February 4, 2025 • 53 mins
What's the perfect song for a Sunday morning? Because Sunday morning is definitely a mood. Whether you're reflecting on the past, living in the now or looking ahead to the future, there's just something special about a Sunday morning. And this episode is dedicated to the music that brings our Sunday morning moods to life. Grab a cup of coffee and listen in as we discuss songs from The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Prince, Sly and the Family Stone, The Tragically Hip, Queen, Ramones, De La Soul, The Doors, The Beastie Boys and more!
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Hey there, welcome to the Greatest Mixtape Podcast.
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I'm Eric.
And I am Mack.
And Mack, why don't you kick this one off?
It was your idea and I absolutely love it.
So why don't you tell everybody what we're going to talk about today?
Well, I got to thinking about, you know, we record at night.
Yes.
You know, typically we're a couple of vampires.
We record late at night.
For sure.
And we thought, you know, hey, let's record on a Sunday.
Let's do this over the weekend.
Let's record on a Sunday morning.
And we got to be thinking about Sunday morning songs.
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Yeah.
You know, and those songs that just kind of get you sort of reflecting on things, but
at the same time get you re-energized.
So Sunday's a day of rest, but it's also a day to get refocused and get excited about
what's next.
And yeah, in my house, you know, we have a bit of a Sunday ritual where, you know, we'll
get up.
Chris is a tea drinker.
I make my coffee.
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We maybe make some breakfast.
We have some music playing while we're doing that.
It's funny for me, Sunday mornings, I stay away from the metal.
I stay away from the really loud stuff.
And I don't know what it is about Sunday morning, but there's just something that it's just
more fun for me when we've got music playing.
It's sing along stuff.
We always have a blast just playing songs.
I kind of thought of it like old friends.
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You know what I mean?
It's like, I just want to hear familiar stuff that I can sing.
I can't sing to save my life, but I will try when I'm in the privacy of my own house.
I will sing my ass off terribly.
And so those are the songs that we want to hear when we're like making breakfast or brunch
or, you know, having a good time on a Sunday morning.
Right.
It's a vibe, right?
It's a Sunday morning vibe.
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It's got a real feel to it about, you know, you're waking up, like you said, you're making
breakfast, you're having some coffee.
Yeah.
You know, I don't want to hear anything loud and aggressive right now.
I want to hear, like you said, old friends, you know, songs that take me back, songs that
make me look forward.
Yeah.
Reminisce or remind you of good times or yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Yep.
Yeah.
It's a good time.
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Let's let's jump into this.
We both brought, we love our lists.
We both brought a couple lists to go over.
Who wants to go first here?
You want to jump in?
You want me to?
Why don't you take it away again?
Your idea.
You kick us off.
Let's do it, man.
I'm going to start with Tumbling Dice by The Rolling Stones.
Hell yeah.
What a song from the 1972 album Exile on Main Street.
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But for me, that intro, right?
You have a great guitar riff and Keith, you know, the drums kick in, mixed vocals, then
followed by those backup vocals.
Yes.
It just lift the song.
Those backup vocals just lift that song.
Absolutely.
And it's just, it's got such a feel to it, that song.
It's so bluesy and laid back, you know, great lyrics about just, you know, you've got to
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roll me and call me the Tumbling Dice.
You know, the life of a rock star.
I'm always on the move.
I'm not going to stick around.
Right.
So just so much fun and just a really bluesy kind of sleazy feel to it.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a great, great.
I mean, that album is amazing anyway, but yeah, that's, that's a particularly, uh,
standout track for me.
Yeah.
It just makes you think about life.
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Like we're all just kind of Tumbling Dice.
Yeah, man.
You know?
Yeah.
But obviously the song is, is nothing without the band, the Rolling Stones, of course, of
course, but we need to take some time to appreciate those backup singers.
Oh my God.
Who provide so much to that song.
Three women, um, Clyde King, Veneta Fields, and Shirley Matthew.
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Without them, that song is not what it is.
No, no, a hundred percent.
Such a feel to it.
Just a beautiful, beautiful song.
I love it.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's move on here, Eric.
Let's see what you got.
Mac, do you want to just for the hell of it, take a guess who my first artist is going
to be?
Let's see here.
I'm going to go out on a limb and, uh, there's a fellow out of Minneapolis.
I'm going to, uh, I'm going to go with Prince.
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Love me some Prince.
And so of course Prince gets played a lot in my house anytime of day, but yeah, especially
on a, on a Sunday morning.
Um, and it was hard to narrow it down because he's got so many amazing songs, but there
was just one that, that stood out for me when I was making this list that I just absolutely
love again, because I can't sing, but I do enjoy trying to sing this one.
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And the song's called Musicology.
Oh my God.
Such an amazing tune, man.
And this blew my mind too.
When I was, you know, putting my notes together for the show.
It's from 2004.
That was Prince's 28th studio album.
It's crazy.
28th studio album.
Crazy.
So, um, yeah, it's the same name.
It's Musicology.
It's number three on the Billboard 200.
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It was a bit of a comeback in a commercial sense.
Um, a lot of the stuff he was putting out prior to that was just indulging his own whims
and what he wanted to do musically.
And sometimes it jived with what was going on on the radio and sometimes it didn't.
Um, in this particular case, I mean, this album won him two Grammys and just, yeah,
kinda put his name back out there in front of people that might've been like, Oh man,
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I haven't heard Prince in a while.
You know, as diehard fans, he never went anywhere.
But when it came to, you know, the commercial attention, he, he wasn't really there for
a little while.
So kind of a comeback for him by January, uh, 2005, the, uh, album went double platinum.
So again, big, big seller for him.
And the song is just so much goddamn fun, dude.
So funky.
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It's so funky.
It's intentionally in the style of like James Brown.
It's just, you know, guitar, bass, drums, super groovy.
And it's also a tip of the hat to his musical heroes.
I mean, he shouts out, you know, sly and the family stone, James Brown, earth, wind and
fire.
And he even said about the record.
He just wanted it to be like a music lesson for people.
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And I just thought that was really cool.
So, you know, it's not just about shouting out the names, but also, you know, wearing
those influences on his sleeve and putting them out there.
Like, Hey, this is what I grew up on.
This is what I love.
This is what made me the artist I am today.
And that's what that album was.
But man, musicology, just stand out track, just, just a blast.
And that whole album is incredible.
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It's phenomenal.
It's a really good record.
When I saw you were going to, you had that on your list.
I was so happy because that's an album that we used to listen to all the time, especially
on Sunday mornings.
Like just put it on.
Yeah.
And just enjoy life.
Like it was, that album is great.
Yeah.
Start to finish.
Just absolutely killed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there you go.
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There's my Prince song for the day.
There we go.
Got it in.
Got it out of the way early.
Now we can talk about other stuff.
What you got next, man?
All right.
I'm going to go take a little journey, a little, a little far away from Prince.
Talk about Sunday morning coming down by Johnny Cash.
Yes sir.
Cannon black.
Ah yes.
Johnny's version of the song, which was written by Chris Christopherson in 1969.
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Johnny recorded it live in 1970 for the Johnny Cash show.
And it also appeared on his 1972 album titled Sunday morning coming down.
Now let me preface this with, you know, I've been sober for over 10 years.
It's amazing.
Good for you.
I've never, what a hangover feels like.
And this song captures it just perfectly.
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You know, the opening lyrics, you know, well I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold
my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad.
So I had one more for dessert.
Oh, that's some poetry, man.
Oh my God.
And you know, and there's this beautiful string arrangement behind Johnny.
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The music is so beautiful.
It's so well done.
But the song, like I said, perfectly captures what it feels like to be hungover on a Sunday
and kind of feeling like you're wasting the day.
So it's a little solemn, but there's also sort of this hopeful message about, you know,
get your ass out of bed and enjoy what you can of the day.
So I've just always been a fan of that song.
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Like I said, even though I don't drink anymore, I still listen to that song and it's so well
done.
It's so beautiful.
And then just, of course it's Johnny, he's the man of black.
You gotta love him.
And I also have a big fan of that song for the same reasons.
Yeah, I haven't given up yet.
I'm still trying with, you know, the drinking.
But but so the yes, occasionally I do feel that way on a Sunday.
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Those mornings, the music's a little quieter while we're making breakfast.
But you know, I still I still get up and do it, man.
I still get up and do it.
So yeah, great pick, dude.
Awesome, man.
Thank you.
All right.
So we're going to talk about a band that is so far from Johnny Cash.
The song is called Ma and Pa.
It's by a group called Fishbone.
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And they came on my radar.
Actually, this is the first song that I ever heard from them.
It was from their 1988 album Truth and Soul.
And for those of you who don't know Fishbone or not familiar with their music, they are
a mix of pretty much everything.
I mean, ska, funk, reggae, rock and roll, metal, punk.
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I mean, they literally threw all of those genres of music into a blender and just created
their own thing.
You go back to some of their older stuff and, you know, it's a little more like the ska
reggae kind of thing.
By the time Truth and Soul came out, they had really injected like a bit of the rock
and the metal into their sound.
And my God, it's like to me.
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And I love the chili peppers, so no disrespect when I say this, but this is like they were
like the chili peppers on steroids.
You know what I mean?
They were just so soulful and funky and crazy and just absolutely, absolutely amazing.
So check out Fishbone if you're not familiar with them.
Ma and Pa is just still to this day.
It's just such an amazing song.
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And the song is it was the second single off of that album.
The first single was actually a cover of Curtis Mayfield's Freddy's Dead, which if you've never
heard that, they kind of rock it up and funk it up a little bit more.
And then they followed it up with Ma and Pa.
And basically the song is about a dysfunctional family.
It's sung from the perspective of the older brother.
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He's singing to his younger sister who's having a hard time dealing with the family strife
and the breakup and the pending divorce.
And he's just kind of singing to her.
And then in the chorus, he's kind of singing to his parents like, hey, figure this shit
out, you know?
And it's just it's a little bit dark, I guess, in that respect, because it is, you know,
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about a family falling apart.
But what's crazy is they juxtapose that story and that message with the most upbeat, fun
sound.
Like that song, if you didn't pay attention to what the lyrics are about, it sounds so
happy.
You like you can't help but bop your head when you're listening to it and smile.
And then you start really listening to lyrics and you're like, you know, hey, Ma and Pa,
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what the hell is wrong with y'all?
And it's yeah, it's a it's kind of a dark message, but with a fun, funky, upbeat, bouncy
delivery, it's really, really cool.
Like you said, just a big fan of Fishbone.
But I'm going to my introduction to Fishbone was in the movie Back to the Beach.
Whoa.
Yes.
Holy shit.
Dude, I haven't even thought of that movie in a million years or even remembered that
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Fishbone was was part of that.
Yeah, for those of you don't back to the beach was like this silly beach movie with like
Annette Funicello.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And sometime in the 80s, it came out.
It was just ridiculously goofy.
But there was a scene in there with Fishbone was in the movie performing a song.
And that's how I got to know Fishbone.
Holy shit, dude.
I honestly wouldn't have remembered that in a million years.
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That's amazing.
But yeah, Peewee Herman was in the movie.
He did Surfing Bird.
Oh my God, dude.
Damn, that is quite the flashback.
Holy shit.
Yeah, I just came back to me like right.
I didn't plan on that.
Like I didn't have that in my notes.
That just came to me as you were talking back to the beach.
Wow.
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Yeah, honestly, I didn't even remember they were in there.
God damn.
Now I have to put that on my my Amazon watch list or something.
Yeah, I remember it was just cheesy as hell.
But it was like purposely cheesy as oh, yeah, exactly.
They were kind of spoofing on their own, you know, stardom, because that's where they came
from those beach blanket bingo type movies from the right what 50s and 60s, I guess.
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Yeah, yeah.
Oh my God, that's funny.
Back to the beach.
That's a good one, man.
Well, again, yeah, if you're not familiar with Fishbone, please, please, please do yourself
a favor and go check them out.
They're just freaking awesome.
And they're still out there today, man.
Still doing it.
All right, dude.
Great stuff, man.
I love thanks, man.
