September 10, 2025 • 32 mins
To say that not *really* listening to Black Sabbath constitutes a major blind spot for us is putting it lightly. 😣 We’re starting with Black Sabbath Vol. 4 (for some reason), and we’ll tell you whether it’s for everyone, for fans of the genre, fans of the artist, or no one. We also rank the top ten albums of 1997 (man, was that a great year!) and give you a playlist of five songs that will help renew your passion for music.
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It's extended play, renewing your passion 5 songs at a time.
I'm E. I am tank.
And we're going to get started today by talking about some AI
headlines practice, Not AI, not Allen Iverson, but I don't know,
did you? We talked about this briefly
before we started recording. You saw in the news that, you
know, Ozzy Osbourne just passed recently at time of recording.
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And we were talking about how inthe news we had both seen
footage from a Rod Stewart concert fan, fan filmed footage,
which normally I do not watch. I'm glad I watched this time
because basically during ForeverYoung, which is a cringy song.
Seriously. Right.
He's there's like an instrumental breakdown or maybe
he's just singing the chorus over and over.
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And on the huge screen behind them are these AI generated
videos of rock stars in heaven. Yeah, basically taking selfie
videos. They're like, waving.
And it is so bizarre. So you see, like, Kurt Cobain
and like, Michael Jackson with their arms around each other.
Like, there's all these weird combos.
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Ozzy, who recently passed this in it, and it's just so unset.
I mean, it's the perfect exampleof why I find so much AI, at
least graphically, so unsettling.
It's this. It's the uncanny valley where
they look just enough fake. But what's already scary and sad
is that if it's already that close.
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I know how. Far are we from you literally
can't tell the difference and and you literally can't do
anything that's not in person anymore because you don't know.
There's going to be those thingsthat like, you know, there's
those jokes like, oh, I thought Abe Pagoda was dead and he was
alive for like, and he finally did die.
Yeah. They're going to start doing
that with people that everyone thinks is dead, and they're just
going to start creating AI stuff.
And we don't. Yeah.
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I know. Anyway, no, it's pretty
frightening, yeah. I'll link.
I'll link to the video in the ITwas.
Very weird goofy smiles they have on their they're like.
And it's all in slow MO. Yeah.
And they're like holes. Oh, I don't like it one bit, no.
And then you went to the Will Smith thing.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know if you saw that.
I saw still photos I I didn't see.
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I guess that the he posted basically like concert video
footage. Like what the fuck is he
performing anyway? Well, he just put out a new
album, which is just getting killed.
Killed. He's given some really cringey
interviews of I'm, and I'm glad,to be honest, fuck Will Smith
right after the whole Oscars thing.
Like, right. Yeah.
I have no patience for his bullshit.
I forget Scientology too and allthat shit.
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I. Didn't know he was into that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, so he's I guess it's
like a concert footage and with a lot of you know, what a
surprise signs like, oh, will you saved my life or like I'm
living Big Willy style or whatever the but people notice
anomalies like, you know, 7 fingers and whatever else in the
footage. It's like, hold on.
Is he using AI for this? And, and close the I've seen
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video, like the actual video itself, parts clips of it, like
if they pause it and in the background, everyone's faces are
totally melted, which is a thingthat AI does, right?
Like it uses shorthand in those kind of instances because it
knows you're not focusing on what's in the background.
But Even so, when he's the pictures, like Will, the video
is like Will Smith from behind, like walking through the crowd,
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even the people that are like along the the guard, the the
rails are clearly AI. It's so gross number.
One, why do it and #2 just like my friends at the auto
dealership. Why do you think we're that
stupid? Really.
Do you think no one's going to know it's?
Really insulting, right? And this comes over, this is
coming out over and over again that people are doing like AI
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generated logos or AI generated commercials. j.crew just got in
trouble. They did the cover of their fall
catalog, I think was AI generated.
And everyone's like, this is terrible.
We don't want we don't want this.
No, Stop solving for a problem that doesn't exist.
Or or it's the everyone thinks they're a fucking genius by
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using some common sense. Yeah, but that doesn't make any
sense in the bigger pictures. Right, right.
Someone at j.crew and it's like,well, you know, last photo shoot
we did, you know, we need to paythe photographer, we need a
model lady guy, we need to pay the model.
Cost us 100,000 bucks. Well, my nephew's really good
with AI, you know, that's what it is.
It's it's like. I, I just, I hope that I mean,
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we're, we're probably fucked. I think we're.
We're fucked, right? Who's going to put this genie
back in the bottle? Particularly when it comes to
music. That's a whole set.
We've had done a whole episode on it.
I'll link to that in the description.
Actually, I'll put it up here. Did a whole episode about AI and
music. It's a, it's a problem in the,
the actual songs that are being created, the fake artists, but
not but the videos and stuff. It's it's already too far.
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And you know what? I could tolerate it a little bit
better if some of it made its way into my life in a helpful
manner. For instance, I could deal with
some AI bullshit if when I was typing like for my calorie
counter on my phone, when I put macaroni and don't suggest
chimney, right? OK, it's not chimney.
It's. So why is it we can create
almost picture perfect visual representations of people that
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are dead? Yeah, but I can't get some
software to be like macaroni. And what a reason to put it
next, right? Right, so.
Yeah, but yeah, so fuck you. Will Smith in general and Rod
Stewart. Why not?
Oh sure, I feel like he's done some shady stuff.
Well, just making a second career out of doing Motown
covers and. Stand you ready to move on to
the album? Let's do it.
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All right, so this this week, this episode, we are going to
talk about Volume 4 by Black Sabbath.
Yeah, every episode we review and with one album that is
either a current album, a album from the crate or a classic
album. And this I would say would.
It's a classic. It's a classic 1972.
Yes, OK, yeah, it's a classic and obviously brought to mind by
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Ozzy's passing, right. But Black Sabbath and it's even
more I guess surprising slash disappointing.
I listen to a lot of metal music.
Yeah, same and I didn't really care about black sand true.
So just completely ignorant to other than the obvious, you
know, Iron Man paranoid right. So I'm like you know what I
think it's time to to dip the toe in.
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So we made that our classic album to review there.
I mean, there's, I don't think we really need to give you much
background, right? Band from England, late 60s,
early 70s and unanimously credited as the creators of
heavy metal. I don't think anyone even makes
a case for anyone else. No, no.
And there's the whole. What's that song that says Heavy
Metal Thunder Born to Be Wild? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The first mention of it. Maybe as a term, right?
But as a but as a art form. It's them, yeah.
Steppenwolf. I think it is Steppenwolf.
