November 3, 2024 • 62 mins
In this special edition of The Pain In Our Head Podcast, Caleb & Christian talk through their top 5 songs of this year.
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What's going on everyone, welcome to this week's episode of the Pain in Our Head podcast.
You tried so hard, didn't even flinch.
Didn't even flinch.
What's going on?
Let's go look at you.
Thanks for joining me on this fine Wednesday afternoon.
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It's fucking Tuesday.
Is it?
The viewers didn't know that.
But I did and you're wrong so I have to correct you.
It is, it is Tuesday.
I thought it was Wednesday.
I thought the same thing this morning.
Because I had my appointment yesterday, which is normally on a Tuesday but we rearranged
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to Monday.
So I went and had my appointment and I got up this morning and I was like, yeah, it's
fucking Wednesday.
And I was like, nope, it's fucking Tuesday.
Mmm.
It's like kicking your fucking toe.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, especially when you think it's a day further in the week than it really is.
Yeah, it's the worst.
It hurts.
Nah, I'm good.
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I think it's because I got Friday off.
So it feels like it should be Wednesday.
What do you got Friday off for?
I'll be flying.
Flying out.
Oh, do you leave this Friday?
Mmm.
Yep.
Fuck, you're going for ages.
I'm going for 10 days.
Yep.
Mmm.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
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It was just going to be a week.
And then there's some little princess that I want to see in South Australia.
So detail.
I'll find her and I'll kill her.
Good.
I dyed my hair.
You did?
Again.
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It looks good.
Is it black?
Yeah, it suits you.
Yeah, I think so.
Sort of the blue but the black looks good.
That's a bit more normal.
What was blue?
Mental breakdowns.
Having a minty B.
A minty B.
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Yeah, I fucking love saying minty B.
A minty B.
Yeah, it's like the basic bitch version.
Minty B.
Having a little minty B.
Yeah.
What are we talking about today?
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
Ah, today.
We're doing a cool episode.
Music.
We are.
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Yep.
We've decided to go top five songs each because...
We're never going to agree.
I think we would if we actually sat down and thought about it.
Nah, because I just disagree.
No one has time for that.
You do.
You like to disagree.
You like to be that wild card.
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So yeah, we're going to talk about a heap of music.
We're going to talk about our favorite music of this year of 2024.
It's actually kind of hard in the end, wasn't it?
When we first started putting it together, we were like, what are we going to choose?
Got no idea.
And then once we started remembering everything that had come out this year, it's been a great
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year for music.
Yeah, I think my problem also was that all the songs that I wanted came out at the end
of last year.
I've only been listening to it this year.
It's like, oh no, it came out in November, December.
Fuck.
Yep.
Yep.
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Well, anything that comes out from this point onwards, I think it'll be okay to, you know,
next year included in that category.
That's what you do.
Nope.
No, it didn't cut off.
I don't care.
So if it's got 2024 in the release date, it's not included.
Okay.
Yes, sir.
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Otherwise I'd have cattle decapitation in this top five.
Just mention them anyway.
You just did.
Mentioned them before.
I fucking love cattle decapitation.
What a name.
But yeah, another day, another dollar.
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It's good done.
Yeah.
Nothing to talk about for this week.
I went out for coffee on Sunday morning.
Yeah, yes.
It was nice.
I'm going to say Heilong on the weekend.
Heilong.
Oh yeah.
Saturday night.
I'll be there.
Jamming out with my Claremount.
Nice.
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Shirt's probably going to come off again.
Saturday night.
I will be at Coldplay on Saturday night.
Sucks to suck.
No, I'm excited.
You would be.
Well, they're supposed to put on quite a show.
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They're not Parkway.
No, no, they're not Parkway.
No, it should be interesting.
It should be quite entertaining.
I'm quite excited to.
They're not going to have heaps of cool pyrotechnics going off.
No, probably a big sort of light show though, apparently.
It's quite, quite broad.
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Unlike our futures.
Speak for yourself.
I was.
If I'm going down, you're coming with me.
It's going down.
I'm yelling Timber.
Nice.
Nice.
All right.
Let's get this started.
We have.
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We're recording.
It's already started.
Yes.
Yes.
Very harsh today.
I don't have to talk about anything serious.
I can just roll with the punches.
You can fucking be dodging them.
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Everyone's really, really interested in what we're about to talk about.
It's very interesting.
And we can at least pretend.
They're interested in my choice of music because I'm always right.
You are.
You are always right.
All right.
Seeing as you're always Mr. Right.
Number five, Mr. Right.
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I didn't even number mine.
I just put them down as they popped into my head.
But it was pretty easy.
I reckon Heavy is the Crown by Linkin Park.
That's my fifth.
I really enjoyed it, but I wouldn't put it at the top of my list.
The 16 second scream that she does is fucking beautiful.
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Quite good.
Quite good.
And it's kind of in line with every other Linkin Park release in the last kind of like
10 years.
Yeah.
No, it's a good song.
That's what I like about it.
It sounds like Linkin Park.
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Yeah.
It really fits their, um, their M.O.
Yeah.
I don't even remember when they started like changing into more of that current Linkin Park
sound away from like when they originally came onto the scene.
I don't remember when that started to change.
I feel like it was when they did that movie, the Transformers song.
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Yeah.
That album those songs came out with.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're also on a Medal of Honor game.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, they're on there.
When you finish the campaign.
Castle of Glass.
Hmm.
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Good song.
Hmm.
Very good.
I did a pole dancing routine to it.
Oh, did you?
We had a military themed term.
That was it.
A term.
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And the performance night was military themed.
So we did Castle of Glass, Glass, Glass.
I don't fucking care.
Glass.
Glass.
But yeah, no, that was a good song too.
But yeah, no, Heavy is the Crown by Linkin Park.
I'm thoroughly enjoying it, listening to it most days because I made a playlist for when
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Caleb comes to visit and it's on the playlist and I listen to the playlist all day every
day.
So I'm so fucking excited.
Yeah, been listening to the playlist too.
It's good.
There's a lot of good music on there.
There's a fucking good music.
Obviously, we created it.
Hmm.
Hmm.
It's very good.
So.
Nice.
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If you want access to it.
Hmm.
Go listen to the podcast playlist.
Yeah, that's it.
You got to advance.
That's right.
You're not ready for this playlist yet.
Until you got through the other one.
Even though half the tracks are probably on the podcast playlist.
Like, could have just repurposed the podcast playlist.
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It's not the same.
It's not as special.
I even made a little picture for it.
And you did.
You did.
It's kind of cool.
I thought so.
Hmm.
I forgot what it is now.
Hang on.
I've got it right here.
Oh yeah, that's right.
It's just like some flames.
A little taxi looking thing.
And a little jester mask.
Yeah.
Well, see, I didn't have many options because I did it through Spotify because you could
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like create your own little picture.
Oh, right.
And I thought that maybe it was going to like generate like an AI image.
And I was like, fuck yeah, that's cool.
And it's like came up with like a full image editor on my phone.
I was just like, eh.
And it's like preset little emojis.
And I was like, well, he's a bit of a clown and then we're going to be driving and shit's
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fire.
You know what I mean?
So.
It's great.
It's really good.
The name is the best.
That better had been.
That got me good.
What's the name?
Hey.
What's the name?
I don't remember.
I can't remember my screen.
I remember it was funny.
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Pretty funny.
Hmm.
Nice.
Hmm.
Heavy is the cram.
Nice.
Good song.
Lincoln Park.
You want to do your fifth?
I can do my fifth, but I want to throw you under the bus first.
Oh, fuck.
Actually, no, I'm going to wait.
Never mind.
We're going to wait till we get to that part.
What do I do?
Number five.
Hey.
What do I do?
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This is not important.
Funnily enough, I am going to do my number five because number five for me is also a
Lincoln Park song.
Oh my God.
We didn't even plan this.
The Emptiness Machine.
Hmm.
By Lincoln Park.
It was the first single that came out for their new music.
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I love it.
When I first listened to it, we were all a bit stunned because we were like, oh, no,
I don't like it.
No.
After listening to it multiple, multiple fucking times, yeah, just same as the other one.
I love how Lincoln Park it is.
It's just the OG sounds, the instrumentation and all that sort of stuff.
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The production is just Lincoln Park, so it's great.
The new vocalist compliments it really well.
Yeah, when I first heard Emptiness Machine, I was like, eh, eh, eh.
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But I was also coming off the back of listening to Given Up and other heavy Lincoln Park tracks.
You know, you used to chest his voice and his screams and that emotion.
I had that sound in my head.
And then Emptiness Machine came out and I was like, eh, whatever.
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And then I think it only took like two days after getting bombarded on Insta by it.
I was like, hey, that's pretty fucking good.
It's good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, so it is good.
Yeah, definitely gets mentioned.
I think the cool thing about those two songs as well is, like we said, the fact that it's
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been so long since we've had any Lincoln Park music released.
So I think, yeah, that's part of why it deserves a top five mention.
Isn't his fucking mum and son cracking the shits over it?
I haven't actually been keeping up with that.
Oh, absolute shit show.
Really?
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Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
That's terrible.
His mum just took the band to town, specifically like Mike.
And just took them to town and they were disrespecting Chester and how bad Emily was and listening
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to her on stage and her voice was breaking and cracking and it was just disgusting.
She claimed that Mike always said that they'd talked to her before they tried getting a
new vocalist with the band and blah, blah, blah.
And it's like, well, I'm sorry, love, but yeah, you know, you're Chester's mum and it
sucks what happened.
But at the end of the day, like Lincoln Park, with Lincoln Park before Chester was in Lincoln
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Park.
Yeah.
Like he's not the original singer.
No.
It's like you don't get to have a say when they decide to continue their careers.
Yeah.
Which were put on hold for such a long time.
Like I can't even imagine how devastating that would have been for them.
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And yeah, the link Chester's son was like fucking just throwing hissy fits like an entire
little bitch.
So yeah, okay.
A little bit of music trivia for you, I guess.
I didn't know that.
I hadn't been keeping up with that.
It popped off big time for like the first week or two.
I think it's still going.
Are your son still fucking calling out Mike like all over the place?
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Yeah.
Wow.
Shit.
Oh, they're reaping the rewards.
Lincoln Park now, I think is, yeah, those two tracks.
Awesome.
The album's coming for a month, less than a month now.
That comes out in November.
So interested to see what that brings.
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I did listen to the third single.
Wasn't a huge fan.
So I'm hoping the rest of the album when we get that is good.
All right.
Four.
Number four.
It's a tough one for me.
