September 24, 2025 • 33 mins
Listening to the latest Hayley Williams album - "Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party" - has got our two hosts wondering if they've actually been hipster snobs this whole time. Plus, the 10 best trios in music and an five more songs to renew your passion for music.
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Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party by Hayley Williams.
The best trios in music history.And every time I tell you, we're
going to give you an extended playlist right right here on
extended play right now. It's extended play, renewing
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your passion 5 songs at a time. I'm E, I'm tank.
Yeah, and today we're in a little bit going to review Eagle
Death at a Bachelorette Party byHayley Williams.
I was doing research for the episode and trying to find an
interview with Hayley Williams 'cause she's a great interview.
She's really interesting, just very thoughtful.
And the only one I could find where she talks about this album
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is with Zane Lowe. And, you know, we don't talk a
lot of shit about individual people.
Go fuck yourself. There you go.
Is this something with the is itare we baldist or something like
that? Maybe Zane Lowe is.
I don't know why I'm surprised but every time I'm like maybe he
won't be so bad this time. He is fucking insufferable.
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The biggest fucking know it all he spends.
So I'm sure this is a take that's been done thousands of
times but spends so much time talking and not listening and
not asking any questions but showing his cred for like, I
know this person so well. Oh remember when I he this
fucker, he doesn't say that. He says things like oh, remember
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when I texted you last week to these artists he's interviewing?
Like fuck off. Yeah, great.
Your their publicist gave you a number.
Good for you. It's and I think it's 'cause he
technically makes music, he's a DJ, but like, fuck off.
And you know what? I'm going to say it.
There's nothing better than the palpable anxiety.
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Oh yeah. I mean, just just gripping onto
the notebook, yeah. But no.
But it's but he's the perfect representative for Apple.
The fucking smug condescension of Apple fans.
Yes, he is the personification of the Apple brand.
Of the fanboy, right? Like he's perfect for them,
yeah. Perfect.
It's so rough and he gets accessto everybody because of Apple.
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And like. Cool people too.
Like I want to see the Heim interview.
Not watching that I wanted to see I can't remember what the
other one is. Not watching that one either.
So I tried for like 5 minutes and it was why can't there?
That's the other thing. It's visual and I really like
like, I like podcasts fine. I like this one a lot.
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But I I do like watching podcasts.
I like watching interviews. I like seeing people interact.
And that's like the one of the only music shows besides this
fucking awesome one where you get to see people talk about
music and talk to the artists. But I have to look at his smug
stupid ass like it. It infuriates me.
You don't. Surprisingly good at
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interviewing a Stone Cold Steve Austin.
OK. So he has A and Lars Ulrich too.
Like he has a It's an Electric podcast.
Both surprisingly adept at getting the fuck out of the way.
That's and that's what you got to do.
Yeah, like Lars was interviewinga Maynard James Keenan, OK.
And he, he would be like one or two sentences and then you
wouldn't hear him for 10 minutes.
That's that's how it should be, how it should be.
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It's not rocket science. No, because they'll open up
because they're fellow musicians, right?
They they know there's an unspoken thing there.
Yeah, someone who doesn't do that is fucking Billy Corgan,
who can't shut up. That's true, right?
Because he's, I mean, anyway. All we can do is we can cross
our fingers and hope that he hasbeen like sexually assaulting
all kinds of people and that it'll come out and he'll get
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cancelled and we won't have to deal with him anymore.
I mean, not, not for the victims.
We don't want it to happen to them.
Certainly not. Maybe inanimate objects.
Maybe they're like he's fucking the couches like JD Vance at
Apple headquarters. That's right.
Win. Win.
Yeah, no one gets hurt except the couches.
But they're probably Scotch Garden, right?
Yeah, except be careful what youwish for because who you know,
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like who's waiting in the wings?What douche bag is waiting in
the wings? Introduces the ultimate monkey
paw curly moment. That's so, so bad that I knocked
over the pistol. Yeah.
All right. Yeah.
So anyway, I got very little information about the album,
which we're going to talk about in just a second.
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Which? We're going to give you a shit
ton of it right now. Yeah, Ego Death at a
Bachelorette Party by Hayley Williams.
Her third solo album. 18 songs really 59 minutes long.
I thought this was her first solo album.
OK, I did not know. All right.
And I don't know what Paramore it's really either.
Yeah, neither of us spent a lot of time with Paramore.
I listened to that the last album once or twice through and
I thought, oh, this is OK. And I so I'm gonna give my
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background a little bit on it. I've watched, I watch a lot of
Hayley Williams slash Paramore clips on social media through
the extended play social media account, which we're probably
linked down there somewhere. Please like subscribe, follow
because she is so charismatic and an incredible performer.
I don't know if you've watched any clips, particularly when she
was opening up. When Paramore was opening up for
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Taylor Swift, it would be a. Half.
Half. Empty or a stadium, right?
And she's up there fucking killing it, giving everything
she's got, like both like maneuvering all over the stage,
dancing, hitting all the notes. I always just really impressed
with, like she's got that rock star spirit and which you don't
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see a whole lot anymore I feel like.
I'm 99% sure it's her. Maybe you've seen this.
Maybe we'll have to cut this out.
It was all over kind of a viralist kind of video where
she's performing and the pyro guy fucks up, Oh, I don't know.
And she improvises and starts singing.
Someone's getting fired. So I'm, I'm pretty sure it's
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it's her, but there's a clip of they're performing.
I think it was hard times and the pyro goes off at the wrong
time, which is incredibly dangerous.
Absolutely. Just ask James Hetfield.
Michael Jackson or Michael Jackson?
And she kind of laughs it off, keeps singing, but you could see
her continue to get more pissed.And sure enough, it wasn't the
first time. And then she starts changing the
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lyrics to talking to that pyro person off stage.
It's. Pretty fucking funny, yeah.
Did you know Tank that this album was originally released as
a bunch of singles with no particular order to it, and it
was a surprise release. You could only get all of the
songs initially if you had purchased Hayley Williams a
particular style of Hayley Williams diet hair dye.
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That is not how I thought that sentence was gonna end.
Yeah, she, she owns a company that makes hot hair dye.
Why not, right? She changes her hair color very
frequently. She put out a new color.
And if you bought that color hair dye online, all of a sudden
you, I think, I don't know if a folder appeared or if you got
the e-mail with a zip file, but then you got this whole album.
That's pretty clever. It's.
Pretty clever. I really liked it.
Why not? Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah. So this is her a little bit
background about the album, first album as an unsigned
artist. So Paramore just saw out their
record contract that they signedwhen they were when she was like
15. So she's like, I can do whatever
the fuck I want to now. And and and did Paramore had six
albums again. I went back and listened to a
few of them. That what I really dig about
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them just at first listen are the the genre jumping is all
over the place. Started off like emo heavier
music, by the end it's full blown pop and I think you get a
lot of that on this album too for sure.
