September 25, 2025 • 37 mins
What happens when you search for songs with the word "fall" in the title? A musical journey spanning decades, genres, and emotions that will surprise you at every turn.
Matt Sidhom and Sam Abousalbi dive deep into twelve tracks united only by a single word, uncovering fascinating stories behind each song. Did you know Tom Petty's iconic "Free Fallin'" was initially rejected by producers, only to be accepted unchanged six months later? Or that Post Malone's heartbreak anthem "I Fall Apart" transforms completely when remixed for spin classes?
The mix weaves through Kenny Chesney's nostalgic football tribute, Maggie Rogers' metaphorical "Falling Water," and the pure vocal harmonies of Shai's acapella "If I Ever Fall In Love." We explore the emotional weight of "Falling Slowly" from the Oscar-winning film Once, the edgy punk-infused sound of Weezer's "Falling For You," and the soaring hopefulness of Chloe and Halle's "Fall."
Each song reveals something unique about how artists interpret the concept of falling – whether it's falling in love, falling apart, or simply embracing the fall season. The conversations highlight how a single word can connect vastly different musical expressions while exposing the hosts' genuine passion for musical discovery.
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1. Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
2. The Boys of Fall - Kenny Chesney
3. Fallingwater - Maggie Rogers
4. If I Ever Fall in Love - Shai
5. The Sky is Fallin' - Queens of the Stone Age
6. When I Fall in Love - Celine Dion featuring Clive Griffin
7. Falling For You - Weezer
8. Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
9. I Fall Apart - Post Malone
10. Fallen - Imagine Dragons
11. Fall - Chloe x Halle
12. Fall - Eminem
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix.
My name is Matt Sidholm,alongside my co-host and
co-founder of Super Awesome Mix,sam Abusabi.
Sam, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Doing real well.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Doing great, Doing great, Doing great.
We're here today to well, in avery funny way, I think talk
about the changing of theseasons.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, it's funny.
So I put together this mix justoff of the title, the fall mix,
and then I realized that it was.
I had thought that we were justgoing to do literally songs
that kind of remind you of afall in autumn, but then I
remembered that we talked aboutactually making it quite
literally song with the wordsfall or falling, yeah and so I
(00:56):
had to do like I had to do likea double take on your song.
So I was like wait, wow, theyall have fall in them.
I was like oh right, I rememberthis conversation.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yes, I think a couple of years ago we did like an
autumn mix right Specificallyfor the season, and this year we
decided to just take itliterally and just say, all
right, let's look at songs withthe word fall in some way shape
or form in them in order to kindof recognize the uh, the
transition of seasons absolutelyyes, no, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Um, I actually enjoy these because two reasons.
One, it's it's um alwaysentertaining to see what kinds
of songs you can find wheneveryou search for a specific word.
Two, it is actually easier, insome regard, to put together
these mixes because you can justdo like a quick search and just
scroll through all the songsthat have this word in them,
which there are way more thanthan I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But yeah, there's a ton of them.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
There's a lot of them , yeah, I wonder what the most
common song title is, actuallyum now that I think you mean
word in a song title yeah,exactly yes yeah, I mean it's
got to be something like love,right?
Oh yeah, I bet yes so maybe thesecond most.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Maybe that's the curiosity.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, no, but it was a good mix and I really liked
this.
It's like an eclectic mix andwe've got a lot of everything.
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think so.
Yeah, it was kind of funbecause, like you're right, it
is a common word used in a lotof song titles, so as a result,
we're able to put together a lotof different genres here from a
lot of different time periods.
So that was also fun, all right.
So let's get the mix started.
This is a very popular songwith the word Fallen and it is
Free Fallen by Tom Petty.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I'm not sure we've ever talked about this
particular song in our five plusyears of doing this, this show
which is amazing because youknow, according to rolling
stones it's 179 on the 500greatest songs of all time.
So um song we certainly need totalk about on super awesome mix
and obviously you know we'reworking on our own 500 greatest
songs um mix.
(03:00):
Probably at some point in thefuture we're going to be as
important, if not more important, than the rolling stone uh list
, I would say you know, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That'll be one of those remember the old telethons
that they used to do, likewhere they just like be you know
it'd be a 12-hour show in orderto raise money for something.
Yes, okay, so we'll do a 500song mix and it'll it'll be a
charity fundraiser and we'lljust be talking for 24 hours, or
something like that if you canstomach us for 24 hours, uh, you
(03:32):
might be paying to just get usto stop talking um yeah but
anyway, um yeah, so free fallenby tom petty amazing song.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Uh, what I really found interesting and I didn't
know this I always love lookingat these little fun facts about
songs but he initially wasrejected when he submitted the
song, so the producers didn'twant to make this recording
studio wasn't interested, so hejust waited six months and then
resubmitted it with no changesand they were like oh my God, we
love this song, this is great.
And I just think that's sofunny because I've actually I've
(04:01):
had experiences like that inlike English class.
There was a teacher of mine.
We had this whole writingworkshop for six weeks.
This whole thing that she puton was in eighth grade.
She didn't like a piece that Isubmitted, so I literally just
rearranged it and just I didn'tchange anything.
I just moved a couple ofparagraphs here and there so it
looked different, but it was theexact same paper and then she
(04:23):
loved it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, dana carvey and david spade have a podcast and
they talk a lot about their dayson saturday night live and they
talk about how people will kindof bring the same ideas week
after week for sketch sketchesand it kind of turns into this
didn't you do that three weeksago?
But like then all of a suddenit's like oh no, yeah, that
finally got on and it was a bighit or whatever.
(04:48):
But they talk about how certainskits, like it took weeks of
people just kind of continuallyrunning the idea up the ladder
before it was like all right,we're going to do it yeah, yeah,
no, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So you know, you, you might be sitting on a song as
good as free fallen and thefirst time it's not going to go.
But just keep trying, you neverknow, maybe maybe you're
sitting on 179 of the 500 of thegreatest songs of all time, um,
and you just need to resubmitand give it a whirl.
So, uh, but yeah, it's a greatsong, obviously, and I have
always enjoyed listening to ityeah, I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
uh, pretty simple song, like a lot of tom Petty
songs.
Right, it's a three-chord rocksong pretty straight ahead.
I will always think of thescene in Jerry Maguire where
he's just signed his star clientand he's trying to celebrate.
And it's like such a datedscene now because instead of
like what we might do now, whichis just go to our phone and
find our favorite song and playit in celebration, he's just
(05:44):
scouring the radio dial tryingto find a song that will help
him kind of celebrate thismoment.
And he finally lands on FreeFallen and it's just Tom Cruise
in the car screaming Free Fallen.
But yeah, it's awesome but alsoa very dated scene that I'm
sure young people can't reallyunderstand dated scene that I'm
(06:06):
sure young people can't reallyunderstand.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, that's quite old now.
All right, well, let's get onto your first pick.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Second track on the mix, it is the Boys of Fall by
Kenny Chesney.
Yeah, so this one has the wordfall in the title but also is
about the fall season,specifically about football.
Yeah, my best friend was acollege football coach and he
passed away a few years ago andwe played this song as kind of
part of a video tribute we puttogether for him.
(06:35):
I mean, I think it's kind of anawesome song, just even without
that emotional tie to itpersonally, I mean just because
if you love football, if youthink about, like high school
football specifically, I meanthis one will kind of get you
fired up for that.
But I know it's a very countrysong, it's a little slow, so I
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wasn't really sure what yourreaction would be to this one.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yes, it was mixed, it was decidedly mixed.
It only got a three out of 10on my Olympic country.
I thought it might be a lowscore, yeah it's a 3 out of 10
because it's so country.
However, the points earned werenostalgia-based points because,
like you, I grew up in Texas.
Texas is truly.
I mean, football is a religionin that state.
It's more than just a sportstate it's.
(07:28):
It's more than just a sport.
Um.
There's so much, so like muchritual around football in the
fall, especially, you know, inhigh school.
If you're at a high schoolwhere you're big, like football
school, um, it kind of dominateseverything that you do and so,
yes, just kind of I think henails it.
I think he nails kind of theculture of football.
You know, I love the line wherehe um talking about newspaper
clippings fill the coffee shopsand the old men will always
think they know it all.
