to serve you up a piping hot plate
of the extended playlist. Right now, an extended play.
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It's extended play, renewing your passion 5 songs at a time.
I'm E. I'm tank.
And you may or may not have heard that the new Taylor Swift
album came out. Yeah, I believe I saw it
somewhere. Yeah, and we're not going to
talk about it. Nope.
Not after right now, right And. Here's the reason, if anybody
was curious, because we did, I did have a couple people reach
out like personal friends that are like, are you guys going to
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talk about the album? We're not going to talk about it
because it's not for us. And I think that it's not
intended for us. It's not the type of music we
listen to anyway, right? There's no need to get into why
it's not for us or what we don'tlike about it.
It's that seems cruel, kind of, right?
It's just unnecessary. And plus the the the mission
statement of yes, the show and believe it or not, there is a
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point to it all is to, you know,to help people like us, you
know, our age, our whatever way of life.
Yeah. To kind of help point towards
music they may not have known about.
And everyone is aware of Taylor Swift, right.
Whether we like it or not reallydoesn't matter.
We're not going to be making youaware of anything you didn't
already know. That's exactly right.
So it's really kind of pointlessfor us to do it.
(01:29):
Yeah. Anyway, so we're not going to
talk about it much after this, probably not for another year or
two, unless she, I don't know, like makes the news for some
unsavory event. Maybe then we'll talk about.
It Yeah, maybe then. Yeah, but let us know should we
actually listen to the album? Like is is it a cop out to say
this is not for us? We're fine, Say it.
(01:49):
Just tell us. Let us know in the comments.
Yeah, but the album we are goingto talk about today is from a
new ish band. It's not their first album.
Yeah, I didn't, I was not aware of them until this week.
Yeah. And they're they're all the
hotness currently. So this definitely fits in our
current and these are probably they're my favorite, maybe your
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favorite kind of ones to do because everyone's talking about
it and those everyone's are 10 to 20 years younger than us.
Right. And we?
Come into it very curious of allright, what is this going to do
for me because I'm not the target audience.
That's exactly Yeah. Again, we're not the target
audience here, but but the stylistically we are more than
we are like a Taylor Swift, right.
Yeah. So I first heard about it.
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I was in the Speaking of I was in the local, my local record
store and we were talking about new music and one of the guys
there was like, do you listen togeese?
And I'm like, no, I'm like, which one is that?
I know there's geese and goose is geese the jam band One?
Like no goose is the jam band 1 Geese is something different.
It's kind of, I don't remember how he described it, but I'll
always take a music recommendation from a dude who
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works in a record stop shop. Right.
Like they've listened to a lot of shit.
I should probably check it out. And then as soon as he said
that, I feel like I went home that day and I saw all of a
sudden started to see all this scuttlebutt on online of the
best album of the year, best, not the best pop album, best
album in the sort of right indietastemaker world.
So I'm like, oh, I got to check it out.
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So I realized I had listened to it before I had started it and
then was immediately turned off by the first track.
And I'm like, I don't have time for this right now.
I don't want to do it. Yeah.
So let's talk about that. Let's talk about that.
Yeah. So that first track is named
Trinidad. Yes, and it is a choice.
It is a choice. My first impression, which is
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always probably my best. I probably should just go on
that first impression and just stop that.
This is this is what it would sound like.
It's the talking heads after getting high on something you
would buy in a gas station. OK, All right.
I like it. I like it.
Yeah, it's weird. It starts off kind of
unassuming, slow and funky, and then all of a sudden JPEG mafia
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is screaming there's a bomb in my car.
It's really weird and unsettlingand yeah, as again, imagine this
is the first time you've ever heard this band and this is the
first song you hear. Yeah, Which?
It is for me. Yeah, and you're so you're not
starting off great. And I think a lot of my
experience over the next week oflistening to this album, which I
listened to multiple times, was getting over that hump and then
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trying to figure out how I really feel about it.
But I I don't know why artists do that.
I don't know. I feel like it's almost like
they're antagonizing. Yeah, yeah, it's like almost
gatekeeping too. Like if you want the good stuff,
you gotta get through this crazyavant-garde shit first.
Yeah, I don't like it either. Yeah, cuz that's not what the
rest of the album sounds. Like, no, no.
So it's it was pointless. Yeah.
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Now by the time you get to the next song, which is called
Cobra, it's at least now it's musical, Right?