Thanks.
Yeah, me too.
I'm going to stay in sort of that that alternative sort of area from the 90s.
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I'm going to go with a small victory by Faith No More.
Great, great choice.
Great song.
Can't go wrong with any Faith No More, but that's a pretty good one.
Yeah, that's great for a Sunday.
For sure.
From the 1992 album Angel Dust, both of us, Mike Patton, you know, was just kind of talking
about the lyrics, what it's about, growing up, always wanting to win and learning that
you can't win all the time.
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And so the song is about the small victories, you know, it doesn't have to be the biggest
thing in the world.
It's something small that you're able to do every day or overcome or accomplish.
So that's what the song is about.
So then, you know, it's just a great Sunday song.
You just think about the little things, man.
I don't need to be the world champ.
I just got to do these little things right.
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That's cool, man.
But of course, the song features Mike Patton's just insane vocal range.
Yeah, he's amazing.
It's so much fun to sing along to the chorus, great melodic guitar riff.
And maybe if you think you know Faith No More, if you're not a big fan and think it's everything
that they put out was just crazy and, you know, no, listen to this song.
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Yeah.
Listen to the lyrics.
Listen to what it's about.
And it's a beautiful song.
I am going to say that Angel Dust is my favorite Faith No More record, by the way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The real thing was amazing.
That was the one that put him on the map.
But yeah, man, Angel Dust.
Oh, God, the songwriting is just on another level.
And I know.
Yeah.
I know you have Crysis on that.
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Such an amazing track.
So great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to go back a little earlier.
I'm going to go back to a 1970 little band called The Doors, perhaps?
Peace Frog, man.
That is such a groovy, funky, just upbeat song.
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I've always loved that groove.
Even before I knew anything about them.
I remember hearing a song when I was very young and just loved the music.
I didn't know anything about The Doors.
I didn't know anything about Morrison.
I just remembered that song.
It just makes so much fun.
It's so bouncy.
And yeah, it was from the 1970 album Morrison Hotel, which there's a fun story that goes
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along with the album cover.
You've seen the album cover, right?
Oh, yeah.
There's it's called The Morrison Hotel.
And they are in the window behind the name Morrison Hotel is painted on the glass and
they're behind the window looking out at the photographer.
And that that was all just coincidental.
They had seen this place and they're like, oh, my God, we need to use this for an album
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cover.
The owner of the hotel wanted no part of it.
He didn't want to let them shoot that.
So somehow they were able to distract the owner.
And while he was busy, they literally ran into the building and got behind the window
and the photographers outside, bang, takes a shot.
Boom, they're out of there before they knew anything even happened.
And that's where the album cover came from is, you know, I love stories like that, man.
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That's great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, the song was actually written by the band without Morrison.
You know, they recorded the track and he was he just didn't have any words for it or anything
yet.
So he just kind of was like, I will record the song and I'll do my thing.
And he ended up going through some of his journals and he was constantly writing poetry
and journals and things like that.
And he strung together three poems and, you know, phrased it to go along with the song.
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And it's just absolutely brilliant.
And one of the one of the things I love about the song, too, is that there's some, you know,
anecdotal stories in there.
And he actually references my home state of Connecticut.
There was an incident where he was arrested in New Haven for inciting a riot.
There were some other charges in there as well.
But yeah, but yeah, but inciting a riot.
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And so he references it in the song.
He says there's blood in the streets in the town of New Haven.
He's referencing that that incident.
So I don't know, just kind of a cool, fun song.
The music, like I said, it's super groovy and fun.
And it's just a good one to just kind of bounce around to, you know.
And I know the doors are one of those bands that people either love or hate.
Yeah.
But even if you're not the biggest doors fan and just give Peace Frog a chance because
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it's just so cool and fun and funky.
It is.
It is.
And again, like I said, I remember that before I even knew anything else about them.
And I am one that I love the doors.
I instantly, you know, once I got a little older and started really delving into music,
I've loved them ever since.
But yeah, that one's a that one's particularly great and fun.
Yeah.
If there's a fun door song to me, it's that one.
Right.
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Exactly.
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, I'm going to stay back in that era.
I'm going to go one year earlier.
I'm going back to 1969.
Everyday People, Sly and the Family Star.
Oh, yeah, dude.
Man, what a jam.
Love Sly.
From their 1969 album, Stand.
The song about peace and equality.
You know, it's just the butcher, the banker, the drummer.
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And then it makes no difference what group I'm in.
You know, I'm everyday people.
Yeah.
It's just a great message, you know, especially again, you're on a Sunday morning, maybe you're
sitting out on the porch having a coffee and the song kicks in and you just pay man.
Everything's OK.
We're all the same, you know, different strokes for different folks, man.
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It's just it's just sort of such a unifying song.
I just love it.
It just makes me feel good about life.
Yeah.
And again, another song that I think people need a little more of that attitude these
days, you know.
Yeah, for sure.
Not to get heavy, but you know, but we have more in common than we don't.
You know, I grew up listening to that.
I still have the greatest hits album that my dad had.
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Oh, that's so cool.
Sly and the Family Stone.
And so I grew up listening to that song.
Yeah.
And it's been, to this day, something that I go back to over and over again because it's
just it sets a mood.
It just makes you feel good.
It makes you, you know, happy.
I love that you got some cool ass vinyl from your dad.
Like my parents, like, you know, I went in their attic one time and I was like, oh, man,
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I bet there's some old records up here.
You know what I actually scored the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
My mom loved that soundtrack back in the 70s.
And then she also has the well, I have now, but the Bee Gees greatest hits on vinyl and
the fold out.
It's a trifold.
And each panel when you unfold it is this like glamour shot of each member of the Bee
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Gees.
It's fucking fantastic, dude.
Just hair, just your chest hair, my chalens.
Fucking yes.
Gold medallions and fucking windblown Beyonce hair like, oh, it's so fucking cool.
Man, I should hang that soft lighting.
I should hang that up in my studio here, man.
That's a that's a fucking winner.
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I'm telling you.
All right.
We are going to head to 1976 New York City band called the Ramones.
Oh, I've heard of that.
You might have.
I realized I made the mistake that everybody in the world makes.
We all do it.
Here I am on our music podcast and I called them the Ramones.
They're not the Ramones.
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It's Ramones.
There's no the.
Everybody does it.
But the song is called The Blitzkrieg Bop.
And it's such an awesome, awesome song.
And again, the sing along aspect to it.
It's the first single from their 1976 debut album, Ramones.
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Fun fact written by the drummer Tommy Ramone.
Yeah.
And got a little bit of help from the bassist Dee Dee Ramone who changed the name.
He loved the song and actually gets a writing credit, I believe, for changing it from Animal
Bop to Blitzkrieg Bop for whatever reason.
I don't know the story behind why and how he came up with Blitzkrieg for that.
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But he loved the song.
Basically didn't change any lyrics.
It was just like, you should call it Blitzkrieg Bop instead of Animal Bop.
And thank God he did because it's just such an amazing song.
Lyrically, it's just really it's about their fans.
So New York City in that era, the punk rock scene was blowing up.
CBGBs was packed every weekend.
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What was the other big punk club?
Was it Max's Kansas City?
Max's Kansas City.
Yep.
So they're playing places like that.
And this is their first album and their first single.
They're singing about their fans, which is fucking cool, man.
So the line, they're forming in a straight line.
They're going through a tight wind.
The kids are losing their minds.
The Blitzkrieg Bop.
And it's literally about the kids filing into the shows and just having a good time and
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the energy.
And man, I was born too late.
I would have loved to have lived during that.
You know what I mean?
Being able to experience.
I mean, I've seen the Ramones.
You've seen the Ramones.
But to have been around in New York during those days and seeing Blondie, the Talking
Heads, Ramones, all of those New York City bands that were playing those clubs.
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Oh my God, it must have been so fucking cool.
I can't imagine.
Because we've read the books.
We've learned the history and you hear people tell those stories and you're like, hot damn,
that would have been great.
I know.
And I never get sick of those stories either, man.
And you mentioned the two of us are lucky enough to have seen the Ramones.
Yes.
Granted, later in their career.
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But at least we saw them, right?
Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
Before the band even comes on, what's the crowd chanting?
Oh, hey, let's go.
Let's go.
It's just, yeah, it's just when you're standing in the crowd and you're doing it and you're
waiting for them to come on stage and you're chanting, hey, oh, yeah, let's go.
The energy was just insane.
It was so much fun seeing the Ramones.
It was great, man.
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Yeah.
The first time I ever crowd surfed was at a Ramones show and I didn't crack my head
open.
I had a boy.
I had a boy.
I got lucky, man.
I could have easily just been tossed on the ground.
As a matter of fact, my buddy that I was with, John, I did it and then he wanted to do it.
So there was this big dude next to me.
I'm like, oh, send him up, send him up.
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So he just picks John up and just throws him and the people behind us just moved like a
sack of potatoes.
Boom.
On the floor.
He got up.
He was like, ah.
He was all excited anyway.
Oh God, those were the days, man.
That was so much fun.
I'm going to stay in the punk space here.
Cool.
I'm going to go with Waiting Room by Fugazi.
Oh, wow.
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Nice.
I love this song.
It's so great.
It's a song about 1989, album 13 songs.
I'll show a period on there, 1988 debut in P. But basically it's a song about being patient,
you know, waiting for the right people in your life, the right moment in your life.
It starts with that just killer opening bass line.
You know, guitar kicks in and then boom, it's on.
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Like for a few seconds and then it comes back.
Yeah.
And you know, I am a patient boy.
I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait.
And then the time is watered down a drain.
You know, and it's just about again, just you don't got to do everything right now.
Like everybody's moving, everybody's moving, you know, but you wait for the right time
to do your thing.
Right on.
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So it's just on top of just being a great beat, great fun song.
I love the music, but I love to just hear that those lyrics, man, you know, even and
even though it has nothing to do that anytime I'm at a doctor's office and I'm stuck in
the waiting room, what song is going through my head?
Yeah, yeah.
Like I am a patient boy.
But yeah, again, Sunday morning you put that song on.
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Yeah, hell yeah.
Yeah, that definitely goes well with coffee.
Yeah, for sure.
That's a good one.
I was going to say this earlier.
I love that, you know, we talk about our idea for each podcast ahead of time.
We discuss, you know, the topic and then we go our separate ways and we kind of do our
own research and we come back together and all that.
But it's just funny how like in this moment you're really like focusing on the lyrics
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and the story.
Yeah.
Whereas like I'm more just like I don't really care what the lyrics are.
But, you know, if it's interesting, I'll talk about it.
But I'm more like into the just the groove of the song or that, you know what I mean?
I'm more focused on emotionally what it's doing to me versus what the lyrics are saying.
I just think it's cool how, you know, we have the same topic in front of us and yet we're
just approaching it to slightly different ways.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's cool.
It's cool.
Yeah.
I get really very, very reflective on a Sunday morning.
All right.
Well, I'm going to stay in the 70s.
1975 band dropped an album called Mothership Connection.
It's Parliament.
Give up the funk and then tear the roof off the suckers.
I love Parliament anyway.
They're another one of those.
You just you can't go wrong.
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Just throw on anything by Parliament.
But there's a couple standouts that are just so freaking good.
And that's just one for me, man.
I absolutely love that song.
Fun fact.
Coming with the fun facts.
Hit me.
Hit me.
The album lists the track as give up the funk, tear the roof off the sucker.
When it was released as a single, the track was titled tear the roof off the sucker.
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Give up the funk.
So I don't know why one too many bong hits that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah.
But they decided when they released as a single just to flip the format of the title.
So if you have it on the album, it's give up the funk to the roof off the sucker.
If you have the single, it's tear the roof off the sucker.
Give up the funk.
It feels like a very Parliament thing to do, though.
It does.
It does.
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George Clinton, he doesn't need a reason to do things.
He just does them.
Right.
Parliament, one of the more heavily sampled bands in hip hop, especially the early days
of like the West Coast gangster.
When Dre was putting out the chronic, there's so much Parliament on that record, man.
So much Parliament.
Trivia for you.
Yes.
