March 29, 2025 • 33 mins
On this episode of Adventures in Vinyl Adam and I discuss this former Canadian Duo’s 2nd studio album released in 2012. That band is Japandroids and the album is Celebration Rock.
Song of The Week!
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads - Talking Heads:77
Take Me With You - OK Go - And the Adjacent Possible
Stump The Barron!
Sex and Dying in High Society - X - Los Angeles
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Genre: Punk Rock
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Studio(s): The Hive Creative Labs (Vancouver)
Producer(s): Japandroids
Label: Polyvinyl
Length: 35:10
Number of Tracks: 8
For more information on the band Japandroids you can check out their website at www.japandroids.com . IF you enjoyed this podcast be sure to check us out at our website at www.adventuresinvinyl.com where you can find links to our episodes and through our support section you can find a place to order you very own adventures in vinyl T Shirt.
Song of The Week!
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads - Talking Heads:77
Take Me With You - OK Go - And the Adjacent Possible
Stump The Barron!
Sex and Dying in High Society - X - Los Angeles
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Genre: Punk Rock
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Studio(s): The Hive Creative Labs (Vancouver)
Producer(s): Japandroids
Label: Polyvinyl
Length: 35:10
Number of Tracks: 8
For more information on the band Japandroids you can check out their website at www.japandroids.com . IF you enjoyed this podcast be sure to check us out at our website at www.adventuresinvinyl.com where you can find links to our episodes and through our support section you can find a place to order you very own adventures in vinyl T Shirt.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of Adventures in vital Adam and I
discussed this former Canadian duo's second studio album released in
twenty twelve. That band is Japandroids and the album is
Celebration Rock.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
What is up? What is up?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Welcome to another episode of Adventures in Vinyl. I'm Todd
Warden with me? Is my favorite birthday month, buddy, Adam Barron, Yo,
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You just handed me something different?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yes, pure aqua bell cheaper, the sparkling water, cheaper than
the Lacroix.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Lacroix.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Is this generic Lacroix it's from I tried a lot
see Aldi. Also it's an Aldia. That's a good generic Lacroix.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We bought.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
They had a whole bunch of different flavors of Daniel
just bought a whole bunch of different varieties.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So yeah, that tastes just like Lacroix.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, pretty much. It's hard to tell the differenced approved.
All right on, here we go, good to know and cheaper, So.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Help me a reason to go put that quarter in
the Aldi basket, right? I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I don't even do that, to be honest with you,
I never even have a quarter. Probably need to keep
one in my car.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well, I think you can stick a key in there,
take one at least that's what they say on the
TikTok Okay. My wife, I was like, we can't go.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
To all them. Yeah, I pay for a car. She goes,
you can just put a key in there. I was like, no,
you can't. I don't have the TikTok so I don't
know these things.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, my wife does the tiktoks and then she sends
me the tiktoks and then you know, but you could
do get some bands and stuff that.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, yeah, I'll have to go check it out. Man.
What do you think about this weather? All this wind blowing?
It's weird. It's the change in weather is kind of
messing with my throat. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I've had a lot of upper respiratory issues and it
kind of sucks. Yeah, it's affecting my workouts. And like
I had they been on the gym. I've been traveling,
like I just got back from Austin and flying in
that wind was just awful.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I woke up this morning and just was coughing. I'm like, yeah, no,
I don't want to get into this. It's the yuck. Yeah, yeah,
not the best. But anyways, man, so what are we
listening to?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Uh this week? No? Yeah, so like wait, what are
you listening to these days? Song of the week? Song
of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, you know, I've been in a really weird mood.
You know, I've had a lot of just stupid stuff
going on, and so I'm just kind of when I
do that, I kind of want like eighties weird stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, you know I like Talking Heads. Yeah, I'm gonna
say I know this. I was like cycle killer man. Yeah,
you know, it's everybody knows this.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's off Talking Head seventy seven, which is their debut
studio album. It was released as a single December of
nineteen seventy seven, So that is forty That will be
forty eight years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Wow, because that was the year I was born.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And the seven inch contains the seven inch single actually
contains a version of acoustic version of this song on
the B side, So a little uh interesting, you know,
factual facts.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But I like it. That's a good Uh. I like
this song.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
David Byrne is a talented front now yeah, I mean
you watch them of his live performances. He's weird he's
super quirky, but he's entertained.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's just good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That's so when I'm in weird moods, i'd send yeah,
good stuff, talking.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Hands, what about you man? When you go?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So I actually went with something that just came out
last week. So there's a band I've been into for
quite a while. We've covered one of their albums. No, yeah,
not everybody's flavor. But I heard this and I thought
this is just kind of cool. Yeah, so it's okay
go and it's their latest single, take Me with You.
It's I shouldn't say it's not the single itself. It's
(03:51):
on their latest single, which is this Is How It Ends? Yeah,
this is the the B side track, Tastes with You.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Is the album out? The album is not out. This
is just on a single single. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I was just surfing around on Apple Music on Monday
kind of saying that there was some new tracks from
like Snow Patrol Cohedon Gambri.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I saw something from Snow Patrol. I haven't yeah seen yet.
I listened to it. It's not bad. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I've been listening to Jason isbell new album trying to
see if I like it or not. But the whole
funny thing is like whenever he produces an album or
writes an album, it seems to be after like he
broke up with a girlfriend or divorced the wife. So
I'm like, this is another breakup album. Get back to
the four hundred unit and give me some give me
something a little with less depressing.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah right, I like this one. Catchy verses. It's easy
for you to say, Adam catchy versus Yeah. And of
course fun beat, cool bassline, just a fun song.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Noise. Yeah, when's the album gonna be released? I don't know,
you don't know. I did not look that up.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
No, well, when the song came out on the fourteenth,
that's as far as I got.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Cool. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I was kind of digging through getting my notes together
for the main and we're covering today, and I kind
of kind of came across this as I was looking
for something new to to.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Throw on and I didn't dive too deep.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Okay, but yeah, folks, if you're interested, go check out,
you know, go look into Okay, go see what they
got coming out, and then you can tell.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Me, yeah that'll be cool. You know.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I did this at Waterloo Records yesterday. I was down
in Austin. That's a pretty cool record shop. Yeah yeah,
I mean that's their main one that's coming downtown in
the downtown area.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I did see my bloody. I was looking for Loveless.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The only reason I went to that store was to
see if I could find and they didn't have a copy.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, I'm not surprised. It's still only gonna be a
difficult one to get. Yeah, yeah, I'll just keep searching. Yeah, absolutely,
all right, Hey, you know what time it is? I
know exactly what.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
All right, folks, it's another week of adventures in vinyl,
and that means another round of stuff the baron on
stuff the baron. I pick a random song from a
random genre. I give that him a few clues, and,
with his above expert level knowledge of the band Japandroids,
attempts to cass the artist, album and song title. Okay,
all right, So for this week, folks, we visit the
(06:05):
year nineteen eighty nineteen eighty. Yeah, so this track comes
from a particular la punk band where the artist featured
on today's episode covers this particular song.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Are you ready? I'm ready, mister Baron, I'm ready to play.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't think you'll get it, but it's it's such
a cool trivia. I could resist.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
No, I saw exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I knew I thought you would. Guns Shoot. I want
to say guns is in the name of the band
I can't. I can't remember, but I know it's just
they indeed they Indeed.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They cover one of this band's songs on the album.