(07:48):
You know, I mean that's like Ilearned pretty quickly in my
life that if I didn't, if Iwasn't able to kind of small
talk football, I wasn't going togo far in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Well, especially if you're in a small town, right?
Yeah, if you're in a small townand the people there have been
there a long time.
I mean they remember every team, every great player that's
rolled through there.
You know, I mean not to not toalways invoke bruce springsteen,
but he's got a song calledlocal hero.
That's exactly about thatphenomenon where it's like, yeah
, somebody just becomes kind ofa legend in their hometown just
(08:21):
because they were the guy inhigh school, regardless of kind
of where they went from thereright, yeah, no, totally um, so
it was, it was nice in thatregard, so it earned some points
.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
There it's um, it was good, it was nice in that way,
but but I'm probably not gonnalisten to it too much that's
fair.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's fair.
I did not think so putting iton here, but I felt like I had
to like this is.
This is the song I think when,when I think of fall, and it
luckily had the word in it um,all right, track three, your
next pick.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It is falling water by Maggie Rogers yeah, this is
actually one of my favorites, um, from Maggie Rogers.
Uh, we've talked about herbefore many times on the show.
What's funny again learningthese fun facts about these
songs.
Um, that I never realized.
But she actually produced thiswith a member of Vampire Weekend
which once I read that I waslike, oh, that makes so much
sense because you can hear theinfluence.
(09:10):
Like, if you listen to aVampire Weekend song, especially
off their earlier albums, andthen listen to this one, you can
absolutely see the through linebetween the two.
I love how the song builds.
I love how she sounds on it.
She has an amazing voice.
She's so talented in thatregard.
I love the bridge here wherethe beat kind of disappears for
a second and it's just got thishand clap in her voice.
(09:31):
It's pretty, it's emotional.
It almost builds like you wouldimagine falling water building.
It starts with a drip and thenit turns into just a fire
hydrant of water.
So I think it's really nice.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, I would agree.
I really like this song.
I think she uses water kind ofliterally and metaphorically in
it, which I think is pretty cool.
I love the line.
I never loved you fully in theway I could.
I fought the current runningjust the way you would and just
the like again, kind of the useof sort of water there, where
it's like you kind of have thisimagery, but also just I think
(10:09):
it's such a powerful line.
I never loved you fully in theway I could.
That could be done sort of in ahurtful way, but also in a
regretful way too, like I, Icould see people, depending on
kind of what their mindset is,listening to the song, just
getting wildly different, uh,emotions from it, which is which
is really interesting.
So, um, just really well done.
(10:30):
And I agree she always soundsgreat, like we're big fans of
her on this show.
So, um, yeah, it's a greattrack.
This is not one I was familiarwith previously, but really
enjoyed it nice, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
This next track, um, is one that I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
This might be my favorite, off of uh, off of your
picks, and it's, if I ever fallin love by shy, and this is the
acapella version yeah, so inthe in the early nineties,
around the time boys to menbecame popular, then like all of
a sudden there were a number ofkind of almost in the same way
a lot of boy bands popped up inthe late nineties.
(11:02):
It's like you had these R and Bgroups that were really into
harmonizing and just they couldreally sing.
And and Shy was one of thosegroups that kind of came and
went.
They had this.
They had another hit calledBaby I'm Yours.
They also did a version of thiswith music, but I hadn't
listened to this in a reallylong time.
But I just love the acapellaversion.
(11:25):
I think they do such a greatjob.
They sound amazing and just Ithink not having the music
behind them kind of adds alittle gravity to it and just
kind of gets it a little bitmore emotional than I think even
the version that's out therewhere they have some
instrumentation behind them.
But yeah, really cool to see,to revisit this song, because it
(11:49):
was a big hit, I think, when Iwas younger and also just kind
of part of a movement at thattime where you had you had a few
of these groups out there yeah,my first note here is that,
without looking at the song orthe date that it was released, I
knew it was from the early 90s.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I just instantly knew because, you're right, like
that, that was absolutely athing that was happening, like
there was just all these groupsI think the simpsons because the
simpsons has an episode andeverything.
Um, I think there's one calledthat that 90s show or something,
yeah, and they retell homer andmarge meeting, but they do it
in the in the 90s decade, um,and that's when he first joins a
(12:24):
band.
I believe it was this.
When he joins a group that'slike this, where he's like
harmonizing, it's an acapellagroup, yeah, and then, like he
gets depressed and he, hebasically founds nirvana.
Like he becomes, he becomes allgrungy and depressed and then
he's a band member, um, andthat's when he sings margarine
instead of uh, instead ofglycerine, by ah, yes, yes, yeah
(12:46):
that we've talked about on theshow.
So yeah, I knew it was from the90s, but um and so maybe that's
why I liked it as much as I did.
But you're right, the acapellaversion, I think, is just really
powerful and they do it reallyreally well.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
All right, your next pick it is the Sky has Fallen by
Queens of the Stone Age.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yes, a major vibe shift.
For sure we have a lot of thoseI feel like in this mix.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
So this, we have a lot of those, I feel like in
this mix.
Yeah, yes, it's.
Yeah, it's definitely like amix where you're gonna you're
gonna go through a lot ofemotions, probably, um,
different swings here and there,but so this is, um, it's kind
of funny.
This was written in 2002 andjosh home, the, of course, the
lead singer of queens of thestone age, um, was feeling like
the world was ending and sothat's, you know, and that
things were like really hard.
Um, and as we, you know, areoften so happy to report, now
(13:34):
that we're in 2025, everythingis great.
You know, we've solved allthose problems.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We left them in the past.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
We fixed everything.
Yeah, it feels, good.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It feels good, it's really nice.
Yeah, it's nice to listen tothese songs and you know you're
just like, oh man, can't.
Can you imagine if you werestressed about the world right
now?
I mean, what must that feellike?
Yeah, my kids are going to lookat me one day.
Dad, were you ever worriedabout anything in the world?
And I was like, no, not really,maybe as a kid.
(14:05):
But we kind of figured it outafter a while.
Yeah, we figured it out.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So yeah, so that's, that's number one.
I'm so happy we solved all theproblems.
Number two, obviously, like Ijust I love how the song sounds
and this is off of you know, thealbum songs for the deaf and I
think this actually is myfavorite song off of the album,
but I don't think it got a lotof playtime, like the singles
off of it.
Obviously, we're like go withthe flow and no one knows which
are both songs, but I'm gonna goon on record here and I think
(14:34):
this is actually a better songthan those two.
Um and I don't know.
It's just really interesting.
It shows more of their likemusical ability and um, and yeah
, just I love the song.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's been on repeat for a long time for me um, yeah,
that's an interesting kind ofphenomenon you pointed out there
, where it's like the biggestsingles from an album maybe
aren't the best song, right?
Another mix idea, I think, forfuture reference kind of
legendary albums and the songsyou may not know from them, not
to say this is a legendary album, but you know what I'm talking
(15:06):
about.
Yeah, it's a really strong rocksong.
They always kind of just bringit right when they're doing
their music and it's always ifyou like rock music you're going
to enjoy it.
I also appreciated at the endthey kind of had that, I think,
kind of longer than you wouldhave thought, probably 30, 45
seconds of the sort of radiokind of talking thing at the end
(15:28):
, which was just kind of funnyand just sort of broke it up a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And I want to listen to it in the context of the
album to see how it transitionsto the next song.
Yeah, I think most of the songson that album have like this
like radio theme at the end ofeach one, um, which I you know.
Again, I gotta say like they'refun whenever songs have these
built-in kind of outros or skits.
But whenever you just want,whenever you're listening to it
for like the hundredth time,you're kind of like, okay, I, I
can kind of do without this last.
(15:59):
I don't, I don't need thisanymore, please at least.
Tired of the bit, tired of thetired of the bit.
Just move on, I can't hear itanymore.
Um, all right, track number sixa, a beautiful song.
Um, you know, I feel like we'vetalked a lot about celine so
far this year, more so than wehave in any other year.
But this is.
When I Fall in Love.
Featuring Clive Griffin byCeline Dion.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, so this is not an original song.
It was actually written andrecorded originally in 1952,
first by Jerry Southern, andthen became popular later that
year when Doris Day recorded it.