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You know, Mac, who is the most heavily sampled artist in music history?
Well, as we're talking about him, I'm going to say Parliament.
That's a fine guess.
It's a fine guess.
Oh, but it's not correct.
So actually Parliament themselves.
So, you know, Parliament, you have Parliament and then you have Funkadelic, which were two
bands that George Clinton started.
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Parliament was a little more obscure.
Funkadelic was a little more rock.
But I mean, a lot of that stuff could be interchangeable.
And then in later years, he kind of squashed them together.
It became Parliament and Funkadelic.
But Parliament has actually been sampled 956 times.
Funkadelic was sampled 1243 times on hip hop records.
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So if you put them together, George Clinton has been sampled 2,199 times.
James Brown has been sampled 9,405 times.
How insane is that?
Wow.
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James Brown, the drum loops, man.
Yes.
Oh, my God.
How many songs is that alone, Benin?
Right.
Gazillion.
You know?
Yeah.
That's crazy, dude.
Fun, fun stuff for you there.
But yeah, that blew my mind because I really thought Parliament.
I mean, that's a lot.
I mean, come on, be honest.
2,000, almost 2,200 times between Parliament and Funkadelic.
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That's a lot.
But holy shit, James Brown, 9,000, almost 9,500 times.
It's nuts.
Let's jump up to the 90s.
We're going to go to 1995.
And the song is Army of Me by York.
Oh, man, I love that track.
I love that song.
I love that song anyway.
That's a great fucking song.
It's a sort of program beats, killer synth, plus her just soaring vocals.
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She's amazing.
Yeah, she's an incredible singer.
But the song's got just a fun groove to it that you just kind of put it on and you move
it around the house.
You're kind of moving to that groove.
But yeah, Army of Me, strong lyrics about standing up and regaining control of your
life.
Yeah.
Again, on Sunday, you're thinking about stuff, right?
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What's next?
What am I doing?
Am I going to a job I hate?
Or am I going to make a change?
What am I going to do?
Yeah.
So it's just a great song to have on on a Sunday morning.
And you mentioned that groove, man.
I just love how right out of the gate, it jumps right into the groove and just rides it through
the whole song.
Right.
It's just, and it just never lets go.
Yeah.
Right.
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You ride that way through the whole song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love Bjork.
She's so cool, man.
Yeah.
Super talented.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm not going to get away with in my house.
Unfortunately, my wife is not a fan.
Bjork is, you got to admit, she's one of those artists that you had mentioned the doors earlier.
There's like, you know, there's diehard doors fans and then there's the people who just can't
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stand them.
You don't generally meet people that are in between.
Bjork is also like that.
Yeah.
Just her vocal style.
She's an amazing singer, but she does have a style that can be off putting to some people.
And my wife happens to be one of those people.
So we don't we don't have a shared love of Bjork.
So Bjork is more like car music for me when I'm in my Jeep by myself.
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But you know, you take what you can get.
Yeah, absolutely.
We do agree on enough music that, you know, our house is still fun.
But yeah, Bjork is amazing.
I love her.
So speaking of a band that, well, I can't say we both love, but she tolerates.
I'm going to talk about the Misfits for a minute.
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Okay.
Yeah.
It's a little maybe a little more predictable for me.
But the reason I love this one, it's called Where Eagles Dare.
And the reason it has such a special place in my heart, and I may have told the story
before, so forgive me if I'm repeating myself, but for my birthday many moons ago, Chris
took me to Riot Fest in Chicago.
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And it was the first reunion of the Misfits with Ron Danzing and Jerry Olney and Doyle
Wolfgang on Frankenstein.
And I gave her a playlist of Misfits songs.
I picked out some of the key stuff that you're going to hear at this concert.
So here you go.
And when they played Where Eagles Dare, everybody is screaming the chorus, I ain't no goddamn
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son of a bitch.
And I look over at my cute, adorable little wife and she's fist in the air singing, I
ain't no goddamn son of a bitch.
And it was one of my proudest moments.
And so that song just will now forever, like it means even more to me now because I just
love that.
So that is definitely one in my house that we can put on and both sing along and enjoy.
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She might not like all the Misfits stuff, but that's a good one.
It's a fun song anyway.
But yeah, when your wife who doesn't usually listen to that kind of music is belting out
the chorus, that's pretty cool.
I'm so glad we got to the explanation because I saw this on your list in advance and I'm
like, man, I need to hear the story behind this.
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That's awesome, man.
That's great.
Love the Misfits, man.
Wow, so good.
Yeah, so good, dude.
All right, I'm going to jump into the world of hip hop right now.
Nice.
Love it.
Yeah, we haven't really had any hip hop yet, have we?
A little bit of old school, Eric.
We're going back.
How far are we going back?
We're going way back.
We're going back to 1989, the album Three Feet High and Rising.
Oh, dude.
Talking about De La Soul and the song Me, Myself, and I.
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Amazing.
Just a fun, mellow jam.
Eric over a Funkadelic sample.
Yes.
But just a great lyrics about just being yourself.
That's what it's all about, just being you.
But just delivered it.
And De La had their own sort of style, the way they presented themselves, the way they
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dressed, the way they rapped, the samples that they used.
It was just chill, but it was smart.
Their lyrics meant something.
So I love that song.
It's just a great song to just listen to and think and enjoy.
I absolutely love that track, man.
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And it's funny that you picked that one too, because I'm currently obsessed with De La
Soul.
I was able to get Three Feet High and Rising on vinyl recently, and it's just constantly
on my turntable.
That record is so freaking amazing, man.
And yeah, you talk about their imagery and their style.
And yeah, they were kind of the anti-NWA.
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You know what I mean?
The opposite of all of that stuff.
They were singing about just peace and everybody respect each other and just cool and have
a good time.
And there wasn't the...
And I'm no disrespect to the NWA or any of that.
I love that stuff too, but they were doing just kind of the opposite thing.
It was kind of positive and uplifting without being corny and cheesy.
Right.
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Yep.
It's just funky.
It's so much fun.
But yeah, man, Mirror Mirror on the Wall.
Tell me, Mirror, what is wrong?
Can it be my De La clothes?
Or is it just my De La soul?
What I do ain't make believe.
People say I sit and try, but when it comes to being De La, it's just me, myself, and
I.
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Just awesome lyrics, man.
It's great, man.
They're just...
I love De La soul.
I always have.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And such a great groove too.
Prince Paul was producing that stuff.
A Q-tip from Tribe Called Quest is on the record.
He makes a couple of appearances.
I think they were super tight with those guys too.
But yeah, man, just De La soul, just so good, man.
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Yeah, man.
Yeah.
If you get a chance, grab that.
It's on Amazon.
Get it on a colored vinyl too.
It's like yellow.
Oh, I just got it.
It just arrived.
Did you really?
Oh, sweet.
Sweet.
I'm so happy for you.
Yellow vinyl.
I got the yellow one too.
I guess there's a magenta one out there too, but yeah, I got the yellow.
It's so sweet.
All right.
Well, I am going to talk about a group that is not at all like De La Soul, but in our
greatest mixed state podcast universe, it's all good, right?
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Yeah.
Who cares?
Queen, man.
It would be complete without Queen.
Come on.
Oh my God.
What a band.
Oh, dude.
Again, another one of those artists, like just throw a dart at a list of their songs
and you're going to hit a winner because they've never done anything bad as far as I'm concerned.
But I went with one that's a little bit, it's not one of the bigger hits.
It's certainly one that after they released this song in 1976, it was a staple at all
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their live shows all the way through.
And when they do reunion stuff or they did the thing with Paul Rogers on vocals and they
did that to her, I mean, this song is always, always, always in their set list and it's
tie your mother down.
That riff, dude.
That riff.
Yeah.
That opening guitar riff.
Of course, the song was written by guitarist Brian May.
So he had a tendency to write a little more of the rockier stuff, the sort of guitar heavy
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stuff.
Freddie Mercury was a little more esoteric and he liked to write crazy stuff with string
arrangements and stuff like that and lots of piano.
And I think they balanced each other so, so well.
Freddie and that band was top notch musicians.
Oh my God.
So that's why they were able to pull off anything, any style that they felt like writing in,
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they could do it and do it better than anybody.
But yeah, this is one that's a little more of a rocker.
This is from their 1976 album, A Day at the Races.
Also features somebody to love, good old fashioned lover boy, really eclectic album.
It's not just your standard rock album.
They kind of veer in different directions, which is really cool, track to track.
The vibe can change, but it's still queen.
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The album was actually released as a companion to its predecessor, which was A Night at the
Opera, which I didn't realize this until I was doing research for the show.
Those are both named after Marx Brothers films.
I never made that connection before.
Nope.
Did not get that.
A Night at the Opera, next album is A Day at the Races.
And yeah, they were both from the Marx Brothers movies.
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I was like, that's genius, man.
I never thought of that.
That's great, man.
Yeah.
You know, that's something that, that's what makes doing what we do so much fun for me
that, you know, we're pretty knowledgeable when it comes to music.
That's why we started this podcast and everything.
I'm still learning stuff every time we do an episode and we have to do a little research,
you know, I'm learning stuff still.
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It's just such a huge world out there and there's so many facts and, and you know, things
that I didn't know and stories and all these things that we uncover as we do this research.
It's just so much fun.
Right.
Right.
Like you've learned about somebody who wrote a song.
You're like, what?
Yeah.
Or that's a cover.
I was just going to say that.
Yes.
You learn that, you know, oh my God, this song I've loved for years as a cover.
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I never knew that.
Right.
Yeah.
Things like that are amazing.
Yeah.
Well, like I said, man, they played this song literally every concert they ever played after
it was released.
They always included this in their set list.
And they actually performed the song at the 1992 Freddie Mercury Memorial concert.
Do you remember who came out on stage and performed it with him?
Oh my goodness.
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I'm putting you on the spot today, man.
Yeah, no, I don't.
I can't recall.
It was a slash came out.
Oh, yep.
And also on vocals, Joe Elliott from Def Leppard.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was a great concert, man.
1992.
Yeah.
And then when Freddie had passed, they had a memorial concert for him and just every
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I mean, he was beloved.
Yeah.
You know, the music industry.
So, I mean, everybody came out for that concert.
It was amazing.
And then over the years, Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor have joined Foo Fighters on stage
because they play that song a lot as well, too.
And I don't know if they're going to continue that sort of tradition because the late Taylor
Hawkins, the drummer for Foo Fighters, would always come out front and sing the song.
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And you know, Roger Taylor would sit in on drums.
And so, yeah, I don't know if that's going to happen anymore because it was kind of his
thing.
But man, but that I've never seen them live do it with Brian May or Roger Taylor.
But man, that would be a bucket list for me.
Oh, man, that'd be awesome.
So cool.
Yeah.
So cool.
But yeah, great, great song, man.
I can't say enough about Queen, dude.
I love Queen.
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I know.
I know.
They're kind of like Prince.
Like they're always going to come up because we just both love them so much.
And I'll admit, man, when I was a kid, when I was a teenager, I didn't get it early on.
Right.
You know, like I knew Bohemian Rhapsody from when I was a kid and maybe one or two other
songs.
But I just I don't know, for whatever reason, it took me a minute.
And then I don't know whether I just matured or what.
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But like, I just remember one day going, oh, my God, like, I think somebody just bought
me a Queen CD or a tape and was like, no, just listen.
You know, and so I was like, all right, man, you bought me this.
I'm going to, you know, I'll give it a fair shake.
And just instantly was like, what the fuck have I been doing?
Like I can't believe and I've been hooked ever since.
Oh, I know. It is like he said, like, yeah, of course, we, you know, another one bites
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the dust. We all knew that growing up.
Yeah. Yeah, that's another one.
It wasn't till like later in life where something happened where I, you know, oh, there was
a the greatest hits album on sale or some shit.
Right. And I'll get it.
And then, oh, my God, what have I been doing with my life?
Yeah, same, same, man.
Change my literally changed my life.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was one of those one of those moments, those holy shit moments that you just forget.
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You know, all right, dude, let's take a trip up north.
Let's go to Canada.
