February 22, 2025 • 37 mins
On this episode of Adventures in Vinyl Adam and I continue looking at the DFW music scene of the 90s by discussing the 2nd studio album from this band that suddenly disbanded in 1999 and just reformed in 2024. That band is Tripping Daisy and the album is I Am an Elastic Firecracker.
Song of The Week!
Happiness - Hagfish - Rocks Your Lame Ass
White Bikes - Thursday - White Bikes (Single)
Stump The Barron!
Another Way To Die - Disturbed - Asylum
Tripping Daisy: I Am An Elastic Firecracker
Genre: Grunge/Alternative
Release Date: June 20,1995
Studio(s): Water Music Recording Studios (Hoboken, NJ)
Producer(s): Ted Niceley, Tripping Daisy
Label: Island
Length: 54:29
Number of Tracks: 12
For more information on the band Tripping Daisy you can check out their website at https://www.trippingdaisy.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!
Happiness - Hagfish - Rocks Your Lame Ass
White Bikes - Thursday - White Bikes (Single)
Stump The Barron!
Another Way To Die - Disturbed - Asylum
Tripping Daisy: I Am An Elastic Firecracker
Genre: Grunge/Alternative
Release Date: June 20,1995
Studio(s): Water Music Recording Studios (Hoboken, NJ)
Producer(s): Ted Niceley, Tripping Daisy
Label: Island
Length: 54:29
Number of Tracks: 12
For more information on the band Tripping Daisy you can check out their website at https://www.trippingdaisy.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 and Vital Adam and I
continue looking at the DFW music scene in the nineties
by discussing the second studio album from this band that
suddenly disbanded in nineteen ninety nine and just reformed in
twenty twenty four. That band is Tripping Daisy, and the
album is I Am an Elastic Firecracker. Have you always
(00:43):
had that painting up there?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh, shame of me for not noticing that. I actually
had it in the office in my last house, and
I don't remember how I got it, but somebody gave
it to me.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I can't remember who, but I thought it was unique.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, that's the reason why I went in and put
it up in here, is because something different to go
along with my pearl jam from ninety two posters.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I like that. Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh man, what a So the last time we put
an episode out was in January.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, it doesn't help when you get sick and then
the weather sucks, and then there's tons of business travel,
and then I get sick, and then there's.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
More weather, and then I get sick again, and you
get sick.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Again, and so you know, that kind of puts the
kibosh on getting together.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
In the studio and putting something.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
My whole entire world is like completely upside down right now,
and I'm just trying to get back on track. Yeah,
it's like workout routines just in shambles, trying to get
back on the program, nutrition program.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Everything is uh.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And then like we started, you know, the whole method
well on the stuff is starting yep. And so like
I I record our first nutritional recipe for YouTube.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh dude, I suck. Video is a different I suck.
So there's the reason why we don't have video cameras anything.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Why I know.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And it's like and I'm trying to get the angles
all right, and it's gonna be such a such a
funny experience as I get this part or this is
uncomfortable adventure.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
In my life going. I understand that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, so hey man, just to kind of get with
it so we get back in the speed of things.
You know, we've been focused on the DFW music scene.
We started with kind of the Toadies, and you know,
we're doing Tripping Daisy. So for this week, I was like,
hey man, I'm gonna pick another my song of the
week is going to be from.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
A band out of that area.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So this is the second single off the second album
from the Sherman.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Texas band Hagfish.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
This is Happiness off of Hagfish's album Rocks Your Lame
Ass is the name of the album.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay, it's an interesting Yeah, it's a punk band. Yeah.
I don't know that I've ever heard of them before. Yeah,
I was interesting when it was. So when is this
from again? Oh? What year? Great question? Nineteen ninety five,
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ninety five? All right, yeah, yeah, okay, so thirty years ago,
thirty years ago? Interesting? Yeah, Sherman, Texas. That's not bad.
I kind of like it, man, Yeah, I dig it.
I was like, hey, that's pretty good. Hagfish backfish. Okay,
all right, so what do you got for your song?
Very cool? Man.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So this is actually the newest single from a throwback
to kind of the punk emo scene of the early
two thousands of the band Thursday, who were kind of
innovators in that whole scene. Yep, this is their new single,
white Bikes, at least on December sixth of this last year. Yeah,
I just came across this. Well.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So the Apple Apple punk rock section.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I love the building songs, how it starts soft and
gets bigger throughout the song.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's different. I love war all the time. Yeah, Thursday,
that's a great plum.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They did a great cover.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Too of Dancing in the Dark ye on the two
minutes of Late Night Channel on YouTube's But man, I
loved Tim paying the basis for the band. I've always
loved the way that he stands out in the mix.
But yeah, man, these I mean Thursday is great. I
love this song.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's a really just excellent song all the way through. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Have you been the keeping up with the SNL fiftieth
anniversary stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I've seen a few clips, but I haven't like dove
into it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, so this just kind of about this uh sege
siege or.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Uh you know.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So they had this last Friday. They did the stream
of their fiftieth SNL concert and it had like everyone
sure and everyone was doing like covers, like Eddie Vedder
did like a Tom Petty cover, and then he did
that hole where Roy Orbison was doing it was like
a protest.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He's like no, and he changed it and then he
played Corduroy and it was cool. The Elvis Costello thing yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So he then make the Beast Boys yeah attribute to that,
which is really really cool. And then Nirvana played, but
they played with post Malone with Post Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
See, I've heard a lot of good things about that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That was like and here's what's interesting, Like I've watched Chris,
Dave and and Pat play when they started kind of
playing with guest people, I saw the same weird violent
energy from Post from Post like just with that crew.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Compared to any other performer they performed aga. I could
see that was it was really interesting, and I.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I could see a tour happening with post Malone with Nirvana. Dude,
I I would watch that.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I would go, well, I would go Here's what's cool
is during the COVID thing, Post Belone, Travis Barker and
a couple other guys did a full Nirvana cover thing
and streamed it. That vinyl there's a limiting press of
about twenty thousand copies that's being released on Record Store
Day on April twelve. Oh, and it's my mission in
life that that day I will be going to multiple
(06:21):
record stores birthday month, and I will be going after
that album. We may I may just put it like
record the whole adventure is like, I'm going after the
freaking album because it's a live album, it's limited and
if you're looking and that's where I'm gonna start looking at,
really that record store day release, and maybe we can
do a show about some.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Of the albums and things that are coming out.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Because you know what, some people would be like, Hey,
these are guys that like vinyl, and so we're gonna
be a lot of listeners just from word of mouth
that like have vinyl collections and just kind of dig it.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So I think that maybe something we could do with
the tens and tens of listeners that we have.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So you know, all right, man, so we know it's next.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
We know what's next. Oh yeah, I almost forgot about
all that we've been like catching up and doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We got to get back into the group, I know,
I know, and not what other way to what. Let's
see easy for you to say, I know, I'm to bonam.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You should have seen me trying to do the freaking
YouTube recipe video that was a disaster. Hey, well guess what,
it's another episode of the Dress of Final and that
means it's another round of stumped the baron. I've stumped
the baron. I pick a random song from a random genre.