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I'm gonna have to, the other four songs that I've got are all absolute bangers.
I'm gonna have to go with Power Nerd by Devin Townsend.
Great song.
And I fucking love Devin Townsend.
Like absolutely adore everything he does.
But...
I'm not sure if Tom and Gumby listen to this.
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They will probably hate me for saying that.
But like it's amazing.
I'm so keen for that.
I only realized today that the album actually dropped like this week and I haven't listened
to it all yet.
So...
Oh, okay.
Yeah, jeez.
Came around quick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Super keen to have a chop of the whole album tomorrow while I'm at work.
But Power Nerd off his newest album, which I think is actually called Power Nerd.
I like it.
Yeah, I think actually that makes sense and I didn't even think about it at the time.
But when I was in, when I was down the coast on the weekend, when I was in JB Hi-Fi, it
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was there.
Yeah, it is called Power Nerd.
Super keen for that.
That's tomorrow's job.
Have a burr at that while I'm at work.
Probably going to enjoy the shit out of it.
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And send you links to my favorite tracks off the album.
Yeah, look, I'll probably listen to it tomorrow.
Probably listen to the whole thing tomorrow while I'm driving around.
The annoying thing is that you got to turn it off shuffle so you can appreciate it from...
Oh, I will be.
... in order.
And then you forget to put shuffle back on when you go to listen to other shit.
All that stuff.
Now, see, especially if I'm going to listen to this new album, I'll actually pause it
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whenever I've got to get out of the cab.
And then I will keep going.
So I'm excited for that.
Look, Devin Townsend is something I'm very grateful for you showing me.
Because I love, love, love, love some of his stuff that we've talked about on the podcast
throughout the year.
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And yeah, really, really good stuff.
Actually, one of the songs you added to the playlist is a Devin Townsend remix with Pendulum.
I hadn't heard that until like before today.
Oh, really?
No.
Oh.
And I listened to that today and that was fucking awesome.
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Right?
Yeah.
Meow.
Yep.
Love little cat noise at the intro.
And then like the screaming he does towards the outro, I was just like...
I was like, yeah, wow, wow, wow.
So no, I enjoyed that.
Really enjoyed that.
I think he's redone the entire drums to that too.
I'm really positive he's reprogrammed those because they're way heavier than the original.
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I don't remember there being double kick in the original.
It was great.
Amazing fucking song.
Holy shit.
I love Crush.
So good.
Yeah, Pendulum just missed out on being in this because they released like a four track
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EP at the end of last year.
Yep.
Otherwise they'd be on here.
They would.
Yeah.
We can mention them because they're fucking great.
Yeah.
Look, I was listening to Pendulum today.
Me too.
Love it.
Is it colourfast?
Yeah, colourfast.
And then there's the other one too that I'm a real big fan of.
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You put it on the playlist.
I can't remember the name of it.
I'm alive.
Yeah, that slaps.
That slaps so hard.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, that slaps real hard.
I got really excited because I saw that they were coming to Australia, but it's just a
DJ set.
Yeah, so it's just one person from Pendulum coming and doing a DJ set.
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Yeah, it's got to be their music.
It's cool, but no.
When you watch them play it, that would be unbelievable.
Yeah, I want to see them play Come Alive live.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yep.
Yeah, it's on the bucket list.
Oh yeah.
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Oh nice.
What's your fourth?
Seven Townsend.
Really, really good.
My fourth.
This is a good one.
I'm surprised it actually made my list, to be honest.
Should probably be, probably shouldn't have made it, but it's more sentimental value,
I think.
I'm a big fan of this artist.
So Houdini by Eminem.
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Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I enjoyed the whole album, although I haven't really gone back and listened to a lot of
the songs.
The only one that really rings a bell is that first single that dropped, which was Houdini.
But yeah, look, Eminem, paper sentimental value.
I've been listening to Eminem since I was eight, nine years old.
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Since you were a little same shady.
Since I was a little same shady.
Yep.
So no, it's really cool.
I think we were listening to it in the car the other day, Tyler and I were driving somewhere.
Just even this one, like this song, Houdini, but it just kept getting better.
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I don't know how it's possible, but he just, I don't know, we're very fortunate.
One of the luckiest, one of the best rappers or hip hop artists of our generation.
And anyone would be silly to say otherwise.
So anyway, really good.
Yep.
Houdini, Eminem coming in my number four for this year.
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Three.
Three.
Let's hit it with three.
Now it's difficult because my last three tracks are like fucking banger tracks.
And I feel like if I say what I'm thinking, you're going to get upset.
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Fuck it.
I'm going to go violence against nature, bad omens as third.
Very good.
I was going to choose another one, but I'm going to go with violence against nature with
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bad omens and Poppy.
That song is amazing.
Unbelievable.
Puts you in a good mood.
Let's listen to that one.
Yep.
Because all I can see is that fucking live performance and Poppy's like center stage
just walking on the spot while she sings.
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And there's something about that strut just tickles my brain the right way.
And the lead singer from bad omens is like sitting on top of a big fucking stack of speakers,
just like doing like deep vocals over everything she's saying.
And it's just, it works so far.
Like the original song is great.
I enjoy the shit out of the original, but that live recording that someone put up, fuck
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me, that's good.
So good.
They've released a live recording too, like on Spotify.
On Spotify.
Yeah.
Has it got him on it?
I think pretty sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because we ended up listening to it the other day because Taylor's like, I like hearing
his voice.
So yeah, we listened to that.
Yeah.
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I'm pretty sure because it's part of the, the OST version that they put up.
So look now, cause yeah, positive, positive.
They're bad, I was just playing in Melbourne in January.
Oh yeah.
Well they're playing, they're coming up here.
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Taylor got tickets.
Didn't get it for me.
I'm considering it though.
I'm considering getting the ticket, but I mean, oh, cause I am live 2024.
I'm going to add that to the playlist.
Yeah.
Do it.
Do it.
Poppy's going around with them.
So I'm like, it's like, what'd she say?
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She paid, I think it was about 170 bucks.
It was worth it.
170 bucks just to see that song live.
Yep.
So I'm, I'm almost doing it to be honest.
Uh, if it was not like Poppy wasn't coming with them, but to be able to see that song
live.
You'd be fucking sitting in the back of the mosh pit just walking on the spot.
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Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
The drums, the drums, the drums in that song.
Oh, the drums are fucking great.
Fucking awesome.
The double kick on that shit.
But just the simplicity too, to when it strips back is just really well done.
Yep.
I agree.
It's just not over the top.
It fits, fits with everything else really, really well fits really well in the mix and
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all around really well put song.
Yep.
So good.
That's a good one.
Fuck yeah.
What's yours?
Number three.
Hmm.
This one was a late call in.
I'm glad it's number three.
Can you see me in the dark?
I prevail.
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It will hail storm and I prevail.
All right.
Hmm.
No, I really enjoy it.
I, um, love the production on it.
I love the buildup.
The chorus.
I hear from hail storms, hot.
I just like the mix.
I like the mix of those two.
She's got a sexy as fuck voice.
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Yep.
Yep.
So yeah, that's got to come in at number three for songs to come out this year.
I don't think we've spoken about hail storm before.
I think we have.
No, I didn't really know about them until they did this song.
Freak Like Me.
Misses Jekyll, I think it's called.
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Something like that.
Both of those are really fucking good songs.
Freak Like Me is a fucking certified banger.
Listen to it after we record this.
Trust me.
I like it.
All right.
I'll have to give it a go.
But yeah, no other players in the band.
Oh really?
Yeah, I think he's a drummer.
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Yeah.
Okay.
No, I, it's great.
I love it.
Love the song.
It's a really good mix of two artists coming together to produce a song.
I think it's definitely maybe one of the better ones to come out of this year is a feature.
So hmm.
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Did you forget a song?
No, I just remembered my news.
Your news.
Two artists coming together.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I'm part of a band creator page for Adelaide on Facebook and every now and then I troll
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through see if anyone's looking for a vocalist and a producer had put up a post saying that
he was looking for people to lay down some vocals on some tracks he had created and I
was like.
I could do it.
Hey.
It's how I reached out to him and yeah, he's like, show us what you got.
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So I sent him show me what you got.
So I said I'm a dick pic.
Is that your heart?
No, I, I sent him Ashburner from my band iron wizard.
We got tracks on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, so I sent him a link to Ashburner and then
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he's like, fuck it's sick.
What else can you do?
And I was like, I've got some Snapchat video saved and he was like, yeah, show us.
So I was like, okay.
So I showed him some of my clean singing, some of this, some of that and he was like,
fuck yeah, you got talent.
You got heaps of potential.
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Let's do it.
So yeah, I'm going to be working on lyrics and recording vocals and very exciting for
me because I've been wanting to get back into it for a very long time instead of just spamming
Caleb with my singing.
I can be like, hey look, music produced version.
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All the practice has paid off.
That's great.
It's so good to see you slide your way back to the music business.
Very exciting.
Very exciting.
Sorry.
Anyway, tell me about your song.
No, it's it really.
This one you see me in the dark.
It's one I just throw in to be honest.
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Was it who?
Who was it?
I prevail.
Oh yeah.
Sorry.
We already spoke about it too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've already spoken about it.
Yeah.
No, look, it's a great song.
Really enjoy it.
I just wanted to throw it in because we couldn't find any other I prevail songs, which I have
been slamming the shit out of.
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Choke.
Fake.
Fuck what you know.
Choke.
Body bag.
Gasoline.
Deep end.
Hurricane.
Like fuck.
Yeah.
Just enjoying, really enjoying I prevail at the moment and forever jealous that I didn't
go and see them with them with the fuck.
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Who did the Parkway?
That was it.
Yep.
You should have gone with your missus.
Yes.
Parkway, I prevail, Ghost inside and the other one you like.
Oh, yeah, because I've seen them.
He's forgetting them.
I've seen them with Amity.
Yeah, I've forgotten, but they were really good.
Yep.
Yep.
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Sorry.
Yeah.
I prevail and Parkway Drive fucking stole that show.
Like they killed it.
Obviously, obviously Parkway didn't steal it because it was their fucking show.
But Parkway and I prevail fucking killed it.
That's cool.
That's awesome.
All right.
Hopefully they come back.
Hopefully they come back in headline.
Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
I don't even care if they support.
It doesn't.
No, it doesn't really.
If they support, like I'm still going to whoever they're supporting.
There's got to be another metalcore band, so I'm fucking here for it.
Absolutely.
I don't know how they'll side support.
Anyway, look.
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Yeah, well, we're going to take a break and then we're going to.
Do we need to?
