September 11, 2023 • 28 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 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 16 weeks! It's the first re-release, trip down memory lane with your favorite podcast, the Infectious Grove Podcast!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:03):
Michelle making sure that everyone is unmutedthat needs to be unmuted. Thank you,
Michelle's one job. Literally, Helloand welcome to another bonus episode of
the Infectious Grove podcast, and weare narrowing in on the end of this
tournament. The bonus episodes. Weactually had a listener right around the time
(00:24):
the whole worldwide lockdown started said hey, guys should do some bonus episodes,
and so we said, okay,we are sitting around doing nothing, we
will be more than happy to andhad another listener come up with the tournament
idea, and here we are.So now a couple of weeks ago,
there was a shift and the Facebookusers took over and decided how things were
(00:45):
going to go. So that's wherewe're at with the records where that are
left in the tournament, and thisepisode here where we're going to go through
all the feedback that we have fromeverybody and give you the winner of the
latest one. These two records werein the semi finals, which means that
the winner of this all of thisfeedback that we're about to share is the
first record to enter the finals inthe first Infectior Screw podcast tournament. So
(01:07):
pretty pretty sweet, are you justdoing one word? Answers said yes,
sweet, yes boom. So anyways, what we left you guys with last
week for YouTube debate and decide andgive us your feedback was Carol King Tapestry
versus Lads up On four, bothof which I had a hard fought battle
to get where they are. Andwe're going to share the feedback now and
then tell you who won that battleand get into the other battle, which
(01:33):
is also going to be hard.So for some people, lead back,
Joe, Oh, why about that? Right? Without faith? Bas Pink
Floyd, a band that started outwith four members and then had five,
then had four and ended with threewas a riddle. It was a riddle
(01:53):
on the internet, and it shouldbe super easy for somebody in radio to
answer, that's for sure. Sohaving said that, we have feedback to
share from our listeners regarding this epicbattle of Carol King Tapestry versus lad Zeppelin
four Kyle Michelle both hold the keysto that particular kingdom. And have you've
been listening to the last couple ofweeks, Boy, it's here comes the
(02:14):
excitement. Guys, How are yougoing to decide who's going first? What
about a thumb ruscle. Oh man, okay, one thing we didn't decide
in the last couple of weeks,though, what happens when one of you
wins, whoever the winner is ofthe thumb war? Then what happens in
theory and theory you shouldn't have togo first if you win, but we've
been doing it is if you win, you go first. So we're gonna
(02:36):
do. We can continue, wecan get we can get to that much
else backward. Yes, we ofdoing things. Okay, please stay away
from the Mike Boom stands and doyou get thumb war one, two,
three, four, I declare thumbwar. Oh, look at the strategy.
Look at this. So this there'swell, hey, that's part of
the strategy. Oh that's that's change. That's chane disqualification. This I'm calling
(03:00):
it. I'm calling it. Andfor those of you who couldn't see,
because it says yet to be atelevised event, I'm certain that eventually it
will be. For sure, withthe reading a lack of sports worldwide,
this is probably gonna get televised eventually. That's where we missed the boat man.
Just so everyone knows there was acheating, Uh, the sport is
clearly called thumb waringer. Kyle leKyle tried to Kyle tried to run in,
(03:27):
tried to have his manager of theFinger get involved, and uh no,
no, we can't get caught bythe referee. Yep. And so
you're just qualified. So Michelle,you're gonna go first. You three weeks
in a row, you've won.You've won the right to go first.
Set up like that. So hey, anyways, Michelle, what feedback are
(03:49):
you happy to share with us?I have so much good feedback. You
do, jam p who I thinkI read every week? Yeah? I
think you do? Yeah, yeah, which is great. This week he
said it it's going to be ashort one. It's not gonna be a
novel, which is fine. Likeyou could just yep either way. He
says, the styles make fights,and in this case, mood makes the
fight. If he wants to chillwith a glass of whiskey and groove to
(04:10):
tunes, it's LEDs Uplin, Andif he wants them cheering up or needs
to be motivated, it's tapestry.He said it was much closer than he
thought it was going to be,but he would much rather chill with a
glass of whiskey than be motivated,so his voters for led Zepplin and he
also says that he needs to gettapestry and vinyl, so we should probably
get on that. Did you seewhat the last thing says about that?
It says, thank you Infection ScrewPodcast for continuing to put out his glaring
(04:31):
holes and his record collas, soyou're welcome. Yep. I do like
though, they says it was muchcloser than he thought it was going to
be. I don't think a lotof people thought of that. And then
when they really put these records upagainst each other, they were like,
oh, like this is tight.Yeah, it was tight, like tighter
for me, it was probably thetightest one yet, like besides Pink,
Playwood, Mac and Prince Right,Yeah, what you were? I could
(04:53):
not make a decision. She literallylaid down on the floor kicking and I'm
not doing it, Kyle, whatdo you get up? Chris A has
two smidges of feedback, one forlast week's episode and one for the tournament.
First one in my book, Skippableis I could take it or leave
it? Stinker is move on.I don't want to hear that track.
I guess we all have our ownrating system. I mean, my one
(05:15):
to ten scale is way different thansome other people. Why are you looking
at me? Oh, well,because he's talking about you. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure. I think we'retalking about any Sure. He also said
for this one he has to goled Zeppelin. It's a great album for
ki King, but four is muchstronger of an opponent. Yeah, I
(05:36):
can't disagree. There's a lot ofpoints coming up. I think for some
folks it's closer than others, thisparticular one. But yeah, I can't
Yeah. Oh, also, Michelle, any comment on a stinker versus skippable,
because there was some controversy last weekregarding well, we didn't. We
didn't quite like the term skippable.We like the term no stinkers. But
(05:56):
for me, there really aren't anysongs that they can take your leave,
like I either love a song orget the fuck out, you know,
Like, yeah, I feel likeI could think or leave a lot of
different stuff. You're open to theterm skippable. I didn't say that.
I just I don't really like thatword. I like to stinker better,
but I don't think that they MaybeI don't. They don't mean the same
thing I don't. Yeah, andI do understand, and I appreciate the
(06:19):
difference. However, it's a nuancedifference between skippable will not be entering my
vocabulary. However, I do.I understand the difference in the words right,
I'm fantastic, Okay, what doyou got up for? Different?
Back? We're back to you sinceyou won, he said. He listened
(06:39):
to both these albums again, andTapestry is such a great record, he
call. I call this album forthe most part, I feel good album.
