June 12, 2023 • 30 mins
It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album should win, then Michelle picked the winner.
Some music giants are among those chosen for battle: Aerosmith, Beach Boys, Carole King, Eminem, Fleetwood Mac, Garth Brooks, Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Prince, Silversun Pickups, The Weeknd and more square up over the course of the tournament.
Settle in, listen up and check out these bonus episodes over the next 16 weeks! It's the first re-release, trip down memory lane with your favorite podcast, the Infectious Grove Podcast!
Some music giants are among those chosen for battle: Aerosmith, Beach Boys, Carole King, Eminem, Fleetwood Mac, Garth Brooks, Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Prince, Silversun Pickups, The Weeknd and more square up over the course of the tournament.
Settle in, listen up and check out these bonus episodes over the next 16 weeks! It's the first re-release, trip down memory lane with your favorite podcast, the Infectious Grove Podcast!
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Hey, hey, hey, it'sthe first bonus episode of the Infectious Groove
podcast, and we have a albumtournament of sorts that we're going to do.
What we did was, I've gotKyle and Michelle here with me remotely,
as is the new usual. Weum, Kyle and I picked eight
episodes or I'm sorry, eight albumsa piece that we like. So what's
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going to happen is I matched themup in the old spreadsheet there, and
each week each of us will defendone album and then and this has got
to be Michelle's favorite part. Michellegets to judge how I feel about that?
Yeah, yeah, so right.So one thing I did want to
mention is that this originally we discussedthis a while ago, and we were
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going to make this like paid contentfor later in the year. But with
everything going on, we figured whynot just do it for free now?
Like we have the time, everybodyhas asked for more content since everyone is
stuck at home, so we figuredwe'll just do it for free this time
around. I'm sure we'll learn somethings and you know, maybe run it
again later in the year with differentpicks or based off of listeners suggestions or
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something like that. So, havingsaid that, I think we have some
really interesting matchups planned for each week. That some albums that go together,
some that would never go together.But it's all being brought to you by
three people with pretty interesting and variedtastes. So, having said that,
this week's first matchup is a prettydistant matchup, it's records that came out
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about thirty years apart, but byartists who have been around since the early
seventies. So this week's picks werethe nineteen ninety three classic Get a Grip
by Errol Smith, which is goingto go head to head with Tapestry by
Carol King, which again both classicsalbum classic albums in their own way.
So, having said that, we'regonna go ahead and pass it over to
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Kyle, Kyle, go ahead andstart making a case for Get a Grip.
All right. So I chose thisalbum for a few reasons. One
because I grew up It's a seethat my mom had growing up and I
listened to a bunch two there is. It's a it's a smash record.
There's tons and tons of great songson it. Also, you get a
mix of all sorts of different genres. Well, you get the rock and
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roll the Aerosmith is. You geta little bit of Steven Tyler's country in
there, and then you get himrapping at the very beginning. I was
just gonna say that the record kicksoff with almost a rap cut. I
mean it's only seconds, so youknow he's he's a rapper, rocker,
country singer on this album. Anduh, there's just some songs I really
really love on this album. Sofor those who may not be overly familiar,
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like most of your favorite Aerosmith songs, if you like Aerosmith from the
eighties and nineties, probably came fromthis record. The singles alone are like
Eat the Rich, Amazing, CryingCrazy. The lead single was Living on
the Edge. Of those, whichones do you think are your favorites?
Kyle, Living on the Edge isI think my favorite song on the album.
Um just I you can ask show. When we were playing it,
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I was just like yelling and singingthe entire time. Plus they always there's
that old adage, um, youhaven't really made it until Weird All covers
you and he wed Al. WeirdAl did Living on the Edge. It
was that big of a hit.He did a version of Living on the
Edge on the Allapalooza record, Sothat's funny too. But my thing with
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Get a Grip is it's a reallystrong record from the non singles too.
Like the title cut Get a Grip, which comes in right after Eat the
Rich is fantastic. Shut Up andDance is a fantastic cut. Really,
to be honest, and I'm justgoing to tell you right now, my
biggest problem with the record, andit minuses so many points for me,
is the song Joe Perry sings walkOn Down. Yeah, it's just not
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a good song. And I infull disclosure, I saw Errol Smith three
times on the Get a Grip tour. It was the first three times I
saw Errol Smith, and two ofthe three times they did walk on Down,
and I was severely unhappy all threetimes. You know what drew me
to this record when I was youngeris the fact that there is a I
was nipple with a nipple ring onthe front of it. There sure is,
And then if you get the originalCD of it to the actual CD
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has like five nipples around it,which I assume is to be the five
numbers of Aerosmith. I don't know. So the secondary reason of why I
chose this album is because I thoughta classic Arrowsmith album would stand up very
well to pretty much a lot ofwhat I thought that you would have chosen
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for the tournament. Yeah for sure. Now me personally, if I was
going to go with eighties nineties Aerosmith, I would have done Pump. But
the thing with Pump is that Pump, in my opinion, the non singles
are Pump on Pump are better thanthe songs that were the singles, And
it would take a lot of likemost people would look at Pump side by
side with Get a Grip and justgo, oh, you're crazy. You
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Get a Grips the batter record becauseit had more monster singles. Does that
make sense? Yeah? Yeah,yeah, What else you got to say
about Get a Grip? This isyour time, Kyle, get it in.
I It's just but if I almostdooming that most people listening to this
podcast have listened to this record.I'm not the biggest Aerosmith fan on Earth,
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but their older stuff is fantastic.This is one of the albums that's
like you said, Pump is agreat album as well. This album just
sticks out to me based upon thefact that I have like, you know,
a childhood connection to it. Yeah. I also I also did see
after I listened to this again,they are rescheduling dates for their residency in
Las Vegas, and I was like, I would kill to go see them.
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Oh yeah, I'll tell you what. Aerosmith put on a fantastic showan
Michelle, you just saw Steven Tyler. What was it two years ago?
Now it's probably been at least twoyears Yeah, something like that. But
yeah, to say you were impressedwas it would be an understatement, would
it. Yeah? It was freetickets, and even at the free tickets,
I was like, I don't wantto go, and then I don't
remember that. Well i'll go,I'll go, I'll go, I'll go.