Give Adam a few clues, and, with his sufficiently mediocre
(07:38):
knowledge of music, attempts to guess the artist, album and
song title.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We used to keep score, but we've forgotten.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Don't really give a shit. There you go, so Adam.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
This week we go to June fifteenth of the year
twenty ten. This is the first single of this heavy
metal bands fifth studio album, Heavy metal Band.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Mm hm oh.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
If you gotta get start singing, you gotta get him
before he starts singing.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I don't know that I can dat.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know this song.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I mean Corey Taylor. Is that Corey Taylor thinks? So
this is not Disturbed Taylor Disturbed? Okay, but this is
Another Way to Die by the band Disturbed.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's off their album Asylum.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Another Way to Die reached a peak position of number
one on the US Billboard Hot Rock and Alternative Songs Chart.
It was Disturbed's first single to reach the top spot
on the chart.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, Gotcham. I was never a huge Disturbed fan.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No, I picked it because it was you know what
I'm trying to like go through?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You need stump me with this one.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, I was trying to look at stuff that had clues, right,
and because like the stuff that's made stream that we
both would know, right, it's like, oh yeah, those are easy.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He's going to know that one. We'll turn.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
But that was I've been trying to go back to
the billboard charts and see kind of what was like.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I would have known that it was disturbed when we
got to this party, but I wouldn't have been able to.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Tell you the song or the album.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, anyway, so that's a disturbed disturb the other way
to die.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I got you. Once again, I have to pick something.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Else, my sufficiently average, sufficiently mediocre, sufficiently mediocre knowledge of me.
If you keep doing worse, I'm gonna have to find
other ways of describing.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's fair. You're not so great.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Music knowledge that specializes in my highly special genre.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Highly specialized yet not even sufficiently mediocre knowledge of music anyway,
just a way to introduce people to music. So, okay,
all right, we are getting into it, are we ready?
Oh man? Yes, all right, I'm excited about this one. Good.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, So tripping Daisy, tripping Daisy, I'm an elastic firecracker.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So I am an Elastic Firecrackers the second studio album
by DFW Ben Tripping Dais. The album was released on
June twentieth of the year nineteen ninety five off the
Island Records label. The album consists of twelve tracks that
total up for a link of fifty four minutes and
twenty nine seconds. The first track off the album in
the background is called rocket Pop, which clocks in at
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four minutes in five seconds.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Coming out of the gate hot with this one at
them and I dig it. Yes, it sounds huge.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean, I love the four and the four pounding
of the drums in the first real simple lead and rhythm.
The bass just adds little layers here and there. Tim
d Laughter's high pitch voice just soaring over everything.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Dude, It's a real dynamic opener. Yep.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I love the fast, powerful sections juxtaposed with the slower,
kind of like calmer ones. In a way you can
tell a band is definitely trying to incorporate an element
of their tripping Yeah namesake right with the watery guitar
and vocals during the lighter sections. It's just a great
introduction to the Tripping Daisy sound.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Man. I'm a big fan of this song. Yeah, I
like it. I like it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I'm not a big tripping Daisy fan, but I found
listening to the album.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
When I just put it on, I was like, wow, Yeah,
I was like, that's right in your face all it
comes right out of the gates man. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
All right on too, not that track, not that one,
not that there, we'll get there. Fat thumb this fat thumbs,
well it's something with the Yeah, that's actually fat thumbs.
So clocking in at four minutes and three seconds, it
is the second track off the album called Bang.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
The album art is something.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I thought was always interesting, and it's actually a photo
of Italian artist pronounced forgive me for my really poor.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Way of pronouncing his first name, but it's.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Google Google Italian dude, Achille Cavalini or So Cavalini, mister Cavalis.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I was too lazy to even put that in my notes.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Uh so cavalinik So the photo originated is a piece
of stamp art by E. F. Higgins. So it's basically
Cavalini covered in like pick the leather or something getting red.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, anyway, that's why the cover album's so messed up.
Does this one reminds you a little bit of led
Zeppelin light like Dancing Days.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I would say it's got a Dancing Day's bill, but
it's not led.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Zeppelin's but like, yeah, but it's got that vibe right.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
When you Dancing Days has kind of like this hidden
groove to it, right, like a jazzy like Dancing Days.
You kind of have those jazzy undertones that you see
with led Zeppelin. And I think this is more very
just like quirky. Quirky, I would say, new wave is okay, right,
there's a new wave component to it where you get
(12:46):
that feet you know when you're looking at talking heads. Sure, right,
so talking heads, that's what that kind of underline I
think tone is.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
But how they treat that and aggressive get aggressive with that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I think it is interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Like I I enjoyed listening to the album.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Am I gonna like.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Bid it on vinyls?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Probably not? But it was good. Yeah, I mean what
this was like, I was like, Okay, that's not bad.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, this one's interesting, Like it starts out with kind
of an odd time signature and then it hits into
the four standard full four. Yeah you get here, but
it's a good song man, Like I like the song.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, I mean, I I'm amazed all the good bands
out of the DFW area during the night, Like they
had a whole sub genre.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Are they coming from? Alternative and grunge? Just through the band,
It was kind of a variety of influences right right.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And then then you had a lot of bands popping
up in the nineties in the early kind of two
thousands out of that area.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And one and then this band eventually became Polyphonic Spree. Yeah,
you know, after wes Bergran died, which let's speak into that.
Let's get into their history a little bit. Yeah, so
they're obviously from the DFW area. They were formed in
nineteen ninety by Tim de Laughter, wes Bergran, Mark Piro
and Jeff Book performed a lot locally. They released their
first single, Lost and Found. Became known for like really
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cool creative visual and light shows during their shows. So
they released their debut album Bill in the nineteen ninety two,
did a live album in ninety four that was called
Get It On, and then after they signed with Island,
they released I'm an Elastic Firecracker and I Got a
Girl was huge, very popular on MTV.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
We'll get into that later.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But wes Bergen was actually found dead of an overdose
in nineteen ninety nine. The band disbanded and the original lineup,
basically minus Bergran.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Went on to do Polyphonic Spree Heroin. What's that odd on? Heroin?