I remember that, yep, but it was not There was
not a band I'd heard of. So, yeah, you're throwing
me off. Well that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So the track, as you can tell by the chorus,
is Sex and Dying in High Society. It's the seventh
track off the album Los Angeles from the punk band
x X. The album was released in nineteen ninety nineteen eighties.
Easy for Me to Say Los Angeles was X's first
studio album and was ranked ninety first on Pitchfork's Top
(07:26):
one hundred Albums of the nineteen eighties. Okay, interesting, So
for you know, anybody out there looking for something really
deep and early.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Punk, uh, check out And it was that high on
the list of I.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Was released surprised. Wow, So you know, I mean, look
what you had to compare to in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, yeah, I mean there was lots of great singles,
but there weren't necessarily a ton of killer albums.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah yeah, I get that that kind of narrow things.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Down, you know. So I don't know that albums good
or not. I haven't had jins listened to it. But
when I was preparing for Japandroids, you know, and I
was like, oh, you know a lot of my restart
will we prep We both do independent preps and don't
really share notes, right, and it's just trying to make
everything new. And even I don't even listen to like
when you do give me your song of the week,
(08:18):
I don't even listen to it. So the first time
I hear it is actually during the show.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Wow, okay, Well was to keep it fresh, sure, you know,
fun understand.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
All right, are you ready for this week? Let's do
the thing?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, kicking off this week's episode. Okay, yes,
those are fireworks in the background. Released on June fifth,
twenty twelve, Celebration Rock is japan Droid's second studio album.
The album consists of eight tracks and clocks in for
a total of thirty five minutes and ten seconds. The
(08:50):
first track in the background is titled The Nights of
Wine and Roses and clocks in at four minutes and
two seconds.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So the band was formed in two thousand and six
and Vanco British Columbia, Canada, after King and Prowse. The
two main guys, Brian King and David Prowse, met at
the University of Victoria. And the band's name is actually
kind of a portmanteau, you know, so like kind of
a juxtaposition of two different ideas. They originally had the
(09:18):
band names of Pleasure Droids and Japanese Scream and they
ended up just combining it into Japandroids.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, Pleasure Droids would have been weird name for it.
It would have been a weird name, very star wars y.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Sometimes they sometimes they spell van name without any vowels
in it, so it's, you know, one of those little
things they do to kind of.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh, that's probably mar themselves, jp N D r DS.
That's cool. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So they had self released two EPs, All Lies in
two thousand and seven and Lulla by Death Jams in
two thousand and eight. Five hundred copies of each of
those imagine trying to find a copy of one of those.
They were later re released, actually as a compilation titled
No Singles. Their if You album came out in two
thousand and nine. It's called Post Nothing, and they toured
(10:03):
five hundred shows in forty four countries in a four
year period.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Wow. I mean that is a heavy schedule.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I think that's kind of something that contributed over the
years to I remember one of them had had an
alcohol problem and had to go to rehab, and that's
the reason why the band actually ended up in twenty
twenty four releasing their final album, Fate and Alcohol, and
then breaking up immediately after they finished it with no
tour follow One of the guys had an alcohol issue.
(10:32):
He'd gone to rehab, he cleaned up, he didn't want
to go back on the road and like dive back
into that life. And so I can't I can't blame him.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That's you've worked hard for your sobriety and you want
to maintain it like that's yeah, it makes sense to me. Yeah,
but this is a good song. I really liked this song.
I think it's a great way to open the album. Okay, cool,
all right. The second track. It's called Fire's high Way
clocks in at four minutes and forty four seconds.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, so this is a killer guitar tone. That's what
the band has.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
They have a thick sound, but this is very even.
The two piece, even when they record in the studio,
is just a two piece, right, So one like local Age.
One of the things about Japandroids is that whenever they
do record albums, they're very mindful of their.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Ability to play live.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
They don't want to do a bunch of stuff in
the studio that they can't replicate on stage, so they
do a great job like with this, that thick guitar tone,
it's kind of supposed to make up for the lack
of a bass At one point, I'm the band had
actually early on looked for a bass player, and then
she realized.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We just want to go as a two piece. I
think we're good.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
So I love the fact that they make sure that
the guitar tone is nice and thick and that the
drums are just always pounding because it helps make up
for that lack of that extra dynamic of a bass guitar.
And they're or like a keyboardist or something like that.
But man, like I love the bang style vocal harmony
in the chorus. This one just has great energy.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I mean, I can imagine these guys probably would have
been fantastic live probably, I mean, just real strong track.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But I bet it's just a really just listening to
the album, I think that it would be a high
energy show for sure, you.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Know, and very because like it and it's almost like.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
A maybe a punk version of Local h So that
the description that I saw was you're taking guys like
Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen and you're missed mixing it
with like classic rock and punk.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, that's that's what I saw, like as a comparison.
I can't remember where I was reading about them, but
the article mentioned Tom Petty Druce Springsteen juxtaposed with you know,
like your earlier punk bands.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, well Japan more of a you know, they're kind
of that pop punk.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Kind of type of band. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
But at the same time, it's funny you listen to
Post Nothing lyrically, there's virtually nothing there. Yeah, there's really not,
and then almost like complete one eighty on this album.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Lyrically there is a ton there, right, I mean, the
band hits all kinds of themes on this one.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
They talk a lot about life and death, heaven and hell,
youth and age, good and evil. Like every song it's
it's there deep, like it's where. They didn't have that
in the first album. They have it in spades on
this album. Yeah, and you know along the lines like
like when you listen to Tom Petty song or you
listening to a brief Springsteen song, same kind of thing.
(13:38):
Like lyrically, there's always something there. So I mean, but man,
just a great song. Like you mentioned high energy show.
I mean, I heard that their live shows were always
something to behold. Let's say, really for a two piece
got out there and put on a head of the show.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Awesome. So let's move on.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Evil Sway is the third track off the album. Clocks
in at four minutes a twenty one twenty seven seconds,
not twenty one seconds. Let's not short the track. There's
six seconds there seconds and there there's six more seconds
that soon should listen to.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So I love the chord voicings like when you listen
to this, you can tell like he's really he's going
up to ninths and stuff like that does some great stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But it's a lot adds a lot of dynamics. I
think that's what I noticed by listening to it.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I was like, hey, this is overall not bad, right,
I'm like, hey, overall it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I mean you listen to the drums and the guitar
and the beat.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
They're locked in on this song, yeah, which is because
it's kind of a staccatoy song, like they've got to.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Be locked and you notice that kind of that separately
should be done, you know, it's just that helps drive
the song.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yep, let's catch you great rhythmic dynamics.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I mean again, just another banger, and this is the
album I want to put on, like really loud when
I'm driving down the highway on a summer day. You
want to go fast, you want to go fast, you
want to have the top down, you want to crank it.
This is that album.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Man. It was actual voted what was it?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It was in the ten Best Summer Albums of All
Time by Rolling Stone. So I can see that when
I listening to this album, like makes total sense.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, yeah, I spent a lot of time outside Saturday
fixing that stupid French dream, and so I was humping.
I went and picked up just a truck full of rock.
I was like, I'm gonna make this thing, so I'm
gonna dump so much rock on it and build up
a border. So I listened this album and I carried
probably fifty bags of like rock and fifty pound bags
(15:30):
of sand and you know, all across the yard Saturday
morning and that to keep you moving. Yeah, and I
just and it was like just total and heavy stuff,
and I was like, hey, this is a pretty good
album to list dude.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It kept me going, which was which was good.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
A little bit more about the album. It was number
ninety one on the one hundred hundred Greatest Canadian Albums Ever.