OK.
So we're going to go with, you know, one of the greatest bands ever.
If you don't know, you need to know I'm talking about the Tragically Hip.
I knew they were going to be on your list.
I knew it.
The hardest.
This was the hardest part was narrowing down to one song.
Yeah.
From the hip who I was going to take.
And I'm going to go with from the 1999 album Phantom Power.
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The song is Bob Cajun.
It's such a just beautiful song, beautiful melodic guitar riff and bass line.
The song is named after a city in Ontario called Bob Cajun.
A lot of different sort of potential meanings in the song.
Gord Downey, the lead singer and lyricist was a bit of an enigma, you know, in his songwriting.
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But there's some stories in there about a cop, you know, working an overnight shift
kind of a thing.
It's kind of the one common thread through there.
But all I can say is that first verse is some of the most beautiful songwriting I've ever
heard and it perfectly describes a Sunday morning.
I'll just give you a little taste here.
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Cool.
I left your house this morning about a quarter after nine.
Could have been the Willie Nelson, could have been the wine.
When I left your house this morning, it was a little after nine.
It was in Bob Cajun.
I saw the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time.
Wow.
Fucking beautiful songwriting.
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That's amazing.
It's so beautiful and the whole song is so touching.
The way it was put together, like I said, that song touches me.
If you watch the video, it's really just an interesting piece of storytelling.
At the end, Gord Downey, the lead singer, he's playing this role, the lead role in the
video and he comes home and his wife meets him at the door, opens the door for him and
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just gives him a hug and she's singing into his ear, he's singing into her ear.
It's just beautiful.
It's so well done.
It's a great song.
If there's a Sunday morning song that you don't know that we've been talking about tonight,
go look up this morning, go check it out.
I need to put that on my playlist now too.
It's just beautiful.
That's a great song.
I love the hit, man.
Yeah, yeah.
I've always been so jealous of people who have that ability to write lyrics like that,
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man.
I've tried.
I just don't have that.
Whatever it is, man, I've tried to write lyrics in my past in various bands or whatnot.
It's terrible.
I'm just not good at it.
I don't know.
I've never been shown any of them to anybody.
They always just end up burned, I think.
I don't even tear them up because somebody might tape them back together.
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I actually light them on fire.
That's what they deserve.
There can be no evidence that this ever happened.
So I put down my pen a long time ago and said, nope, that's not for me.
So like you said, that song touches you.
When I hear a song that can make me emotional, it's easy.
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I think it's easier, I should say, for an artist to get you pumped up.
You want to, I would say, throw a chair through a window.
You know what I mean?
That's easy because the music itself can do that.
It doesn't even have to be the lyrics.
But when a song can take you to a place where maybe it makes you tear up a little bit or
maybe it just makes you so overjoyed with happiness or something that makes you hopeful
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and can pull you out of a depression or things like that.
That's otherworldly, man.
It blows my mind that people have that ability.
And that's why we love music so much.
I've said this before.
It's not that we like music.
We have a relationship with music.
Yeah, for sure.
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There's not a lot of things that can evoke that kind of emotion with me, with the exception
of the ASPCA commercials with Sarah McLaughlin.
Yeah, Sarah McLaughlin.
Thank you.
The Arms of the Angels commercials.
I'll start balling like a fucking 10-year-old with a skin knee.
I knew where you were going though, so I'm right there with you.
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Thank you.
I blanked on Sarah McLaughlin, dude.
That was a great, great assist.
I appreciate that.
All right.
Well, I'm going to stick with my fun stuff over here.
Nothing deep about this at all.
Just fun from start to finish.
And it's Sure Shot from the Beastie Boys.
One of their best songs.
Again, they're another artist for me.
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And I know you as well.
Like I said, you could throw a dart at their track list and you're just going to hit a
winner because they're all just amazing.
But I've just always loved that song in particular.
And on a Sunday morning, you know, cooking breakfast and just bouncing around the kitchen,
having a great time.
That one just fits.
You know what I mean?
It's sing songy enough where you can sing along and have fun with it.
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And it's got one of the most killer samples I've ever heard in my life.
That flute intro, man.
Oh, it's so, so sweet.
The second it starts, I just get amped, dude, because it's just so much fun.
It's actually a jazz flautist, if I'm saying that correctly.
Flautist.
His name is Jeremy Stig and the song is Howlin' for Judy.
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And I have never actually heard the song.
And now that I know that, I'm going to go do some digging and see if I can find it.
It's always fun to hear the original version when you hear a hook or a sample that you
really love.
It's fun to hear it in its original state.
So I definitely got to go find that one.
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And of course, the iconic, ah, yes, indeed, it's fun time after the second verse.
It's actually from a comedy record by an artist who was a standup comic by the name of Moms
Mabley.
And I always thought that it was MCA in maybe some kind of vocal effect on his voice or
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something because it was a little bit raspy.
And I just was like, oh, that's got to be MCA, right?
No.
But actually, if you go on YouTube and put in Beastie Boys, ah, yes, indeed, it's fun
time, you'll find somebody, they actually show the record and that they put it on their
turntable and they drop the needle.
And the album starts with the MC, I guess it's a live recording, and the MC is like,
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ah, yes, indeed, it's fun time, ladies and gentlemen.
And he goes on to introduce the show.
And then you hear it and it doesn't quite sound right.
So the guy grabs the pitch on his turntable and slows it down and pitches it down and
then he replays it.
And it's perfect.
And you just instantly it's like, ah, yes, indeed, it's fun time.
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It's so mind blowing and so cool.
I love that shit, man.
We need to do an episode on samples and do that, do a little history and find out where
they're from and actually play the originals.
It'd be so much fun.
Oh my God.
Because like you said, in the story behind it, how did the Beasties find that?
Exactly, dude.
And like hear it and go, oh yeah, that's that's yeah, we got to put that on a track that's
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going on a track like what?
Yeah, I don't know how people find these things, man.
It's amazing.
That's incredible.
But like you said, man, that that flute intro and then then you can't you won't you don't
stop.
Yeah, great, great.
He come and rock the shore shot.
Everything the Beasties ever did.
Yeah, a blast.
Yeah, one of my all time favorites.
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One of my biggest musical regrets.
I never got to see the same same breaks my heart.
Top of my list.
The biggest musical regrets.
Yep.
Bummer.
This is a bummer.
But we have a lot of a lot of music.
Thank you to the Beastie Boys.
Yes, yes.
Absolutely.
So much wonderful music.
I'll never get sick of it.
Nope.
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What you got, man?
I'm going to finish up here.
I'm going to finish up with the Beatles.
Nice finish strong from the 1969 Abbey Road album.
The track is Here Comes the Sun.
Nice.
It's so beautiful.
Yeah.
Written and sung by George Harrison.
You know, written when George was going through some shit.
You know, he's going through some dark times.
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It's kind of a song about rebirth coming out of the darkness, coming out of the cold.
And you know, everything's going to be okay.
Just beautifully arranged, gorgeous guitar work.
And of course, George's unmistakable vocals.
Yeah.
But if you need a song that's going to elevate you and get you out of if you're in a dark
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or in a funk, if there's some anxiety, some stress and you want to feel like things are
going to be okay.
Yeah, that's a good one.
This is the song right here.
You know, you play that on a Sunday morning when you're just contemplating life and drinking
that coffee.
You get a few minutes to yourself, baby, in the house before everybody else gets up.
Yep.
And this is the song you listen to right here.
Everything's going to be okay.
That's absolutely 100 percent true, man.
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Yeah.
It's a very uplifting song.
Yes.
You can't be in a bad mood after listening to that.
I don't know.
It's possible.
It's been done and it's not possible.
I'm just making shit up now.
There was a triple blind study.
Harvard I believe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that's a great choice, man.
Yeah.
Phenomenal songwriter.
And again, it's you know, I'm sure everybody knows this song, but give it a chance, you
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know, again, and just sit, maybe close your eyes.
Just listen to it.
Yeah.
It's going to do something for you.
Yeah, it's a great track.
Yeah.
Beatles, man.
And again, anything really.
But yeah.
But for a Sunday morning that that song is particularly perfect.
Yeah, absolutely.
Nice choice, man.
Well, I am going to end my side of this conversation with the most obscure song that I could pick
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for this today.
Let's do it.
I am oddly obsessed with this band.
I loved them back in the early 90s when they came out.
Unfortunately, only put out two albums and then just broke up.
The band is called Jellyfish and they were just one of the coolest bands, man.
The early 90s were wild and we've talked about this before, how there was so much going on
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in music and art and a lot of it was coming together and it was kind of like a license
for bands to just do whatever they wanted.
You know what I mean?
You have bands like the Chili Peppers coming out and Jane's Addiction and, you know, all
these wacky images and wacky sounds and melding of influences.
The 90s were like the wild, wild west for music, man.
It was really cool.
And their debut record came out in 1990.
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It was called Belly Button.
And it was just so weird, but I don't mean weird like you hear it and go, what the fuck
is it?
It's not weird like that.
It was again, a blending of styles.
But I always thought of them as if Queen and Cheap Trick had a baby, it would be Jellyfish.
And then you sprinkle in like some late 60s, early 70s aesthetic.
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They all looked very like, you know, late 60s bell bottoms and wacky colors and purples
and greens.
They just had this really fun, funky vibe about them aesthetically.
And their songwriting is just so amazing.
And again, it's very, you know, when they're when they're a little bit late leaning into
it, they're a little Cheap Trick, but then they would have these harmonies and these
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really cool, you know, orchestral parts that were very reminiscent of Queen.
Just an amazing, amazing band.
And then yeah, in 1993, they they put out the album, Spilt Milk.
And it actually I just realized I haven't said the name of the song yet.
It's called it's called Joining the Fan Club.
It was one of their bigger songs off the record.
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I don't even think it was released as a single, but it just caught on lyrically.
It's just it's literally about like being a kid and discovering this new band and just
becoming obsessed with them.
And then you join the fan club with your friends.
And then by the end of the song, they're like, you know, I'm picking up a falling star.
It's like they realize like, oh, these are just people, too.
And it's about idol worship and things like that.
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But I don't want to get too deep into the lyrics because it's not really about the lyrics
for me.
It was just it's the the mood that the song creates.
And it's just so pretty and so fun.
And again, it's one of those kind of boppy songs.
And yeah, check out Jellyfish.
They're just one of the I they're one of the best bands you've never heard.
Yeah, that's how I describe them.
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The people I'm like, you've never heard Jellyfish.
Oh, my God.
Do yourself a favor.
They're absolutely awesome.
Yeah, so cool.
And then you're turning me on to them just for the last few days, like sharing notes.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, my God, I'm not that familiar.
Like, I got to dive into this band a little bit more.
Yeah, they were awesome.
And again, it breaks my heart that they only put out two albums, but they're both fantastic
records.
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But yeah, super, super cool band.
Wow, that's great, man.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, do the deep dive.
It's worth it.
Awesome.
Awesome, bro.
Yeah, man.
Well, that was fun, dude.
That was great, man.
I'm perfectly at Sunday morning.
I'm in the yeah.
I got the vibe going.
This is perfect.
Hell, yeah.
I need a second cup of coffee.
Other than that, I'm feeling it too.
I bet the first thing I'm doing when we're done record.
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Same, bro.
Same.
Oh, yeah.
Well, cool.
Let's finish up this episode with some shout outs.
Hell, yeah.
We got some new listeners coming in.
Here we go.
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Awesome.
Here, I'm going to destroy this.
My favorite.
I love it.
I'm going to do my best.
I apologize in advance.
La Seine-sur-Mer, France.
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I'm giving you the thumbs up on that one, dude.
Well done.
I'll take it.
It could be wrong, but it sounded great to me.
My own educated ass.
I don't know.
Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Powder Springs, Georgia.
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Morristown, New Jersey.
Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
Harlingen, Texas.
Abilene, Texas.
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Lawndale, California.
Pasadena, California.
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It's the Greatest Mixtape Podcast.
I'm Eric and I'm Mac, and we will talk to you soon.
Hey there, welcome to the Greatest Mixtape Podcast.