Yep, absolutely.
Why?
Hey.
Bitch.
Yes, because I'm a little bitch.
And because you don't hear.
We're just going to power through it.
No, you need to hear a word from me.
It's easy for me to match everything up.
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So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be back with our number two and number one
top songs of 2024.
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I'm going to keep that in.
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Welcome back to the Pain in Our Head podcast.
I'll decide later.
But Christian had an aneurysm just before we started.
I know.
All right, keep it in.
But for like context, every time we do this fucking here's a word from our Caleb, the
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count in's always me going five, four, three, two, one.
And then for some reason I couldn't get like my finger down.
And then I was just like.
And then I realized my thumb would come back up and I was like, fucking.
So yeah, whatever.
Fuck you.
Anyway, we've been talking about our favorite songs, our top five songs of 2024.
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It's really good.
We're now coming into the pointy end.
Our top two songs of this year.
Exciting.
Very exciting.
That's OK.
That's all right.
I love you for roaches typing.
I know that you like you're sounding something serious when you're just like.
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You know what I mean?
Here's someone like typing that hard and fast.
You're like, oh, yeah, it's serious.
That's not even my like that's not my fucking someone's about to cop it typing either.
Like I was like, like we had to like what we had to we send some feedback.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
To PUBG for cutting out the service.
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I typed so ferociously that I actually like dislodged one of the caps for my keyboard.
I think it was like the J key came off.
I was typing that hard.
It was just like, yeah.
Serves him right.
Ruin the game.
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, well, we can play like now.
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Yeah, just so keen.
I wasn't I wasn't keen at all.
You didn't know you didn't want anything to do with it.
No, no, and nothing to do with it.
Look, I had a hunch.
I had a good hunch.
Doesn't happen very often.
It happened.
And I like being right.
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And I'll give it to you because it doesn't happen very often.
No, it doesn't.
No.
Yeah, no, I was like, no, I want nothing to do with it.
Caleb's like, please, please get black ops with me and we can play zombies.
I was like, no, I'm fucking not interested at all.
Suck my left nut.
And yeah, then a Craig was like, oh, you can get it on Microsoft Game Pass,
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which is a monthly subscription fee and you get access to the game library.
And it was on there.
I was like, well, 15 bucks a month compares to 110 dollars for a new game.
I'm like, well, 15, but whatever.
I'll have a look. It'll make Caleb happy.
And then I'm OK. It's fucking fun.
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It's sick.
I was thinking about it all day today.
I work. It's all thinking about.
Yeah, I was totally like trying to work out
how we could like position the squad for like good placement for the zombies
so we don't get like bunched in and I was like, oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, so music, not games, music, not games, music.
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Hmm. I just we did a list of like all the different games
we played in the last year. Fuck me.
That's been a big year for games. Huge.
Hmm. We could. What's stopping us?
If you want to know, just send an email, put a comment down.
Be like, yeah, we want to know what games you guys be playing.
You're fucking nerds. Yeah.
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Yeah.
Oh, hmm. Hmm.
Right. Right.
How a nerd.
No. Yeah.
Went for coffee Sunday.
She's talking away. Blah, blah, blah, blah.
All of the kids are got.
Oh, she's got two. She's got two kids.
They've got weird kids.
She's got two. She's got two kids. They've got weird names.
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I can't even remember them.
They're like well out there.
And then like her brother.
All his kids have weird names, you got like three or four, I think.
Anyway, she told me the name of one of the kids.
And I was like, so your brother's a nerd.
And she's like, no, I don't think so.
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I was like, it works in IT.
And he named his kid.
Halo.
No way.
Yes, and it's after the game.
No way.
Yes way.
That's crazy.
I was like, that's a nerd.
That's a fucking nerd.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
I read to someone who'd been named after something from a video game.
I can't wait until fucking I might like until Aria or Iver.
Run across a fucking Geralt.
Oh, it's got to happen, right?
Got to fucking happen.
Like I'm a hypocrite, like Iver.
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Vikings.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
But yeah, no, like Geralt.
Yeah, right.
OK.
That's what you do, though.
You even my name.
My name is Common, but it came.
I got named after a character in a TV show that my parents used to watch before I was
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born.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's called Gothica.
It was some TV show that aired back when before I was born.
I think that's a space one, isn't it?
I think it was some supernatural kind of thing.
Anyway, the little devil kid, his name was Caleb.
Fucking suits you, then.
Yep.
Yep.
So.
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Slightly intellectually challenged and autistic.
Yep.
Probably matches, checks out.
Yep.
So anyway, there you go.
Nice.
Anyway.
Did I even say my number two or not?
We just been distracted so many times.
No, but I always said your nickname then too.
I.
Yeah, I actually almost said it at the start.
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Oh, did you?
Yeah.
Nice.
We have a little pet name for each other, but we're not going to repeat.
No.
Secret between us.
That's exactly right.
And number two.
Number two.
Power of the Beast, Beast in Black.
That was the one I was tossing up.
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I didn't know if I wanted it to be third or second.
I was just like, oh man, it was like a fucking like all three of like my top three songs.
I have really jammed on this year.
So it was quite hard.
But no, Power of the Beast, Beast in Black.
I fucking love Beast in Black.
They don't have a single bad song out of the three albums and the single that they've released so far.
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And they just.
I love them.
I fucking love them.
It's yeah.
Power of the Beast is great.
It's an absolute banger.
It's completely in line with all the shit that they've released.
It's all follows the same trend.
It's power metal.
It's like kind of like 80s synth as well.
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At the same time.
I fucking love synth.
And the singer has an amazing fucking voice.
And then the rest of it's just catchy power metal shit.
So it just it works.
It's working fucking every other power metal band ever.
And I love power metal.
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How do you?
I do.
I love that song.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
It's a.
It's so upbeat and just like you're just driving along.
You're listening to it.
And it just puts you in a real good mood.
And then just the synths.
Oh yeah.
Da da da da da da da da.
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What about when he does the fucking crazy like walk all over the synth to start?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not really, really good song.
I like the mix between the keyboard solo and the guitar solo.
Yeah.
Yep.
Sheesh.
A few harmos.
You harmos mate.
Yep.
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Love me a good harmo.
We're referring to harmonies.
Harmonies.
Yes.
Oh great.
Yeah.
I love Beats and Blow.
We've spoken about them before.
Yeah, yeah we have.
I love their cover of.
That I Care About Us.
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Yep.
They absolutely killed it.
Oh, it's to be honest and the way that he sings it and the way that they do it.
It's like.
So close to the original.
It really is.
But it's not.
But like, you know, because it's always a fine line when you're trying to cover music
and you got to release it.
You don't want to sound like the original because then it's like, what's the point?
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You know?
You want to sound like you.
But they have done an exceptional job at sounding like themselves, but also holding true to
the original music and the original feel of the song.
I think they've managed to like really.
It's they've almost like recreated it perfectly, but then modernized it.
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Like you can tell that it's been recorded like in current times with current technology.
Yeah.
But then it's so close to the original.
But it's just.
Yep.
I want to say it's better than the original.
It's quite, it's really tight and just the instruments, how they've managed to blend
them all together the way that they have is just fantastic.
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And look, it's it takes a bit for me to be impressed by someone trying to mimic John Moffat's
drumming Sugarfoot drummer for Michael Jackson.
But the guy from Beast in Black did a marvelous job.
So yeah.
And Yarnas absolutely kills the vocals.
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He does.
Yeah.
His voice is just like, fuck you, man.
Yeah.
100%.
Yeah.
It's just so good.
It's amazing.
It's just, yeah.
Yeah.
Not really good.
Number two.
Number two is really hard in the zoo in the zoo.
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These last two for me really hard because I'm very fortunate this year.
My two favorite bands have released music this year.
I didn't realize the Wiggles released something new.
And they did.
Yeah.
It's really good too.
Yeah.
Have you heard the remix album with the Wiggles?
I don't think I have, but I heard something that the Blue Wiggle did.
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No, no.
There's a guy on Instagram and TikTok and he does some techno versions of nursery rhymes.
And I'm pretty sure he's gone through and done like the whole, like a whole Wiggles album
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and like redone them all as like dance tracks.
I'll have to give it a listen.
Yeah, I'll have to find it.
Yeah, right.
Hmm.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Yeah.
So hard decision, but number two for me was Detroit by Bad Flower.
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Yep.
Hated it when it came out.
Yeah.
I didn't like it.
I absolutely hated it.
I thought, this has just got nothing like what Bad Flower was, blah, blah, blah, blah.
No.
I listened to it further, listened to it more.
Brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
Yeah.
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The lyrics in it and just his lyrics and songwriting is just amazing.
Just the way he talks about current, I guess, things in the world and talks about, you know,
he talks about the way, I guess, he really encapsulates the way life is in this day and
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age really, really well in a lot of his different songwriting, a lot of his different music.
So unbelievable.
Yeah.
Josh Katz.
So it's great.
Really, really love it.
Really like Detroit, the song.
So they did release another couple of singles.
One actually came out the other day, wasn't a fan at all.
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So maybe it'll grow on it because I didn't like it that much that it wasn't even worth
telling anyone that it actually existed.
It was like me with the New Lincoln Park song.
That was like the third one that released.
You're like, oh, I don't know if you knew, but New Lincoln Park.
And I was like, yeah, I did.
And I just didn't like it.
Yeah.
So the third single that they recently kind of, it only came out like a week ago, didn't
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like it at all, but Detroit and Teacher Has A Gun.
Yeah.
They're both good, but Detroit is definitely the best that they've released this year.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
I feel like I remember like just not liking Teacher Has A Gun like at all.
Yeah.
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It's not the best, it's not the worst.
I've liked it more as I've listened to it.
But no, Detroit was better after I'd seen them live because they played that live and
listening to that live and watching that live, it was really, really good.
Well, see, I had a similar experience with I Prevail.
Like before I went to the concert, I looked up I Prevail and the first song that popped
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up was Deep End.
And like I just like skipped through it and I was like, ah, this is shit, I'm not here
for it at all.
And now it's one of my favorite songs.
So that's why I work sometimes.
Sometimes you just need time to stew on things and listen to songs a few times to get it.
So anyway.
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Number ones.
Number ones.
Mine's an absolute banger.
I don't know who to give the credit to now because originally it was released under the
boys.
But then now it comes up as the girls.
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I guess I have to say it as the girls because it's on Spotify and iTunes, it comes under
their song.
Whatever.
My number one track is Babymetal and Electric Callboy.
And I fucking love it.
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I love Electric Callboy and I'm quite partial to a few Babymetal songs.