It's right. And now and I did these kind of
stream of consciousness, which Ithink is important because
again, first exposure to something that is very
unorthodox. Yes, right.
So I wanted to document as yeah I will give them this it it
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sounds fresh. Yes.
And sounding fresh in 2025 is hard to do.
Absolutely. Because to quote bare naked
ladies, it's all been done. That's right.
So I I didn't mind the song and I was actually a load of a load
of excitement about like, OK, this it's something different
which is hard and different in anot terrible way.
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Yeah. And in rock music, I think
that's the other big thing. And I think that's a large, we
don't need to talk, spend too much time about the critics.
But that is a lot of what's got the critics excited is that this
is a band again, like now there's exciting music being
played by young people and it's the major.
It's guitar, bass, drums, right?Maybe a synth here and there.
(05:48):
Yeah. So to do something fresh in
Rock'n'roll, it does seem it's impressive, yeah.
And then we we move on to husbands, which is it's a
little, it's novel, but it's a little mumbly.
And this is where ultimately where this ends up going for me.
And, you know, the, the newness and the revelation start to
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taper down as you listen to the album because it, you know, it
does start to kind of. Yeah, the voice is the the
problem for me. Yeah, yeah, we gotta talk about
that. I feel like if you had two knobs
or sliders and you had like the vocalist and the band, yes, if
you could put the vocalist low like A1 or A2, and if you could
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put the band at like a seven, you don't want them at a 10
because then they get too weird.Yes, yes.
But like, if you turn them to most of their capability and
kind of get the vocalist out, you really would have something.
Yes. No, that's just my preference.
I'm sure they would disagree. Yeah, but I that's the vibe.
Song after song. I kept thinking the same thing.
I'm like just a little bit of fine tuning here.
Yes, it's. Both, both in the mix itself.
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His vocals are very high in the mix and the fact that his voice
is so distinctive, it's so odd and challenging and I think it's
rewarded the first listen through.
I'm like, I don't think I can doa whole album of this guy's
voice. On multiple listens.
You are rewarded and you do start to get the vibe of of what
what he's trying to do. And it does feel like more, it
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sounds a lot more bluesy and it almost sounds like he's
testifying, like he's going, he's a lot of time delivering
his lyrics, offbeat, slightly off beat or over top of them.
And it's to me, it eventually became more and more endearing
as I went. Actually, I liked it more and
more. But getting killed the next song
is. It's my favorite on the album.
That's a jam, man. That's a really good song.
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Morning. Walked me out of here with no
shoes and 1/3 doesn't want to stay alive.
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I can't even hear myself. I can't even taste my.
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Love the energy it has randomness at the right time and
the right amounts. I wrote down Black Crows.
I got a tiny bit of Black Crows bluesy jam band vibe from this.
No. And and you know, per ES
recommendation, listening to it with headphones, there's a lot
there to unpack. Yeah, and sometimes I think it
was a bit. Extraneous.
(08:56):
It could be noisy. Later on in the elements, like
you didn't need to add. Yeah, like it's like this isn't
like an interesting flourish. This is just like you added a
layer for this for the sake of adding a layer.
Sure, sure. But no, I mean, to me that was
the peak of the Elm. The Elm very much to me had kind
of a increase in a plateau and kind of stayed there.
Sure. Islands of men in addition to
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being but probably the great name of a gay porno Jesus it it
isolates the voice. Yes, yes, not to a good.
Effect No Yeah, no. The build is really good though.
The build is really good and this is another one of those
songs. I don't know if it's happened
already. I think it has in the 1st 4
songs before that where the songkind of cuts at a certain point
or transitions. It's either a transition to
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where they do a. Breakdown where transition where
they. Drop all the instruments save
one or the drum beat and then they build them back up again.
Or sometimes there's a complete shift and it's almost like a
second song that they do a few times.
Particularly in when you get to taxes where the music behind it
gets so different than it was inthe first half.
Yes, but I think what takes talking about in the layers and
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what's fun about it is it's it'sthe percussion on this album
there is. So not only are there multiple
layers of percussion where you've got drums and then
whatever else fucking little shakers they're holding and
marimbas and all that kind of stuff, but also the guitars and
bass are often played in a percussive style.
Yeah. Where it's like, it's like this
steady, sort of almost tribal drum beat going behind
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everything. I don't know, I found that kind
of fun. It was way more jammy than I
thought it would be. Yeah.