Yeah. No, it's, you know, I probably
will dip into it a little more now because I was kind of
ignorant to it before. That does explain why I haven't
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seen the headlines. You know, again, once we start
doing the research for the show,then our search engines and
recommendations, you know, and there's a lot of like, no
paramour's not breaking up. That would explain why it's the
first one since the contract is up, yeah.
And they've made She's Made Thisas her third solo album.
The other guys in the band have made solo albums under different
monikers. So, yeah, yeah.
Although let me ask you this, ifit does sound like Paramore,
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what was the big urgency to do asolo album?
Yeah. Good question.
I don't think, I mean, we can. We'll talk about this as it
goes. I think this album is kind of
all over the place for musical styles.
So yeah, I don't think this sounds like a Paramore album.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't.
I think it's clearly her voice, right?
And she's an incredibly strong voice and can do all sorts of
things with it, which we'll talkabout.
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But yeah, from my brief, sort ofbackwards listening, this is not
a Paramore album. It's just less, well, less live
instrumentation, I think. Actually, that's true, yeah.
Yeah, but no, I liked it from the start.
Like the very first song, this Ice in my OJ.
Sounds like a Lana Del Rapes title.
Yeah, it does. Too short though.
Yes. I'm spending circles than I can
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tonight floating on your love like a butterfly.
Got me jumping inside thinking about you.
No secrets, no games to play. Sorry.
It's OK, I never felt this way. Got me jumping inside thinking
about you. But I I love like the smooth and
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rough contrast right away. Like you just knew you're going
to get a lot of texture. Yes.
From the start on, a lot of dabbling and everything.
Yes, yeah, from full 90s sounding songs to one that has
like Mirtazapine which is the 5th song which sounds like shoe
gaze at the beginning. It's got these this wah, this
wah wah effect or whatever like this.
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The the sound like bending thesenotes of this guitar, like
really heavy but then turns intoa pop song.
My hearts are sinking stone that smash and
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fusing through your bones for when you're crying at the sky
and losing all your appetite. Hick on my teeny in a screw cap
bottle to grab me some brewery saw this I.
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Yeah, she's all over the place, but in a way that always makes
sense to me, yes. Which I We're not pop guys.
Not modern pop guys. I would say no.
I think we appreciate it, and I would certainly.
I'll listen to a good pop album,yeah.
I don't think I would naturally,like, I don't give Sabrina
Carpenter a chance. I don't give any of these
artists. I'm glad I did.
I'm really glad I did, 'cause this is, this is a pop album.
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I may. Or may not buy it and if I do
it'll be background. But I do enjoy it.
Yeah, like I have no problem listening to this multiple.
Times, yes, yes, right. And I wrote at one point, only
three songs into it. I wrote a perfectly pleasant pop
album. I thought I coined that.
Like, yeah, I put just just goodbreezy pop good.
Breezy pop, right? Breezy and easy, which is my
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dating headline parentheses and a little sleazy.
If that's not your profile, it needs to be.
That's true. Pretty good.
That's true, yeah. Over and over again.
So tanks more the lyrics guy. I didn't dig too deep into the.
Lyrics. Then I didn't look at him at
all. You didn't look.
At him at all. Did not.
Okay. No, Sir.
I was going on vibes on this one.
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The irony, we literally just hadan episode where we talked about
that. I'm the vibes guy and vibes do
nothing for Freaky Friday over here.
But pop, it's a Friday. It is a Friday.
Pop music is about vibes though.Exactly.
Let's be honest. Exactly.
There is some interesting storytelling going on here and
there. It was least effective to me
when it was on the nose. Yeah.
Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
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There's a couple references thatare a little too pop culture for
me that I don't really like cuz it dates it to me.
Like she talks about this Alex Reid's Tarot, which is I think
is like a TikTok channel, like art channel, whatever, so old.
But I never liked that. I never like when you date
yourself that way. But there were very few examples
of that. Overall, I thought it was the
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catchiness. It was the how varied the song
structure was on all these songs, how vocally she's trying
something different almost everytrack.
Sometimes she just lays back anddoes the pure pop thing, other
times there's the heavy vocal effects on it to varying degrees
of success, right? Yeah, that one of my notes was
she and the production team, they did a great job of
juxtaposing different versions of her voice.
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It gets different kinds of music.
Yes, absolutely. It was very well matched.
It never felt out of place even though it was changing every
song. Yes, I will say the vocal effect
on glum where it's so high pitched, that was a little, I
don't know, it just threw me offa little.
But but yes, I agree. But that's I mean, so I see this
as I mean, so the rating I gave it was fans of the genre with.
So if you're if you're new to this, it gets one of four
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because we're not saying it's good or bad.
We're just saying should you listen to it?
Best we can give is everyone, fans of the genre, fans of the
artist or no one. This one I think fans of the
genre. That's fair, I think.
Just what everyone who can appreciate a good pop album,
yeah. Or a a soft rock album, a
Paramour fan, whatever. Like pretty wide swath of people
that would enjoy this album. I agree it it it, which is weird
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because like if I if we told anyone of our friends, not any one
of our friends, but that we listen to the new Hayley
Williams solo album, they probably look at us like we had
fucking 3 heads. Artists like this, like Lana Del
Rey, like Hayley Williams, like I can't think of another one
right off the top of my head. They occupy this weird space
between pop credibility and listenability and indie snob
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cred and it's a weird place. It's like they're only ever be
so successful. They'll never like the fact that
Paramore open for Taylor Swift makes all the sense in the
world. Great career career move for
them. I'm sure tons of people bought
Paramore records after that, butthat's not anything they aspire
to. It's not right.
Like they don't want to be a band like that, or she doesn't
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want to be a singer, like I don't think.
But yeah, just occupies this weird place.
Pull it off though. They could.
That's, that's what's interesting.
So talk about In stark contrast to the last album we reviewed,
where Earl's sweatshirt seems tobe like consciously saying I
don't want any part of being. Popular.
Don't worry. You know what I mean?
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Like, I've got the chops, but I'm not interested in it, right?
So much so that I didn't even mention this in the in the
review that he he had to do a listening party.
The record company said you haveto hold a listening party for
this album. He hired an actor and sent the
actor there a an older Asian manand got him high and drunk
beforehand too. Sure.
It's like you wanted to get the full Earl Sweatshirt experience
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anyway. Paramore, there's a few bands, I
think Waxahachie, when we did that Waxahachie review, it's in
them. They could write a pop smash
album if they wanted to. They just choose not to, I
think. And I'm fine with that because
then you get good shit like this.
It's nuanced. It's not super accessible
sometimes. You get to make a pop song
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without worrying about the end customer.
Yes, yes, right. So you've got those great catchy
melodies, but then you got some weird instrumentation choices or
weird vocal effects. You got screaming in the
background or whatever. Yeah, I, I really appreciate the
stuff like this. Like it's, it's a very
particular style of art that I don't, I don't know how much
I'll play this. Yeah, I mean at least a few
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spins. It's you know, it's good to have
on while working if nothing else.
And you came down to the Extended Play Studios and I had
it on and I'm like, this is great.
This is, like, really pleasant and nice.
