May 22, 2025 • 50 mins
Looking for new music? Can we tempt you with songs by bands with weird/stupid names? Well we've got ten songs that fit the bill, and we're going to listen to them and rank them. It's the Playlist Challenge, and it's a great way to for our intrepid hosts to introduce each other to stuff they've (usually) never heard before.What are your favorite songs by bands with terrible names? Let us know in the comments.Listen to songs featured in the episode on Spotify or YouTube.Watch previous episodes.Like/follow/subscribe to The Extended Play Podcast.
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Welcome to the Extended Play podcast.
He is EIM Tank and this is a music discussion show without
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It really is. If you want mass produced, full
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That's us. All right.
So this is a playlist challenge if you're relatively new to the
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podcast. Yeah.
Welcome. Welcome.
Yes, thank you. Thanks for joining our quirky
little family. Yep, Yep, the playlist challenge
is one of the very first Yeah gimmicks we did.
Yeah, absolutely. And it's time to revisit an old
favorite. It's a it's a way to just shoot
the shit about music, but also alot of music exploration going
on here. Yeah, it's it's the episodes
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we've gotten the most positive feedback, I would say about
because people always say, oh, Igot introduced to this new
artist or this new song that I've never heard of before.
So the way that we do it is we take, we just pick a random
topic and as as he mentioned, this time around it is bands
with odd and unique names. We both pick 5 songs that fit
that topic, send them to the other guy via e-mail or smoke
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signals, carrier pigeons, whatever.
That's right. Ravens.
Yeah, Ravens. Sure.
I wish that. Would be awesome, wouldn't it?
So the then we listen to the songs and we rank them 5 to 1
based on criteria, whatever the fuck we want, and take some
notes and talk about it. So it's usually, we try to, I
think both of us do a mix of maybe mostly new songs with some
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that aren't new. Yeah.
Because it kind of forces the guy to take a look at it from a
fresh perspective. Yeah, we get to talk about songs
we may have never talked about before.
Exactly. Yeah, I will link to a playlist
both Spotify and YouTube below. I think that you I can put them
on YouTube above so you can check out all the songs so.
Who goes first? Well.
That's a good question. Yeah.
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Why don't you go? OK.
Yeah. All right.
With the five, the five year band names that I chose for you.
Yes, yes. So #5 on the list is a song
called Aftermath by a band namedRolo Tomasi.
Which do you know where that's from?
I learned it, but. You didn't see the movie though?
I did see the movie, but I didn't remember.
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Yeah. LA Confidential.
Great fuck. It it was a great.
Movie. That was my favorite movie for a
stretch of years. I mean, it's not saying much
because you don't watch a lot ofmovies.
I think it means even more. OK.
All right. Fair enough.
Yeah, OK. No, I love that.
Oh, it's. Super great.
Yeah, it's great. All right, So the reason I had
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that at #5 is I didn't like it. That's.
A good reason, not that it was the the the worst of a bunch of
great songs. You just actually don't like it.
Wow, that's OK. That's fine.
I mean, it something about this kind of music, it just hits me
as like lazy and unoriginal, OK?I just, I don't, I don't get,
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it's not bad, OK? I feel like it's strictly going
for a vibe. Interesting.
There's nothing to me. There's nothing it offers other
than a vibe. And if the vibe doesn't vibe
with you, sure, you got nothing.That's funny, 'cause there's
another song I gave you that to me is just a vibe and not really
a great song, An OK song. Perhaps.
We'll see if we can. Maybe it's number four.
Yeah, we'll see. The lyrics are like junior high
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D. Yeah, they're not great.
No fan of the lead singer though.
I knew you would be. So I think you would be
apparently the. It's a brother, sister.
Yeah, Yeah. And she must be right now
because they have different lastnames.
OK, so. Yeah, they've been in a band
together I think since like theywere 12 years old or.
So they used to go in the car and scream.
It's crazy. Yeah, I glanced the Wikipedia
lost a little bit of interest. I didn't read too much more.
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But the good news is I listened to this.
This is actually the fourth or fifth one I listened to.
And just when I was worried thatI wouldn't have a candidate for
my patented what genre is this banded Wikipedia?
Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The rest of them are pretty straightforward.
Here comes Rolo Tomasi. OK, they are post metal.
OK, fine, which? No.
No, fine, it's stupid, but it's.But even to the metal part,
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ignoring the post. Well, this song so.
OK. Yeah.
So. I have a.
Hard time seeing this becoming like Slayer though.
Brief aside, I like this song a lot.
I heard it on a it was in pitchfork stereo gum, something
like that. I listened to it, really liked
it. I'm like cool, I'm going to
check out this full album. The full album sounds nothing
like this. Nothing.
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It's all screaming. All she does is scream.
Oh. Why like that?
It's like black metal. I feel that'd be way worse.
It's weird, OK, It's weird. And I looked, looked.
I did a little research ahead oftime because I'm like, I should
probably explain that part of it.
And I never looked into it, 'cause I'm like, I'm just never
listening to this full album again.
Yeah. They just wanted to write like a
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pop song. Like this was like an experiment
in songwriting. OK.
I mean, I don't hate it. Yeah, like if this was on, I
wouldn't say change it. Sure, sure.
To me, it's just it would be good background.
Yeah, sure. But I would not seek it out.
So yeah, post metal with. So now this makes more sense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Post metal, post hardcore,
experimental rock, progressive rock, and math core.
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Math Core. So that's just complicated
rhythms, right? Probably essentially the only
band that I think earns that title is Tool is.
Tool, right? It's like prog kind of right?
Like. Tool does song structures based
on the Bernoulli equation. Like, yeah, and the drums in the
beginning of this track, I can't.
I've tried to tap them out. It's I, I find it impossible.
I don't know what the fuck he's doing.
So maybe it's math related. That would make sense.
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If I don't understand that, Yeah, not my strong suit, folks.
Is it Bernoulli? Fournier.
I don't know. There's a lot of weird names
that I learned in engineering school that I forgot.
Whatever it's it's a fucking thing.
Boolean prime numbers, I think. What?
Boolean. That's not a thing.
Sure. Did you still have to do boolean
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searches and like that scale? Bullshit is true or false.
Six. Yeah, nailed it.
So that was #5 boolean. Would be a great band name.
It would be, yeah. Better than Rolo Tomasi, yes.
OK, Anyway, sorry. And by the way, so I and I'm
going to talk about this at another point, but I went to a
show the other day and a text exchange with the people that I
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went with just had it was an interesting choice of words.
And I came up with I'm like, youknow what?
The the band name Manspreading Bitch would be a great band.
That'd be something that'd be like a like a goth like it it
it'd be a really kind of band where the singer urinates on
stage or something. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
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Like Anal Cunt which was the 6thsong in you were going to get
Anal Cunt. That's a band 100.
Percent Jesus Christ, I had heard of it.
Of course it is I'd heard of it.But if you Google, if you Google
funny band names, anal cunt comes up.
I like to think that you you just did a Google search for
that phrase and you know, there's also a.
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Band. Actually when I'm in when I'm in
Google I just type A and anal cunt comes up auto populates.
Yes my auto population. I just gave him shit about it.
Like you're a bold man to start typing a Google with someone
over your shoulder. Yep, absolutely.
There are not many letters I could start with that aren't
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anxiety inducing. Maybe AZ Maybe.
BZ Yeah. Anyways, that was #5 yeah #4 is
a song called After Falling asleep by say, SU MI.
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It comes out of the gate strong.The song opens.
I don't know anything about thisband at all.
Which is reinforced by the fact that about halfway into the
song, I'm working on stuff, right?
I hit play and and I'm like, oh,what are the lyrics?
I don't. I can't really pick up what
they're saying. There's a reason for that, yeah.
So just imagine the visceral hilarity of like, you're on
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Spotify on desktop and you hit the little microphone for lyrics
and it's just Korean characters filling up your screen.
Fun fact, if you wanna, if you're not sure which language
is, there's a lot of circles that's Korean.
Yes, yes, I know that from my day gig where I have to
translate stuff with Chinese, Korean, not Japanese, Yeah.
Yeah, So it's Korean. Yeah, it's as a music, it's it's
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fine. There's there's nothing notably
wrong with it. I think it would make great
clothing store. Oh, retail music.
Good call. Absolutely.
And it if I had to peg a year for this, I'd say 2004.
Now I know it's 2000, like 13 or16 or whatever, mid mid twenty
10s, but it definitely has a American rock early early 2.
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Thousands. Sure, sure.
I can see that. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. So Korean rock band, I think
they. I wish you did look up the
Wikipedia for this, I think. I did well, I know their drummer
had a a massive cranial. Injury.
Yeah, I think he may have died. He's dead.
Yeah, but it didn't say how the injury occurred, which I have
some morbid curiosity. I don't know what genre did it
list, do you remember? It was nothing funny, but it's
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not funny. I don't keep it.
Comes up as like surf rock. Yes, which they addressed that
because they're from Busan, Yeah.
And they're like, they really think that well.
We record near the ocean. That's probably why.
Yeah, you can hear it. I feel like you can hear a
little bit. It's like dream pop, surf rock.
I don't know. I dig it.
It's definitely something I every time, every time a new
album there's comes out, I listen to it in the background.
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It's forgettable, partially because you can't understand any
of the lyrics. I think they do sing in English
sometimes. Yes, anyway, and she said that
she prefers English because she feels less exposed.
Oh, interesting. Which would make sense.
OK. Band name, Did you get that
info? No.
The lead singer's name, Sumi. So should they just did a play
on that? It's SUMI.
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Yeah. It's kind of stupid.
That's why I chose. I wanted you to hear the song
'cause I wanted to get your reaction to it.
But the band name, like Say Sumi, that's hard to look up.
Like if you told to somebody, like if you're at, if you're
recommending music to someone, you walk up.
I like this band called Say Sumi.
Like, how the fuck do you spell that?
Yeah, like, how do I search for it?
Yeah, right. Anyway.
Yeah, it's no, I mean, I think it's good enough that if I was
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doing some work and I'm like, I just want something new, but I
don't really want to think aboutit, I would.