Nat King Cole did a reallypopular version and his daughter
, natalie Cole, would kind ofintegrate his voice recording
with hers and I think they won aGrammy in 1996 by doing that.
(16:45):
But this version came around in1993 as part of the soundtrack
to the movie Sleepless inSeattle with Tom Hanks and Meg
Ryan, if anybody remembers thatone Really interesting, because
at this point Celine Dion is notnearly as popular as she would
be just a few years later.
(17:06):
When you get the, it's allcoming back to me now and some
of her kind of monster hits thatwould come later to me now and
some of her kind of monster hitsthat would come later.
so she was, I I think, kind ofon the rise at this point right,
not quite at her apex and thenyou have this voice with her,
clive griffin, who does anexcellent job on this song.
He's got an amazing voice.
But what's really funny is thatin this same year he put out
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his third and final album.
He's put out two singles sincethen and then nothing From a
like published work standpoint.
So this is actually one of hislast published works that's out
there and he still works inmusic, like does some
songwriting and does someproducing and stuff like that.
But it's kind of like you know,from here you don't really hear
(17:50):
about Clive Griffin anymore,but obviously Celine Dion just
takes off.
Anyway, she's got an amazingvoice and this song they just do
a great job of just thechanging voices and the duet and
it's really excellent, I think,the way they do this and also
kind of fits with the movie.
If you go back and watchSleepless in Seattle and then
(18:11):
kind of apply this to it, it'sreally kind of perfect.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yes, yeah, no, I like that movie.
It's not as good as the.
Oh my gosh.
I'm blanking on the title, theone based in New York, with the
bookstore.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You've Got Mail.
Yes, You've Got Mail.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I think that one is which is almost the exact same
movie, but like five years later.
Yeah, exactly Like, emotionally, shot for shot, like obviously
different settings, differentcities, different coastal cities
, but emotionally you go throughalmost the exact journey.
It's great yes, you know, wetalk a lot about winning
formulas um and and nora efronhad a winning, winning formula,
(18:51):
so why change?
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
yeah, well, and, and also tom hanks and meg ryan had
I mean, they did joe versus thevolcano, they did, they did.
This one, they did.
You've got mail.
Yeah, I mean, just just keepgoing back to that.
Well, there's nothing wrongwith that, exactly Okay.
Speaking of just going back tothat, well, okay, your next pick
, it Is Falling For you byWeezer.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yes, weezer, we bring them up all the time, but this
one is an interesting album.
This is Pinkerton.
I think it's one of their bestalbums before they went kind of
more poppy, like you can kind ofhear more of the punky version
of Weezer, and yet it's still aWeezer song, right, like they
still have that same sound thatthey continue now.
(19:32):
You know almost like what 30years later.
But it's more.
Yeah, it's just a little bitmore edgy.
It's not as like smoothed overas, like you know, like become a
little bit more edgy.
It's not as like smoothed overas as, like you know, like
become a little bit later.
So I really enjoyed it.
But I love this album.
Um, I think also the subjectmatter here is funny because
it's basically like this, youknow he says, um, holy moly, you
know, wouldn't you know it,just as I was busting loose I
(19:55):
gotta turn in my rock star cardand get fat and old with you.
He's like almost remorsefulthat he, you know, was like
taking off as a rock star, andthen he meets someone that he
really likes and he's fallingfor, and so now he feels like
he's just got to like turn inhis, his rock star lifestyle and
instead get fat and old withthis person.
So it's kind of funny.
It's cute in that regard, um,but uh, yeah, it's.
(20:17):
It's a great song and I thinkthat is an underrated album of
theirs.
It's, it's really good.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's one that I can listen to without skipping uh, I
think it is underrated and Ikind of have the same note that
it's just a perfect sort of likepop punk song that that we love
by Weezer, and you know we talkall the time about the sort of
that Weezer filter where you'regoing to get kind of uh, you
know, a little bit similarsounding, but it's a winning
formula, like like we justtalked about Tom Hanks and Meg
(20:42):
Ryan, but yeah, I mean this songespecially.
Even I just love thesongwriting in this one that
it's just both sad and hilariousat the same time.
I mean the second verse wherehe's just, you know, talking
about losing the cello in thebasement and then trying to play
it and he sucks at it and it'slike it's such an absurd scene,
but he also just sings it soseriously and emotionally that
(21:05):
it's like you really feel it.
So anyway, I really enjoyedthis one and I think you're
absolutely right about the wholealbum here that it definitely
gets kind of lost in the shuffleamongst their catalog.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Definitely.
Yeah, it definitely does Allright.
Track number eight another vibeshift.
This one is kind of sad, so youdefinitely does All right.
Track number eight another vibeshift.
This one is kind of sad, so youknow you have some tissues
nearby but it's Falling Slowlyby Glenn Hansard and Marketa
Erglova.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, this is from the movie Once, which became the
musical Once, which I think wasmore popular than the movie,
because I talked to someone acouple years ago who had just
seen Once and I said somethingabout seeing the movie and they
were like it was a movie, that'sawesome.
But these two, they had workedtogether, they called themselves
(21:55):
Swell Season and they wrote allthe music for this movie and
they act in it it as well, whichis really cool because all the
scenes where they're playing allthese songs, I mean the movie
like feels like a musical,because there are so many, you
know, moments in there wherethey are singing together and
playing music.
Um, but this song actually wonthem an oscar for best original
(22:17):
song, uh, in that particularyear.
Um, but the broadway productionwon like eight Tonys, like it
was a monster hit and I meanyou're Mr New York, so I mean
you might be able to speak tojust how popular it was.
But I have never seen themusical, I've only seen the
movie.
But I've always loved this one.
It's such a great song.
(22:38):
The whole soundtrack honestlyis awesome and I had bought the
soundtrack and again had it foryears.
Great song.
The whole soundtrack honestlyis awesome, and I had bought the
soundtrack and again had it foryears before.
People were like have you seenthis musical?
I was like wait, what aboutthis?
I have a CD that proves mystreet cred here as it relates
to wines.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Anyway, great song.
Yeah, I mean you thought it wascool before they all did.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Way before.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
That makes you super cool.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's a very pretty song.
I was not familiar withanything you just mentioned.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I didn't know about the movie.
I didn't know about the musical.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
This is, this is all news to me, um and you are in
new york city, new york, usa,correct, yes, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm a like 20 minute walk away from Broadway.
I mean technically, if you wantto be technical, broadway is
just a street.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But we're talking about Broadway.
I get it.
Oh, I apologize.
I apologize, I was taking ittoo literally.
Yeah, that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Anyway.
But no, I thought it was areally beautiful song, um, but a
very sad one right.
Like you know, take the sinkingboat, point at home, we've
still got time.
Just kind of talking about this, like you know, this sense, I
think, is so universal.
You can kind of be in arelationship and realize that
it's not going to work, it's gota timeline on it, but you still
have hope in a way, right liketake, take the sinking boat, but
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still point at home.
You know, like we've still, youknow, we still have time.
So I think that that is justincredible songwriting and it
sounds really pretty.
It's a beautiful song.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Well, speaking of someone going through something.
Track nine I Fall Apart by PostMalone.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, this is one of those ones, and this is probably
very unique to me as a humanbeing.
But this is a song I'd neverlistened to the original version
of.
I only ever listened to remixversions of it, because it came
out around the time that I was aspin instructor.
There was a really popularremix of this on SoundCloud, so
I only ever heard it sped up andso, as a result, I never really
listened to the lyrics, and soit wasn't until kind of this
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moment here in time, it's liketoday, I learned that this was a
breakup song, because I justnever paid attention to the
words.
I just really liked how itsounded, especially when it's
sped up.
It's great Like you can do areally good remix version of
this song.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Sure, but the line devil in the form of a whore
never really stood out to you.
Did they skip over that?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
well, you know, when it's sped up it's just all kind
of mush.
You know it's like you'relistening to, like the chipmunk
version of this song, likeyou're.
It's how music was meant to belistened to matt, it's okay.
Okay in its purest form withwith bass that blurs out
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everything and with uh you knowvocals that are sped up beyond
recognition got it um, yes, no,but it's.