Yeah. It's nice our review.
Yeah, the new Hayley Williams album.
Pleasant and nice. What is your official rating
other than nice? Fans of the genre.
OK, I agree. Fans of the genre.
Strong fans to the genre. I don't so.
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But let's, as Tank said, if you like pop music, please listen to
this. If you don't, if you don't
listen to Paramore, if you don'tlisten to Hayley Williams, but
you do listen to Sabrina Carpenter or Chapel Roan or
Olivia Rodrigo or Taylor Swift, you should listen to this 'cause
this is what we're talking aboutto me, yeah, this is what we're
talking. This is just the nuance and the
thoughtfulness. I don't know it.
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It elevates above the normal. Pop It's a quality pop if it's.
A quality pop quap quap quap quap quap.
Quap that fuck them up. Speaking of looking at you like
you have 3 head like I have 3. 03 heads.
I don't have 3 heads but what I do have is a list yes of the
best or the top 10 trios in music.
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History, and it's not limited torock trios.
No, but it's not. Did I?
Say rock. No, you did not.
I'm just, you know, Yeah, sliding that in there.
As you want to do. As one does.
So it's best trio, not of any kind of.
Typically when you say trio, thedefault is gonna be rock power
trio, that sort of thing. And yes, they're well
represented here. But this is open to any kind of
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music. I'm sure there's country trios.
Don't know, don't care. But of everything else, yeah,
best trios with a kind of again are always kind of soft
disclaimer of while we've been alive.
I'm not going to talk about, youknow, some fucking barbershop
trio from 1957. I don't fucking.
Care and we should say for thosewho are joining us for the first
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time, this is the EP10. It is every every episode we do
a list of, but we do a top ten list for you.
All it's EP 10 Best trio. Best trio #10 is Primus.
Love that choice. Yeah, Primus sucks.
That's their little insight. Was it yes?
Was the name of an album or theyhad.
AT shirt, that's what you chanted the show.
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OK, Primus, Primus. They're weird, but man,
one-of-a-kind. A lot of a lot of people.
This artist is one-of-a-kind. No, they're not, and this is
one-of-a-kind. There's zero other bands
there's. Not never before.
Never since. Yeah, like, nothing.
Because you need a generational talent bassist who's really
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fucking weird. Right.
That alone makes it hard to recreate.
Is that a chicken or the egg thing?
Like, that's true, right? Right.
Is he super weird? And that's the only way you
could possibly be that good at bass.
Bass, bass. So yeah, they come in at #10 at
#9 We have The Fugees. That's probably.
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Surprising to some of our long time viewers, yeah.
Because I mean, look, there's a difference between horribly
overrated and bad. Yes.
You can be very good and be horribly overrated.
Sure, it's possible. And that exactly what happened
to Lauryn Hill. Yeah.
MIS education. Lauryn Hill isn't the best help
of all time. It's not in the top ten.
It's not in the top 100. Did we put in the top 100?
We did not put in the top 100. Because it's not.
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Certainly not #1. Jesus, but and not only for
their work as the as The Fugees,but of what became of the solo
artist. I mean Wyclef and a prolific,
you know, both recording and andproduction and.
Political career, that's true. Yeah, and prizes.
Who knows? Who cares?
Well, he did the baby. I got your money, right?
Oh, and it was Ghetto Superstar.That was ghetto, superstar.
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It wasn't, baby. Got your money?
Yeah, it was. Ghetto Superstar.
Great song. Ghetto.
Superstar, it's a great song. What happened to Maya?
I don't know I'm. Going to look that up.
OK, maybe we can get a cameo from her.
Sure. We'll probably get her on the
show. That'd.
Be awesome. Yeah, Maya, if you're watching.
I'm sure she is. The score is a great album.
It is. I mean, it really is.
It's got a lot going on right between Lauryn Hill singing.
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Her rapping is on full display there.
Yeah, Yeah. That's a solid.
Choice. So yeah, they're, they got to be
mentioned #8 De La Soul, we're big fans, the day long fans,
always have been. They, I mean, I think easily top
ten and hip hop, regardless of whether it's, you know, solo,
whatever I, you know, huge influence, great catalog and
still going strong, still socially relevant.
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They are in the sense of, you know, clubations with gorillas
and other stuff. Like, yeah, they pop up enough
that like, they're still there. Yeah, even losing one of their
members. Yeah, 2.
Thirds of them, anyway. Two.
Yeah, right. Yeah, and and I thought about
Tribe Called Quest, but I mean, it's it's a weird sometimes 4
it's. Weird.
Shaheed Mohammed does not. Like, sure, Mace doesn't rap a
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whole lot, right? But Ali Shaheed Mohammed does
not say Boo. Not on any of those albums.
So yeah. They just don't feel like a trio
for some reason #7 Green Day, I mean, Green Day is Green Day.
I've never been a big Green Day fan.
I've never been one for the fakeBritish affect that he sings
with. I forgot all about that.
A lot of cringe with Green Day, yeah.
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But I really like Dookie and thefor that one before that, the
Kerplunk or whatever it was, those are really good, yeah.
But a lot of good songs, yeah, great live shows.
And, you know, they put their neck out politically every once
in a while, which I appreciate. True.
So I got to give a shot out for that number six Depeche Mode,
which until doing this I was notaware was a trio I.
Thought it was two guys, maybe because they had solo careers,
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but maybe they're the only guys big enough to do this.
Maybe at least Shahid Muhammad is in Depeche Mode.
Maybe he is, we just never knew it.
Incredible #5 Nirvana. Nirvana's Nirvana.
I like Nirvana. I think they're overrated, but
they're unquestionably a giant influence and had great although
a low number of albums. Not a not a lot of them
normally. Think about it 3-4 Let's be
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honest with ourselves. Never mind In Utero.
Bleach. Bleach on the Banks of the Muddy
Whisker or whatever. And then I'm bugged, yeah.
Exactly. It's like, let's slow our roll
with, you know, the number 4 Genesis because I mean, again,
talk about both legacy and individual product, right?
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So the stuff they put out as Genesis over decades.
And the various forms, sometimesthey were trio.
I mean, they're most probably they're most critically lauded
when there was more than three of them.
I. Don't, I don't know when
they're, I mean like. Peter but.
No, but he just. Music nerds think the Peter
Gabriel time was like. Sure, but even then I think it
was 3 really. I'd have to look into it, which
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is pre 1980. So technically we're good.
But like, I think it was just Collins was the drummer.
He was the singer. I don't know though it might
have been 4 at that point. In any case, what they did from,
you know, 1980, roughly onward as Genesis, you know, and then
Phil Collins, Phil motherfuckingCollins just.
Dominating the pop charts. He was the 80s.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's number four.
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Number three is Rush, because Rush is awesome and some people
don't understand it. It's OK.
The The Earl Sweatshirt of Rock.That's right.
Yeah, I know all the reputation about them being just like 3
individually incredible yeah musicians so. #2 the police
again, I mean, kind of Nirvana. Itis of a somewhat limited run,
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yes, in terms of material to pull from it.