There are, of course, someintrospective songs, but for the most
be most part upbeat tunes. CarolKing is such a good writer. I
mean she wrote you make Me Feellike a Natural Woman for Aretha, Pleasant
Valley Day, for the Monkeys We'dLove Me Tomorrow. And she also wrote
(07:02):
a song on the Beatles First Soncalled Chains, which I did not know
that. I didn't know. That'sall I reads me back, Thanks John,
the more you know, he saidthat she's a lyrical genius, and
I agree. After that, helistened to Lads Up and four and Oh
My God from the beginning of BlackDog, Hey Hey Mama, which is
for me. Yeah, it's nicethat he included the Michelle and peart thank
(07:23):
you to the last song when thelevee breaks. If it keeps on raining
and the levee is gonna break,so I he said, the album doesn't
let up from beginning to end.When it is over, I just want
to play it again and again.Chapster came out in February seventy one,
and Leads Up and Four came outin November of seventy one. Both were
giant success for the respective artists.But when both are on the table,
(07:46):
I have to pick one to listento. I'm not even aware of what
the other album is, because assoon as I see Lads Up and Four,
that was what I'm going to pick. I'm ninety percent sure. I
personally have been through that with Jeff. There's an array of records and he's
just like four, you know,but it sounded like it was close.
It sounds like it's very false andone thing that Jeff picked up on that
people I don't know why, buta lot of people think of Tapestry as
(08:09):
a downer record and it's really not. Both Jamie and Jeff, It's really
not a download. It doesn't calledJeff, I mean something like, well,
you still love me tomorrow is naturallyyou know so, I mean the
whole subject that it is about,it is naturally a down here, But
I just don't think of the wholerecord. Yeah, either, what else
do you got over there? Ithink Kyle, you got yeah. Mario
(08:31):
g says, I really thought thisis going to be a tough decision.
After listening to Tapestry, I justcouldn't see a way that leads up in
four it could beat it spoiler alert. Thirty seconds into LEDs upon four,
I knew it was clearly lads upon four. Let me first heap mad
amounts of praise and on Tapestry.Tapestry is a masterpiece. If a friend
(08:52):
wasn't familiar with Carol King, youcould play them Tapestry and tell them it's
her greatest hits. Yeah, forsure, I totally agree. They would
most likely respond with why oh,she had an amazing career, just kidding.
This is her second album, yep, that's right, twelve jams to
start from start to finish. Andif you've never heard of this album,
you probably know almost all of thesongs. And that's my first knock against
the album. This is probably crazyto say, but there are so many
(09:13):
other fantastic covers of these songs thatis sort of takes away from this album,
which is what you thought to beginwith. Yeah you said that,
Yeah, Yeah, that's still yeah. Yeah, I agree, it is.
I had no idea that all thosesongs were covered. And I keep
mentioning this one song, but likeeveryone has done well, you still Love
Me Tomorrow, Yeah, and everyone'sAmy Whitehouse alone has two distinct versions of
it, and both of them areYeah. I need to find the other
(09:37):
one. Actually, I have oneon her album Lioness. And then there's
another one that was used in theNewsroom that I don't have that I need
completely completely different vocal and everything.There's no soundtrack for the Newsroom. I
mean I could make one. Ihave a history of making you haven't made
one. Utter what else is okay? He also says, not a lot.
I'm splitting here is here? Iwould say that the title track,
Tapestry is the only song on thisalbum that I don't bel out every time.
(10:00):
It's not a bad song, it'sjust not. It's just my least
favorite. However, I sing myheart out to every other song. The
emotional roller Coaster that this album takesyou on is amazing. She sings every
song with so much emotion. Iwould go into every track, but will
You Love Me Tomorrow and Natural Womenare my favorites, but again they are
all Jammie jams. This album shouldbe in everyone's top five. Maybe that's
(10:22):
why Chris says skippable it's like theKytel version of No No Stinkers. Next
week it's going to be like mysong song, so Mario can avoid that
anyways going He also says this albumshould be in everyone's top five. I
(10:43):
need a cry albums or emotional releasealbums. Not a sad album, but
a great album to help you getthrough something. Smackwaterjack is the only song
that feels out of place to me, but it's a jam. What a
great album for even making the argumentthat Tapestry is better based on lyrics.
I don't know that I disagree withyou. I get it, but as
I stayed it earlier, took thirtyseconds again, it lets up on four
for me to pick it as awinner, lets up and four also as
a masterpiece. I really mean it. At about thirty seconds into black Dog,
(11:07):
I was certain that this was abetter album it's definitely the album that
will mooklist most likely be chosen betweenthe two if they're both sitting on the
table now. I agree with Russthat I generally have no idea what any
of the lyrics mean yeah, orwhat the songs are about, but I
know every single word and sing myheart out the whole way. Maybe choosing
Leads Up in four means I'm moreof a rock fan. I don't know
this is I want to say.Also, Mario was going out about how
(11:30):
he's not a Pearl Jam fan andthen heaped like four paragraphs of praise Pearl
Jam ten. So Mario, itis our official ruling that you are,
in fact a rock fan. Youdon't have to tell people, but we
know, yeah, just us.It's just between you, us and the
listeners. To round it out,he also said this album just hits me
on a higher level thirty seconds andI could already feel it was coming in
(11:52):
the rest of the way, andthat excitement is why it chose Leads Up
and four and why I listened toit more often than Tapestry. The album
opens with black Dog and ends withwhen You When the Levy Breaks, and
is jam packed in between it's Ladsof Them Four. For me, I
listened to these albums several times.That's how hard it was for me.
I always ended up choosing Lads ofThem four. I probably spent too much
time on this. An undefeated UKparticipant at thirty three to third Music Appreciation
(12:13):
Center and Speakers. I like thathe's still using the correct the correct signature.
That'll go. That works. Youhave at least one more she do,
Mike d There's no doubt these twoalbums are in a class of themselves.
This is the first time in thematchup albums I voted for. We're
up against each other. Both ourtimeless classics with great tunes and an emotional
connection. The difference for me andthese two albums is motivation to explore the
(12:37):
artist's catalog beyond these albums. Ilove Tapestry, but it didn't inspire me
to explore more of Carol King's music. After Tapestry. The next Carol King
album I listened too, and It'stardy was nineteen eighty nine City Streets,
So that was like what almost twentyyears after, was that our third lem
second No No, she had otherstuffy Lads up and four. Maybe we
want to dive into their catalog backwardsand forward from led Zepplin two to In
(13:01):
Through the Outdoor Staay to Heaven orrock and Roll was probably the gateway into
led Zeppelin. I've said it before. Four is one of their least favorite
led Zepplin albums, but it turnedme on to their music. So for
that reason, he's packing his bagsfor the Misty Mountains and going LEDs up
for the Spirit's Room. That isa really solid point that I never thought
of that, Like every led Zeppelinfan you know, probably heard four first
(13:24):
and then went back to two andup to physical graffitians on and every Carol
King fan you know her tapestry waslike, I'm all set. Yeah,
I couldn't name anything else, butthey agree. Like when he busted out
that record from the eighties, Iwas like, oh, that's that's another
Carol King record, you know,Like I just never even thought of it,
which is crazy. So how manyalms I don't know? Apparently we
(13:48):
need to find that out, becauseI mean, I'm sure she didn't just
become bad at writing lyrics all ofa sudden, you know, about singing.