It's a really, it's aheartbreaking song, right, I
mean, it's quite literally asong about a breakup.
You know the opening verse.
Like she told me, I'm notenough.
She left me with a broken heart, um, fooled me twice.
It's all my fault.
Uh, obviously, I mean.
It's so obvious now that thisis a breakup song yeah, that was
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.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I mean, my first note here is like man posty's going
through something here, you knowlike this is.
this is a tough one.
That's one For his music.
I feel like this was a reallyemotional song.
You don't get this kind ofgut-wrenchingness from him very
much.
Of course, I never heard anyremixes so I can't speak to your
experience with the song, butmine immediately stood out to me
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as a breakup song.
But also this version has apretty mellow beat in spite of
it being, I think, reallyemotional lyrically.
So I thought that was kind ofan interesting side-by-side with
that.
But yeah, pretty funny, younever kind of caught on to the
breakup aspect.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I'm so bad about that .
I'm so bad about listening tosongs that in my head, are
categorized as one thing andthen it takes years sometimes
for me to realize there'ssomething completely different.
Anyway, all right, here is aband with another winning
formula.
We mentioned this all the time.
Your next pick, track 10, it isFallen by Imagine Dragons
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dragons.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, this one was like, uh, an apple music bonus,
like it's not even on, liketheir straight ahead album.
Um, so any spotify listenersout there, if you can't find the
song, we apologize.
Um, but jump over to applemusic and you can listen to it.
Here's the thing.
I'm not even sure exactly whatthis song is about, but it's
weirdly inspiring, right likeit's got that emotion that they
always bring to every song,where it's like every song is
kind of a pump up song.
(27:25):
Maybe that's why I just enjoyImagine Dragons so much that you
talked about that winningformula.
But yeah, this one just it'scalled fallen, but I don't think
anyone's fallen falling here.
I think everyone's kind of juston their feet by the end of it
and ready to roll, becausethat's just what I imagine
always happening with an imaginedragon song yeah, it's um.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It's got toe-tapping energy right, like you sure does
yeah, you can bop along to thislike.
This is the trap that I fallinto all the time, right like
you.
This song is probably somethinglike terrible and we're sitting
here being like it's so fun.
We need them to tell us.
Um.
But one thing that really mademe laugh there was a comment on
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the lyrics page and someone saidall I can hear is we, I'm
falling, like we I'm falling,instead of we are fallen, and,
and similar to this person'sexperience, the song is not
ruined for me, but I can neverhear we are fallen again.
All I'm I'm hearing is himbeing like we, I'm falling,
which is really fun.
Um, so there you go, yeahbecause we're truly falling.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
If it was an accidental fall, you probably
wouldn't be saying we probablyyeah, that's true, not gonna
speak for everyone, not gonnaspeak for everyone.
All right, your last pick.
It is called, and it's funny,we did this.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Both of our last picks are just called fall, but
yours is fall by chloe andhallie yes, um, I did not know
this duo, so I, for my last pick, I wanted to pick a group that
I didn't know at all.
I'm so happy I found them.
Um, their sisters, their voicesare gorgeous.
I really like the subjectmatter of this song, like,
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lyrically, it's basically justtrying to find the positive even
in the negative, right,something that I talk a lot
about on my show and justsomething that's like a theme in
my life.
But they sound almost likeoperatic in this song, like they
just have beautiful voices.
So I think that, paired withyou know the hopefulness, like
them singing, so what if the skyfalls?
We'll build a life right on thecotton clouds, and I just think
(29:24):
that's like such beautifulimagery.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Um, so, yes, it's just, it's a very nice song and
and they're really talented and,um, I was happy to kind of
close out my mix with with thisone yeah, I mean we talked about
the musical once earlier and Imean this could be from a
musical like it was just so welldone with their you're right,
their voices.
I love the piano, it's just sopowerful and and then, yeah, I
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wrote down the hopefulness aswell, like it was just amazing.
So I just love this.
I want this to be part of somemusical someday and see people
acting this out because, uh,yeah, it's, it's just really
good and I I have no sense ofwho these people are either.
Right, like never heard of thembefore.
It just kind of hit play onthis and, uh, really loved it
yeah, same, like I knew I wasgonna like it.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
The second I hit play .
It just kind of hooks youreally quickly, um, and I
definitely think the piano playhas something to do with that
too.
All right, um, our last vibeshift here, because it's another
one, but our last one here.
And, like you mentioned, thissong is just called fall, but
this is by none other thaneminem.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, I kind of like looked at my mix and I was like
you know, my, my whole mix is alittle slower than what I
normally bring to the table andnot as fun, and I was like let's
have some fun here with thislast one.
Uh, yeah, eminem this one's offthe 2018 album kamikaze and
just I mean just so many greatlike like always so many great
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lyrics that he's put togetherhere.
I mean, these rappers are likehunger games one second.
They're mocking jay, I mean.
Which is great little jay-zreference there but also a
literary one yeah, uh.
In referencing tyler the creator, he says you worship d12's
balls, your sack religious.
Which is that's so good, that'sso well done yeah, and then
(31:15):
finally track writing yes,finally, you probably can
compare me to your car, becauseI'm barely getting started.
Which is like kind of pumpinghimself up and dissing his car
this guy's car at the same time,which I thought was amazingly
done.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, that's a tough one to pull off to do that
simultaneously with you.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
So, anyway, I thought it'd be good to have a little
fun with eminem here to finishoff the mix.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, I have two thoughts that I want to share on
this track.
I I enjoyed it same as youbecause of his lyric writing um,
and you know I love a good disstrack, as we've talked about
this year but his opening linesare him just literally, you know
, speaking, he says you know,everyone's been telling me what
they think about me in the lastfew months.
Maybe it's time I tell themwhat I think about them, and I
really want to be like Eminem.
Come on, you tell us all thetime what you think about people
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all the time.
Like this is not, this is not.
Like, oh, he's so reservedabout his opinions.
He's going to really open up tous on this track, like, come on
, man.
Like he's been.
He's been sharing his thoughtsabout people since day one.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You know, this would be funny, because neither one of
us knows Eminem personally,right, and it would be really
funny if in real life he's likesuper passive, aggressive, and
then it's not until these tracksthat these guys are like what.
He never said anything.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I don't he was at my birthday party last week.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
He bought me.
He bought me a toaster.
It was texting me and it was areally nice toaster.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, he texted me about going to lunch like we
were gonna hang out but on theflip side, here again not you
know, about the same topic ofnot really knowing eminem, um,
so this also features bonnievere's lead singer, which is a
really interesting collab.
Right, his voice is reallyinteresting, it's like a pairing
with eminem.
(33:10):
But, um, he was really upsetbecause, like he did his
recording without knowing thelyrics that were going into the
song, eminem, as he is veryoften to do, uses a slur here,
um, and Bon Iver you know hisagain the lead singer disavowed
his uh kind of voice being onthe track and, and I'm not, I
just want to ask this humanbeing like what did you think
(33:33):
was gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
like have I mean, look good for you.
You want to disavow yourassociation with this track,
whatever, but that's kind of onyou.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
A little bit right.
I don't want to victim blame.
I think it's terrible.
I'd say a lot bit.
I'd say a lot bit.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
He's not the victim.
No, this is a lot bit on him.
Eminem calls you.
That's like if we had Eminem onthe show.
And then we're like, oh my God,and we promote it and
everything.
And then afterwards we're like,oh look, he said some things
that just don't align with ourvalues.
It's like we could have saidthat from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, exactly, this is not some unknown entity where
then you're shocked that hedoes this.
This is a very known fact aboutit.
He's been using these slurs andhe's been very offensive and
over the line his entire career.
Um, and so, yes, I, I kind ofwant to be like come on, come on
, man, as as they do on sportscenter.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well, and like you're , you're in bonnie, like you're
doing, okay, it's not like thiswas like, hey, man, man, I
needed a break and I just tookthis gig Right.
It's like no, you could havejust said no, like I'm good man.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I don't think this is going to go my way, but he was
probably like awesome, I get towork with Eminem.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
And then people were like do you realize what he said
?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
And it's like uh Well , I just had no idea.
I never.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I I guarantee the other guys in the band are like
well, you're an idiot, Like hey,come on, If those guys are
truly friends.