I can't remember what he odd on? Wouldn't surprise me,
but yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
So they were reunited in twenty seventeen to play several shows,
and then officially reunited in twenty twenty four to record
Me with My Material So Man. They were on the
ten Underappreciated and Overlooked nineties albums. This particular album was
That's Vinyl Me Please, and the twelve most underrated albums
of the nineties, according to Kerrang. The album reached numb
(15:00):
ninety five on the US Billboards two hundred and was
certified platinum in Canada. Interestingly enough, the Canadians really loved it.
I guess the Canadians love their tripping daisy man.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, you know, it's kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You know, they've got they kind of Canada likes theyd
have thirty music scene. They do, yeah, and this kind
of sound too, like it's interesting, it kind of They
came out around the same time as the Tragically Hip
in which, of course huge Canadian band. Yeah, and part
of me wondered, like, did people confuse Tripping Daisy with
Tragically may names Maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Anyways, man on to the next one. This was huge. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So the first single off the album, which clocks in
four minutes and five seconds, is the third track called
I Got a Girl. I Got a Girl was a
commercial success. It reached number six on the Billboard Modern
Rocks Tracks chart, while the good track, this one just
got saturated on the radio.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It was everywhere.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Man, It's like every other stage, she'd be like, hey,
I got a girl.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, I got a girl. She speaks her mind. I
got a girl, she argues it on. I got a
girl who wears dirty socks. I got a girl whose
feet smell like stinky cheese, Like, yeah, you know you can,
you can. Pretty much That's what I did every time
the song came on the radio is I would just
make up idiobscure, stupid lyrics. Sure about a girl. I
got a girl who's got THEO. I got a girl
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who who hates to dance to disco. I think it's
perfect to make full notes.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I mean, when you think though about nineteen ninety five
and some of the music that was coming out back then.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's appropriate. It's the post grunge era.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
It was like there was a lot of quirky, odd
stuff that was really taking off, like Beck and you know,
like even like Fountains of Wayne and fans like that
that were just taking off during that time.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well, and there were a bunch of weird girls in
the mid nineties. H let's just be honest.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, I mean, this one's really quirky and nerdy in
the verses, but like super anthemic and the choruses. I
mean it goes back and forth between those incredibly Well,
I mean the song just seeps into your brain with
the whole I Got a Girl thing, yeah, over and
over again.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Right. Well, it's like a tapeworm.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Kind of just roots its way in there comparing the
song and lays eggs.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Okay, and then you're stuck with it and.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Then you completely make up lyrics to it every time
it comes on the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, So that's my experience.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Why could or not this is a true nineties classic?
Oh yeah, I mean maybe not the best known, but
undeniably one of those songs that I think of when
I think of the nineties. Yeah, I Got a Girl
was right there, because, like you said, it was saturated,
it was everywhere. Yeah, lyrics were really relatable, right, yes,
because I remember, like I dated a girl and I
was like, I didn't know until one day she I
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realized she was a hippie and she had really hairy armpits.
I was like, and that was my first that was
my first encounter with Harry Pitt, And I was like,
I got a girl and she's got really hairy armpits.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
But man, it just I mean, it's a good song.
I love a lot of little.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Things that Wakeland does on the drums, little variations and
during the verses to keep things fresh. I mean the
same with Pierro's based work. I mean, I it's not
my favorite tripping daisy song, but it's a good song.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You know again just the nineties though, Man, it was
more about like what was on the radio, So you
were at the winds of the radio station.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yes it was, and it's whatever. It was great. It
was whatever an r were pumping. And it was still
the days where you know, they were giving moneyes to
DJs to play stuff instead of now it's the same
people who own all the radio stations, so it's whatever
they're pushing for the month.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, anyways, man onto one of my personal.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Favorites, you know, which is I think it's a It's
an advisory song about being aware of where you are swimming.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Because you always have to look.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Out for prom So yeah, nicely done there, Uh, one
of again, one of my personal favorites on the album.
I love the progression that's opening riff into this main
intro right here, when the lead guitar hits a left channel,
like the real active bass and the tom heavy drums.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Dude, this is just magic. Yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's you know it kind of you know that tom
feeling that you you get on Iburn.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, yes it is.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It's got that same kind of eybe man and Pio
is everywhere on the bass in this song. Do you
think they stole it from the Toadies that?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I don't think so, I think they did it.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I mean this, I mean this was released as the
second single. Ye I don't feel like it got anywhere
near the love that it should have. It obviously wasn't
as big of a hit as I Got a Girl
because that was such a unique song. Yeah, whereas maybe
this is more of like a straight ahead alternative song.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, this is the one I could see, like you're
seeing a cover band they're gonna play this. Yeah, like
if I was in a cover band and I was
gonna pick, Hey, what tripping daisy song do I want
to cover?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
What's a non obvious tripping daisy song that I want
to cover?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
This? This is it right here?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, And it's probably one of my, if not my
most favorite tripping daisy song, right yeah, this is marked
as a favorite. It's on my playlist. I like the
way it's arranged, sounds really good, it's driven. It's just
a really good track.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yes, yes, absolutely, man.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, but that was a clocks in at four minutes
and forty seven seconds. It tends to be one of
the longer tracks on the all Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I think they actually cut it down a little bit
for the radio too. But man, just again, this is
one of those quintessential tripping daisy songs. To me, I'll
always listen to it.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Fifth track that clocks in five minutes and thirty five seconds.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
It is called Motivation.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Great bassline to kick this one off, and I like
the high game guitar sound that comes in. I think
it just sounds truly awesome. Yeah, this one is interesting.
It's got like an odd time nature.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, it's like one two three one two three four
that's the time signature.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Obviously, I'm not a music theory guy, but like, when
I listen to it and I hear that beat, I
count out the beat a lot of the time as
a bass player, and then maybe in like eight notes
and they have that one that's at rest, what's like
it out You get a three count and then a
four count and then a three count and then a
four count, so.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
That unless they're skipping, the first beat of the measure
could be.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, this is one that I didn't listen to a
lot when I had the CD, which I think I
still have the CD.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Buried somewhere and a box up in the attic at here.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I used to admittedly skip over this one to get
to a couple of the later standout tracks, but I
don't think this one is about as charms. The verse
rift kind of gets a little redundant after a while,
but it's an interesting song. Yeah, I like it. It's
not my favorite, but I like it. Yeah, that's not bad.