That's the CBC Canadian Rockcasting Gum, what what number number
ninety one, one hundred Greatest Canadian Albums Ever.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Oh that's interesting. Yeah, because the they.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Were banned for the year in twenty twelve from Spin magazine,
Pitchfork Band of the Year, Band of the Year Spin
twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Pitchfork calls this one of the best albums of the decade.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Why didn't they give more exposure? I don't know, like
what happened.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
They were on Polyvinyl, which is a small label, so
I can't help but wonder if just not a great
marketing budget, never wear the headliner. Maybe they were always
the bride's maid, never the bride, could have been various things.
The chart performance on this one is on the US
Billboard two hundred. It was number thirty seven. It was
number seven on the Billboard Independent Albums, number nine on
the Alternative Albums, and number seventeen on the Rock Albums.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So it did well, charted well sales.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You know, we're in the digital age now by twenty twelve,
so didn't sell a time at least not in the US.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So it's just supposed to be their touring and mert cells. Well,
how they've been able to sustain, Yeah, I would imagine so. Well,
that's a tough line. I mean that touring life again,
like they were playing, if you do the math, at
least one hundred and twenty five shows a year. Yeah,
that means that every third night they were playing a show. Well,
and you've got travel, you got travel, usually have a
day of travel in between.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yes, So those guys, they were road warriors, and it
was mainly in Canada where they toured or.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
No, they toured all over. They were international. They had
forty four countries in that time. I mean, I think
it said more than forty four countries. So I mean
they were all over the world, all over the road,
constantly playing shows for years.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I mean it's a hard life.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It is a hard life, and I think that's ultimately
what kind of did them in. I think just that
tour exhaustion, alcoholism, the coping mechanisms over time.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, you know, they're just like we're done, We're done
with this for now. But great song man, let's move on, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The four track off the album is a cover of
the La punk band The gun Club For the Love
of Ivy clocks in at four minutes in thirteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, so I love the intro. You've got that heavy
strumming right there. Little rockabilly, a little rockabilly heavy, like
that slide down with the heavy strum behind it. It
reminds me of an old school punk song, which is
funny because it is an old school punk song. It's
something like, well, they're punk roots, yes, their punk roots
(18:18):
come from like old punk, yes, right, I mean it's
all original punk where you had that late seventies, early eighties.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yes, you know punk.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That's what a lot of their sound when you can
tell that's a big influence on them.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
When you listen to the song, it's like nineteen seventy
eight meets Johnny Cash Western pend song. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I go give you a go. Look at the It's
almost cowboy.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It's got a little rockabilly punk, cowboy punk type of thing.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, what was that? What was that? I saw this
band that opened up for the Toadies and then we
kind of had that type of snaze. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I always love that stuff, man, cowpunk spart all right,
moving on to my favorite track on the album kick Off.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
The second half of the album is Adrenaline night Shift.
Adrenaline night Shift clocks in at four minutes and twenty
six seconds.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah, so again, favorite track on the album. It feels
like a biker love.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Song than me.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, but great guitar riff, the thickness of the guitar again,
it's just it's it's.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Very whole and thick.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Doesn't it basically takes away the fact there's not a
bass guitar in there. The whole song just demands my attention. Man,
I've listened to this one over one hundred times now.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Just doesn't get old.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, and I keep listening to his vocals, right, and
the mike he's using across the board, it sounds a
lot like a drive, like an old ribbon mic, which
is what kind of at the drive in you. So
this seemed to be like, hey, they were doing some
at the drive in stuff. That's what it kind of
(19:50):
reminded me. His vocals are but much better. Yeah, I
would say, you know how at the driving we're like,
I don't get it. Yeah, it just seemed like a
bunch of noise. This seems a bunch of driving, but
it adds that different layer that you get from the
vocals with the probably ribbon.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Mic thing's using, which I thought was pretty cool. Great.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I mean, the great thing about a ribbon mic is
that you can overdrive it vocally. Yeah, you get that
distortion that sometimes you want, right.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Man, I love the lyric in this song because Death's
got no respect for love and you have no respect
for me.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Man. It was like, dude, that's great.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's one thing again about this album, as you go
through and you look at the lyrics on all the
different songs, and you can tell, man, like these guys
thought these through. Yeah, like they really thought them for
they're all the seriously, Yeah, they're all really good songs,
great songs, very poetic in nature. I mean, man, and
I love this song. This song is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, the album goes by quick like.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It's a good thirty five minute you know, thirty six
minute listen.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Right, Yeah, there's no reason to skip the song. It's welcome.
There's no reason to skip the songs. It's one big,
driving beat.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It's the perfect you're lifting late, you're working outside, your
cruise around in your car jeep, top open or windows
open on.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
A nice sunny day. Catch us. Is this what you
put on? It's a good one. Yeah. And the tempo
stays high.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
For almost the entire and that's why I and sometimes
you want that. Yeah, sometimes you need an album that's
just solid. It drives you know, it's good. Beat keeps
you up, up and going, you know, especially if music
is a large part.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Of your life. Right, So, you know it's funny.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
So we're about, uh, this is the halfway point this song, right,
Well we're kicking off to now, kicking off the second
album with the pretty big one banger.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, and you know we haven't even touched that. They
had a couple of singles. Yes, so it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
They were inspired heavily on this album by Guns n
Roses Appetite for Destruction. Yeah, and so they actually they
formatted the album to make the first which is funny
because when I listened to it, I'm like, I can't
even make it.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I couldn't. I was like, that's where I'm like, wait
a minute.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
They were trying to have them so gn R Appetite
for Destruction have the G side, which was like songs
about uh, like like partying and all that, the R side,
which was more about like the heavier things in life. Yeah,
these guys tried to do kind of the same thing,
like four songs one side, four songs on the other.
I don't know that they succeeded in like creating distinction
(22:09):
between the two sides, maybe lyrically, but it puts us
on side too.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
But the songs, the overall beat, the sound, it's hard
to disting from me. I couldn't distinguish really one song from.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
The next exactly right, Yeah, I get you there. And
of course you can only do so much when you
have two instruments, right, So they do mix it up
with the riffs and the dynamics of the songs and
things like that. But yeah, I was interesting that they
took inspiration from Appetite for Destruction on this album. Yep,
all right, onto the next one, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Younger Us is the second seven inch single from the
band to Pandrois that was released as a single on
July twentieth, twenty ten. Younger Us clocks in at three
minutes and thirty three seconds. The B side to the
single is a cover of the Sex and nine in
High Society that was originally written and performed by another
American punk rock band X that was featured on the
(23:02):
earlier segment that Adam couldn't even get even though the name.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Of the song was in the chorus. Nope, I didn't.
Let's move on.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I need, I need, I need to have a wow.
I apparently you should need that anyway, this younger ass.
What do you think about Younger Us again? They're not
letting up on the energy.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, there's a motion in every track. Yeah, that's one
thing that really sticks out to me. This one is
another banger throws you kind of back to your early twenties,
living that independent single life. I went back and looked
through the lyrics and I mean it's that's totally the
vibe of the song. It's great man Well and finding
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anything to dislike on this album.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
What's cool is what they're at.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I like it when they reference Hey, a band that
releases a couple of good singles, it's got a B side.