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He'll just keep bothering me. Ikeep calling me, I'll go,
and uh, I would say.Right from the first second that the concert
started, I was like, welldamn well yeah. And he opened with
sweet emotion too. I mean that'slike, yeah, that's like cash money,
you know, And I wanted atthe end, I was like,
well, I owe somebody money forthis. Oh you can, you can
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pay me, you can pay me. I mean it was free tickets through
the casino, so no But onething I didn't really realize back then listening
to is like not like recently,its like of a few years ago you
put out that country record of justHim or whatever. Sure it did,
and he's been wanting to do anddoing country music for a long time.
That this album has a few veryvery country ish songs on it. Oh
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for sure. If anybody wants tohear Steven Tyler's, in my opinion,
his country roots, you can goback to records before Get a Grip.
Aerosmith has an album called Permanent Vacationthat really kicked off their big comeback.
Big singles off of it was ragDoll Angel, Dude looks like a lady
Anyways. There's a cutoff there calledHangman Jury that is like, I don't
know, it's it's like kind ofblues, but it's very country. They
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actually opened their unplugged with it yearsago and it's just but even like the
first couple of Yarrowsmith records, likeback in like seventy one, seventy two
or whatever, there was like acountry twang to what Steven Tyler was doing
at that time. When speaking ofcount go ahead him and the harmonica too.
Man. Oh yeah, for sure. And there's one other connection about
this record that I totally forgot tomention that I had in my notes,
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which is directly connected to Country,which is there's a non single on this
record called Fever that Garth Brooks coveredabout three or four years after Get a
Grip came out. He put iton It's I think it's on the No,
it's not on No Offenses. It'son Fresh Horses, I think,
and he rewrote the lyrics to beabout cowboy having a fever for the rodeo.
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But for me that was cool becauseit wasn't even a single, and
I like to Get a Grip enoughthat I knew fever, So it was
cool for me when when people werelike, oh, he's gonna cover Arrowsmith,
everybody figured it would be a wellknown song and it was this one
that wasn't all that well known.You know, have you I can't remember
if you guys heard that. Iwant to say, yes, I don't.
We listen to We listened to abunch of his covers at your house.
One. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure. Yeah,
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but it's a it's a cool cover. It's you know, like I say,
most people would hear it and justbe like, I don't even I
don't even know that. How isthat Errol Smith? But yeah, it's
right there, and get a grip. So any any closing points or is
that everything you want to get acrossabout? Get a grip? Great album,
artwork, great album overall, andit's full of smash, well not
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only singles but just smashes in general. Like it's it's just a great album
overall for sure. Well what's funny? And this is what I said in
the intro I totally agree on,like are you supposed to be fighting?
And you're like, I'll tell youwhy his album is the best? No,
And there is there. Oh,let me tell you what there's I've
seen the future matchups and there aregoing to be points where I'm gonna tell
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you exactly why I think the otherone is much better. But my thing
with my pick for this round wasTapestry by Carol King. And again a
lot of people might say, youknow how how those records go up together
go up against each other? Again, we picked eight records, I put
them in a bracket, and thisis how it fell. So this is
like a certain number pick of Kyle'sversus a certain number of mine, and
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that's how the tournament fell. Soit wasn't like, oh, we're gonna
put nineties albums against each other orthis genre against each other or whatever.
So yeah, and it was random, so there was no sort of like
formula toity. You just chose randomalbums that you liked from any genre or
whatever, and this is how itended up. Yeah, absolutely, So
that is how we end up withan Arrowsmith album from nineteen ninety three going
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up against a Carol King record fromseventy one. My main points about Tapestry
is, you know, I mean, it's her second record, but boy
isn't a monster. I mean,it's all written by her, with a
very few exceptions. There's some lyricsthat she had a couple of partners right
down, like It's too Late,some of the lyrics of where You Lead,
and then the ones that she didn'twrite that are on there, like
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well will You Love Me Tomorrow?And Natural Woman. Her covers of those
songs are just stunning. And mything with this record it is it's it's
such I mean, the track listingon this record looks like the greatest hits
right off the bat, Like Ifeel the Earth move, It's too late?
Was it Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Natural Woman? I mean the
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record looks like the greatest hits onits own. Now, had I know
YouTube have been listening to these recordsin the house. Had either of you
listened to Tapestry straight through before this? I had not, I've heard.
I was surprised at how many songsI had heard that I knew off of
it, Like I obviously knew thecovers and there was oh yeah, oh
yeah, oh yeah. But Inever listened to it from front to back
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before. Yeah. I though Idid know a bunch of the songs off
it, I had never listened toit all the way through. That this
is the first time, just sittingthere listening to everything. Yeah, And
that was my thing, was thatThe thing with the record is that it's
so good that when you put iton, if you've never heard it all
the way through, you instantly go, oh, I know that song.
Oh, I know that song,Oh I know that song. Because those
songs are so monster and they're sopart of like the ethos, you know,
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like they're I mean, everyone hascovered Carol King, everyone has worked
with Carol King, I mean her, I think the biggest bullet point that
I can make for this record isher influence is so strongly felt because of
this record. In my opinion,most of every woman who had hits after
nineteen seventy one would probably tell youit was because of Tapestry, you know,
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like that record got them into theindustry. That's what made them want
to be fans um of you know, female songwriters. Like I just think
she came out in nineteen seventy onewith this record and just rewrote the rule
book, you know. I mean, do you do either of you get
that feeling from it or or Imean yeah, And when I when I've
seen that you would have added thatas your pick for this round, I
was like, oh shit, becauselike, yeah, it's just a it's
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a The entire album is just stackedfull of it. It's funny that you
mentioned that I'd talked to a coupleof you know who I would call like
my third base and first base coaches, a friend of the show, Joe
and James Porter, and I kindof talked to them about my picks and
whatnot, and literally both of them, you could you could tell they were
reading down my picks and they werelike this and this and oh that's a
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good one another, and both ofthem, in independent conversations, were like,
oh my, And I was like, oh, I see you found
my dark horse pick. So anythingwhat stood out for you about it?
Michelle? Because I know it lastnight you sent me a text and I
don't know verbade him. I'm notlooking at it right now, but it
said something to the effect of spoileralert. Carol King is a badass,
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Like what made you? What stoodout for you? Are you done with
your analyses? No, I'm notready for your ruling, but yes,
well no because I have I havenotes on them, but yes, and
you know what, learning learning fromthat going forward? I apologize going forward,
after we each make our case,I'll have you do your notes for
for each record before we move on. Yes, So anyways, go on
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with your notes about I guess startwith get a grip? Okay? Can
I say that I went into thisand I saw Carol King and I saw
Aerosmith, and I was like,well, Carol King can't be Aerosmith,
Like I'm just saying that from them. I was just like that, I
don't know, like I just CarolKing to me is very iconic. But
it wasn't something that like is like, oh, well this is my jam.