God imagine. Well, who knows, maybe the
quality would have gone downhill.
But Synchronicity being their last album is fucking crazy.
That was their last album, yeah.I mean, just there could have
been so much more, but maybe thefire would have gone out.
Maybe. I mean, staying since then.
Yeah, yeah, some. Solid pop songs, yeah, but
again, another, well, respect. Like a group of musicians?
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Yes. Right.
No. Especially the drummer.
Stewart Copeland. Yep.
And #1 Beastie Boys, you know. It's a bold choice for best trio
of all time, but I love it. Right, because they it it
touches on rock and rap, obviously mostly rap, but it's
like it's going to sound corny, but like they approached rap
from a rock band mindset yes, which is what made it what it is
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and made it work and arguably their best work when they were
playing instruments right, which.
Is what they started doing. They were hardcore brand first.
It was horrible. It was horrible.
And I'm still pissed about the sounds of Science, the anthology
where it's like, here's our greatest hits, but it's like 1/3
crap you don't want. To listen to that stinks, Yeah.
But it was very much the they didn't try to be a rock rap
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combo. They were just essentially a
rock band that rapped. When you think about, yeah,
that's true. And it showed in the way that it
was just edgier and different. Yeah, and just so reverent of
the old school roots, roots of hip hop and keeping it fresh all
the time. Keeping it funky fresh.
Indeed so. Number one, Beastie Boys.
Gotta love them. But yeah, that's it, that those
are the 10 best trios, as said by us, Yeah, since 1980, give or
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take. Who did we miss?
Yeah. Did we miss anyone?
I mean, there's a few like, you know, Bee Gees were close
because we just love the Bee Gees.
You know, we were talking about Paramore a lot, obviously.
Yeah, there's some out there, but I think we got the 10 best.
Yeah, absolutely all. Right, so with that behind us,
it is extended playlist time. Every episode we give you 5
count them 5 songs to pop into your Spotify.
Apple Music Fucking. Cobas.
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Deezer or maybe download it to your Pono player.
You and Neil Young can listen tosome lossless files.
But anyway, it's 5 songs that just compliment this episode and
also just five good songs. Listen to it.
You got mowing your lawn. Yeah, you know, waxing your your
back. I think 5 song one.
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I envy you if if you can get through your whole lawn with
only five songs, or your whole back for that matter.
I have a. Turbocharged lawnmower.
All right, for the very first song we went with I Think I'm
Paranoid by Garbage You. Can't look, but you can't touch.
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I don't think I like you much. Heaven knows what a girl can do.
Heaven knows what you've got to prove.
I think I'm paranoid and complicated.
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We thought this tied in with theHayley Williams vibe.
What a great song. A lot of good garbage songs
actually. Yeah, man, man.
A thing for Shirley Manson. You.
Had a thing for Shirley Manson. Have had both.
OK. All right.
Yeah. But call me.
You mentioned we could have doneonly happy when it rains.
There's a bunch of other, yeah. And then bridging that gap from
Garbage to Paramore esque, the title track off the album we
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just reviewed, Ego death at a Bachelorette party.
You know, feels kind of cliche to pick the title track as your.
Favorite song but it. Is good, and if nothing else, I
have to give respect to the first line of the song.
It comes right out of the gate with I'll be the biggest star at
this racist country singer's barand then just spends an entire
song shitting on the Stanley Cupdrinking, cowboy boot wearing
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hey, I got an original idea, let's go to fucking Nashville
for a Bachelorette. Party all right.
Right, it's fucking fantastic. I'll.
Be the biggest star at this racist country singer's bar.
No, you're shooting for the moon.
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No, you're chasing waterfalls. I'm the biggest star this racist
country singers bar. No, you're shooting for the
moon. No, you're chasing waterfalls.
Can only go up from here. Can only go.
And they're from Nashville. That's even better.
Yes, yes, better. There's a couple songs on the
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album. There's another one where she
talks about some like the racistpast of Nashville as well.
Nashville can fuck right off. I'm we had, I had a great time
when I was in Nashville, but I didn't.
But it's not my kind of town. Yeah.
No, Chicago is my kind of town. I love Chicago.
Yeah. Going on from there, the next
song in our playlist is Kim and Jesse by M83.
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Kids us all say I'm crazy but Burmouse and illusions.
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I I thought this captured the sort of chill wave synth vibes
that run throughout the Hayley Williams album.
Great song that is off Saturdaysversus Youth I think is the
name. Of the album that sounds right,
OK. The chill wave The
aforementioned chill wave vibes I was talking about are hugely
present if that's a term in the song Hard An Ego Different.
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Bachelor at a Bachelorette Partyby Hayley Williams.
Inside the next morning, I lovedhim there.
She looked hopeful, even sort ofbeautiful, like she forgot.
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Nothing is a given. Nothing is a given.
So hit me. I can't get soft because I'm too
high. I'm too.
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I'm too hard. I'm too I'm too hard.
I'm too. I'm.
Too hard. It made me immediately think of
M83 and that this I washed out these kind of these kind of
groups. Really cool baseline, great
production, even auto tune I don't care.
Yeah, who cares, right? Sure.
Just own it, yeah, you know. Go for it.
You know the irony is that T pain.
Apparently it's a really strong singing voice.
I've. Seen some, I've seen him do War
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Pigs, it's pretty impressive. And finally.
Where there's hard, there's Beavers.
Winona's big brown Beaver from Primus.
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My Mama took her big brown Beaver and she stuck them up in
the air, set a shirt. Do you love this big brown
Beaver? And I wish I didn't have a pair.
The Beaver one stuck for seven days and it gave us all an awful
fry. So I tickled his chin and I gave
him a pig chance of asking to try it.
Why don't I love her big brown Beaver?
And she stroked them all the time.
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One of the great trios. One of the great songs.
It's so weird. It's so, so good.
And the video is disturbing. It's disturbing.
If we ever do psychedelic drugs,yes I think we need to watch
Primus videos. Yes.
And let's start with Winona's big brown Beaver.
Listen, Earl Sweatshirt. Yeah.
Maybe then we'll do, we'll do like a redux and we'll come
back. It's like best album.
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Ever. What were we talking about?
Yeah. Anyway, yeah, so that's our five
songs, the extended playlist. If you want five more songs,
please join our Patreon. And get overextended.
That's right, you'll get overextended with 10 songs.
Overextended Beavers, I think iswhat I'm going to call this
playlist. See, it's.
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I. Try.
He spends all his time trying toget a rise out of me and then I
try and it's. I like overextended Beavers.
If it's not too late when the season's kind of started, I'm
gonna name my fantasy football team overextended Beavers.
Excellent. Gonna be like a cartoon picture
of a Beaver all worn out like this, tongue hanging out.
It's just too much. Had enough man, I can anymore.
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I built too many dams today. That's it for this episode.
We will see you next time with another review, another top ten
list, Preach it, and five more songs to renew your passion for
music. AMI Dante.