Yeah, there's probably a whole lotof other good material layer that we
just need to take our time anddig it into. So in the world's
most obvious announcement, LEDs Upland four, what is the first record to make
it into the finals of the Iknow see this clapping could could have used
(14:09):
the applause. Well, yeah,we got a golf clap going those,
so that works. So having saidthat, this matchup next is for pretty
much all the marvels. This isthe one that we will go up against
led Zeppland four in the finals.Before noon today, I had gone back
and forth on this one about tentimes. Yeah, before it was even
noon. So we will come backin a second. And when we do,
(14:31):
we are going to be discussing Pearljam ten versus Princes of the Revolution,
Purple rain that says, yeah,I know you called me. All
right, I am going to beall right. We'll be back in a
minute. And uh, I'm gonnaget through this. I can get through.
We can get through it together.Hey, this is Grabman Brisket Podcast.
Join us every Monday when we talkabout the latest trends in barbecue,
(14:54):
interviews with world top pit masters,celebrity cooks like we Man, and musicians
like Rich O'Toole, So check usout. We do beer reviews, barbecue
fails, so many fires, dude, A lot of people just burn their
houses down for no reason. Wealso talk about cocaine, hippos versus met
gators, learn how to make sometailgate gravy, altercations with Texas Rangers,
people throw on reefs, peanut buttercups. Yeah. So check out grab
(15:16):
the risket dot com for podcast info, viral social media post and so much
more. Hem as me Kevin Smith. Everybody knows at the root of any
good relationship, any relationship worth anything, is the only thing that matters between
two people. And I'm talking abouttelevision. That's right. That's why you
should listen to Married with Television Man, which is a podcast by my friends
(15:37):
Shannon and Jamie. I call itcaddis about movies and TV that they have
loved for decades. Man. Youlisten at Married with tv dot com or
anywhere you get your podcasts. Theyare proud members of the Odd Pods media
network Man Married with Television. Allright, so we shared all the feedback.
(16:00):
We let you know that the firstalbum to move on to the final
round is in fact led Zepplin intheir fourth effort from nineteen seventy one.
Now we need to throw our ideasout there for what is going to be
the record that goes up against itin the finals. So for this round,
we have Pearl Jam ten, whichknocked out The Weekend Trilogy in its
first round, Cheetermighee, Dermott Kennedywithout Fear in the second round, and
(16:26):
now here's where it sits in thesemifinal matchup versus Prince and the Revolution Purple
Rain, which I would argue hada very hard, more tough road to
get to where it's at. Itdefinitely did ye. Prince of the Revolution
Purple Rain knocked out Fleetwood mac Rumorsin the first round. Then it went
up against Michael Jackson Thriller. Yeah, we went up against Michael Jackson Thriller,
and here now it's in the semifinals. And I think for me,
(16:49):
there's a lot of things that areway different about both of these records,
and there's a lot of things thatare really similar about both of these records.
So really yeah, so I'm Idon't think I've ever been happier to
go last on this because I wantto get both of your opinions first,
now, Joe again, we'll justgive our opinions first, then we'll talk
it out. We'll talk through it. Let's stalk through it together. Yeah,
(17:11):
because I feel like once I physicallysay it, I'm gonna need like
shelter, Like what my what myvote is on this shit? Kyle,
you got a copy of Pearl Jamtin laying on the table and you got
a copy of Purple Rain laing onthe table. Which one are you going
to pick up and put on?Pearl Jam? What? Why is it
always a secret with you? Like, just so you know people can turn
up. It's a that's a toughone, man. But if I had
(17:36):
them both singing from me, Ireally think that it would be maybe put
on Purple Ring quickly after. Yeah, not to say I wouldn't play them
together, but Pearl Jam would befirst. Yeah, okay, right on.
But then again, you also understandthat once is a fantastic opening track,
whereas somebody here doesn't. Yes,So, Michelle, you gave us
(17:57):
a glimpse last week is how yourvote was going to go this week and
next week. But let's just saywe were surprised. Yeah, just for
for shiggles, as they say,Michelle purl Jam ten was laying there with
its awful opening track once and PurpleRain was laying right next to it.
So you are either going to getto hear a terrible opening cut or daily
beloved. Which way are you going? Princes Princes one hundred percent, she
(18:18):
says, yeah, so not princesone hundred percent, but prince for me?
How many percents sixty seven? Superclose, just enough to carry it
to the wind. Can we askfor a recount? Yeah, yeah,
I would rather. I woke uptoday about I don't know, seven thirty
(18:40):
eight o'clock in the morning, whenevermy cat saw fit to wake me up.
It's eight fifty three in the PMright now, and I've been flip
popping all day on it, soI'd rather not do a recount. Fine,
So for me, how this brokedown was there's more variety in Purple
Rain than there is in ten.And I can get a lot from Purple
Rain that I get from Ten,Like certainly the groove that's in like even
(19:03):
Flow or why Go or whatever.I can get that from Baby I'm a
Star, certainly from Let's Go Crazy, even from I know it's a running
joke, but computer Blue the groovethat's in that. So as far as
ballads go, Garden Release Black,I can get all that out of the
beautiful ones and the title cut PurpleRain. And then there's stuff that ten
can't bring to the table, liketake Me with You. He's got almost
(19:26):
a motown vibe to have. Ten'sgot nothing like that going on Darling Nikki.
Ten couldn't. I mean, itwould be remote, incredibly out of
place on ten. But you knowwhat I'm saying. Yeah, So I
you know, I really went backand forth on this because I think I
think ten is inarguably one of thegreatest debut records of all time. And
I know I labor this point allthe time, but if this was a
thing about Yield versus Purple Rain,and even have an even harder time with
(19:49):
it because because there are unorthodox,funky moments on Yield that are not on
ten. But it took you know, p Jam, what if it was
ten against Rumors. I'm not sayingI would have made it this far,
but I can tell you. Letme say this. I often I don't
have the track listings in front ofme, but I know there are songs
(20:10):
on Rumors that I don't like,and I truly love every song on ten
huh, So I would still Iwould go a ten over rumors. Okay,
Okay, I can't think decision.I think fans are gonna be that's
either oh Daddy or snow. There'sat least one or two tracks that I
don't like. Rumors. Kyle,what was your thinking behind it? I
just I know you've been staunched Eddievettersupporter this whole time, but I have
(20:33):
more. I'm still better that theykicked out Weekend and Dermott. Yes,
I'm still better that the Dermott lostthem, But Eddie Vetter, I have
more emotionally invested in Pearl Jam thanI do Prinds. Overall, I do
agree that, you know, Purporenis way more like groovy and funky than
Pearl Jam. But I'm not reallylistening to Pearl Jam to get in the
groove in the funk, you know, absolutely. I just yeah, yeah,
(20:56):
I don't mean to sound like I'mfaulting the record for something it can't.
How like ten tennispires to be agreat rock debut record, and it's
a great debut record. Yeah,so I'm looking to listen to a great
rock record. I'm listening to ten. You know who is it? One
of you read someone, one ofyou read someone, and someone left the
feedbackroom was like, that's what tendelivers on its promise that it's going to
(21:19):
be a great rock debut record.I don't remember who said that, but
yeah, you're right. Yeah,somebody somewhere said that at some point in
time, and it was red.Now I know this. It was read
on the last episode. Okay,okay, so it was on our social
media. Yeah, okay, okay, perfect time. Go to Facebook dot
com so you can so you canfind this comment. But overall, I
(21:42):
just have more invested into program thanI do Prince. Yeah, and surprisingly,
I don't think I'm invested more inone than the other. Like for
me, yeah, I think one, because I think you're more invested than
in Prince than you are with PurpleRain's not even my favorite Prince record.