You know which I which I dig. Yeah, yeah, 100 Horses.
I really liked the open. I was like popping along and I
really funky, but then the vocals came in and completely
ruined it for me. And and I agree.
I mean, I probably had gave it about 3 listens and I'm sure
that it's an acquired taste kindof thing, but again, I don't
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know that I like like again, this is supposed to be I, I
shouldn't have to work at it. Yeah, I.
It doesn't have to be spoon fed but I also shouldn't have to be
like put my time in. This did have me questioning
everything that's in a weird way, everything I think about
music, because I am a big fan ofbeing challenged, but also it's
a lot of fucking work. It was a lot of work to listen
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to this and to to and to treat it fairly.
And I think I just wonder, yeah,anyway, I'm always going to talk
about critics and how much they're listening to it and how
how much effort they're putting in.
But I do really like being challenged and I like the reward
of fighting through something toget to a different understanding
of it. And I and I eventually got
there. But but certainly I would think
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most of our listeners, viewers are going to put this on for the
first time and be like, no thanks.
It's not worth the second. Listen.
And that's The thing is like, and they're not wrong for that.
Yeah, I don't. Think they're wrong for that?
The the track I'll pay do cocaine, which is it's basically
the land of cocaine, the nation of cocaine, Gippo Francais.
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It's terrible. Yeah, it's a single too.
Yeah, it's not great. I do.
Pass Yeah, I do find. I do find redeeming stuff, even
in the crappy songs, they'll be like a So as far as lyrically,
there's not a again, not a lot to grab onto here.
But also these are like 23 year olds.
I was, I had this is where I washaving like an existential
(12:10):
crisis where I'm like, what is a23 year old going to tell me?
I'm 49? Like, to think I'm going to find
some truth about life. Yeah.
That's kind of why I don't care about lyrics so much anymore.
It's because unless you're presenting a completely
different experience that I can't identify with at all.
And it's novel. And like, that's, again, I've
said it a million times. That's what hip hop does for me.
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I don't know what those lives are like.
And so hearing about them is fascinating, even if they're 30
years younger than I am here, you know, singing about lost
love or loneliness. Like I did that a long time ago.
But there are some really beautiful line.
Like there's a couple lines where like in how do you say
that the title of that song we're just.
I'll pay, do cocaine, OK? Where he talks about, you know,
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you can be free and still and still stay with me.
I thought was really interestingtalking about like you can, I'll
allow you to be who you are if you'll just stay.
It's kind of sad and beautiful. There are a few lines like that
that like, you know, Hitch in the fields.
But overall I didn't know what each.
I don't know if there was a coherent thread within each
song. No, I mean and this that some
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particular gave me the Neutral Milk Hotel vibe, yes, which is
not. Good for me.
You're not the only one who's compared his voice to yeah, that
where it's like it's a deal breaker for some people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The rambling at the end of the
album to me is unfortunate. Yeah, it ends not on a bang, but
with a whimper. In Long Island City.
Here I come. Yeah.
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That's not a great album closer,not a great opener, Not a great
closer, no. Maybe if you just trim those
songs off the album, you've got something a little bit stronger.
I was gonna say my summary of itin one line is that I, I think
this band is capable of a Radiohead level album, but this
isn't it, Yeah. But it shows signs.
Yes, the potential is there. Like if I could buy stock, I
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would buy stock in this band. Absolutely.
They seem to be incredibly talented players who are in like
always in the pocket with one another.
Like, I don't know if how much of this was recorded live, but
it has that feel, right? I I thought the same thing.
This is this album feels alive and breathing.
And it's what I like about Rock'n'roll is you can, you can
feel it. Yeah, on multiple levels.
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So I think there's a ton of potential there.
I know this isn't their first album, but I do think that
they're probably going to createa maybe not an OK computer, a
kid A, but they're going to do something that is universally
received. Well, Yes, yes.
And again, I I think this is theproblem with critics, too, is
(14:36):
every. They're all rushing to be the
next guy. Yeah.
Absolutely. So I'm not saying that I'm the
arbiter of truth, but I think the critics have trouble
accepting that it's not quite done baking yet because they
want to be the first to crown them.
Yes, yes. And they haven't learned any
lessons from like, The Strokes and that kind of stuff where
they lost their fucking minds and then had to go back and say,
OK, they're pretty good albums, right?