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I'm Eric.
And I am Mack.
And Mack, why don't you kick this one off?
It was your idea and I absolutely love it.
So why don't you tell everybody what we're going to talk about today?
Well, I got to thinking about, you know, we record at night.
Yes.
You know, typically we're a couple of vampires.
We record late at night.
For sure.
And we thought, you know, hey, let's record on a Sunday.
Let's do this over the weekend.
Let's record on a Sunday morning.
And we got to be thinking about Sunday morning songs.
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Yeah.
You know, and those songs that just kind of get you sort of reflecting on things, but
at the same time get you re-energized.
So Sunday's a day of rest, but it's also a day to get refocused and get excited about
what's next.
And yeah, in my house, you know, we have a bit of a Sunday ritual where, you know, we'll
get up.
Chris is a tea drinker.
I make my coffee.
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We maybe make some breakfast.
We have some music playing while we're doing that.
It's funny for me, Sunday mornings, I stay away from the metal.
I stay away from the really loud stuff.
And I don't know what it is about Sunday morning, but there's just something that it's just
more fun for me when we've got music playing.
It's sing along stuff.
We always have a blast just playing songs.
I kind of thought of it like old friends.
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You know what I mean?
It's like, I just want to hear familiar stuff that I can sing.
I can't sing to save my life, but I will try when I'm in the privacy of my own house.
I will sing my ass off terribly.
And so those are the songs that we want to hear when we're like making breakfast or brunch
or, you know, having a good time on a Sunday morning.
Right.
It's a vibe, right?
It's a Sunday morning vibe.
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It's got a real feel to it about, you know, you're waking up, like you said, you're making
breakfast, you're having some coffee.
Yeah.
You know, I don't want to hear anything loud and aggressive right now.
I want to hear, like you said, old friends, you know, songs that take me back, songs that
make me look forward.
Yeah.
Reminisce or remind you of good times or yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Yep.
Yeah.
It's a good time.
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Let's let's jump into this.
We both brought, we love our lists.
We both brought a couple lists to go over.
Who wants to go first here?
You want to jump in?
You want me to?
Why don't you take it away again?
Your idea.
You kick us off.
Let's do it, man.
I'm going to start with Tumbling Dice by The Rolling Stones.
Hell yeah.
What a song from the 1972 album Exile on Main Street.
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But for me, that intro, right?
You have a great guitar riff and Keith, you know, the drums kick in, mixed vocals, then
followed by those backup vocals.
Yes.
It just lift the song.
Those backup vocals just lift that song.
Absolutely.
And it's just, it's got such a feel to it, that song.
It's so bluesy and laid back, you know, great lyrics about just, you know, you've got to
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roll me and call me the Tumbling Dice.
You know, the life of a rock star.
I'm always on the move.
I'm not going to stick around.
Right.
So just so much fun and just a really bluesy kind of sleazy feel to it.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a great, great.
I mean, that album is amazing anyway, but yeah, that's, that's a particularly, uh,
standout track for me.
Yeah.
It just makes you think about life.
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Like we're all just kind of Tumbling Dice.
Yeah, man.
You know?
Yeah.
But obviously the song is, is nothing without the band, the Rolling Stones, of course, of
course, but we need to take some time to appreciate those backup singers.
Oh my God.
Who provide so much to that song.
Three women, um, Clyde King, Veneta Fields, and Shirley Matthew.
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Without them, that song is not what it is.
No, no, a hundred percent.
Such a feel to it.
Just a beautiful, beautiful song.
I love it.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's move on here, Eric.
Let's see what you got.
Mac, do you want to just for the hell of it, take a guess who my first artist is going
to be?
Let's see here.
I'm going to go out on a limb and, uh, there's a fellow out of Minneapolis.
I'm going to, uh, I'm going to go with Prince.
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Love me some Prince.
And so of course Prince gets played a lot in my house anytime of day, but yeah, especially
on a, on a Sunday morning.
Um, and it was hard to narrow it down because he's got so many amazing songs, but there
was just one that, that stood out for me when I was making this list that I just absolutely
love again, because I can't sing, but I do enjoy trying to sing this one.
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And the song's called Musicology.
Oh my God.
Such an amazing tune, man.
And this blew my mind too.
When I was, you know, putting my notes together for the show.
It's from 2004.
That was Prince's 28th studio album.
It's crazy.
28th studio album.
Crazy.
So, um, yeah, it's the same name.
It's Musicology.
It's number three on the Billboard 200.
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It was a bit of a comeback in a commercial sense.
Um, a lot of the stuff he was putting out prior to that was just indulging his own whims
and what he wanted to do musically.
And sometimes it jived with what was going on on the radio and sometimes it didn't.
Um, in this particular case, I mean, this album won him two Grammys and just, yeah,
kinda put his name back out there in front of people that might've been like, Oh man,
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I haven't heard Prince in a while.
You know, as diehard fans, he never went anywhere.
But when it came to, you know, the commercial attention, he, he wasn't really there for
a little while.
So kind of a comeback for him by January, uh, 2005, the, uh, album went double platinum.
So again, big, big seller for him.
And the song is just so much goddamn fun, dude.
So funky.
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It's so funky.
It's intentionally in the style of like James Brown.
It's just, you know, guitar, bass, drums, super groovy.
And it's also a tip of the hat to his musical heroes.
I mean, he shouts out, you know, sly and the family stone, James Brown, earth, wind and
fire.
And he even said about the record.
He just wanted it to be like a music lesson for people.
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And I just thought that was really cool.
So, you know, it's not just about shouting out the names, but also, you know, wearing
those influences on his sleeve and putting them out there.
Like, Hey, this is what I grew up on.
This is what I love.
This is what made me the artist I am today.
And that's what that album was.
But man, musicology, just stand out track, just, just a blast.
And that whole album is incredible.
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It's phenomenal.
It's a really good record.
When I saw you were going to, you had that on your list.
I was so happy because that's an album that we used to listen to all the time, especially
on Sunday mornings.
Like just put it on.
Yeah.
And just enjoy life.
Like it was, that album is great.
Yeah.
Start to finish.
Just absolutely killed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there you go.
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There's my Prince song for the day.
There we go.
Got it in.
Got it out of the way early.
Now we can talk about other stuff.
What you got next, man?
All right.
I'm going to go take a little journey, a little, a little far away from Prince.
Talk about Sunday morning coming down by Johnny Cash.
Yes sir.
Cannon black.
Ah yes.
Johnny's version of the song, which was written by Chris Christopherson in 1969.
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Johnny recorded it live in 1970 for the Johnny Cash show.
And it also appeared on his 1972 album titled Sunday morning coming down.
Now let me preface this with, you know, I've been sober for over 10 years.
It's amazing.
Good for you.
I've never, what a hangover feels like.
And this song captures it just perfectly.
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You know, the opening lyrics, you know, well I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold
my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad.
So I had one more for dessert.
Oh, that's some poetry, man.
Oh my God.
And you know, and there's this beautiful string arrangement behind Johnny.
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The music is so beautiful.
It's so well done.
But the song, like I said, perfectly captures what it feels like to be hungover on a Sunday
and kind of feeling like you're wasting the day.
So it's a little solemn, but there's also sort of this hopeful message about, you know,
get your ass out of bed and enjoy what you can of the day.
So I've just always been a fan of that song.
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Like I said, even though I don't drink anymore, I still listen to that song and it's so well
done.
It's so beautiful.
And then just, of course it's Johnny, he's the man of black.
You gotta love him.
And I also have a big fan of that song for the same reasons.
Yeah, I haven't given up yet.
I'm still trying with, you know, the drinking.
But but so the yes, occasionally I do feel that way on a Sunday.
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Those mornings, the music's a little quieter while we're making breakfast.
But you know, I still I still get up and do it, man.
I still get up and do it.
So yeah, great pick, dude.
Awesome, man.
Thank you.
All right.
So we're going to talk about a band that is so far from Johnny Cash.
The song is called Ma and Pa.
It's by a group called Fishbone.
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And they came on my radar.
Actually, this is the first song that I ever heard from them.
It was from their 1988 album Truth and Soul.
And for those of you who don't know Fishbone or not familiar with their music, they are
a mix of pretty much everything.
I mean, ska, funk, reggae, rock and roll, metal, punk.
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I mean, they literally threw all of those genres of music into a blender and just created
their own thing.
You go back to some of their older stuff and, you know, it's a little more like the ska
reggae kind of thing.
By the time Truth and Soul came out, they had really injected like a bit of the rock
and the metal into their sound.
And my God, it's like to me.
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And I love the chili peppers, so no disrespect when I say this, but this is like they were
like the chili peppers on steroids.
You know what I mean?
They were just so soulful and funky and crazy and just absolutely, absolutely amazing.
So check out Fishbone if you're not familiar with them.
Ma and Pa is just still to this day.
It's just such an amazing song.
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And the song is it was the second single off of that album.
The first single was actually a cover of Curtis Mayfield's Freddy's Dead, which if you've never
heard that, they kind of rock it up and funk it up a little bit more.
And then they followed it up with Ma and Pa.
And basically the song is about a dysfunctional family.
It's sung from the perspective of the older brother.
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He's singing to his younger sister who's having a hard time dealing with the family strife
and the breakup and the pending divorce.
And he's just kind of singing to her.
And then in the chorus, he's kind of singing to his parents like, hey, figure this shit
out, you know?
And it's just it's a little bit dark, I guess, in that respect, because it is, you know,
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about a family falling apart.
But what's crazy is they juxtapose that story and that message with the most upbeat, fun
sound.
Like that song, if you didn't pay attention to what the lyrics are about, it sounds so
happy.
You like you can't help but bop your head when you're listening to it and smile.
And then you start really listening to lyrics and you're like, you know, hey, Ma and Pa,
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what the hell is wrong with y'all?
And it's yeah, it's a it's kind of a dark message, but with a fun, funky, upbeat, bouncy
delivery, it's really, really cool.
Like you said, just a big fan of Fishbone.
But I'm going to my introduction to Fishbone was in the movie Back to the Beach.
Whoa.
Yes.
Holy shit.
Dude, I haven't even thought of that movie in a million years or even remembered that
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Fishbone was was part of that.
Yeah, for those of you don't back to the beach was like this silly beach movie with like
Annette Funicello.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And sometime in the 80s, it came out.
It was just ridiculously goofy.
But there was a scene in there with Fishbone was in the movie performing a song.
And that's how I got to know Fishbone.
Holy shit, dude.
I honestly wouldn't have remembered that in a million years.
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That's amazing.
But yeah, Peewee Herman was in the movie.
He did Surfing Bird.
Oh my God, dude.
Damn, that is quite the flashback.
Holy shit.
Yeah, I just came back to me like right.
I didn't plan on that.
Like I didn't have that in my notes.
That just came to me as you were talking back to the beach.
Wow.
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Yeah, honestly, I didn't even remember they were in there.
God damn.
Now I have to put that on my my Amazon watch list or something.
Yeah, I remember it was just cheesy as hell.
But it was like purposely cheesy as oh, yeah, exactly.
They were kind of spoofing on their own, you know, stardom, because that's where they came
from those beach blanket bingo type movies from the right what 50s and 60s, I guess.
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Yeah, yeah.
Oh my God, that's funny.
Back to the beach.
That's a good one, man.
Well, again, yeah, if you're not familiar with Fishbone, please, please, please do yourself
a favor and go check them out.
They're just freaking awesome.
And they're still out there today, man.
Still doing it.
All right, dude.
Great stuff, man.
I love thanks, man.
Thanks.
Yeah, me too.
I'm going to stay in sort of that that alternative sort of area from the 90s.
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I'm going to go with a small victory by Faith No More.
Great, great choice.
Great song.
Can't go wrong with any Faith No More, but that's a pretty good one.
Yeah, that's great for a Sunday.
For sure.
From the 1992 album Angel Dust, both of us, Mike Patton, you know, was just kind of talking
about the lyrics, what it's about, growing up, always wanting to win and learning that
you can't win all the time.
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And so the song is about the small victories, you know, it doesn't have to be the biggest
thing in the world.