I would play it, yeah. I like that.
Speaking of Asians, and this isn't really Asian, but #3 is
Elephants by Japan Cakes. Great band name.
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And even though they're named Japan Cakes, there's nothing
about Japan to do from Georgia. So first of all, it's 12 minutes
and 5 seconds. I haven't done this to you yet.
I don't. Think I'm going to remember
this? You've done this to me plenty of
times. When it's 9 and 10, at least 9
or 10, yes, there's a gentleman's agreement at 10
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minutes. But the good news is it it's a
very easy 12 minutes, yes, you don't have to listen intently.
There's no words. Yeah, it's not like it's a like
a suite where things are changing.
You know, it's pretty much the same things throughout.
Yeah, which could be a negative.Butter bad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was it was fine.
It was fine. It could be way worse for 12
minutes. So it's an interesting concept,
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This, this whole thing. So a guy apparently Mr. Japan
Cakes, which would be my porn name.
Sure. A Japan cake sounds like a porn
term. Does it?
It sounds like a restaurant to me.
No, no, no, it sounds like porn.I'm going to say it's going to
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be some combination of a bodily fluid and seafood would be a
Japan cake. Hey, hey man, this is what you
get. For what?
An innocent you give me Japan cakes.
I'm not giving you. Clearly I'm not.
Going to give you no, no, I wouldn't give anyone into
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pancakes because I respect them too much because that is
degrading folks. I'm sorry.
You make semen and sushi. Nothing good is happening.
All right, so a guy decides to grab 10 musicians and he just
picks a key and is like go Yep. So it's like DI guess was this
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song or this album or whatever. And there's no rehearsal.
It's basically a jam session that's recorded, which as it
goes on, you can you can tell, yes.
Now, the steel guitar on this particular track carries a lot
of water. It does.
Without it, I think it would really turn into nothing.
Yes, I agree. So I think the framework is
there, but that makes it has some character as it gets on in
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time, you know, towards the end of its 12 minute, 5 second
running time, you know, the the base does some flourishes, like
they sort of take turns. Yeah, yeah, kind of a jazzy
proggy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I like it. And again, this will be this is,
you know, again, great. Not quite going to replace 07 or
or something like that, but a step above anonymous lofi.
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For me, yes, yes, right, right. So they apparently did.
Did you see this? They apparently did an entire
reworking of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.
I didn't know. Yeah, which I think, and it's
lyricaless, which you didn't like that album when we did the
top 100 albums of our lifetime. His voice is way low in the mix.
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You can't understand what he's saying in that album.
So just removing it entirely andthen putting this kind of
treatment on it, I don't know. You might dig it.
I might, yeah. I'll give it a shot.
Yeah. So that was #3 #2 is a song
named Lies by the band Churches.So I didn't know anything about
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churches with AV, by the way. Which is the the odd stupid
part. Yes, that's why it's on the.
Yes, which makes sense. That's why it's panned all caps.
And all caps of course, right? But I didn't know anything.
I've seen the name a million times and I, I, I feel like I
should have, you know, given it a chance, run across it by now,
but I hadn't. Scottish like synth pop.
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Synth pop. Dance pop.
Yeah, sure. I, I really, I do like it and I
think her vocals are, they're positioned perfectly against the
electronica, both in volume and in tone.
Like it just it's a good fit. Totally agree.
I I I took a little bit of notesahead of time.
Like the way they play off each other, like how hard hitting the
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beat is and how kind of soft anddelicate her voice is.
It's just a perfect. Match, it's a it's a good mix
and that's very difficult to do with that kind of music with
vocals. Absolutely, I agree So.
Yeah, the the lyrics are they'rewhatever they're, they're
borderline nonsensical, but the music does feel fresh and
inspired. This is from their debut album
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and it does seem like it has that energy.
Yes, yeah. Good call.
You know, like you could sort ofjust debut albums have an
electricity that it's hard to replicate.
I agree. Cause 'cause they have, I think
they made five albums. They're on a hiatus right now.
The lead singer, Lauren Mayberry, is doing her own
thing. But, like, less and less quality
to me. As it went, yeah.
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It happens if your whole life towrite your first album, they
say, that's right. Two years to write the next.
That's right. So that's number two.
I liked it. I'm going to dig into that some
more. And then a #1 drum roll or
Shanky's whip. Today's number one, brought to
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you by Shanky's. Yeah.
Today's #1 like every #1 Shanky's whip for what you want
to feel like #1 Oh, yeah. Shanky's Whip.
Not a bad name. A great name.
That'd be a great name. I mean for a band and just in
and of itself. And a small child.
Come here, Shanky's Whip. Not Shanky or Whip.
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No Shanky. Shanky's whip.
OK. All right.
A whip? Middle name maybe?
OK, number one is I should probably have looked up how to
say this anemone. Really.
Yeah. A nominee.
Really. Yeah.
All right. Well done.
Proud of me. Yeah.
I was going to, I was going to fucking Google Translate it
before I even came, but I forgot.
Anyway. Anemone is #1 by the Brian
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Jonestown massacre. Which is a fucking terrible
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name. I I hate that name, no.
It's so it's so bad. It's.
Good. Oh, really?
OK. Yeah, OK.
Anyways, that's number one, yeah.
So the band name, as it turns out, is a portmanteau.
It is a portmanteau. Well done man.
Crushing it on pronunciation. Absolutely.
Of Brian Jones, who I guess was the founder of Rolling Stone.
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Yes. He was in The Rolling Stones,
maybe? I want to get pissed about it,
but OK, yeah, Rolling Stones founder because I saw a founder
and yeah, all right. So yeah, I stand corrected as
we're back from a break. Deceased Rolling Stones founder.
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I saw, I saw founder. I thought magazine.
You got to. You got to give.
Me that OK, that's fair. Founder is a magazine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.
And guitarist Brian Jones and the Jim Jones Jonestown
Massacre, Right? Yeah.
Ever listen to the audio of that?
I have. I watched a whole documentary on
it and it's incredibly disturbing and I don't like that
I watched. It.
No. Some things, yeah.
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I mean, yeah, it's unsettling. It's very unsettling.
Yeah, even the audio alone is bad.
It's awful, Yeah. Awful, awful, awful.
Don't learn about Jonestown. Yeah, and.
That's where the drink the kool-aid comes from.
It wasn't kool-aid, by the way. It was Flavor Aid.
That's which is a weird thing. Like, I mean really skimping out
at that point. You couldn't go brand name.
Right. But yeah, that no one should say
that phrase. No, it is.
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Pretty offensive. It's offensive, it's super
offensive. It's awful.
Children 200 and 10209 kids diedor something like that.
Yeah, and and 270. 6 A lot of them.
Did you actually have that written?
Down. Yeah, I wrote it down.
Jesus Christ. I I was really upset.
Like I think I watched it just before I became a dad.
And just the notion of these people who gave the the the
cyanide to their kids first and watched their kids die.
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That's fucked up. It's fucked up.
Is the logic behind that to makesure they don't have to live
without them? That they're all dead.
They just need to make sure they're all dead.
And the kids, like they had to feed it to, I mean, they're
infants. No, I know.
But why the parents? Why do the kids have to be
first? Well, it's because some of them
couldn't. Like they're infants, they can't
feed themselves. Yeah, it's fucking.
Disgusting. Yeah, no, it's pretty bad.
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And and it turns out a lot of them didn't want to do it.
A lot of them were forced. Yeah, yeah.
And like 100 people got out. Like the basketball team got
out. There was a travelling
basketball team. Jesus.
I mean, anyway, awful shit. You should make a band name
after it. And you shouldn't say you drink
the Kool-aid, OK? Yeah, it's a weird thing to, you
know, it's like there's not a band named Auschwitz for a
reason. Yeah, exactly, exactly right,
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Yeah. So, all right, so right from the
start. Though now that being said, it
is my #1 not because. Of the name.
No, but I I do love the sound, but it's it's like retro but
also current sounding. I feel like this music is made
for Quentin Tarantino movies. Oh, absolutely.
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Yeah. And the name of the band,
everything about the band that'strue seems to be Tarantino S
That's very true. So what's what's interesting is
so I was listening to the song and I liked it a lot.
I love the vocals, but I guess this song is an anomaly.
It's the only one with this person on vocals.
Would you say anemone is an anomaly?
Yes, that's exactly why I used that word.
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Which is why. Funny you say, that's why I was
going to look at the pronunciation like I can't fuck
this. Oh, right, it.
Wasn't so to do the intro right?It was like when I do my clever
little turn of phrase. Sorry, you know.
I won't have, I won't have him, you know tis tisking me over.
Here, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like would have been great if
you pronounced it fucking correctly, right?
But yeah, it's she's. This is the only song she's on.
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And I do love that their album names are parodies of famous
rock albums. All of them are.
I know this one is, but there's another one There's like who
killed Sergeant Pepper or something Like this is like her
satanic, Her Majesty's, Her Majesty's second Satanic request
or something. Yeah, apparently they released
three albums the year that this came out.
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Wow. So I, I don't know, are they
like a King Gizzard? I don't know much about them.
I watched a whole documentary onthe.
Since 1990. Yeah, like I watched a whole
documentary on the rivalry between them and another band
with a terrible name, the Dandy Warhols, and I think it was like
a made-up rivalry, but then it got real at some point.
It's a, it's called Dig. It's bizarre.
If you're into that kind of shit, go ahead and go out and
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watch it. But in wrestling parlance,
that's that's called working yourself into a shoot.
OK. All right, yeah, I think the guy
the the lead singer, who was notnamed Brian Jones obviously is a
real piece of work. They get in like fights on stage
and shit like they're a mess it.Does it does sound like he's
kind of a yeah. I dig the song.
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But yeah, in terms of Brian Jones, Time Massacre name aside,
I'm going to do a deep dive into, I feel like there's so
much material that there's got to be some gold.
In there, you would think if they're capable of this.
Exactly, Yeah. So I do think there's some good
stuff in there somewhere, and I'm going to try to go find it.