(14:58):
But yeah. Yeah, I think everyone wants to
be the first to crown them. And then you end up with they
they jump the gun on saying how great it is.
Yeah. But it is certainly promising.
I give it the rating of fans of the genre, whatever genre this
is. Yeah, I guess it's rock.
It's. Just rock, really.
Yeah, I. Think if you like rock music you
should check it out for sure. Be patient, yes, acknowledge
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that the voice is not going to be great, but just, you know,
give it an hour of driving around or doing something and
you'll probably find a few little like, you know, like a
few little bright spots that maybe make you want to dig in
more. Yeah, and believe me, we both
came in low expectations or no expectations and we're mostly
won over. I think by the time we got
halfway through, we got there isenough to hang on to.
(15:40):
I agree. I think it's fans of the genre.
Yeah. Again, trust in yourself that
you can make it through. Yeah.
And and and toss aside those preconceived notions about what
a person's singing voice is supposed to sound like in a
traditional rock band because it's.
This is not it. But I don't know if there it's
something. There's something very beautiful
in its imperfection. Now I will that that point you
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made about the vocals. I will be revisiting this during
the playlist because I have someparting thoughts on that.
Oh, OK. Great.
Yeah. What did you think of the new
Geese album? Go listen to it and come back
and tell. Let us know.
Let us know in the comments. Are we on?
Are we off? Yeah, I think this is, again, we
didn't put a rating on it, but II think if you like this kind of
music. Well, what was your rating?
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Fans of the genre. OK, fans of the genre, see we're
aligned. I don't think everyone needs to
listen to it. I'm not, as I think that's what
a Pitchfork person would say. Like this is an album that's
essential. That's important.
No, it's not. No, it's not.
No, it's not. Yeah.
All right. So that's how we felt about
that. That's that on.
That on that. And now we're going to cruise
right over to this was my suggestion for an EP 10.
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It's a little unusual, it is. But it occurred to me the other
day, something happened, which happens a lot.
And I am listening to a song that I didn't really want to.
And I was guessing that like, you know what, we probably all
deal with this. So these are songs that you hear
a lot and you didn't choose to so for.
(17:08):
So this is not, this is certainly not a good or best.
This is just fucking 10 little stories of songs that you had to
hear all the time. Yeah, because of that, I'll kick
it off. My first one.
The name of the song is 3 exclamation points.
So it's not the band chick chickchick, no.
Right. No, it's it's just three
exclamation points. It's a root song, but I
mistakenly told my Co host it was a Beastie Boys song because
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it's the Beastie Boys playing onit.
But it's not a roots album. It's stupid, it's horrible, it's
everything that you wish the Beastie Boys would stop trying
to force down your throat, whichis the shitty pop punk stuff.
But the reason I keep hearing itis every time I I have Ausb in
in my car because I pro tip music fans stop listening to
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Bluetooth in your car. Oh yeah, it's shitty.
The the quality of let me put anasterisk on that.
If you paid for an up level stereo, and you probably did if
you're listing a Bluetooth, you might as well just, you know,
write me a check. You wasted the money.
You will be shocked when you when you plug in the music on a
USB and listen to it direct and not you'll be shocked at the
quality difference. Anyway.
(18:14):
Every time I update that USB andplug it in it while it's cycling
and figuring everything out, it goes to the 1st and it keeps
fucking doing this song. That's pretty funny.
Yeah. OK.
So that's how I end up hearing that all the time.
What? Album is it on?
I could not find this song either by either by the Beastie
Boys or by The Roots. No, it's, it's a roots.
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I want to say it. It's either rising down or
phrenology. It's somewhere in that I forget
exactly. Spotify did not like the fact
that it was just characters likeI could not find it.
OK nice. Now for something completely
different song I heard in the supermarket in two or three
consecutive trips to the supermarket, which is John
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Sakata. Just another day.
It's such a good. And then every time you go to
Jay's house, you're going to. Oh, absolutely.
Every shout out to our buddy Jay, who really who owned the, I
think maybe even multiple John cicadas.
You might own John Cicada at this point.
You might be John Cicada. No, I heard that song twice in
two consecutive trips to the Hollywood Market down the street
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from me and I'm And after that happened because your phones are
listening to you, people think your phones are listening to
you. I was on social media and there
are multiple. There's like a whole meme about
when you're in a grocery store and you're just kind of walking
along and all of a sudden some fucking banger like that comes
on and you're like, you start, You realize you know every word
to it, and all of a sudden your shopping experience is
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different. Yeah, it's a good song.