Well done. Thank you.
All right, so again, we we cut the BS with you and we get
straight to what we think about it.
And we don't do numbers that's passe.
But if you did, you should go to20 what the cool kids do.
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That's right. We we just say, look, should you
listen to this album? And then we say, you know,
here's the groups that that should listen to it.
Either everyone on planet earth all like 8 billion of you or
fans of the genre, which is still a lot of people fans or
the artist which is like look ifyou're into it, OK otherwise you
got other you got a shit to do with your time and then no one
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that is the lowest rating we could give is like if you are a
carbon based life form, do not spend time listening to this
help. Don't waste your time, yeah?
Yeah, no. So for this one, I actually gave
it a a fans of the genre a little bit on the light side, so
so. Ordering on fans of the artists.
Yes, I did the exact same. All right, I I was struggling
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between the two. But if you're a fan of metal,
yeah, it would make sense to listen to this album.
So I mean, my rationale for thatis that in listening to this
album, like I can 100% I can hear and understand the
influence. It's obvious.
And then yeah. And again, like in the other
episode we I talked about recently where listening to
something today for the first time versus when it came out
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could be, but the fact that something this heavy was
happening in like 1970 is insane.
It's pretty impressive. But like today, it's like, OK,
it's it's metal, you know, but to think that nothing else was
happening, maybe Hendrix was theclosest.
I mean, but to put this dark, brooding, sludgy sound out there
and you know, Tony Iommi largelycredited with, which really is
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like 90% of it, to be honest. I mean, Geezer Butler gets a a
ton of credit for his bass works, but without that guitar
sound. No, I agree.
It's why when you play old songsfor young kids, they're like, I
don't want to listen to this because somebody has already
done the 10th iteration on it and sort of perfected the art
form in a way. But the and and a lot of times
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the roots of it don't appeal to you anymore.
So you really have to be a fan of the genre to kind of take.
This exactly, so I do think thatit's important for anyone who
likes metal to listen to. Yeah, that's fair.
But the caveat, the reason why I'm on the light side of that is
I think, yeah, I listened to it once, OK, I don't know that.
So when we get into the actual content of the album, you know,
that being it's legacy and it's influence, you know, there's
some solid hooky rock songs likeTomorrow's Dream, the opening
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wheels of Confusion, Slash, The Straightener.
I like the the Straightener. I like Straightener as a name.
I don't know what I mean this. Is weird, I just think of the
hair straighteners. Maybe it was.
Maybe Ozzy has naturally curly hair.
He does. There's.
There's a lot like in like the the song Cornucopia.
It sounds like a Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath song like.
Like a like almost like a parody.
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Exactly. Right.
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It's like that is really black I.
Actually wrote down Cornucopia. It has the Black Sabbath sound.
Yes. So there you go.
Yeah, there was another one I did like when I think of Black
Sabbath, that's what, a Black Sabbath song, exactly.
So that, you know, that's the most, I guess, prototypical.
Yeah. Black Sabbath song.
I don't like changes. I hate it.
Yeah, it's not good. It's not a good song.
It's not a good song. No, no, I think objectively it
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is a bad song. Yes, it is.
The lyrics are corny as shit andwe can talk about Ozzy as a
vocalist generally, I think maybe a little bit later, but
like his vocals are so importantto this.
It's all lyrics basically that Idon't know, I don't think his
voice can carry the song and. And again, even if you could,
you can't get past maybe like the the cringy.
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Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's just not great.
It's rough. Again, I'm sure somewhere
there's a six year old guy, probably in a bowling alley, and
this has a lot of. Oh yeah.
Significant. You know what I mean?
Like it was this wedding song orsomething.
Or I get it, but as a song, objectively just not very good.
Now what I do like, so obviouslychanges probably gets noticed
because it's such a stark departure from the rest of
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there. Yes, but so is Laguna Sunrise.
Yeah. And I really enjoyed that I.
Really enjoyed that. Yeah.
So instrumental. Yes.
Two instrumentals on this album.Yep.
Yeah. And it's, it's just a nice break
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and change up without, without seeming like, you know, just a
novelty or just to do. Yeah, it's.
Part of the flow of the album, for sure.
It makes sense, yeah. But yeah, but I mean, really
it's the and and the song that will be on the playlist.
My favorite song from the album,which is not that crazy.
It's a song called Supernaught. Probably consider like, I guess
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this one didn't have like any other than changes,
unfortunately, any obvious hits.But Supernaught, the reason why
Supernaught comes up is like there was a lot of politicking
at that Ozzy concert. Oh, the the farewell concert.
Because all the bands, the very short sets, like even Metallica
got 20 minutes. OK, so Metallica got 20 minutes.
A couple of their bands got like15, and then everyone got like 5
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or 10. You got like one or two songs.
And basically you could do one of yours and one Sabbath song.
But then you can imagine the kind of politicking of who gets
to play the song. Sure, sure.
So and I think Metallica probably had their first choice,
but they had done super not before.
But that is interesting because I listened to so many of those
that I got a fresh. It's a great way to get an old
music That's true is listen to acurrent band play and go wow,
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that's a great song because it removes the crustiness and
rustiness of but the core of it that was great sounds good
again. Yes, yes, as long as it's an
authentic 1 to one color, right.Yeah.
You don't want an interpretation.
Yeah, that makes sense. But yeah, super nuts.
It's a great song, and it also stays true to what Sabbath is.
But at the end of the day, I think the the the influence of
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the instrumentation of this is the legacy.
It's not so much the album itself, it's how they approach
the music and the sound, yes, but not so much, hey, it's these
songs. It's more the vibe, ironically.
Right, I said. So.
I feel much the same way about this album.
I was I I did not know I wrote one of the first things I wrote
about me only familiar with popular songs, not full albums.
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I was the same way. So I knew that I knew the song
Black Sabbath and, and, and Paranoid and crazy or not crazy
train Iron Man so and I had an idea of what a Black Sabbath
song sounded like. The songs that don't sound like
that, I was blown away by how complex they were actually.
There's a lot of like time signature changes, tempo
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changes, and then just the the interplay between Geezer Butler
and Tommy Iommi, the bass and the guitar.
Like there's some crazy catchy guitar riffs, incredible, like
jammy solos at the ends of songs.
I didn't know that that's so at first.
OK, so let me back up a little bit.
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My first time I listened to it. I listened to it while I was
mowing the lawn. OK, it's good lawn mowing music.
I disagree, actually. Really.
OK. Because without having, if I had
the cans on it would have been Ihad the sort of like the earbuds
and I didn't have that great quality.