And that's made it #1 it's not like I liked it a whole lot
better than Lies, the second song.
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It's just I think there's some potential here for Gotcha adding
them to the old roster. Gotcha.
Yeah, you know, I did not think you would like this song, but
now that you explain it, it's kind of like that Michael
Kiwanuka song that we had before.
That makes sense now. I think I heard this in a
similar way, like it was on a soundtrack, it was on ATV show
or something, and I like Shazam it or whatever.
Anyway, cool. I'm glad you liked it.
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So those are the five, Yeah. And that's what I had to say
about that, that on that, as they say, well done in in the
Greater Toronto Area, well done.All right.
So I throw it over to E for the five that I gave him.
Yeah, and I do this a little bitdifferently.
I rank them on the fly. He does, though.
This one was kind of done for mein a way, because there were a
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couple songs I already knew and a couple songs I really did not
like. So.
And those were the songs I already knew, thankfully.
So #5 on any list ever that tankwould provide me porno for
pyro's pets. I fucking hate the song.
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Will be great pets. And plus, Perry Farrell,
Speaking of Billy Corgan being Jesus, sufferable 90s figures.
Absolutely. Yeah.
I've always hated this song. I hated the first time I heard
it. They played it a billion fucking
times on MTV when we were kids. It's from what, year 93?
Sorry, I guess, yeah. 93 So we were junior senior in high
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school when this came out so andit was still had.
Staying power when we got to college 'cause this is a made
for college, kind of. Song it is so Ponto papyro side
project from Perry Farrell from Jane's addiction.
I hate, there's so many reasons why I hate this song, OK, but
not the least of which is the fact that he says we'll make
great pets 7 times each chorus. They do the chorus 3 times.
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So that's 21 times he says that phrase.
It's just over and over and overand 21 times to say the same
phrase. It's I, I can't handle it.
Yeah, it makes me crazy. And it's not even a good and
it's. It's not even that clever.
Exactly right. It's a song that tries to be
clever. Like, yeah, one day, like,
aliens will come down and they'll realize that we're a
waste. It's not a terrible idea.
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Yeah, it's a terrible concept. It's a science fiction concept
from the 60s, right? Like, I'm sure there's a whole
Isaac Asimov novel about that's true, Yeah.
But yeah, literally the first thing I wrote is I fucking hate
this song. I had no idea there was so much
cursing in the first verse. There's like 3F bombs in the
first verse. They must obviously censored it
for MTV. For the music video.
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I don't like the drum sound because it's a, it's like a
ticking clock. So I don't know if it's a snare
or if it's a rim shot, but. It's like I bet it's a rim shot.
So it's every hit, they don't even skip a beat and it's the
whole song that I I hate the that's stupid.
It sounds like a like if you're watching a 60s variety show and
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like a guy saw a guy saw some girl in a bikini walking down
the street in his hat like lifted off and go or like his
eyes bugged out. It's very.
Specific. I hate it.
Yeah, I hate it. Perry Farrell's voice is an
acquired taste, to say the least.
I think you could, it could be ano go for a lot of people.
The only time for me that it works is with loud guitars in
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the background because it provides a contrast.
So when it's this out front withthis kind of smoother yeah
instrumentation, it's just like.It's good at cutting through
noise, but then on its own it's grading.
Yes, absolutely right. Absolutely right.
It's like blue cheese. Sure, I like blue cheese by
itself. I like a stanky funky.
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Cheese. That's that's a drop.
That's a drop. I do that is a drop.
I don't care if it stinks. I fucking love it.
I love it. It's another drop.
I mean, I love how earnest. Like, yeah, these drops won't
pick up how earnest I am. I'm.
Not well. They do.
That's why they're great. That's true.
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It's its own. Yeah, yeah, it's hold on one.
Impenetrable. But I like it.
That was earnest. It was whatever I was talking
about was impenetrable. And I did like it.
And this I do love. I do love I.
Can't wait to edit this. I love some stinky cheese, man.
Bring it on. Anyway, I get what you're saying
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though. The blue cheese, right?
Yeah, gotcha. It's overpowering.
As part of a larger thing, it works, but if it's just that,
I'd say this is too much, yeah. Gotcha.
OK, yeah. So anyway, that was a clear #5
for me. No thought necessary, really.
I hate that fucking song. So now we'll go with #4 and my
number four song will. Oh, this is actually easy too.
The rest is going to be more challenging #4 is after the
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Flesh by My Life with the ThrillKill Cult.
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I forgot the song existed. Me too.
And I listened to it kind of a lot because this was the because
again, 1994, we're listening to full albums because if you
invested in the album, right, you only had so many, right?
Right. So you listen to the whole thing
a lot and you listen to bad songs over and over again, which
to me this song is, I don't knowif you dig it.
Not really. Not really.
It's so this is I forgot about like industrial music as like a
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genre entirely right. And this is what that it's that
in early. 90s early 90s like Jesus built my hot rod I.
Wrote that town. That is a good example.
I actually like Jesus built my hot rod by ministry.
Checked out. If you haven't, add that.
Maybe I'll add that to the playlist.
Check up on his playlist. Yeah, I thought Ministry.
I don't know whether bands fit that genre.
I mean 9 Inch Nails to a Greek degree were called industrial
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but it's not doesn't. Sound like at this point they
were I think. Yeah, oh, true.
Pretty much pretty machine and broken were very.
Close. That's true.
OK, good point. So yeah.
So lots of samples in the in thesong, dark lyrics, kind of
gothic lyrics. I mean, it's from the Crow, so
it makes a lot of sense actually.
They appear in the Crow. They play this in The Crow.
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Oh, makes sense. Yeah, why not?
Yeah, there's a couple songs like that that where they
actually appear in and it, it's a dark, grimy club scene.
It makes total sense. Along with that movie The Crow.
I wonder if we watched it today if it would stand up.
We should watch it. I think so.
Yeah. OK.
Stay tuned for reaction to The Crow.
I don't know. Real time, about two hours long
in my mind. Fantastic soundtrack.
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Yeah. Great soundtrack.
Yeah. I mean, singles came out in 93.
This came out in 94. I mean, those are two great,
right? These are the Pantera song on
and it's it's horrible. It's a cover.
I guess there are a few covers. I learned a lot.
I did a lot of that's. Terrible at covers.
They are terrible. They do they.
Do I'm trying to think of other covers that they've done it
just. Seems like whenever they do
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something it's terrible. But I, I, I definitely remember
skipping this song like, 'cause I did have this.
We did. We were in CDs by 94.
So I did. I would hit skip if I could
reach the CD player. What else?
Yeah. The samples briefly reminded me
of Information Society. Do you remember?
Do you remember what's on your mind?
Yeah, I want to know what you'rethinking.
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Pure energy. That's, that's what it kept
reminding me of, right? Which is, I guess, a Leonard
Nimoy Spock sample. Yes, the lyrics are almost
complete nonsense. One line is unrelated to the
next. So like, I mean, you're not
looking for a deep lyrics, you know?
It's just a vibe. Industrial.
Yeah. Will infect your carnal mind.
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They say it over and over. It sounds like they're playing
at being shock, shocking rather than actually being shocking.
Do you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly.
I walked through forests with ugly spirits, kissed their feet
and found them calm, calm, calm.Still.
I don't have any money. Money, money.
My body suffers after the flesh.Makes no fucking sense, no.
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So whatever. Sounds very drug induced.
Yeah. Anyway, don't like it?
Yeah, pass. All right, pass.
Bad name, Terrible name. Yeah, apparently they had
conceived of a art film with this title that never got off
the ground, so they named the Bandit.
OK, whatever. OK, porno for pyros.
Oh yeah, band origin there to goback to #5 apparently Perry
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Farrell was reading pornography.Oh, and there was an ad for
fireworks. OK.
And he thought, it's not a terrible.
Porno for pyros. I guess it kind of makes sense.
It's not terrible, it's not great, it's not great.
I think a lot of band names and song names now, as a parent of a
younger child, like, if I was playing it in my car and my kids
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saw it, would I be? Yeah.
I'd be embarrassed. Yeah, and I would be embarrassed
about this one. Yeah.
OK Anyway, that's number four. Number three is just a thought
by Gnarls Barkley. Why?
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possession. I had this album, Yeah.
Seeing elsewhere, it's the firstone, right?
It's pretty good. I forgot how good it was.
Yep. Yeah.
Maybe because I think Cee Lo's kind of a piece of shit right
now. Like, yeah, so.
But yeah, I don't remember the song in particular, but it is
what they sound like, what that first album sounds like, which
is incredible. Danger Mouse production on this.
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It sounds great. He, you know, and I thought, so
there's drum programming on this.
I thought he was like, I know he's a drummer, Danger Mouse is
like a drummer, but this is clearly drum programming.
But it's really good. Like he's fucking around a lot
with the beat, but never, it's not like DJ Shadow where
sometimes he's off the beat. You have to come back around.
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It's just really creative. The drums are, they're fuzzy,
right? Like it's like, it's like a,
it's a sample. It's a clearly sampled drum, not
a, not a actual, not like a fakesynthesized drum, but it's kind
of blowing out the speakers whenhe's hitting it.
It's just a really cool sound. There's the this darkness to the
to his production always I feel like, and then Cee Lo's voice
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being as crazy and as high as itis.
It's just this contrast that it really, it's too great taste.
It tastes great together. It's true lyrics, whatever it's
about. Like him contemplating suicide
basically says over and over again that does it isn't clear
why he is. Pretty on the nose too.
It is pretty on the nose. And then he literally says at
the end, just a thought, Just a thought.
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Yeah, I don't know. This, this reminded me to go
back and listen to this album. It was really good.
Was Fuck you on this album? Was on the second because they
did 2 I think. No, I think Fuck You was just a
single. Oh really?
Was even on Crazy was on this album.
Crazy was on. It was a huge hit.
That was a great hit. And it's that holds up.
I can still listen to Crazy, Yeah.
No, I think, I think fuck You was just a single.
I don't think Danger Mouse was involved.
OK, matter of fact, I think Bruno Mars produced that.
