July 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Matt and Sam share their carefully curated selection of new music for July, featuring unreleased Bruce Springsteen tracks, genre-bending collaborations, and high-energy summer anthems.
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• Bruce Springsteen's "Unsatisfied Heart" from his newly released Tracks 2 collection, featuring seven previously unreleased albums
• Lupe Fiasco's "Samurai" featuring Troy Tyler, imagining an alternate timeline where Amy Winehouse became a battle rapper
• Lindsey Stirling's "Evil Twin" with Shuba, fusing classical violin with electronic and Bollywood influences
• The bass-heavy "Daydreams" by Effin and Nightmare that demands quality speakers
• Cold War Kids' biographical tribute "Any Day Now" about Richard Swift of The Shins
• Daisy the Great's indie pop track "Rest of My Life" questioning relationships and permanence
• The Dare's "Cheeky" bringing nostalgic hip-hop vibes reminiscent of Run DMC
• Cardi B's "Outside" sparking a discussion about why rock musicians don't make diss tracks
• Dropkick Murphys' nostalgic "Chesterfields and Aftershave" evoking memories of grandparents
• The addictive beat of "High Horse" by Proper Monday Number
• Bruno Mars' energetic minute-long Portuguese track "Bonde do Brunao"
• Fitz and the Tantrums' formula-perfect "OK, OK, OK" closing out the mix
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
welcome back to another super awesome mix.
My name is matt, set homealongside my co-host and
co-founder of super awesome mix,sam abusalbi sam.
How are we doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
doing real well.
I gotta say, um, your new musicpicks this month are really
good.
There were some that I'm soexcited.
I literally favorited them.
I've had them on repeat.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh my gosh, I know it's only taken me five years to
finally get you kind of onboard with some songs.
I actually now, as I waspicking a couple of these, I
definitely was like, oh, sam'sgonna love this one, yeah yeah
so no, it's true.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
There were several where I again did the double
take of like wait, did I pickthis or did Matt pick this?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
because it was right up my alley, so it was great
well, you definitely had acouple great ones as well, so
always excited to get into thenew music.
Um, as we talked about, youknow, summer is when things
start to peak a little bit with,like the big time artists
coming out with new stuff, so Ithink we've got a lot of big
(01:15):
names on this too.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, absolutely, and we will start with one.
That should be no surprise toany longtime listener that he is
top of your new music mix, andit is Unsatisfied Heart by Bruce
Springsteen.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I will say, though, he doesn't come out with new
music all that often, so to puthim on a new music mix is rare.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's true, right that's true, it is Well done.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So here's what Bruce did.
Well, he sold his music cataloga couple years ago for like
half a billion dollars orsomething like that, and I think
that's probably what promptedthis to happen, because he
released a collection calledTracks 2.
Now, a couple decades ago, hehad one called Tracks.
That was really it was likefour CDs worth at the time,
(02:01):
right, and it was just acollection of songs that just
didn't make the cut on certainalbums right.
This time this is being, youknow, marketed as seven complete
albums that he just never putout there, which is just insane
when you think about from like avolume of work.
I mean, he's got 20 plus albumsout there and then to say, yeah
(02:24):
, I got seven others that justwere never published and so they
decide to put them all outright now.
Pretty interesting collection.
I have listened to all sevenalbums.
At this point, sam, I don'tthink you need to go and do that
.
That's not part of yourhomework.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Great, but I was never going to do it.
Yeah, you never told me.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And I appreciate that honesty from you.
Okay, great, I was never goingto do it.
Yeah, you're never going to doit, and I appreciate that
honesty from you, okay, and fromthe listeners out there.
But, yeah, so I picked justthis one and it's Unsatisfied
Heart.
I think it fits kind ofthematically with sort of what
you know about Bruce, in thatthere is this.
It's really good songwritingand it has this overall question
(03:05):
of can you live with anunsatisfied heart.
Of course he has a much biggerhit called hungry heart, which
kind of falls in the same lineand that one's kind of an anthem
and everyone knows that one.
That one was kind of a top 10hit.
So it's interesting to listen tothis and a lot of the songs on
these albums and even thesealbums in whole, because you
(03:26):
start to see why they weren'tout there to a certain degree,
right, I don't think this is aperfect song.
I think it's a pretty good songand that's what I found on this
collection is it's a lot ofpretty good songs.
And I liken it to if you watchlike college sports and then you
(03:47):
turn on the pros the next dayyou realize that the guy you
thought was pretty good, thenext day probably isn't making
it at this level, right?
So you know, the first album onthis collection is from like
1983.
Well, a year later he put outborn in the usa, which is just a
mega hit and you know the thehe went on the equivalent of
like the Eros tour at that point, right right.
(04:08):
The 1980s equivalent of thatwith all the stadium shows he
did.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Just touring on that album.
But yeah, like the 1983 albumthat was out the year before,
that he never published doesn'treally live up to that level.
So anyway, it's good.
There are some pretty goodsongs on this entire collection.
I think this is a pretty goodsong but overall nothing's
perfect and really blows youaway.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Right.
As you said, it was edited outfor a reason.
I feel that way about uncutmovies.
Like the director uncut version, I'm like you know what.
It was better with the cuts.
It was just a tighter story,like there's a reason that we
watched the cut version and notthe uncut version in the
theaters.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Um, I would love for it to further cut a movie,
sometimes right like two and ahalf hours.
It could be an hour 50 andyou'd probably still get it,
yeah right?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
no, totally I feel that way about the last season,
like the most recent season ofum, stranger things.
It was like 15 hours and itcould have been like four.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You know, like okay yeah, we could have paired some
things off right, we could havetaken some things down.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, um no, but I think I agree with you.
This is like a good bruce song.
It's not like incredible, um.
The one note I had about it,though, is that he asked that
question can you live with anunsatisfied heart in the song so
many times that it becamealmost like the psychological
earworm, because then I startedto question my own life and I'm
(05:36):
yes, that's right.
No thinking about like yeah,like, what am I unsatisfied with
?
And oh my god, can I live withthat?
Like I really I found myselfspiraling a bit because of his
words.
So it was, it was intense.
It was an intense emotionaljourney.
I went on because, like atfirst you know it's like it,
just he repeats it so many times.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He can't help but not question it, yeah yeah, I mean,
this song is like five and ahalf minutes long and it could
have been three and a half and Ithink it kind of speaks to the
you know why wasn't, why isn'tthis out there?
Why isn't this like a top 10hit or something for Bruce?
And it's like, yeah, you couldprobably tell, and that's the.
That's part of the reason.
I put it on here is just tokind of show what you're dealing
(06:18):
with.
So if anyone, like I, wasexcited to get into tracks too
and excited to get into trackstoo and, like I said, there are
some songs I really enjoyed onhere, but I thought something
like this was very emblematic ofpretty good sound, pretty good
songwriting, but yeah, this is.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
this is the JV, this is not the varsity, you know,
yeah totally All right, yourfirst pick.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You go with Samurai by Lupe Fiasco featuring Troy
Tyler.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, I had forgotten about Lupe Fiasco.