You have Prince Tattoo. Yeah thatwe're not talking about Pray it's versus Pearl
Jam because there's no contest there.I thought you said you weren't more invested
(22:03):
in like one band over No,I'm talking about these records, you know
how I'm debating these records. Doyou want to take your mic and go
no, because it's yours. Yeah, that's a good reason to take that
one. But no, like,I'm not more invested in one of these
records over the other because I getnot to be funny. But the average
person would probably be like, yeah, but you love Prince way more than
(22:26):
Pearl Jam. But this is noteven close to my favorite Prince record,
I don't think. And I reallydidn't start listening to Prince until later after
I start listening to Pearl Jams.It's just there's more there for me in
ten. Nostalgia. Yeah, yeah, nostalgia almost sometimes not that you meant
it this way, but it almostsometimes comes off as like a dirty word,
and it's not like you know,yeah, I like things that like
take you back and yeah, yeah, why why not always people? It's
(22:48):
those people who have guilty pleasures whoare embarrassing, and it's like you should
I just saw, you know what, total sidebar. I just saw on
a music form the other day.Somebody started a threat and I stopped myself
from even looking on the thread thatwas like guilty pleasures or songs you're embarrassed?
You used to listen to what youshouldn't what There should be no such
thing like if you like, I'lltell you right now. I love Bye
(23:10):
Bye Bye Bye in sync as muchas I do. You know, any
eminem song or a lot of thePink Floyd songs that I love. I
mean, there's a lot of PinkFloyd songs I love more than that song.
But like, there's never going tocome and point in my life where
I'm gonna laugh at that and belike, you know, like Poison,
I always use Poison as all.I love Poison as much today as I
did in nineteen eighty eight. Likeyou know, it's also okay not to
love a song that much anymore,but to be embarrassed. Yeah, there's
(23:33):
so many people who have a wholelayer of song related to ship that they
they're best friend doesn't even know thatthey like because they're embarrassed. They oh
yeah, yeah, yeah kid.And we will we get people. We
get people. It'll come over forspinning records, and they'll tell me,
like the day after they were here. Oh, I really wanted to hear
this, but I wasn't sure howit would go over in the room,
And I was like, it's myhouse. You own it like I own
(23:55):
that record, Like if you wantto hear that, like we're going to
listen to that. And if anybodyhas a problem with the door, is
the same door let him in,well let him out. You literally just
have to not give a shit withsomebody else thinks, Yeah, well I
was gonna say, I think that'sin short supply. Yeah, yeah,
that's for sure. So Michelle,I know we joked earlier and you said
you're just picking Purple Rain from hereout, But was there like any consideration
(24:17):
and being serious, any consideration atall towards Ten. So No, to
be honest, if both of thoserecords were on the table, it would
be hands on Purple Rain, LikeI wouldn't even have to think about it.
I'd be like just shoving Ten underthe table and Ben like here not
only picking one but like beings outrightrude to the other on I feel like
Ten was one of those records alongthis entire way, which is I feel
(24:40):
like this has been a asops fablesfor me. You wanted me to listen
to these that I would understand andlike grow to love them. So I
feel like this was an album thatI would have never picked up and listened
front to back on my own correct. Yeah, but I didn't hate it.
I think out of this tournament,we can discuss this more on the
final episode, but if off thetop of my head, I think,
if out of this you've at leastcome away with Pearl JA ten and lights
(25:00):
Up one four oh by far,Yeah, you like way more than you
ever thought that you would. Thereare also a couple of records along the
way that I didn't hate as muchas I thought. But we could talk
about that next sense that's gonna betwo weeks from now and in the final
episode, yeah, which is whyI was like, we definitely should do
a final episode to announce the winnerand then we can kind of walk through
things like that. Yeah, becausethere was a lot I learned during the
tournament as well. So yeah,so that's where we're at. So I
(25:25):
don't want to put the weight ofthe world on the listeners shoulders, but
I'm gonna put the weight of theworld on the listeners shoulders. I feel
like I'm always shocked at with thelisteners pick. I feel like it's it's
always I feel like so good goinginto it, and then I was like,
oh, really, there were twobig surprises for me this week.
Number One thing Mike Dunning said aboutno one ever digging further into Carolcanes catalog
and everyone digging further into Pearl James. I was blown away when I read
(25:47):
that or lights up one. Yeah, yeah, I never even thought about
it like that. And the otherthing was, I can't believe how many
people were like, oh, thiswas closer than I thought it was going
to be like, and you know, like even Mario I think I think
it was Mario said when he startedhe was like, oh, tap,
how how how does anything beat tapestry? And then thirty seconds into hayy Mama,
which is what the song is called, which is what it should be
(26:08):
calling. They at no point duringthe song do they say black dog at
any point during the song sounds likesomething you know, what you should do
for your homework for next week,google and find out why the song is
called black Dog and then bringing hisstory time for you know else, so
that which is annoying sidebar fallow boy. Oh yeah. There's lots of artists
that I'm pretty sure I've mentioned thisin the past, but my personal favorite
(26:33):
thing about led Zepplin is that theyhave title songs for albums that are on
other albums. Oh yeah, youdid say that the song and they have
a record call in through the Outdoorand the title song for that is on
another album. And they have alive album called the Song Remains the Same,
but the album before that has asong called the Song Remains The Sky
just did a lot of drugs ordo you think that that was on purpose?
Well, I want to say acouple of things. First of all,
(26:57):
if you would like to know theamount of drugs that LEDs Upland did,
google exactly these words lads Upland fishstory, Okay, and then know
that, of course their drummer unfortunatelypassed away of death by misadventure. But
first read the LEDs Upland fish story. Google exactly those words and it will
give you an idea of the amountof drugs that LEDs Upland did. So
(27:19):
anyways, like I say, thisis going to be on the listeners.
So I have tried to my gameand tell people more about our social media
so everybody knows where to go dothis. But if you go to Facebook
dot com, slash infectus Grove podlike and follow the page, you will
see our pinned comment pinned post withthe little clip of the current episode.
This will be out Friday. We'llleave it open until the following Tuesday,
(27:41):
and then we will reconvene next weekfor announcing what record is going to be
in the finals against lads upland four. Then we will give our thoughts on
the finals, and then we'll haveone more of these bonus episodes after that
where we not only announce the winner, but take a little stroll down the
memory lane. Yeah, we shouldget a highlight row a thing of this
is what Michelle learned got knocked outalong the way. I want to I
(28:08):
should create a drop for the likethe incredible Hulk piano, like the same,
you know, for every time,and then then Kyle's record got do
So anyways, we greatly appreciate everybodybeing along for the ride, and we
are really looking forward to the endof this tournament to really see how this
(28:29):
all shakes out. I have noidea how this round is going to go,
and I don't know how the finalsare going to go at all.