They released that as something that fans can go get right,
and then they kind of pull it into an album that's
kind of old school, which which I kind of did.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
It was always a fan of that Mane, Like, yeah,
released a single or two or maybe more, it's like,
give me a ta able to go buy it, and
then I'll buy the album.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I want to have all the things, especially when I
really like the album and if.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You like collecting it into it exactly the sides and
all that stuff too well. And I had a conversation
with some people just associates right and talking about vinyl,
and they're like, yeah, I don't get people collect well.
I go, it's it's not that like you go buy
thirteen Taylor Swift albums. No, I mean it's like you
go you invest in the about the artists you talk about,
(24:32):
you know who produce. There's a lot of labor and
that's the point. I mean, it was like there's a
lot of labor that went into you know, it's yes,
vinyl is a cool thing, but and that's trendy.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's hard to even get vinyl pressed for an album, right,
you have to wait months and months and months.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I've waited a year for an album. Well, and what
what people?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
If you like certain bands and you like the things
that they do, I think, and you're listening to it
as they're tested, Yeah, you're invested and I go, but yeah,
I go. When I buy stuff. I don't just buy
anything that new that comes out. I mean there's albums
that I want to get, Yeah, because I want to
listen to the Mombne.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
All right, man, we're moving on, I know, moving on
off that ramp rant.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I know it's this easy for you to say, cold
great song. Okay. So this is the first single off
the album.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
First single off the album. It was their fourth seven
inch single that they released and this is the House
that Haven't Built Clocks in in four minutes forty nine
seconds released as a single off the album May fifteenth,
twenty twelve, and in February twenty seventh, twenty thirteen, the
song was announced as the winner of a contest to
(25:42):
determine the entrance music for the NHL team that Vancouver conducts.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So this one hit number twelve on Canada's Alternative Rock charts.
But that must be why it's the opening interest music
for I mean obviously did well, so second favorite song
on the album for me. I like simple repetitive rift,
but that driving beat just makes this song and I
love the anthemic, passionate vocals.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Man. Yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Amazing what a simple four on the floor drum beat
can do to get the blood pumping. This is the
one track I think would have really benefited if I'm
a bass guitar if I'm being honest.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But even without it, the song just flat rocks.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah, I mean it's great the line but You're not
mine to die for anymore, so I must live. I
mean again, it's just like Man's They have these little
just these little phrases in their songs.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That it's just like, oh, man, that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Lyrically, yeah, it's good, great song man, I'm a big
fan of this one. I actually it's funny when I
do so when I teach my jiu jitsu classes, I
have a playlist that is japan Roid's based that I
played most days, and it always seems like it either
starts with this song or Adrenaline night Shift every time
that I hit play on it for the shuffle.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
But great song man.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
All right, onto the last track, Onto the last track
of the album. We have a continuous thunder. It's a
clock set of four minutes and fifty nine seconds.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
So the guitar is just so big on this song.
It's the slowest song on the album easily, not necessarily
a slow song. I do enjoy the change of pace here,
especially the last couple.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Of minutes of the song, when it really hits its groove.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Well, that intro, like it starts and stops that it
comes in, I keep thinking, like, what's going on? Why
am I not buffering this? Is I downloaded this track? Yeah,
and so there was some interesting with you.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
A little yeah, yeah, they kind of.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I like the change of pace here because you've just
had seven songs that are at that like high bpm,
always moving, and then you get this change of pace.
It's just just a really simple song, but it really
drives the album nicely to its conclusion. I love how
the drums build at the end as well as the
song comes to its close and then everything fades out
into the fireworks that we heard at the very beginning
(27:57):
of the album. Yeah, so it kind of closes the
loop on the album, which I think was great man.
So I'm curious, what do you think about the album
as a whole.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I think great sound from the duo that surprised me.
And this is really the first time you mentioned Japandroids
and said a bunch of stuff. And I've kind of
listened to a track here and there, but I haven't
really done a full listen through. So for me, it
was good to be introduced to them. I think it's
a solid, really good punk album. I can understand why
I got the acclaimed baccolades that it did. I don't
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know if I would own it or not. I think
if I came across it at a record store, I
would probably buy it to give it to you, right,
But if there are two copies, i'd probably buy both copies,
so I would have one, just because it's hard to find.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
There's a limited pressing, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Right, That's probably the only reason I would buy it, right.
I don't think it's something that right now I would pursue,
but I like the album. I'm interested in listening to
more of Japan Droids, which is good. But at this
(29:12):
point I'm like, Okay, it's a good eight, solid eight
out of ten. For me, It just I wasn't drawn
to it. I got you, but you know, I've kind
of hit or miss sometimes, but overall, I was like, hey,
this is a really good album.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Could ban tilet, right? I mean, if you're a fan
of punk, especially early punk and seeing how that evolves,
great great way to get into it. I think hard
working band you could do.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I mean just touring schedule and what those guys kind
of sad that they're not producing stuff. But also I
feel like, why was it this introduced and pushed early
on when the album was released, because that was the case.
If they actually had a good push, it's been good marketing,
you know, maybe their fan base would be larger.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I mean, obviously you have duos like the White Stripes
that went on to do great things the Black but
they had marketing. But they had marketing behind them, right,
And I think that's the issue was they just didn't
get the marketing that they needed to thrive.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Well, you have like a duo like Local Age, they
had that grunge type of rocketing and then they had
you know, all that interconnection within a lot of other groups. Right,
So they've always been everyone's favorite opening act for bigger, bigger,
bigger bands, and they've always been you know, when they're headlining,
they bring some sub artists in which, you know, some
lower level artists, but it's always really good.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeah. I just.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
You know, I could see why they stopped if they
had to grind and grind and grind for that loans,
especially based on the calog over.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
A decade, over a decade, all over a decade. I
mean that's a lot like fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I'm more like, man, Yeah, I wish I would have
been introduced to these guys, you know, over ten twelve.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Years ago, got ten years ago. So I gave this one.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I was that's really tempted to give it a ten,
just because I think it's that strong of an album.
When I look at it for what it is, right,
I have to ignore the fact that there's no base
in there, which yeah, I think would have added a
great dynamic, would have filled out the sound a bit.
But hey, it's their choice, and so I look at
it for what it is. I'm tempted to give it
a ten. I'm gonna give it a nine and a half.
(31:23):
And the only reason and it sounds petty and silly,
but at the same time.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
It does matter to me. Is that anytime that you
have like.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
An eight song album and you feel like you have
to include a cover in that eight song album, Yeah,
it's like, even if it's a good cover, it's kind
of like, but this is your album. If you have
ten songs, then I get it. Yeah, but if you don't,
if you're doing eight songs, I want eight originals.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, no offense.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And if it's gonna be a cover, it better be
a really freaking good cover if you're gonna sell that
to me as part of a shortened album. So one
and a half, nine and a half, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean, again, for what it is. I'm looking at
it for what it is, not what it's not, but
what it is and a half.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Nine and a half. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna go back
and listen to it again.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's definitely gonna be kind
of in rotation. But you know, I don't know we'll see.
I'm interested in listening to more. It's a good solid
but I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Wanting to go now listen more to the third album,
near to the wild Heart of Life.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, and go check that out next.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So all right, man, Well, just like that, we were
at the close of another episode of the Bitches in Vinyl.