He's an artist that I listenedto a lot like 20-something years
ago and I really, really likedhis albums and then I just kind
of forgot and he's got some newmusic and I'm like, oh yeah, I
really like his sound and I'vebeen listening to more of his
music again recently, mostly thestuff from 20 years ago.
(07:03):
But I really like this one.
I especially like the, reallylike this one.
I especially like the storybehind this one.
So apparently amy winehousefamously left a voicemail um for
salam remi saying I keep comingup with battle raps and they're
just pouring out of me likewu-tang stuff but really neat,
very beautifully alliteratedlittle battle raps.
Um, and she's literally saysI'm, you know, I'm coming for
(07:23):
you, I'm, I'm a samurai.
And so lupe writes a songimagining a world where, um, she
basically goes on to becomelike a hip-hop battle artist, um
, and and hence the name samurai, which is also the name of the
album um that he's released.
So I really, really enjoyed thestory and I I love the
imagining and he does a lot ofthat kind of stuff.
(07:43):
I feel like many of his songsthat come to mind, he imagines
worlds where, like, things aredifferent, um, like a totally
different timeline.
Something else has happened, soI think this is right up his
alley in that regardthematically, but I liked it and
and I'm happy that he's stillmaking new music that's really
cool.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Like I love that backstory behind it and I mean
what a twist that would havebeen if Amy Winehouse started
putting out rap albums, you know.
Right, right so many artistsare doing crossover things right
now because you can kind ofjust do it and put it out there
for streaming purposes, right.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
yeah, you don't have to kind of finish a whole album.
Necessarily We've talked aboutkind of the difference between
the old music business and thenew one, but yeah, I love that.
I think that would have been areally cool thing.
This was a cool song.
I just I love the beat, I love,I think the lyrics were really
fun.
Even without the backstorythere, I think it was just kind
of a cool song and I, you know,definitely got into it and you
(08:40):
know this was one we talk aboutthis from time to time where you
can kind of drop the lyrics andjust the beat alone can kind of
stand by itself.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Absolutely yeah, and Lupe does that really well.
All right.
Track number three this is theone that I immediately favorited
and had to listen to like twoor three times before going
further in the mix, and this isEvil Twin by Lindsey Stirling
featuring Shuba.
Okay, so Sam were you familiarwith Lindsey Stirling?
Prior to this I had heard ofher.
(09:08):
I think I'd heard one or two ofher songs but I never really
pieced it together, so onlyvaguely familiar.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, she's a violinist and she's kind of best
known for mixing classicalmusic with hip hop and
electronic.
She's got a massive YouTubefollowing because she also
choreographed some of thesethings as well, so she's got a
lot of cool videos out there.
Shuba is an artist who kind ofmixes Bollywood with like pop
(09:35):
rap, so she kind of sort ofmixes genres as well.
So, putting these folkstogether, you were going to get
something.
I think this is a super uniquesong.
I mean I guess it's kind ofelectronic or dance.
Putting these folks together,you were going to get something.
I think this is a super uniquesong.
I mean I guess it's kind ofelectronic or dance, but there's
the violin throughout as well.
So I don't know, it's just thisreal cool collaboration between
these artists, kind of, youknow, putting together all that
(10:02):
they know, and I just loved it.
It's really just kind of astandout.
And Lindsey Stirling's really,I mean she does a lot of stuff
like this, so you could easilygo down a rabbit hole of looking
at her YouTube stuff or gettinginto her music on, you know,
whatever streaming serviceyou're on, and I think you'd
really enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, I basically fell down that rabbit hole and
it's a lot of fun.
No, and you know, the otherthing that I thought was so cool
is like it has, and um, thoselike Arabic sounding, you know,
elements that make sense likefrom the from the Bollywood
background.
Um, and I think Arabic music isalso really good at being mixed
in with electronic music becauseit's also very heavy on on like
(10:38):
bass beats and drum beats andall that kind of thing which are
just obviously natural elementsof of EDM.
So I love this song and drumbeats and all that kind of thing
, which are just obviouslynatural elements of EDM.
So I love this song.
I love the mega mash of all ofthese different elements that
just work really really welltogether.
So, yeah, this is one that willbe on repeat and I'm going to
go ahead and call it it's goingto be on the best of the year.
Wow, yeah, for sure.
(11:00):
I'd be shocked if somethingdisplaces this.
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
We'll for sure.
I'd be shocked if somethingdisplaces this.
We'll see.
We'll see.
That's also when, when, whenyou can put a song out there,
that the other person picks fortheir, their top 12 for the year
, that's totally yeah uh well,good, all right, your next pick.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It is daydreams by effin and nightmare yeah, it's
funny that again withoutplanning it, we put two of our
kind of like heavy electronicthings like right next to each
other.
Fn is an artist that I'vefeatured before, really heavy on
samples and like bass heavymusic.
So I saw that they have morereleases, this time being helped
(11:38):
out by Nightmare.
This has like a loungy feel,but it's really heavy and just
super heavy bass.
Like this is one of those songswhere, like you don't want to
play it on like your iphonespeaker out loud, you know,
because like you're missing thepoint yeah, it's gonna be so
like tinny and like whatever.
But if you put on like somelegit headphones or you have
giant subwoofers in your car,like I used to, you're gonna
(12:00):
love it.
Um, and that's really the.
The purpose of this song, in myopinion, is just that if you're
a bass head, you're going tolove it.
So that's why I included thissong on the mix.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, this one vaguely had elements of it of
that song from the it soundtrackthat you made me listen to on
the Worst Mix Ever.
It had a few elements of thatbut it was not as disjointed as
that one.
So it actually works here right.
So it has that kind of eeriefeel, even though it's called
Daydream, but the artist'snightmare.
(12:32):
But I think there's a goodephemeral quality to the whole
song throughout that.
I don't know I liked it, but itdid evoke a memory of that song
.
But that song was completelyunenjoyable, whereas this one
was pretty good.
This is the good version ofthat song.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, I like that Also.
Anytime I listen to music likethis, it reminds me of the Keane
Peale skit where he puts ondubstep while they're moving.
Are you familiar with that one?
I'm not.
Okay, you're going to have towatch it because it's spot on,
it's spot on.
I won't spoil it for you, it'sgreat.
So that plays in my head rentfree Anytime I listen to bass,
(13:09):
heavy music like that.
Nice, okay, all right.
So track number five, your nextpick, and it is any day now by
cold war kids.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, I love the energy on this one, just like
the way that his voice sounds.
It of the energy on this one,just like the way his voice
sounds.
It's specifically about RichardSwift, who was in the Shins and
he passed away in 2018.
And it's kind of biographicalabout him and they're kind of
talking about, you know, sort ofhis rise and sort of how he
started to work with all thesedifferent people and, you know,
(13:42):
richard Swift was someone whostruggled with alcoholism and,
you know, probably I don't thinkhe died directly of that, but
probably complications of that.
Yeah, so I mean, it's a cooltribute because I think it's a
great sounding song.
It's very specific.
So it is something where, like,I was interested to be like
(14:02):
what are they talking about?
Because I don't think it'snecessarily really obvious and I
didn't know the name RichardSwift just right offhand, right,
that wasn't a household name inmy mind, but I know the Shins
and you can kind of get into thebackstory from there.