I got it marked. It's just kind of okay, but
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it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. I think it's the odd time
signature that makes it interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, And like it gets into just a standard beat
here during the chorus, but then that verse has that
odd time signature. That's one thing these guys do is
they're not afraid to shift time signature is through up
the course the song, which I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You know, that's challenging to do, and.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
It creates variety, It creates quirkiness in your songs. And
I don't think the Tripping Days he was trying to
be normal by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So yeah, but the odd time figurat your works, I think, yeah, absolutely, yeah,
all right, man, on the next one, Onto the next one.
It's the six track off the album. The clock's in
at three minutes and thirty two seconds. It's called Same Dress,
New Day. Yeah, so there's some interesting lead work to
start the song. I think he I think he's using
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the volume knob to kind of swell in the notes.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I don't know. Yeah, you hear that right there?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah on the high game.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, well yeah, and you can roll it off with
the tone knob. Yeah, but I think he's rolling it.
He's doing the swell with the tone mob. You make it,
do it with a volume. I'm trying to think how
I do it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Maybe it's usually when I was playing electric a lot,
I did it mostly with the volume. Yeah, the tone knob.
I mean, you can do it as well, but it
just more changes. The sharkness brings it from like warm
to shark them back again. It's not my favorite track
on the album, although I don't I don't know that
i'd necessarily feel the need to skip it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's got enough that's interesting about it to keep my attention.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, I mean, it's just the whole album is different,
you know.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's kind of on that yeah, different side of the
alternative spectrum where you're gonna have their fan base is
gonna be more core. There's gonna be the mainstream songs.
People are gonna understand and appreciate it. But I think
the hardcore fans fans are gonna have, they're gonna be
like a a sub demographic with them, alternative sure group,
(23:38):
I think.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, right, yeah, as with any band in all honesty. Yeah,
all right, So on to one of my personal favorites on.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
The album, which is the third and final single off
the album, clocking in at three minutes and thirty four seconds,
The seventh track, which is called Trip long slower song.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, I mean, this is a fantastic.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Song though, and you open up the second half. This
is the second half of the album, right, it's up
with a I would say, a less aggressive track. Yeah, right,
yea to start for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, the lyrics go perfectly with this intro riff during
this first verse. I mean, as do the chorus lyrics
with the chorus progression. Man, I love this song when
it hits out of the second portion of the verse,
It's just huge sound, super catchy chorus that you can't
help it sing long too. And the song ends the
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way it begins, kind of giving in that full circle field. Man,
this might be my favorite song on the album. It
used to be Piranha, But the more I've listened to
this song, and I think as my tastes have kind
of evolved over the years, this has probably become my
favorite song on the d.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I think you like the melody I.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Do, and I love the hugeness of the chorus. Yeah,
I mean, when it gets into this chorus right here,
it's just big man. Yeah, okay, you like a build up, Yeah,
this is that little pre chorus build into this chorus.
It's just huge. They're just all out and it's like
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a psychedelic trip in a way.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Those vocal harmonies just like a third above. It's great.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah that's pretty good. Yeah, man, I love this song.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
This is one of those where if you haven't heard
Tripping Daisy, and you're gonna pick two or three songs
off the album, Piranha and trip Along and the next
one I would even say the next ones you should try.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
The next one is the one that I really I
thought it was awesome. Right, So this is rain Drop.
It clocks in at two minutes and fifty seconds. Yeah,
I'm really this could have been the fourth single off
the album.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I mean the screeching, dissonant nature of the intro, ye
tim de, Laughter's high pitched sore.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It just freaking works man, Yeah, it works and really good.
It's one of the short tracks on the album, so
it doesn't stick around any longer than necessary. Well, then
you don't need it to.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
No, No, it's got some great dynamics to it and
like the little in between spots, yeah, verse and chorus.
I mean, it's just a short but fun track, kind
of your classic deep cut from the album. Because it
wasn't the single, I think it kind of fits that
deep cut.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, I would say this is the deep cut yeah album.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I mean to me, Yeah, if you're gonna listen to
three songs, you gotta pick Karanha, you gotta pick Trip Along,
and you gotta pick rain Drop.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah. Man, just a fantastic song.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
All right, Moving on, Moving on, moving on, We are
at the ninth track that's called step Behind. It clocks
in at three minutes and fifty nine seconds. Catch a
little intro and I think the as it transitions again
to like a heavier type of course. I thought the
track was pretty interesting, but I kind of gave it
(26:53):
an all.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Eh. It's unique, yeah, but not in a way that
holds my attention.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I've just never been into this one. Man. It's not awful.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
It has its moments, but I'm probably gonna call skip
on this track.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I would agree, Yeah, it's a skipper. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Moving on to track number ten is a Noose, which
is four minutes and forty nine seconds. It's another skip,
a skippable track for.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, I like how big the chorus is, but again,
it's just another one that doesn't grab me, doesn't hold
my attention. Yeah, and I find myself wanting to hit
the skip button.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Which we just did back to me, skipped.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Back a little ways. Todd with the phone skills. I
know that's my fat thumbs. My hands are cold. It's
time to work out, bro, I know, all right, he
needs Todd wants to reach across the desk and slap me.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
No, I totally messed up.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So hey, this really long track clocks in at nine
minutes in nineteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Is the that's the name of the song.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Is what I would call Adam.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Right now, after those comments of my fat thumbs, I
got some other fat fingers and they're right there in
the middle at him.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, okay, I gotta look between the first and the third.
I guess.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Actually, I really like the way this track comes in.
I think it kind of makes up for the last
two that were kind of man. But it's the two
guitars that sound pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
It's a nine minute song. Yeah, it's interesting though. Yeah,
it's just a nine minute song. I don't know that
i'd skip it. There's enough going on that I can
kind of appreciate the various pieces of the whole. Yeah,
I do like how big it gets. Like at about
that six minute thirty second mark, the guitarist Rip and
Tim d Laughter just opens up with those soaring vocals
(28:36):
that he has. I would say that I really like
one third of this song. Perhaps I don't just love
the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, I could see I could see that being.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, and I would say it's a legitimate comment about
this track. Yeah, on a nine minute song, any nine
minute song, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Have sections, right, Yeah, I mean yep.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And if it's unless it's just ridiculously redundant and way
overblown from the time perspective, you're probably going to have
sections of the song. This one has some sections that
I really like, but I would say, like two thirds
of it is sections that I don't. Yeah, So there
you go. Yeah, I agree, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
So onto the last one, on to the last track
of the album, We are talking High, which comes in
at three minutes and fifty one seconds.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So what do you think on this one?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, it's kinda eh yeah, yeah, I mean, you know,
the there's three songs on the album that I like
three songs that you really like, three songs that I like.