I see. It sounded very classic Rocky on
the surface, classic rock, psychrock, which I don't like doing a
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dedicated listen with the full stereo experience.
You get the metal, you get the intricacies you get, you hear
the bass better, right? One of the things I said right
away, about 3-4 songs, and I actually got tired of Ozzy's
voice. Yeah, believe it or not, yeah.
I think you always get Ozzy at small doses usually.
Absolutely. And part of the the thing with
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Ozzy is his stage presence, his persona that is baked into.
It's not necessarily just his vocal skills.
So I said this album could have stood on its own as an entirely
instrumental album. Yeah, to me, yeah.
That's how it. May be better and.
Maybe better because of it, Yeah.
But I I am super glad I listenedto it.
Yeah, right. So we would say if you're a fan
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of the genre, yeah, you got to check it out.
Got. To check it out.
Yeah. And yeah.
And that's the joy of going through some of this stuff for
me, you know, selfishly, it's like, at least now I could say
I, you know, absolutely. I have a tiny bit of knowledge
of Black Sabbath, right. Instead of just like, I don't
know, I know Iron Man. You know it's right, right?
Absolutely. Yeah.
So that's what we think we're we're aligned that it's a fans
of the genre type suggestion andyou probably should check it
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out. If you like heavy music, metal
music, Yeah, go ahead. Maybe not volume 4, maybe
Paranoid, you know, maybe one ofthe other masters of reality,
like go ahead and just check oneout and see what you think.
Let us know in the comments. Yeah, absolutely.
It's time for the EP 10 where wecountdown 10 music related
things and this week we are counting down the top ten albums
of 1997. Why 1997?
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Good. Question.
Hi, I'm Tank. Because it's random and because
I was just thinking I wanted to do 90s OK in early 90s.
I mean, we will touch on this probably ad nauseam.
I'm I'm gonna say it. You've said it early. 90s peak
music. Yeah, sorry, sorry, not sorry.
Look at the hip hop of that era.Look at the rock music.
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The grunge hip hop became non cartoony fat boys, all that
crap. I'm sorry early 90s music peaked
downhill. Ever said Oh?
Jesus Christ, Yeah, I'm having. I'm doing this.
I want to put an asterisk on that I'm having one of my
favorite years in music appreciation in 2025, but.
Is it all new music? Yes.
All right, well, we'll do a separate episode on that anyway.
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I love. I'm in 97.
It seems like a Yeah, It was a good random year.
I'm like, and nothing came to mind immediately.
Like if you told me 9492, I'm like, all right, but now 97, I'm
like, what was 97? Yeah, we were like.
Juniors in colleges. Yeah.
And it's like, OK, so I had a rough idea, but I, you know,
kind of surprised myself with what came out that year.
Now, whenever you say the word best, and especially in the form
of a list like this, you need todefine it a bit.
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So we're not saying best like critical acclaim.
We're not critics. We are not.
We're not. We're passionate about music.
We want you to be passionate about music.
So we're not going to tell you what you're supposed to like,
right? But.
We're going to suggest what you might.
You might try to. Yeah, right.
So it's not necessarily there could be critically acclaimed
things on it, but we're not saying these are the critics
because you already know that itgo.
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Look at the list. Yes, there.
So it's not best in that sense. It's it is.
It's akin to our EP 100 where our ethos was we do think these
are the best albums. Whatever critics thinks, fuck
off. So that's why we blended in some
more popular, but not criticallyacclaimed, because we think it's
a good fucking album. Sure, this is a little bit
different than that in the senseof basically, if you came to me
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and said, hey, I can only listento music from 1997, long story.
I can't get into it right now. I need some albums.
All right, try these 10, right? It's a good place to start to
enjoy the music of that year of that vintage.
So we will jump right into it. 10 best albums in 1997 as
defined by. Go ahead and skip back 5 minutes
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and listen to that. All right, at #10 an album
called Fun Crusher Plus by Company Flow.
It's about as deep as I'm going to get on this.
Company Flow is the I want to say initial, if not initial,
certainly beginning one of the projects of LP, who would later
rise to fame through solo work and especially run the jewels.
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But fun crusher. Plus this is the really the the
roots of like backpack hip hop and it it's fun beats, it's
great flows. It's it's really almost it's
hard to believe it's 97. Excuse me, this had to have been
maybe 10 years later. It does pop up on some of the
more insider best of 97 list, soit's not completely out of
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nowhere, but I really recommend you check it out as take a flyer
on it. If you like hip hop, I think you
would like it. Yeah #9 #9 is Portis head by
Portis. Head amazing album.
Yeah, you know more than I do. I mean, I like it, but I know
you're more in depth on. It yeah, we it made our list.
Did it make your No Only Dummy, The debut album made our list of
the EP 100 the top 100 songs of our lifetime.
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You. Really should check it out,
yeah. All the Portis Portis Head
albums are great. There's only three of them, plus
there's a live album. But the second one is fantastic.
It's sitting over here. I have my vinyls right around
the corner but you fucking Google it.
We're we're making the show. You can at least get your phone
out and look. If you only know Sour Times by
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Portishead, you're missing out 'cause that album is great and
this album is just a continuation.
It's more of the same, but incredible, incredible.
It's called trip hop, which theydon't like it pretty much no one
likes the term, but it it's useful in a certain way in that
it's like hip hop ish beats yeahtrippy but Spacey, but Spacey
and slowed down so. #8 is Urban Hymns by the Verve, which
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famously contains Bitter Sweet Sympathy and a few other good
songs. Yeah, including the drugs don't
work. The drugs don't work, which we
mentioned in a previous episode.Yes, we did.
Yeah. Number seven, I'm not sure how
to say this homogenic, homogenic, homogenic.
I've heard the 1st 2:00. I think homogenic okay, maybe
okay by Bjork. I like post better than this.
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Sure, for me it was it was a toss up.
I love this is my first Bjork exposure.
Okay, Bjork exposure sounds likesomething.
Sounds like a band. This has got yoga on it, which I
love the strings on that. I don't even know if it's actual
strings, but I love yoga. Probably AI.
Yeah, right. If anyone's going to be in AI,
Bjork would give it a better run, you know?
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What would be awesome is if it turns out Bjork was always AI.
Jesus Christ, that would. First of all, that would explain
so much. There's just an elderly
Icelandic woman in a cabin somewhere who's been Bjork this
whole time. Jesus, just like.
Stan Marsh was Lord South Park arc.