But, yeah, I just thought itwas one just a good-sounding
song on its own, but also justkind of a cool backstory as well
(14:23):
.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I agree.
I like songs that tell a storythe whole way through, and this
one does that very well.
Like you can just kind of getinto it because you feel like
you're being sung a story aboutthis individual.
So I really like that.
The other thing I'm reallycurious about is they mentioned
the song that was potentiallywritten by Mark Ronson and Ryan
Adams called I Am Richard Swift,and they mentioned that they
don't know if it exists or not.
(14:44):
So I'm thinking we get theirpeople on the phone try to find
out.
You know, we get our people tocall their people try to find
out if that song exists, wedon't need to make that call
ourselves, but I think ourpeople do to their people?
Yeah, exactly, exactly, and seeif we can't make that happen,
yeah.
Well, Ryan.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Adams seems pretty easy going, so he's probably up
for a random phone call likethat right.
Yeah, I think so.
Everything that I know abouthim tells me that that's true.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yes, every account out there, that's a guy who
loves a cold call.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's exactly right, all right.
Track six I love this artist'sname.
This is Rest of my Life byDaisy the Great.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, same.
So Daisy the Great.
I was first introduced to thislittle duo from an AJR song
because AJR and Daisy the Greathad a song called Record Player.
They're both based out ofBrooklyn so it totally makes
sense that they would do a songtogether.
The two singers here are KellyNicole Dugan and Mina Walker,
and they're almost like anAmerican wet leg.
You know, like wet leg it'slike the.
It's like the Britishcounterpart across the pond, if
you will, but they're like indiealt sound.
(15:54):
I think this is like kind of ayou know it has it's like a fun,
cute song but it also, you know, kind of talks about the
impermanence of things.
You know that she sings likestanding in the yard it doesn't
seem so hard for a flower in thegarden.
Why do things so perfect, haveto grow and die so often?
Um, and I just you know she'slike questioning all these
things that we, I think,naturally think about all the
(16:15):
time in like a cute, fun littleindie pop way, um, and I think
daisy the great does that verywell.
So I really like the song and Ilike their sound.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, I thought of Wet Leg as well when I was
listening to this.
I kind of did a double take tobe like are you sure this is not
maybe a new Wet?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Leg song.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But this one also had a question in it.
You talked about unsatisfiedheart at the top of the mix.
This one, would you want toknow me for the rest of my life?
Which I thought was just kindof an interesting question,
because that is really what likemarriage is, or theoretically
it would be, for you know soundslike about 50% of people or
more that it's not that, but intheory that's what it is right.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Well, no, it's true, and in a way, even if you get
divorced, I would argue, likefor most of the people, you're
going to know this person forthe rest of your life, right
Like they will be a chapter thatwill be hard to move on from,
even if you try.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So that's also a possibility, even if you don't
know them, you still get updateson that person.
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, facebook is still going to throw them in
your face.
At some point, do you remember10 years ago, you married this
person?
How's that going your face atsome point.
Do you remember 10 years agoyou married this person?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
how's that going, y'all still happy.
I've never thought about that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, memories like that that pop up on your right
yeah, apple iphone just makingyou sob uncontrollably on a
random tuesday morning.
Do you remember when you werehappy, happy tuesday?
Do you remember when you werehappy, happy Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
There's got to be a business out there designed to
just scrub your old social mediafeeds, right.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Exactly, yeah, exactly, all right.
This next pick is another onethat I really loved and one that
I kept listening to over andover again and this is Cheeky by
the Dare.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, the Dare is Harrison Patrick Smith.
He is a West Coast singer andmusician.
I say West Coast because he'sbased, I think, in Hollywood,
but he kind of grew up inSeattle so he's just almost on
that side of the country.
Interesting because I mean, theenergy here is cool.
I just love the way he raps inthis song.
(18:30):
It kind of reminded me of oldRun DMC that's kind of what it
evoked in my mind.
It's pretty different and Iadmit this is not kind of the
stuff I would normally bring tothe mix.
So it doesn't surprise me thatyou're kind of like hey, I
really like this because it'snot kind of just standard, what
(18:50):
I'd normally pick out.
But this one just kind of stoodout to me and I was like, wow,
this is really cool.
And kind of like you did withEvil Twin, I think I listened to
this one multiple times afterhearing it for the first time.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, and this was one of the ones where I
specifically was like is this mysong or Matt's song?
Because it definitely soundslike something I would pick.
It reminds me of LCD SoundSystem too.
I think we've talked about theDare before, because I remember
making that comparison, but itkind of has that same vibe to it
of kind of a guy more or lesslike talking or rapping over
(19:22):
like a very heavy, repeatablebeat.
I also really liked the secondverse, where he sings I'm so
cheeky, I'm like he, he, you'relike ha ha ha, Hello, you say.
I say voulez-vous coucher avecmoi?
You're so cheeky, Aren't youBritish baby?
I'm from NYC.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I mean, he just keeps going on and it's like this
back and forth, and it's a lotof than that.
I'm reading it here, which isweird.
It's weird, yeah, it's weird,that that's better at that than
you, I.
I can't explain that.
Yeah me, neither, me, neither.
All right track eight.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
This is outside by cardi b yeah, cardi b is another
artist that, um, I tend toforget that.
Like she's got music that Ilove, um, and tell her that I
know because I'll be on the disstrack.
Right, you don't want beef withcardi b sam no, you really don't
, and that's very evident inthis song, because it's a
(20:18):
fantastic diss track, um, butyou know what I love?
You know what got me thinkingabout this, especially with
bruce at the top of the mix here.
Like diss tracks work so wellin the hip-hop world, like, can
you imagine Bruce with a disstrack?
Like that's what got me, like,giggling to myself.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Like what would that sound?
Like jeez, if he finally wentright at Billy Joel, right for
dragging that piano all over NewYork, right God.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I think there's a real opportunity here.
Yeah, I think there's a realopportunity.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I would love it if some straight-ahead rock and
roll artists came out with likejust had a diss track and yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, and got into each other.
Yeah, like you know, like thewhole Drake and Kendrick thing,
we could have a Bruce and Billything, Like that'd be fun for us
.
They definitely have stories oneach other right, like there's
no doubt they know things, butyeah, why don't they ever come
forward with it?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
yeah, this is sammy hagar, sammy hagar and david lee
roth.
I mean they never had disstracks about the other right,
that seems insane, but thatnever existed.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, yeah, and maybe it'd be therapeutic.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know, get those, get that energy out there
singing you do wonder yeah,that's a great point you wonder
if rappers are just happier thanrock and rollers because they
get that out there because theyget it out there yeah, who knows
, they're not harboring any ofthose feelings they're just
healthy.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They're emotionally healthy people.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But this is a great song.
I love how she raps, like she'sjust so you know it sounds so
silly to say that, but it's like, you know, it sounds so
effortless where I will say thatthis back to back with the dare
.
The dare, you think, had topractice that and had to really
get to where where, like this,just seems to flow out of her
(22:07):
very naturally and so, um, I'mgonna go ahead and say it on
this, I'm gonna go on the recordcardi b is a better rapper than
the dare.