If you like the music featured on this episode, please
check out today's episode. You can get all the links
to the bands that are featured. For more information on
the band Japandroids, you can check out their website www.
Dot japandroids dot com. It's still active and they're still
selling albums. Give them a listen, give them some revenue,
(32:51):
buys some t shirts.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Go check them out. Go check them out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
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orm bar and my dumb butt at Todd David Ward.
(33:17):
And with that, I'm Todd Ward and I'm Adam Baron,
and we will see you next time for another exciting
episode of adventures in Vinyl.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Anyt's on next album, No Cool. I have no clue
what we're doing next. Neither do I. We're gonna figure
it out, though, all right, all right, until next time,
stay tuned,
On this episode of Adventures in vital Adam and I
discussed this former Canadian duo's second studio album released in
twenty twelve. That band is Japandroids and the album is
Celebration Rock.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
What is up? What is up?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Welcome to another episode of Adventures in Vinyl. I'm Todd
Warden with me? Is my favorite birthday month, buddy, Adam Barron, Yo,
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You just handed me something different?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yes, pure aqua bell cheaper, the sparkling water, cheaper than
the Lacroix.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Lacroix.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Is this generic Lacroix it's from I tried a lot
see Aldi. Also it's an Aldia. That's a good generic Lacroix.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We bought.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
They had a whole bunch of different flavors of Daniel
just bought a whole bunch of different varieties.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So yeah, that tastes just like Lacroix.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, pretty much. It's hard to tell the differenced approved.
All right on, here we go, good to know and cheaper, So.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Help me a reason to go put that quarter in
the Aldi basket, right? I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I don't even do that, to be honest with you,
I never even have a quarter. Probably need to keep
one in my car.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well, I think you can stick a key in there,
take one at least that's what they say on the
TikTok Okay. My wife, I was like, we can't go.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
To all them. Yeah, I pay for a car. She goes,
you can just put a key in there. I was like, no,
you can't. I don't have the TikTok so I don't
know these things.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, my wife does the tiktoks and then she sends
me the tiktoks and then you know, but you could
do get some bands and stuff that.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, yeah, I'll have to go check it out. Man.
What do you think about this weather? All this wind blowing?
It's weird. It's the change in weather is kind of
messing with my throat. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I've had a lot of upper respiratory issues and it
kind of sucks. Yeah, it's affecting my workouts. And like
I had they been on the gym. I've been traveling,
like I just got back from Austin and flying in
that wind was just awful.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I woke up this morning and just was coughing. I'm like, yeah, no,
I don't want to get into this. It's the yuck. Yeah, yeah,
not the best. But anyways, man, so what are we
listening to?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Uh this week? No? Yeah, so like wait, what are
you listening to these days? Song of the week? Song
of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, you know, I've been in a really weird mood.
You know, I've had a lot of just stupid stuff
going on, and so I'm just kind of when I
do that, I kind of want like eighties weird stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, you know I like Talking Heads. Yeah, I'm gonna
say I know this. I was like cycle killer man. Yeah,
you know, it's everybody knows this.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's off Talking Head seventy seven, which is their debut
studio album. It was released as a single December of
nineteen seventy seven, So that is forty That will be
forty eight years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Wow, because that was the year I was born.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And the seven inch contains the seven inch single actually
contains a version of acoustic version of this song on
the B side, So a little uh interesting, you know,
factual facts.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But I like it. That's a good Uh. I like
this song.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
David Byrne is a talented front now yeah, I mean
you watch them of his live performances. He's weird he's
super quirky, but he's entertained.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's just good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That's so when I'm in weird moods, i'd send yeah,
good stuff, talking.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Hands, what about you man? When you go?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So I actually went with something that just came out
last week. So there's a band I've been into for
quite a while. We've covered one of their albums. No, yeah,
not everybody's flavor. But I heard this and I thought
this is just kind of cool. Yeah, so it's okay
go and it's their latest single, take Me with You.
It's I shouldn't say it's not the single itself. It's
(03:51):
on their latest single, which is this Is How It Ends? Yeah,
this is the the B side track, Tastes with You.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Is the album out? The album is not out. This
is just on a single single. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I was just surfing around on Apple Music on Monday
kind of saying that there was some new tracks from
like Snow Patrol Cohedon Gambri.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I saw something from Snow Patrol. I haven't yeah seen yet.
I listened to it. It's not bad. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I've been listening to Jason isbell new album trying to
see if I like it or not. But the whole
funny thing is like whenever he produces an album or
writes an album, it seems to be after like he
broke up with a girlfriend or divorced the wife. So
I'm like, this is another breakup album. Get back to
the four hundred unit and give me some give me
something a little with less depressing.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah right, I like this one. Catchy verses. It's easy
for you to say, Adam catchy versus Yeah. And of
course fun beat, cool bassline, just a fun song.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Noise. Yeah, when's the album gonna be released? I don't know,
you don't know. I did not look that up.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
No, well, when the song came out on the fourteenth,
that's as far as I got.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Cool. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I was kind of digging through getting my notes together
for the main and we're covering today, and I kind
of kind of came across this as I was looking
for something new to to.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Throw on and I didn't dive too deep.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Okay, but yeah, folks, if you're interested, go check out,
you know, go look into Okay, go see what they
got coming out, and then you can tell.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Me, yeah that'll be cool. You know.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I did this at Waterloo Records yesterday. I was down
in Austin. That's a pretty cool record shop. Yeah yeah,
I mean that's their main one that's coming downtown in
the downtown area.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I did see my bloody. I was looking for Loveless.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
The only reason I went to that store was to
see if I could find and they didn't have a copy.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, I'm not surprised. It's still only gonna be a
difficult one to get. Yeah, yeah, I'll just keep searching. Yeah, absolutely,
all right, Hey, you know what time it is? I
know exactly what.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
All right, folks, it's another week of adventures in vinyl,
and that means another round of stuff the baron on
stuff the baron. I pick a random song from a
random genre. I give that him a few clues, and,
with his above expert level knowledge of the band Japandroids,
attempts to cass the artist, album and song title. Okay,
all right, So for this week, folks, we visit the
(06:05):
year nineteen eighty nineteen eighty. Yeah, so this track comes
from a particular la punk band where the artist featured
on today's episode covers this particular song.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Are you ready? I'm ready, mister Baron, I'm ready to play.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't think you'll get it, but it's it's such
a cool trivia. I could resist.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
No, I saw exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I knew I thought you would. Guns Shoot. I want
to say guns is in the name of the band
I can't. I can't remember, but I know it's just
they indeed they Indeed.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They cover one of this band's songs on the album.
I remember that, yep, but it was not There was
not a band I'd heard of. So, yeah, you're throwing
me off. Well that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So the track, as you can tell by the chorus,
is Sex and Dying in High Society. It's the seventh
track off the album Los Angeles from the punk band
x X. The album was released in nineteen ninety nineteen eighties.