So do you want to take BET'sgood at me? Yeah? Thanks for listening By
Michelle making sure that everyone is unmutedthat needs to be unmuted. Thank you,
Michelle's one job. Literally, Helloand welcome to another bonus episode of
the Infectious Grove podcast, and weare narrowing in on the end of this
tournament. The bonus episodes. Weactually had a listener right around the time
(00:24):
the whole worldwide lockdown started said hey, guys should do some bonus episodes,
and so we said, okay,we are sitting around doing nothing, we
will be more than happy to andhad another listener come up with the tournament
idea, and here we are.So now a couple of weeks ago,
there was a shift and the Facebookusers took over and decided how things were
(00:45):
going to go. So that's wherewe're at with the records where that are
left in the tournament, and thisepisode here where we're going to go through
all the feedback that we have fromeverybody and give you the winner of the
latest one. These two records werein the semi finals, which means that
the winner of this all of thisfeedback that we're about to share is the
first record to enter the finals inthe first Infectior Screw podcast tournament. So
(01:07):
pretty pretty sweet, are you justdoing one word? Answers said yes,
sweet, yes boom. So anyways, what we left you guys with last
week for YouTube debate and decide andgive us your feedback was Carol King Tapestry
versus Lads up On four, bothof which I had a hard fought battle
to get where they are. Andwe're going to share the feedback now and
then tell you who won that battleand get into the other battle, which
(01:33):
is also going to be hard.So for some people, lead back,
Joe, Oh, why about that? Right? Without faith? Bas Pink
Floyd, a band that started outwith four members and then had five,
then had four and ended with threewas a riddle. It was a riddle
(01:53):
on the internet, and it shouldbe super easy for somebody in radio to
answer, that's for sure. Sohaving said that, we have feedback to
share from our listeners regarding this epicbattle of Carol King Tapestry versus lad Zeppelin
four Kyle Michelle both hold the keysto that particular kingdom. And have you've
been listening to the last couple ofweeks, Boy, it's here comes the
(02:14):
excitement. Guys, How are yougoing to decide who's going first? What
about a thumb ruscle. Oh man, okay, one thing we didn't decide
in the last couple of weeks,though, what happens when one of you
wins, whoever the winner is ofthe thumb war? Then what happens in
theory and theory you shouldn't have togo first if you win, but we've
been doing it is if you win, you go first. So we're gonna
(02:36):
do. We can continue, wecan get we can get to that much
else backward. Yes, we ofdoing things. Okay, please stay away
from the Mike Boom stands and doyou get thumb war one, two,
three, four, I declare thumbwar. Oh, look at the strategy.
Look at this. So this there'swell, hey, that's part of
the strategy. Oh that's that's change. That's chane disqualification. This I'm calling
(03:00):
it. I'm calling it. Andfor those of you who couldn't see,
because it says yet to be atelevised event, I'm certain that eventually it
will be. For sure, withthe reading a lack of sports worldwide,
this is probably gonna get televised eventually. That's where we missed the boat man.
Just so everyone knows there was acheating, Uh, the sport is
clearly called thumb waringer. Kyle leKyle tried to Kyle tried to run in,
(03:27):
tried to have his manager of theFinger get involved, and uh no,
no, we can't get caught bythe referee. Yep. And so
you're just qualified. So Michelle,you're gonna go first. You three weeks
in a row, you've won.You've won the right to go first.
Set up like that. So hey, anyways, Michelle, what feedback are
(03:49):
you happy to share with us?I have so much good feedback. You
do, jam p who I thinkI read every week? Yeah? I
think you do? Yeah, yeah, which is great. This week he
said it it's going to be ashort one. It's not gonna be a
novel, which is fine. Likeyou could just yep either way. He
says, the styles make fights,and in this case, mood makes the
fight. If he wants to chillwith a glass of whiskey and groove to
(04:10):
tunes, it's LEDs Uplin, Andif he wants them cheering up or needs
to be motivated, it's tapestry.He said it was much closer than he
thought it was going to be,but he would much rather chill with a
glass of whiskey than be motivated,so his voters for led Zepplin and he
also says that he needs to gettapestry and vinyl, so we should probably
get on that. Did you seewhat the last thing says about that?
It says, thank you Infection ScrewPodcast for continuing to put out his glaring
(04:31):
holes and his record collas, soyou're welcome. Yep. I do like
though, they says it was muchcloser than he thought it was going to
be. I don't think a lotof people thought of that. And then
when they really put these records upagainst each other, they were like,
oh, like this is tight.Yeah, it was tight, like tighter
for me, it was probably thetightest one yet, like besides Pink,
Playwood, Mac and Prince Right,Yeah, what you were? I could
(04:53):
not make a decision. She literallylaid down on the floor kicking and I'm
not doing it, Kyle, whatdo you get up? Chris A has
two smidges of feedback, one forlast week's episode and one for the tournament.
First one in my book, Skippableis I could take it or leave
it? Stinker is move on.I don't want to hear that track.
I guess we all have our ownrating system. I mean, my one
(05:15):
to ten scale is way different thansome other people. Why are you looking
at me? Oh, well,because he's talking about you. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure. I think we'retalking about any Sure. He also said
for this one he has to goled Zeppelin. It's a great album for
ki King, but four is muchstronger of an opponent. Yeah, I
(05:36):
can't disagree. There's a lot ofpoints coming up. I think for some
folks it's closer than others, thisparticular one. But yeah, I can't
Yeah. Oh, also, Michelle, any comment on a stinker versus skippable,
because there was some controversy last weekregarding well, we didn't. We
didn't quite like the term skippable.We like the term no stinkers. But
(05:56):
for me, there really aren't anysongs that they can take your leave,
like I either love a song orget the fuck out, you know,
Like, yeah, I feel likeI could think or leave a lot of
different stuff. You're open to theterm skippable. I didn't say that.
I just I don't really like thatword. I like to stinker better,
but I don't think that they MaybeI don't. They don't mean the same
thing I don't. Yeah, andI do understand, and I appreciate the
(06:19):
difference. However, it's a nuancedifference between skippable will not be entering my
vocabulary. However, I do.I understand the difference in the words right,
I'm fantastic, Okay, what doyou got up for? Different?
Back? We're back to you sinceyou won, he said. He listened
(06:39):
to both these albums again, andTapestry is such a great record, he
call. I call this album forthe most part, I feel good album.
There are, of course, someintrospective songs, but for the most
be most part upbeat tunes. CarolKing is such a good writer. I
mean she wrote you make Me Feellike a Natural Woman for Aretha, Pleasant
Valley Day, for the Monkeys We'dLove Me Tomorrow. And she also wrote
(07:02):
a song on the Beatles First Soncalled Chains, which I did not know
that. I didn't know. That'sall I reads me back, Thanks John,
the more you know, he saidthat she's a lyrical genius, and
I agree. After that, helistened to Lads Up and four and Oh
My God from the beginning of BlackDog, Hey Hey Mama, which is
for me. Yeah, it's nicethat he included the Michelle and peart thank
(07:23):
you to the last song when thelevee breaks. If it keeps on raining
and the levee is gonna break,so I he said, the album doesn't
let up from beginning to end.When it is over, I just want
to play it again and again.Chapster came out in February seventy one,
and Leads Up and Four came outin November of seventy one. Both were
giant success for the respective artists.But when both are on the table,
(07:46):
I have to pick one to listento. I'm not even aware of what
the other album is, because assoon as I see Lads Up and Four,
that was what I'm going to pick. I'm ninety percent sure. I
personally have been through that with Jeff. There's an array of records and he's
just like four, you know,but it sounded like it was close.