The other guys in the band arelike you're a moron, Go ahead
and apologize, Make yourstatement.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
But you're a moron, oh man Good times, good times,
good times, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Well, there you have it, another super awesome mix
for your collection.
This one maybe not about theseason of fall, but certainly
includes the word fall, sohopefully it will keep you
company during the change ofseasons here, In spite of all
the changing of seasons, we'vegot plenty of mixes to work on.
Tell us what we should beplanning for 2026.
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We're starting to put that listtogether, okay.
2026.
We're starting to put that listtogether.
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So for Sam, this is Matt.
We'll see you next time.
Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix.
My name is Matt Sidholm,alongside my co-host and
co-founder of Super Awesome Mix,sam Abusabi.
Sam, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Doing real well.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Doing great, Doing great, Doing great.
We're here today to well, in avery funny way, I think talk
about the changing of theseasons.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, it's funny.
So I put together this mix justoff of the title, the fall mix,
and then I realized that it was.
I had thought that we were justgoing to do literally songs
that kind of remind you of afall in autumn, but then I
remembered that we talked aboutactually making it quite
literally song with the wordsfall or falling, yeah and so I
(00:56):
had to do like I had to do likea double take on your song.
So I was like wait, wow, theyall have fall in them.
I was like oh right, I rememberthis conversation.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yes, I think a couple of years ago we did like an
autumn mix right Specificallyfor the season, and this year we
decided to just take itliterally and just say, all
right, let's look at songs withthe word fall in some way shape
or form in them in order to kindof recognize the uh, the
transition of seasons absolutelyyes, no, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Um, I actually enjoy these because two reasons.
One, it's it's um alwaysentertaining to see what kinds
of songs you can find wheneveryou search for a specific word.
Two, it is actually easier, insome regard, to put together
these mixes because you can justdo like a quick search and just
scroll through all the songsthat have this word in them,
which there are way more thanthan I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But yeah, there's a ton of them.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
There's a lot of them , yeah, I wonder what the most
common song title is, actuallyum now that I think you mean
word in a song title yeah,exactly yes yeah, I mean it's
got to be something like love,right?
Oh yeah, I bet yes so maybe thesecond most.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Maybe that's the curiosity.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, no, but it was a good mix and I really liked
this.
It's like an eclectic mix andwe've got a lot of everything.
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think so.
Yeah, it was kind of funbecause, like you're right, it
is a common word used in a lotof song titles, so as a result,
we're able to put together a lotof different genres here from a
lot of different time periods.
So that was also fun, all right.
So let's get the mix started.
This is a very popular songwith the word Fallen and it is
Free Fallen by Tom Petty.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I'm not sure we've ever talked about this
particular song in our five plusyears of doing this, this show
which is amazing because youknow, according to rolling
stones it's 179 on the 500greatest songs of all time.
So um song we certainly need totalk about on super awesome mix
and obviously you know we'reworking on our own 500 greatest
songs um mix.
(03:00):
Probably at some point in thefuture we're going to be as
important, if not more important, than the rolling stone uh list
, I would say you know, I'm just.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That'll be one of those remember the old telethons
that they used to do, likewhere they just like be you know
it'd be a 12-hour show in orderto raise money for something.
Yes, okay, so we'll do a 500song mix and it'll it'll be a
charity fundraiser and we'lljust be talking for 24 hours, or
something like that if you canstomach us for 24 hours, uh, you
(03:32):
might be paying to just get usto stop talking um yeah but
anyway, um yeah, so free fallenby tom petty amazing song.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Uh, what I really found interesting and I didn't
know this I always love lookingat these little fun facts about
songs but he initially wasrejected when he submitted the
song, so the producers didn'twant to make this recording
studio wasn't interested, so hejust waited six months and then
resubmitted it with no changesand they were like oh my God, we
love this song, this is great.
And I just think that's sofunny because I've actually I've
(04:01):
had experiences like that inlike English class.
There was a teacher of mine.
We had this whole writingworkshop for six weeks.
This whole thing that she puton was in eighth grade.
She didn't like a piece that Isubmitted, so I literally just
rearranged it and just I didn'tchange anything.
I just moved a couple ofparagraphs here and there so it
looked different, but it was theexact same paper and then she
(04:23):
loved it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, dana carvey and david spade have a podcast and
they talk a lot about their dayson saturday night live and they
talk about how people will kindof bring the same ideas week
after week for sketch sketchesand it kind of turns into this
didn't you do that three weeksago?
But like then all of a suddenit's like oh no, yeah, that
finally got on and it was a bighit or whatever.
(04:48):
But they talk about how certainskits, like it took weeks of
people just kind of continuallyrunning the idea up the ladder
before it was like all right,we're going to do it yeah, yeah,
no, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So you know, you, you might be sitting on a song as
good as free fallen and thefirst time it's not going to go.
But just keep trying, you neverknow, maybe maybe you're
sitting on 179 of the 500 of thegreatest songs of all time, um,
and you just need to resubmitand give it a whirl.
So, uh, but yeah, it's a greatsong, obviously, and I have
always enjoyed listening to ityeah, I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
uh, pretty simple song, like a lot of tom Petty
songs.
Right, it's a three-chord rocksong pretty straight ahead.
I will always think of thescene in Jerry Maguire where
he's just signed his star clientand he's trying to celebrate.
And it's like such a datedscene now because instead of
like what we might do now, whichis just go to our phone and
find our favorite song and playit in celebration, he's just
(05:44):
scouring the radio dial tryingto find a song that will help
him kind of celebrate thismoment.
And he finally lands on FreeFallen and it's just Tom Cruise
in the car screaming Free Fallen.
But yeah, it's awesome but alsoa very dated scene that I'm
sure young people can't reallyunderstand dated scene that I'm
(06:06):
sure young people can't reallyunderstand.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, that's quite old now.
All right, well, let's get onto your first pick.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Second track on the mix, it is the Boys of Fall by
Kenny Chesney.
Yeah, so this one has the wordfall in the title but also is
about the fall season,specifically about football.
Yeah, my best friend was acollege football coach and he
passed away a few years ago andwe played this song as kind of
part of a video tribute we puttogether for him.
(06:35):
I mean, I think it's kind of anawesome song, just even without
that emotional tie to itpersonally, I mean just because
if you love football, if youthink about, like high school
football specifically, I meanthis one will kind of get you
fired up for that.
But I know it's a very countrysong, it's a little slow, so I
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wasn't really sure what yourreaction would be to this one.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yes, it was mixed, it was decidedly mixed.
It only got a three out of 10on my Olympic country.
I thought it might be a lowscore, yeah it's a 3 out of 10
because it's so country.
However, the points earned werenostalgia-based points because,
like you, I grew up in Texas.
Texas is truly.
I mean, football is a religionin that state.
It's more than just a sportstate it's.
(07:28):
It's more than just a sport.
Um.
There's so much, so like muchritual around football in the
fall, especially, you know, inhigh school.
If you're at a high schoolwhere you're big, like football
school, um, it kind of dominateseverything that you do and so,
yes, just kind of I think henails it.
I think he nails kind of theculture of football.
You know, I love the line wherehe um talking about newspaper
clippings fill the coffee shopsand the old men will always
think they know it all.
(07:48):
You know, I mean that's like Ilearned pretty quickly in my
life that if I didn't, if Iwasn't able to kind of small
talk football, I wasn't going togo far in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Well, especially if you're in a small town, right?
Yeah, if you're in a small townand the people there have been
there a long time.
I mean they remember every team, every great player that's
rolled through there.
You know, I mean not to not toalways invoke bruce springsteen,
but he's got a song calledlocal hero.
That's exactly about thatphenomenon where it's like, yeah
, somebody just becomes kind ofa legend in their hometown just
(08:21):
because they were the guy inhigh school, regardless of kind
of where they went from thereright, yeah, no, totally um, so
it was, it was nice in thatregard, so it earned some points
.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
There it's um, it was good, it was nice in that way,
but but I'm probably not gonnalisten to it too much that's
fair.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's fair.
I did not think so putting iton here, but I felt like I had
to like this is.