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Oh. Hmm, yeah, from 2006.
I think this sounds timeless to me.
This could have came out this year and you'd be like, sure,
because just because it's its own, to me, it's its own genre.
The fact that Cee Lo did this because he was kind of an MC
slash singer in Goodie Mob, which is like an offshoot from
from a outcast. It didn't make any sense that
this would be successful. And it was.
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So it just, that's true, you know, like it's just a testament
to the songwriting, to the production.
It's really, really good, which says a lot that it's #3 on this
list. It was written as a
collaboration among Cee Lo Green, Bruno Mars and his
production team. The Sneezing 10s, obviously.
Yeah, obviously. OK, the producer is the Sneezing
10s, but Bruno Mars was a Co writer, OK, Had no idea.
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Part of the Sneezing 10s. Let's find out.
Whatever, I guess. Yeah, sure.
Fucking whatever. Yeah, so that's number three.
Just a thought by Gnarls Barkley.
Gnarls Barkley band name. They just were fucking around
with the word gnarls or gnarly, and they came on Gnarls Barkley.
They're not. They weren't particular fans of
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Charles Barkley. It's play on the NBA, former NBA
player. So just kind of random.
OK, which brings us to #2 tough decision for me right here.
I'm going to go with Pepper by Butthole Surfers, the Butthole
Surfers, The Butthole Surfers. Some will die in hot pursuit
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while sifting through my ashes. Some will fall in love with life
and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an
avalanche coming down the mountain.
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Let's get it all the way. Terrible band name.
Yeah, I hate it. I don't like saying it.
I don't like thinking it. This is definitely one.
I wouldn't play this song with my kid in the car because she
would see the word butthole in the name of a band.
Well, yeah, So the song's calledPepper.
I had no idea that's what this song was called.
Really. No idea.
I've heard this song dozens and dozens of times.
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This was incredibly popular. Another MTV hit in 96.
So we're in college, but this is120 minutes time period.
They're playing it all the time.I love the opening.
Weird. Whatever.
That's right. It's such a cool noise.
And they use it again throughoutthe song.
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It's such a weird song. Yes.
There, there's just weird instrumentation, the it's he's
talking, but there's a heavy effect on his on his vocals as
he's kind of telling the story of the way a bunch of people in
Texas died. Yeah.
And then the the chorus is so incredibly catchy and sing
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songy, nursery rhymey that it gets.
As soon as I listened to it, it was stuck in my head ever since.
Oh yeah. It'll.
Be there for a day or two. The last.
Three days it's been. Yeah, Near Worm.
I like the he does a key change from the first chorus to the
second chorus. So he sings it kind of in a low
lower key in the first chorus and then he brings it up in the
second. I love when they do that.
I just think it's a cool, it's such a kind of easy thing to do,
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but it just adds variety if you're going to do the
traditional verse chorus structure.
You've seen the Bo Burnham thingwhere he makes fun of country
music. It's like y'all motherfuckers
want a key change. He basically kind of like, kind
of like us. He made his own country song and
it's just talking about how stupid it is.
And then it goes, y'all mother, y'all dumb mother fuckers want a
key change and it goes up one that's pretty good, yeah.
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Yeah, I don't have a There's some cool backwards effects in
it. Every instrumental interlude
between verses and chorus is different.
There's different instruments. It's doesn't, yeah.
It's just all over the place. There's a cool solo at the end.
There's a lot of fuzz on the last a minute and a half of the
songs, just like a solo a. Weird.
It again this could come out today to me yes, because it's so
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kind of borderline avant so. Odd.
It becomes timeless. Yes, absolutely right.
It does remind me of back a little bit.
This was the sound. There was a, there was a few
bands that sounded like this at the time.
Yeah. I really dig it.
If, if you're not our age, I think most people that watch the
extended play podcast are aroundour age.
But if you missed this song, check it out.
Let us know what you think in the comments 'cause it's, it's
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odd and I, I don't think I should like it and I really do.
Yeah. Odd.
In a good way, yeah. Like us.
Like us? Butthole Surfer's origin of the
name You want to know the originof that name?
Sure. They had a song called Butthole
Surfer early on. They were at a gig the the
person who was going to bring them out and say ladies and
gentlemen, he couldn't remember the name of the band, like they
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had a different name. So he just he just grabbed one
of their song titles. It goes to the Butthole Surfers
and then they just, that's theirname you.
Have to at that point that's. Pretty good.
That's pretty good. Or band origin number one.
I don't know if this is a shocker or not.
Number one brought to you by Shanky's Whip.
When you want to feel like #1 drink some Shanky's Whip.
Absolutely. I feel like #1 yeah, yeah.
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In the Aeroplane over the Sea byNeutral Milk Hotel.
I even forgot I gave this to you.
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We've talked about Neutral Milk Hotel plenty of times here, how
we kind of just don't get it, atleast the the elevated nature of
their status and how the album was also called In the Airplane
Over the Sea from 1997. Eight, whatever, it's a out of
10 on Pitchfork during the time people went crazy, like the
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indie blogs went crazy for it and it was revolutionary or
whatever. It was just.
And we think how no one listens to it now.
We didn't get it. I really like the song.
It's not. I don't hate the songs.
Yeah, OK. I hate his voice.
His voice. Is challenging, yes, to say the
least. But see, that's the thing.
So would mine be if I sang? Like I thought about that.
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Definitely getting the two personalities here.
I'm definitely more optimistic when it comes to this kind.
And I'm the indie rock guy, I would say, right?
And I like imperfect sounding voices.
There's bad, there's people who Can't Sing.
They can't carry a note, right? They can't, they're, they sing
in the wrong. They have wrong pitch, wrong
key, all that stuff. Most indie rock musicians can do
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that. It's just their voices have a
quality that is kind of grating or annoying, right?
Like, he's not, it's not terrible.
He's not like getting kicked offAmerican Idol, like, you know
what I mean? But it's it's weird and it's
definitely grading. You talk about Perry Farrell
like we talked about earlier, itthere's some grading aspects to
it. Yeah.
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I really like this song. I like the way it starts.
It's got A2 acoustic. It's got acoustic guitars that
are playing kind of in tandem, but just off of one another, one
in each on each channel. And they are, they're, I don't
know you, you're the audio guy, but the, the levels are brought
up so much that they're distorted.
Like not that the, the not that there's an effects pedal on it,
but just like, it's like sounds like a blown out speaker.
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They're clipping. Yeah, they're clipping.
Thank you. I really dig it.
It's unique and it's like a justa cool sound.
It's a weird song, man. Like the whole album.
The whole album is weird in its essence.
It's just like an acoustic folkysong, but then they Add all
these weird layers. So there's like, there's a
trumpet that sounds like it's got one of those mutes on it or
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whatever they call it. There's a saw, someone playing a
saw with a bow. It's really bizarre sound.
Yeah, I don't know. It's just weird and I like it.
I like. Would you say?
Impenetrable, but I like it. Yeah, absolutely, Absolutely.
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So prescient. I mean, honestly.
You know what I would say? Yeah, it's ass.
It's absolute ass. That's fine.
That's totally fine. I, I, your, your first point is
how I see it, yeah. In a vacuum, I would with no,
with no, no knowledge of critical reception.
If someone played it, I'd be like, obviously it's weird.
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Obviously his voice is on, but there's something charming about
it. Yes, I'm fine with that.
Yeah, but it is. Don't fucking tell me this is
some fucking masterpiece. I.
Agree. Yeah.
And I was doing a little bit of research again to like why
people said it was a masterpiece.
You know, I don't buy any of it.It's bullshit.
It's bullshit. Apparently the album was loosely
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based on the Diary of Anne Frankin in his admiration for Anne
Frank. It's very loose.
It's a lot of apparently it's like, which is weird 'cause this
works for Radiohead for me, it works for Kid A, but it doesn't
work in this way, in that it's like dreamlike, like he's like
waking up, literally waking up from dreams and writing down
shitty saw. So it's nonsensical.
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So it's not really about Anne Frank.
Anyway, whatever the song, I really I think the chorus is
charming. And one day we will die and our
ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea.
But for now, we are young. Let us lay in the sun and count
every beautiful thing we can see.
It's nice. I think it's a real just a
really nice lyric. I don't know the rest of the
song has much to do with that, but.
Interestingly, just assumes. People's ashes are spread from
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aeroplanes. Aeroplanes which, yeah, let's be
honest, that's an influence on why you don't like the album.
It's got to be the spelling of Airplane.
No, no, no, that it's Aeroplan. Oh, no, really, no problem with
it. Well, you like the Decemberists,
so that's something they would do.
Yes, it is. And all of these are traumatic
memories are the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Oh, I do like that song. Fucking hate that that's that is
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salt and pepper. Levels for me.
Wow in is it in my aeroplane or what did it say?
You're my I like pet's mix with pain.
Oh. God it's my air hoax so bad.
That is a terrible song do. I hate that song.
What song did Pat Fernery hate of Chili Peppers I.
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Think it's Danny, California. OK, not also not a good song.
No. Anyway, that was my favorite.
I I like this was a great list. Yeah, It was good to respond to
like even the songs I hated I wanted to talk about.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, this is fun.
Both. Both.
Ways good lists, good times. Yeah, good, good.
That's that's what the extended playlist.
(49:04):
We've only been doing this for two years, people.
You'd think you'd get the name of the podcast right.
Although it may I still we should have had like extended
playlists. Oh yeah, it should be called the
extended. Playlist.
Yeah, whatever. All right.
You just saw the birth of an idea in real time, but there you
go. The playlist challenge.
Yeah. And a nice little bow on it.
That's what we do. We listen to songs, we talk
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about it, we rank them. It's fun.
Bada Bing, bada. Boom.
Yeah. Well, that's.
Yeah, well I was gonna say listen to Got playlist again.
The playlist will be in the shownotes or up above.
Do you know of any bands? Give us a band name that you
think is terrible but a good song by them.
Put it in the drop them in the comments.
Let us know and we'll listen to it.
Maybe we've heard it, maybe we haven't, but it's fun.
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That's this is what this is all about, right?