You like Period, I like Period, okay, and out of
those songs, you know two of them. I really like.
This is an interesting track. It's got a simple, repetitive progression. Yeah,
(29:53):
there's some really weird lyrics like quote, step on God,
he can take it, man, He's the only one for
me when I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah, it's easy, kind of an easy listening track in
a way, but I would not say that it is
a standout.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I like it as an exit for the album. Though.
It's kind of a nice change of pace. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, the album kind of lost me on the second half,
like right after rain Drop. I just to me, it
was just it was really hard to listen multiple times, agreed, right, Yeah,
and to get a really good lost it steam after
rain Drop, well, and I started to see it kind
of slow down in the first half of the album,
where you know, the tracks that are popular I recognize.
(30:37):
I really liked it as a kind of gun in
the Wrist album. I was like, Hey, this this is
a one for me. It ends with a bang and
ends I'm sorry. It starts with a bang, ends with
a whimper.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, that's kind of my feeling on this particular album
is starts with a bang, ends with a whimper. Final thoughts,
I'd say, like I said, the first two thirds of this.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Album, I'm a big fan of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But you know, if I had to give this one
a rating, I'm gonna say it's gonna be a six
and a half out of ten.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, I kind of gave it a five out of ten.
It was it just kind of didn't do it for me.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It has some absolute bangers, man, I can't disagree, and
it's a really unique album. Down the stretch though, like
we've said, it just starts to bog down a bit
lose steam, which kind of leads to that lower rating
I think for both of us. But regardless of you know,
what you think of the latter half of the album,
(31:33):
anybody out there listening, you need to go check out
the first half.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Of the album.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, Oh, I think, like you know, if you're just
looking for something to listen to, and you know, you
like the Toady's, you like some of the other bands
and DFW sn right, TREMP and Daisy's important about that sound. Yeah,
they definitely had three tracks that are just awesome, you know,
and some that three singles that got really good radio play,
(31:58):
one that should have been. I mean, so when you
look at kind of the four tracks that kind of
made the album. You know, when CDs when you find
and back in this day, you'd find those CDs that
are on special for like four ninety.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Nine or they used been at Hastings or they used
been at Hastings. This is when you pick up back
in the nineties and two thousands. This is when you
pick this up because you recognize, hey, I'll grab the CD.
It's got three tracks. I can rip them and put
them on my iPod. Now you buy Spotify Premium or
an Apple Music subscription and you just listen to it.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, and the artist makes you know, like a of
a penny.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You know, they're not even not even they're making micro
micro sense.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
But if you haven't heard Tripping Daisy before and you
liked it you heard today, go check them out again.
The album name is I Am an Elastic Firecracker. Yeah,
it took me a second. I blinked for a moment there.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Not to be confused with a a stiff firecracker.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
No, exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
The thing We covered this in the Todies episode that
Texas scene in the nineties. There was a lot of
just crazy things happening in Texas in the nineties from
like cults and you know, we weren't that long from
a like grander time perspective, off of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Movie and all of that.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
It was just a really Texas in the nineties was
an odd place, man, and so you had a lot
of bands coming out of there that were like thematically,
very different than what was going on in the rest
of alternative music.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I'd recommend like go back and.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Check out some of the stuff from that DFW music
scene in the nineties. There's a lot of really interesting
content out there that even went into the two thousands
when we had bands like Flickerstick and such coming out
later on, who we've already covered.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
We did a show episode for them well. And it's
a that music scene kind of takes care of itself.
It does.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
A lot of the bands really kind of help their friends,
like they promote, they cross promote each other, ye support
each other.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It's a really cool music scene, man.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I've always been a big fan of the DFW music
scene just because there's a lot of uniqueness in it.
There's a lot of camaraderie in it. Yeah, it's not
like cut through competitive like you'll see in the LA
music scene or the New work music scene, et cetera.
So anyways, man, it was a fun album to cover.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Actually, you know, I enjoyed prep Fort. It was like, hey,
it's always good to revisit an album that I mean,
I haven't listened to despite the usual track that comes
on excuse me on Lithium.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
So, speaking of which, next week, next week, oh, we're
going to be covering an album that I actually did
not ever remember listening to in full until I did
this listen through.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Okay, And I'm curious to see what you think about it, because.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
When I revisited this.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Album, I started seeing some covers of people doing songs
on YouTube, and then that kind of got me listening
to the album a little bit more. And there's so
much information on this album. There could just be a
whole documentary on just this album.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And its influence. And it's when you when you.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Talk about it's probably I mean, I was really impressed
and I'm still like listening to the album.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Do we want to tell people which album we're covering?
Okay Computer next week. Yes, yeah, and so I'm this
that album influenced really an entire generation of music.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, I think you have what it did for britpop,
what it did for I think the alternative genre and
the indie independent genre. You can think of countless like
the Radioheads influence, the influence off Okay Computer is everywhere
in music to be.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Yes, you see it a lot, especially in the britpop
that came in the subsequent years.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Huge Okay Computer influence there.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Yeah, it kind of changed the nature of alternative music
in a way. So I'm excited to cover Radiohead Okay
Computer next week. Already finished my notes, already listened to
it through. I've listened to it a couple more times.
I was surprised at my own take on it, and
so I'm actually really excited to cover that one.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah, I imagine that's going to be a long, long episode.
We're gonna be playing a lot of it, all right,
So wrapping up, and just like that, we are at
the close of another episode of Adventures in Vinyl. For
more information on the band Tripping Daisy, check out their website.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
At www dot tripin Daisy dot com.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
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Speaker 3 (36:46):
And myself at Todd David Ward with that on Topward
and I'm Adam Barron and we will see you next
time on another episode of Adventures in Vinyl
On this episode of Adventures and Vital Adam and I
continue looking at the DFW music scene in the nineties
by discussing the second studio album from this band that
suddenly disbanded in nineteen ninety nine and just reformed in
twenty twenty four. That band is Tripping Daisy, and the
album is I Am an Elastic Firecracker. Have you always
(00:43):
had that painting up there?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh, shame of me for not noticing that. I actually
had it in the office in my last house, and
I don't remember how I got it, but somebody gave
it to me.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I can't remember who, but I thought it was unique.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, that's the reason why I went in and put
it up in here, is because something different to go
along with my pearl jam from ninety two posters.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I like that. Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh man, what a So the last time we put
an episode out was in January.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, it doesn't help when you get sick and then
the weather sucks, and then there's tons of business travel,
and then I get sick, and then there's.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
More weather, and then I get sick again, and you
get sick.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Again, and so you know, that kind of puts the
kibosh on getting together.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
In the studio and putting something.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
My whole entire world is like completely upside down right now,
and I'm just trying to get back on track. Yeah,
it's like workout routines just in shambles, trying to get
back on the program, nutrition program.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Everything is uh.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And then like we started, you know, the whole method
well on the stuff is starting yep. And so like
I I record our first nutritional recipe for YouTube.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh dude, I suck. Video is a different I suck.