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I'm gonna sit down and just likereally jam out to some Carol King.
And so I started with Carol King. Um, I put on Tapestry
and like I said earlier, itwas jam Jam Jam Jam, and uh
that's four jams, yes, uhit was. It was my Jammie jams
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if you will. And I wentthrough it and we were listening to it,
and like I had forgotten that thatCherrell's cover on there was on there.
Um, and then we listened toSo Far Away, and uh,
Kyle was like, Rod Stewart doesthat song, and so then like we
pulled that up and we listened toRod Stewart and a lot of people have
covered her, and so it wasit was shocking to me how much was
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on that record. Yeah, wellit was shocking to pretty much every other
male artist who put out an albumthat year according to the tracks. Yeah.
I also didn't know that James Taylorwas on it. Um, so
such a big band in it.Whish. I'm not a James Taylor fan,
James Taylor fan at all, butI do appreciate what he's done.
Um in music in general. SoI will say that was probably a little
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bit of I don't know, ashock to me that I didn't know,
Like there was harmonies that he did. I think on there is that.
Yeah, he did some of theharmonies. He played he played, I
think all the acoustic guitar, buthe definitely threw in some harmonies. Yeah,
there were definitely songs on there,like the title track not my jam.
That's literally my notes say title trackequals not my jam. Man.
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I'll tell you what for. Forall the the accolades and the praise that
Carol King has got wherever she's atright this second, she just went damn.
You know all we're still talking aboutCarol King. This is going to
be an unpopular opinion overall, I'mbetting, But I do like Rod Stewart's
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version Oh So Far Away better thanher version. Do you think it's because
you heard it first, because Ifeel like when we when we played it,
you were like, I didn't knowthis was Karrol King And we actually
had to look up to see whodid it first, Like I don't know.
I was like, I don't know, I want to kind of figured
out what year it came out,and like we kind of Well, yeah,
I mean there's a lot of peoplethat think she did Natural Woman first.
Yeah, because many people Tapestry.Yeah, well those are only four
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years apart. Two. Natural Womancame out in sixty seven, I think,
and Karl came with seventy one.So sure, And I don't really
know if it's because I heard RodStewart's version first. I just think that
I like his version overall better thanhers. I mean, let's not discount
Rod Stewart in this situation. Rodknows his way around the song, you
know what I mean. No,I was just asking if, like,
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if that's why he because I feellike that happens to me all the time
where I'm like original and I'm likeI was just saying that as a response
to Kyle, like you don't haveto apologize for liking the Rod Stewart version
of that particular cup more like Rodknows his way around the song, you
know what I mean, like likethe go ahead they're also so it was
a hilarious music video to go alongwith the Rest Tower version of that song.
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Man, I have to guess hedid it in like what the late
seventies are the early eighties done?Yeah? I think it's the early eighties,
and it's like these like basically it'slike early green screen work where like
there's live people walking in like photoslike old black and white photos. Boy,
And there's a there's a part wherehe's staring out the window at himself
and like the version of him behindhimself is the where he's moving and he's
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like staring out at a photograph ofhimself. Right, It's it's ridiculous.
So you're like funny looking you're saying, if this were a battle of music
videos, it would lose out toThriller, like quite the same production quality
as Thriller. Sure h? Didyou have any more notes on Tapestry,
Michelle? Or are we moving on? Are we gonna? Are we gonna
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walk on down to get a grip? You see what I did there?
Yes? So good? So Iguess I said. I went into this
being like after after I saw StephenTyler alive, I was like, I
could definitely be an Aerosmith fan,Like not that I just like calhom but
I haven't listened to a lot ofAerosmith other than like the hits. Like
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I was just like, this isprobably the only Aerosmith I've listened to the
album that I listened to front toback in one sitting. I say this
not to be funny. I saythis not to be funny, but I
think that's going to happen a lotin this tournament, Like there's gonna be
a lot of artists that you haven'tlistened to their records all the way through,
so it'll be interesting. So Iwas a little, um, I
don't even know what the words are. I all I have is rap intro
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question mark. So you were notas taken with it as Kylan. Yes,
that Michelle figured out that Stephen Tylercould try and rap well that and
hold on though points to get agrip though, because it's not marked rap
intro equals not my jam. It'sjust a question mark. Yes, I
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wasn't like I literally put it onand I was like, this is like
that I put on, like theremix album or like what was it that
we used to pull at media playwhere people what was it scratched and screwed
or whatever? The real problems thatwhat was that called? I know what
you're talking about, but I won'tcome up with it. But yeah,
I know what you mean, Likepeople would buy these albums and they would
turn it and be like, thisdoesn't sound right and it's because you bought
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like a cover yea. So Iwas like, what, I picked the
wrong one, But I didn't dislikeit. I think it just mostly caught
me off guard. Yeah, butthen there are a lot of jams on
that record, um, like wehad already mentioned most of them. But
when I as soon as I heardLiving on the Edge, I immediately thought
of Weird Al's Virgin Yeah, livingin the Bridge, Like I was just
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like I was singing weird Els lyrics. I just I'm gonna stop myself from
going on. But weird Al hislyrics are always brilliant, and his lyrics
to that song in particular are perfectand what I love the most. And
I swear to God, I'm gonnacut myself off here because I could go
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on about Alfred days. But iswhen he does the cross melodies in the
heart in the chorus, like whereit's like um in the original, it's
like living on the edge, youcan't help yourself from fall. He's like,
he's like it's living in the fridge, you can't stop the mold from
growing. Like it's just I justI love that stuff anyway, so you
got to living on the edge goon, Oh well, I was just
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saying, like, there's crying isalso my jam on there also for get
a grip. I wrote title trackand then I did this emoji and if
you can't because you guys can't seeme, it's the shoulder shrug. Yeah,
it is a shrug. Well what'sinteresting though, And again people can't
see you right now, but whenI was saying that I liked the title
track, you were doing a definiteno headshake just then. Well, so
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like it wasn't like because I putspecifically not my jam for Carol King,
for Arismith, I just put theshoulder shrug, which is say that ten
times fashion shoulder shrug emoji. Um, Like I just heard it, and
I was like I expected it.I knew. I guess I expected it
to be more monster of a jamon both those words like that's what you
named your yeah, And I waslike, well, this is like anti
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climactic because there's so many other songson both records that are so much bigger
to me than the title track.So I was just like, okay,
like that's there. And then theweird intros and outros to songs I wasn't
a fan of. I didn't appreciatethe giant belt at the end of the
eight Richard. I did not likewell, once I got through the rap
intro, I you know, kindof expected that throughout the record, but
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I guess not a fan is notthe word. I just didn't know that
that was the thing that Aerosmith did. But well they and they don't get
a grip Nope, listen to it. No, I'm saying get a Grip
is singular in that like uh pumphas some a few little things in before
and after each cut, but likenot anywhere along the lines of get a
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Grip. Get a Grip is thatway I do. I have to say
though, that I do love thereally long outro for Amazing, which I
think is the last song on therecord. It's either the last Yeah,
there's there's two minute like outro that'slike another track, but it's after the
last song on the record. Butone of my all time favorite Steven Tyler
is ms is at the very endof that track, which is the light
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at the end of the tunnel.Maybe you and I that's a Steven Tyler
ism. I love that. Um, yeah, so any more notes on
that record? That was it.I just wanted to also note I put
notes on the feeling my overall moodwhile listening to the records. I didn't
go back to Carol King. Iwas chill and laid back, like I
could totally just put it on inthe background and like have a nice glass
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of gin and tonic and just likerelax. And then for Aerosmith, I
was very much like upbeat, cleanthe house, like have a party.