Easy for Me to Say Los Angeles was X's first
studio album and was ranked ninety first on Pitchfork's Top
(07:26):
one hundred Albums of the nineteen eighties. Okay, interesting, So
for you know, anybody out there looking for something really
deep and early.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Punk, uh, check out And it was that high on
the list of I.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Was released surprised. Wow, So you know, I mean, look
what you had to compare to in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, yeah, I mean there was lots of great singles,
but there weren't necessarily a ton of killer albums.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah yeah, I get that that kind of narrow things.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Down, you know. So I don't know that albums good
or not. I haven't had jins listened to it. But
when I was preparing for Japandroids, you know, and I
was like, oh, you know a lot of my restart
will we prep We both do independent preps and don't
really share notes, right, and it's just trying to make
everything new. And even I don't even listen to like
when you do give me your song of the week,
(08:18):
I don't even listen to it. So the first time
I hear it is actually during the show.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Wow, okay, Well was to keep it fresh, sure, you know,
fun understand.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
All right, are you ready for this week? Let's do
the thing?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, kicking off this week's episode. Okay, yes,
those are fireworks in the background. Released on June fifth,
twenty twelve, Celebration Rock is japan Droid's second studio album.
The album consists of eight tracks and clocks in for
a total of thirty five minutes and ten seconds. The
(08:50):
first track in the background is titled The Nights of
Wine and Roses and clocks in at four minutes and
two seconds.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So the band was formed in two thousand and six
and Vanco British Columbia, Canada, after King and Prowse. The
two main guys, Brian King and David Prowse, met at
the University of Victoria. And the band's name is actually
kind of a portmanteau, you know, so like kind of
a juxtaposition of two different ideas. They originally had the
(09:18):
band names of Pleasure Droids and Japanese Scream and they
ended up just combining it into Japandroids.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, Pleasure Droids would have been weird name for it.
It would have been a weird name, very star wars y.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Sometimes they sometimes they spell van name without any vowels
in it, so it's, you know, one of those little
things they do to kind of.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh, that's probably mar themselves, jp N D r DS.
That's cool. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So they had self released two EPs, All Lies in
two thousand and seven and Lulla by Death Jams in
two thousand and eight. Five hundred copies of each of
those imagine trying to find a copy of one of those.
They were later re released, actually as a compilation titled
No Singles. Their if You album came out in two
thousand and nine. It's called Post Nothing, and they toured
(10:03):
five hundred shows in forty four countries in a four
year period.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Wow. I mean that is a heavy schedule.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I think that's kind of something that contributed over the
years to I remember one of them had had an
alcohol problem and had to go to rehab, and that's
the reason why the band actually ended up in twenty
twenty four releasing their final album, Fate and Alcohol, and
then breaking up immediately after they finished it with no
tour follow One of the guys had an alcohol issue.
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He'd gone to rehab, he cleaned up, he didn't want
to go back on the road and like dive back
into that life. And so I can't I can't blame him.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That's you've worked hard for your sobriety and you want
to maintain it like that's yeah, it makes sense to me. Yeah,
but this is a good song. I really liked this song.
I think it's a great way to open the album. Okay, cool,
all right. The second track. It's called Fire's high Way
clocks in at four minutes and forty four seconds.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, so this is a killer guitar tone. That's what
the band has.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
They have a thick sound, but this is very even.
The two piece, even when they record in the studio,
is just a two piece, right, So one like local Age.
One of the things about Japandroids is that whenever they
do record albums, they're very mindful of their.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Ability to play live.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
They don't want to do a bunch of stuff in
the studio that they can't replicate on stage, so they
do a great job like with this, that thick guitar tone,
it's kind of supposed to make up for the lack
of a bass At one point, I'm the band had
actually early on looked for a bass player, and then
she realized.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We just want to go as a two piece. I
think we're good.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
So I love the fact that they make sure that
the guitar tone is nice and thick and that the
drums are just always pounding because it helps make up
for that lack of that extra dynamic of a bass guitar.
And they're or like a keyboardist or something like that.
But man, like I love the bang style vocal harmony
in the chorus. This one just has great energy.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I mean, I can imagine these guys probably would have
been fantastic live probably, I mean, just real strong track.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But I bet it's just a really just listening to
the album, I think that it would be a high
energy show for sure, you.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Know, and very because like it and it's almost like.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
A maybe a punk version of Local h So that
the description that I saw was you're taking guys like
Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen and you're missed mixing it
with like classic rock and punk.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, that's that's what I saw, like as a comparison.
I can't remember where I was reading about them, but
the article mentioned Tom Petty Druce Springsteen juxtaposed with you know,
like your earlier punk bands.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, well Japan more of a you know, they're kind
of that pop punk.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Kind of type of band. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
But at the same time, it's funny you listen to
Post Nothing lyrically, there's virtually nothing there. Yeah, there's really not,
and then almost like complete one eighty on this album.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Lyrically there is a ton there, right, I mean, the
band hits all kinds of themes on this one.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
They talk a lot about life and death, heaven and hell,
youth and age, good and evil. Like every song it's
it's there deep, like it's where. They didn't have that
in the first album. They have it in spades on
this album. Yeah, and you know along the lines like
like when you listen to Tom Petty song or you
listening to a brief Springsteen song, same kind of thing.
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Like lyrically, there's always something there. So I mean, but man,
just a great song. Like you mentioned high energy show.
I mean, I heard that their live shows were always
something to behold. Let's say, really for a two piece
got out there and put on a head of the show.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Awesome. So let's move on.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Evil Sway is the third track off the album. Clocks
in at four minutes a twenty one twenty seven seconds,
not twenty one seconds. Let's not short the track. There's
six seconds there seconds and there there's six more seconds
that soon should listen to.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So I love the chord voicings like when you listen
to this, you can tell like he's really he's going
up to ninths and stuff like that does some great stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But it's a lot adds a lot of dynamics. I
think that's what I noticed by listening to it.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I was like, hey, this is overall not bad, right,
I'm like, hey, overall it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I mean you listen to the drums and the guitar
and the beat.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
They're locked in on this song, yeah, which is because
it's kind of a staccatoy song, like they've got to.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Be locked and you notice that kind of that separately
should be done, you know, it's just that helps drive
the song.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yep, let's catch you great rhythmic dynamics.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I mean again, just another banger, and this is the
album I want to put on, like really loud when
I'm driving down the highway on a summer day. You
want to go fast, you want to go fast, you
want to have the top down, you want to crank it.
This is that album.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Man. It was actual voted what was it?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It was in the ten Best Summer Albums of All
Time by Rolling Stone. So I can see that when
I listening to this album, like makes total sense.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, yeah, I spent a lot of time outside Saturday
fixing that stupid French dream, and so I was humping.
I went and picked up just a truck full of rock.
I was like, I'm gonna make this thing, so I'm
gonna dump so much rock on it and build up
a border. So I listened this album and I carried
probably fifty bags of like rock and fifty pound bags
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of sand and you know, all across the yard Saturday
morning and that to keep you moving. Yeah, and I
just and it was like just total and heavy stuff,
and I was like, hey, this is a pretty good
album to list dude.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It kept me going, which was which was good.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
A little bit more about the album. It was number
ninety one on the one hundred hundred Greatest Canadian Albums Ever.
That's the CBC Canadian Rockcasting Gum, what what number number
ninety one, one hundred Greatest Canadian Albums Ever.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Oh that's interesting. Yeah, because the they.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Were banned for the year in twenty twelve from Spin magazine,
Pitchfork Band of the Year, Band of the Year Spin
twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Pitchfork calls this one of the best albums of the decade.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Why didn't they give more exposure? I don't know, like
what happened.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
They were on Polyvinyl, which is a small label, so
I can't help but wonder if just not a great
marketing budget, never wear the headliner. Maybe they were always
the bride's maid, never the bride, could have been various things.