This is the song I think when,when I think of fall, and it
luckily had the word in it um,all right, track three, your
next pick.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It is falling water by Maggie Rogers yeah, this is
actually one of my favorites, um, from Maggie Rogers.
Uh, we've talked about herbefore many times on the show.
What's funny again learningthese fun facts about these
songs.
Um, that I never realized.
But she actually produced thiswith a member of Vampire Weekend
which once I read that I waslike, oh, that makes so much
sense because you can hear theinfluence.
(09:10):
Like, if you listen to aVampire Weekend song, especially
off their earlier albums, andthen listen to this one, you can
absolutely see the through linebetween the two.
I love how the song builds.
I love how she sounds on it.
She has an amazing voice.
She's so talented in thatregard.
I love the bridge here wherethe beat kind of disappears for
a second and it's just got thishand clap in her voice.
(09:31):
It's pretty, it's emotional.
It almost builds like you wouldimagine falling water building.
It starts with a drip and thenit turns into just a fire
hydrant of water.
So I think it's really nice.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, I would agree.
I really like this song.
I think she uses water kind ofliterally and metaphorically in
it, which I think is pretty cool.
I love the line.
I never loved you fully in theway I could.
I fought the current runningjust the way you would and just
the like again, kind of the useof sort of water there, where
it's like you kind of have thisimagery, but also just I think
(10:09):
it's such a powerful line.
I never loved you fully in theway I could.
That could be done sort of in ahurtful way, but also in a
regretful way too, like I, Icould see people, depending on
kind of what their mindset is,listening to the song, just
getting wildly different, uh,emotions from it, which is which
is really interesting.
So, um, just really well done.
(10:30):
And I agree she always soundsgreat, like we're big fans of
her on this show.
So, um, yeah, it's a greattrack.
This is not one I was familiarwith previously, but really
enjoyed it nice, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
This next track, um, is one that I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
This might be my favorite, off of uh, off of your
picks, and it's, if I ever fallin love by shy, and this is the
acapella version yeah, so inthe in the early nineties,
around the time boys to menbecame popular, then like all of
a sudden there were a number ofkind of almost in the same way
a lot of boy bands popped up inthe late nineties.
(11:02):
It's like you had these R and Bgroups that were really into
harmonizing and just they couldreally sing.
And and Shy was one of thosegroups that kind of came and
went.
They had this.
They had another hit calledBaby I'm Yours.
They also did a version of thiswith music, but I hadn't
listened to this in a reallylong time.
But I just love the acapellaversion.
(11:25):
I think they do such a greatjob.
They sound amazing and just Ithink not having the music
behind them kind of adds alittle gravity to it and just
kind of gets it a little bitmore emotional than I think even
the version that's out therewhere they have some
instrumentation behind them.
But yeah, really cool to see,to revisit this song, because it
(11:49):
was a big hit, I think, when Iwas younger and also just kind
of part of a movement at thattime where you had you had a few
of these groups out there yeah,my first note here is that,
without looking at the song orthe date that it was released, I
knew it was from the early 90s.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I just instantly knew because, you're right, like
that, that was absolutely athing that was happening, like
there was just all these groupsI think the simpsons because the
simpsons has an episode andeverything.
Um, I think there's one calledthat that 90s show or something,
yeah, and they retell homer andmarge meeting, but they do it
in the in the 90s decade, um,and that's when he first joins a
(12:24):
band.
I believe it was this.
When he joins a group that'slike this, where he's like
harmonizing, it's an acapellagroup, yeah, and then, like he
gets depressed and he, hebasically founds nirvana.
Like he becomes, he becomes allgrungy and depressed and then
he's a band member, um, andthat's when he sings margarine
instead of uh, instead ofglycerine, by ah, yes, yes, yeah
(12:46):
that we've talked about on theshow.
So yeah, I knew it was from the90s, but um and so maybe that's
why I liked it as much as I did.
But you're right, the acapellaversion, I think, is just really
powerful and they do it reallyreally well.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
All right, your next pick it is the Sky has Fallen by
Queens of the Stone Age.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yes, a major vibe shift.
For sure we have a lot of thoseI feel like in this mix.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
So this, we have a lot of those, I feel like in
this mix.
Yeah, yes, it's.
Yeah, it's definitely like amix where you're gonna you're
gonna go through a lot ofemotions, probably, um,
different swings here and there,but so this is, um, it's kind
of funny.
This was written in 2002 andjosh home, the, of course, the
lead singer of queens of thestone age, um, was feeling like
the world was ending and sothat's, you know, and that
things were like really hard.
Um, and as we, you know, areoften so happy to report, now
(13:34):
that we're in 2025, everythingis great.
You know, we've solved allthose problems.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
We left them in the past.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
We fixed everything.
Yeah, it feels, good.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It feels good, it's really nice.
Yeah, it's nice to listen tothese songs and you know you're
just like, oh man, can't.
Can you imagine if you werestressed about the world right
now?
I mean, what must that feellike?
Yeah, my kids are going to lookat me one day.
Dad, were you ever worriedabout anything in the world?
And I was like, no, not really,maybe as a kid.
(14:05):
But we kind of figured it outafter a while.
Yeah, we figured it out.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So yeah, so that's, that's number one.
I'm so happy we solved all theproblems.
Number two, obviously, like Ijust I love how the song sounds
and this is off of you know, thealbum songs for the deaf and I
think this actually is myfavorite song off of the album,
but I don't think it got a lotof playtime, like the singles
off of it.
Obviously, we're like go withthe flow and no one knows which
are both songs, but I'm gonna goon on record here and I think
(14:34):
this is actually a better songthan those two.
Um and I don't know.
It's just really interesting.
It shows more of their likemusical ability and um, and yeah
, just I love the song.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's been on repeat for a long time for me um, yeah,
that's an interesting kind ofphenomenon you pointed out there
, where it's like the biggestsingles from an album maybe
aren't the best song, right?
Another mix idea, I think, forfuture reference kind of
legendary albums and the songsyou may not know from them, not
to say this is a legendary album, but you know what I'm talking
(15:06):
about.
Yeah, it's a really strong rocksong.
They always kind of just bringit right when they're doing
their music and it's always ifyou like rock music you're going
to enjoy it.
I also appreciated at the endthey kind of had that, I think,
kind of longer than you wouldhave thought, probably 30, 45
seconds of the sort of radiokind of talking thing at the end
(15:28):
, which was just kind of funnyand just sort of broke it up a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And I want to listen to it in the context of the
album to see how it transitionsto the next song.
Yeah, I think most of the songson that album have like this
like radio theme at the end ofeach one, um, which I you know.
Again, I gotta say like they'refun whenever songs have these
built-in kind of outros or skits.
But whenever you just want,whenever you're listening to it
for like the hundredth time,you're kind of like, okay, I, I
can kind of do without this last.
(15:59):
I don't, I don't need thisanymore, please at least.
Tired of the bit, tired of thetired of the bit.
Just move on, I can't hear itanymore.
Um, all right, track number sixa, a beautiful song.
Um, you know, I feel like we'vetalked a lot about celine so
far this year, more so than wehave in any other year.
But this is.
When I Fall in Love.
Featuring Clive Griffin byCeline Dion.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, so this is not an original song.
It was actually written andrecorded originally in 1952,
first by Jerry Southern, andthen became popular later that
year when Doris Day recorded it.
Nat King Cole did a reallypopular version and his daughter
, natalie Cole, would kind ofintegrate his voice recording
with hers and I think they won aGrammy in 1996 by doing that.
(16:45):
But this version came around in1993 as part of the soundtrack
to the movie Sleepless inSeattle with Tom Hanks and Meg
Ryan, if anybody remembers thatone Really interesting, because
at this point Celine Dion is notnearly as popular as she would
be just a few years later.
(17:06):
When you get the, it's allcoming back to me now and some
of her kind of monster hits thatwould come later to me now and
some of her kind of monster hitsthat would come later.
so she was, I I think, kind ofon the rise at this point right,
not quite at her apex and thenyou have this voice with her,
clive griffin, who does anexcellent job on this song.
He's got an amazing voice.
But what's really funny is thatin this same year he put out
(17:29):
his third and final album.
He's put out two singles sincethen and then nothing From a
like published work standpoint.