Okay, that's controversialopinion, but that's what you're
here for, that's why another?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
that's why you listen .
Yeah, another bold statementhere.
Wow, I need a second to recoverfrom that before we that on.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's going to go viral on TikTok when we put that
out there.
No, but this is awesome.
Also really cool, she gives ashout out to Asia Wilson of the
Las Vegas Aces.
So you know the WNBA keepsrising in popularity and I think
you know no better example thanthey're starting to get shout
outs in rap music.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Absolutely, yeah, no, I love that, that's awesome.
All music absolutely yeah, no,I love that, that's awesome.
All right track number nine aanother artist we've featured
before this is chester fieldsand aftershave by dropkick
murphy's yeah, dropkick murphy'shave a new album coming out.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
they are actually it is out and uh probably best
known for their song shipping upto boston, which I think is
what we featured on our baseballclosers mix way back.
I think this was JonathanPapelbon of the Red Sox at the
time.
That's what he'd come out with.
So they've got great energy ontheir songs, right.
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But this one's cool because it'sthis kind of nostalgia song
about him thinking about hisgrandfather and how his
grandfather would probably hatethis song.
He kind of calls it out likethis is too loud, I don't want
to listen to this, even thoughit is kind of a tribute to him.
So even if it's notChesterfields which are
cigarettes and aftershave, evenif that's not what evokes
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memories for you, I think justsort of the construction of this
song will kind of, you know,lend itself to you thinking back
on your grandfather orgrandmother or parents or
whomever, like some elder thatyou've lost.
So I think they just do areally good job here and even if
you don't directly relate tothis, I think you can kind of in
your own head at least this iswhat my mind does it kind of
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evokes those same memories thatare relevant to you and not
their memories here.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, no, I agree, it's fun to think about that.
There's like a certaincigarette brand.
I think it's Kent, I can'tremember.
That is instantly mygrandparents' house, like
instantly, because they werereally heavy smokers.
May they rest in peace, becausethat's what ended up killing
them.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Oh, I'm just going to pause here in the show.
Take all the time you need, Sam.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
They were wonderful people, wonderful people.
But they grew up in a time whenthey grew up in a time when
cigarettes, yeah, were like, notnot unhealthy, right, like they
were a good thing for you to toconsume in mass.
Um, but, yes, anytime I smellit, I'm instantly, instantly
transported back to to beingaround them, which I think is
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really nice.
Um, I love to the song.
Um, I love that, everythingthat they sing.
I feel like it's like a barsong, like you could, you could
just imagine like everyone beingin a bar singing along with it,
and I think that that's reallyfun agreed, agreed.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Now your next pick.
Again.
This is another great artistname.
Okay, uh, the track is calledHigh Horse and the group is
Proper Monday Number.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, I really like the name too, and it's funny
because this is one where Ialmost was like, am I listening
to this one that I picked, orlike the Dare song that you
picked?
Because they're very similar toeach other in a way.
But yeah, this is just anotherkind of.
I find it like addicting in aweird way, like the more I
listen to it, the more I want tolisten to it, even though
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there's nothing particularlylike I don't know, there's
nothing that stands out about itimmediately to you, right, but
something about it, you know.
It's off of an ep called deepclean your house, which I think
is really funny and I I kind ofunderstand it, because I feel
like this is the type of musicyou could just put on in the
background and just get into arepeatable task like deep
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cleaning your house, you knownext thing you know, every line
of grout is perfectly white yourhouse sparkles because you're
listening to this EP and I alsoreally just love like what he.
You know what.
Keep singing.
Stop what you're doing now.
Get off your high horse Anotherphrase that we probably very
(26:30):
often want to shout at people,so I like it for that element
too.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, this one immediately reminded me of the
Depeche Mode song.
I Just Can't Get Enough.
That's sort of like the beatthat it had with it, and so I
thought for a second I was like,are they sampling this?
Like where are they going withthis?
Then the beat sort of divergesin kind of a weird way and then
sort of comes back together.
So I thought it was to yourpoint about like why do I keep?
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Why is this sucking me in?
I think it's got a reallyinteresting, interesting
construction to it, Like it kindof draws you in a little bit
and it has that sort of throughline beat.
So, um, yeah, really, really Imean similar to um, kind of the
Lindsey Stirling track earlier.
It's just kind of a unique song, right, like I can't really
compare it to anything else.
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Um, but that's the closestthing I could find was that
Depeche Mode song.
But yeah, well done.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
All right, your last pick here, song that comes in
just under a minute.
We talked about songs gettingshorter and shorter, but this is
Bande do Brunel by Bruno Mars.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, I can't really explain this one.
Right, it's Bruno Mars.
It's in Portuguese, I guesshe's talking about partying in
Brazil, and I mean talk aboutjust showing up, bringing a ton
of energy and getting out, right, right, like that's all this is
.
But you could put this hit therepeat button on this one.
(27:56):
You want to talk about deepcleaning your house, like you're
going to deep clean your house,you're going to take care of
the house next door, you'regoing to knock out the cars,
like the whole thing.
Right, you can do a lot ofcleaning.
Okay, if you just hit this oneon repeat.
Um, but, yeah, it is.
It is very short.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I don't know where this came from, but I I thought
it was awesome I agree, yeah,this one had to have been built
for social media, right like.
I feel like that had to havebeen a conversation of like hey,
we're gonna be touring inbrazil, let's like produce a
song, you know yeah, and if youtranslate the lyrics, it's just
about partying in brazil, right?
Exactly, but I agree with youlike it, I loved it, like it's
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an odd song in a way, but I, Iloved it like I really.
Yeah, you could just put that onrepeat and keep listening to it
three, four times and then it'dbe the length of a normal song.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah at first I was like that's only a minute,
should I leave it on here?
And then I'm like no, you knowwhat?
No, this is staying.
This is staying on here.
It's too good.
I'm glad you kept it all right.
Your last pick it is calledokay, okay, okay, by fits and
the tantrums yeah, there's notmuch to say about this song.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
it is in the sense that it's like, if you like Fitz
and the Tantrums, you're goingto like this song.
Like that's like the summationof basically everything that
they produce.
It's not an insult, it worksfor them right, it absolutely
works for them.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
We talk about this all the time.
If you have a winning formula,stick with that winning formula.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Exactly, exactly.
As long as it keeps winning foryou like, don't change it you
don't need to change it, don'toverthink it, don't overthink it
yeah, exactly, and I I thinkthat's exactly what's happening
here.
Um, because it's got all theclassic things right, like high
energy voice, you know, highenergy beat got the hand
clapping they love a good handclap like super earworm chorus.
(29:43):
Um, it's, it's, they've got asong called hand clap, they love
it so much literally do yes, soit's great, it's great fun um,
yeah, I think you're exactlyright.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I love how we kind of picked, put our you know two
high note songs, if you will, atthe end of this track back or
at the end of this mix back toback.
But yeah, there's just kind ofnot much to the lyrics here.
You know, put your hands up.
You know you want to dance, nah, nah, nah, and we're out right,
like it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
They're almost like the Black Eyed Peas of like alt
rock.