The sharing of cool music. So, yeah, thanks for joining us.
If you haven't done so already, please like and subscribe.
We'll be back next week with something.
Something. Yeah, we keep it fresh.
That's that on that. That's that on that.
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Welcome to the Extended Play podcast.
He is EIM Tank and this is a music discussion show without
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researcher following for that matter.
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(00:39):
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It really is. If you want mass produced, full
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So this is a playlist challenge if you're relatively new to the
(01:02):
podcast. Yeah.
Welcome. Welcome.
Yes, thank you. Thanks for joining our quirky
little family. Yep, Yep, the playlist challenge
is one of the very first Yeah gimmicks we did.
Yeah, absolutely. And it's time to revisit an old
favorite. It's a it's a way to just shoot
the shit about music, but also alot of music exploration going
on here. Yeah, it's it's the episodes
(01:24):
we've gotten the most positive feedback, I would say about
because people always say, oh, Igot introduced to this new
artist or this new song that I've never heard of before.
So the way that we do it is we take, we just pick a random
topic and as as he mentioned, this time around it is bands
with odd and unique names. We both pick 5 songs that fit
that topic, send them to the other guy via e-mail or smoke
(01:47):
signals, carrier pigeons, whatever.
That's right. Ravens.
Yeah, Ravens. Sure.
I wish that. Would be awesome, wouldn't it?
So the then we listen to the songs and we rank them 5 to 1
based on criteria, whatever the fuck we want, and take some
notes and talk about it. So it's usually, we try to, I
think both of us do a mix of maybe mostly new songs with some
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that aren't new. Yeah.
Because it kind of forces the guy to take a look at it from a
fresh perspective. Yeah, we get to talk about songs
we may have never talked about before.
Exactly. Yeah, I will link to a playlist
both Spotify and YouTube below. I think that you I can put them
on YouTube above so you can check out all the songs so.
Who goes first? Well.
That's a good question. Yeah.
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Why don't you go? OK.
Yeah. All right.
With the five, the five year band names that I chose for you.
Yes, yes. So #5 on the list is a song
called Aftermath by a band namedRolo Tomasi.
Which do you know where that's from?
I learned it, but. You didn't see the movie though?
I did see the movie, but I didn't remember.
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Yeah. LA Confidential.
Great fuck. It it was a great.
Movie. That was my favorite movie for a
stretch of years. I mean, it's not saying much
because you don't watch a lot ofmovies.
I think it means even more. OK.
All right. Fair enough.
Yeah, OK. No, I love that.
Oh, it's. Super great.
Yeah, it's great. All right, So the reason I had
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that at #5 is I didn't like it. That's.
A good reason, not that it was the the the worst of a bunch of
great songs. You just actually don't like it.
Wow, that's OK. That's fine.
I mean, it something about this kind of music, it just hits me
as like lazy and unoriginal, OK?I just, I don't, I don't get,
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it's not bad, OK? I feel like it's strictly going
for a vibe. Interesting.
There's nothing to me. There's nothing it offers other
than a vibe. And if the vibe doesn't vibe
with you, sure, you got nothing.That's funny, 'cause there's
another song I gave you that to me is just a vibe and not really
a great song, An OK song. Perhaps.
We'll see if we can. Maybe it's number four.
Yeah, we'll see. The lyrics are like junior high
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D. Yeah, they're not great.
No fan of the lead singer though.
I knew you would be. So I think you would be
apparently the. It's a brother, sister.
Yeah, Yeah. And she must be right now
because they have different lastnames.
OK, so. Yeah, they've been in a band
together I think since like theywere 12 years old or.
So they used to go in the car and scream.
It's crazy. Yeah, I glanced the Wikipedia
lost a little bit of interest. I didn't read too much more.
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But the good news is I listened to this.
This is actually the fourth or fifth one I listened to.
And just when I was worried thatI wouldn't have a candidate for
my patented what genre is this banded Wikipedia?
Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The rest of them are pretty straightforward.
Here comes Rolo Tomasi. OK, they are post metal.
OK, fine, which? No.
No, fine, it's stupid, but it's.But even to the metal part,
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ignoring the post. Well, this song so.
OK. Yeah.
So. I have a.
Hard time seeing this becoming like Slayer though.
Brief aside, I like this song a lot.
I heard it on a it was in pitchfork stereo gum, something
like that. I listened to it, really liked
it. I'm like cool, I'm going to
check out this full album. The full album sounds nothing
like this. Nothing.
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It's all screaming. All she does is scream.
Oh. Why like that?
It's like black metal. I feel that'd be way worse.
It's weird, OK, It's weird. And I looked, looked.
I did a little research ahead oftime because I'm like, I should
probably explain that part of it.
And I never looked into it, 'cause I'm like, I'm just never
listening to this full album again.
Yeah. They just wanted to write like a
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pop song. Like this was like an experiment
in songwriting. OK.
I mean, I don't hate it. Yeah, like if this was on, I
wouldn't say change it. Sure, sure.
To me, it's just it would be good background.
Yeah, sure. But I would not seek it out.
So yeah, post metal with. So now this makes more sense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Post metal, post hardcore,
experimental rock, progressive rock, and math core.
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Math Core. So that's just complicated
rhythms, right? Probably essentially the only
band that I think earns that title is Tool is.
Tool, right? It's like prog kind of right?
Like. Tool does song structures based
on the Bernoulli equation. Like, yeah, and the drums in the
beginning of this track, I can't.
I've tried to tap them out. It's I, I find it impossible.
I don't know what the fuck he's doing.
So maybe it's math related. That would make sense.
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If I don't understand that, Yeah, not my strong suit, folks.
Is it Bernoulli? Fournier.
I don't know. There's a lot of weird names
that I learned in engineering school that I forgot.
Whatever it's it's a fucking thing.
Boolean prime numbers, I think. What?
Boolean. That's not a thing.
Sure. Did you still have to do boolean
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searches and like that scale? Bullshit is true or false.
Six. Yeah, nailed it.
So that was #5 boolean. Would be a great band name.
It would be, yeah. Better than Rolo Tomasi, yes.
OK, Anyway, sorry. And by the way, so I and I'm
going to talk about this at another point, but I went to a
show the other day and a text exchange with the people that I
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went with just had it was an interesting choice of words.
And I came up with I'm like, youknow what?
The the band name Manspreading Bitch would be a great band.
That'd be something that'd be like a like a goth like it it
it'd be a really kind of band where the singer urinates on
stage or something. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
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Like Anal Cunt which was the 6thsong in you were going to get
Anal Cunt. That's a band 100.
Percent Jesus Christ, I had heard of it.
Of course it is I'd heard of it.But if you Google, if you Google
funny band names, anal cunt comes up.
I like to think that you you just did a Google search for
that phrase and you know, there's also a.
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Band. Actually when I'm in when I'm in
Google I just type A and anal cunt comes up auto populates.
Yes my auto population. I just gave him shit about it.
Like you're a bold man to start typing a Google with someone
over your shoulder. Yep, absolutely.
There are not many letters I could start with that aren't
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anxiety inducing. Maybe AZ Maybe.
BZ Yeah. Anyways, that was #5 yeah #4 is
a song called After Falling asleep by say, SU MI.
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It comes out of the gate strong.The song opens.
I don't know anything about thisband at all.
Which is reinforced by the fact that about halfway into the
song, I'm working on stuff, right?
I hit play and and I'm like, oh,what are the lyrics?
I don't. I can't really pick up what
they're saying. There's a reason for that, yeah.
So just imagine the visceral hilarity of like, you're on
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Spotify on desktop and you hit the little microphone for lyrics
and it's just Korean characters filling up your screen.
Fun fact, if you wanna, if you're not sure which language
is, there's a lot of circles that's Korean.
Yes, yes, I know that from my day gig where I have to
translate stuff with Chinese, Korean, not Japanese, Yeah.
Yeah, So it's Korean. Yeah, it's as a music, it's it's
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fine. There's there's nothing notably
wrong with it. I think it would make great
clothing store. Oh, retail music.
Good call. Absolutely.
And it if I had to peg a year for this, I'd say 2004.
Now I know it's 2000, like 13 or16 or whatever, mid mid twenty
10s, but it definitely has a American rock early early 2.
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Thousands. Sure, sure.
I can see that. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. So Korean rock band, I think
they. I wish you did look up the
Wikipedia for this, I think. I did well, I know their drummer
had a a massive cranial. Injury.
Yeah, I think he may have died. He's dead.
Yeah, but it didn't say how the injury occurred, which I have
some morbid curiosity. I don't know what genre did it
list, do you remember? It was nothing funny, but it's
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not funny. I don't keep it.
Comes up as like surf rock. Yes, which they addressed that
because they're from Busan, Yeah.
And they're like, they really think that well.
We record near the ocean. That's probably why.
Yeah, you can hear it. I feel like you can hear a
little bit. It's like dream pop, surf rock.
I don't know. I dig it.
It's definitely something I every time, every time a new
album there's comes out, I listen to it in the background.
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It's forgettable, partially because you can't understand any
of the lyrics. I think they do sing in English
sometimes. Yes, anyway, and she said that
she prefers English because she feels less exposed.
Oh, interesting. Which would make sense.
OK. Band name, Did you get that
info? No.
The lead singer's name, Sumi. So should they just did a play
on that? It's SUMI.
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Yeah. It's kind of stupid.
That's why I chose. I wanted you to hear the song
'cause I wanted to get your reaction to it.
But the band name, like Say Sumi, that's hard to look up.
Like if you told to somebody, like if you're at, if you're
recommending music to someone, you walk up.
I like this band called Say Sumi.
Like, how the fuck do you spell that?
Yeah, like, how do I search for it?
Yeah, right. Anyway.
Yeah, it's no, I mean, I think it's good enough that if I was
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doing some work and I'm like, I just want something new, but I
don't really want to think aboutit, I would.
I would play it, yeah. I like that.
Speaking of Asians, and this isn't really Asian, but #3 is
Elephants by Japan Cakes. Great band name.