It sounds like it's very false andone thing that Jeff picked up on that
people I don't know why, buta lot of people think of Tapestry as
(08:09):
a downer record and it's really not. Both Jamie and Jeff, It's really
not a download. It doesn't calledJeff, I mean something like, well,
you still love me tomorrow is naturallyyou know so, I mean the
whole subject that it is about,it is naturally a down here, But
I just don't think of the wholerecord. Yeah, either, what else
do you got over there? Ithink Kyle, you got yeah. Mario
(08:31):
g says, I really thought thisis going to be a tough decision.
After listening to Tapestry, I justcouldn't see a way that leads up in
four it could beat it spoiler alert. Thirty seconds into LEDs upon four,
I knew it was clearly lads upon four. Let me first heap mad
amounts of praise and on Tapestry.Tapestry is a masterpiece. If a friend
(08:52):
wasn't familiar with Carol King, youcould play them Tapestry and tell them it's
her greatest hits. Yeah, forsure, I totally agree. They would
most likely respond with why oh,she had an amazing career, just kidding.
This is her second album, yep, that's right, twelve jams to
start from start to finish. Andif you've never heard of this album,
you probably know almost all of thesongs. And that's my first knock against
the album. This is probably crazyto say, but there are so many
(09:13):
other fantastic covers of these songs thatis sort of takes away from this album,
which is what you thought to beginwith. Yeah you said that,
Yeah, Yeah, that's still yeah. Yeah, I agree, it is.
I had no idea that all thosesongs were covered. And I keep
mentioning this one song, but likeeveryone has done well, you still Love
Me Tomorrow, Yeah, and everyone'sAmy Whitehouse alone has two distinct versions of
it, and both of them areYeah. I need to find the other
(09:37):
one. Actually, I have oneon her album Lioness. And then there's
another one that was used in theNewsroom that I don't have that I need
completely completely different vocal and everything.There's no soundtrack for the Newsroom. I
mean I could make one. Ihave a history of making you haven't made
one. Utter what else is okay? He also says, not a lot.
I'm splitting here is here? Iwould say that the title track,
Tapestry is the only song on thisalbum that I don't bel out every time.
(10:00):
It's not a bad song, it'sjust not. It's just my least
favorite. However, I sing myheart out to every other song. The
emotional roller Coaster that this album takesyou on is amazing. She sings every
song with so much emotion. Iwould go into every track, but will
You Love Me Tomorrow and Natural Womenare my favorites, but again they are
all Jammie jams. This album shouldbe in everyone's top five. Maybe that's
(10:22):
why Chris says skippable it's like theKytel version of No No Stinkers. Next
week it's going to be like mysong song, so Mario can avoid that
anyways going He also says this albumshould be in everyone's top five. I
(10:43):
need a cry albums or emotional releasealbums. Not a sad album, but
a great album to help you getthrough something. Smackwaterjack is the only song
that feels out of place to me, but it's a jam. What a
great album for even making the argumentthat Tapestry is better based on lyrics.
I don't know that I disagree withyou. I get it, but as
I stayed it earlier, took thirtyseconds again, it lets up on four
for me to pick it as awinner, lets up and four also as
a masterpiece. I really mean it. At about thirty seconds into black Dog,
(11:07):
I was certain that this was abetter album it's definitely the album that
will mooklist most likely be chosen betweenthe two if they're both sitting on the
table now. I agree with Russthat I generally have no idea what any
of the lyrics mean yeah, orwhat the songs are about, but I
know every single word and sing myheart out the whole way. Maybe choosing
Leads Up in four means I'm moreof a rock fan. I don't know
this is I want to say.Also, Mario was going out about how
(11:30):
he's not a Pearl Jam fan andthen heaped like four paragraphs of praise Pearl
Jam ten. So Mario, itis our official ruling that you are,
in fact a rock fan. Youdon't have to tell people, but we
know, yeah, just us.It's just between you, us and the
listeners. To round it out,he also said this album just hits me
on a higher level thirty seconds andI could already feel it was coming in
(11:52):
the rest of the way, andthat excitement is why it chose Leads Up
and four and why I listened toit more often than Tapestry. The album
opens with black Dog and ends withwhen You When the Levy Breaks, and
is jam packed in between it's Ladsof Them Four. For me, I
listened to these albums several times.That's how hard it was for me.
I always ended up choosing Lads ofThem four. I probably spent too much
time on this. An undefeated UKparticipant at thirty three to third Music Appreciation
(12:13):
Center and Speakers. I like thathe's still using the correct the correct signature.
That'll go. That works. Youhave at least one more she do,
Mike d There's no doubt these twoalbums are in a class of themselves.
This is the first time in thematchup albums I voted for. We're
up against each other. Both ourtimeless classics with great tunes and an emotional
connection. The difference for me andthese two albums is motivation to explore the
(12:37):
artist's catalog beyond these albums. Ilove Tapestry, but it didn't inspire me
to explore more of Carol King's music. After Tapestry. The next Carol King
album I listened too, and It'stardy was nineteen eighty nine City Streets,
So that was like what almost twentyyears after, was that our third lem
second No No, she had otherstuffy Lads up and four. Maybe we
want to dive into their catalog backwardsand forward from led Zepplin two to In
(13:01):
Through the Outdoor Staay to Heaven orrock and Roll was probably the gateway into
led Zeppelin. I've said it before. Four is one of their least favorite
led Zepplin albums, but it turnedme on to their music. So for
that reason, he's packing his bagsfor the Misty Mountains and going LEDs up
for the Spirit's Room. That isa really solid point that I never thought
of that, Like every led Zeppelinfan you know, probably heard four first
(13:24):
and then went back to two andup to physical graffitians on and every Carol
King fan you know her tapestry waslike, I'm all set. Yeah,
I couldn't name anything else, butthey agree. Like when he busted out
that record from the eighties, Iwas like, oh, that's that's another
Carol King record, you know,Like I just never even thought of it,
which is crazy. So how manyalms I don't know? Apparently we
(13:48):
need to find that out, becauseI mean, I'm sure she didn't just
become bad at writing lyrics all ofa sudden, you know, about singing.
Yeah, there's probably a whole lotof other good material layer that we
just need to take our time anddig it into. So in the world's
most obvious announcement, LEDs Upland four, what is the first record to make
it into the finals of the Iknow see this clapping could could have used
(14:09):
the applause. Well, yeah,we got a golf clap going those,
so that works. So having saidthat, this matchup next is for pretty
much all the marvels. This isthe one that we will go up against
led Zeppland four in the finals.Before noon today, I had gone back
and forth on this one about tentimes. Yeah, before it was even
noon. So we will come backin a second. And when we do,
(14:31):
we are going to be discussing Pearljam ten versus Princes of the Revolution,
Purple rain that says, yeah,I know you called me. All
right, I am going to beall right. We'll be back in a
minute. And uh, I'm gonnaget through this. I can get through.