It's something small that you're able to do every day or overcome or accomplish.
So that's what the song is about.
So then, you know, it's just a great Sunday song.
You just think about the little things, man.
I don't need to be the world champ.
I just got to do these little things right.
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That's cool, man.
But of course, the song features Mike Patton's just insane vocal range.
Yeah, he's amazing.
It's so much fun to sing along to the chorus, great melodic guitar riff.
And maybe if you think you know Faith No More, if you're not a big fan and think it's everything
that they put out was just crazy and, you know, no, listen to this song.
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Yeah.
Listen to the lyrics.
Listen to what it's about.
And it's a beautiful song.
I am going to say that Angel Dust is my favorite Faith No More record, by the way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The real thing was amazing.
That was the one that put him on the map.
But yeah, man, Angel Dust.
Oh, God, the songwriting is just on another level.
And I know.
Yeah.
I know you have Crysis on that.
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Such an amazing track.
So great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to go back a little earlier.
I'm going to go back to a 1970 little band called The Doors, perhaps?
Peace Frog, man.
That is such a groovy, funky, just upbeat song.
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I've always loved that groove.
Even before I knew anything about them.
I remember hearing a song when I was very young and just loved the music.
I didn't know anything about The Doors.
I didn't know anything about Morrison.
I just remembered that song.
It just makes so much fun.
It's so bouncy.
And yeah, it was from the 1970 album Morrison Hotel, which there's a fun story that goes
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along with the album cover.
You've seen the album cover, right?
Oh, yeah.
There's it's called The Morrison Hotel.
And they are in the window behind the name Morrison Hotel is painted on the glass and
they're behind the window looking out at the photographer.
And that that was all just coincidental.
They had seen this place and they're like, oh, my God, we need to use this for an album
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cover.
The owner of the hotel wanted no part of it.
He didn't want to let them shoot that.
So somehow they were able to distract the owner.
And while he was busy, they literally ran into the building and got behind the window
and the photographers outside, bang, takes a shot.
Boom, they're out of there before they knew anything even happened.
And that's where the album cover came from is, you know, I love stories like that, man.
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That's great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, the song was actually written by the band without Morrison.
You know, they recorded the track and he was he just didn't have any words for it or anything
yet.
So he just kind of was like, I will record the song and I'll do my thing.
And he ended up going through some of his journals and he was constantly writing poetry
and journals and things like that.
And he strung together three poems and, you know, phrased it to go along with the song.
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And it's just absolutely brilliant.
And one of the one of the things I love about the song, too, is that there's some, you know,
anecdotal stories in there.
And he actually references my home state of Connecticut.
There was an incident where he was arrested in New Haven for inciting a riot.
There were some other charges in there as well.
But yeah, but yeah, but inciting a riot.
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And so he references it in the song.
He says there's blood in the streets in the town of New Haven.
He's referencing that that incident.
So I don't know, just kind of a cool, fun song.
The music, like I said, it's super groovy and fun.
And it's just a good one to just kind of bounce around to, you know.
And I know the doors are one of those bands that people either love or hate.
Yeah.
But even if you're not the biggest doors fan and just give Peace Frog a chance because
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it's just so cool and fun and funky.
It is.
It is.
And again, like I said, I remember that before I even knew anything else about them.
And I am one that I love the doors.
I instantly, you know, once I got a little older and started really delving into music,
I've loved them ever since.
But yeah, that one's a that one's particularly great and fun.
Yeah.
If there's a fun door song to me, it's that one.
Right.
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Exactly.
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, I'm going to stay back in that era.
I'm going to go one year earlier.
I'm going back to 1969.
Everyday People, Sly and the Family Star.
Oh, yeah, dude.
Man, what a jam.
Love Sly.
From their 1969 album, Stand.
The song about peace and equality.
You know, it's just the butcher, the banker, the drummer.
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And then it makes no difference what group I'm in.
You know, I'm everyday people.
Yeah.
It's just a great message, you know, especially again, you're on a Sunday morning, maybe you're
sitting out on the porch having a coffee and the song kicks in and you just pay man.
Everything's OK.
We're all the same, you know, different strokes for different folks, man.
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It's just it's just sort of such a unifying song.
I just love it.
It just makes me feel good about life.
Yeah.
And again, another song that I think people need a little more of that attitude these
days, you know.
Yeah, for sure.
Not to get heavy, but you know, but we have more in common than we don't.
You know, I grew up listening to that.
I still have the greatest hits album that my dad had.
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Oh, that's so cool.
Sly and the Family Stone.
And so I grew up listening to that song.
Yeah.
And it's been, to this day, something that I go back to over and over again because it's
just it sets a mood.
It just makes you feel good.
It makes you, you know, happy.
I love that you got some cool ass vinyl from your dad.
Like my parents, like, you know, I went in their attic one time and I was like, oh, man,
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I bet there's some old records up here.
You know what I actually scored the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
My mom loved that soundtrack back in the 70s.
And then she also has the well, I have now, but the Bee Gees greatest hits on vinyl and
the fold out.
It's a trifold.
And each panel when you unfold it is this like glamour shot of each member of the Bee
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Gees.
It's fucking fantastic, dude.
Just hair, just your chest hair, my chalens.
Fucking yes.
Gold medallions and fucking windblown Beyonce hair like, oh, it's so fucking cool.
Man, I should hang that soft lighting.
I should hang that up in my studio here, man.
That's a that's a fucking winner.
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I'm telling you.
All right.
We are going to head to 1976 New York City band called the Ramones.
Oh, I've heard of that.
You might have.
I realized I made the mistake that everybody in the world makes.
We all do it.
Here I am on our music podcast and I called them the Ramones.
They're not the Ramones.
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It's Ramones.
There's no the.
Everybody does it.
But the song is called The Blitzkrieg Bop.
And it's such an awesome, awesome song.
And again, the sing along aspect to it.
It's the first single from their 1976 debut album, Ramones.
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Fun fact written by the drummer Tommy Ramone.
Yeah.
And got a little bit of help from the bassist Dee Dee Ramone who changed the name.
He loved the song and actually gets a writing credit, I believe, for changing it from Animal
Bop to Blitzkrieg Bop for whatever reason.
I don't know the story behind why and how he came up with Blitzkrieg for that.
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But he loved the song.
Basically didn't change any lyrics.
It was just like, you should call it Blitzkrieg Bop instead of Animal Bop.
And thank God he did because it's just such an amazing song.
Lyrically, it's just really it's about their fans.
So New York City in that era, the punk rock scene was blowing up.
CBGBs was packed every weekend.
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What was the other big punk club?
Was it Max's Kansas City?
Max's Kansas City.
Yep.
So they're playing places like that.
And this is their first album and their first single.
They're singing about their fans, which is fucking cool, man.
So the line, they're forming in a straight line.
They're going through a tight wind.
The kids are losing their minds.
The Blitzkrieg Bop.
And it's literally about the kids filing into the shows and just having a good time and
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the energy.
And man, I was born too late.
I would have loved to have lived during that.
You know what I mean?
Being able to experience.
I mean, I've seen the Ramones.
You've seen the Ramones.
But to have been around in New York during those days and seeing Blondie, the Talking
Heads, Ramones, all of those New York City bands that were playing those clubs.
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Oh my God, it must have been so fucking cool.
I can't imagine.
Because we've read the books.
We've learned the history and you hear people tell those stories and you're like, hot damn,
that would have been great.
I know.
And I never get sick of those stories either, man.
And you mentioned the two of us are lucky enough to have seen the Ramones.
Yes.
Granted, later in their career.
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But at least we saw them, right?
Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
Before the band even comes on, what's the crowd chanting?
Oh, hey, let's go.
Let's go.
It's just, yeah, it's just when you're standing in the crowd and you're doing it and you're
waiting for them to come on stage and you're chanting, hey, oh, yeah, let's go.
The energy was just insane.
It was so much fun seeing the Ramones.
It was great, man.
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Yeah.
The first time I ever crowd surfed was at a Ramones show and I didn't crack my head
open.
I had a boy.
I had a boy.
I got lucky, man.
I could have easily just been tossed on the ground.
As a matter of fact, my buddy that I was with, John, I did it and then he wanted to do it.
So there was this big dude next to me.
I'm like, oh, send him up, send him up.
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So he just picks John up and just throws him and the people behind us just moved like a
sack of potatoes.
Boom.
On the floor.
He got up.
He was like, ah.
He was all excited anyway.
Oh God, those were the days, man.
That was so much fun.
I'm going to stay in the punk space here.
Cool.
I'm going to go with Waiting Room by Fugazi.
Oh, wow.
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Nice.
I love this song.
It's so great.
It's a song about 1989, album 13 songs.
I'll show a period on there, 1988 debut in P. But basically it's a song about being patient,
you know, waiting for the right people in your life, the right moment in your life.
It starts with that just killer opening bass line.
You know, guitar kicks in and then boom, it's on.
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Like for a few seconds and then it comes back.
Yeah.
And you know, I am a patient boy.
I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait.
And then the time is watered down a drain.
You know, and it's just about again, just you don't got to do everything right now.
Like everybody's moving, everybody's moving, you know, but you wait for the right time
to do your thing.
Right on.
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So it's just on top of just being a great beat, great fun song.
I love the music, but I love to just hear that those lyrics, man, you know, even and
even though it has nothing to do that anytime I'm at a doctor's office and I'm stuck in
the waiting room, what song is going through my head?
Yeah, yeah.
Like I am a patient boy.
But yeah, again, Sunday morning you put that song on.
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Yeah, hell yeah.
Yeah, that definitely goes well with coffee.
Yeah, for sure.
That's a good one.
I was going to say this earlier.
I love that, you know, we talk about our idea for each podcast ahead of time.
We discuss, you know, the topic and then we go our separate ways and we kind of do our
own research and we come back together and all that.
But it's just funny how like in this moment you're really like focusing on the lyrics
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and the story.
Yeah.
Whereas like I'm more just like I don't really care what the lyrics are.
But, you know, if it's interesting, I'll talk about it.
But I'm more like into the just the groove of the song or that, you know what I mean?
I'm more focused on emotionally what it's doing to me versus what the lyrics are saying.
I just think it's cool how, you know, we have the same topic in front of us and yet we're
just approaching it to slightly different ways.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's cool.
It's cool.
Yeah.
I get really very, very reflective on a Sunday morning.
All right.
Well, I'm going to stay in the 70s.
1975 band dropped an album called Mothership Connection.
It's Parliament.
Give up the funk and then tear the roof off the suckers.
I love Parliament anyway.
They're another one of those.
You just you can't go wrong.
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Just throw on anything by Parliament.
But there's a couple standouts that are just so freaking good.
And that's just one for me, man.
I absolutely love that song.
Fun fact.
Coming with the fun facts.
Hit me.
Hit me.
The album lists the track as give up the funk, tear the roof off the sucker.
When it was released as a single, the track was titled tear the roof off the sucker.
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Give up the funk.
So I don't know why one too many bong hits that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah.
But they decided when they released as a single just to flip the format of the title.
So if you have it on the album, it's give up the funk to the roof off the sucker.
If you have the single, it's tear the roof off the sucker.
Give up the funk.
It feels like a very Parliament thing to do, though.
It does.
It does.
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George Clinton, he doesn't need a reason to do things.
He just does them.
Right.
Parliament, one of the more heavily sampled bands in hip hop, especially the early days
of like the West Coast gangster.
When Dre was putting out the chronic, there's so much Parliament on that record, man.
So much Parliament.
Trivia for you.
Yes.
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You know, Mac, who is the most heavily sampled artist in music history?
Well, as we're talking about him, I'm going to say Parliament.
That's a fine guess.
It's a fine guess.
Oh, but it's not correct.
So actually Parliament themselves.
So, you know, Parliament, you have Parliament and then you have Funkadelic, which were two
bands that George Clinton started.
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Parliament was a little more obscure.
Funkadelic was a little more rock.
But I mean, a lot of that stuff could be interchangeable.
And then in later years, he kind of squashed them together.
It became Parliament and Funkadelic.