They had a whole running joke that Stan Marsh was actually
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Lord and Stan did. Not our Lord and Savior, but
Lord the New Zealand recording artist.
Yes, okay, yes, yes, well, one in the same if yes.
Sure, sure, the argument can be made.
Randy Marsh. Sorry, Stan.
Stan got it. You know what I meant.
All right, moving on. Number six, either or by Elliot
Smith. Yeah, fantastic.
This Is my EXO was the first Elliot Smith album I bought, but
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either or is the one that has two or three tracks that were on
the Goodwill Hunting soundtrack.That was really what got him
exposure, like greater exposure,and he ends up getting nominated
for an Oscar for Miss Misery. Incredible acoustic
singer-songwriter, heartbreakinglyrics, breathy, beautiful
delivery. Cannot recommend that album
highly enough. Yeah.
That's great. And now getting into the top
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five of the year in terms of recommendations #5 The Fat of
the Land by the Prodigy, which great.
Call out man. Yeah, thank you.
And I don't know, it might be Mandela Effect.
They didn't have the in front ofit when it was out.
I think that was an issue. The the maybe they're like,
look, we are the prodigy. Because, well, because there's,
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there are rappers named Prodigy,right?
Like from Bob Deep, there's Prodigy, there's two rappers.
I think I, I think there was a copyright issue where somebody
was the band Prodigy and they had to become the Prodigy,
something like that. Because whenever I see the
video, it was interested Prodigy, I don't say the
Prodigy, but the Prodigy. And if you're thinking, does
that album have that that song by them, Yes, it does.
He is the fire starter. He is #4 The Color and the Shape
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by Foo Fighters. Obviously I'm biased, but that's
a great fucking element. Everlong alone is, yeah, you
know, it's going to get you there.
And then, you know, just, I think my hero, I get sometimes
mixed up between. But like all the all the songs
that your friends who don't likemusic that much and or your
parents know are on that album. That's true.
That's true. But they really hit their stride
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on making accessible. Rock songs, yeah, But rock
songs, yeah. Number three, Third Eye Blind.
Third Eye Blind. Yeah, we've talked about this in
a previous episode of The Best 90's Rock Bands.
Also #3 though. Whoa, spooky.
Yeah, I'd love this out. I think it's great.
I think it's bangers top to. Bottom it's it's like a jagged
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little pill type thing. Absolutely, if you know.
You know, kind of comes and goes, but holy shit, was that an
album, right? Yeah.
Go. Just, you know, go to Spotify,
put it on hit play. After this, you only got a few
more minutes with us. We're almost done.
Please don't go anywhere. #2 is whatever and ever.
Amen. Ben Folds 5I love this album.
I think this is this album and Ben Folds 5 and Ben Folds as an
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artist. Just underrated across the
absolutely. This one has brick, which is
probably the song most people associate with him.
Yeah, yeah, but but not representative of the album as a
whole, right? Way more up tempo, right?
Which you're about to find out on the extended playlist.
That's right, Spoiler. And then #1 there's really no
other. You wanna you wanna move
yourself to the right a little? Bit right back there.
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Yeah, OK. Computer by Radiohead.
I mean, I think we pretty much had that as #1 on the EP 100.
We did as the best album. Spoiler Yeah, Spoiler alert.
That's kind of hard to not include the best album in that
year, right? I'm not even gonna waste your
time. It's Fredo Head.
It's OK Computer. Yeah, Listen to it.
Yes. So that's those are the 10 best
albums in 1997. What did we miss?
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What are we wrong on? Let us know in the comments.
Send us an e-mail if people still do that sort of
thingcontact@extendedplaypod.com.Or tweet at us or like or blue
sky us blue. Sky us, What do they call?
Their what do they call their messages?
I don't. Know do you just see on us?
Okay, they need a name though. They do.
Yeah. Anyway, so that's that and all
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that remains now is the extendedplaylist, which is our promise
to our gift to you, really, absolutely.
Which is 5 songs that are going to reignite your burning passion
and your loins for music. Not a burning question, but
that's. A good fucking song.
Which was on one of our last playlists.
Yes, it was deservedly so. So E hit him with the list.
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Let's do this. We're going to start off with a
song from the album we just reviewed from Black Sabbath
Volume 4. That'll be super not and thanks.
Favorite track from that for sure.
One of my favorite as well. The talked about it already.
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If you missed that, if you're just joining us now, go back a
little bit, Hit the rewind button.
Is it a rewind button? Seek search.
Sure MC search gas. Faced Step into the AM.
OK second song. Dead skin mask by Slayer.
Yeah. Seasons in the Abyss, the whole
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album. That's a great album.
Solid. Yeah, that's a solid beginning
to end and my overall favorite song.
Probably the title track Seasonsin the Abyss, but Dead Skin Mass
has the sludgy, grungy slow. You could see the a definite
straight line from Black Sabbathto to Slayer.
Yeah, and then for me it's an easy transition into a song by
Russian Circles called Voral Voral.
They are an instrumental metal band.
(28:11):
I explained them to Tank as Lystra.
Metal, if you will. I like it.
I can't. Someone has to have used that.
Can we trademark that? OK, let's.
Check that out as. Soon as we're done, I explained
to him. They are like explosions in the
sky, but metal. But very much in holding with
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the tradition of Black Sabbath, with chugging guitars and kind
of slow parts and yeah. And then the final two to bring
it home are songs from the best albums in 1997.
Because, I mean, it stands to reason, right?
They're the fucking best. We got Breathe by the prodigy.
The Prodigy. And if you're not sure what
breathe is, you'll know 2 seconds in.
(30:24):
Everyone knows Firestarter, everyone kind of knows Smack My
Bitch up, but Breathe. It's like, it's that song that
is probably your favorite song but you forgot the name of.
Yeah, sure. So yeah.
And then to bring it on Home is a little quirky, but it still
has that same energy of these songs and kind of aggression,
but in a goofy way. Yes.
That is 1 Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces by Ben Folds 5.
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Fun song album opener. Great album opener, yes.
(31:32):
It's got a lot of oomph to it. Yeah, you clip that, but that's.
It that's the list that's our extended playlist.
I will link to the Spotify playlist and the YouTube
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It's extended play, renewing your passion 5 songs at a time.
I'm E. I am tank.
And we're going to get started today by talking about some AI
headlines practice, Not AI, not Allen Iverson, but I don't know,
did you? We talked about this briefly
before we started recording. You saw in the news that, you
know, Ozzy Osbourne just passed recently at time of recording.