You know like they're that's agreat analogy.
Like there's not much happeningin their music, but like we
keep listening to them anyway,there's not a deeper philosophy
here.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Right, right, but it's like man aren't you happy
now?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
And it's like, yeah, I guess I am Right, yeah, I hate
to say it, but yes, I actuallyam.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That is a great analogy.
They are the black eyed peas ofwhatever genre you want to put
them in.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
All right.
Well, there you have it.
Another super awesome mix foryour collection, this time new
music for the month of July, ourseventh new music mix of the
year more than halfway throughthe year very exciting turning
point there.
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Sam and I will get to work onour next mixes.
So for sam, this is matt.
We'll see you next time.
welcome back to another super awesome mix.
My name is matt, set homealongside my co-host and
co-founder of super awesome mix,sam abusalbi sam.
How are we doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
doing real well.
I gotta say, um, your new musicpicks this month are really
good.
There were some that I'm soexcited.
I literally favorited them.
I've had them on repeat.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh my gosh, I know it's only taken me five years to
finally get you kind of onboard with some songs.
I actually now, as I waspicking a couple of these, I
definitely was like, oh, sam'sgonna love this one, yeah yeah
so no, it's true.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
There were several where I again did the double
take of like wait, did I pickthis or did Matt pick this?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
because it was right up my alley, so it was great
well, you definitely had acouple great ones as well, so
always excited to get into thenew music.
Um, as we talked about, youknow, summer is when things
start to peak a little bit with,like the big time artists
coming out with new stuff, so Ithink we've got a lot of big
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names on this too.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, absolutely, and we will start with one.
That should be no surprise toany longtime listener that he is
top of your new music mix, andit is Unsatisfied Heart by Bruce
Springsteen.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I will say, though, he doesn't come out with new
music all that often, so to puthim on a new music mix is rare.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's true, right that's true, it is Well done.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So here's what Bruce did.
Well, he sold his music cataloga couple years ago for like
half a billion dollars orsomething like that, and I think
that's probably what promptedthis to happen, because he
released a collection calledTracks 2.
Now, a couple decades ago, hehad one called Tracks.
That was really it was likefour CDs worth at the time,
(02:01):
right, and it was just acollection of songs that just
didn't make the cut on certainalbums right.
This time this is being, youknow, marketed as seven complete
albums that he just never putout there, which is just insane
when you think about from like avolume of work.
I mean, he's got 20 plus albumsout there and then to say, yeah
(02:24):
, I got seven others that justwere never published and so they
decide to put them all outright now.
Pretty interesting collection.
I have listened to all sevenalbums.
At this point, sam, I don'tthink you need to go and do that
.
That's not part of yourhomework.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Great, but I was never going to do it.
Yeah, you never told me.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And I appreciate that honesty from you.
Okay, great, I was never goingto do it.
Yeah, you're never going to doit, and I appreciate that
honesty from you, okay, and fromthe listeners out there.
But, yeah, so I picked justthis one and it's Unsatisfied
Heart.
I think it fits kind ofthematically with sort of what
you know about Bruce, in thatthere is this.
It's really good songwritingand it has this overall question
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of can you live with anunsatisfied heart.
Of course he has a much biggerhit called hungry heart, which
kind of falls in the same lineand that one's kind of an anthem
and everyone knows that one.
That one was kind of a top 10hit.
So it's interesting to listen tothis and a lot of the songs on
these albums and even thesealbums in whole, because you
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start to see why they weren'tout there to a certain degree,
right, I don't think this is aperfect song.
I think it's a pretty good songand that's what I found on this
collection is it's a lot ofpretty good songs.
And I liken it to if you watchlike college sports and then you
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turn on the pros the next dayyou realize that the guy you
thought was pretty good, thenext day probably isn't making
it at this level, right?
So you know, the first album onthis collection is from like
1983.
Well, a year later he put outborn in the usa, which is just a
mega hit and you know the thehe went on the equivalent of
like the Eros tour at that point, right right.
(04:08):
The 1980s equivalent of thatwith all the stadium shows he
did.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Just touring on that album.
But yeah, like the 1983 albumthat was out the year before,
that he never published doesn'treally live up to that level.
So anyway, it's good.
There are some pretty goodsongs on this entire collection.
I think this is a pretty goodsong but overall nothing's
perfect and really blows youaway.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Right.
As you said, it was edited outfor a reason.
I feel that way about uncutmovies.
Like the director uncut version, I'm like you know what.
It was better with the cuts.
It was just a tighter story,like there's a reason that we
watched the cut version and notthe uncut version in the
theaters.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Um, I would love for it to further cut a movie,
sometimes right like two and ahalf hours.
It could be an hour 50 andyou'd probably still get it,
yeah right?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
no, totally I feel that way about the last season,
like the most recent season ofum, stranger things.
It was like 15 hours and itcould have been like four.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You know, like okay yeah, we could have paired some
things off right, we could havetaken some things down.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, um no, but I think I agree with you.
This is like a good bruce song.
It's not like incredible, um.
The one note I had about it,though, is that he asked that
question can you live with anunsatisfied heart in the song so
many times that it becamealmost like the psychological
earworm, because then I startedto question my own life and I'm
(05:36):
yes, that's right.
No thinking about like yeah,like, what am I unsatisfied with
?
And oh my god, can I live withthat?
Like I really I found myselfspiraling a bit because of his
words.
So it was, it was intense.
It was an intense emotionaljourney.
I went on because, like atfirst you know it's like it,
just he repeats it so many times.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He can't help but not question it, yeah yeah, I mean,
this song is like five and ahalf minutes long and it could
have been three and a half and Ithink it kind of speaks to the
you know why wasn't, why isn'tthis out there?
Why isn't this like a top 10hit or something for Bruce?
And it's like, yeah, you couldprobably tell, and that's the.
That's part of the reason.
I put it on here is just tokind of show what you're dealing
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with.
So if anyone, like I, wasexcited to get into tracks too
and excited to get into trackstoo and, like I said, there are
some songs I really enjoyed onhere, but I thought something
like this was very emblematic ofpretty good sound, pretty good
songwriting, but yeah, this is.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
this is the JV, this is not the varsity, you know,
yeah totally All right, yourfirst pick.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You go with Samurai by Lupe Fiasco featuring Troy
Tyler.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, I had forgotten about Lupe Fiasco.
He's an artist that I listenedto a lot like 20-something years
ago and I really, really likedhis albums and then I just kind
of forgot and he's got some newmusic and I'm like, oh yeah, I
really like his sound and I'vebeen listening to more of his
music again recently, mostly thestuff from 20 years ago.
(07:03):
But I really like this one.
I especially like the, reallylike this one.
I especially like the storybehind this one.
So apparently amy winehousefamously left a voicemail um for
salam remi saying I keep comingup with battle raps and they're
just pouring out of me likewu-tang stuff but really neat,
very beautifully alliteratedlittle battle raps.
Um, and she's literally saysI'm, you know, I'm coming for
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you, I'm, I'm a samurai.
And so lupe writes a songimagining a world where, um, she
basically goes on to becomelike a hip-hop battle artist, um
, and and hence the name samurai, which is also the name of the
album um that he's released.