The chart performance on this one is on the US
Billboard two hundred. It was number thirty seven. It was
number seven on the Billboard Independent Albums, number nine on
the Alternative Albums, and number seventeen on the Rock Albums.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So it did well, charted well sales.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You know, we're in the digital age now by twenty twelve,
so didn't sell a time at least not in the US.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So it's just supposed to be their touring and mert cells. Well,
how they've been able to sustain, Yeah, I would imagine so. Well,
that's a tough line. I mean that touring life again,
like they were playing, if you do the math, at
least one hundred and twenty five shows a year. Yeah,
that means that every third night they were playing a show. Well,
and you've got travel, you got travel, usually have a
day of travel in between.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yes, So those guys, they were road warriors, and it
was mainly in Canada where they toured or.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
No, they toured all over. They were international. They had
forty four countries in that time. I mean, I think
it said more than forty four countries. So I mean
they were all over the world, all over the road,
constantly playing shows for years.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I mean it's a hard life.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It is a hard life, and I think that's ultimately
what kind of did them in. I think just that
tour exhaustion, alcoholism, the coping mechanisms over time.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, you know, they're just like we're done, We're done
with this for now. But great song man, let's move on, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The four track off the album is a cover of
the La punk band The gun Club For the Love
of Ivy clocks in at four minutes in thirteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, so I love the intro. You've got that heavy
strumming right there. Little rockabilly, a little rockabilly heavy, like
that slide down with the heavy strum behind it. It
reminds me of an old school punk song, which is
funny because it is an old school punk song. It's
something like, well, they're punk roots, yes, their punk roots
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come from like old punk, yes, right, I mean it's
all original punk where you had that late seventies, early eighties.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yes, you know punk.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That's what a lot of their sound when you can
tell that's a big influence on them.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
When you listen to the song, it's like nineteen seventy
eight meets Johnny Cash Western pend song. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I go give you a go. Look at the It's
almost cowboy.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It's got a little rockabilly punk, cowboy punk type of thing.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, what was that? What was that? I saw this
band that opened up for the Toadies and then we
kind of had that type of snaze. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I always love that stuff, man, cowpunk spart all right,
moving on to my favorite track on the album kick Off.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
The second half of the album is Adrenaline night Shift.
Adrenaline night Shift clocks in at four minutes and twenty
six seconds.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah, so again, favorite track on the album. It feels
like a biker love.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Song than me.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, but great guitar riff, the thickness of the guitar again,
it's just it's it's.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Very whole and thick.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Doesn't it basically takes away the fact there's not a
bass guitar in there. The whole song just demands my attention. Man,
I've listened to this one over one hundred times now.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Just doesn't get old.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, and I keep listening to his vocals, right, and
the mike he's using across the board, it sounds a
lot like a drive, like an old ribbon mic, which
is what kind of at the drive in you. So
this seemed to be like, hey, they were doing some
at the drive in stuff. That's what it kind of
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reminded me. His vocals are but much better. Yeah, I
would say, you know how at the driving we're like,
I don't get it. Yeah, it just seemed like a
bunch of noise. This seems a bunch of driving, but
it adds that different layer that you get from the
vocals with the probably ribbon.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Mic thing's using, which I thought was pretty cool. Great.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I mean, the great thing about a ribbon mic is
that you can overdrive it vocally. Yeah, you get that
distortion that sometimes you want, right.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Man, I love the lyric in this song because Death's
got no respect for love and you have no respect
for me.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Man. It was like, dude, that's great.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's one thing again about this album, as you go
through and you look at the lyrics on all the
different songs, and you can tell, man, like these guys
thought these through. Yeah, like they really thought them for
they're all the seriously, Yeah, they're all really good songs,
great songs, very poetic in nature. I mean, man, and
I love this song. This song is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, the album goes by quick like.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It's a good thirty five minute you know, thirty six
minute listen.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Right, Yeah, there's no reason to skip the song. It's welcome.
There's no reason to skip the songs. It's one big,
driving beat.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It's the perfect you're lifting late, you're working outside, your
cruise around in your car jeep, top open or windows
open on.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
A nice sunny day. Catch us. Is this what you
put on? It's a good one. Yeah. And the tempo
stays high.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
For almost the entire and that's why I and sometimes
you want that. Yeah, sometimes you need an album that's
just solid. It drives you know, it's good. Beat keeps
you up, up and going, you know, especially if music
is a large part.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Of your life. Right, So, you know it's funny.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
So we're about, uh, this is the halfway point this song, right,
Well we're kicking off to now, kicking off the second
album with the pretty big one banger.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, and you know we haven't even touched that. They
had a couple of singles. Yes, so it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
They were inspired heavily on this album by Guns n
Roses Appetite for Destruction. Yeah, and so they actually they
formatted the album to make the first which is funny
because when I listened to it, I'm like, I can't
even make it.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I couldn't. I was like, that's where I'm like, wait
a minute.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
They were trying to have them so gn R Appetite
for Destruction have the G side, which was like songs
about uh, like like partying and all that, the R side,
which was more about like the heavier things in life. Yeah,
these guys tried to do kind of the same thing,
like four songs one side, four songs on the other.
I don't know that they succeeded in like creating distinction
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between the two sides, maybe lyrically, but it puts us
on side too.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
But the songs, the overall beat, the sound, it's hard
to disting from me. I couldn't distinguish really one song from.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
The next exactly right, Yeah, I get you there. And
of course you can only do so much when you
have two instruments, right, So they do mix it up
with the riffs and the dynamics of the songs and
things like that. But yeah, I was interesting that they
took inspiration from Appetite for Destruction on this album. Yep,
all right, onto the next one, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Younger Us is the second seven inch single from the
band to Pandrois that was released as a single on
July twentieth, twenty ten. Younger Us clocks in at three
minutes and thirty three seconds. The B side to the
single is a cover of the Sex and nine in
High Society that was originally written and performed by another
American punk rock band X that was featured on the
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earlier segment that Adam couldn't even get even though the name.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Of the song was in the chorus. Nope, I didn't.
Let's move on.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I need, I need, I need to have a wow.
I apparently you should need that anyway, this younger ass.
What do you think about Younger Us again? They're not
letting up on the energy.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, there's a motion in every track. Yeah, that's one
thing that really sticks out to me. This one is
another banger throws you kind of back to your early twenties,
living that independent single life. I went back and looked
through the lyrics and I mean it's that's totally the
vibe of the song. It's great man Well and finding
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anything to dislike on this album.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
What's cool is what they're at.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I like it when they reference Hey, a band that
releases a couple of good singles, it's got a B side.
They released that as something that fans can go get right,
and then they kind of pull it into an album that's
kind of old school, which which I kind of did.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
It was always a fan of that Mane, Like, yeah,
released a single or two or maybe more, it's like,
give me a ta able to go buy it, and
then I'll buy the album.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I want to have all the things, especially when I
really like the album and if.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You like collecting it into it exactly the sides and
all that stuff too well. And I had a conversation
with some people just associates right and talking about vinyl,
and they're like, yeah, I don't get people collect well.