But Parliament has actually been sampled 956 times.
Funkadelic was sampled 1243 times on hip hop records.
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So if you put them together, George Clinton has been sampled 2,199 times.
James Brown has been sampled 9,405 times.
How insane is that?
Wow.
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James Brown, the drum loops, man.
Yes.
Oh, my God.
How many songs is that alone, Benin?
Right.
Gazillion.
You know?
Yeah.
That's crazy, dude.
Fun, fun stuff for you there.
But yeah, that blew my mind because I really thought Parliament.
I mean, that's a lot.
I mean, come on, be honest.
2,000, almost 2,200 times between Parliament and Funkadelic.
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That's a lot.
But holy shit, James Brown, 9,000, almost 9,500 times.
It's nuts.
Let's jump up to the 90s.
We're going to go to 1995.
And the song is Army of Me by York.
Oh, man, I love that track.
I love that song.
I love that song anyway.
That's a great fucking song.
It's a sort of program beats, killer synth, plus her just soaring vocals.
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She's amazing.
Yeah, she's an incredible singer.
But the song's got just a fun groove to it that you just kind of put it on and you move
it around the house.
You're kind of moving to that groove.
But yeah, Army of Me, strong lyrics about standing up and regaining control of your
life.
Yeah.
Again, on Sunday, you're thinking about stuff, right?
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What's next?
What am I doing?
Am I going to a job I hate?
Or am I going to make a change?
What am I going to do?
Yeah.
So it's just a great song to have on on a Sunday morning.
And you mentioned that groove, man.
I just love how right out of the gate, it jumps right into the groove and just rides it through
the whole song.
Right.
It's just, and it just never lets go.
Yeah.
Right.
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You ride that way through the whole song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love Bjork.
She's so cool, man.
Yeah.
Super talented.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm not going to get away with in my house.
Unfortunately, my wife is not a fan.
Bjork is, you got to admit, she's one of those artists that you had mentioned the doors earlier.
There's like, you know, there's diehard doors fans and then there's the people who just can't
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stand them.
You don't generally meet people that are in between.
Bjork is also like that.
Yeah.
Just her vocal style.
She's an amazing singer, but she does have a style that can be off putting to some people.
And my wife happens to be one of those people.
So we don't we don't have a shared love of Bjork.
So Bjork is more like car music for me when I'm in my Jeep by myself.
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But you know, you take what you can get.
Yeah, absolutely.
We do agree on enough music that, you know, our house is still fun.
But yeah, Bjork is amazing.
I love her.
So speaking of a band that, well, I can't say we both love, but she tolerates.
I'm going to talk about the Misfits for a minute.
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Okay.
Yeah.
It's a little maybe a little more predictable for me.
But the reason I love this one, it's called Where Eagles Dare.
And the reason it has such a special place in my heart, and I may have told the story
before, so forgive me if I'm repeating myself, but for my birthday many moons ago, Chris
took me to Riot Fest in Chicago.
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And it was the first reunion of the Misfits with Ron Danzing and Jerry Olney and Doyle
Wolfgang on Frankenstein.
And I gave her a playlist of Misfits songs.
I picked out some of the key stuff that you're going to hear at this concert.
So here you go.
And when they played Where Eagles Dare, everybody is screaming the chorus, I ain't no goddamn
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son of a bitch.
And I look over at my cute, adorable little wife and she's fist in the air singing, I
ain't no goddamn son of a bitch.
And it was one of my proudest moments.
And so that song just will now forever, like it means even more to me now because I just
love that.
So that is definitely one in my house that we can put on and both sing along and enjoy.
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She might not like all the Misfits stuff, but that's a good one.
It's a fun song anyway.
But yeah, when your wife who doesn't usually listen to that kind of music is belting out
the chorus, that's pretty cool.
I'm so glad we got to the explanation because I saw this on your list in advance and I'm
like, man, I need to hear the story behind this.
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That's awesome, man.
That's great.
Love the Misfits, man.
Wow, so good.
Yeah, so good, dude.
All right, I'm going to jump into the world of hip hop right now.
Nice.
Love it.
Yeah, we haven't really had any hip hop yet, have we?
A little bit of old school, Eric.
We're going back.
How far are we going back?
We're going way back.
We're going back to 1989, the album Three Feet High and Rising.
Oh, dude.
Talking about De La Soul and the song Me, Myself, and I.
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Amazing.
Just a fun, mellow jam.
Eric over a Funkadelic sample.
Yes.
But just a great lyrics about just being yourself.
That's what it's all about, just being you.
But just delivered it.
And De La had their own sort of style, the way they presented themselves, the way they
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dressed, the way they rapped, the samples that they used.
It was just chill, but it was smart.
Their lyrics meant something.
So I love that song.
It's just a great song to just listen to and think and enjoy.
I absolutely love that track, man.
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And it's funny that you picked that one too, because I'm currently obsessed with De La
Soul.
I was able to get Three Feet High and Rising on vinyl recently, and it's just constantly
on my turntable.
That record is so freaking amazing, man.
And yeah, you talk about their imagery and their style.
And yeah, they were kind of the anti-NWA.
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You know what I mean?
The opposite of all of that stuff.
They were singing about just peace and everybody respect each other and just cool and have
a good time.
And there wasn't the...
And I'm no disrespect to the NWA or any of that.
I love that stuff too, but they were doing just kind of the opposite thing.
It was kind of positive and uplifting without being corny and cheesy.
Right.
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Yep.
It's just funky.
It's so much fun.
But yeah, man, Mirror Mirror on the Wall.
Tell me, Mirror, what is wrong?
Can it be my De La clothes?
Or is it just my De La soul?
What I do ain't make believe.
People say I sit and try, but when it comes to being De La, it's just me, myself, and
I.
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Just awesome lyrics, man.
It's great, man.
They're just...
I love De La soul.
I always have.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And such a great groove too.
Prince Paul was producing that stuff.
A Q-tip from Tribe Called Quest is on the record.
He makes a couple of appearances.
I think they were super tight with those guys too.
But yeah, man, just De La soul, just so good, man.
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Yeah, man.
Yeah.
If you get a chance, grab that.
It's on Amazon.
Get it on a colored vinyl too.
It's like yellow.
Oh, I just got it.
It just arrived.
Did you really?
Oh, sweet.
Sweet.
I'm so happy for you.
Yellow vinyl.
I got the yellow one too.
I guess there's a magenta one out there too, but yeah, I got the yellow.
It's so sweet.
All right.
Well, I am going to talk about a group that is not at all like De La Soul, but in our
greatest mixed state podcast universe, it's all good, right?
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Yeah.
Who cares?
Queen, man.
It would be complete without Queen.
Come on.
Oh my God.
What a band.
Oh, dude.
Again, another one of those artists, like just throw a dart at a list of their songs
and you're going to hit a winner because they've never done anything bad as far as I'm concerned.
But I went with one that's a little bit, it's not one of the bigger hits.
It's certainly one that after they released this song in 1976, it was a staple at all
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their live shows all the way through.
And when they do reunion stuff or they did the thing with Paul Rogers on vocals and they
did that to her, I mean, this song is always, always, always in their set list and it's
tie your mother down.
That riff, dude.
That riff.
Yeah.
That opening guitar riff.
Of course, the song was written by guitarist Brian May.
So he had a tendency to write a little more of the rockier stuff, the sort of guitar heavy
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stuff.
Freddie Mercury was a little more esoteric and he liked to write crazy stuff with string
arrangements and stuff like that and lots of piano.
And I think they balanced each other so, so well.
Freddie and that band was top notch musicians.
Oh my God.
So that's why they were able to pull off anything, any style that they felt like writing in,
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they could do it and do it better than anybody.
But yeah, this is one that's a little more of a rocker.
This is from their 1976 album, A Day at the Races.
Also features somebody to love, good old fashioned lover boy, really eclectic album.
It's not just your standard rock album.
They kind of veer in different directions, which is really cool, track to track.
The vibe can change, but it's still queen.
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The album was actually released as a companion to its predecessor, which was A Night at the
Opera, which I didn't realize this until I was doing research for the show.
Those are both named after Marx Brothers films.
I never made that connection before.
Nope.
Did not get that.
A Night at the Opera, next album is A Day at the Races.
And yeah, they were both from the Marx Brothers movies.
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I was like, that's genius, man.
I never thought of that.
That's great, man.
Yeah.
You know, that's something that, that's what makes doing what we do so much fun for me
that, you know, we're pretty knowledgeable when it comes to music.
That's why we started this podcast and everything.
I'm still learning stuff every time we do an episode and we have to do a little research,
you know, I'm learning stuff still.
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It's just such a huge world out there and there's so many facts and, and you know, things
that I didn't know and stories and all these things that we uncover as we do this research.
It's just so much fun.
Right.
Right.
Like you've learned about somebody who wrote a song.
You're like, what?
Yeah.
Or that's a cover.
I was just going to say that.
Yes.
You learn that, you know, oh my God, this song I've loved for years as a cover.
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I never knew that.
Right.
Yeah.
Things like that are amazing.
Yeah.
Well, like I said, man, they played this song literally every concert they ever played after
it was released.
They always included this in their set list.
And they actually performed the song at the 1992 Freddie Mercury Memorial concert.
Do you remember who came out on stage and performed it with him?
Oh my goodness.
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I'm putting you on the spot today, man.
Yeah, no, I don't.
I can't recall.
It was a slash came out.
Oh, yep.
And also on vocals, Joe Elliott from Def Leppard.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was a great concert, man.
1992.
Yeah.
And then when Freddie had passed, they had a memorial concert for him and just every
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I mean, he was beloved.
Yeah.
You know, the music industry.
So, I mean, everybody came out for that concert.
It was amazing.
And then over the years, Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor have joined Foo Fighters on stage
because they play that song a lot as well, too.
And I don't know if they're going to continue that sort of tradition because the late Taylor
Hawkins, the drummer for Foo Fighters, would always come out front and sing the song.
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And you know, Roger Taylor would sit in on drums.
And so, yeah, I don't know if that's going to happen anymore because it was kind of his
thing.
But man, but that I've never seen them live do it with Brian May or Roger Taylor.
But man, that would be a bucket list for me.
Oh, man, that'd be awesome.
So cool.
Yeah.
So cool.
But yeah, great, great song, man.
I can't say enough about Queen, dude.
I love Queen.
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I know.
I know.
They're kind of like Prince.
Like they're always going to come up because we just both love them so much.
And I'll admit, man, when I was a kid, when I was a teenager, I didn't get it early on.
Right.
You know, like I knew Bohemian Rhapsody from when I was a kid and maybe one or two other
songs.
But I just I don't know, for whatever reason, it took me a minute.
And then I don't know whether I just matured or what.
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But like, I just remember one day going, oh, my God, like, I think somebody just bought
me a Queen CD or a tape and was like, no, just listen.
You know, and so I was like, all right, man, you bought me this.
I'm going to, you know, I'll give it a fair shake.
And just instantly was like, what the fuck have I been doing?
Like I can't believe and I've been hooked ever since.
Oh, I know. It is like he said, like, yeah, of course, we, you know, another one bites
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the dust. We all knew that growing up.
Yeah. Yeah, that's another one.
It wasn't till like later in life where something happened where I, you know, oh, there was
a the greatest hits album on sale or some shit.
Right. And I'll get it.
And then, oh, my God, what have I been doing with my life?
Yeah, same, same, man.
Change my literally changed my life.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was one of those one of those moments, those holy shit moments that you just forget.
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You know, all right, dude, let's take a trip up north.
Let's go to Canada.
OK.
So we're going to go with, you know, one of the greatest bands ever.
If you don't know, you need to know I'm talking about the Tragically Hip.
I knew they were going to be on your list.
I knew it.
The hardest.
This was the hardest part was narrowing down to one song.
Yeah.
From the hip who I was going to take.
And I'm going to go with from the 1999 album Phantom Power.
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The song is Bob Cajun.
It's such a just beautiful song, beautiful melodic guitar riff and bass line.
The song is named after a city in Ontario called Bob Cajun.
A lot of different sort of potential meanings in the song.