That's right, we are extended play.
You are the extended family. We love you and we'll see you
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Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party by Hayley Williams.
The best trios in music history.And every time I tell you, we're
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extended play right now. It's extended play, renewing
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your passion 5 songs at a time. I'm E, I'm tank.
Yeah, and today we're in a little bit going to review Eagle
Death at a Bachelorette Party byHayley Williams.
I was doing research for the episode and trying to find an
interview with Hayley Williams 'cause she's a great interview.
She's really interesting, just very thoughtful.
And the only one I could find where she talks about this album
(00:45):
is with Zane Lowe. And, you know, we don't talk a
lot of shit about individual people.
Go fuck yourself. There you go.
Is this something with the is itare we baldist or something like
that? Maybe Zane Lowe is.
I don't know why I'm surprised but every time I'm like maybe he
won't be so bad this time. He is fucking insufferable.
(01:10):
The biggest fucking know it all he spends.
So I'm sure this is a take that's been done thousands of
times but spends so much time talking and not listening and
not asking any questions but showing his cred for like, I
know this person so well. Oh remember when I he this
fucker, he doesn't say that. He says things like oh, remember
(01:33):
when I texted you last week to these artists he's interviewing?
Like fuck off. Yeah, great.
Your their publicist gave you a number.
Good for you. It's and I think it's 'cause he
technically makes music, he's a DJ, but like, fuck off.
And you know what? I'm going to say it.
There's nothing better than the palpable anxiety.
(01:53):
Oh yeah. I mean, just just gripping onto
the notebook, yeah. But no.
But it's but he's the perfect representative for Apple.
The fucking smug condescension of Apple fans.
Yes, he is the personification of the Apple brand.
Of the fanboy, right? Like he's perfect for them,
yeah. Perfect.
It's so rough and he gets accessto everybody because of Apple.
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And like. Cool people too.
Like I want to see the Heim interview.
Not watching that I wanted to see I can't remember what the
other one is. Not watching that one either.
So I tried for like 5 minutes and it was why can't there?
That's the other thing. It's visual and I really like
like, I like podcasts fine. I like this one a lot.
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But I I do like watching podcasts.
I like watching interviews. I like seeing people interact.
And that's like the one of the only music shows besides this
fucking awesome one where you get to see people talk about
music and talk to the artists. But I have to look at his smug
stupid ass like it. It infuriates me.
You don't. Surprisingly good at
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interviewing a Stone Cold Steve Austin.
OK. So he has A and Lars Ulrich too.
Like he has a It's an Electric podcast.
Both surprisingly adept at getting the fuck out of the way.
That's and that's what you got to do.
Yeah, like Lars was interviewinga Maynard James Keenan, OK.
And he, he would be like one or two sentences and then you
wouldn't hear him for 10 minutes.
That's that's how it should be, how it should be.
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It's not rocket science. No, because they'll open up
because they're fellow musicians, right?
They they know there's an unspoken thing there.
Yeah, someone who doesn't do that is fucking Billy Corgan,
who can't shut up. That's true, right?
Because he's, I mean, anyway. All we can do is we can cross
our fingers and hope that he hasbeen like sexually assaulting
all kinds of people and that it'll come out and he'll get
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cancelled and we won't have to deal with him anymore.
I mean, not, not for the victims.
We don't want it to happen to them.
Certainly not. Maybe inanimate objects.
Maybe they're like he's fucking the couches like JD Vance at
Apple headquarters. That's right.
Win. Win.
Yeah, no one gets hurt except the couches.
But they're probably Scotch Garden, right?
Yeah, except be careful what youwish for because who you know,
(04:00):
like who's waiting in the wings?What douche bag is waiting in
the wings? Introduces the ultimate monkey
paw curly moment. That's so, so bad that I knocked
over the pistol. Yeah.
All right. Yeah.
So anyway, I got very little information about the album,
which we're going to talk about in just a second.
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Which? We're going to give you a shit
ton of it right now. Yeah, Ego Death at a
Bachelorette Party by Hayley Williams.
Her third solo album. 18 songs really 59 minutes long.
I thought this was her first solo album.
OK, I did not know. All right.
And I don't know what Paramore it's really either.
Yeah, neither of us spent a lot of time with Paramore.
I listened to that the last album once or twice through and
I thought, oh, this is OK. And I so I'm gonna give my
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background a little bit on it. I've watched, I watch a lot of
Hayley Williams slash Paramore clips on social media through
the extended play social media account, which we're probably
linked down there somewhere. Please like subscribe, follow
because she is so charismatic and an incredible performer.
I don't know if you've watched any clips, particularly when she
was opening up. When Paramore was opening up for
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Taylor Swift, it would be a. Half.
Half. Empty or a stadium, right?
And she's up there fucking killing it, giving everything
she's got, like both like maneuvering all over the stage,
dancing, hitting all the notes. I always just really impressed
with, like she's got that rock star spirit and which you don't
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see a whole lot anymore I feel like.
I'm 99% sure it's her. Maybe you've seen this.
Maybe we'll have to cut this out.
It was all over kind of a viralist kind of video where
she's performing and the pyro guy fucks up, Oh, I don't know.
And she improvises and starts singing.
Someone's getting fired. So I'm, I'm pretty sure it's
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it's her, but there's a clip of they're performing.
I think it was hard times and the pyro goes off at the wrong
time, which is incredibly dangerous.
Absolutely. Just ask James Hetfield.
Michael Jackson or Michael Jackson?
And she kind of laughs it off, keeps singing, but you could see
her continue to get more pissed.And sure enough, it wasn't the
first time. And then she starts changing the
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lyrics to talking to that pyro person off stage.
It's. Pretty fucking funny, yeah.
Did you know Tank that this album was originally released as
a bunch of singles with no particular order to it, and it
was a surprise release. You could only get all of the
songs initially if you had purchased Hayley Williams a
particular style of Hayley Williams diet hair dye.
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That is not how I thought that sentence was gonna end.
Yeah, she, she owns a company that makes hot hair dye.
Why not, right? She changes her hair color very
frequently. She put out a new color.
And if you bought that color hair dye online, all of a sudden
you, I think, I don't know if a folder appeared or if you got
the e-mail with a zip file, but then you got this whole album.
That's pretty clever. It's.
Pretty clever. I really liked it.
Why not? Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah. So this is her a little bit
background about the album, first album as an unsigned
artist. So Paramore just saw out their
record contract that they signedwhen they were when she was like
15. So she's like, I can do whatever
the fuck I want to now. And and and did Paramore had six
albums again. I went back and listened to a
few of them. That what I really dig about
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them just at first listen are the the genre jumping is all
over the place. Started off like emo heavier
music, by the end it's full blown pop and I think you get a
lot of that on this album too for sure.
Yeah. No, it's, you know, I probably
will dip into it a little more now because I was kind of
ignorant to it before. That does explain why I haven't
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seen the headlines. You know, again, once we start
doing the research for the show,then our search engines and
recommendations, you know, and there's a lot of like, no
paramour's not breaking up. That would explain why it's the
first one since the contract is up, yeah.