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And even though they're named Japan Cakes, there's nothing
about Japan to do from Georgia. So first of all, it's 12 minutes
and 5 seconds. I haven't done this to you yet.
I don't. Think I'm going to remember
this? You've done this to me plenty of
times. When it's 9 and 10, at least 9
or 10, yes, there's a gentleman's agreement at 10
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minutes. But the good news is it it's a
very easy 12 minutes, yes, you don't have to listen intently.
There's no words. Yeah, it's not like it's a like
a suite where things are changing.
You know, it's pretty much the same things throughout.
Yeah, which could be a negative.Butter bad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was it was fine.
It was fine. It could be way worse for 12
minutes. So it's an interesting concept,
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This, this whole thing. So a guy apparently Mr. Japan
Cakes, which would be my porn name.
Sure. A Japan cake sounds like a porn
term. Does it?
It sounds like a restaurant to me.
No, no, no, it sounds like porn.I'm going to say it's going to
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be some combination of a bodily fluid and seafood would be a
Japan cake. Hey, hey man, this is what you
get. For what?
An innocent you give me Japan cakes.
I'm not giving you. Clearly I'm not.
Going to give you no, no, I wouldn't give anyone into
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pancakes because I respect them too much because that is
degrading folks. I'm sorry.
You make semen and sushi. Nothing good is happening.
All right, so a guy decides to grab 10 musicians and he just
picks a key and is like go Yep. So it's like DI guess was this
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song or this album or whatever. And there's no rehearsal.
It's basically a jam session that's recorded, which as it
goes on, you can you can tell, yes.
Now, the steel guitar on this particular track carries a lot
of water. It does.
Without it, I think it would really turn into nothing.
Yes, I agree. So I think the framework is
there, but that makes it has some character as it gets on in
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time, you know, towards the end of its 12 minute, 5 second
running time, you know, the the base does some flourishes, like
they sort of take turns. Yeah, yeah, kind of a jazzy
proggy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I like it. And again, this will be this is,
you know, again, great. Not quite going to replace 07 or
or something like that, but a step above anonymous lofi.
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For me, yes, yes, right, right. So they apparently did.
Did you see this? They apparently did an entire
reworking of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.
I didn't know. Yeah, which I think, and it's
lyricaless, which you didn't like that album when we did the
top 100 albums of our lifetime. His voice is way low in the mix.
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You can't understand what he's saying in that album.
So just removing it entirely andthen putting this kind of
treatment on it, I don't know. You might dig it.
I might, yeah. I'll give it a shot.
Yeah. So that was #3 #2 is a song
named Lies by the band Churches.So I didn't know anything about
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churches with AV, by the way. Which is the the odd stupid
part. Yes, that's why it's on the.
Yes, which makes sense. That's why it's panned all caps.
And all caps of course, right? But I didn't know anything.
I've seen the name a million times and I, I, I feel like I
should have, you know, given it a chance, run across it by now,
but I hadn't. Scottish like synth pop.
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Synth pop. Dance pop.
Yeah, sure. I, I really, I do like it and I
think her vocals are, they're positioned perfectly against the
electronica, both in volume and in tone.
Like it just it's a good fit. Totally agree.
I I I took a little bit of notesahead of time.
Like the way they play off each other, like how hard hitting the
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beat is and how kind of soft anddelicate her voice is.
It's just a perfect. Match, it's a it's a good mix
and that's very difficult to do with that kind of music with
vocals. Absolutely, I agree So.
Yeah, the the lyrics are they'rewhatever they're, they're
borderline nonsensical, but the music does feel fresh and
inspired. This is from their debut album
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and it does seem like it has that energy.
Yes, yeah. Good call.
You know, like you could sort ofjust debut albums have an
electricity that it's hard to replicate.
I agree. Cause 'cause they have, I think
they made five albums. They're on a hiatus right now.
The lead singer, Lauren Mayberry, is doing her own
thing. But, like, less and less quality
to me. As it went, yeah.
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It happens if your whole life towrite your first album, they
say, that's right. Two years to write the next.
That's right. So that's number two.
I liked it. I'm going to dig into that some
more. And then a #1 drum roll or
Shanky's whip. Today's number one, brought to
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you by Shanky's. Yeah.
Today's #1 like every #1 Shanky's whip for what you want
to feel like #1 Oh, yeah. Shanky's Whip.
Not a bad name. A great name.
That'd be a great name. I mean for a band and just in
and of itself. And a small child.
Come here, Shanky's Whip. Not Shanky or Whip.
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No Shanky. Shanky's whip.
OK. All right.
A whip? Middle name maybe?
OK, number one is I should probably have looked up how to
say this anemone. Really.
Yeah. A nominee.
Really. Yeah.
All right. Well done.
Proud of me. Yeah.
I was going to, I was going to fucking Google Translate it
before I even came, but I forgot.
Anyway. Anemone is #1 by the Brian
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Jonestown massacre. Which is a fucking terrible
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name. I I hate that name, no.
It's so it's so bad. It's.
Good. Oh, really?
OK. Yeah, OK.
Anyways, that's number one, yeah.
So the band name, as it turns out, is a portmanteau.
It is a portmanteau. Well done man.
Crushing it on pronunciation. Absolutely.
Of Brian Jones, who I guess was the founder of Rolling Stone.
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Yes. He was in The Rolling Stones,
maybe? I want to get pissed about it,
but OK, yeah, Rolling Stones founder because I saw a founder
and yeah, all right. So yeah, I stand corrected as
we're back from a break. Deceased Rolling Stones founder.
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I saw, I saw founder. I thought magazine.
You got to. You got to give.
Me that OK, that's fair. Founder is a magazine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.
And guitarist Brian Jones and the Jim Jones Jonestown
Massacre, Right? Yeah.
Ever listen to the audio of that?
I have. I watched a whole documentary on
it and it's incredibly disturbing and I don't like that
I watched. It.
No. Some things, yeah.
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I mean, yeah, it's unsettling. It's very unsettling.
Yeah, even the audio alone is bad.
It's awful, Yeah. Awful, awful, awful.
Don't learn about Jonestown. Yeah, and.
That's where the drink the kool-aid comes from.
It wasn't kool-aid, by the way. It was Flavor Aid.
That's which is a weird thing. Like, I mean really skimping out
at that point. You couldn't go brand name.
Right. But yeah, that no one should say
that phrase. No, it is.
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Pretty offensive. It's offensive, it's super
offensive. It's awful.
Children 200 and 10209 kids diedor something like that.
Yeah, and and 270. 6 A lot of them.
Did you actually have that written?
Down. Yeah, I wrote it down.
Jesus Christ. I I was really upset.
Like I think I watched it just before I became a dad.
And just the notion of these people who gave the the the
cyanide to their kids first and watched their kids die.
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That's fucked up. It's fucked up.
Is the logic behind that to makesure they don't have to live
without them? That they're all dead.
They just need to make sure they're all dead.
And the kids, like they had to feed it to, I mean, they're
infants. No, I know.
But why the parents? Why do the kids have to be
first? Well, it's because some of them
couldn't. Like they're infants, they can't
feed themselves. Yeah, it's fucking.
Disgusting. Yeah, no, it's pretty bad.
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And and it turns out a lot of them didn't want to do it.
A lot of them were forced. Yeah, yeah.
And like 100 people got out. Like the basketball team got
out. There was a travelling
basketball team. Jesus.
I mean, anyway, awful shit. You should make a band name
after it. And you shouldn't say you drink
the Kool-aid, OK? Yeah, it's a weird thing to, you
know, it's like there's not a band named Auschwitz for a
reason. Yeah, exactly, exactly right,
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Yeah. So, all right, so right from the
start. Though now that being said, it
is my #1 not because. Of the name.
No, but I I do love the sound, but it's it's like retro but
also current sounding. I feel like this music is made
for Quentin Tarantino movies. Oh, absolutely.
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Yeah. And the name of the band,
everything about the band that'strue seems to be Tarantino S
That's very true. So what's what's interesting is
so I was listening to the song and I liked it a lot.
I love the vocals, but I guess this song is an anomaly.
It's the only one with this person on vocals.
Would you say anemone is an anomaly?
Yes, that's exactly why I used that word.
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Which is why. Funny you say, that's why I was
going to look at the pronunciation like I can't fuck
this. Oh, right, it.
Wasn't so to do the intro right?It was like when I do my clever
little turn of phrase. Sorry, you know.
I won't have, I won't have him, you know tis tisking me over.
Here, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like would have been great if
you pronounced it fucking correctly, right?
But yeah, it's she's. This is the only song she's on.
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And I do love that their album names are parodies of famous
rock albums. All of them are.
I know this one is, but there's another one There's like who
killed Sergeant Pepper or something Like this is like her
satanic, Her Majesty's, Her Majesty's second Satanic request
or something. Yeah, apparently they released
three albums the year that this came out.
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Wow. So I, I don't know, are they
like a King Gizzard? I don't know much about them.
I watched a whole documentary onthe.
Since 1990. Yeah, like I watched a whole
documentary on the rivalry between them and another band
with a terrible name, the Dandy Warhols, and I think it was like
a made-up rivalry, but then it got real at some point.
It's a, it's called Dig. It's bizarre.
If you're into that kind of shit, go ahead and go out and
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watch it. But in wrestling parlance,
that's that's called working yourself into a shoot.
OK. All right, yeah, I think the guy
the the lead singer, who was notnamed Brian Jones obviously is a
real piece of work. They get in like fights on stage
and shit like they're a mess it.Does it does sound like he's
kind of a yeah. I dig the song.
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But yeah, in terms of Brian Jones, Time Massacre name aside,
I'm going to do a deep dive into, I feel like there's so
much material that there's got to be some gold.
In there, you would think if they're capable of this.
Exactly, Yeah. So I do think there's some good
stuff in there somewhere, and I'm going to try to go find it.
And that's made it #1 it's not like I liked it a whole lot
better than Lies, the second song.
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It's just I think there's some potential here for Gotcha adding
them to the old roster. Gotcha.
Yeah, you know, I did not think you would like this song, but
now that you explain it, it's kind of like that Michael
Kiwanuka song that we had before.