Yeah, And I think that definitely. I think that that comes from the
eras that the records came out inabsolutely the two different genres. But I
just feel like it was definitely twodifferent records, Like it wasn't like you
can't compare them in genre wise,like they were very different. It help
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you that I was yelling and singingand screaming along with the lyrics. Nope,
all right, all right, justfor a future reference, just so
just so I know, I realizewe have to stay at home order,
but you'll live a half mile away. What if in the future, would
it help if I came and stoodon the deck while you were in the
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kitchen and yelled and screamed the lyricsof my future picks, just so I
know. Will that help? Itwould help if you drove up and down
the block blasting the songs and singingalong. Okay, well yeah, if
not love, if nothing else,you'll be like, wow, people really
love that record. This is influencingmy decision. So anyways, I did
give them number scores, but Iwill wait until after the break. Sure
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spoiler alert. So there it is. There is a case made for Get
a Grip nineteen ninety three Eryl Smithrecord case made from that pick from Kyle,
and a case made for Tapestry byCarol King case made by me the
record from nineteen seventy one. Sowhat we are going to do is gets
all knowing and final ruling on thisright here, and we are going to
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do that in just a little bit. We're going to take a break here
and then I believe right after thatwe'll probably come back from break and do
your actual ruling out of the break. And then after that, I'm certain
there will be some sort of reactionsand whatnot, maybe some more severe than
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and how things should have went andalbums date would have put in the competition,
and so on and so forth.So having said that, here's the
moment everyone's been waiting for. It'stime for Michelle's ruling. The winner is
Carol King's Tapestry. Yeah, LikeI said, I was not coming into
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this being I was just like,that's not like I like Carol King,
but she's not really my jam andturns off she is my jam. So
I gave her go ahead. Igave the album. The scoring broke down.
I gave the album a six outof ten. I probably there's gonna
be so many people happy that itwanted and so mad about that score.
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But go on, well, howdoes it six out of ten win anything?
Like I'm talking like like the movieSilver Lings Playbook. Why are they
so happy about a five it's solike when I think of a ten out
of ten, like that's my favoritealbum, Like this is not my favorite
album, Like like I hear it'sa solid it's a solid album. It's
like better than average, which isfive. You know, I gave Aerosmith
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a four out of ten, Soboy, it uh was surprising to me.
I know, you know, Iknow, so I could say maybe
it's like six and a half outof ten for Carol King, Oh you're
gonna you're gonna be nice and giveit an extra point five and bump her
up a little bit. Yeah,I was definitely shocked at how much I
like that record. Yeah, itwas full, it's full jams. They
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both they're both good records. Aerosmithwas definitely that was out what I was
expecting with the rapping and the introsand outros, which I'm pretty sure is
what kind of did it for me. Like I was like, this is
not I don't know, would youcall that a concept album? I go,
don't really like no, I geta grip now Yeah, mix of
Steven Tyler, Yeah, it's itwasn't for me. What's funny is when
I entered Tapestry, at first Ithought oh, well, yeah, of
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course Michelle's gonna instantly latch to likesuch a strong female singer songwriter. And
then I was like, wait aminute, I bet she's never even heard
this whole album. So I waskind of worried about how that was gonna
go. Yeah, I was likeshocked at how many songs I knew already
on there, um Aerosmith as well, and there wasn't any songs on Aerosmith
where I was like skip, likethey were just kind of there. And
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there was a couple of songs onCarol Kings where I was like, you're
not You're not really my jam,and like I could totally pass on this,
but overall records, front to back, I had to give it to
Carol King Here you, Kyle,do you have anything to say, Like
it's an honor just to be nominated. I'm glad, yeah, anything like
that. I can't even disagree,to be honest with you. Like I
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said, when I saw that thatwas up against the record that I chose,
I in my head was like,oh shit, oh snap, here
it comes. Yeah, yeah,there's I can't even disagree with the decision.
It is. It's a great album. And Steven Tyler and his eclectic,
weird shit that he does sometimes isnot for everybody. Yeah, I
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hear that too. Well for me, I'm gonna take the win. I'm
gonna be I'm gonna be. Uh. I want to say uh to the
academy, to those watching, youknow, we're all winners. We all
do this for the for the loveof the music. Zach, Zach.
If you're watching at home, goto bed um, you know. But
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yeah, and what's funny is,like Michelle said early in this episode,
I started to really go, youknow hard for get a grip. I
think it's a fantastic record. Butif you know you put these up against
each other, I just I haveto I agree with the with the judges
ruling this week picking your record,got it? Yes, yes I do.
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I in fact agree with you pickingmy record. So this will be
as as everyone knows, a littlebit shorter episodes. I'm sure some will
be longer than others and whatnot,but we're gonna go ahead and wrap it
up. I will say that.Now. Remember this is a tournament,
so Tapestry is going to return laterin the tournament, so it may not
fare so well going forward. We'llsee so uh, we have a pretty
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exciting matchup next week. I thinkwe have a really new record from the
rap genre going against a very classichard rock record. We have Eminem's music
to be murdered by going up againstGuns n' Roses Appetite for Destruction. Yeah,
so it's going to be Michelle islearning it at the same time as
all of the as all of thelisteners a week's bracket. Yeah, I
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can't get overwhelmed, so no,I hear you. So uh, we
thank everybody for listening. Hopefully thebonus episodes are bringing everybody jo away.