So there's the reason why we don't have video cameras anything.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Why I know.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And it's like and I'm trying to get the angles
all right, and it's gonna be such a such a
funny experience as I get this part or this is
uncomfortable adventure.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
In my life going. I understand that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, so hey man, just to kind of get with
it so we get back in the speed of things.
You know, we've been focused on the DFW music scene.
We started with kind of the Toadies, and you know,
we're doing Tripping Daisy. So for this week, I was like,
hey man, I'm gonna pick another my song of the
week is going to be from.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
A band out of that area.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So this is the second single off the second album
from the Sherman.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Texas band Hagfish.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
This is Happiness off of Hagfish's album Rocks Your Lame
Ass is the name of the album.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Okay, it's an interesting Yeah, it's a punk band. Yeah.
I don't know that I've ever heard of them before. Yeah,
I was interesting when it was. So when is this
from again? Oh? What year? Great question? Nineteen ninety five,
(03:22):
ninety five? All right, yeah, yeah, okay, so thirty years ago,
thirty years ago? Interesting? Yeah, Sherman, Texas. That's not bad.
I kind of like it, man, Yeah, I dig it.
I was like, hey, that's pretty good. Hagfish backfish. Okay,
all right, so what do you got for your song?
Very cool? Man.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So this is actually the newest single from a throwback
to kind of the punk emo scene of the early
two thousands of the band Thursday, who were kind of
innovators in that whole scene. Yep, this is their new single,
white Bikes, at least on December sixth of this last year. Yeah,
I just came across this. Well.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So the Apple Apple punk rock section.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I love the building songs, how it starts soft and
gets bigger throughout the song.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's different. I love war all the time. Yeah, Thursday,
that's a great plum.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They did a great cover.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Too of Dancing in the Dark ye on the two
minutes of Late Night Channel on YouTube's But man, I
loved Tim paying the basis for the band. I've always
loved the way that he stands out in the mix.
But yeah, man, these I mean Thursday is great. I
love this song.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It's a really just excellent song all the way through. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Have you been the keeping up with the SNL fiftieth
anniversary stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I've seen a few clips, but I haven't like dove
into it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, so this just kind of about this uh sege
siege or.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Uh you know.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So they had this last Friday. They did the stream
of their fiftieth SNL concert and it had like everyone
sure and everyone was doing like covers, like Eddie Vedder
did like a Tom Petty cover, and then he did
that hole where Roy Orbison was doing it was like
a protest.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He's like no, and he changed it and then he
played Corduroy and it was cool. The Elvis Costello thing yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So he then make the Beast Boys yeah attribute to that,
which is really really cool. And then Nirvana played, but
they played with post Malone with Post Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
See, I've heard a lot of good things about that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That was like and here's what's interesting, Like I've watched Chris,
Dave and and Pat play when they started kind of
playing with guest people, I saw the same weird violent
energy from Post from Post like just with that crew.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Compared to any other performer they performed aga. I could
see that was it was really interesting, and I.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I could see a tour happening with post Malone with Nirvana. Dude,
I I would watch that.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I would go, well, I would go Here's what's cool
is during the COVID thing, Post Belone, Travis Barker and
a couple other guys did a full Nirvana cover thing
and streamed it. That vinyl there's a limiting press of
about twenty thousand copies that's being released on Record Store
Day on April twelve. Oh, and it's my mission in
life that that day I will be going to multiple
(06:21):
record stores birthday month, and I will be going after
that album. We may I may just put it like
record the whole adventure is like, I'm going after the
freaking album because it's a live album, it's limited and
if you're looking and that's where I'm gonna start looking at,
really that record store day release, and maybe we can
do a show about some.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Of the albums and things that are coming out.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Because you know what, some people would be like, Hey,
these are guys that like vinyl, and so we're gonna
be a lot of listeners just from word of mouth
that like have vinyl collections and just kind of dig it.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So I think that maybe something we could do with
the tens and tens of listeners that we have.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So you know, all right, man, so we know it's next.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
We know what's next. Oh yeah, I almost forgot about
all that we've been like catching up and doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We got to get back into the group, I know,
I know, and not what other way to what. Let's
see easy for you to say, I know, I'm to bonam.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You should have seen me trying to do the freaking
YouTube recipe video that was a disaster. Hey, well guess what,
it's another episode of the Dress of Final and that
means it's another round of stumped the baron. I've stumped
the baron. I pick a random song from a random genre.
Give Adam a few clues, and, with his sufficiently mediocre
(07:38):
knowledge of music, attempts to guess the artist, album and
song title.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We used to keep score, but we've forgotten.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Don't really give a shit. There you go, so Adam.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
This week we go to June fifteenth of the year
twenty ten. This is the first single of this heavy
metal bands fifth studio album, Heavy metal Band.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Mm hm oh.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
If you gotta get start singing, you gotta get him
before he starts singing.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I don't know that I can dat.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know this song.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I mean Corey Taylor. Is that Corey Taylor thinks? So
this is not Disturbed Taylor Disturbed? Okay, but this is
Another Way to Die by the band Disturbed.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's off their album Asylum.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Another Way to Die reached a peak position of number
one on the US Billboard Hot Rock and Alternative Songs Chart.
It was Disturbed's first single to reach the top spot
on the chart.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, Gotcham. I was never a huge Disturbed fan.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No, I picked it because it was you know what
I'm trying to like go through?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You need stump me with this one.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, I was trying to look at stuff that had clues, right,
and because like the stuff that's made stream that we
both would know, right, it's like, oh yeah, those are easy.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He's going to know that one. We'll turn.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
But that was I've been trying to go back to
the billboard charts and see kind of what was like.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I would have known that it was disturbed when we
got to this party, but I wouldn't have been able to.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Tell you the song or the album.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, anyway, so that's a disturbed disturb the other way
to die.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I got you. Once again, I have to pick something.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Else, my sufficiently average, sufficiently mediocre, sufficiently mediocre knowledge of me.