(00:44):
And we were talking about how inthe news we had both seen
footage from a Rod Stewart concert fan, fan filmed footage,
which normally I do not watch. I'm glad I watched this time
because basically during ForeverYoung, which is a cringy song.
Seriously. Right.
He's there's like an instrumental breakdown or maybe
he's just singing the chorus over and over.
(01:05):
And on the huge screen behind them are these AI generated
videos of rock stars in heaven. Yeah, basically taking selfie
videos. They're like, waving.
And it is so bizarre. So you see, like, Kurt Cobain
and like, Michael Jackson with their arms around each other.
Like, there's all these weird combos.
(01:27):
Ozzy, who recently passed this in it, and it's just so unset.
I mean, it's the perfect exampleof why I find so much AI, at
least graphically, so unsettling.
It's this. It's the uncanny valley where
they look just enough fake. But what's already scary and sad
is that if it's already that close.
(01:48):
I know how. Far are we from you literally
can't tell the difference and and you literally can't do
anything that's not in person anymore because you don't know.
There's going to be those thingsthat like, you know, there's
those jokes like, oh, I thought Abe Pagoda was dead and he was
alive for like, and he finally did die.
Yeah. They're going to start doing
that with people that everyone thinks is dead, and they're just
going to start creating AI stuff.
And we don't. Yeah.
(02:08):
I know. Anyway, no, it's pretty
frightening, yeah. I'll link.
I'll link to the video in the ITwas.
Very weird goofy smiles they have on their they're like.
And it's all in slow MO. Yeah.
And they're like holes. Oh, I don't like it one bit, no.
And then you went to the Will Smith thing.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know if you saw that.
I saw still photos I I didn't see.
(02:29):
I guess that the he posted basically like concert video
footage. Like what the fuck is he
performing anyway? Well, he just put out a new
album, which is just getting killed.
Killed. He's given some really cringey
interviews of I'm, and I'm glad,to be honest, fuck Will Smith
right after the whole Oscars thing.
Like, right. Yeah.
I have no patience for his bullshit.
I forget Scientology too and allthat shit.
(02:51):
I. Didn't know he was into that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, so he's I guess it's
like a concert footage and with a lot of you know, what a
surprise signs like, oh, will you saved my life or like I'm
living Big Willy style or whatever the but people notice
anomalies like, you know, 7 fingers and whatever else in the
footage. It's like, hold on.
Is he using AI for this? And, and close the I've seen
(03:13):
video, like the actual video itself, parts clips of it, like
if they pause it and in the background, everyone's faces are
totally melted, which is a thingthat AI does, right?
Like it uses shorthand in those kind of instances because it
knows you're not focusing on what's in the background.
But Even so, when he's the pictures, like Will, the video
is like Will Smith from behind, like walking through the crowd,
(03:33):
even the people that are like along the the guard, the the
rails are clearly AI. It's so gross number.
One, why do it and #2 just like my friends at the auto
dealership. Why do you think we're that
stupid? Really.
Do you think no one's going to know it's?
Really insulting, right? And this comes over, this is
coming out over and over again that people are doing like AI
(03:53):
generated logos or AI generated commercials. j.crew just got in
trouble. They did the cover of their fall
catalog, I think was AI generated.
And everyone's like, this is terrible.
We don't want we don't want this.
No, Stop solving for a problem that doesn't exist.
Or or it's the everyone thinks they're a fucking genius by
(04:13):
using some common sense. Yeah, but that doesn't make any
sense in the bigger pictures. Right, right.
Someone at j.crew and it's like,well, you know, last photo shoot
we did, you know, we need to paythe photographer, we need a
model lady guy, we need to pay the model.
Cost us 100,000 bucks. Well, my nephew's really good
with AI, you know, that's what it is.
It's it's like. I, I just, I hope that I mean,
(04:34):
we're, we're probably fucked. I think we're.
We're fucked, right? Who's going to put this genie
back in the bottle? Particularly when it comes to
music. That's a whole set.
We've had done a whole episode on it.
I'll link to that in the description.
Actually, I'll put it up here. Did a whole episode about AI and
music. It's a, it's a problem in the,
the actual songs that are being created, the fake artists, but
not but the videos and stuff. It's it's already too far.
(04:55):
And you know what? I could tolerate it a little bit
better if some of it made its way into my life in a helpful
manner. For instance, I could deal with
some AI bullshit if when I was typing like for my calorie
counter on my phone, when I put macaroni and don't suggest
chimney, right? OK, it's not chimney.
It's. So why is it we can create
almost picture perfect visual representations of people that
(05:17):
are dead? Yeah, but I can't get some
software to be like macaroni. And what a reason to put it
next, right? Right, so.
Yeah, but yeah, so fuck you. Will Smith in general and Rod
Stewart. Why not?
Oh sure, I feel like he's done some shady stuff.
Well, just making a second career out of doing Motown
covers and. Stand you ready to move on to
the album? Let's do it.
(05:38):
All right, so this this week, this episode, we are going to
talk about Volume 4 by Black Sabbath.
Yeah, every episode we review and with one album that is
either a current album, a album from the crate or a classic
album. And this I would say would.
It's a classic. It's a classic 1972.
Yes, OK, yeah, it's a classic and obviously brought to mind by
(06:03):
Ozzy's passing, right. But Black Sabbath and it's even
more I guess surprising slash disappointing.
I listen to a lot of metal music.
Yeah, same and I didn't really care about black sand true.
So just completely ignorant to other than the obvious, you
know, Iron Man paranoid right. So I'm like you know what I
think it's time to to dip the toe in.
(06:26):
So we made that our classic album to review there.
I mean, there's, I don't think we really need to give you much
background, right? Band from England, late 60s,
early 70s and unanimously credited as the creators of
heavy metal. I don't think anyone even makes
a case for anyone else. No, no.
And there's the whole. What's that song that says Heavy
Metal Thunder Born to Be Wild? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(06:48):
The first mention of it. Maybe as a term, right?
But as a but as a art form. It's them, yeah.
Steppenwolf. I think it is Steppenwolf.
Well done. Thank you.
All right, so again, we we cut the BS with you and we get
straight to what we think about it.
And we don't do numbers that's passe.
But if you did, you should go to20 what the cool kids do.
(07:08):
That's right. We we just say, look, should you
listen to this album? And then we say, you know,
here's the groups that that should listen to it.
Either everyone on planet earth all like 8 billion of you or
fans of the genre, which is still a lot of people fans or
the artist which is like look ifyou're into it, OK otherwise you
got other you got a shit to do with your time and then no one
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that is the lowest rating we could give is like if you are a
carbon based life form, do not spend time listening to this
help. Don't waste your time, yeah?