I don't like anything else like this.
I would never put it on again. But it was nice to get you at
the. Supermarket.
That's a little throwback, too. Plus, pro tip #2 for this
episode, if you're in the supermarket and you're getting
pop Tarts, OK, cinnamon roll. Cinnamon roll Pop tarts.
Do they have frosting on them? Yeah, OK.
Yeah, you want to heat that shitup, but even if you don't, OK,
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I'm going to do a whole podcast on Pop Tarts.
Oh, OK. It's amazing the variety they
come. Up with a lot of variety.
All right. And then I mean, and then the
philosophical questions of I've opened a packet.
Do I need to eat another one of the same flavour or can I get
another flavour? Is that one going to get stale?
It was just yesterday. It's a lot.
There's a lot of moral crossroads here.
That's right. Next up on my list is from the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers. And it's a horrible song named
Catholic Schoolgirls Rule, because if they were good songs,
I'd be happy about it, right? So this is because, again, on my
car stereo, which is where I do most of my listening, if I'm
trying to listen to just one particular song, I'll be using
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the voice command, OK? And the unit is either on
shuffle or it's not OK. If it's not on shuffle, once I
say I want to listen to this song, it'll go right to it.
So there's Anthrax song Catharsis, OK.
And I really, I love that song. I've got my favorite song by
Anthrax. Listen to it probably once a
week. So I'm very often hitting the
little, you know, have the car listen to you and give it
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instructions. And I say play Catharsis.
And she's like, all right, I gotyou.
OK. She plays Catharsis, the next
song, alphabetically. Because now I'm out of album
mode. Gotcha.
So again, the alphabet, the alphabet monster strikes again.
And after Catharsis is Cal Schoolgirls rule and I just
angrily hit shuffle and next every time because any of the
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other 9000 songs are going to bebetter.
So do you own freaky styley or do is it on the greatest hits
that sounds like? What hits?
What hits? So that was greatest hits up to
mother's milk. OK, gotcha.
All right. Yeah.
Not a good song. I listen to it.
It is not good. Oh, I have another not good
song, a song I don't like, whichis a song called Going Up the
Country by Canned Heat. I wondered where that came from.
Yeah, I'm going to get flamed inthe comments for this.
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It's in commercials. It's in dozens and dozens of
commercials. And not like it's part of 1
automaker's campaign over a series of years, like like a
rock or something like that. Multiple people.
If it's about car insurance, about a car in general, about
going on a trip and taking, you know, you're taking photos,
whatever the advertisement is for that involves travel.
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This stupid fucking song is in it.
A song I wasn't aware of until commercials.
Yeah. It's a weird Blues song with a
guy with a high like. Yeah, not.
The country I fucking surprisingly accurate.
I do not like that song and I hear it way too much, yeah.
No, because I did when I listened to it this week,
because I didn't know the song and I'm like, OK now.
(22:34):
Yes, I've right. This is everywhere.
Speaking of it being everywhere,at least in my life, there's a
song and I don't know if you canfind.
I'm sure you can on Spotify. It's called Long Way.
It's by a shitty rapper named Cochise.
God. This.
I listen to this. I'm like, how the hell did you
hear this song? Well, I don't want to.
That's the thing. Rocket League.
The video game OK. All right, so Rocket League,
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when you when you come into the game, every season there's a
different song they have playing, OK.
And what they what they do, thisis very smart of them.
They never pay for big artists. OK, it's mostly unknown artists.
But when you have the kind of audience they have, they kind of
can make them popular whether they do or not.
Now, this is particularly bad. There's a whole there's a whole
season where you could have Koshy's cars wheels.
(23:17):
It was a nightmare, OK, And finally the next season came,
OK, new songs and they had actually lo fi girl.
It was one of the seasons. Oh, yeah, I saw that.
So there's lo fi stuff. Yeah, right.
Which is my default playlist. Oh, nice.
But it overrides your default with the new season's playlist.
Got it. So this Long way song, which I
think everyone agrees is terrible.
(23:38):
You can pick a song to play whenyou score a goal.
OK, Normally if it's popular fora given season, the next season
you don't hear it much. OK, I keep hearing the song.
Really like people just won't change it.