I go, it's it's not that like you go buy
thirteen Taylor Swift albums. No, I mean it's like you
go you invest in the about the artists you talk about,
(24:32):
you know who produce. There's a lot of labor and
that's the point. I mean, it was like there's a
lot of labor that went into you know, it's yes,
vinyl is a cool thing, but and that's trendy.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's hard to even get vinyl pressed for an album, right,
you have to wait months and months and months.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I've waited a year for an album. Well, and what
what people?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
If you like certain bands and you like the things
that they do, I think, and you're listening to it
as they're tested, Yeah, you're invested and I go, but yeah,
I go. When I buy stuff. I don't just buy
anything that new that comes out. I mean there's albums
that I want to get, Yeah, because I want to
listen to the Mombne.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
All right, man, we're moving on, I know, moving on
off that ramp rant.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I know it's this easy for you to say, cold
great song. Okay. So this is the first single off
the album.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
First single off the album. It was their fourth seven
inch single that they released and this is the House
that Haven't Built Clocks in in four minutes forty nine
seconds released as a single off the album May fifteenth,
twenty twelve, and in February twenty seventh, twenty thirteen, the
song was announced as the winner of a contest to
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determine the entrance music for the NHL team that Vancouver conducts.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So this one hit number twelve on Canada's Alternative Rock charts.
But that must be why it's the opening interest music
for I mean obviously did well, so second favorite song
on the album for me. I like simple repetitive rift,
but that driving beat just makes this song and I
love the anthemic, passionate vocals.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Man. Yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Amazing what a simple four on the floor drum beat
can do to get the blood pumping. This is the
one track I think would have really benefited if I'm
a bass guitar if I'm being honest.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But even without it, the song just flat rocks.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah, I mean it's great the line but You're not
mine to die for anymore, so I must live. I
mean again, it's just like Man's They have these little
just these little phrases in their songs.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
That it's just like, oh, man, that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Lyrically, yeah, it's good, great song man, I'm a big
fan of this one. I actually it's funny when I
do so when I teach my jiu jitsu classes, I
have a playlist that is japan Roid's based that I
played most days, and it always seems like it either
starts with this song or Adrenaline night Shift every time
that I hit play on it for the shuffle.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
But great song man.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
All right, onto the last track, Onto the last track
of the album. We have a continuous thunder. It's a
clock set of four minutes and fifty nine seconds.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
So the guitar is just so big on this song.
It's the slowest song on the album easily, not necessarily
a slow song. I do enjoy the change of pace here,
especially the last couple.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Of minutes of the song, when it really hits its groove.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Well, that intro, like it starts and stops that it
comes in, I keep thinking, like, what's going on? Why
am I not buffering this? Is I downloaded this track? Yeah,
and so there was some interesting with you.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
A little yeah, yeah, they kind of.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I like the change of pace here because you've just
had seven songs that are at that like high bpm,
always moving, and then you get this change of pace.
It's just just a really simple song, but it really
drives the album nicely to its conclusion. I love how
the drums build at the end as well as the
song comes to its close and then everything fades out
into the fireworks that we heard at the very beginning
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of the album. Yeah, so it kind of closes the
loop on the album, which I think was great man.
So I'm curious, what do you think about the album
as a whole.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I think great sound from the duo that surprised me.
And this is really the first time you mentioned Japandroids
and said a bunch of stuff. And I've kind of
listened to a track here and there, but I haven't
really done a full listen through. So for me, it
was good to be introduced to them. I think it's
a solid, really good punk album. I can understand why
I got the acclaimed baccolades that it did. I don't
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know if I would own it or not. I think
if I came across it at a record store, I
would probably buy it to give it to you, right,
But if there are two copies, i'd probably buy both copies,
so I would have one, just because it's hard to find.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
There's a limited pressing, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Right, That's probably the only reason I would buy it, right.
I don't think it's something that right now I would pursue,
but I like the album. I'm interested in listening to
more of Japan Droids, which is good. But at this
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point I'm like, Okay, it's a good eight, solid eight
out of ten. For me, It just I wasn't drawn
to it. I got you, but you know, I've kind
of hit or miss sometimes, but overall, I was like, hey,
this is a really good album.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Could ban tilet, right? I mean, if you're a fan
of punk, especially early punk and seeing how that evolves,
great great way to get into it. I think hard
working band you could do.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I mean just touring schedule and what those guys kind
of sad that they're not producing stuff. But also I
feel like, why was it this introduced and pushed early
on when the album was released, because that was the case.
If they actually had a good push, it's been good marketing,
you know, maybe their fan base would be larger.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I mean, obviously you have duos like the White Stripes
that went on to do great things the Black but
they had marketing. But they had marketing behind them, right,
And I think that's the issue was they just didn't
get the marketing that they needed to thrive.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Well, you have like a duo like Local Age, they
had that grunge type of rocketing and then they had
you know, all that interconnection within a lot of other groups. Right,
So they've always been everyone's favorite opening act for bigger, bigger,
bigger bands, and they've always been you know, when they're headlining,
they bring some sub artists in which, you know, some
lower level artists, but it's always really good.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeah. I just.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
You know, I could see why they stopped if they
had to grind and grind and grind for that loans,
especially based on the calog over.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
A decade, over a decade, all over a decade. I
mean that's a lot like fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I'm more like, man, Yeah, I wish I would have
been introduced to these guys, you know, over ten twelve.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Years ago, got ten years ago. So I gave this one.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I was that's really tempted to give it a ten,
just because I think it's that strong of an album.
When I look at it for what it is, right,
I have to ignore the fact that there's no base
in there, which yeah, I think would have added a
great dynamic, would have filled out the sound a bit.
But hey, it's their choice, and so I look at
it for what it is. I'm tempted to give it
a ten. I'm gonna give it a nine and a half.
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And the only reason and it sounds petty and silly,
but at the same time.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
It does matter to me. Is that anytime that you
have like.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
An eight song album and you feel like you have
to include a cover in that eight song album, Yeah,
it's like, even if it's a good cover, it's kind
of like, but this is your album. If you have
ten songs, then I get it. Yeah, but if you don't,
if you're doing eight songs, I want eight originals.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, no offense.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And if it's gonna be a cover, it better be
a really freaking good cover if you're gonna sell that
to me as part of a shortened album. So one
and a half, nine and a half, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean, again, for what it is. I'm looking at
it for what it is, not what it's not, but
what it is and a half.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Nine and a half. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna go back
and listen to it again.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's definitely gonna be kind
of in rotation. But you know, I don't know we'll see.
I'm interested in listening to more. It's a good solid
but I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Wanting to go now listen more to the third album,
near to the wild Heart of Life.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, and go check that out next.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So all right, man, Well, just like that, we were
at the close of another episode of the Bitches in Vinyl.
If you like the music featured on this episode, please
check out today's episode. You can get all the links
to the bands that are featured. For more information on
the band Japandroids, you can check out their website www.
Dot japandroids dot com. It's still active and they're still
selling albums. Give them a listen, give them some revenue,
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buys some t shirts.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Go check them out. Go check them out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to check us
out our website at www Dot Avcher's vinyl dot com,
where you can find link star episodes. If there are
our sports section, you can find a place to order
your very own Adventures in Vinyl T shirt. Follow us
on Instagram at Adventures dot in dot Vinyl and be
sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.
Follow Adam on Instagram at at eat dot Prey dot
orm bar and my dumb butt at Todd David Ward.
(33:17):
And with that, I'm Todd Ward and I'm Adam Baron,
and we will see you next time for another exciting
episode of adventures in Vinyl.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Anyt's on next album, No Cool. I have no clue
what we're doing next. Neither do I. We're gonna figure
it out, though, all right, all right, until next time,
stay tuned,
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