So I really, really enjoyed thestory and I I love the
imagining and he does a lot ofthat kind of stuff.
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I feel like many of his songsthat come to mind, he imagines
worlds where, like, things aredifferent, um, like a totally
different timeline.
Something else has happened, soI think this is right up his
alley in that regardthematically, but I liked it and
and I'm happy that he's stillmaking new music that's really
cool.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Like I love that backstory behind it and I mean
what a twist that would havebeen if Amy Winehouse started
putting out rap albums, you know.
Right, right so many artistsare doing crossover things right
now because you can kind ofjust do it and put it out there
for streaming purposes, right.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
yeah, you don't have to kind of finish a whole album.
Necessarily We've talked aboutkind of the difference between
the old music business and thenew one, but yeah, I love that.
I think that would have been areally cool thing.
This was a cool song.
I just I love the beat, I love,I think the lyrics were really
fun.
Even without the backstorythere, I think it was just kind
of a cool song and I, you know,definitely got into it and you
(08:40):
know this was one we talk aboutthis from time to time where you
can kind of drop the lyrics andjust the beat alone can kind of
stand by itself.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Absolutely yeah, and Lupe does that really well.
All right.
Track number three this is theone that I immediately favorited
and had to listen to like twoor three times before going
further in the mix, and this isEvil Twin by Lindsey Stirling
featuring Shuba.
Okay, so Sam were you familiarwith Lindsey Stirling?
Prior to this I had heard ofher.
(09:08):
I think I'd heard one or two ofher songs but I never really
pieced it together, so onlyvaguely familiar.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, she's a violinist and she's kind of best
known for mixing classicalmusic with hip hop and
electronic.
She's got a massive YouTubefollowing because she also
choreographed some of thesethings as well, so she's got a
lot of cool videos out there.
Shuba is an artist who kind ofmixes Bollywood with like pop
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rap, so she kind of sort ofmixes genres as well.
So, putting these folkstogether, you were going to get
something.
I think this is a super uniquesong.
I mean I guess it's kind ofelectronic or dance.
Putting these folks together,you were going to get something.
I think this is a super uniquesong.
I mean I guess it's kind ofelectronic or dance, but there's
the violin throughout as well.
So I don't know, it's just thisreal cool collaboration between
these artists, kind of, youknow, putting together all that
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they know, and I just loved it.
It's really just kind of astandout.
And Lindsey Stirling's really,I mean she does a lot of stuff
like this, so you could easilygo down a rabbit hole of looking
at her YouTube stuff or gettinginto her music on, you know,
whatever streaming serviceyou're on, and I think you'd
really enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, I basically fell down that rabbit hole and
it's a lot of fun.
No, and you know, the otherthing that I thought was so cool
is like it has, and um, thoselike Arabic sounding, you know,
elements that make sense likefrom the from the Bollywood
background.
Um, and I think Arabic music isalso really good at being mixed
in with electronic music becauseit's also very heavy on on like
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bass beats and drum beats andall that kind of thing which are
just obviously natural elementsof of EDM.
So I love this song and drumbeats and all that kind of thing
, which are just obviouslynatural elements of EDM.
So I love this song.
I love the mega mash of all ofthese different elements that
just work really really welltogether.
So, yeah, this is one that willbe on repeat and I'm going to
go ahead and call it it's goingto be on the best of the year.
Wow, yeah, for sure.
(11:00):
I'd be shocked if somethingdisplaces this.
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
We'll for sure.
I'd be shocked if somethingdisplaces this.
We'll see.
We'll see.
That's also when, when, whenyou can put a song out there,
that the other person picks fortheir, their top 12 for the year
, that's totally yeah uh well,good, all right, your next pick.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It is daydreams by effin and nightmare yeah, it's
funny that again withoutplanning it, we put two of our
kind of like heavy electronicthings like right next to each
other.
Fn is an artist that I'vefeatured before, really heavy on
samples and like bass heavymusic.
So I saw that they have morereleases, this time being helped
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out by Nightmare.
This has like a loungy feel,but it's really heavy and just
super heavy bass.
Like this is one of those songswhere, like you don't want to
play it on like your iphonespeaker out loud, you know,
because like you're missing thepoint yeah, it's gonna be so
like tinny and like whatever.
But if you put on like somelegit headphones or you have
giant subwoofers in your car,like I used to, you're gonna
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love it.
Um, and that's really the.
The purpose of this song, in myopinion, is just that if you're
a bass head, you're going tolove it.
So that's why I included thissong on the mix.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, this one vaguely had elements of it of
that song from the it soundtrackthat you made me listen to on
the Worst Mix Ever.
It had a few elements of thatbut it was not as disjointed as
that one.
So it actually works here right.
So it has that kind of eeriefeel, even though it's called
Daydream, but the artist'snightmare.
(12:32):
But I think there's a goodephemeral quality to the whole
song throughout that.
I don't know I liked it, but itdid evoke a memory of that song
.
But that song was completelyunenjoyable, whereas this one
was pretty good.
This is the good version ofthat song.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, I like that Also.
Anytime I listen to music likethis, it reminds me of the Keane
Peale skit where he puts ondubstep while they're moving.
Are you familiar with that one?
I'm not.
Okay, you're going to have towatch it because it's spot on,
it's spot on.
I won't spoil it for you, it'sgreat.
So that plays in my head rentfree Anytime I listen to bass,
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heavy music like that.
Nice, okay, all right.
So track number five, your nextpick, and it is any day now by
cold war kids.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, I love the energy on this one, just like
the way that his voice sounds.
It of the energy on this one,just like the way his voice
sounds.
It's specifically about RichardSwift, who was in the Shins and
he passed away in 2018.
And it's kind of biographicalabout him and they're kind of
talking about, you know, sort ofhis rise and sort of how he
started to work with all thesedifferent people and, you know,
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richard Swift was someone whostruggled with alcoholism and,
you know, probably I don't thinkhe died directly of that, but
probably complications of that.
Yeah, so I mean, it's a cooltribute because I think it's a
great sounding song.
It's very specific.
So it is something where, like,I was interested to be like
(14:02):
what are they talking about?
Because I don't think it'snecessarily really obvious and I
didn't know the name RichardSwift just right offhand, right,
that wasn't a household name inmy mind, but I know the Shins
and you can kind of get into thebackstory from there.
But, yeah, I just thought itwas one just a good-sounding
song on its own, but also justkind of a cool backstory as well
(14:23):
.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I agree.
I like songs that tell a storythe whole way through, and this
one does that very well.
Like you can just kind of getinto it because you feel like
you're being sung a story aboutthis individual.
So I really like that.
The other thing I'm reallycurious about is they mentioned
the song that was potentiallywritten by Mark Ronson and Ryan
Adams called I Am Richard Swift,and they mentioned that they
don't know if it exists or not.
(14:44):
So I'm thinking we get theirpeople on the phone try to find
out.
You know, we get our people tocall their people try to find
out if that song exists, wedon't need to make that call
ourselves, but I think ourpeople do to their people?