They've got some really good songs.
And I know when Babymetal first hit the scene, a lot of gatekeepers were just like, that's
not metal.
But the dudes playing in the Babymetal band are fucking good musicians and their metal
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is shit.
And the three little chickies that front Babymetal, they're cool.
They put on a good show.
I don't fucking care.
If you don't like them, stop being a grouchy old prick.
Yeah.
No, it's fantastic song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Rata, ta, ta, ta.
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But Babymetal and Electric Callboy absolutely goes off.
It sounds exactly like every other Electric Callboy song.
And I fucking love them all.
They're so good.
When you first told me to listen to that song, I didn't realize it actually, I forgot that
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it came out this year.
It felt like so long ago.
Yeah, I binged that for weeks.
And it's probably actually the song, other than my number one, that I played on repeat.
So don't often play songs back to back to back to back.
I know I do.
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I'll have a few in a list and I'll rotate that list.
But no, this one I did, I played it back to back to back to back for hours.
So probably to the point that I got sick of it and then couldn't listen to it for a little
while.
But great song.
Great fucking song.
So yeah, really good.
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How about your number one?
Number one.
Well, I got a story with this one.
Well, my number one was always going to be I see the song, as everyone knows by now,
I see the released album this year, which was fucking amazing.
My number one song is Paint the World.
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So not as probably a popular one on the album.
I know you added it to the playlist.
I've listened to it.
I don't skip it every time.
It's it's my favorite, probably from the album.
I mean, I'll do like all of them.
But this one, I just again, I'm a sucker for for hearty lyrics and meaning behind songs.
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And I just Yep, Sean did a great job with this one.
Really, really did.
And yeah, just love it.
Just love it.
So that's my number one song.
It's fantastic.
Really enjoyed it.
I love how a lot more heavier, a lot more metal the album was.
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And this song definitely shows a little bit of that.
So yeah, it's good.
Enjoyed it.
Yeah.
Number one.
Nice.
I'm glad you're happy.
Thank you.
Thank you.
But my story with this is the other day, Christian goes to me.
Hmm.
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I was throwing me under the bus.
Hmm.
Song popped up.
And I was listening to it.
And I go, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
And he goes, I really enjoyed it.
And then I looked at who it was by.
And it was a see the song.
Fake it.
I've never been more proud of my life.
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It was so fucking annoying.
Like I was just, I was working my, I had that, that the AI like
playlist, like shuffle going on.
So I had like, fuck off.
Um, and yeah, and just, you know, a random song came on and I was like,
listening to it.
I was like, fuck, this is pretty catchy.
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Like Caleb would like this song.
I think I was like, you know, got like halfway through it.
And I was like, fuck yeah, this is good.
I like this.
I was like, I'll find out.
Like, I'll grab my phone, like look at who it is and I'll let Caleb know.
And I looked at it and I was like, Caleb knows the song and I bet you fucking
already likes it because it's a fucking see the song.
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Fuck.
I wish I was there to see that realization.
Oh my.
That just would have been amazing.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Okay.
Very good.
Honorable mentions.
Honorable mentions.
We have some honorable mentions that we couldn't squeeze into our top five,
but they are some fucking awesome songs and they deserve to be mentioned.
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I added one while we were, while you were talking.
Oh, really?
Nice.
You want to start with that one?
Yeah.
I reckon, I reckon you'll agree.
Okay.
Devil, you know, by Tyler Braden.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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I was so fucking excited for that song to come out.
Like I was sweating on it.
Like I heard his shorts on Instagram and Tik Tok and I was like, fuck, I'm so keen
for this song to come out.
And it finally came out.
And I was like, yeah.
Yep.
Nah, great song.
Yeah.
Great song.
Absolutely.
February, that came out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was so keen for that to come out and then, yep, came out and I was super happy.
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Still listen to it.
Great song.
Yeah.
Absolutely great song.
Great song.
The other one that I showed you the other day that you said sounded similar to that,
that came out last year, I think it was, so I couldn't.
Okay.
Yep.
Mmm.
I think you want God.
Yeah.
Yep.
Good song.
He's got a sexy voice.
Mmm.
Mind some country every now and then.
Yeah.
Look, I've got a, I've got a handful of country songs that I'll listen to.
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Mmm.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nice.
Chuck that one in there.
Great country song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll, I'll throw this one in just because it's been on my mind recently and I think it's
hilarious.
You're the only one that I'm going to say.
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And I hadn't seen it until you put it in the playlist.
I was like, the fuck is this?
I had to reread the title when I glanced at it.
I was like, did that really say what I think it did?
Yes, it does.
Uh, Mego Bust.
Beats by AI.
It has no right slapping as hard as it fucking does.
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Not at all.
But it does.
AI generated song.
It's catchy.
It's funny.
The music's good in it.
Like, it's just enjoyable.
It's very enjoyable.
Absolutely.
Very, quite a funny, you know.
It's a caveman rock song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
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Yeah.
It's very, it's intelligent.
I mean, AI.
But no, it is.
Artificially intelligent.
But it's a, it is.
It's a really intelligent way of like vocalizing.
I sent it to my old man and he was like, that's really catchy.
I enjoyed that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right?
I'm blown away.
I'm blown away by how good that artificial made song is.
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And quite scared to be honest.
Because look out musicians.
AI is, is starting to make some bangers.
So.
Maybe I should use AI to like write some metal tracks and I can do the vocals.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not a bad idea.
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Anyways, let me throw out another one.
Yeah.
Which one are you going to do?
I'm like, yeah.
I know.
I think I know which one you'll choose.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you like it more than I do.
Yeah.
And I probably like the other one more than you do.
Yep.
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That's fair.
Let's do it.
All right.
Fallout by Sleep Theory.
I fucking love that song.
I absolutely love the shit out of that song.
Have sent myself singing it to Caleb numerous times.
And it just came out of nowhere.
And I love it.
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I'm fucking obsessed with it.
Yep.
It's a great song.
It's on our playlist.
It is.
It is.
I listened to it the most when we added it to the podcast playlist.
Yeah.
Every time it popped around, I was like, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Great song.
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Great song.
Agreed.
Yep.
All right.
Last one.
Last honorable mention.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Forgot about these guys.
Probably because they released something.
I forget what it is now and I hated it and I never looked back.
Yeah.
At least they released a single.
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Hmm.
Wasn't a fan at all.
The whole album that they released was fucking great after what we're about to talk about.
Yeah.
Like the album that this song comes off of, like, I listened to that album for fucking
days and days.
I was just like, yeah, this is great.
Yep.
Yep.
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And then they released a single after it for something new and I was like, yay.
Yep.
So, Heroes Are Calling, smashed to pieces.
Great song.
We spoke about it on the podcast, I'm pretty sure.
I think we have.
We were frothing over it when we found it.
Yeah.
Yep.
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I think you spoke about Trigger.
My specials.
Hmm.
Yes, it was.
Yes.
Because they were a part of Eurovision.
Nah, it wasn't Eurovision.
I don't think.
Or maybe they did go to Eurovision.
There was something similar though.
It was one of those like Australia's Got Talent or The Voice or whatever, but a European
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version of it.
Yep.
I don't think it was Eurovision.
I think they might have.
Surely they were.
I think it might have been.
Because I remember watching the live track of Heroes Are Calling.
Just thoroughly enjoying it.
That's what you first showed me, the song.
So, a great song.
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His vocals in that song are just elite.
Yeah, they were in Eurovision.
There you go.
They've entered a couple of different ones though.
Yep, that makes sense.
A lot of festival and.
Hmm.
That is Eurovision.
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Okay, whatever.
Anyway, they were in Eurovision in 2024.
They came third.
Yep.
There you go.
So, great song.
Heroes Are Calling.
Yep.
Great song.
So, I found that one on YouTube.
It was just like a suggested song, I think.
I was playing a game and it just started playing in the background.
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It was just skipping from each track to the next track.
I was like, cool, cool, cool.
And this one came and I was like, what's this?
Excuse me?
Hello?
Yeah, and then I went on a binge of Smash Into Pieces.
Oh, dude.
Yeah, because Heroes Are Calling and Trigger.
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There you go.
Venom.
Venom's a good one.
I think Throne was the other one that I really enjoyed.
Yeah, there's one other I think I really liked.
Something Back Home or Take Me Home.
Yeah, yeah.
Something like that.
That's like a little country feel to it in the intro.
They also do a cover of Mad World.
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And He Kills It.
Yeah, yes, I have heard this.
I'm trying to think of whether I've heard it.
He Kills It.
Yes, I have.
Yep, I enjoyed it a lot.
That's right.
They do the Linkin Park cover and absolutely.
Butchered the fuck out of it.
That's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
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And it just completely turned me off him.
Yeah, I remember now.
Thanks for that.
Yeah, yeah, you're welcome.
So good to end this episode on a sour note.
I was just talking them up so hard and then now I just remember how much I hated that.
I can't stop listening to them.
God damn it.
Excellent.
Well, great way to end the episode.
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Thank you very much for listening and watching to this week.
Next week we are dropping our best of 1-2-25 or episode 1-2-25.
Next week.
Why specifically 1-2-25?
No, 1-2-25.
That's what I said.
Yeah.
1-2-25.
Yeah, but the rest of them were shit.
(01:00:59):
Okay.
So, look forward to...
If it says 1-2-3 sucked ass.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's not a lot of...
Yeah, I bet there's not.
There's not a lot of best ones.
Unless you've gone through those first three episodes and just edited in every arm and
awkward silence.
That would be a whole episode in itself.
Yeah.
No, it would take up too much time.
No, so that would be really cool.
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So look out for that next week.
Exciting.
Otherwise, don't worry Spotify listeners.
I promise I will extract the audio and I will upload it for you.
Just, yeah, just putting it out there.
Watch it on YouTube.
It'll be a bonus episode for your Amazon and your Spotify, etc., etc., etc.
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I look after yous.
I look after my 15 listeners.
All right.
I went to Macca's after all.
Looks like you.
Before you changed your hair.
Damn.
All right, see yous later.
It's like going off the okay.
Bye.
See you later, Cubs Dick.
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What's going on everyone, welcome to this week's episode of the Pain in Our Head podcast.
You tried so hard, didn't even flinch.
Didn't even flinch.
What's going on?
Let's go look at you.
Thanks for joining me on this fine Wednesday afternoon.
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It's fucking Tuesday.
Is it?
The viewers didn't know that.
But I did and you're wrong so I have to correct you.
It is, it is Tuesday.
I thought it was Wednesday.
I thought the same thing this morning.