We can get through it together.Hey, this is Grabman Brisket Podcast.
Join us every Monday when we talkabout the latest trends in barbecue,
(14:54):
interviews with world top pit masters,celebrity cooks like we Man, and musicians
like Rich O'Toole, So check usout. We do beer reviews, barbecue
fails, so many fires, dude, A lot of people just burn their
houses down for no reason. Wealso talk about cocaine, hippos versus met
gators, learn how to make sometailgate gravy, altercations with Texas Rangers,
people throw on reefs, peanut buttercups. Yeah. So check out grab
(15:16):
the risket dot com for podcast info, viral social media post and so much
more. Hem as me Kevin Smith. Everybody knows at the root of any
good relationship, any relationship worth anything, is the only thing that matters between
two people. And I'm talking abouttelevision. That's right. That's why you
should listen to Married with Television Man, which is a podcast by my friends
(15:37):
Shannon and Jamie. I call itcaddis about movies and TV that they have
loved for decades. Man. Youlisten at Married with tv dot com or
anywhere you get your podcasts. Theyare proud members of the Odd Pods media
network Man Married with Television. Allright, so we shared all the feedback.
(16:00):
We let you know that the firstalbum to move on to the final
round is in fact led Zepplin intheir fourth effort from nineteen seventy one.
Now we need to throw our ideasout there for what is going to be
the record that goes up against itin the finals. So for this round,
we have Pearl Jam ten, whichknocked out The Weekend Trilogy in its
first round, Cheetermighee, Dermott Kennedywithout Fear in the second round, and
(16:26):
now here's where it sits in thesemifinal matchup versus Prince and the Revolution Purple
Rain, which I would argue hada very hard, more tough road to
get to where it's at. Itdefinitely did ye. Prince of the Revolution
Purple Rain knocked out Fleetwood mac Rumorsin the first round. Then it went
up against Michael Jackson Thriller. Yeah, we went up against Michael Jackson Thriller,
and here now it's in the semifinals. And I think for me,
(16:49):
there's a lot of things that areway different about both of these records,
and there's a lot of things thatare really similar about both of these records.
So really yeah, so I'm Idon't think I've ever been happier to
go last on this because I wantto get both of your opinions first,
now, Joe again, we'll justgive our opinions first, then we'll talk
it out. We'll talk through it. Let's stalk through it together. Yeah,
(17:11):
because I feel like once I physicallysay it, I'm gonna need like
shelter, Like what my what myvote is on this shit? Kyle,
you got a copy of Pearl Jamtin laying on the table and you got
a copy of Purple Rain laing onthe table. Which one are you going
to pick up and put on?Pearl Jam? What? Why is it
always a secret with you? Like, just so you know people can turn
up. It's a that's a toughone, man. But if I had
(17:36):
them both singing from me, Ireally think that it would be maybe put
on Purple Ring quickly after. Yeah, not to say I wouldn't play them
together, but Pearl Jam would befirst. Yeah, okay, right on.
But then again, you also understandthat once is a fantastic opening track,
whereas somebody here doesn't. Yes,So, Michelle, you gave us
(17:57):
a glimpse last week is how yourvote was going to go this week and
next week. But let's just saywe were surprised. Yeah, just for
for shiggles, as they say,Michelle purl Jam ten was laying there with
its awful opening track once and PurpleRain was laying right next to it.
So you are either going to getto hear a terrible opening cut or daily
beloved. Which way are you going? Princes Princes one hundred percent, she
(18:18):
says, yeah, so not princesone hundred percent, but prince for me?
How many percents sixty seven? Superclose, just enough to carry it
to the wind. Can we askfor a recount? Yeah, yeah,
I would rather. I woke uptoday about I don't know, seven thirty
(18:40):
eight o'clock in the morning, whenevermy cat saw fit to wake me up.
It's eight fifty three in the PMright now, and I've been flip
popping all day on it, soI'd rather not do a recount. Fine,
So for me, how this brokedown was there's more variety in Purple
Rain than there is in ten.And I can get a lot from Purple
Rain that I get from Ten,Like certainly the groove that's in like even
(19:03):
Flow or why Go or whatever.I can get that from Baby I'm a
Star, certainly from Let's Go Crazy, even from I know it's a running
joke, but computer Blue the groovethat's in that. So as far as
ballads go, Garden Release Black,I can get all that out of the
beautiful ones and the title cut PurpleRain. And then there's stuff that ten
can't bring to the table, liketake Me with You. He's got almost
(19:26):
a motown vibe to have. Ten'sgot nothing like that going on Darling Nikki.
Ten couldn't. I mean, itwould be remote, incredibly out of
place on ten. But you knowwhat I'm saying. Yeah, So I
you know, I really went backand forth on this because I think I
think ten is inarguably one of thegreatest debut records of all time. And
I know I labor this point allthe time, but if this was a
thing about Yield versus Purple Rain,and even have an even harder time with
(19:49):
it because because there are unorthodox,funky moments on Yield that are not on
ten. But it took you know, p Jam, what if it was
ten against Rumors. I'm not sayingI would have made it this far,
but I can tell you. Letme say this. I often I don't
have the track listings in front ofme, but I know there are songs
(20:10):
on Rumors that I don't like,and I truly love every song on ten
huh, So I would still Iwould go a ten over rumors. Okay,
Okay, I can't think decision.I think fans are gonna be that's
either oh Daddy or snow. There'sat least one or two tracks that I
don't like. Rumors. Kyle,what was your thinking behind it? I
just I know you've been staunched Eddievettersupporter this whole time, but I have
(20:33):
more. I'm still better that theykicked out Weekend and Dermott. Yes,
I'm still better that the Dermott lostthem, But Eddie Vetter, I have
more emotionally invested in Pearl Jam thanI do Prinds. Overall, I do
agree that, you know, Purporenis way more like groovy and funky than
Pearl Jam. But I'm not reallylistening to Pearl Jam to get in the
groove in the funk, you know, absolutely. I just yeah, yeah,
(20:56):
I don't mean to sound like I'mfaulting the record for something it can't.
How like ten tennispires to be agreat rock debut record, and it's
a great debut record. Yeah,so I'm looking to listen to a great
rock record. I'm listening to ten. You know who is it? One
of you read someone, one ofyou read someone, and someone left the
feedbackroom was like, that's what tendelivers on its promise that it's going to
(21:19):
be a great rock debut record.I don't remember who said that, but
yeah, you're right. Yeah,somebody somewhere said that at some point in
time, and it was red.Now I know this. It was read
on the last episode. Okay,okay, so it was on our social
media. Yeah, okay, okay, perfect time. Go to Facebook dot
com so you can so you canfind this comment. But overall, I
(21:42):
just have more invested into program thanI do Prince. Yeah, and surprisingly,
I don't think I'm invested more inone than the other. Like for
me, yeah, I think one, because I think you're more invested than
in Prince than you are with PurpleRain's not even my favorite Prince record.