That makes sense now. I think I heard this in a
similar way, like it was on a soundtrack, it was on ATV show
or something, and I like Shazam it or whatever.
Anyway, cool. I'm glad you liked it.
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So those are the five, Yeah. And that's what I had to say
about that, that on that, as they say, well done in in the
Greater Toronto Area, well done.All right.
So I throw it over to E for the five that I gave him.
Yeah, and I do this a little bitdifferently.
I rank them on the fly. He does, though.
This one was kind of done for mein a way, because there were a
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couple songs I already knew and a couple songs I really did not
like. So.
And those were the songs I already knew, thankfully.
So #5 on any list ever that tankwould provide me porno for
pyro's pets. I fucking hate the song.
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Will be great pets. And plus, Perry Farrell,
Speaking of Billy Corgan being Jesus, sufferable 90s figures.
Absolutely. Yeah.
I've always hated this song. I hated the first time I heard
it. They played it a billion fucking
times on MTV when we were kids. It's from what, year 93?
Sorry, I guess, yeah. 93 So we were junior senior in high
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school when this came out so andit was still had.
Staying power when we got to college 'cause this is a made
for college, kind of. Song it is so Ponto papyro side
project from Perry Farrell from Jane's addiction.
I hate, there's so many reasons why I hate this song, OK, but
not the least of which is the fact that he says we'll make
great pets 7 times each chorus. They do the chorus 3 times.
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So that's 21 times he says that phrase.
It's just over and over and overand 21 times to say the same
phrase. It's I, I can't handle it.
Yeah, it makes me crazy. And it's not even a good and
it's. It's not even that clever.
Exactly right. It's a song that tries to be
clever. Like, yeah, one day, like,
aliens will come down and they'll realize that we're a
waste. It's not a terrible idea.
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Yeah, it's a terrible concept. It's a science fiction concept
from the 60s, right? Like, I'm sure there's a whole
Isaac Asimov novel about that's true, Yeah.
But yeah, literally the first thing I wrote is I fucking hate
this song. I had no idea there was so much
cursing in the first verse. There's like 3F bombs in the
first verse. They must obviously censored it
for MTV. For the music video.
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I don't like the drum sound because it's a, it's like a
ticking clock. So I don't know if it's a snare
or if it's a rim shot, but. It's like I bet it's a rim shot.
So it's every hit, they don't even skip a beat and it's the
whole song that I I hate the that's stupid.
It sounds like a like if you're watching a 60s variety show and
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like a guy saw a guy saw some girl in a bikini walking down
the street in his hat like lifted off and go or like his
eyes bugged out. It's very.
Specific. I hate it.
Yeah, I hate it. Perry Farrell's voice is an
acquired taste, to say the least.
I think you could, it could be ano go for a lot of people.
The only time for me that it works is with loud guitars in
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the background because it provides a contrast.
So when it's this out front withthis kind of smoother yeah
instrumentation, it's just like.It's good at cutting through
noise, but then on its own it's grading.
Yes, absolutely right. Absolutely right.
It's like blue cheese. Sure, I like blue cheese by
itself. I like a stanky funky.
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Cheese. That's that's a drop.
That's a drop. I do that is a drop.
I don't care if it stinks. I fucking love it.
I love it. It's another drop.
I mean, I love how earnest. Like, yeah, these drops won't
pick up how earnest I am. I'm.
Not well. They do.
That's why they're great. That's true.
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It's its own. Yeah, yeah, it's hold on one.
Impenetrable. But I like it.
That was earnest. It was whatever I was talking
about was impenetrable. And I did like it.
And this I do love. I do love I.
Can't wait to edit this. I love some stinky cheese, man.
Bring it on. Anyway, I get what you're saying
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though. The blue cheese, right?
Yeah, gotcha. It's overpowering.
As part of a larger thing, it works, but if it's just that,
I'd say this is too much, yeah. Gotcha.
OK, yeah. So anyway, that was a clear #5
for me. No thought necessary, really.
I hate that fucking song. So now we'll go with #4 and my
number four song will. Oh, this is actually easy too.
The rest is going to be more challenging #4 is after the
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Flesh by My Life with the ThrillKill Cult.
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I forgot the song existed. Me too.
And I listened to it kind of a lot because this was the because
again, 1994, we're listening to full albums because if you
invested in the album, right, you only had so many, right?
Right. So you listen to the whole thing
a lot and you listen to bad songs over and over again, which
to me this song is, I don't knowif you dig it.
Not really. Not really.
It's so this is I forgot about like industrial music as like a
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genre entirely right. And this is what that it's that
in early. 90s early 90s like Jesus built my hot rod I.
Wrote that town. That is a good example.
I actually like Jesus built my hot rod by ministry.
Checked out. If you haven't, add that.
Maybe I'll add that to the playlist.
Check up on his playlist. Yeah, I thought Ministry.
I don't know whether bands fit that genre.
I mean 9 Inch Nails to a Greek degree were called industrial
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but it's not doesn't. Sound like at this point they
were I think. Yeah, oh, true.
Pretty much pretty machine and broken were very.
Close. That's true.
OK, good point. So yeah.
So lots of samples in the in thesong, dark lyrics, kind of
gothic lyrics. I mean, it's from the Crow, so
it makes a lot of sense actually.
They appear in the Crow. They play this in The Crow.
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Oh, makes sense. Yeah, why not?
Yeah, there's a couple songs like that that where they
actually appear in and it, it's a dark, grimy club scene.
It makes total sense. Along with that movie The Crow.
I wonder if we watched it today if it would stand up.
We should watch it. I think so.
Yeah. OK.
Stay tuned for reaction to The Crow.
I don't know. Real time, about two hours long
in my mind. Fantastic soundtrack.
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Yeah. Great soundtrack.
Yeah. I mean, singles came out in 93.
This came out in 94. I mean, those are two great,
right? These are the Pantera song on
and it's it's horrible. It's a cover.
I guess there are a few covers. I learned a lot.
I did a lot of that's. Terrible at covers.
They are terrible. They do they.
Do I'm trying to think of other covers that they've done it
just. Seems like whenever they do
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something it's terrible. But I, I, I definitely remember
skipping this song like, 'cause I did have this.
We did. We were in CDs by 94.
So I did. I would hit skip if I could
reach the CD player. What else?
Yeah. The samples briefly reminded me
of Information Society. Do you remember?
Do you remember what's on your mind?
Yeah, I want to know what you'rethinking.
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Pure energy. That's, that's what it kept
reminding me of, right? Which is, I guess, a Leonard
Nimoy Spock sample. Yes, the lyrics are almost
complete nonsense. One line is unrelated to the
next. So like, I mean, you're not
looking for a deep lyrics, you know?
It's just a vibe. Industrial.
Yeah. Will infect your carnal mind.
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They say it over and over. It sounds like they're playing
at being shock, shocking rather than actually being shocking.
Do you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly.
I walked through forests with ugly spirits, kissed their feet
and found them calm, calm, calm.Still.
I don't have any money. Money, money.
My body suffers after the flesh.Makes no fucking sense, no.
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So whatever. Sounds very drug induced.
Yeah. Anyway, don't like it?
Yeah, pass. All right, pass.
Bad name, Terrible name. Yeah, apparently they had
conceived of a art film with this title that never got off
the ground, so they named the Bandit.
OK, whatever. OK, porno for pyros.
Oh yeah, band origin there to goback to #5 apparently Perry
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Farrell was reading pornography.Oh, and there was an ad for
fireworks. OK.
And he thought, it's not a terrible.
Porno for pyros. I guess it kind of makes sense.
It's not terrible, it's not great, it's not great.
I think a lot of band names and song names now, as a parent of a
younger child, like, if I was playing it in my car and my kids
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saw it, would I be? Yeah.
I'd be embarrassed. Yeah, and I would be embarrassed
about this one. Yeah.
OK Anyway, that's number four. Number three is just a thought
by Gnarls Barkley. Why?
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possession. I had this album, Yeah.
Seeing elsewhere, it's the firstone, right?
It's pretty good. I forgot how good it was.
Yep. Yeah.
Maybe because I think Cee Lo's kind of a piece of shit right
now. Like, yeah, so.
But yeah, I don't remember the song in particular, but it is
what they sound like, what that first album sounds like, which
is incredible. Danger Mouse production on this.
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It sounds great. He, you know, and I thought, so
there's drum programming on this.
I thought he was like, I know he's a drummer, Danger Mouse is
like a drummer, but this is clearly drum programming.
But it's really good. Like he's fucking around a lot
with the beat, but never, it's not like DJ Shadow where
sometimes he's off the beat. You have to come back around.
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It's just really creative. The drums are, they're fuzzy,
right? Like it's like, it's like a,
it's a sample. It's a clearly sampled drum, not
a, not a actual, not like a fakesynthesized drum, but it's kind
of blowing out the speakers whenhe's hitting it.
It's just a really cool sound. There's the this darkness to the
to his production always I feel like, and then Cee Lo's voice
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being as crazy and as high as itis.
It's just this contrast that it really, it's too great taste.
It tastes great together. It's true lyrics, whatever it's
about. Like him contemplating suicide
basically says over and over again that does it isn't clear
why he is. Pretty on the nose too.
It is pretty on the nose. And then he literally says at
the end, just a thought, Just a thought.
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Yeah, I don't know. This, this reminded me to go
back and listen to this album. It was really good.
Was Fuck you on this album? Was on the second because they
did 2 I think. No, I think Fuck You was just a
single. Oh really?
Was even on Crazy was on this album.
Crazy was on. It was a huge hit.
That was a great hit. And it's that holds up.
I can still listen to Crazy, Yeah.
No, I think, I think fuck You was just a single.
I don't think Danger Mouse was involved.
OK, matter of fact, I think Bruno Mars produced that.
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Oh. Hmm, yeah, from 2006.
I think this sounds timeless to me.
This could have came out this year and you'd be like, sure,
because just because it's its own, to me, it's its own genre.
The fact that Cee Lo did this because he was kind of an MC
slash singer in Goodie Mob, which is like an offshoot from
from a outcast. It didn't make any sense that
this would be successful. And it was.