So this is actually one of hislast published works that's out
there and he still works inmusic, like does some
songwriting and does someproducing and stuff like that.
But it's kind of like you know,from here you don't really hear
(17:50):
about Clive Griffin anymore,but obviously Celine Dion just
takes off.
Anyway, she's got an amazingvoice and this song they just do
a great job of just thechanging voices and the duet and
it's really excellent, I think,the way they do this and also
kind of fits with the movie.
If you go back and watchSleepless in Seattle and then
(18:11):
kind of apply this to it, it'sreally kind of perfect.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yes, yeah, no, I like that movie.
It's not as good as the.
Oh my gosh.
I'm blanking on the title, theone based in New York, with the
bookstore.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You've Got Mail.
Yes, You've Got Mail.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I think that one is which is almost the exact same
movie, but like five years later.
Yeah, exactly Like, emotionally, shot for shot, like obviously
different settings, differentcities, different coastal cities
, but emotionally you go throughalmost the exact journey.
It's great yes, you know, wetalk a lot about winning
formulas um and and nora efronhad a winning, winning formula,
(18:51):
so why change?
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
yeah, well, and, and also tom hanks and meg ryan had
I mean, they did joe versus thevolcano, they did, they did.
This one, they did.
You've got mail.
Yeah, I mean, just just keepgoing back to that.
Well, there's nothing wrongwith that, exactly Okay.
Speaking of just going back tothat, well, okay, your next pick
, it Is Falling For you byWeezer.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yes, weezer, we bring them up all the time, but this
one is an interesting album.
This is Pinkerton.
I think it's one of their bestalbums before they went kind of
more poppy, like you can kind ofhear more of the punky version
of Weezer, and yet it's still aWeezer song, right, like they
still have that same sound thatthey continue now.
(19:32):
You know almost like what 30years later.
But it's more.
Yeah, it's just a little bitmore edgy.
It's not as like smoothed overas, like you know, like become a
little bit more edgy.
It's not as like smoothed overas as, like you know, like
become a little bit later.
So I really enjoyed it.
But I love this album.
Um, I think also the subjectmatter here is funny because
it's basically like this, youknow he says, um, holy moly, you
know, wouldn't you know it,just as I was busting loose I
(19:55):
gotta turn in my rock star cardand get fat and old with you.
He's like almost remorsefulthat he, you know, was like
taking off as a rock star, andthen he meets someone that he
really likes and he's fallingfor, and so now he feels like
he's just got to like turn inhis, his rock star lifestyle and
instead get fat and old withthis person.
So it's kind of funny.
It's cute in that regard, um,but uh, yeah, it's.
(20:17):
It's a great song and I thinkthat is an underrated album of
theirs.
It's, it's really good.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's one that I can listen to without skipping uh, I
think it is underrated and Ikind of have the same note that
it's just a perfect sort of likepop punk song that that we love
by Weezer, and you know we talkall the time about the sort of
that Weezer filter where you'regoing to get kind of uh, you
know, a little bit similarsounding, but it's a winning
formula, like like we justtalked about Tom Hanks and Meg
(20:42):
Ryan, but yeah, I mean this songespecially.
Even I just love thesongwriting in this one that
it's just both sad and hilariousat the same time.
I mean the second verse wherehe's just, you know, talking
about losing the cello in thebasement and then trying to play
it and he sucks at it and it'slike it's such an absurd scene,
but he also just sings it soseriously and emotionally that
(21:05):
it's like you really feel it.
So anyway, I really enjoyedthis one and I think you're
absolutely right about the wholealbum here that it definitely
gets kind of lost in the shuffleamongst their catalog.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Definitely.
Yeah, it definitely does Allright.
Track number eight another vibeshift.
This one is kind of sad, so youdefinitely does All right.
Track number eight another vibeshift.
This one is kind of sad, so youknow you have some tissues
nearby but it's Falling Slowlyby Glenn Hansard and Marketa
Erglova.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, this is from the movie Once, which became the
musical Once, which I think wasmore popular than the movie,
because I talked to someone acouple years ago who had just
seen Once and I said somethingabout seeing the movie and they
were like it was a movie, that'sawesome.
But these two, they had workedtogether, they called themselves
(21:55):
Swell Season and they wrote allthe music for this movie and
they act in it it as well, whichis really cool because all the
scenes where they're playing allthese songs, I mean the movie
like feels like a musical,because there are so many, you
know, moments in there wherethey are singing together and
playing music.
Um, but this song actually wonthem an oscar for best original
(22:17):
song, uh, in that particularyear.
Um, but the broadway productionwon like eight Tonys, like it
was a monster hit and I meanyou're Mr New York, so I mean
you might be able to speak tojust how popular it was.
But I have never seen themusical, I've only seen the
movie.
But I've always loved this one.
It's such a great song.
(22:38):
The whole soundtrack honestlyis awesome and I had bought the
soundtrack and again had it foryears.
Great song.
The whole soundtrack honestlyis awesome, and I had bought the
soundtrack and again had it foryears before.
People were like have you seenthis musical?
I was like wait, what aboutthis?
I have a CD that proves mystreet cred here as it relates
to wines.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Anyway, great song.
Yeah, I mean you thought it wascool before they all did.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Way before.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
That makes you super cool.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's a very pretty song.
I was not familiar withanything you just mentioned.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I didn't know about the movie.
I didn't know about the musical.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
This is, this is all news to me, um and you are in
new york city, new york, usa,correct, yes, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm a like 20 minute walk away from Broadway.
I mean technically, if you wantto be technical, broadway is
just a street.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But we're talking about Broadway.
I get it.
Oh, I apologize.
I apologize, I was taking ittoo literally.
Yeah, that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Anyway.
But no, I thought it was areally beautiful song, um, but a
very sad one right.
Like you know, take the sinkingboat, point at home, we've
still got time.
Just kind of talking about this, like you know, this sense, I
think, is so universal.
You can kind of be in arelationship and realize that
it's not going to work, it's gota timeline on it, but you still
have hope in a way, right liketake, take the sinking boat, but
(24:02):
still point at home.
You know, like we've still, youknow, we still have time.
So I think that that is justincredible songwriting and it
sounds really pretty.
It's a beautiful song.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Well, speaking of someone going through something.
Track nine I Fall Apart by PostMalone.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, this is one of those ones, and this is probably
very unique to me as a humanbeing.
But this is a song I'd neverlistened to the original version
of.
I only ever listened to remixversions of it, because it came
out around the time that I was aspin instructor.
There was a really popularremix of this on SoundCloud, so
I only ever heard it sped up andso, as a result, I never really
listened to the lyrics, and soit wasn't until kind of this
(24:42):
moment here in time, it's liketoday, I learned that this was a
breakup song, because I justnever paid attention to the
words.
I just really liked how itsounded, especially when it's
sped up.
It's great Like you can do areally good remix version of
this song.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Sure, but the line devil in the form of a whore
never really stood out to you.
Did they skip over that?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
well, you know, when it's sped up it's just all kind
of mush.
You know it's like you'relistening to, like the chipmunk
version of this song, likeyou're.
It's how music was meant to belistened to matt, it's okay.
Okay in its purest form withwith bass that blurs out
(25:29):
everything and with uh you knowvocals that are sped up beyond
recognition got it um, yes, no,but it's.
It's a really, it's aheartbreaking song, right, I
mean, it's quite literally asong about a breakup.
You know the opening verse.
Like she told me, I'm notenough.
She left me with a broken heart, um, fooled me twice.
It's all my fault.
Uh, obviously, I mean.
It's so obvious now that thisis a breakup song yeah, that was
(25:55):
.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I mean, my first note here is like man posty's going
through something here, you knowlike this is.
this is a tough one.
That's one For his music.
I feel like this was a reallyemotional song.
You don't get this kind ofgut-wrenchingness from him very
much.
Of course, I never heard anyremixes so I can't speak to your
experience with the song, butmine immediately stood out to me
(26:17):
as a breakup song.
But also this version has apretty mellow beat in spite of
it being, I think, reallyemotional lyrically.
So I thought that was kind ofan interesting side-by-side with
that.
But yeah, pretty funny, younever kind of caught on to the
breakup aspect.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I'm so bad about that .