OK, so there's a school of thought that this it's trolling.
People are doing it on purpose, they know.
But here's the thing. It was such a young leaning
crowd. I can't tell if they actually do
this many young people like thisterrible thing or are they like
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me and they have a good sense tohear and they're like this song
is so because I mean, it really is salt to know it.
You just got scored. Sure, right.
And you got to hear like the best use of this, by the way, is
you could give your your team a name if it's all people in a
club and there's a team called what's going on?
And I'm like, OK, whatever. One of the songs you can pick
(24:20):
from is the four non blog song What's going on?
So every time they scored, it was like their theme song.
Like that's fucking smart. That's.
Pretty good. Yeah, but if you play Rocket
League, you can definitely empathize with this fucking
song. It is terrible.
It's a shitty trap. It's just a pop song.
Yeah. It's.
And I hear it five times every day.
Yeah. That's funny.
My next choice is another commercial song and it's Feeling
(24:42):
Good by Nina Simone. It is a fine song, right?
And there are tons of covers of it too.
I do really love Nina Simone's voice.
I do need to investigate a little bit more and listen to
some of her other stuff. But for whatever reason, it's
like it can be used for like a spa commercial.
It can be like a Dove ice cream bar, like anything where you
want to feel good. They'll drop this song and it's
(25:05):
just lazy. It must not be that expensive,
the license, but good on the Nina Simone own estate to be
raking in the dole for this. It's in a lot of commercials.
I, I mean, to that end, one thatI can, I don't hate this song,
OK, But so I, I have a, a business, a couple businesses,
one of which is a brick and mortar.
(25:26):
And in that business we play music and we try to kind of
balance like, OK, what do we want to listen to?
Maybe what the customers want tohear.
So the different employees have playlists and the song Tennessee
Whiskey by Chris Stapleton, I don't know how it ends up.
It's on every playlist. That's so funny.
It's very particular. All I know is every time I go to
(25:48):
work, I just, I'm like Tennesseewhiskey.
I'm like every fucking shift. It's kind of a.
It's not bad. No.
And it's, but it's kind of a slower a song for a business, I
guess. It's not offensive.
It's not. Offensive, it's fine, but it's
like, it's just, it's amazing. You would think that.
OK, it's on this playlist. Yeah, but I'll glance at it when
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I get in. Like, that's today's playlist.
I'm like, why is it on this one,too?
It's on all of them. Right next to Cochise, yeah.
Which I'm gonna add now. I should have a playlist of just
these, yeah. Jesus.
Yeah, yeah. My final choice is Daft Punk one
more time, and I hear this all the time, in a good way.
My family, we have the album, wehave the vinyl and we have dance
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parties to it on a regular basis.
Nice. Or my wife or my child or myself
will drop the needle and everything stops.
It's really good in the morning before school and work.
We just kind of want to let loose.
And you know, nobody wants to gowhere they're going.
You might as well make it fun and listen to Daft Punk.
Yeah, so. Students when I'm here one of
these days, sure, yeah, absolutely.
It's a good time my. Final one is a song I actually
(26:54):
like a lot but just don't reallyplan on listening to it, and
that's Videotape by Radiohead. It's pretty clear to me now that
my favorite Radiohead album is In Rainbows.
It's really good. Yeah.
So I mean that's it's just what it is.
So no matter where, I'm a big shuffler.
Right, every day you shuffle. Every day I'm shuffle.
No matter where I pick up In Rainbows, I'm like, oh, I'm
(27:16):
going to stay for Jigsaw Fallinginto Place because that's my
favorite song and it's track 9. So no matter where I end up, I'm
like, whether it's 2345, I'm going to stay.
And then I listen to Jigsaw and then there's just one more song
on the album and it's, it's fine.
Yeah. But I'm never like, out of
respect to Radiohead, I'm never like changing.
And I'm just like, well, I mightas well finish the album.
(27:37):
Absolutely every time. That's fair.
There's a lot of tons of think pieces on YouTube about what
time Signature Videotape is in. It's an interesting watch, like
for music nerdy kind of shit because it is very tough to get
your arms around that song in particular, and it's the last
song on that album. But no, that's a good choice.
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What are some songs that you don't choose to listen to, but
you listen to anyway? Let us know in the comments.