Hopefully you like the idea and we'llget him out week by week. See
y'all. Nine h
Hey, hey, hey, it'sthe first bonus episode of the Infectious Groove
podcast, and we have a albumtournament of sorts that we're going to do.
What we did was, I've gotKyle and Michelle here with me remotely,
as is the new usual. Weum, Kyle and I picked eight
episodes or I'm sorry, eight albumsa piece that we like. So what's
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going to happen is I matched themup in the old spreadsheet there, and
each week each of us will defendone album and then and this has got
to be Michelle's favorite part. Michellegets to judge how I feel about that?
Yeah, yeah, so right.So one thing I did want to
mention is that this originally we discussedthis a while ago, and we were
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going to make this like paid contentfor later in the year. But with
everything going on, we figured whynot just do it for free now?
Like we have the time, everybodyhas asked for more content since everyone is
stuck at home, so we figuredwe'll just do it for free this time
around. I'm sure we'll learn somethings and you know, maybe run it
again later in the year with differentpicks or based off of listeners suggestions or
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something like that. So, havingsaid that, I think we have some
really interesting matchups planned for each week. That some albums that go together,
some that would never go together.But it's all being brought to you by
three people with pretty interesting and variedtastes. So, having said that,
this week's first matchup is a prettydistant matchup, it's records that came out
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about thirty years apart, but byartists who have been around since the early
seventies. So this week's picks werethe nineteen ninety three classic Get a Grip
by Errol Smith, which is goingto go head to head with Tapestry by
Carol King, which again both classicsalbum classic albums in their own way.
So, having said that, we'regonna go ahead and pass it over to
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Kyle, Kyle, go ahead andstart making a case for Get a Grip.
All right. So I chose thisalbum for a few reasons. One
because I grew up It's a seethat my mom had growing up and I
listened to a bunch two there is. It's a it's a smash record.
There's tons and tons of great songson it. Also, you get a
mix of all sorts of different genres. Well, you get the rock and
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roll the Aerosmith is. You geta little bit of Steven Tyler's country in
there, and then you get himrapping at the very beginning. I was
just gonna say that the record kicksoff with almost a rap cut. I
mean it's only seconds, so youknow he's he's a rapper, rocker,
country singer on this album. Anduh, there's just some songs I really
really love on this album. Sofor those who may not be overly familiar,
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like most of your favorite Aerosmith songs, if you like Aerosmith from the
eighties and nineties, probably came fromthis record. The singles alone are like
Eat the Rich, Amazing, CryingCrazy. The lead single was Living on
the Edge. Of those, whichones do you think are your favorites?
Kyle, Living on the Edge isI think my favorite song on the album.
Um just I you can ask show. When we were playing it,
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I was just like yelling and singingthe entire time. Plus they always there's
that old adage, um, youhaven't really made it until Weird All covers
you and he wed Al. WeirdAl did Living on the Edge. It
was that big of a hit.He did a version of Living on the
Edge on the Allapalooza record, Sothat's funny too. But my thing with
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Get a Grip is it's a reallystrong record from the non singles too.
Like the title cut Get a Grip, which comes in right after Eat the
Rich is fantastic. Shut Up andDance is a fantastic cut. Really,
to be honest, and I'm justgoing to tell you right now, my
biggest problem with the record, andit minuses so many points for me,
is the song Joe Perry sings walkOn Down. Yeah, it's just not
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a good song. And I infull disclosure, I saw Errol Smith three
times on the Get a Grip tour. It was the first three times I
saw Errol Smith, and two ofthe three times they did walk on Down,
and I was severely unhappy all threetimes. You know what drew me
to this record when I was youngeris the fact that there is a I
was nipple with a nipple ring onthe front of it. There sure is,
And then if you get the originalCD of it to the actual CD
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has like five nipples around it,which I assume is to be the five
numbers of Aerosmith. I don't know. So the secondary reason of why I
chose this album is because I thoughta classic Arrowsmith album would stand up very
well to pretty much a lot ofwhat I thought that you would have chosen
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for the tournament. Yeah for sure. Now me personally, if I was
going to go with eighties nineties Aerosmith, I would have done Pump. But
the thing with Pump is that Pump, in my opinion, the non singles
are Pump on Pump are better thanthe songs that were the singles, And
it would take a lot of likemost people would look at Pump side by
side with Get a Grip and justgo, oh, you're crazy. You
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Get a Grips the batter record becauseit had more monster singles. Does that
make sense? Yeah? Yeah,yeah, What else you got to say
about Get a Grip? This isyour time, Kyle, get it in.
I It's just but if I almostdooming that most people listening to this
podcast have listened to this record.I'm not the biggest Aerosmith fan on Earth,
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but their older stuff is fantastic.This is one of the albums that's
like you said, Pump is agreat album as well. This album just
sticks out to me based upon thefact that I have like, you know,
a childhood connection to it. Yeah. I also I also did see
after I listened to this again,they are rescheduling dates for their residency in
Las Vegas, and I was like, I would kill to go see them.
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Oh yeah, I'll tell you what. Aerosmith put on a fantastic showan
Michelle, you just saw Steven Tyler. What was it two years ago?
Now it's probably been at least twoyears Yeah, something like that. But
yeah, to say you were impressedwas it would be an understatement, would
it. Yeah? It was freetickets, and even at the free tickets,
I was like, I don't wantto go, and then I don't
remember that. Well i'll go,I'll go, I'll go, I'll go.
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He'll just keep bothering me. Ikeep calling me, I'll go,
and uh, I would say.Right from the first second that the concert
started, I was like, welldamn well yeah. And he opened with
sweet emotion too. I mean that'slike, yeah, that's like cash money,
you know, And I wanted atthe end, I was like,
well, I owe somebody money forthis. Oh you can, you can
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pay me, you can pay me. I mean it was free tickets through
the casino, so no But onething I didn't really realize back then listening
to is like not like recently,its like of a few years ago you
put out that country record of justHim or whatever. Sure it did,
and he's been wanting to do anddoing country music for a long time.