If you keep doing worse, I'm gonna have to find
other ways of describing.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's fair. You're not so great.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Music knowledge that specializes in my highly special genre.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Highly specialized yet not even sufficiently mediocre knowledge of music anyway,
just a way to introduce people to music. So, okay,
all right, we are getting into it, are we ready?
Oh man? Yes, all right, I'm excited about this one. Good.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, So tripping Daisy, tripping Daisy, I'm an elastic firecracker.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So I am an Elastic Firecrackers the second studio album
by DFW Ben Tripping Dais. The album was released on
June twentieth of the year nineteen ninety five off the
Island Records label. The album consists of twelve tracks that
total up for a link of fifty four minutes and
twenty nine seconds. The first track off the album in
the background is called rocket Pop, which clocks in at
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four minutes in five seconds.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Coming out of the gate hot with this one at
them and I dig it. Yes, it sounds huge.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean, I love the four and the four pounding
of the drums in the first real simple lead and rhythm.
The bass just adds little layers here and there. Tim
d Laughter's high pitch voice just soaring over everything.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Dude, It's a real dynamic opener. Yep.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I love the fast, powerful sections juxtaposed with the slower,
kind of like calmer ones. In a way you can
tell a band is definitely trying to incorporate an element
of their tripping Yeah namesake right with the watery guitar
and vocals during the lighter sections. It's just a great
introduction to the Tripping Daisy sound.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Man. I'm a big fan of this song. Yeah, I
like it. I like it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I'm not a big tripping Daisy fan, but I found
listening to the album.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
When I just put it on, I was like, wow, Yeah,
I was like, that's right in your face all it
comes right out of the gates man. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
All right on too, not that track, not that one,
not that there, we'll get there. Fat thumb this fat thumbs,
well it's something with the Yeah, that's actually fat thumbs.
So clocking in at four minutes and three seconds, it
is the second track off the album called Bang.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
The album art is something.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I thought was always interesting, and it's actually a photo
of Italian artist pronounced forgive me for my really poor.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Way of pronouncing his first name, but it's.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Google Google Italian dude, Achille Cavalini or So Cavalini, mister Cavalis.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I was too lazy to even put that in my notes.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Uh so cavalinik So the photo originated is a piece
of stamp art by E. F. Higgins. So it's basically
Cavalini covered in like pick the leather or something getting red.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, anyway, that's why the cover album's so messed up.
Does this one reminds you a little bit of led
Zeppelin light like Dancing Days.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I would say it's got a Dancing Day's bill, but
it's not led.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Zeppelin's but like, yeah, but it's got that vibe right.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
When you Dancing Days has kind of like this hidden
groove to it, right, like a jazzy like Dancing Days.
You kind of have those jazzy undertones that you see
with led Zeppelin. And I think this is more very
just like quirky. Quirky, I would say, new wave is okay, right,
there's a new wave component to it where you get
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that feet you know when you're looking at talking heads. Sure, right,
so talking heads, that's what that kind of underline I
think tone is.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
But how they treat that and aggressive get aggressive with that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I think it is interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Like I I enjoyed listening to the album.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Am I gonna like.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Bid it on vinyls?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Probably not? But it was good. Yeah, I mean what
this was like, I was like, Okay, that's not bad.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, this one's interesting, Like it starts out with kind
of an odd time signature and then it hits into
the four standard full four. Yeah you get here, but
it's a good song man, Like I like the song.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, I mean, I I'm amazed all the good bands
out of the DFW area during the night, Like they
had a whole sub genre.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Are they coming from? Alternative and grunge? Just through the band,
It was kind of a variety of influences right right.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And then then you had a lot of bands popping
up in the nineties in the early kind of two
thousands out of that area.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And one and then this band eventually became Polyphonic Spree. Yeah,
you know, after wes Bergran died, which let's speak into that.
Let's get into their history a little bit. Yeah, so
they're obviously from the DFW area. They were formed in
nineteen ninety by Tim de Laughter, wes Bergran, Mark Piro
and Jeff Book performed a lot locally. They released their
first single, Lost and Found. Became known for like really
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cool creative visual and light shows during their shows. So
they released their debut album Bill in the nineteen ninety two,
did a live album in ninety four that was called
Get It On, and then after they signed with Island,
they released I'm an Elastic Firecracker and I Got a
Girl was huge, very popular on MTV.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
We'll get into that later.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But wes Bergen was actually found dead of an overdose
in nineteen ninety nine. The band disbanded and the original lineup,
basically minus Bergran.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Went on to do Polyphonic Spree Heroin. What's that odd on? Heroin?
I can't remember what he odd on? Wouldn't surprise me,
but yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
So they were reunited in twenty seventeen to play several shows,
and then officially reunited in twenty twenty four to record
Me with My Material So Man. They were on the
ten Underappreciated and Overlooked nineties albums. This particular album was
That's Vinyl Me Please, and the twelve most underrated albums
of the nineties, according to Kerrang. The album reached numb
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ninety five on the US Billboards two hundred and was
certified platinum in Canada. Interestingly enough, the Canadians really loved it.
I guess the Canadians love their tripping daisy man.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, you know, it's kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You know, they've got they kind of Canada likes theyd
have thirty music scene. They do, yeah, and this kind
of sound too, like it's interesting, it kind of They
came out around the same time as the Tragically Hip
in which, of course huge Canadian band. Yeah, and part
of me wondered, like, did people confuse Tripping Daisy with
Tragically may names Maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Anyways, man on to the next one. This was huge. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So the first single off the album, which clocks in
four minutes and five seconds, is the third track called
I Got a Girl. I Got a Girl was a
commercial success. It reached number six on the Billboard Modern
Rocks Tracks chart, while the good track, this one just
got saturated on the radio.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It was everywhere.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Man, It's like every other stage, she'd be like, hey,
I got a girl.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, I got a girl. She speaks her mind. I
got a girl, she argues it on. I got a
girl who wears dirty socks. I got a girl whose
feet smell like stinky cheese, Like, yeah, you know you can,
you can. Pretty much That's what I did every time
the song came on the radio is I would just
make up idiobscure, stupid lyrics. Sure about a girl. I
got a girl who's got THEO. I got a girl
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who who hates to dance to disco. I think it's
perfect to make full notes.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I mean, when you think though about nineteen ninety five
and some of the music that was coming out back then.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's appropriate. It's the post grunge era.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
It was like there was a lot of quirky, odd
stuff that was really taking off, like Beck and you know,
like even like Fountains of Wayne and fans like that
that were just taking off during that time.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well, and there were a bunch of weird girls in
the mid nineties. H let's just be honest.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, I mean, this one's really quirky and nerdy in
the verses, but like super anthemic and the choruses. I
mean it goes back and forth between those incredibly Well,
I mean the song just seeps into your brain with
the whole I Got a Girl thing, yeah, over and
over again.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Right. Well, it's like a tapeworm.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Kind of just roots its way in there comparing the
song and lays eggs.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Okay, and then you're stuck with it and.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Then you completely make up lyrics to it every time
it comes on the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, So that's my experience.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Why could or not this is a true nineties classic?