Because I had my appointment yesterday, which is normally on a Tuesday but we rearranged
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to Monday.
So I went and had my appointment and I got up this morning and I was like, yeah, it's
fucking Wednesday.
And I was like, nope, it's fucking Tuesday.
Mmm.
It's like kicking your fucking toe.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, especially when you think it's a day further in the week than it really is.
Yeah, it's the worst.
It hurts.
Nah, I'm good.
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I think it's because I got Friday off.
So it feels like it should be Wednesday.
What do you got Friday off for?
I'll be flying.
Flying out.
Oh, do you leave this Friday?
Mmm.
Yep.
Fuck, you're going for ages.
I'm going for 10 days.
Yep.
Mmm.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
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It was just going to be a week.
And then there's some little princess that I want to see in South Australia.
So detail.
I'll find her and I'll kill her.
Good.
I dyed my hair.
You did?
Again.
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It looks good.
Is it black?
Yeah, it suits you.
Yeah, I think so.
Sort of the blue but the black looks good.
That's a bit more normal.
What was blue?
Mental breakdowns.
Having a minty B.
A minty B.
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Yeah, I fucking love saying minty B.
A minty B.
Yeah, it's like the basic bitch version.
Minty B.
Having a little minty B.
Yeah.
What are we talking about today?
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
Ah, today.
We're doing a cool episode.
Music.
We are.
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Yep.
We've decided to go top five songs each because...
We're never going to agree.
I think we would if we actually sat down and thought about it.
Nah, because I just disagree.
No one has time for that.
You do.
You like to disagree.
You like to be that wild card.
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So yeah, we're going to talk about a heap of music.
We're going to talk about our favorite music of this year of 2024.
It's actually kind of hard in the end, wasn't it?
When we first started putting it together, we were like, what are we going to choose?
Got no idea.
And then once we started remembering everything that had come out this year, it's been a great
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year for music.
Yeah, I think my problem also was that all the songs that I wanted came out at the end
of last year.
I've only been listening to it this year.
It's like, oh no, it came out in November, December.
Fuck.
Yep.
Yep.
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Well, anything that comes out from this point onwards, I think it'll be okay to, you know,
next year included in that category.
That's what you do.
Nope.
No, it didn't cut off.
I don't care.
So if it's got 2024 in the release date, it's not included.
Okay.
Yes, sir.
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Otherwise I'd have cattle decapitation in this top five.
Just mention them anyway.
You just did.
Mentioned them before.
I fucking love cattle decapitation.
What a name.
But yeah, another day, another dollar.
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It's good done.
Yeah.
Nothing to talk about for this week.
I went out for coffee on Sunday morning.
Yeah, yes.
It was nice.
I'm going to say Heilong on the weekend.
Heilong.
Oh yeah.
Saturday night.
I'll be there.
Jamming out with my Claremount.
Nice.
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Shirt's probably going to come off again.
Saturday night.
I will be at Coldplay on Saturday night.
Sucks to suck.
No, I'm excited.
You would be.
Well, they're supposed to put on quite a show.
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They're not Parkway.
No, no, they're not Parkway.
No, it should be interesting.
It should be quite entertaining.
I'm quite excited to.
They're not going to have heaps of cool pyrotechnics going off.
No, probably a big sort of light show though, apparently.
It's quite, quite broad.
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Unlike our futures.
Speak for yourself.
I was.
If I'm going down, you're coming with me.
It's going down.
I'm yelling Timber.
Nice.
Nice.
All right.
Let's get this started.
We have.
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We're recording.
It's already started.
Yes.
Yes.
Very harsh today.
I don't have to talk about anything serious.
I can just roll with the punches.
You can fucking be dodging them.
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Everyone's really, really interested in what we're about to talk about.
It's very interesting.
And we can at least pretend.
They're interested in my choice of music because I'm always right.
You are.
You are always right.
All right.
Seeing as you're always Mr. Right.
Number five, Mr. Right.
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I didn't even number mine.
I just put them down as they popped into my head.
But it was pretty easy.
I reckon Heavy is the Crown by Linkin Park.
That's my fifth.
I really enjoyed it, but I wouldn't put it at the top of my list.
The 16 second scream that she does is fucking beautiful.
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Quite good.
Quite good.
And it's kind of in line with every other Linkin Park release in the last kind of like
10 years.
Yeah.
No, it's a good song.
That's what I like about it.
It sounds like Linkin Park.
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Yeah.
It really fits their, um, their M.O.
Yeah.
I don't even remember when they started like changing into more of that current Linkin Park
sound away from like when they originally came onto the scene.
I don't remember when that started to change.
I feel like it was when they did that movie, the Transformers song.
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Yeah.
That album those songs came out with.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're also on a Medal of Honor game.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, they're on there.
When you finish the campaign.
Castle of Glass.
Hmm.
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Good song.
Hmm.
Very good.
I did a pole dancing routine to it.
Oh, did you?
We had a military themed term.
That was it.
A term.
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And the performance night was military themed.
So we did Castle of Glass, Glass, Glass.
I don't fucking care.
Glass.
Glass.
But yeah, no, that was a good song too.
But yeah, no, Heavy is the Crown by Linkin Park.
I'm thoroughly enjoying it, listening to it most days because I made a playlist for when
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Caleb comes to visit and it's on the playlist and I listen to the playlist all day every
day.
So I'm so fucking excited.
Yeah, been listening to the playlist too.
It's good.
There's a lot of good music on there.
There's a fucking good music.
Obviously, we created it.
Hmm.
Hmm.
It's very good.
So.
Nice.
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If you want access to it.
Hmm.
Go listen to the podcast playlist.
Yeah, that's it.
You got to advance.
That's right.
You're not ready for this playlist yet.
Until you got through the other one.
Even though half the tracks are probably on the podcast playlist.
Like, could have just repurposed the podcast playlist.
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It's not the same.
It's not as special.
I even made a little picture for it.
And you did.
You did.
It's kind of cool.
I thought so.
Hmm.
I forgot what it is now.
Hang on.
I've got it right here.
Oh yeah, that's right.
It's just like some flames.
A little taxi looking thing.
And a little jester mask.
Yeah.
Well, see, I didn't have many options because I did it through Spotify because you could
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like create your own little picture.
Oh, right.
And I thought that maybe it was going to like generate like an AI image.
And I was like, fuck yeah, that's cool.
And it's like came up with like a full image editor on my phone.
I was just like, eh.
And it's like preset little emojis.
And I was like, well, he's a bit of a clown and then we're going to be driving and shit's
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fire.
You know what I mean?
So.
It's great.
It's really good.
The name is the best.
That better had been.
That got me good.
What's the name?
Hey.
What's the name?
I don't remember.
I can't remember my screen.
I remember it was funny.
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Pretty funny.
Hmm.
Nice.
Hmm.
Heavy is the cram.
Nice.
Good song.
Lincoln Park.
You want to do your fifth?
I can do my fifth, but I want to throw you under the bus first.
Oh, fuck.
Actually, no, I'm going to wait.
Never mind.
We're going to wait till we get to that part.
What do I do?
Number five.
Hey.
What do I do?
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This is not important.
Funnily enough, I am going to do my number five because number five for me is also a
Lincoln Park song.
Oh my God.
We didn't even plan this.
The Emptiness Machine.
Hmm.
By Lincoln Park.
It was the first single that came out for their new music.
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I love it.
When I first listened to it, we were all a bit stunned because we were like, oh, no,
I don't like it.
No.
After listening to it multiple, multiple fucking times, yeah, just same as the other one.
I love how Lincoln Park it is.
It's just the OG sounds, the instrumentation and all that sort of stuff.
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The production is just Lincoln Park, so it's great.
The new vocalist compliments it really well.
Yeah, when I first heard Emptiness Machine, I was like, eh, eh, eh.
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But I was also coming off the back of listening to Given Up and other heavy Lincoln Park tracks.
You know, you used to chest his voice and his screams and that emotion.
I had that sound in my head.
And then Emptiness Machine came out and I was like, eh, whatever.
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And then I think it only took like two days after getting bombarded on Insta by it.
I was like, hey, that's pretty fucking good.
It's good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, so it is good.
Yeah, definitely gets mentioned.
I think the cool thing about those two songs as well is, like we said, the fact that it's
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been so long since we've had any Lincoln Park music released.
So I think, yeah, that's part of why it deserves a top five mention.
Isn't his fucking mum and son cracking the shits over it?
I haven't actually been keeping up with that.
Oh, absolute shit show.
Really?
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Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
That's terrible.
His mum just took the band to town, specifically like Mike.
And just took them to town and they were disrespecting Chester and how bad Emily was and listening
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to her on stage and her voice was breaking and cracking and it was just disgusting.
She claimed that Mike always said that they'd talked to her before they tried getting a
new vocalist with the band and blah, blah, blah.
And it's like, well, I'm sorry, love, but yeah, you know, you're Chester's mum and it
sucks what happened.
But at the end of the day, like Lincoln Park, with Lincoln Park before Chester was in Lincoln
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Park.
Yeah.
Like he's not the original singer.
No.
It's like you don't get to have a say when they decide to continue their careers.
Yeah.
Which were put on hold for such a long time.
Like I can't even imagine how devastating that would have been for them.
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And yeah, the link Chester's son was like fucking just throwing hissy fits like an entire
little bitch.
So yeah, okay.
A little bit of music trivia for you, I guess.
I didn't know that.
I hadn't been keeping up with that.
It popped off big time for like the first week or two.
I think it's still going.
Are your son still fucking calling out Mike like all over the place?
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Yeah.
Wow.
Shit.
Oh, they're reaping the rewards.
Lincoln Park now, I think is, yeah, those two tracks.
Awesome.
The album's coming for a month, less than a month now.
That comes out in November.
So interested to see what that brings.
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I did listen to the third single.
Wasn't a huge fan.
So I'm hoping the rest of the album when we get that is good.
All right.
Four.
Number four.
It's a tough one for me.
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I'm gonna have to, the other four songs that I've got are all absolute bangers.
I'm gonna have to go with Power Nerd by Devin Townsend.
Great song.
And I fucking love Devin Townsend.
Like absolutely adore everything he does.
But...
I'm not sure if Tom and Gumby listen to this.
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They will probably hate me for saying that.
But like it's amazing.
I'm so keen for that.
I only realized today that the album actually dropped like this week and I haven't listened
to it all yet.
So...
Oh, okay.
Yeah, jeez.
Came around quick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Super keen to have a chop of the whole album tomorrow while I'm at work.
But Power Nerd off his newest album, which I think is actually called Power Nerd.