Yeah, no. So for this one, I actually gave
it a a fans of the genre a little bit on the light side, so
so. Ordering on fans of the artists.
Yes, I did the exact same. All right, I I was struggling
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between the two. But if you're a fan of metal,
yeah, it would make sense to listen to this album.
So I mean, my rationale for thatis that in listening to this
album, like I can 100% I can hear and understand the
influence. It's obvious.
And then yeah. And again, like in the other
episode we I talked about recently where listening to
something today for the first time versus when it came out
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could be, but the fact that something this heavy was
happening in like 1970 is insane.
It's pretty impressive. But like today, it's like, OK,
it's it's metal, you know, but to think that nothing else was
happening, maybe Hendrix was theclosest.
I mean, but to put this dark, brooding, sludgy sound out there
and you know, Tony Iommi largelycredited with, which really is
(08:33):
like 90% of it, to be honest. I mean, Geezer Butler gets a a
ton of credit for his bass works, but without that guitar
sound. No, I agree.
It's why when you play old songsfor young kids, they're like, I
don't want to listen to this because somebody has already
done the 10th iteration on it and sort of perfected the art
form in a way. But the and and a lot of times
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the roots of it don't appeal to you anymore.
So you really have to be a fan of the genre to kind of take.
This exactly, so I do think thatit's important for anyone who
likes metal to listen to. Yeah, that's fair.
But the caveat, the reason why I'm on the light side of that is
I think, yeah, I listened to it once, OK, I don't know that.
So when we get into the actual content of the album, you know,
that being it's legacy and it's influence, you know, there's
some solid hooky rock songs likeTomorrow's Dream, the opening
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wheels of Confusion, Slash, The Straightener.
I like the the Straightener. I like Straightener as a name.
I don't know what I mean this. Is weird, I just think of the
hair straighteners. Maybe it was.
Maybe Ozzy has naturally curly hair.
He does. There's.
There's a lot like in like the the song Cornucopia.
It sounds like a Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath song like.
Like a like almost like a parody.
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Exactly. Right.
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It's like that is really black I.
Actually wrote down Cornucopia. It has the Black Sabbath sound.
Yes. So there you go.
Yeah, there was another one I did like when I think of Black
Sabbath, that's what, a Black Sabbath song, exactly.
So that, you know, that's the most, I guess, prototypical.
Yeah. Black Sabbath song.
I don't like changes. I hate it.
Yeah, it's not good. It's not a good song.
It's not a good song. No, no, I think objectively it
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is a bad song. Yes, it is.
The lyrics are corny as shit andwe can talk about Ozzy as a
vocalist generally, I think maybe a little bit later, but
like his vocals are so importantto this.
It's all lyrics basically that Idon't know, I don't think his
voice can carry the song and. And again, even if you could,
you can't get past maybe like the the cringy.
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Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's just not great.
It's rough. Again, I'm sure somewhere
there's a six year old guy, probably in a bowling alley, and
this has a lot of. Oh yeah.
Significant. You know what I mean?
Like it was this wedding song orsomething.
Or I get it, but as a song, objectively just not very good.
Now what I do like, so obviouslychanges probably gets noticed
because it's such a stark departure from the rest of
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there. Yes, but so is Laguna Sunrise.
Yeah. And I really enjoyed that I.
Really enjoyed that. Yeah.
So instrumental. Yes.
Two instrumentals on this album.Yep.
Yeah. And it's, it's just a nice break
(12:19):
and change up without, without seeming like, you know, just a
novelty or just to do. Yeah, it's.
Part of the flow of the album, for sure.
It makes sense, yeah. But yeah, but I mean, really
it's the and and the song that will be on the playlist.
My favorite song from the album,which is not that crazy.
It's a song called Supernaught. Probably consider like, I guess
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this one didn't have like any other than changes,
unfortunately, any obvious hits.But Supernaught, the reason why
Supernaught comes up is like there was a lot of politicking
at that Ozzy concert. Oh, the the farewell concert.
Because all the bands, the very short sets, like even Metallica
got 20 minutes. OK, so Metallica got 20 minutes.
A couple of their bands got like15, and then everyone got like 5
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or 10. You got like one or two songs.
And basically you could do one of yours and one Sabbath song.
But then you can imagine the kind of politicking of who gets
to play the song. Sure, sure.
So and I think Metallica probably had their first choice,
but they had done super not before.
But that is interesting because I listened to so many of those
that I got a fresh. It's a great way to get an old
music That's true is listen to acurrent band play and go wow,
(13:23):
that's a great song because it removes the crustiness and
rustiness of but the core of it that was great sounds good
again. Yes, yes, as long as it's an
authentic 1 to one color, right.Yeah.
You don't want an interpretation.
Yeah, that makes sense. But yeah, super nuts.
It's a great song, and it also stays true to what Sabbath is.
But at the end of the day, I think the the the influence of
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the instrumentation of this is the legacy.
It's not so much the album itself, it's how they approach
the music and the sound, yes, but not so much, hey, it's these
songs. It's more the vibe, ironically.
Right, I said. So.
I feel much the same way about this album.
I was I I did not know I wrote one of the first things I wrote
about me only familiar with popular songs, not full albums.
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I was the same way. So I knew that I knew the song
Black Sabbath and, and, and Paranoid and crazy or not crazy
train Iron Man so and I had an idea of what a Black Sabbath
song sounded like. The songs that don't sound like
that, I was blown away by how complex they were actually.
There's a lot of like time signature changes, tempo
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changes, and then just the the interplay between Geezer Butler
and Tommy Iommi, the bass and the guitar.
Like there's some crazy catchy guitar riffs, incredible, like
jammy solos at the ends of songs.
I didn't know that that's so at first.
OK, so let me back up a little bit.
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My first time I listened to it. I listened to it while I was
mowing the lawn. OK, it's good lawn mowing music.
I disagree, actually. Really.
OK. Because without having, if I had
the cans on it would have been Ihad the sort of like the earbuds
and I didn't have that great quality.
I see. It sounded very classic Rocky on
the surface, classic rock, psychrock, which I don't like doing a
(15:12):
dedicated listen with the full stereo experience.
You get the metal, you get the intricacies you get, you hear
the bass better, right? One of the things I said right
away, about 3-4 songs, and I actually got tired of Ozzy's
voice. Yeah, believe it or not, yeah.
I think you always get Ozzy at small doses usually.
Absolutely. And part of the the thing with
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Ozzy is his stage presence, his persona that is baked into.
It's not necessarily just his vocal skills.