I'm so bad about listening tosongs that in my head, are
categorized as one thing andthen it takes years sometimes
for me to realize there'ssomething completely different.
Anyway, all right, here is aband with another winning
formula.
We mentioned this all the time.
Your next pick, track 10, it isFallen by Imagine Dragons
(27:04):
dragons.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, this one was like, uh, an apple music bonus,
like it's not even on, liketheir straight ahead album.
Um, so any spotify listenersout there, if you can't find the
song, we apologize.
Um, but jump over to applemusic and you can listen to it.
Here's the thing.
I'm not even sure exactly whatthis song is about, but it's
weirdly inspiring, right likeit's got that emotion that they
always bring to every song,where it's like every song is
kind of a pump up song.
(27:25):
Maybe that's why I just enjoyImagine Dragons so much that you
talked about that winningformula.
But yeah, this one just it'scalled fallen, but I don't think
anyone's fallen falling here.
I think everyone's kind of juston their feet by the end of it
and ready to roll, becausethat's just what I imagine
always happening with an imaginedragon song yeah, it's um.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It's got toe-tapping energy right, like you sure does
yeah, you can bop along to thislike.
This is the trap that I fallinto all the time, right like
you.
This song is probably somethinglike terrible and we're sitting
here being like it's so fun.
We need them to tell us.
Um.
But one thing that really mademe laugh there was a comment on
(28:06):
the lyrics page and someone saidall I can hear is we, I'm
falling, like we I'm falling,instead of we are fallen, and,
and similar to this person'sexperience, the song is not
ruined for me, but I can neverhear we are fallen again.
All I'm I'm hearing is himbeing like we, I'm falling,
which is really fun.
Um, so there you go, yeahbecause we're truly falling.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
If it was an accidental fall, you probably
wouldn't be saying we probablyyeah, that's true, not gonna
speak for everyone, not gonnaspeak for everyone.
All right, your last pick.
It is called, and it's funny,we did this.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Both of our last picks are just called fall, but
yours is fall by chloe andhallie yes, um, I did not know
this duo, so I, for my last pick, I wanted to pick a group that
I didn't know at all.
I'm so happy I found them.
Um, their sisters, their voicesare gorgeous.
I really like the subjectmatter of this song, like,
(29:01):
lyrically, it's basically justtrying to find the positive even
in the negative, right,something that I talk a lot
about on my show and justsomething that's like a theme in
my life.
But they sound almost likeoperatic in this song, like they
just have beautiful voices.
So I think that, paired withyou know the hopefulness, like
them singing, so what if the skyfalls?
We'll build a life right on thecotton clouds, and I just think
(29:24):
that's like such beautifulimagery.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Um, so, yes, it's just, it's a very nice song and
and they're really talented and,um, I was happy to kind of
close out my mix with with thisone yeah, I mean we talked about
the musical once earlier and Imean this could be from a
musical like it was just so welldone with their you're right,
their voices.
I love the piano, it's just sopowerful and and then, yeah, I
(29:50):
wrote down the hopefulness aswell, like it was just amazing.
So I just love this.
I want this to be part of somemusical someday and see people
acting this out because, uh,yeah, it's, it's just really
good and I I have no sense ofwho these people are either.
Right, like never heard of thembefore.
It just kind of hit play onthis and, uh, really loved it
yeah, same, like I knew I wasgonna like it.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
The second I hit play .
It just kind of hooks youreally quickly, um, and I
definitely think the piano playhas something to do with that
too.
All right, um, our last vibeshift here, because it's another
one, but our last one here.
And, like you mentioned, thissong is just called fall, but
this is by none other thaneminem.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, I kind of like looked at my mix and I was like
you know, my, my whole mix is alittle slower than what I
normally bring to the table andnot as fun, and I was like let's
have some fun here with thislast one.
Uh, yeah, eminem this one's offthe 2018 album kamikaze and
just I mean just so many greatlike like always so many great
(30:51):
lyrics that he's put togetherhere.
I mean, these rappers are likehunger games one second.
They're mocking jay, I mean.
Which is great little jay-zreference there but also a
literary one yeah, uh.
In referencing tyler the creator, he says you worship d12's
balls, your sack religious.
Which is that's so good, that'sso well done yeah, and then
(31:15):
finally track writing yes,finally, you probably can
compare me to your car, becauseI'm barely getting started.
Which is like kind of pumpinghimself up and dissing his car
this guy's car at the same time,which I thought was amazingly
done.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, that's a tough one to pull off to do that
simultaneously with you.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
So, anyway, I thought it'd be good to have a little
fun with eminem here to finishoff the mix.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, I have two thoughts that I want to share on
this track.
I I enjoyed it same as youbecause of his lyric writing um,
and you know I love a good disstrack, as we've talked about
this year but his opening linesare him just literally, you know
, speaking, he says you know,everyone's been telling me what
they think about me in the lastfew months.
Maybe it's time I tell themwhat I think about them, and I
really want to be like Eminem.
Come on, you tell us all thetime what you think about people
(32:08):
all the time.
Like this is not, this is not.
Like, oh, he's so reservedabout his opinions.
He's going to really open up tous on this track, like, come on
, man.
Like he's been.
He's been sharing his thoughtsabout people since day one.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You know, this would be funny, because neither one of
us knows Eminem personally,right, and it would be really
funny if in real life he's likesuper passive, aggressive, and
then it's not until these tracksthat these guys are like what.
He never said anything.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I don't he was at my birthday party last week.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
He bought me.
He bought me a toaster.
It was texting me and it was areally nice toaster.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, he texted me about going to lunch like we
were gonna hang out but on theflip side, here again not you
know, about the same topic ofnot really knowing eminem, um,
so this also features bonnievere's lead singer, which is a
really interesting collab.
Right, his voice is reallyinteresting, it's like a pairing
with eminem.
(33:10):
But, um, he was really upsetbecause, like he did his
recording without knowing thelyrics that were going into the
song, eminem, as he is veryoften to do, uses a slur here,
um, and Bon Iver you know hisagain the lead singer disavowed
his uh kind of voice being onthe track and, and I'm not, I
just want to ask this humanbeing like what did you think
(33:33):
was gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
like have I mean, look good for you.
You want to disavow yourassociation with this track,
whatever, but that's kind of onyou.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
A little bit right.
I don't want to victim blame.
I think it's terrible.
I'd say a lot bit.
I'd say a lot bit.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
He's not the victim.
No, this is a lot bit on him.
Eminem calls you.
That's like if we had Eminem onthe show.
And then we're like, oh my God,and we promote it and
everything.
And then afterwards we're like,oh look, he said some things
that just don't align with ourvalues.
It's like we could have saidthat from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, exactly, this is not some unknown entity where
then you're shocked that hedoes this.
This is a very known fact aboutit.
He's been using these slurs andhe's been very offensive and
over the line his entire career.
Um, and so, yes, I, I kind ofwant to be like come on, come on
, man, as as they do on sportscenter.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Well, and like you're , you're in bonnie, like you're
doing, okay, it's not like thiswas like, hey, man, man, I
needed a break and I just tookthis gig Right.
It's like no, you could havejust said no, like I'm good man.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I don't think this is going to go my way, but he was
probably like awesome, I get towork with Eminem.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
And then people were like do you realize what he said
?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
And it's like uh Well , I just had no idea.
I never.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I I guarantee the other guys in the band are like
well, you're an idiot, Like hey,come on, If those guys are
truly friends.
The other guys in the band arelike you're a moron, Go ahead
and apologize, Make yourstatement.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
But you're a moron, oh man Good times, good times,
good times, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Well, there you have it, another super awesome mix
for your collection.
This one maybe not about theseason of fall, but certainly
includes the word fall, sohopefully it will keep you
company during the change ofseasons here, In spite of all
the changing of seasons, we'vegot plenty of mixes to work on.
Tell us what we should beplanning for 2026.
(35:38):
We're starting to put that listtogether, okay.
2026.
We're starting to put that listtogether.
Okay, at super awesome mix onthreads and on Instagram.
And then, of course, check outall our videos on YouTube.
Like and subscribe, leave us agood review, all those things,
okay.
Help us out, help the show, butwe'll keep working on our next
mix.
So for Sam, this is Matt.
We'll see you next time.
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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.