Might be some good shit out there that we haven't heard
before. Spouses, kids, Co worker, maybe
someone in the cube next to you.It's like, for fuck's sake,
yeah. If you work in the service
industry and you have to listen to a soundtrack every day, like
there's some songs there you probably never want to hear
again, let us know what those songs are.
(28:18):
Now it's time for our extended playlist. 5 songs to renew your
passion for music. This is where we usually choose
a song or two from the album we just reviewed, a song or two
from the list, We just, and thena couple wild cards which we
think fit the overall vibe of the playlist.
If nothing else. If you get nothing else from
this whole thing that we're doing, you get 5 cool songs to
listen to. We'll link to the playlist
below. If you are one of our Patreon
(28:39):
subscribers, you would get an overextended playlist of 10
songs. Plus I put on a newsletter every
week of some cool things going on in music.
So you get that first song we chose.
We chose 2 songs from the Geese album Getting Killed which we
both agreed we really like. Very jammy and loose and fun.
The other one I I lobbied for and Tank agreed which is taxes
(29:00):
if you. Want me to pay my tax?
If you want me to pay my tax, you better come over with a
(29:21):
cruise surface. You're going to have to nail me
down. I recommend watching.
(29:59):
They performed it on Kimmel. Recently, OK.
It's kind of neat where there's a major shift in the song where
the instrumentation changes, andthe first half of the video was
in black and white, and then it slowly gets into color, and then
when the change happens, it's full color.
So kind of like Wizard of Oz. OK, But it's done a really nice
effect, I think. Yeah, those are good.
Two good representatives of that.
I was gonna say yeah, that that'll give you a decent flavor
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of what you're getting into if you're gonna listen to the album
and then one of your songs that we the one of the unintentional.
Songs. Yes.
Nina Simone feeling good. How you know how I feel.
Sun in the sky, You know how I feel.
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Breathe drifting on by, You knowhow I feel.
It's a new dawn, It's a new day,It's a new life for me.
Yeah, it's a new dawn, It's a new day.
It's a new life for me and I'm feeling good.
(31:15):
Let's shake it up. Let's go into a whole different
genre and just a classic song and it'll be a very stark
contrast from someone who was not sort of classically seen as
a as a strong vocalist to someone who is one of the all
time greats. So that'll be a nice transition
there. And Speaking of vocals, So my
wild card is Smaller and Smallerby Faith No More off the
(31:37):
potentially most underrated album of all time, Angel Dust.
When I was listening to the Geese, I kept thinking of Faith
No More in the sense that if youhave a Mike Patton as your
vocalist, you can pull it all together.
Yeah. So Geese to me was like Faith No
More without Mike Patton, OK. In the sense that it's doing
weird things. And if you listen to Angel Dust
(31:58):
or just flip through it, there'sa lot of really weird songs.
Sure. But Patton can pull it off OK,
because when you know. Because he can rein it in and
change and yeah. I mean, arguably, you know, the
most talented vocalist in quite a while.
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The. Smaller, Smaller is a good
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example of, you know, there's Aboriginal instrumentation and
drums in the middle. It's it's kind of the same
thing. But he makes it work.
Yeah. Instead of getting in the way of
the progressive music interesting, he pulls it
together and enhances it. Yes.
Oh, I like that. Yeah.
My final choice is a song. We've already mentioned this
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band earlier, Radiohead Reckoner, and it's for the
drums. Music.
(34:35):
yeah, there's dual track drums The where there's 22 drummers
playing on this track and they're overlapping and it
creates this crazy effect where you can't quite catch the
rhythm, but you do. And again, it feels sort of
tribal. That percussive element runs
throughout the not throughout the whole song, but most of the
song. It reminded me a lot of what
Geese is doing. Again, Geese did remind me of
Radiohead and Fish a little bit in these weird kind of ways.
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If you don't know the song Reckoner, it's fantastic.
There's also an amazing cover byGnarls Barkley.
That's right. I mean, I meant to listen to
that. So like Cee Lo hitting those
Thom York notes, it makes so much sense.
It does because he can. He can get there and a few
people can. So check the point.
I'll link to that below as well as in the whole playlist.
That's it. Another one in the books.
(35:19):
Hell yeah. This is fun.
It was. Yeah.
Absolutely good times. Check us out.
Like, subscribe, Patreon, tip your waiter, try the fish.
That's right. And all that other good stuff.
But next week you'll see us again with more good music.
Yep, and more witty banter. Indeed.
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