I like it.
Yeah, I think actually that makes sense and I didn't even think about it at the time.
But when I was in, when I was down the coast on the weekend, when I was in JB Hi-Fi, it
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was there.
Yeah, it is called Power Nerd.
Super keen for that.
That's tomorrow's job.
Have a burr at that while I'm at work.
Probably going to enjoy the shit out of it.
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And send you links to my favorite tracks off the album.
Yeah, look, I'll probably listen to it tomorrow.
Probably listen to the whole thing tomorrow while I'm driving around.
The annoying thing is that you got to turn it off shuffle so you can appreciate it from...
Oh, I will be.
... in order.
And then you forget to put shuffle back on when you go to listen to other shit.
All that stuff.
Now, see, especially if I'm going to listen to this new album, I'll actually pause it
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whenever I've got to get out of the cab.
And then I will keep going.
So I'm excited for that.
Look, Devin Townsend is something I'm very grateful for you showing me.
Because I love, love, love, love some of his stuff that we've talked about on the podcast
throughout the year.
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And yeah, really, really good stuff.
Actually, one of the songs you added to the playlist is a Devin Townsend remix with Pendulum.
I hadn't heard that until like before today.
Oh, really?
No.
Oh.
And I listened to that today and that was fucking awesome.
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Right?
Yeah.
Meow.
Yep.
Love little cat noise at the intro.
And then like the screaming he does towards the outro, I was just like...
I was like, yeah, wow, wow, wow.
So no, I enjoyed that.
Really enjoyed that.
I think he's redone the entire drums to that too.
I'm really positive he's reprogrammed those because they're way heavier than the original.
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I don't remember there being double kick in the original.
It was great.
Amazing fucking song.
Holy shit.
I love Crush.
So good.
Yeah, Pendulum just missed out on being in this because they released like a four track
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EP at the end of last year.
Yep.
Otherwise they'd be on here.
They would.
Yeah.
We can mention them because they're fucking great.
Yeah.
Look, I was listening to Pendulum today.
Me too.
Love it.
Is it colourfast?
Yeah, colourfast.
And then there's the other one too that I'm a real big fan of.
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You put it on the playlist.
I can't remember the name of it.
I'm alive.
Yeah, that slaps.
That slaps so hard.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, that slaps real hard.
I got really excited because I saw that they were coming to Australia, but it's just a
DJ set.
Yeah, so it's just one person from Pendulum coming and doing a DJ set.
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Yeah, it's got to be their music.
It's cool, but no.
When you watch them play it, that would be unbelievable.
Yeah, I want to see them play Come Alive live.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yep.
Yeah, it's on the bucket list.
Oh yeah.
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Oh nice.
What's your fourth?
Seven Townsend.
Really, really good.
My fourth.
This is a good one.
I'm surprised it actually made my list, to be honest.
Should probably be, probably shouldn't have made it, but it's more sentimental value,
I think.
I'm a big fan of this artist.
So Houdini by Eminem.
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Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I enjoyed the whole album, although I haven't really gone back and listened to a lot of
the songs.
The only one that really rings a bell is that first single that dropped, which was Houdini.
But yeah, look, Eminem, paper sentimental value.
I've been listening to Eminem since I was eight, nine years old.
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Since you were a little same shady.
Since I was a little same shady.
Yep.
So no, it's really cool.
I think we were listening to it in the car the other day, Tyler and I were driving somewhere.
Just even this one, like this song, Houdini, but it just kept getting better.
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I don't know how it's possible, but he just, I don't know, we're very fortunate.
One of the luckiest, one of the best rappers or hip hop artists of our generation.
And anyone would be silly to say otherwise.
So anyway, really good.
Yep.
Houdini, Eminem coming in my number four for this year.
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Three.
Three.
Let's hit it with three.
Now it's difficult because my last three tracks are like fucking banger tracks.
And I feel like if I say what I'm thinking, you're going to get upset.
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Fuck it.
I'm going to go violence against nature, bad omens as third.
Very good.
I was going to choose another one, but I'm going to go with violence against nature with
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bad omens and Poppy.
That song is amazing.
Unbelievable.
Puts you in a good mood.
Let's listen to that one.
Yep.
Because all I can see is that fucking live performance and Poppy's like center stage
just walking on the spot while she sings.
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And there's something about that strut just tickles my brain the right way.
And the lead singer from bad omens is like sitting on top of a big fucking stack of speakers,
just like doing like deep vocals over everything she's saying.
And it's just, it works so far.
Like the original song is great.
I enjoy the shit out of the original, but that live recording that someone put up, fuck
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me, that's good.
So good.
They've released a live recording too, like on Spotify.
On Spotify.
Yeah.
Has it got him on it?
I think pretty sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because we ended up listening to it the other day because Taylor's like, I like hearing
his voice.
So yeah, we listened to that.
Yeah.
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I'm pretty sure because it's part of the, the OST version that they put up.
So look now, cause yeah, positive, positive.
They're bad, I was just playing in Melbourne in January.
Oh yeah.
Well they're playing, they're coming up here.
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Taylor got tickets.
Didn't get it for me.
I'm considering it though.
I'm considering getting the ticket, but I mean, oh, cause I am live 2024.
I'm going to add that to the playlist.
Yeah.
Do it.
Do it.
Poppy's going around with them.
So I'm like, it's like, what'd she say?
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She paid, I think it was about 170 bucks.
It was worth it.
170 bucks just to see that song live.
Yep.
So I'm, I'm almost doing it to be honest.
Uh, if it was not like Poppy wasn't coming with them, but to be able to see that song
live.
You'd be fucking sitting in the back of the mosh pit just walking on the spot.
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Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
The drums, the drums, the drums in that song.
Oh, the drums are fucking great.
Fucking awesome.
The double kick on that shit.
But just the simplicity too, to when it strips back is just really well done.
Yep.
I agree.
It's just not over the top.
It fits, fits with everything else really, really well fits really well in the mix and
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all around really well put song.
Yep.
So good.
That's a good one.
Fuck yeah.
What's yours?
Number three.
Hmm.
This one was a late call in.
I'm glad it's number three.
Can you see me in the dark?
I prevail.
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It will hail storm and I prevail.
All right.
Hmm.
No, I really enjoy it.
I, um, love the production on it.
I love the buildup.
The chorus.
I hear from hail storms, hot.
I just like the mix.
I like the mix of those two.
She's got a sexy as fuck voice.
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Yep.
Yep.
So yeah, that's got to come in at number three for songs to come out this year.
I don't think we've spoken about hail storm before.
I think we have.
No, I didn't really know about them until they did this song.
Freak Like Me.
Misses Jekyll, I think it's called.
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Something like that.
Both of those are really fucking good songs.
Freak Like Me is a fucking certified banger.
Listen to it after we record this.
Trust me.
I like it.
All right.
I'll have to give it a go.
But yeah, no other players in the band.
Oh really?
Yeah, I think he's a drummer.
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Yeah.
Okay.
No, I, it's great.
I love it.
Love the song.
It's a really good mix of two artists coming together to produce a song.
I think it's definitely maybe one of the better ones to come out of this year is a feature.
So hmm.
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Did you forget a song?
No, I just remembered my news.
Your news.
Two artists coming together.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I'm part of a band creator page for Adelaide on Facebook and every now and then I troll
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through see if anyone's looking for a vocalist and a producer had put up a post saying that
he was looking for people to lay down some vocals on some tracks he had created and I
was like.
I could do it.
Hey.
It's how I reached out to him and yeah, he's like, show us what you got.
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So I sent him show me what you got.
So I said I'm a dick pic.
Is that your heart?
No, I, I sent him Ashburner from my band iron wizard.
We got tracks on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, so I sent him a link to Ashburner and then
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he's like, fuck it's sick.
What else can you do?
And I was like, I've got some Snapchat video saved and he was like, yeah, show us.
So I was like, okay.
So I showed him some of my clean singing, some of this, some of that and he was like,
fuck yeah, you got talent.
You got heaps of potential.
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Let's do it.
So yeah, I'm going to be working on lyrics and recording vocals and very exciting for
me because I've been wanting to get back into it for a very long time instead of just spamming
Caleb with my singing.
I can be like, hey look, music produced version.
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All the practice has paid off.
That's great.
It's so good to see you slide your way back to the music business.
Very exciting.
Very exciting.
Sorry.
Anyway, tell me about your song.
No, it's it really.
This one you see me in the dark.
It's one I just throw in to be honest.
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Was it who?
Who was it?
I prevail.
Oh yeah.
Sorry.
We already spoke about it too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've already spoken about it.
Yeah.
No, look, it's a great song.
Really enjoy it.
I just wanted to throw it in because we couldn't find any other I prevail songs, which I have
been slamming the shit out of.
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Choke.
Fake.
Fuck what you know.
Choke.
Body bag.
Gasoline.
Deep end.
Hurricane.
Like fuck.
Yeah.
Just enjoying, really enjoying I prevail at the moment and forever jealous that I didn't
go and see them with them with the fuck.
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Who did the Parkway?
That was it.
Yep.
You should have gone with your missus.
Yes.
Parkway, I prevail, Ghost inside and the other one you like.
Oh, yeah, because I've seen them.
He's forgetting them.
I've seen them with Amity.
Yeah, I've forgotten, but they were really good.
Yep.
Yep.
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Sorry.
Yeah.
I prevail and Parkway Drive fucking stole that show.
Like they killed it.
Obviously, obviously Parkway didn't steal it because it was their fucking show.
But Parkway and I prevail fucking killed it.
That's cool.
That's awesome.
All right.
Hopefully they come back.
Hopefully they come back in headline.
Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
I don't even care if they support.
It doesn't.
No, it doesn't really.
If they support, like I'm still going to whoever they're supporting.
There's got to be another metalcore band, so I'm fucking here for it.
Absolutely.
I don't know how they'll side support.
Anyway, look.
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Yeah, well, we're going to take a break and then we're going to.
Do we need to?
Yep, absolutely.
Why?
Hey.
Bitch.
Yes, because I'm a little bitch.
And because you don't hear.
We're just going to power through it.
No, you need to hear a word from me.
It's easy for me to match everything up.
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So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be back with our number two and number one
top songs of 2024.
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I'm going to keep that in.
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Welcome back to the Pain in Our Head podcast.
I'll decide later.
But Christian had an aneurysm just before we started.
I know.
All right, keep it in.
But for like context, every time we do this fucking here's a word from our Caleb, the
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count in's always me going five, four, three, two, one.
And then for some reason I couldn't get like my finger down.