So I said this album could have stood on its own as an entirely
instrumental album. Yeah, to me, yeah.
That's how it. May be better and.
Maybe better because of it, Yeah.
But I I am super glad I listenedto it.
Yeah, right. So we would say if you're a fan
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of the genre, yeah, you got to check it out.
Got. To check it out.
Yeah. And yeah.
And that's the joy of going through some of this stuff for
me, you know, selfishly, it's like, at least now I could say
I, you know, absolutely. I have a tiny bit of knowledge
of Black Sabbath, right. Instead of just like, I don't
know, I know Iron Man. You know it's right, right?
Absolutely. Yeah.
So that's what we think we're we're aligned that it's a fans
of the genre type suggestion andyou probably should check it
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out. If you like heavy music, metal
music, Yeah, go ahead. Maybe not volume 4, maybe
Paranoid, you know, maybe one ofthe other masters of reality,
like go ahead and just check oneout and see what you think.
Let us know in the comments. Yeah, absolutely.
It's time for the EP 10 where wecountdown 10 music related
things and this week we are counting down the top ten albums
of 1997. Why 1997?
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Good. Question.
Hi, I'm Tank. Because it's random and because
I was just thinking I wanted to do 90s OK in early 90s.
I mean, we will touch on this probably ad nauseam.
I'm I'm gonna say it. You've said it early. 90s peak
music. Yeah, sorry, sorry, not sorry.
Look at the hip hop of that era.Look at the rock music.
(17:03):
The grunge hip hop became non cartoony fat boys, all that
crap. I'm sorry early 90s music peaked
downhill. Ever said Oh?
Jesus Christ, Yeah, I'm having. I'm doing this.
I want to put an asterisk on that I'm having one of my
favorite years in music appreciation in 2025, but.
Is it all new music? Yes.
All right, well, we'll do a separate episode on that anyway.
(17:25):
I love. I'm in 97.
It seems like a Yeah, It was a good random year.
I'm like, and nothing came to mind immediately.
Like if you told me 9492, I'm like, all right, but now 97, I'm
like, what was 97? Yeah, we were like.
Juniors in colleges. Yeah.
And it's like, OK, so I had a rough idea, but I, you know,
kind of surprised myself with what came out that year.
Now, whenever you say the word best, and especially in the form
of a list like this, you need todefine it a bit.
(17:46):
So we're not saying best like critical acclaim.
We're not critics. We are not.
We're not. We're passionate about music.
We want you to be passionate about music.
So we're not going to tell you what you're supposed to like,
right? But.
We're going to suggest what you might.
You might try to. Yeah, right.
So it's not necessarily there could be critically acclaimed
things on it, but we're not saying these are the critics
because you already know that itgo.
(18:08):
Look at the list. Yes, there.
So it's not best in that sense. It's it is.
It's akin to our EP 100 where our ethos was we do think these
are the best albums. Whatever critics thinks, fuck
off. So that's why we blended in some
more popular, but not criticallyacclaimed, because we think it's
a good fucking album. Sure, this is a little bit
different than that in the senseof basically, if you came to me
(18:29):
and said, hey, I can only listento music from 1997, long story.
I can't get into it right now. I need some albums.
All right, try these 10, right? It's a good place to start to
enjoy the music of that year of that vintage.
So we will jump right into it. 10 best albums in 1997 as
defined by. Go ahead and skip back 5 minutes
(18:49):
and listen to that. All right, at #10 an album
called Fun Crusher Plus by Company Flow.
It's about as deep as I'm going to get on this.
Company Flow is the I want to say initial, if not initial,
certainly beginning one of the projects of LP, who would later
rise to fame through solo work and especially run the jewels.
(19:10):
But fun crusher. Plus this is the really the the
roots of like backpack hip hop and it it's fun beats, it's
great flows. It's it's really almost it's
hard to believe it's 97. Excuse me, this had to have been
maybe 10 years later. It does pop up on some of the
more insider best of 97 list, soit's not completely out of
(19:31):
nowhere, but I really recommend you check it out as take a flyer
on it. If you like hip hop, I think you
would like it. Yeah #9 #9 is Portis head by
Portis. Head amazing album.
Yeah, you know more than I do. I mean, I like it, but I know
you're more in depth on. It yeah, we it made our list.
Did it make your No Only Dummy, The debut album made our list of
the EP 100 the top 100 songs of our lifetime.
(19:56):
You. Really should check it out,
yeah. All the Portis Portis Head
albums are great. There's only three of them, plus
there's a live album. But the second one is fantastic.
It's sitting over here. I have my vinyls right around
the corner but you fucking Google it.
We're we're making the show. You can at least get your phone
out and look. If you only know Sour Times by
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Portishead, you're missing out 'cause that album is great and
this album is just a continuation.
It's more of the same, but incredible, incredible.
It's called trip hop, which theydon't like it pretty much no one
likes the term, but it it's useful in a certain way in that
it's like hip hop ish beats yeahtrippy but Spacey, but Spacey
and slowed down so. #8 is Urban Hymns by the Verve, which
(20:41):
famously contains Bitter Sweet Sympathy and a few other good
songs. Yeah, including the drugs don't
work. The drugs don't work, which we
mentioned in a previous episode.Yes, we did.
Yeah. Number seven, I'm not sure how
to say this homogenic, homogenic, homogenic.
I've heard the 1st 2:00. I think homogenic okay, maybe
okay by Bjork. I like post better than this.
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Sure, for me it was it was a toss up.
I love this is my first Bjork exposure.
Okay, Bjork exposure sounds likesomething.
Sounds like a band. This has got yoga on it, which I
love the strings on that. I don't even know if it's actual
strings, but I love yoga. Probably AI.
Yeah, right. If anyone's going to be in AI,
Bjork would give it a better run, you know?
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What would be awesome is if it turns out Bjork was always AI.
Jesus Christ, that would. First of all, that would explain
so much. There's just an elderly
Icelandic woman in a cabin somewhere who's been Bjork this
whole time. Jesus, just like.
Stan Marsh was Lord South Park arc.
They had a whole running joke that Stan Marsh was actually
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Lord and Stan did. Not our Lord and Savior, but
Lord the New Zealand recording artist.
Yes, okay, yes, yes, well, one in the same if yes.
Sure, sure, the argument can be made.
Randy Marsh. Sorry, Stan.
Stan got it. You know what I meant.
All right, moving on. Number six, either or by Elliot
Smith. Yeah, fantastic.