And they've made She's Made Thisas her third solo album.
The other guys in the band have made solo albums under different
monikers. So, yeah, yeah.
Although let me ask you this, ifit does sound like Paramore,
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what was the big urgency to do asolo album?
Yeah. Good question.
I don't think, I mean, we can. We'll talk about this as it
goes. I think this album is kind of
all over the place for musical styles.
So yeah, I don't think this sounds like a Paramore album.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't.
I think it's clearly her voice, right?
And she's an incredibly strong voice and can do all sorts of
things with it, which we'll talkabout.
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But yeah, from my brief, sort ofbackwards listening, this is not
a Paramore album. It's just less, well, less live
instrumentation, I think. Actually, that's true, yeah.
Yeah, but no, I liked it from the start.
Like the very first song, this Ice in my OJ.
Sounds like a Lana Del Rapes title.
Yeah, it does. Too short though.
Yes. I'm spending circles than I can
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tonight floating on your love like a butterfly.
Got me jumping inside thinking about you.
No secrets, no games to play. Sorry.
It's OK, I never felt this way. Got me jumping inside thinking
about you. But I I love like the smooth and
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rough contrast right away. Like you just knew you're going
to get a lot of texture. Yes.
From the start on, a lot of dabbling and everything.
Yes, yeah, from full 90s sounding songs to one that has
like Mirtazapine which is the 5th song which sounds like shoe
gaze at the beginning. It's got these this wah, this
wah wah effect or whatever like this.
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The the sound like bending thesenotes of this guitar, like
really heavy but then turns intoa pop song.
My hearts are sinking stone that smash and
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fusing through your bones for when you're crying at the sky
and losing all your appetite. Hick on my teeny in a screw cap
bottle to grab me some brewery saw this I.
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Yeah, she's all over the place, but in a way that always makes
sense to me, yes. Which I We're not pop guys.
Not modern pop guys. I would say no.
I think we appreciate it, and I would certainly.
I'll listen to a good pop album,yeah.
I don't think I would naturally,like, I don't give Sabrina
Carpenter a chance. I don't give any of these
artists. I'm glad I did.
I'm really glad I did, 'cause this is, this is a pop album.
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I may. Or may not buy it and if I do
it'll be background. But I do enjoy it.
Yeah, like I have no problem listening to this multiple.
Times, yes, yes, right. And I wrote at one point, only
three songs into it. I wrote a perfectly pleasant pop
album. I thought I coined that.
Like, yeah, I put just just goodbreezy pop good.
Breezy pop, right? Breezy and easy, which is my
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dating headline parentheses and a little sleazy.
If that's not your profile, it needs to be.
That's true. Pretty good.
That's true, yeah. Over and over again.
So tanks more the lyrics guy. I didn't dig too deep into the.
Lyrics. Then I didn't look at him at
all. You didn't look.
At him at all. Did not.
Okay. No, Sir.
I was going on vibes on this one.
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The irony, we literally just hadan episode where we talked about
that. I'm the vibes guy and vibes do
nothing for Freaky Friday over here.
But pop, it's a Friday. It is a Friday.
Pop music is about vibes though.Exactly.
Let's be honest. Exactly.
There is some interesting storytelling going on here and
there. It was least effective to me
when it was on the nose. Yeah.
Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
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There's a couple references thatare a little too pop culture for
me that I don't really like cuz it dates it to me.
Like she talks about this Alex Reid's Tarot, which is I think
is like a TikTok channel, like art channel, whatever, so old.
But I never liked that. I never like when you date
yourself that way. But there were very few examples
of that. Overall, I thought it was the
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catchiness. It was the how varied the song
structure was on all these songs, how vocally she's trying
something different almost everytrack.
Sometimes she just lays back anddoes the pure pop thing, other
times there's the heavy vocal effects on it to varying degrees
of success, right? Yeah, that one of my notes was
she and the production team, they did a great job of
juxtaposing different versions of her voice.
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It gets different kinds of music.
Yes, absolutely. It was very well matched.
It never felt out of place even though it was changing every
song. Yes, I will say the vocal effect
on glum where it's so high pitched, that was a little, I
don't know, it just threw me offa little.
But but yes, I agree. But that's I mean, so I see this
as I mean, so the rating I gave it was fans of the genre with.
So if you're if you're new to this, it gets one of four
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because we're not saying it's good or bad.
We're just saying should you listen to it?
Best we can give is everyone, fans of the genre, fans of the
artist or no one. This one I think fans of the
genre. That's fair, I think.
Just what everyone who can appreciate a good pop album,
yeah. Or a a soft rock album, a
Paramour fan, whatever. Like pretty wide swath of people
that would enjoy this album. I agree it it it, which is weird
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because like if I if we told anyone of our friends, not any one
of our friends, but that we listen to the new Hayley
Williams solo album, they probably look at us like we had
fucking 3 heads. Artists like this, like Lana Del
Rey, like Hayley Williams, like I can't think of another one
right off the top of my head. They occupy this weird space
between pop credibility and listenability and indie snob
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cred and it's a weird place. It's like they're only ever be
so successful. They'll never like the fact that
Paramore open for Taylor Swift makes all the sense in the
world. Great career career move for
them. I'm sure tons of people bought
Paramore records after that, butthat's not anything they aspire
to. It's not right.
Like they don't want to be a band like that, or she doesn't
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want to be a singer, like I don't think.
But yeah, just occupies this weird place.
Pull it off though. They could.
That's, that's what's interesting.
So talk about In stark contrast to the last album we reviewed,
where Earl's sweatshirt seems tobe like consciously saying I
don't want any part of being. Popular.
Don't worry. You know what I mean?
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Like, I've got the chops, but I'm not interested in it, right?
So much so that I didn't even mention this in the in the
review that he he had to do a listening party.
The record company said you haveto hold a listening party for
this album. He hired an actor and sent the
actor there a an older Asian manand got him high and drunk
beforehand too. Sure.
It's like you wanted to get the full Earl Sweatshirt experience
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anyway. Paramore, there's a few bands, I
think Waxahachie, when we did that Waxahachie review, it's in
them. They could write a pop smash
album if they wanted to. They just choose not to, I
think. And I'm fine with that because
then you get good shit like this.
It's nuanced. It's not super accessible
sometimes. You get to make a pop song
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without worrying about the end customer.
Yes, yes, right. So you've got those great catchy
melodies, but then you got some weird instrumentation choices or
weird vocal effects. You got screaming in the
background or whatever. Yeah, I, I really appreciate the
stuff like this. Like it's, it's a very
particular style of art that I don't, I don't know how much
I'll play this. Yeah, I mean at least a few
(16:11):
spins. It's you know, it's good to have
on while working if nothing else.
And you came down to the Extended Play Studios and I had
it on and I'm like, this is great.
This is, like, really pleasant and nice.
Yeah. It's nice our review.
Yeah, the new Hayley Williams album.
Pleasant and nice. What is your official rating
other than nice? Fans of the genre.