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So it just, that's true, you know, like it's just a testament
to the songwriting, to the production.
It's really, really good, which says a lot that it's #3 on this
list. It was written as a
collaboration among Cee Lo Green, Bruno Mars and his
production team. The Sneezing 10s, obviously.
Yeah, obviously. OK, the producer is the Sneezing
10s, but Bruno Mars was a Co writer, OK, Had no idea.
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Part of the Sneezing 10s. Let's find out.
Whatever, I guess. Yeah, sure.
Fucking whatever. Yeah, so that's number three.
Just a thought by Gnarls Barkley.
Gnarls Barkley band name. They just were fucking around
with the word gnarls or gnarly, and they came on Gnarls Barkley.
They're not. They weren't particular fans of
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Charles Barkley. It's play on the NBA, former NBA
player. So just kind of random.
OK, which brings us to #2 tough decision for me right here.
I'm going to go with Pepper by Butthole Surfers, the Butthole
Surfers, The Butthole Surfers. Some will die in hot pursuit
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while sifting through my ashes. Some will fall in love with life
and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an
avalanche coming down the mountain.
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Let's get it all the way. Terrible band name.
Yeah, I hate it. I don't like saying it.
I don't like thinking it. This is definitely one.
I wouldn't play this song with my kid in the car because she
would see the word butthole in the name of a band.
Well, yeah, So the song's calledPepper.
I had no idea that's what this song was called.
Really. No idea.
I've heard this song dozens and dozens of times.
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This was incredibly popular. Another MTV hit in 96.
So we're in college, but this is120 minutes time period.
They're playing it all the time.I love the opening.
Weird. Whatever.
That's right. It's such a cool noise.
And they use it again throughoutthe song.
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It's such a weird song. Yes.
There, there's just weird instrumentation, the it's he's
talking, but there's a heavy effect on his on his vocals as
he's kind of telling the story of the way a bunch of people in
Texas died. Yeah.
And then the the chorus is so incredibly catchy and sing
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songy, nursery rhymey that it gets.
As soon as I listened to it, it was stuck in my head ever since.
Oh yeah. It'll.
Be there for a day or two. The last.
Three days it's been. Yeah, Near Worm.
I like the he does a key change from the first chorus to the
second chorus. So he sings it kind of in a low
lower key in the first chorus and then he brings it up in the
second. I love when they do that.
I just think it's a cool, it's such a kind of easy thing to do,
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but it just adds variety if you're going to do the
traditional verse chorus structure.
You've seen the Bo Burnham thingwhere he makes fun of country
music. It's like y'all motherfuckers
want a key change. He basically kind of like, kind
of like us. He made his own country song and
it's just talking about how stupid it is.
And then it goes, y'all mother, y'all dumb mother fuckers want a
key change and it goes up one that's pretty good, yeah.
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Yeah, I don't have a There's some cool backwards effects in
it. Every instrumental interlude
between verses and chorus is different.
There's different instruments. It's doesn't, yeah.
It's just all over the place. There's a cool solo at the end.
There's a lot of fuzz on the last a minute and a half of the
songs, just like a solo a. Weird.
It again this could come out today to me yes, because it's so
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kind of borderline avant so. Odd.
It becomes timeless. Yes, absolutely right.
It does remind me of back a little bit.
This was the sound. There was a, there was a few
bands that sounded like this at the time.
Yeah. I really dig it.
If, if you're not our age, I think most people that watch the
extended play podcast are aroundour age.
But if you missed this song, check it out.
Let us know what you think in the comments 'cause it's, it's
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odd and I, I don't think I should like it and I really do.
Yeah. Odd.
In a good way, yeah. Like us.
Like us? Butthole Surfer's origin of the
name You want to know the originof that name?
Sure. They had a song called Butthole
Surfer early on. They were at a gig the the
person who was going to bring them out and say ladies and
gentlemen, he couldn't remember the name of the band, like they
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had a different name. So he just he just grabbed one
of their song titles. It goes to the Butthole Surfers
and then they just, that's theirname you.
Have to at that point that's. Pretty good.
That's pretty good. Or band origin number one.
I don't know if this is a shocker or not.
Number one brought to you by Shanky's Whip.
When you want to feel like #1 drink some Shanky's Whip.
Absolutely. I feel like #1 yeah, yeah.
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In the Aeroplane over the Sea byNeutral Milk Hotel.
I even forgot I gave this to you.
(44:05):
We've talked about Neutral Milk Hotel plenty of times here, how
we kind of just don't get it, atleast the the elevated nature of
their status and how the album was also called In the Airplane
Over the Sea from 1997. Eight, whatever, it's a out of
10 on Pitchfork during the time people went crazy, like the
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indie blogs went crazy for it and it was revolutionary or
whatever. It was just.
And we think how no one listens to it now.
We didn't get it. I really like the song.
It's not. I don't hate the songs.
Yeah, OK. I hate his voice.
His voice. Is challenging, yes, to say the
least. But see, that's the thing.
So would mine be if I sang? Like I thought about that.
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Definitely getting the two personalities here.
I'm definitely more optimistic when it comes to this kind.
And I'm the indie rock guy, I would say, right?
And I like imperfect sounding voices.
There's bad, there's people who Can't Sing.
They can't carry a note, right? They can't, they're, they sing
in the wrong. They have wrong pitch, wrong
key, all that stuff. Most indie rock musicians can do
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that. It's just their voices have a
quality that is kind of grating or annoying, right?
Like, he's not, it's not terrible.
He's not like getting kicked offAmerican Idol, like, you know
what I mean? But it's it's weird and it's
definitely grading. You talk about Perry Farrell
like we talked about earlier, itthere's some grading aspects to
it. Yeah.
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I really like this song. I like the way it starts.
It's got A2 acoustic. It's got acoustic guitars that
are playing kind of in tandem, but just off of one another, one
in each on each channel. And they are, they're, I don't
know you, you're the audio guy, but the, the levels are brought
up so much that they're distorted.
Like not that the, the not that there's an effects pedal on it,
but just like, it's like sounds like a blown out speaker.
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They're clipping. Yeah, they're clipping.
Thank you. I really dig it.
It's unique and it's like a justa cool sound.
It's a weird song, man. Like the whole album.
The whole album is weird in its essence.
It's just like an acoustic folkysong, but then they Add all
these weird layers. So there's like, there's a
trumpet that sounds like it's got one of those mutes on it or
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whatever they call it. There's a saw, someone playing a
saw with a bow. It's really bizarre sound.
Yeah, I don't know. It's just weird and I like it.
I like. Would you say?
Impenetrable, but I like it. Yeah, absolutely, Absolutely.
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So prescient. I mean, honestly.
You know what I would say? Yeah, it's ass.
It's absolute ass. That's fine.
That's totally fine. I, I, your, your first point is
how I see it, yeah. In a vacuum, I would with no,
with no, no knowledge of critical reception.
If someone played it, I'd be like, obviously it's weird.
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Obviously his voice is on, but there's something charming about
it. Yes, I'm fine with that.
Yeah, but it is. Don't fucking tell me this is
some fucking masterpiece. I.
Agree. Yeah.
And I was doing a little bit of research again to like why
people said it was a masterpiece.
You know, I don't buy any of it.It's bullshit.
It's bullshit. Apparently the album was loosely
(47:20):
based on the Diary of Anne Frankin in his admiration for Anne
Frank. It's very loose.
It's a lot of apparently it's like, which is weird 'cause this
works for Radiohead for me, it works for Kid A, but it doesn't
work in this way, in that it's like dreamlike, like he's like
waking up, literally waking up from dreams and writing down
shitty saw. So it's nonsensical.
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So it's not really about Anne Frank.
Anyway, whatever the song, I really I think the chorus is
charming. And one day we will die and our
ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea.
But for now, we are young. Let us lay in the sun and count
every beautiful thing we can see.
It's nice. I think it's a real just a
really nice lyric. I don't know the rest of the
song has much to do with that, but.
Interestingly, just assumes. People's ashes are spread from
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aeroplanes. Aeroplanes which, yeah, let's be
honest, that's an influence on why you don't like the album.
It's got to be the spelling of Airplane.
No, no, no, that it's Aeroplan. Oh, no, really, no problem with
it. Well, you like the Decemberists,
so that's something they would do.
Yes, it is. And all of these are traumatic
memories are the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Oh, I do like that song. Fucking hate that that's that is
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salt and pepper. Levels for me.
Wow in is it in my aeroplane or what did it say?
You're my I like pet's mix with pain.
Oh. God it's my air hoax so bad.
That is a terrible song do. I hate that song.
What song did Pat Fernery hate of Chili Peppers I.
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Think it's Danny, California. OK, not also not a good song.
No. Anyway, that was my favorite.
I I like this was a great list. Yeah, It was good to respond to
like even the songs I hated I wanted to talk about.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, this is fun.
Both. Both.
Ways good lists, good times. Yeah, good, good.
That's that's what the extended playlist.
(49:04):
We've only been doing this for two years, people.
You'd think you'd get the name of the podcast right.
Although it may I still we should have had like extended
playlists. Oh yeah, it should be called the
extended. Playlist.
Yeah, whatever. All right.
You just saw the birth of an idea in real time, but there you
go. The playlist challenge.
Yeah. And a nice little bow on it.
That's what we do. We listen to songs, we talk
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about it, we rank them. It's fun.
Bada Bing, bada. Boom.
Yeah. Well, that's.
Yeah, well I was gonna say listen to Got playlist again.
The playlist will be in the shownotes or up above.
Do you know of any bands? Give us a band name that you
think is terrible but a good song by them.
Put it in the drop them in the comments.
Let us know and we'll listen to it.
Maybe we've heard it, maybe we haven't, but it's fun.
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That's this is what this is all about, right?
The sharing of cool music. So, yeah, thanks for joining us.
If you haven't done so already, please like and subscribe.
We'll be back next week with something.
Something. Yeah, we keep it fresh.
That's that on that. That's that on that.
Bye everyone.
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