And then I was just like.
And then I realized my thumb would come back up and I was like, fucking.
So yeah, whatever.
Fuck you.
Anyway, we've been talking about our favorite songs, our top five songs of 2024.
(32:57):
It's really good.
We're now coming into the pointy end.
Our top two songs of this year.
Exciting.
Very exciting.
That's OK.
That's all right.
I love you for roaches typing.
I know that you like you're sounding something serious when you're just like.
(33:20):
You know what I mean?
Here's someone like typing that hard and fast.
You're like, oh, yeah, it's serious.
That's not even my like that's not my fucking someone's about to cop it typing either.
Like I was like, like we had to like what we had to we send some feedback.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
To PUBG for cutting out the service.
(33:41):
I typed so ferociously that I actually like dislodged one of the caps for my keyboard.
I think it was like the J key came off.
I was typing that hard.
It was just like, yeah.
Serves him right.
Ruin the game.
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, well, we can play like now.
(34:02):
Yeah, just so keen.
I wasn't I wasn't keen at all.
You didn't know you didn't want anything to do with it.
No, no, and nothing to do with it.
Look, I had a hunch.
I had a good hunch.
Doesn't happen very often.
It happened.
And I like being right.
(34:24):
And I'll give it to you because it doesn't happen very often.
No, it doesn't.
No.
Yeah, no, I was like, no, I want nothing to do with it.
Caleb's like, please, please get black ops with me and we can play zombies.
I was like, no, I'm fucking not interested at all.
Suck my left nut.
And yeah, then a Craig was like, oh, you can get it on Microsoft Game Pass,
(34:47):
which is a monthly subscription fee and you get access to the game library.
And it was on there.
I was like, well, 15 bucks a month compares to 110 dollars for a new game.
I'm like, well, 15, but whatever.
I'll have a look. It'll make Caleb happy.
And then I'm OK. It's fucking fun.
(35:09):
It's sick.
I was thinking about it all day today.
I work. It's all thinking about.
Yeah, I was totally like trying to work out
how we could like position the squad for like good placement for the zombies
so we don't get like bunched in and I was like, oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, so music, not games, music, not games, music.
(35:31):
Hmm. I just we did a list of like all the different games
we played in the last year. Fuck me.
That's been a big year for games. Huge.
Hmm. We could. What's stopping us?
If you want to know, just send an email, put a comment down.
Be like, yeah, we want to know what games you guys be playing.
You're fucking nerds. Yeah.
(35:51):
Yeah.
Oh, hmm. Hmm.
Right. Right.
How a nerd.
No. Yeah.
Went for coffee Sunday.
She's talking away. Blah, blah, blah, blah.
All of the kids are got.
Oh, she's got two. She's got two kids.
They've got weird kids.
She's got two. She's got two kids. They've got weird names.
(36:13):
I can't even remember them.
They're like well out there.
And then like her brother.
All his kids have weird names, you got like three or four, I think.
Anyway, she told me the name of one of the kids.
And I was like, so your brother's a nerd.
And she's like, no, I don't think so.
(36:34):
I was like, it works in IT.
And he named his kid.
Halo.
No way.
Yes, and it's after the game.
No way.
Yes way.
That's crazy.
I was like, that's a nerd.
That's a fucking nerd.
Yeah.
(36:54):
Yeah.
I read to someone who'd been named after something from a video game.
I can't wait until fucking I might like until Aria or Iver.
Run across a fucking Geralt.
Oh, it's got to happen, right?
Got to fucking happen.
Like I'm a hypocrite, like Iver.
(37:16):
Vikings.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
But yeah, no, like Geralt.
Yeah, right.
OK.
That's what you do, though.
You even my name.
My name is Common, but it came.
I got named after a character in a TV show that my parents used to watch before I was
(37:39):
born.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's called Gothica.
It was some TV show that aired back when before I was born.
I think that's a space one, isn't it?
I think it was some supernatural kind of thing.
Anyway, the little devil kid, his name was Caleb.
Fucking suits you, then.
Yep.
Yep.
So.
(38:00):
Slightly intellectually challenged and autistic.
Yep.
Probably matches, checks out.
Yep.
So anyway, there you go.
Nice.
Anyway.
Did I even say my number two or not?
We just been distracted so many times.
No, but I always said your nickname then too.
I.
Yeah, I actually almost said it at the start.
(38:24):
Oh, did you?
Yeah.
Nice.
We have a little pet name for each other, but we're not going to repeat.
No.
Secret between us.
That's exactly right.
And number two.
Number two.
Power of the Beast, Beast in Black.
That was the one I was tossing up.
(38:45):
I didn't know if I wanted it to be third or second.
I was just like, oh man, it was like a fucking like all three of like my top three songs.
I have really jammed on this year.
So it was quite hard.
But no, Power of the Beast, Beast in Black.
I fucking love Beast in Black.
They don't have a single bad song out of the three albums and the single that they've released so far.
(39:10):
And they just.
I love them.
I fucking love them.
It's yeah.
Power of the Beast is great.
It's an absolute banger.
It's completely in line with all the shit that they've released.
It's all follows the same trend.
It's power metal.
It's like kind of like 80s synth as well.
(39:33):
At the same time.
I fucking love synth.
And the singer has an amazing fucking voice.
And then the rest of it's just catchy power metal shit.
So it just it works.
It's working fucking every other power metal band ever.
And I love power metal.
(39:54):
How do you?
I do.
I love that song.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
It's a.
It's so upbeat and just like you're just driving along.
You're listening to it.
And it just puts you in a real good mood.
And then just the synths.
Oh yeah.
Da da da da da da da da.
(40:16):
What about when he does the fucking crazy like walk all over the synth to start?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not really, really good song.
I like the mix between the keyboard solo and the guitar solo.
Yeah.
Yep.
Sheesh.
A few harmos.
You harmos mate.
Yep.
(40:37):
Love me a good harmo.
We're referring to harmonies.
Harmonies.
Yes.
Oh great.
Yeah.
I love Beats and Blow.
We've spoken about them before.
Yeah, yeah we have.
I love their cover of.
That I Care About Us.
(41:00):
Yep.
They absolutely killed it.
Oh, it's to be honest and the way that he sings it and the way that they do it.
It's like.
So close to the original.
It really is.
But it's not.
But like, you know, because it's always a fine line when you're trying to cover music
and you got to release it.
You don't want to sound like the original because then it's like, what's the point?
(41:23):
You know?
You want to sound like you.
But they have done an exceptional job at sounding like themselves, but also holding true to
the original music and the original feel of the song.
I think they've managed to like really.
It's they've almost like recreated it perfectly, but then modernized it.
(41:47):
Like you can tell that it's been recorded like in current times with current technology.
Yeah.
But then it's so close to the original.
But it's just.
Yep.
I want to say it's better than the original.
It's quite, it's really tight and just the instruments, how they've managed to blend
them all together the way that they have is just fantastic.
(42:10):
And look, it's it takes a bit for me to be impressed by someone trying to mimic John Moffat's
drumming Sugarfoot drummer for Michael Jackson.
But the guy from Beast in Black did a marvelous job.
So yeah.
And Yarnas absolutely kills the vocals.
(42:32):
He does.
Yeah.
His voice is just like, fuck you, man.
Yeah.
100%.
Yeah.
It's just so good.
It's amazing.
It's just, yeah.
Yeah.
Not really good.
Number two.
Number two is really hard in the zoo in the zoo.
(42:53):
These last two for me really hard because I'm very fortunate this year.
My two favorite bands have released music this year.
I didn't realize the Wiggles released something new.
And they did.
Yeah.
It's really good too.
Yeah.
Have you heard the remix album with the Wiggles?
I don't think I have, but I heard something that the Blue Wiggle did.
(43:18):
No, no.
There's a guy on Instagram and TikTok and he does some techno versions of nursery rhymes.
And I'm pretty sure he's gone through and done like the whole, like a whole Wiggles album
(43:39):
and like redone them all as like dance tracks.
I'll have to give it a listen.
Yeah, I'll have to find it.
Yeah, right.
Hmm.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Yeah.
So hard decision, but number two for me was Detroit by Bad Flower.
(44:02):
Yep.
Hated it when it came out.
Yeah.
I didn't like it.
I absolutely hated it.
I thought, this has just got nothing like what Bad Flower was, blah, blah, blah, blah.
No.
I listened to it further, listened to it more.
Brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
Yeah.
(44:23):
The lyrics in it and just his lyrics and songwriting is just amazing.
Just the way he talks about current, I guess, things in the world and talks about, you know,
he talks about the way, I guess, he really encapsulates the way life is in this day and
(44:46):
age really, really well in a lot of his different songwriting, a lot of his different music.
So unbelievable.
Yeah.
Josh Katz.
So it's great.
Really, really love it.
Really like Detroit, the song.
So they did release another couple of singles.
One actually came out the other day, wasn't a fan at all.
(45:09):
So maybe it'll grow on it because I didn't like it that much that it wasn't even worth
telling anyone that it actually existed.
It was like me with the New Lincoln Park song.
That was like the third one that released.
You're like, oh, I don't know if you knew, but New Lincoln Park.
And I was like, yeah, I did.
And I just didn't like it.
Yeah.
So the third single that they recently kind of, it only came out like a week ago, didn't
(45:34):
like it at all, but Detroit and Teacher Has A Gun.
Yeah.
They're both good, but Detroit is definitely the best that they've released this year.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
I feel like I remember like just not liking Teacher Has A Gun like at all.
Yeah.
(45:55):
It's not the best, it's not the worst.
I've liked it more as I've listened to it.
But no, Detroit was better after I'd seen them live because they played that live and
listening to that live and watching that live, it was really, really good.
Well, see, I had a similar experience with I Prevail.
Like before I went to the concert, I looked up I Prevail and the first song that popped
(46:21):
up was Deep End.
And like I just like skipped through it and I was like, ah, this is shit, I'm not here
for it at all.
And now it's one of my favorite songs.
So that's why I work sometimes.
Sometimes you just need time to stew on things and listen to songs a few times to get it.
So anyway.
(46:43):
Number ones.
Number ones.
Mine's an absolute banger.
I don't know who to give the credit to now because originally it was released under the
boys.
But then now it comes up as the girls.
(47:11):
I guess I have to say it as the girls because it's on Spotify and iTunes, it comes under
their song.
Whatever.
My number one track is Babymetal and Electric Callboy.
And I fucking love it.
(47:34):
I love Electric Callboy and I'm quite partial to a few Babymetal songs.
They've got some really good songs.