Yeah, exactly, exactly, and seeif we can't make that happen,
yeah.
Well, Ryan.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Adams seems pretty easy going, so he's probably up
for a random phone call likethat right.
Yeah, I think so.
Everything that I know abouthim tells me that that's true.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yes, every account out there, that's a guy who
loves a cold call.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's exactly right, all right.
Track six I love this artist'sname.
This is Rest of my Life byDaisy the Great.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, same.
So Daisy the Great.
I was first introduced to thislittle duo from an AJR song
because AJR and Daisy the Greathad a song called Record Player.
They're both based out ofBrooklyn so it totally makes
sense that they would do a songtogether.
The two singers here are KellyNicole Dugan and Mina Walker,
and they're almost like anAmerican wet leg.
You know, like wet leg it'slike the.
It's like the Britishcounterpart across the pond, if
you will, but they're like indiealt sound.
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I think this is like kind of ayou know it has it's like a fun,
cute song but it also, you know, kind of talks about the
impermanence of things.
You know that she sings likestanding in the yard it doesn't
seem so hard for a flower in thegarden.
Why do things so perfect, haveto grow and die so often?
Um, and I just you know she'slike questioning all these
things that we, I think,naturally think about all the
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time in like a cute, fun littleindie pop way, um, and I think
daisy the great does that verywell.
So I really like the song and Ilike their sound.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, I thought of Wet Leg as well when I was
listening to this.
I kind of did a double take tobe like are you sure this is not
maybe a new Wet?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Leg song.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But this one also had a question in it.
You talked about unsatisfiedheart at the top of the mix.
This one, would you want toknow me for the rest of my life?
Which I thought was just kindof an interesting question,
because that is really what likemarriage is, or theoretically
it would be, for you know soundslike about 50% of people or
more that it's not that, but intheory that's what it is right.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Well, no, it's true, and in a way, even if you get
divorced, I would argue, likefor most of the people, you're
going to know this person forthe rest of your life, right
Like they will be a chapter thatwill be hard to move on from,
even if you try.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So that's also a possibility, even if you don't
know them, you still get updateson that person.
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, facebook is still going to throw them in
your face.
At some point, do you remember10 years ago, you married this
person?
How's that going your face atsome point.
Do you remember 10 years agoyou married this person?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
how's that going, y'all still happy.
I've never thought about that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, memories like that that pop up on your right
yeah, apple iphone just makingyou sob uncontrollably on a
random tuesday morning.
Do you remember when you werehappy, happy tuesday?
Do you remember when you werehappy, happy Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
There's got to be a business out there designed to
just scrub your old social mediafeeds, right.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Exactly, yeah, exactly, all right.
This next pick is another onethat I really loved and one that
I kept listening to over andover again and this is Cheeky by
the Dare.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, the Dare is Harrison Patrick Smith.
He is a West Coast singer andmusician.
I say West Coast because he'sbased, I think, in Hollywood,
but he kind of grew up inSeattle so he's just almost on
that side of the country.
Interesting because I mean, theenergy here is cool.
I just love the way he raps inthis song.
(18:30):
It kind of reminded me of oldRun DMC that's kind of what it
evoked in my mind.
It's pretty different and Iadmit this is not kind of the
stuff I would normally bring tothe mix.
So it doesn't surprise me thatyou're kind of like hey, I
really like this because it'snot kind of just standard, what
(18:50):
I'd normally pick out.
But this one just kind of stoodout to me and I was like, wow,
this is really cool.
And kind of like you did withEvil Twin, I think I listened to
this one multiple times afterhearing it for the first time.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, and this was one of the ones where I
specifically was like is this mysong or Matt's song?
Because it definitely soundslike something I would pick.
It reminds me of LCD SoundSystem too.
I think we've talked about theDare before, because I remember
making that comparison, but itkind of has that same vibe to it
of kind of a guy more or lesslike talking or rapping over
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like a very heavy, repeatablebeat.
I also really liked the secondverse, where he sings I'm so
cheeky, I'm like he, he, you'relike ha ha ha, Hello, you say.
I say voulez-vous coucher avecmoi?
You're so cheeky, Aren't youBritish baby?
I'm from NYC.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I mean, he just keeps going on and it's like this
back and forth, and it's a lotof than that.
I'm reading it here, which isweird.
It's weird, yeah, it's weird,that that's better at that than
you, I.
I can't explain that.
Yeah me, neither, me, neither.
All right track eight.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
This is outside by cardi b yeah, cardi b is another
artist that, um, I tend toforget that.
Like she's got music that Ilove, um, and tell her that I
know because I'll be on the disstrack.
Right, you don't want beef withcardi b sam no, you really don't
, and that's very evident inthis song, because it's a
(20:18):
fantastic diss track, um, butyou know what I love?
You know what got me thinkingabout this, especially with
bruce at the top of the mix here.
Like diss tracks work so wellin the hip-hop world, like, can
you imagine Bruce with a disstrack?
Like that's what got me, like,giggling to myself.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Like what would that sound?
Like jeez, if he finally wentright at Billy Joel, right for
dragging that piano all over NewYork, right God.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I think there's a real opportunity here.
Yeah, I think there's a realopportunity.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I would love it if some straight-ahead rock and
roll artists came out with likejust had a diss track and yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, and got into each other.
Yeah, like you know, like thewhole Drake and Kendrick thing,
we could have a Bruce and Billything, Like that'd be fun for us
.
They definitely have stories oneach other right, like there's
no doubt they know things, butyeah, why don't they ever come
forward with it?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
yeah, this is sammy hagar, sammy hagar and david lee
roth.
I mean they never had disstracks about the other right,
that seems insane, but thatnever existed.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, yeah, and maybe it'd be therapeutic.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know, get those, get that energy out there
singing you do wonder yeah,that's a great point you wonder
if rappers are just happier thanrock and rollers because they
get that out there because theyget it out there yeah, who knows
, they're not harboring any ofthose feelings they're just
healthy.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They're emotionally healthy people.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
But this is a great song.
I love how she raps, like she'sjust so you know it sounds so
silly to say that, but it's like, you know, it sounds so
effortless where I will say thatthis back to back with the dare
.
The dare, you think, had topractice that and had to really
get to where where, like this,just seems to flow out of her
(22:07):
very naturally and so, um, I'mgonna go ahead and say it on
this, I'm gonna go on the recordcardi b is a better rapper than
the dare.
Okay, that's controversialopinion, but that's what you're
here for, that's why another?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
that's why you listen .
Yeah, another bold statementhere.
Wow, I need a second to recoverfrom that before we that on.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's going to go viral on TikTok when we put that
out there.
No, but this is awesome.
Also really cool, she gives ashout out to Asia Wilson of the
Las Vegas Aces.
So you know the WNBA keepsrising in popularity and I think
you know no better example thanthey're starting to get shout
outs in rap music.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Absolutely, yeah, no, I love that, that's awesome.
All music absolutely yeah, no,I love that, that's awesome.
All right track number nine aanother artist we've featured
before this is chester fieldsand aftershave by dropkick
murphy's yeah, dropkick murphy'shave a new album coming out.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
they are actually it is out and uh probably best
known for their song shipping upto boston, which I think is
what we featured on our baseballclosers mix way back.