This Is my EXO was the first Elliot Smith album I bought, but
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either or is the one that has two or three tracks that were on
the Goodwill Hunting soundtrack.That was really what got him
exposure, like greater exposure,and he ends up getting nominated
for an Oscar for Miss Misery. Incredible acoustic
singer-songwriter, heartbreakinglyrics, breathy, beautiful
delivery. Cannot recommend that album
highly enough. Yeah.
That's great. And now getting into the top
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five of the year in terms of recommendations #5 The Fat of
the Land by the Prodigy, which great.
Call out man. Yeah, thank you.
And I don't know, it might be Mandela Effect.
They didn't have the in front ofit when it was out.
I think that was an issue. The the maybe they're like,
look, we are the prodigy. Because, well, because there's,
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there are rappers named Prodigy,right?
Like from Bob Deep, there's Prodigy, there's two rappers.
I think I, I think there was a copyright issue where somebody
was the band Prodigy and they had to become the Prodigy,
something like that. Because whenever I see the
video, it was interested Prodigy, I don't say the
Prodigy, but the Prodigy. And if you're thinking, does
that album have that that song by them, Yes, it does.
He is the fire starter. He is #4 The Color and the Shape
(23:16):
by Foo Fighters. Obviously I'm biased, but that's
a great fucking element. Everlong alone is, yeah, you
know, it's going to get you there.
And then, you know, just, I think my hero, I get sometimes
mixed up between. But like all the all the songs
that your friends who don't likemusic that much and or your
parents know are on that album. That's true.
That's true. But they really hit their stride
(23:37):
on making accessible. Rock songs, yeah, But rock
songs, yeah. Number three, Third Eye Blind.
Third Eye Blind. Yeah, we've talked about this in
a previous episode of The Best 90's Rock Bands.
Also #3 though. Whoa, spooky.
Yeah, I'd love this out. I think it's great.
I think it's bangers top to. Bottom it's it's like a jagged
(23:58):
little pill type thing. Absolutely, if you know.
You know, kind of comes and goes, but holy shit, was that an
album, right? Yeah.
Go. Just, you know, go to Spotify,
put it on hit play. After this, you only got a few
more minutes with us. We're almost done.
Please don't go anywhere. #2 is whatever and ever.
Amen. Ben Folds 5I love this album.
I think this is this album and Ben Folds 5 and Ben Folds as an
(24:21):
artist. Just underrated across the
absolutely. This one has brick, which is
probably the song most people associate with him.
Yeah, yeah, but but not representative of the album as a
whole, right? Way more up tempo, right?
Which you're about to find out on the extended playlist.
That's right, Spoiler. And then #1 there's really no
other. You wanna you wanna move
yourself to the right a little? Bit right back there.
(24:41):
Yeah, OK. Computer by Radiohead.
I mean, I think we pretty much had that as #1 on the EP 100.
We did as the best album. Spoiler Yeah, Spoiler alert.
That's kind of hard to not include the best album in that
year, right? I'm not even gonna waste your
time. It's Fredo Head.
It's OK Computer. Yeah, Listen to it.
Yes. So that's those are the 10 best
albums in 1997. What did we miss?
(25:02):
What are we wrong on? Let us know in the comments.
Send us an e-mail if people still do that sort of
thingcontact@extendedplaypod.com.Or tweet at us or like or blue
sky us blue. Sky us, What do they call?
Their what do they call their messages?
I don't. Know do you just see on us?
Okay, they need a name though. They do.
Yeah. Anyway, so that's that and all
(25:23):
that remains now is the extendedplaylist, which is our promise
to our gift to you, really, absolutely.
Which is 5 songs that are going to reignite your burning passion
and your loins for music. Not a burning question, but
that's. A good fucking song.
Which was on one of our last playlists.
Yes, it was deservedly so. So E hit him with the list.
(25:45):
Let's do this. We're going to start off with a
song from the album we just reviewed from Black Sabbath
Volume 4. That'll be super not and thanks.
Favorite track from that for sure.
One of my favorite as well. The talked about it already.
(26:39):
If you missed that, if you're just joining us now, go back a
little bit, Hit the rewind button.
Is it a rewind button? Seek search.
Sure MC search gas. Faced Step into the AM.
OK second song. Dead skin mask by Slayer.
Yeah. Seasons in the Abyss, the whole
(27:49):
album. That's a great album.
Solid. Yeah, that's a solid beginning
to end and my overall favorite song.
Probably the title track Seasonsin the Abyss, but Dead Skin Mass
has the sludgy, grungy slow. You could see the a definite
straight line from Black Sabbathto to Slayer.
Yeah, and then for me it's an easy transition into a song by
Russian Circles called Voral Voral.
They are an instrumental metal band.
(28:11):
I explained them to Tank as Lystra.
Metal, if you will. I like it.
I can't. Someone has to have used that.
Can we trademark that? OK, let's.
Check that out as. Soon as we're done, I explained
to him. They are like explosions in the
sky, but metal. But very much in holding with
(29:16):
the tradition of Black Sabbath, with chugging guitars and kind
of slow parts and yeah. And then the final two to bring
it home are songs from the best albums in 1997.
Because, I mean, it stands to reason, right?
They're the fucking best. We got Breathe by the prodigy.
The Prodigy. And if you're not sure what
breathe is, you'll know 2 seconds in.
(30:24):
Everyone knows Firestarter, everyone kind of knows Smack My
Bitch up, but Breathe. It's like, it's that song that
is probably your favorite song but you forgot the name of.
Yeah, sure. So yeah.
And then to bring it on Home is a little quirky, but it still
has that same energy of these songs and kind of aggression,
but in a goofy way. Yes.
That is 1 Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces by Ben Folds 5.
(30:47):
Fun song album opener. Great album opener, yes.
(31:32):
It's got a lot of oomph to it. Yeah, you clip that, but that's.
It that's the list that's our extended playlist.
I will link to the Spotify playlist and the YouTube
playlist of those songs below. If you can't get enough of that
playlist because it was so kick ass.
It was our Patreon patrons get 10 song playlists.
(31:52):
You know we call the overextended playlist, which you
can only get if you're again, ifyou're a Patreon patron, link
down below to get get that. We also put out a newsletter
every week. We call the we call extended
scrolling. It's all extended because we
like to extend things. Yeah, we do not shorten them,
not retract, extend. Turgid.
(32:14):
If you haven't done so already, please like and subscribe at the
at the end of the video you'll see a link to a bunch of other
videos we've done if you want more of this ridiculousness.
I don't know why you would, but if you made it this far, you
clearly do. That's right.
Yeah. Until next time.
Bye, everyone. See you.
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