That this album has a few veryvery country ish songs on it. Oh
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for sure. If anybody wants tohear Steven Tyler's, in my opinion,
his country roots, you can goback to records before Get a Grip.
Aerosmith has an album called Permanent Vacationthat really kicked off their big comeback.
Big singles off of it was ragDoll Angel, Dude looks like a lady
Anyways. There's a cutoff there calledHangman Jury that is like, I don't
know, it's it's like kind ofblues, but it's very country. They
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actually opened their unplugged with it yearsago and it's just but even like the
first couple of Yarrowsmith records, likeback in like seventy one, seventy two
or whatever, there was like acountry twang to what Steven Tyler was doing
at that time. When speaking ofcount go ahead him and the harmonica too.
Man. Oh yeah, for sure. And there's one other connection about
this record that I totally forgot tomention that I had in my notes,
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which is directly connected to Country,which is there's a non single on this
record called Fever that Garth Brooks coveredabout three or four years after Get a
Grip came out. He put iton It's I think it's on the No,
it's not on No Offenses. It'son Fresh Horses, I think,
and he rewrote the lyrics to beabout cowboy having a fever for the rodeo.
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But for me that was cool becauseit wasn't even a single, and
I like to Get a Grip enoughthat I knew fever, So it was
cool for me when when people werelike, oh, he's gonna cover Arrowsmith,
everybody figured it would be a wellknown song and it was this one
that wasn't all that well known.You know, have you I can't remember
if you guys heard that. Iwant to say, yes, I don't.
We listen to We listened to abunch of his covers at your house.
One. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure. Yeah,
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but it's a it's a cool cover. It's you know, like I say,
most people would hear it and justbe like, I don't even I
don't even know that. How isthat Errol Smith? But yeah, it's
right there, and get a grip. So any any closing points or is
that everything you want to get acrossabout? Get a grip? Great album,
artwork, great album overall, andit's full of smash, well not
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only singles but just smashes in general. Like it's it's just a great album
overall for sure. Well what's funny? And this is what I said in
the intro I totally agree on,like are you supposed to be fighting?
And you're like, I'll tell youwhy his album is the best? No,
And there is there. Oh,let me tell you what there's I've
seen the future matchups and there aregoing to be points where I'm gonna tell
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you exactly why I think the otherone is much better. But my thing
with my pick for this round wasTapestry by Carol King. And again a
lot of people might say, youknow how how those records go up together
go up against each other? Again, we picked eight records, I put
them in a bracket, and thisis how it fell. So this is
like a certain number pick of Kyle'sversus a certain number of mine, and
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that's how the tournament fell. Soit wasn't like, oh, we're gonna
put nineties albums against each other orthis genre against each other or whatever.
So yeah, and it was random, so there was no sort of like
formula toity. You just chose randomalbums that you liked from any genre or
whatever, and this is how itended up. Yeah, absolutely, So
that is how we end up withan Arrowsmith album from nineteen ninety three going
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up against a Carol King record fromseventy one. My main points about Tapestry
is, you know, I mean, it's her second record, but boy
isn't a monster. I mean,it's all written by her, with a
very few exceptions. There's some lyricsthat she had a couple of partners right
down, like It's too Late,some of the lyrics of where You Lead,
and then the ones that she didn'twrite that are on there, like
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well will You Love Me Tomorrow?And Natural Woman. Her covers of those
songs are just stunning. And mything with this record it is it's it's
such I mean, the track listingon this record looks like the greatest hits
right off the bat, Like Ifeel the Earth move, It's too late?
Was it Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Natural Woman? I mean the
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record looks like the greatest hits onits own. Now, had I know
YouTube have been listening to these recordsin the house. Had either of you
listened to Tapestry straight through before this? I had not, I've heard.
I was surprised at how many songsI had heard that I knew off of
it, Like I obviously knew thecovers and there was oh yeah, oh
yeah, oh yeah. But Inever listened to it from front to back
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before. Yeah. I though Idid know a bunch of the songs off
it, I had never listened toit all the way through. That this
is the first time, just sittingthere listening to everything. Yeah, And
that was my thing, was thatThe thing with the record is that it's
so good that when you put iton, if you've never heard it all
the way through, you instantly go, oh, I know that song.
Oh, I know that song,Oh I know that song. Because those
songs are so monster and they're sopart of like the ethos, you know,
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like they're I mean, everyone hascovered Carol King, everyone has worked
with Carol King, I mean her, I think the biggest bullet point that
I can make for this record isher influence is so strongly felt because of
this record. In my opinion,most of every woman who had hits after
nineteen seventy one would probably tell youit was because of Tapestry, you know,
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like that record got them into theindustry. That's what made them want
to be fans um of you know, female songwriters. Like I just think
she came out in nineteen seventy onewith this record and just rewrote the rule
book, you know. I mean, do you do either of you get
that feeling from it or or Imean yeah, And when I when I've
seen that you would have added thatas your pick for this round, I
was like, oh shit, becauselike, yeah, it's just a it's
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a The entire album is just stackedfull of it. It's funny that you
mentioned that I'd talked to a coupleof you know who I would call like
my third base and first base coaches, a friend of the show, Joe
and James Porter, and I kindof talked to them about my picks and
whatnot, and literally both of them, you could you could tell they were
reading down my picks and they werelike this and this and oh that's a
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good one another, and both ofthem, in independent conversations, were like,
oh my, And I was like, oh, I see you found
my dark horse pick. So anythingwhat stood out for you about it?
Michelle? Because I know it lastnight you sent me a text and I
don't know verbade him. I'm notlooking at it right now, but it
said something to the effect of spoileralert. Carol King is a badass,
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Like what made you? What stoodout for you? Are you done with
your analyses? No, I'm notready for your ruling, but yes,
well no because I have I havenotes on them, but yes, and
you know what, learning learning fromthat going forward? I apologize going forward,
after we each make our case,I'll have you do your notes for
for each record before we move on. Yes, So anyways, go on
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with your notes about I guess startwith get a grip? Okay? Can
I say that I went into thisand I saw Carol King and I saw
Aerosmith, and I was like,well, Carol King can't be Aerosmith,
Like I'm just saying that from them. I was just like that, I
don't know, like I just CarolKing to me is very iconic. But
it wasn't something that like is like, oh, well this is my jam.
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I'm gonna sit down and just likereally jam out to some Carol King.
And so I started with Carol King. Um, I put on Tapestry
and like I said earlier, itwas jam Jam Jam Jam, and uh
that's four jams, yes, uhit was. It was my Jammie jams
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if you will. And I wentthrough it and we were listening to it,
and like I had forgotten that thatCherrell's cover on there was on there.