You have Prince Tattoo. Yeah thatwe're not talking about Pray it's versus Pearl
Jam because there's no contest there.I thought you said you weren't more invested
(22:03):
in like one band over No,I'm talking about these records, you know
how I'm debating these records. Doyou want to take your mic and go
no, because it's yours. Yeah, that's a good reason to take that
one. But no, like,I'm not more invested in one of these
records over the other because I getnot to be funny. But the average
person would probably be like, yeah, but you love Prince way more than
(22:26):
Pearl Jam. But this is noteven close to my favorite Prince record,
I don't think. And I reallydidn't start listening to Prince until later after
I start listening to Pearl Jams.It's just there's more there for me in
ten. Nostalgia. Yeah, yeah, nostalgia almost sometimes not that you meant
it this way, but it almostsometimes comes off as like a dirty word,
and it's not like you know,yeah, I like things that like
take you back and yeah, yeah, why why not always people? It's
(22:48):
those people who have guilty pleasures whoare embarrassing, and it's like you should
I just saw, you know what, total sidebar. I just saw on
a music form the other day.Somebody started a threat and I stopped myself
from even looking on the thread thatwas like guilty pleasures or songs you're embarrassed?
You used to listen to what youshouldn't what There should be no such
thing like if you like, I'lltell you right now. I love Bye
(23:10):
Bye Bye Bye in sync as muchas I do. You know, any
eminem song or a lot of thePink Floyd songs that I love. I
mean, there's a lot of PinkFloyd songs I love more than that song.
But like, there's never going tocome and point in my life where
I'm gonna laugh at that and belike, you know, like Poison,
I always use Poison as all.I love Poison as much today as I
did in nineteen eighty eight. Likeyou know, it's also okay not to
love a song that much anymore,but to be embarrassed. Yeah, there's
(23:33):
so many people who have a wholelayer of song related to ship that they
they're best friend doesn't even know thatthey like because they're embarrassed. They oh
yeah, yeah, yeah kid.And we will we get people. We
get people. It'll come over forspinning records, and they'll tell me,
like the day after they were here. Oh, I really wanted to hear
this, but I wasn't sure howit would go over in the room,
And I was like, it's myhouse. You own it like I own
(23:55):
that record, Like if you wantto hear that, like we're going to
listen to that. And if anybodyhas a problem with the door, is
the same door let him in,well let him out. You literally just
have to not give a shit withsomebody else thinks, Yeah, well I
was gonna say, I think that'sin short supply. Yeah, yeah,
that's for sure. So Michelle,I know we joked earlier and you said
you're just picking Purple Rain from hereout, But was there like any consideration
(24:17):
and being serious, any consideration atall towards Ten. So No, to
be honest, if both of thoserecords were on the table, it would
be hands on Purple Rain, LikeI wouldn't even have to think about it.
I'd be like just shoving Ten underthe table and Ben like here not
only picking one but like beings outrightrude to the other on I feel like
Ten was one of those records alongthis entire way, which is I feel
(24:40):
like this has been a asops fablesfor me. You wanted me to listen
to these that I would understand andlike grow to love them. So I
feel like this was an album thatI would have never picked up and listened
front to back on my own correct. Yeah, but I didn't hate it.
I think out of this tournament,we can discuss this more on the
final episode, but if off thetop of my head, I think,
if out of this you've at leastcome away with Pearl JA ten and lights
(25:00):
Up one four oh by far,Yeah, you like way more than you
ever thought that you would. Thereare also a couple of records along the
way that I didn't hate as muchas I thought. But we could talk
about that next sense that's gonna betwo weeks from now and in the final
episode, yeah, which is whyI was like, we definitely should do
a final episode to announce the winnerand then we can kind of walk through
things like that. Yeah, becausethere was a lot I learned during the
tournament as well. So yeah,so that's where we're at. So I
(25:25):
don't want to put the weight ofthe world on the listeners shoulders, but
I'm gonna put the weight of theworld on the listeners shoulders. I feel
like I'm always shocked at with thelisteners pick. I feel like it's it's
always I feel like so good goinginto it, and then I was like,
oh, really, there were twobig surprises for me this week.
Number One thing Mike Dunning said aboutno one ever digging further into Carolcanes catalog
and everyone digging further into Pearl James. I was blown away when I read
(25:47):
that or lights up one. Yeah, yeah, I never even thought about
it like that. And the otherthing was, I can't believe how many
people were like, oh, thiswas closer than I thought it was going
to be like, and you know, like even Mario I think I think
it was Mario said when he startedhe was like, oh, tap,
how how how does anything beat tapestry? And then thirty seconds into hayy Mama,
which is what the song is called, which is what it should be
(26:08):
calling. They at no point duringthe song do they say black dog at
any point during the song sounds likesomething you know, what you should do
for your homework for next week,google and find out why the song is
called black Dog and then bringing hisstory time for you know else, so
that which is annoying sidebar fallow boy. Oh yeah. There's lots of artists
that I'm pretty sure I've mentioned thisin the past, but my personal favorite
(26:33):
thing about led Zepplin is that theyhave title songs for albums that are on
other albums. Oh yeah, youdid say that the song and they have
a record call in through the Outdoorand the title song for that is on
another album. And they have alive album called the Song Remains the Same,
but the album before that has asong called the Song Remains The Sky
just did a lot of drugs ordo you think that that was on purpose?
Well, I want to say acouple of things. First of all,
(26:57):
if you would like to know theamount of drugs that LEDs Upland did,
google exactly these words lads Upland fishstory, Okay, and then know
that, of course their drummer unfortunatelypassed away of death by misadventure. But
first read the LEDs Upland fish story. Google exactly those words and it will
give you an idea of the amountof drugs that LEDs Upland did. So
(27:19):
anyways, like I say, thisis going to be on the listeners.
So I have tried to my gameand tell people more about our social media
so everybody knows where to go dothis. But if you go to Facebook
dot com, slash infectus Grove podlike and follow the page, you will
see our pinned comment pinned post withthe little clip of the current episode.
This will be out Friday. We'llleave it open until the following Tuesday,
(27:41):
and then we will reconvene next weekfor announcing what record is going to be
in the finals against lads upland four. Then we will give our thoughts on
the finals, and then we'll haveone more of these bonus episodes after that
where we not only announce the winner, but take a little stroll down the
memory lane. Yeah, we shouldget a highlight row a thing of this
is what Michelle learned got knocked outalong the way. I want to I
(28:08):
should create a drop for the likethe incredible Hulk piano, like the same,
you know, for every time,and then then Kyle's record got do
So anyways, we greatly appreciate everybodybeing along for the ride, and we
are really looking forward to the endof this tournament to really see how this
(28:29):
all shakes out. I have noidea how this round is going to go,
and I don't know how the finalsare going to go at all.
So do you want to take BET'sgood at me? Yeah? Thanks for listening By
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!