I think this was JonathanPapelbon of the Red Sox at the
time.
That's what he'd come out with.
So they've got great energy ontheir songs, right.
(23:18):
But this one's cool because it'sthis kind of nostalgia song
about him thinking about hisgrandfather and how his
grandfather would probably hatethis song.
He kind of calls it out likethis is too loud, I don't want
to listen to this, even thoughit is kind of a tribute to him.
So even if it's notChesterfields which are
cigarettes and aftershave, evenif that's not what evokes
(23:41):
memories for you, I think justsort of the construction of this
song will kind of, you know,lend itself to you thinking back
on your grandfather orgrandmother or parents or
whomever, like some elder thatyou've lost.
So I think they just do areally good job here and even if
you don't directly relate tothis, I think you can kind of in
your own head at least this iswhat my mind does it kind of
(24:03):
evokes those same memories thatare relevant to you and not
their memories here.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, no, I agree, it's fun to think about that.
There's like a certaincigarette brand.
I think it's Kent, I can'tremember.
That is instantly mygrandparents' house, like
instantly, because they werereally heavy smokers.
May they rest in peace, becausethat's what ended up killing
them.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Oh, I'm just going to pause here in the show.
Take all the time you need, Sam.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
They were wonderful people, wonderful people.
But they grew up in a time whenthey grew up in a time when
cigarettes, yeah, were like, notnot unhealthy, right, like they
were a good thing for you to toconsume in mass.
Um, but, yes, anytime I smellit, I'm instantly, instantly
transported back to to beingaround them, which I think is
(25:02):
really nice.
Um, I love to the song.
Um, I love that, everythingthat they sing.
I feel like it's like a barsong, like you could, you could
just imagine like everyone beingin a bar singing along with it,
and I think that that's reallyfun agreed, agreed.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Now your next pick.
Again.
This is another great artistname.
Okay, uh, the track is calledHigh Horse and the group is
Proper Monday Number.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, I really like the name too, and it's funny
because this is one where Ialmost was like, am I listening
to this one that I picked, orlike the Dare song that you
picked?
Because they're very similar toeach other in a way.
But yeah, this is just anotherkind of.
I find it like addicting in aweird way, like the more I
listen to it, the more I want tolisten to it, even though
(25:47):
there's nothing particularlylike I don't know, there's
nothing that stands out about itimmediately to you, right, but
something about it, you know.
It's off of an ep called deepclean your house, which I think
is really funny and I I kind ofunderstand it, because I feel
like this is the type of musicyou could just put on in the
background and just get into arepeatable task like deep
(26:07):
cleaning your house, you knownext thing you know, every line
of grout is perfectly white yourhouse sparkles because you're
listening to this EP and I alsoreally just love like what he.
You know what.
Keep singing.
Stop what you're doing now.
Get off your high horse Anotherphrase that we probably very
(26:30):
often want to shout at people,so I like it for that element
too.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, this one immediately reminded me of the
Depeche Mode song.
I Just Can't Get Enough.
That's sort of like the beatthat it had with it, and so I
thought for a second I was like,are they sampling this?
Like where are they going withthis?
Then the beat sort of divergesin kind of a weird way and then
sort of comes back together.
So I thought it was to yourpoint about like why do I keep?
(26:56):
Why is this sucking me in?
I think it's got a reallyinteresting, interesting
construction to it, Like it kindof draws you in a little bit
and it has that sort of throughline beat.
So, um, yeah, really, really Imean similar to um, kind of the
Lindsey Stirling track earlier.
It's just kind of a unique song, right, like I can't really
compare it to anything else.
(27:17):
Um, but that's the closestthing I could find was that
Depeche Mode song.
But yeah, well done.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
All right, your last pick here, song that comes in
just under a minute.
We talked about songs gettingshorter and shorter, but this is
Bande do Brunel by Bruno Mars.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, I can't really explain this one.
Right, it's Bruno Mars.
It's in Portuguese, I guesshe's talking about partying in
Brazil, and I mean talk aboutjust showing up, bringing a ton
of energy and getting out, right, right, like that's all this is
.
But you could put this hit therepeat button on this one.
(27:56):
You want to talk about deepcleaning your house, like you're
going to deep clean your house,you're going to take care of
the house next door, you'regoing to knock out the cars,
like the whole thing.
Right, you can do a lot ofcleaning.
Okay, if you just hit this oneon repeat.
Um, but, yeah, it is.
It is very short.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I don't know where this came from, but I I thought
it was awesome I agree, yeah,this one had to have been built
for social media, right like.
I feel like that had to havebeen a conversation of like hey,
we're gonna be touring inbrazil, let's like produce a
song, you know yeah, and if youtranslate the lyrics, it's just
about partying in brazil, right?
Exactly, but I agree with youlike it, I loved it, like it's
(28:35):
an odd song in a way, but I, Iloved it like I really.
Yeah, you could just put that onrepeat and keep listening to it
three, four times and then it'dbe the length of a normal song.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah at first I was like that's only a minute,
should I leave it on here?
And then I'm like no, you knowwhat?
No, this is staying.
This is staying on here.
It's too good.
I'm glad you kept it all right.
Your last pick it is calledokay, okay, okay, by fits and
the tantrums yeah, there's notmuch to say about this song.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
it is in the sense that it's like, if you like Fitz
and the Tantrums, you're goingto like this song.
Like that's like the summationof basically everything that
they produce.
It's not an insult, it worksfor them right, it absolutely
works for them.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
We talk about this all the time.
If you have a winning formula,stick with that winning formula.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Exactly, exactly.
As long as it keeps winning foryou like, don't change it you
don't need to change it, don'toverthink it, don't overthink it
yeah, exactly, and I I thinkthat's exactly what's happening
here.
Um, because it's got all theclassic things right, like high
energy voice, you know, highenergy beat got the hand
clapping they love a good handclap like super earworm chorus.
(29:43):
Um, it's, it's, they've got asong called hand clap, they love
it so much literally do yes, soit's great, it's great fun um,
yeah, I think you're exactlyright.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I love how we kind of picked, put our you know two
high note songs, if you will, atthe end of this track back or
at the end of this mix back toback.
But yeah, there's just kind ofnot much to the lyrics here.
You know, put your hands up.
You know you want to dance, nah, nah, nah, and we're out right,
like it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
They're almost like the Black Eyed Peas of like alt
rock.
You know like they're that's agreat analogy.
Like there's not much happeningin their music, but like we
keep listening to them anyway,there's not a deeper philosophy
here.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Right, right, but it's like man aren't you happy
now?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
And it's like, yeah, I guess I am Right, yeah, I hate
to say it, but yes, I actuallyam.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That is a great analogy.
They are the black eyed peas ofwhatever genre you want to put
them in.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
All right.
Well, there you have it.
Another super awesome mix foryour collection, this time new
music for the month of July, ourseventh new music mix of the
year more than halfway throughthe year very exciting turning
point there.
Um, you could follow us onsocial media at super awesome
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Sam and I will get to work onour next mixes.
So for sam, this is matt.
We'll see you next time.
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