Um, and then we listened toSo Far Away, and uh,
Kyle was like, Rod Stewart doesthat song, and so then like we
pulled that up and we listened toRod Stewart and a lot of people have
covered her, and so it wasit was shocking to me how much was
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on that record. Yeah, wellit was shocking to pretty much every other
male artist who put out an albumthat year according to the tracks. Yeah.
I also didn't know that James Taylorwas on it. Um, so
such a big band in it.Whish. I'm not a James Taylor fan,
James Taylor fan at all, butI do appreciate what he's done.
Um in music in general. SoI will say that was probably a little
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bit of I don't know, ashock to me that I didn't know,
Like there was harmonies that he did. I think on there is that.
Yeah, he did some of theharmonies. He played he played, I
think all the acoustic guitar, buthe definitely threw in some harmonies. Yeah,
there were definitely songs on there,like the title track not my jam.
That's literally my notes say title trackequals not my jam. Man.
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I'll tell you what for. Forall the the accolades and the praise that
Carol King has got wherever she's atright this second, she just went damn.
You know all we're still talking aboutCarol King. This is going to
be an unpopular opinion overall, I'mbetting, But I do like Rod Stewart's
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version Oh So Far Away better thanher version. Do you think it's because
you heard it first, because Ifeel like when we when we played it,
you were like, I didn't knowthis was Karrol King And we actually
had to look up to see whodid it first, Like I don't know.
I was like, I don't know, I want to kind of figured
out what year it came out,and like we kind of Well, yeah,
I mean there's a lot of peoplethat think she did Natural Woman first.
Yeah, because many people Tapestry.Yeah, well those are only four
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years apart. Two. Natural Womancame out in sixty seven, I think,
and Karl came with seventy one.So sure, And I don't really
know if it's because I heard RodStewart's version first. I just think that
I like his version overall better thanhers. I mean, let's not discount
Rod Stewart in this situation. Rodknows his way around the song, you
know what I mean. No,I was just asking if, like,
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if that's why he because I feellike that happens to me all the time
where I'm like original and I'm likeI was just saying that as a response
to Kyle, like you don't haveto apologize for liking the Rod Stewart version
of that particular cup more like Rodknows his way around the song, you
know what I mean, like likethe go ahead they're also so it was
a hilarious music video to go alongwith the Rest Tower version of that song.
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Man, I have to guess hedid it in like what the late
seventies are the early eighties done?Yeah? I think it's the early eighties,
and it's like these like basically it'slike early green screen work where like
there's live people walking in like photoslike old black and white photos. Boy,
And there's a there's a part wherehe's staring out the window at himself
and like the version of him behindhimself is the where he's moving and he's
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like staring out at a photograph ofhimself. Right, It's it's ridiculous.
So you're like funny looking you're saying, if this were a battle of music
videos, it would lose out toThriller, like quite the same production quality
as Thriller. Sure h? Didyou have any more notes on Tapestry,
Michelle? Or are we moving on? Are we gonna? Are we gonna
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walk on down to get a grip? You see what I did there?
Yes? So good? So Iguess I said. I went into this
being like after after I saw StephenTyler alive, I was like, I
could definitely be an Aerosmith fan,Like not that I just like calhom but
I haven't listened to a lot ofAerosmith other than like the hits. Like
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I was just like, this isprobably the only Aerosmith I've listened to the
album that I listened to front toback in one sitting. I say this
not to be funny. I saythis not to be funny, but I
think that's going to happen a lotin this tournament, Like there's gonna be
a lot of artists that you haven'tlistened to their records all the way through,
so it'll be interesting. So Iwas a little, um, I
don't even know what the words are. I all I have is rap intro
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question mark. So you were notas taken with it as Kylan. Yes,
that Michelle figured out that Stephen Tylercould try and rap well that and
hold on though points to get agrip though, because it's not marked rap
intro equals not my jam. It'sjust a question mark. Yes, I
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wasn't like I literally put it onand I was like, this is like
that I put on, like theremix album or like what was it that
we used to pull at media playwhere people what was it scratched and screwed
or whatever? The real problems thatwhat was that called? I know what
you're talking about, but I won'tcome up with it. But yeah,
I know what you mean, Likepeople would buy these albums and they would
turn it and be like, thisdoesn't sound right and it's because you bought
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like a cover yea. So Iwas like, what, I picked the
wrong one, But I didn't dislikeit. I think it just mostly caught
me off guard. Yeah, butthen there are a lot of jams on
that record, um, like wehad already mentioned most of them. But
when I as soon as I heardLiving on the Edge, I immediately thought
of Weird Al's Virgin Yeah, livingin the Bridge, Like I was just
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like I was singing weird Els lyrics. I just I'm gonna stop myself from
going on. But weird Al hislyrics are always brilliant, and his lyrics
to that song in particular are perfectand what I love the most. And
I swear to God, I'm gonnacut myself off here because I could go
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on about Alfred days. But iswhen he does the cross melodies in the
heart in the chorus, like whereit's like um in the original, it's
like living on the edge, youcan't help yourself from fall. He's like,
he's like it's living in the fridge, you can't stop the mold from
growing. Like it's just I justI love that stuff anyway, so you
got to living on the edge goon, Oh well, I was just
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saying, like, there's crying isalso my jam on there also for get
a grip. I wrote title trackand then I did this emoji and if
you can't because you guys can't seeme, it's the shoulder shrug. Yeah,
it is a shrug. Well what'sinteresting though, And again people can't
see you right now, but whenI was saying that I liked the title
track, you were doing a definiteno headshake just then. Well, so
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like it wasn't like because I putspecifically not my jam for Carol King,
for Arismith, I just put theshoulder shrug, which is say that ten
times fashion shoulder shrug emoji. Um, Like I just heard it, and
I was like I expected it.I knew. I guess I expected it
to be more monster of a jamon both those words like that's what you
named your yeah, And I waslike, well, this is like anti
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climactic because there's so many other songson both records that are so much bigger
to me than the title track.So I was just like, okay,
like that's there. And then theweird intros and outros to songs I wasn't
a fan of. I didn't appreciatethe giant belt at the end of the
eight Richard. I did not likewell, once I got through the rap
intro, I you know, kindof expected that throughout the record, but
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I guess not a fan is notthe word. I just didn't know that
that was the thing that Aerosmith did. But well they and they don't get
a grip Nope, listen to it. No, I'm saying get a Grip
is singular in that like uh pumphas some a few little things in before
and after each cut, but likenot anywhere along the lines of get a
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Grip. Get a Grip is thatway I do. I have to say
though, that I do love thereally long outro for Amazing, which I
think is the last song on therecord. It's either the last Yeah,
there's there's two minute like outro that'slike another track, but it's after the
last song on the record. Butone of my all time favorite Steven Tyler
is ms is at the very endof that track, which is the light
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at the end of the tunnel.Maybe you and I that's a Steven Tyler
ism. I love that. Um, yeah, so any more notes on
that record? That was it.I just wanted to also note I put
notes on the feeling my overall moodwhile listening to the records. I didn't
go back to Carol King. Iwas chill and laid back, like I
could totally just put it on inthe background and like have a nice glass
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of gin and tonic and just likerelax. And then for Aerosmith, I
was very much like upbeat, cleanthe house, like have a party.