And I know when Babymetal first hit the scene, a lot of gatekeepers were just like, that's
not metal.
But the dudes playing in the Babymetal band are fucking good musicians and their metal
(48:00):
is shit.
And the three little chickies that front Babymetal, they're cool.
They put on a good show.
I don't fucking care.
If you don't like them, stop being a grouchy old prick.
Yeah.
No, it's fantastic song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Rata, ta, ta, ta.
(48:21):
But Babymetal and Electric Callboy absolutely goes off.
It sounds exactly like every other Electric Callboy song.
And I fucking love them all.
They're so good.
When you first told me to listen to that song, I didn't realize it actually, I forgot that
(48:43):
it came out this year.
It felt like so long ago.
Yeah, I binged that for weeks.
And it's probably actually the song, other than my number one, that I played on repeat.
So don't often play songs back to back to back to back.
I know I do.
(49:05):
I'll have a few in a list and I'll rotate that list.
But no, this one I did, I played it back to back to back to back for hours.
So probably to the point that I got sick of it and then couldn't listen to it for a little
while.
But great song.
Great fucking song.
So yeah, really good.
(49:29):
How about your number one?
Number one.
Well, I got a story with this one.
Well, my number one was always going to be I see the song, as everyone knows by now,
I see the released album this year, which was fucking amazing.
My number one song is Paint the World.
(49:52):
So not as probably a popular one on the album.
I know you added it to the playlist.
I've listened to it.
I don't skip it every time.
It's it's my favorite, probably from the album.
I mean, I'll do like all of them.
But this one, I just again, I'm a sucker for for hearty lyrics and meaning behind songs.
(50:21):
And I just Yep, Sean did a great job with this one.
Really, really did.
And yeah, just love it.
Just love it.
So that's my number one song.
It's fantastic.
Really enjoyed it.
I love how a lot more heavier, a lot more metal the album was.
(50:43):
And this song definitely shows a little bit of that.
So yeah, it's good.
Enjoyed it.
Yeah.
Number one.
Nice.
I'm glad you're happy.
Thank you.
Thank you.
But my story with this is the other day, Christian goes to me.
Hmm.
(51:04):
I was throwing me under the bus.
Hmm.
Song popped up.
And I was listening to it.
And I go, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
And he goes, I really enjoyed it.
And then I looked at who it was by.
And it was a see the song.
Fake it.
I've never been more proud of my life.
(51:28):
It was so fucking annoying.
Like I was just, I was working my, I had that, that the AI like
playlist, like shuffle going on.
So I had like, fuck off.
Um, and yeah, and just, you know, a random song came on and I was like,
listening to it.
I was like, fuck, this is pretty catchy.
(51:50):
Like Caleb would like this song.
I think I was like, you know, got like halfway through it.
And I was like, fuck yeah, this is good.
I like this.
I was like, I'll find out.
Like, I'll grab my phone, like look at who it is and I'll let Caleb know.
And I looked at it and I was like, Caleb knows the song and I bet you fucking
already likes it because it's a fucking see the song.
(52:12):
Fuck.
I wish I was there to see that realization.
Oh my.
That just would have been amazing.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Okay.
Very good.
Honorable mentions.
Honorable mentions.
We have some honorable mentions that we couldn't squeeze into our top five,
but they are some fucking awesome songs and they deserve to be mentioned.
(52:34):
I added one while we were, while you were talking.
Oh, really?
Nice.
You want to start with that one?
Yeah.
I reckon, I reckon you'll agree.
Okay.
Devil, you know, by Tyler Braden.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
(52:55):
I was so fucking excited for that song to come out.
Like I was sweating on it.
Like I heard his shorts on Instagram and Tik Tok and I was like, fuck, I'm so keen
for this song to come out.
And it finally came out.
And I was like, yeah.
Yep.
Nah, great song.
Yeah.
Great song.
Absolutely.
February, that came out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was so keen for that to come out and then, yep, came out and I was super happy.
(53:20):
Still listen to it.
Great song.
Yeah.
Absolutely great song.
Great song.
The other one that I showed you the other day that you said sounded similar to that,
that came out last year, I think it was, so I couldn't.
Okay.
Yep.
Mmm.
I think you want God.
Yeah.
Yep.
Good song.
He's got a sexy voice.
Mmm.
Mind some country every now and then.
Yeah.
Look, I've got a, I've got a handful of country songs that I'll listen to.
(53:43):
Mmm.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nice.
Chuck that one in there.
Great country song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll, I'll throw this one in just because it's been on my mind recently and I think it's
hilarious.
You're the only one that I'm going to say.
(54:04):
And I hadn't seen it until you put it in the playlist.
I was like, the fuck is this?
I had to reread the title when I glanced at it.
I was like, did that really say what I think it did?
Yes, it does.
Uh, Mego Bust.
Beats by AI.
It has no right slapping as hard as it fucking does.
(54:25):
Not at all.
But it does.
AI generated song.
It's catchy.
It's funny.
The music's good in it.
Like, it's just enjoyable.
It's very enjoyable.
Absolutely.
Very, quite a funny, you know.
It's a caveman rock song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
(54:46):
Yeah.
It's very, it's intelligent.
I mean, AI.
But no, it is.
Artificially intelligent.
But it's a, it is.
It's a really intelligent way of like vocalizing.
I sent it to my old man and he was like, that's really catchy.
I enjoyed that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right?
I'm blown away.
I'm blown away by how good that artificial made song is.
(55:12):
And quite scared to be honest.
Because look out musicians.
AI is, is starting to make some bangers.
So.
Maybe I should use AI to like write some metal tracks and I can do the vocals.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not a bad idea.
(55:33):
Anyways, let me throw out another one.
Yeah.
Which one are you going to do?
I'm like, yeah.
I know.
I think I know which one you'll choose.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you like it more than I do.
Yeah.
And I probably like the other one more than you do.
Yep.
(55:54):
That's fair.
Let's do it.
All right.
Fallout by Sleep Theory.
I fucking love that song.
I absolutely love the shit out of that song.
Have sent myself singing it to Caleb numerous times.
And it just came out of nowhere.
And I love it.
(56:16):
I'm fucking obsessed with it.
Yep.
It's a great song.
It's on our playlist.
It is.
It is.
I listened to it the most when we added it to the podcast playlist.
Yeah.
Every time it popped around, I was like, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Great song.
(56:37):
Great song.
Agreed.
Yep.
All right.
Last one.
Last honorable mention.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Forgot about these guys.
Probably because they released something.
I forget what it is now and I hated it and I never looked back.
Yeah.
At least they released a single.
(56:58):
Hmm.
Wasn't a fan at all.
The whole album that they released was fucking great after what we're about to talk about.
Yeah.
Like the album that this song comes off of, like, I listened to that album for fucking
days and days.
I was just like, yeah, this is great.
Yep.
Yep.
(57:19):
And then they released a single after it for something new and I was like, yay.
Yep.
So, Heroes Are Calling, smashed to pieces.
Great song.
We spoke about it on the podcast, I'm pretty sure.
I think we have.
We were frothing over it when we found it.
Yeah.
Yep.
(57:40):
I think you spoke about Trigger.
My specials.
Hmm.
Yes, it was.
Yes.
Because they were a part of Eurovision.
Nah, it wasn't Eurovision.
I don't think.
Or maybe they did go to Eurovision.
There was something similar though.
It was one of those like Australia's Got Talent or The Voice or whatever, but a European
(58:05):
version of it.
Yep.
I don't think it was Eurovision.
I think they might have.
Surely they were.
I think it might have been.
Because I remember watching the live track of Heroes Are Calling.
Just thoroughly enjoying it.
That's what you first showed me, the song.
So, a great song.
(58:26):
His vocals in that song are just elite.
Yeah, they were in Eurovision.
There you go.
They've entered a couple of different ones though.
Yep, that makes sense.
A lot of festival and.
Hmm.
That is Eurovision.
(58:49):
Okay, whatever.
Anyway, they were in Eurovision in 2024.
They came third.
Yep.
There you go.
So, great song.
Heroes Are Calling.
Yep.
Great song.
So, I found that one on YouTube.
It was just like a suggested song, I think.
I was playing a game and it just started playing in the background.
(59:11):
It was just skipping from each track to the next track.
I was like, cool, cool, cool.
And this one came and I was like, what's this?
Excuse me?
Hello?
Yeah, and then I went on a binge of Smash Into Pieces.
Oh, dude.
Yeah, because Heroes Are Calling and Trigger.
(59:33):
There you go.
Venom.
Venom's a good one.
I think Throne was the other one that I really enjoyed.
Yeah, there's one other I think I really liked.
Something Back Home or Take Me Home.
Yeah, yeah.
Something like that.
That's like a little country feel to it in the intro.
They also do a cover of Mad World.
(59:54):
And He Kills It.
Yeah, yes, I have heard this.
I'm trying to think of whether I've heard it.
He Kills It.
Yes, I have.
Yep, I enjoyed it a lot.
That's right.
They do the Linkin Park cover and absolutely.
Butchered the fuck out of it.
That's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
(01:00:15):
And it just completely turned me off him.
Yeah, I remember now.
Thanks for that.
Yeah, yeah, you're welcome.
So good to end this episode on a sour note.
I was just talking them up so hard and then now I just remember how much I hated that.
I can't stop listening to them.
God damn it.
Excellent.
Well, great way to end the episode.
(01:00:36):
Thank you very much for listening and watching to this week.
Next week we are dropping our best of 1-2-25 or episode 1-2-25.
Next week.
Why specifically 1-2-25?
No, 1-2-25.
That's what I said.
Yeah.
1-2-25.
Yeah, but the rest of them were shit.
(01:00:59):
Okay.
So, look forward to...
If it says 1-2-3 sucked ass.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's not a lot of...
Yeah, I bet there's not.
There's not a lot of best ones.
Unless you've gone through those first three episodes and just edited in every arm and
awkward silence.
That would be a whole episode in itself.
Yeah.
No, it would take up too much time.
No, so that would be really cool.
(01:01:20):
So look out for that next week.
Exciting.
Otherwise, don't worry Spotify listeners.
I promise I will extract the audio and I will upload it for you.
Just, yeah, just putting it out there.
Watch it on YouTube.
It'll be a bonus episode for your Amazon and your Spotify, etc., etc., etc.
(01:01:41):
I look after yous.
I look after my 15 listeners.
All right.
I went to Macca's after all.
Looks like you.
Before you changed your hair.
Damn.
All right, see yous later.
It's like going off the okay.
Bye.
See you later, Cubs Dick.
(01:02:02):
Bye.
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