OK, I agree. Fans of the genre.
Strong fans to the genre. I don't so.
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But let's, as Tank said, if you like pop music, please listen to
this. If you don't, if you don't
listen to Paramore, if you don'tlisten to Hayley Williams, but
you do listen to Sabrina Carpenter or Chapel Roan or
Olivia Rodrigo or Taylor Swift, you should listen to this 'cause
this is what we're talking aboutto me, yeah, this is what we're
talking. This is just the nuance and the
thoughtfulness. I don't know it.
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It elevates above the normal. Pop It's a quality pop if it's.
A quality pop quap quap quap quap quap.
Quap that fuck them up. Speaking of looking at you like
you have 3 head like I have 3. 03 heads.
I don't have 3 heads but what I do have is a list yes of the
best or the top 10 trios in music.
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History, and it's not limited torock trios.
No, but it's not. Did I?
Say rock. No, you did not.
I'm just, you know, Yeah, sliding that in there.
As you want to do. As one does.
So it's best trio, not of any kind of.
Typically when you say trio, thedefault is gonna be rock power
trio, that sort of thing. And yes, they're well
represented here. But this is open to any kind of
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music. I'm sure there's country trios.
Don't know, don't care. But of everything else, yeah,
best trios with a kind of again are always kind of soft
disclaimer of while we've been alive.
I'm not going to talk about, youknow, some fucking barbershop
trio from 1957. I don't fucking.
Care and we should say for thosewho are joining us for the first
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time, this is the EP10. It is every every episode we do
a list of, but we do a top ten list for you.
All it's EP 10 Best trio. Best trio #10 is Primus.
Love that choice. Yeah, Primus sucks.
That's their little insight. Was it yes?
Was the name of an album or theyhad.
AT shirt, that's what you chanted the show.
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OK, Primus, Primus. They're weird, but man,
one-of-a-kind. A lot of a lot of people.
This artist is one-of-a-kind. No, they're not, and this is
one-of-a-kind. There's zero other bands
there's. Not never before.
Never since. Yeah, like, nothing.
Because you need a generational talent bassist who's really
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fucking weird. Right.
That alone makes it hard to recreate.
Is that a chicken or the egg thing?
Like, that's true, right? Right.
Is he super weird? And that's the only way you
could possibly be that good at bass.
Bass, bass. So yeah, they come in at #10 at
#9 We have The Fugees. That's probably.
(19:00):
Surprising to some of our long time viewers, yeah.
Because I mean, look, there's a difference between horribly
overrated and bad. Yes.
You can be very good and be horribly overrated.
Sure, it's possible. And that exactly what happened
to Lauryn Hill. Yeah.
MIS education. Lauryn Hill isn't the best help
of all time. It's not in the top ten.
It's not in the top 100. Did we put in the top 100?
We did not put in the top 100. Because it's not.
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Certainly not #1. Jesus, but and not only for
their work as the as The Fugees,but of what became of the solo
artist. I mean Wyclef and a prolific,
you know, both recording and andproduction and.
Political career, that's true. Yeah, and prizes.
Who knows? Who cares?
Well, he did the baby. I got your money, right?
Oh, and it was Ghetto Superstar.That was ghetto, superstar.
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It wasn't, baby. Got your money?
Yeah, it was. Ghetto Superstar.
Great song. Ghetto.
Superstar, it's a great song. What happened to Maya?
I don't know I'm. Going to look that up.
OK, maybe we can get a cameo from her.
Sure. We'll probably get her on the
show. That'd.
Be awesome. Yeah, Maya, if you're watching.
I'm sure she is. The score is a great album.
It is. I mean, it really is.
It's got a lot going on right between Lauryn Hill singing.
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Her rapping is on full display there.
Yeah, Yeah. That's a solid.
Choice. So yeah, they're, they got to be
mentioned #8 De La Soul, we're big fans, the day long fans,
always have been. They, I mean, I think easily top
ten and hip hop, regardless of whether it's, you know, solo,
whatever I, you know, huge influence, great catalog and
still going strong, still socially relevant.
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They are in the sense of, you know, clubations with gorillas
and other stuff. Like, yeah, they pop up enough
that like, they're still there. Yeah, even losing one of their
members. Yeah, 2.
Thirds of them, anyway. Two.
Yeah, right. Yeah, and and I thought about
Tribe Called Quest, but I mean, it's it's a weird sometimes 4
it's. Weird.
Shaheed Mohammed does not. Like, sure, Mace doesn't rap a
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whole lot, right? But Ali Shaheed Mohammed does
not say Boo. Not on any of those albums.
So yeah. They just don't feel like a trio
for some reason #7 Green Day, I mean, Green Day is Green Day.
I've never been a big Green Day fan.
I've never been one for the fakeBritish affect that he sings
with. I forgot all about that.
A lot of cringe with Green Day, yeah.
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But I really like Dookie and thefor that one before that, the
Kerplunk or whatever it was, those are really good, yeah.
But a lot of good songs, yeah, great live shows.
And, you know, they put their neck out politically every once
in a while, which I appreciate. True.
So I got to give a shot out for that number six Depeche Mode,
which until doing this I was notaware was a trio I.
Thought it was two guys, maybe because they had solo careers,
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but maybe they're the only guys big enough to do this.
Maybe at least Shahid Muhammad is in Depeche Mode.
Maybe he is, we just never knew it.
Incredible #5 Nirvana. Nirvana's Nirvana.
I like Nirvana. I think they're overrated, but
they're unquestionably a giant influence and had great although
a low number of albums. Not a not a lot of them
normally. Think about it 3-4 Let's be
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honest with ourselves. Never mind In Utero.
Bleach. Bleach on the Banks of the Muddy
Whisker or whatever. And then I'm bugged, yeah.
Exactly. It's like, let's slow our roll
with, you know, the number 4 Genesis because I mean, again,
talk about both legacy and individual product, right?
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So the stuff they put out as Genesis over decades.
And the various forms, sometimesthey were trio.
I mean, they're most probably they're most critically lauded
when there was more than three of them.
I. Don't, I don't know when
they're, I mean like. Peter but.
No, but he just. Music nerds think the Peter
Gabriel time was like. Sure, but even then I think it
was 3 really. I'd have to look into it, which
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is pre 1980. So technically we're good.
But like, I think it was just Collins was the drummer.
He was the singer. I don't know though it might
have been 4 at that point. In any case, what they did from,
you know, 1980, roughly onward as Genesis, you know, and then
Phil Collins, Phil motherfuckingCollins just.
Dominating the pop charts. He was the 80s.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's number four.
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Number three is Rush, because Rush is awesome and some people
don't understand it. It's OK.
The The Earl Sweatshirt of Rock.That's right.
Yeah, I know all the reputation about them being just like 3
individually incredible yeah musicians so. #2 the police
again, I mean, kind of Nirvana. Itis of a somewhat limited run,
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yes, in terms of material to pull from it.
God imagine. Well, who knows, maybe the
quality would have gone downhill.