Yeah, And I think that definitely. I think that that comes from the
eras that the records came out inabsolutely the two different genres. But I
just feel like it was definitely twodifferent records, Like it wasn't like you
can't compare them in genre wise,like they were very different. It help
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you that I was yelling and singingand screaming along with the lyrics. Nope,
all right, all right, justfor a future reference, just so
just so I know, I realizewe have to stay at home order,
but you'll live a half mile away. What if in the future, would
it help if I came and stoodon the deck while you were in the
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kitchen and yelled and screamed the lyricsof my future picks, just so I
know. Will that help? Itwould help if you drove up and down
the block blasting the songs and singingalong. Okay, well yeah, if
not love, if nothing else,you'll be like, wow, people really
love that record. This is influencingmy decision. So anyways, I did
give them number scores, but Iwill wait until after the break. Sure
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spoiler alert. So there it is. There is a case made for Get
a Grip nineteen ninety three Eryl Smithrecord case made from that pick from Kyle,
and a case made for Tapestry byCarol King case made by me the
record from nineteen seventy one. Sowhat we are going to do is gets
all knowing and final ruling on thisright here, and we are going to
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do that in just a little bit. We're going to take a break here
and then I believe right after thatwe'll probably come back from break and do
your actual ruling out of the break. And then after that, I'm certain
there will be some sort of reactionsand whatnot, maybe some more severe than
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and how things should have went andalbums date would have put in the competition,
and so on and so forth.So having said that, here's the
moment everyone's been waiting for. It'stime for Michelle's ruling. The winner is
Carol King's Tapestry. Yeah, LikeI said, I was not coming into
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this being I was just like,that's not like I like Carol King,
but she's not really my jam andturns off she is my jam. So
I gave her go ahead. Igave the album. The scoring broke down.
I gave the album a six outof ten. I probably there's gonna
be so many people happy that itwanted and so mad about that score.
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But go on, well, howdoes it six out of ten win anything?
Like I'm talking like like the movieSilver Lings Playbook. Why are they
so happy about a five it's solike when I think of a ten out
of ten, like that's my favoritealbum, Like this is not my favorite
album, Like like I hear it'sa solid it's a solid album. It's
like better than average, which isfive. You know, I gave Aerosmith
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a four out of ten, Soboy, it uh was surprising to me.
I know, you know, Iknow, so I could say maybe
it's like six and a half outof ten for Carol King, Oh you're
gonna you're gonna be nice and giveit an extra point five and bump her
up a little bit. Yeah,I was definitely shocked at how much I
like that record. Yeah, itwas full, it's full jams. They
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both they're both good records. Aerosmithwas definitely that was out what I was
expecting with the rapping and the introsand outros, which I'm pretty sure is
what kind of did it for me. Like I was like, this is
not I don't know, would youcall that a concept album? I go,
don't really like no, I geta grip now Yeah, mix of
Steven Tyler, Yeah, it's itwasn't for me. What's funny is when
I entered Tapestry, at first Ithought oh, well, yeah, of
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course Michelle's gonna instantly latch to likesuch a strong female singer songwriter. And
then I was like, wait aminute, I bet she's never even heard
this whole album. So I waskind of worried about how that was gonna
go. Yeah, I was likeshocked at how many songs I knew already
on there, um Aerosmith as well, and there wasn't any songs on Aerosmith
where I was like skip, likethey were just kind of there. And
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there was a couple of songs onCarol Kings where I was like, you're
not You're not really my jam,and like I could totally pass on this,
but overall records, front to back, I had to give it to
Carol King Here you, Kyle,do you have anything to say, Like
it's an honor just to be nominated. I'm glad, yeah, anything like
that. I can't even disagree,to be honest with you. Like I
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said, when I saw that thatwas up against the record that I chose,
I in my head was like,oh shit, oh snap, here
it comes. Yeah, yeah,there's I can't even disagree with the decision.
It is. It's a great album. And Steven Tyler and his eclectic,
weird shit that he does sometimes isnot for everybody. Yeah, I
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hear that too. Well for me, I'm gonna take the win. I'm
gonna be I'm gonna be. Uh. I want to say uh to the
academy, to those watching, youknow, we're all winners. We all
do this for the for the loveof the music. Zach, Zach.
If you're watching at home, goto bed um, you know. But
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yeah, and what's funny is,like Michelle said early in this episode,
I started to really go, youknow hard for get a grip. I
think it's a fantastic record. Butif you know you put these up against
each other, I just I haveto I agree with the with the judges
ruling this week picking your record,got it? Yes, yes I do.
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I in fact agree with you pickingmy record. So this will be
as as everyone knows, a littlebit shorter episodes. I'm sure some will
be longer than others and whatnot,but we're gonna go ahead and wrap it
up. I will say that.Now. Remember this is a tournament,
so Tapestry is going to return laterin the tournament, so it may not
fare so well going forward. We'llsee so uh, we have a pretty
(29:29):
exciting matchup next week. I thinkwe have a really new record from the
rap genre going against a very classichard rock record. We have Eminem's music
to be murdered by going up againstGuns n' Roses Appetite for Destruction. Yeah,
so it's going to be Michelle islearning it at the same time as
all of the as all of thelisteners a week's bracket. Yeah, I
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can't get overwhelmed, so no,I hear you. So uh, we
thank everybody for listening. Hopefully thebonus episodes are bringing everybody jo away.
Hopefully you like the idea and we'llget him out week by week. See
y'all. Nine h
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