Gord Downey, the lead singer and lyricist was a bit of an enigma, you know, in his songwriting.
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But there's some stories in there about a cop, you know, working an overnight shift
kind of a thing.
It's kind of the one common thread through there.
But all I can say is that first verse is some of the most beautiful songwriting I've ever
heard and it perfectly describes a Sunday morning.
I'll just give you a little taste here.
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Cool.
I left your house this morning about a quarter after nine.
Could have been the Willie Nelson, could have been the wine.
When I left your house this morning, it was a little after nine.
It was in Bob Cajun.
I saw the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time.
Wow.
Fucking beautiful songwriting.
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That's amazing.
It's so beautiful and the whole song is so touching.
The way it was put together, like I said, that song touches me.
If you watch the video, it's really just an interesting piece of storytelling.
At the end, Gord Downey, the lead singer, he's playing this role, the lead role in the
video and he comes home and his wife meets him at the door, opens the door for him and
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just gives him a hug and she's singing into his ear, he's singing into her ear.
It's just beautiful.
It's so well done.
It's a great song.
If there's a Sunday morning song that you don't know that we've been talking about tonight,
go look up this morning, go check it out.
I need to put that on my playlist now too.
It's just beautiful.
That's a great song.
I love the hit, man.
Yeah, yeah.
I've always been so jealous of people who have that ability to write lyrics like that,
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man.
I've tried.
I just don't have that.
Whatever it is, man, I've tried to write lyrics in my past in various bands or whatnot.
It's terrible.
I'm just not good at it.
I don't know.
I've never been shown any of them to anybody.
They always just end up burned, I think.
I don't even tear them up because somebody might tape them back together.
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I actually light them on fire.
That's what they deserve.
There can be no evidence that this ever happened.
So I put down my pen a long time ago and said, nope, that's not for me.
So like you said, that song touches you.
When I hear a song that can make me emotional, it's easy.
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I think it's easier, I should say, for an artist to get you pumped up.
You want to, I would say, throw a chair through a window.
You know what I mean?
That's easy because the music itself can do that.
It doesn't even have to be the lyrics.
But when a song can take you to a place where maybe it makes you tear up a little bit or
maybe it just makes you so overjoyed with happiness or something that makes you hopeful
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and can pull you out of a depression or things like that.
That's otherworldly, man.
It blows my mind that people have that ability.
And that's why we love music so much.
I've said this before.
It's not that we like music.
We have a relationship with music.
Yeah, for sure.
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There's not a lot of things that can evoke that kind of emotion with me, with the exception
of the ASPCA commercials with Sarah McLaughlin.
Yeah, Sarah McLaughlin.
Thank you.
The Arms of the Angels commercials.
I'll start balling like a fucking 10-year-old with a skin knee.
I knew where you were going though, so I'm right there with you.
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Thank you.
I blanked on Sarah McLaughlin, dude.
That was a great, great assist.
I appreciate that.
All right.
Well, I'm going to stick with my fun stuff over here.
Nothing deep about this at all.
Just fun from start to finish.
And it's Sure Shot from the Beastie Boys.
One of their best songs.
Again, they're another artist for me.
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And I know you as well.
Like I said, you could throw a dart at their track list and you're just going to hit a
winner because they're all just amazing.
But I've just always loved that song in particular.
And on a Sunday morning, you know, cooking breakfast and just bouncing around the kitchen,
having a great time.
That one just fits.
You know what I mean?
It's sing songy enough where you can sing along and have fun with it.
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And it's got one of the most killer samples I've ever heard in my life.
That flute intro, man.
Oh, it's so, so sweet.
The second it starts, I just get amped, dude, because it's just so much fun.
It's actually a jazz flautist, if I'm saying that correctly.
Flautist.
His name is Jeremy Stig and the song is Howlin' for Judy.
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And I have never actually heard the song.
And now that I know that, I'm going to go do some digging and see if I can find it.
It's always fun to hear the original version when you hear a hook or a sample that you
really love.
It's fun to hear it in its original state.
So I definitely got to go find that one.
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And of course, the iconic, ah, yes, indeed, it's fun time after the second verse.
It's actually from a comedy record by an artist who was a standup comic by the name of Moms
Mabley.
And I always thought that it was MCA in maybe some kind of vocal effect on his voice or
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something because it was a little bit raspy.
And I just was like, oh, that's got to be MCA, right?
No.
But actually, if you go on YouTube and put in Beastie Boys, ah, yes, indeed, it's fun
time, you'll find somebody, they actually show the record and that they put it on their
turntable and they drop the needle.
And the album starts with the MC, I guess it's a live recording, and the MC is like,
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ah, yes, indeed, it's fun time, ladies and gentlemen.
And he goes on to introduce the show.
And then you hear it and it doesn't quite sound right.
So the guy grabs the pitch on his turntable and slows it down and pitches it down and
then he replays it.
And it's perfect.
And you just instantly it's like, ah, yes, indeed, it's fun time.
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It's so mind blowing and so cool.
I love that shit, man.
We need to do an episode on samples and do that, do a little history and find out where
they're from and actually play the originals.
It'd be so much fun.
Oh my God.
Because like you said, in the story behind it, how did the Beasties find that?
Exactly, dude.
And like hear it and go, oh yeah, that's that's yeah, we got to put that on a track that's
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going on a track like what?
Yeah, I don't know how people find these things, man.
It's amazing.
That's incredible.
But like you said, man, that that flute intro and then then you can't you won't you don't
stop.
Yeah, great, great.
He come and rock the shore shot.
Everything the Beasties ever did.
Yeah, a blast.
Yeah, one of my all time favorites.
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One of my biggest musical regrets.
I never got to see the same same breaks my heart.
Top of my list.
The biggest musical regrets.
Yep.
Bummer.
This is a bummer.
But we have a lot of a lot of music.
Thank you to the Beastie Boys.
Yes, yes.
Absolutely.
So much wonderful music.
I'll never get sick of it.
Nope.
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What you got, man?
I'm going to finish up here.
I'm going to finish up with the Beatles.
Nice finish strong from the 1969 Abbey Road album.
The track is Here Comes the Sun.
Nice.
It's so beautiful.
Yeah.
Written and sung by George Harrison.
You know, written when George was going through some shit.
You know, he's going through some dark times.
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It's kind of a song about rebirth coming out of the darkness, coming out of the cold.
And you know, everything's going to be okay.
Just beautifully arranged, gorgeous guitar work.
And of course, George's unmistakable vocals.
Yeah.
But if you need a song that's going to elevate you and get you out of if you're in a dark
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or in a funk, if there's some anxiety, some stress and you want to feel like things are
going to be okay.
Yeah, that's a good one.
This is the song right here.
You know, you play that on a Sunday morning when you're just contemplating life and drinking
that coffee.
You get a few minutes to yourself, baby, in the house before everybody else gets up.
Yep.
And this is the song you listen to right here.
Everything's going to be okay.
That's absolutely 100 percent true, man.
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Yeah.
It's a very uplifting song.
Yes.
You can't be in a bad mood after listening to that.
I don't know.
It's possible.
It's been done and it's not possible.
I'm just making shit up now.
There was a triple blind study.
Harvard I believe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that's a great choice, man.
Yeah.
Phenomenal songwriter.
And again, it's you know, I'm sure everybody knows this song, but give it a chance, you
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know, again, and just sit, maybe close your eyes.
Just listen to it.
Yeah.
It's going to do something for you.
Yeah, it's a great track.
Yeah.
Beatles, man.
And again, anything really.
But yeah.
But for a Sunday morning that that song is particularly perfect.
Yeah, absolutely.
Nice choice, man.
Well, I am going to end my side of this conversation with the most obscure song that I could pick
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for this today.
Let's do it.
I am oddly obsessed with this band.
I loved them back in the early 90s when they came out.
Unfortunately, only put out two albums and then just broke up.
The band is called Jellyfish and they were just one of the coolest bands, man.
The early 90s were wild and we've talked about this before, how there was so much going on
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in music and art and a lot of it was coming together and it was kind of like a license
for bands to just do whatever they wanted.
You know what I mean?
You have bands like the Chili Peppers coming out and Jane's Addiction and, you know, all
these wacky images and wacky sounds and melding of influences.
The 90s were like the wild, wild west for music, man.
It was really cool.
And their debut record came out in 1990.
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It was called Belly Button.
And it was just so weird, but I don't mean weird like you hear it and go, what the fuck
is it?
It's not weird like that.
It was again, a blending of styles.
But I always thought of them as if Queen and Cheap Trick had a baby, it would be Jellyfish.
And then you sprinkle in like some late 60s, early 70s aesthetic.
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They all looked very like, you know, late 60s bell bottoms and wacky colors and purples
and greens.
They just had this really fun, funky vibe about them aesthetically.
And their songwriting is just so amazing.
And again, it's very, you know, when they're when they're a little bit late leaning into
it, they're a little Cheap Trick, but then they would have these harmonies and these
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really cool, you know, orchestral parts that were very reminiscent of Queen.
Just an amazing, amazing band.
And then yeah, in 1993, they they put out the album, Spilt Milk.
And it actually I just realized I haven't said the name of the song yet.
It's called it's called Joining the Fan Club.
It was one of their bigger songs off the record.
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I don't even think it was released as a single, but it just caught on lyrically.
It's just it's literally about like being a kid and discovering this new band and just
becoming obsessed with them.
And then you join the fan club with your friends.
And then by the end of the song, they're like, you know, I'm picking up a falling star.
It's like they realize like, oh, these are just people, too.
And it's about idol worship and things like that.
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But I don't want to get too deep into the lyrics because it's not really about the lyrics
for me.
It was just it's the the mood that the song creates.
And it's just so pretty and so fun.
And again, it's one of those kind of boppy songs.
And yeah, check out Jellyfish.
They're just one of the I they're one of the best bands you've never heard.
Yeah, that's how I describe them.
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The people I'm like, you've never heard Jellyfish.
Oh, my God.
Do yourself a favor.
They're absolutely awesome.
Yeah, so cool.
And then you're turning me on to them just for the last few days, like sharing notes.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, my God, I'm not that familiar.
Like, I got to dive into this band a little bit more.
Yeah, they were awesome.
And again, it breaks my heart that they only put out two albums, but they're both fantastic
records.
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But yeah, super, super cool band.
Wow, that's great, man.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, do the deep dive.
It's worth it.
Awesome.
Awesome, bro.
Yeah, man.
Well, that was fun, dude.
That was great, man.
I'm perfectly at Sunday morning.
I'm in the yeah.
I got the vibe going.
This is perfect.
Hell, yeah.
I need a second cup of coffee.
Other than that, I'm feeling it too.
I bet the first thing I'm doing when we're done record.
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Same, bro.
Same.
Oh, yeah.
Well, cool.
Let's finish up this episode with some shout outs.
Hell, yeah.
We got some new listeners coming in.
Here we go.
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Awesome.
Here, I'm going to destroy this.
My favorite.
I love it.
I'm going to do my best.
I apologize in advance.
La Seine-sur-Mer, France.
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I'm giving you the thumbs up on that one, dude.
Well done.
I'll take it.
It could be wrong, but it sounded great to me.
My own educated ass.
I don't know.
Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Powder Springs, Georgia.
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Morristown, New Jersey.
Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
Harlingen, Texas.
Abilene, Texas.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Lawndale, California.
Pasadena, California.
So thanks to everybody who's coming on board and enjoying the podcast.
Hell, yeah.
Appreciate it, everybody.
If you get a chance, anyone who does enjoy it, please rate us, review us, subscribe to
us.
All that really helps us out immensely.
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Check us out on the socials.
We are on Instagram and YouTube.
YouTube has just been so much fun lately, so many great comments coming in from people
checking out our videos and some of the different things, especially our last episode dedicated
to the hair metal bands of the 80s.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of Rat fans out there.
A lot of Rat fans.
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I didn't see that coming, man.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Rat was fantastic.
Yeah, we love it.
Keep it coming.
But that's it.
That's what we got for you.
As always, thank you so much for hanging out with us.
We really, really appreciate it.
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