But Synchronicity being their last album is fucking crazy.
That was their last album, yeah.I mean, just there could have
been so much more, but maybe thefire would have gone out.
Maybe. I mean, staying since then.
Yeah, yeah, some. Solid pop songs, yeah, but
again, another, well, respect. Like a group of musicians?
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Yes. Right.
No. Especially the drummer.
Stewart Copeland. Yep.
And #1 Beastie Boys, you know. It's a bold choice for best trio
of all time, but I love it. Right, because they it it
touches on rock and rap, obviously mostly rap, but it's
like it's going to sound corny, but like they approached rap
from a rock band mindset yes, which is what made it what it is
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and made it work and arguably their best work when they were
playing instruments right, which.
Is what they started doing. They were hardcore brand first.
It was horrible. It was horrible.
And I'm still pissed about the sounds of Science, the anthology
where it's like, here's our greatest hits, but it's like 1/3
crap you don't want. To listen to that stinks, Yeah.
But it was very much the they didn't try to be a rock rap
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combo. They were just essentially a
rock band that rapped. When you think about, yeah,
that's true. And it showed in the way that it
was just edgier and different. Yeah, and just so reverent of
the old school roots, roots of hip hop and keeping it fresh all
the time. Keeping it funky fresh.
Indeed so. Number one, Beastie Boys.
Gotta love them. But yeah, that's it, that those
are the 10 best trios, as said by us, Yeah, since 1980, give or
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take. Who did we miss?
Yeah. Did we miss anyone?
I mean, there's a few like, you know, Bee Gees were close
because we just love the Bee Gees.
You know, we were talking about Paramore a lot, obviously.
Yeah, there's some out there, but I think we got the 10 best.
Yeah, absolutely all. Right, so with that behind us,
it is extended playlist time. Every episode we give you 5
count them 5 songs to pop into your Spotify.
Apple Music Fucking. Cobas.
(25:12):
Deezer or maybe download it to your Pono player.
You and Neil Young can listen tosome lossless files.
But anyway, it's 5 songs that just compliment this episode and
also just five good songs. Listen to it.
You got mowing your lawn. Yeah, you know, waxing your your
back. I think 5 song one.
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I envy you if if you can get through your whole lawn with
only five songs, or your whole back for that matter.
I have a. Turbocharged lawnmower.
All right, for the very first song we went with I Think I'm
Paranoid by Garbage You. Can't look, but you can't touch.
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I don't think I like you much. Heaven knows what a girl can do.
Heaven knows what you've got to prove.
I think I'm paranoid and complicated.
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We thought this tied in with theHayley Williams vibe.
What a great song. A lot of good garbage songs
actually. Yeah, man, man.
A thing for Shirley Manson. You.
Had a thing for Shirley Manson. Have had both.
OK. All right.
Yeah. But call me.
You mentioned we could have doneonly happy when it rains.
There's a bunch of other, yeah. And then bridging that gap from
Garbage to Paramore esque, the title track off the album we
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just reviewed, Ego death at a Bachelorette party.
You know, feels kind of cliche to pick the title track as your.
Favorite song but it. Is good, and if nothing else, I
have to give respect to the first line of the song.
It comes right out of the gate with I'll be the biggest star at
this racist country singer's barand then just spends an entire
song shitting on the Stanley Cupdrinking, cowboy boot wearing
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hey, I got an original idea, let's go to fucking Nashville
for a Bachelorette. Party all right.
Right, it's fucking fantastic. I'll.
Be the biggest star at this racist country singer's bar.
No, you're shooting for the moon.
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No, you're chasing waterfalls. I'm the biggest star this racist
country singers bar. No, you're shooting for the
moon. No, you're chasing waterfalls.
Can only go up from here. Can only go.
And they're from Nashville. That's even better.
Yes, yes, better. There's a couple songs on the
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album. There's another one where she
talks about some like the racistpast of Nashville as well.
Nashville can fuck right off. I'm we had, I had a great time
when I was in Nashville, but I didn't.
But it's not my kind of town. Yeah.
No, Chicago is my kind of town. I love Chicago.
Yeah. Going on from there, the next
song in our playlist is Kim and Jesse by M83.
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Kids us all say I'm crazy but Burmouse and illusions.
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I I thought this captured the sort of chill wave synth vibes
that run throughout the Hayley Williams album.
Great song that is off Saturdaysversus Youth I think is the
name. Of the album that sounds right,
OK. The chill wave The
aforementioned chill wave vibes I was talking about are hugely
present if that's a term in the song Hard An Ego Different.
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Bachelor at a Bachelorette Partyby Hayley Williams.
Inside the next morning, I lovedhim there.
She looked hopeful, even sort ofbeautiful, like she forgot.
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Nothing is a given. Nothing is a given.
So hit me. I can't get soft because I'm too
high. I'm too.
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I'm too hard. I'm too I'm too hard.
I'm too. I'm.
Too hard. It made me immediately think of
M83 and that this I washed out these kind of these kind of
groups. Really cool baseline, great
production, even auto tune I don't care.
Yeah, who cares, right? Sure.
Just own it, yeah, you know. Go for it.
You know the irony is that T pain.
Apparently it's a really strong singing voice.
I've. Seen some, I've seen him do War
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Pigs, it's pretty impressive. And finally.
Where there's hard, there's Beavers.
Winona's big brown Beaver from Primus.
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My Mama took her big brown Beaver and she stuck them up in
the air, set a shirt. Do you love this big brown
Beaver? And I wish I didn't have a pair.
The Beaver one stuck for seven days and it gave us all an awful
fry. So I tickled his chin and I gave
him a pig chance of asking to try it.
Why don't I love her big brown Beaver?
And she stroked them all the time.
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One of the great trios. One of the great songs.
It's so weird. It's so, so good.
And the video is disturbing. It's disturbing.
If we ever do psychedelic drugs,yes I think we need to watch
Primus videos. Yes.
And let's start with Winona's big brown Beaver.
Listen, Earl Sweatshirt. Yeah.
Maybe then we'll do, we'll do like a redux and we'll come
back. It's like best album.
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Ever. What were we talking about?
Yeah. Anyway, yeah, so that's our five
songs, the extended playlist. If you want five more songs,
please join our Patreon. And get overextended.
That's right, you'll get overextended with 10 songs.
Overextended Beavers, I think iswhat I'm going to call this
playlist. See, it's.
(32:35):
I. Try.
He spends all his time trying toget a rise out of me and then I
try and it's. I like overextended Beavers.
If it's not too late when the season's kind of started, I'm
gonna name my fantasy football team overextended Beavers.
Excellent. Gonna be like a cartoon picture
of a Beaver all worn out like this, tongue hanging out.
It's just too much. Had enough man, I can anymore.
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I built too many dams today. That's it for this episode.
We will see you next time with another review, another top ten
list, Preach it, and five more songs to renew your passion for
music. AMI Dante.
That's right, we are extended play.
You are the extended family. We love you and we'll see you
(33:17):
next time. Bye.
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