Oh yeah, I mean maybe not the best known, but
undeniably one of those songs that I think of when
I think of the nineties. Yeah, I Got a Girl
was right there, because, like you said, it was saturated,
it was everywhere. Yeah, lyrics were really relatable, right, yes,
because I remember, like I dated a girl and I
was like, I didn't know until one day she I
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realized she was a hippie and she had really hairy armpits.
I was like, and that was my first that was
my first encounter with Harry Pitt, And I was like,
I got a girl and she's got really hairy armpits.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
But man, it just I mean, it's a good song.
I love a lot of little.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Things that Wakeland does on the drums, little variations and
during the verses to keep things fresh. I mean the
same with Pierro's based work. I mean, I it's not
my favorite tripping daisy song, but it's a good song.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You know again just the nineties though, Man, it was
more about like what was on the radio, So you
were at the winds of the radio station.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yes it was, and it's whatever. It was great. It
was whatever an r were pumping. And it was still
the days where you know, they were giving moneyes to
DJs to play stuff instead of now it's the same
people who own all the radio stations, so it's whatever
they're pushing for the month.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, anyways, man onto one of my personal.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Favorites, you know, which is I think it's a It's
an advisory song about being aware of where you are swimming.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Because you always have to look.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Out for prom So yeah, nicely done there, Uh, one
of again, one of my personal favorites on the album.
I love the progression that's opening riff into this main
intro right here, when the lead guitar hits a left channel,
like the real active bass and the tom heavy drums.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Dude, this is just magic. Yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's you know it kind of you know that tom
feeling that you you get on Iburn.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, yes it is.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It's got that same kind of eybe man and Pio
is everywhere on the bass in this song. Do you
think they stole it from the Toadies that?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I don't think so, I think they did it.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I mean this, I mean this was released as the
second single. Ye I don't feel like it got anywhere
near the love that it should have. It obviously wasn't
as big of a hit as I Got a Girl
because that was such a unique song. Yeah, whereas maybe
this is more of like a straight ahead alternative song.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, this is the one I could see, like you're
seeing a cover band they're gonna play this. Yeah, like
if I was in a cover band and I was
gonna pick, Hey, what tripping daisy song do I want
to cover?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
What's a non obvious tripping daisy song that I want
to cover?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
This? This is it right here?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, And it's probably one of my, if not my
most favorite tripping daisy song, right yeah, this is marked
as a favorite. It's on my playlist. I like the
way it's arranged, sounds really good, it's driven. It's just
a really good track.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yes, yes, absolutely, man.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, but that was a clocks in at four minutes
and forty seven seconds. It tends to be one of
the longer tracks on the all Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I think they actually cut it down a little bit
for the radio too. But man, just again, this is
one of those quintessential tripping daisy songs. To me, I'll
always listen to it.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Fifth track that clocks in five minutes and thirty five seconds.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
It is called Motivation.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Great bassline to kick this one off, and I like
the high game guitar sound that comes in. I think
it just sounds truly awesome. Yeah, this one is interesting.
It's got like an odd time nature.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, it's like one two three one two three four
that's the time signature.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Obviously, I'm not a music theory guy, but like, when
I listen to it and I hear that beat, I
count out the beat a lot of the time as
a bass player, and then maybe in like eight notes
and they have that one that's at rest, what's like
it out You get a three count and then a
four count and then a three count and then a
four count, so.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
That unless they're skipping, the first beat of the measure
could be.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, this is one that I didn't listen to a
lot when I had the CD, which I think I
still have the CD.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Buried somewhere and a box up in the attic at here.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I used to admittedly skip over this one to get
to a couple of the later standout tracks, but I
don't think this one is about as charms. The verse
rift kind of gets a little redundant after a while,
but it's an interesting song. Yeah, I like it. It's
not my favorite, but I like it. Yeah, that's not bad.
I got it marked. It's just kind of okay, but
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it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. I think it's the odd time
signature that makes it interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, And like it gets into just a standard beat
here during the chorus, but then that verse has that
odd time signature. That's one thing these guys do is
they're not afraid to shift time signature is through up
the course the song, which I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You know, that's challenging to do, and.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
It creates variety, It creates quirkiness in your songs. And
I don't think the Tripping Days he was trying to
be normal by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So yeah, but the odd time figurat your works, I think, yeah, absolutely, yeah,
all right, man, on the next one, Onto the next one.
It's the six track off the album. The clock's in
at three minutes and thirty two seconds. It's called Same Dress,
New Day. Yeah, so there's some interesting lead work to
start the song. I think he I think he's using
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the volume knob to kind of swell in the notes.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I don't know. Yeah, you hear that right there?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah on the high game.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, well yeah, and you can roll it off with
the tone knob. Yeah, but I think he's rolling it.
He's doing the swell with the tone mob. You make it,
do it with a volume. I'm trying to think how
I do it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Maybe it's usually when I was playing electric a lot,
I did it mostly with the volume. Yeah, the tone knob.
I mean, you can do it as well, but it
just more changes. The sharkness brings it from like warm
to shark them back again. It's not my favorite track
on the album, although I don't I don't know that
i'd necessarily feel the need to skip it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's got enough that's interesting about it to keep my attention.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, I mean, it's just the whole album is different,
you know.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It's kind of on that yeah, different side of the
alternative spectrum where you're gonna have their fan base is
gonna be more core. There's gonna be the mainstream songs.
People are gonna understand and appreciate it. But I think
the hardcore fans fans are gonna have, they're gonna be
like a a sub demographic with them, alternative sure group,
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I think.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, right, yeah, as with any band in all honesty. Yeah,
all right, So on to one of my personal favorites on.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
The album, which is the third and final single off
the album, clocking in at three minutes and thirty four seconds,
The seventh track, which is called Trip long slower song.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, I mean, this is a fantastic.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Song though, and you open up the second half. This
is the second half of the album, right, it's up
with a I would say, a less aggressive track. Yeah, right,
yea to start for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, the lyrics go perfectly with this intro riff during
this first verse. I mean, as do the chorus lyrics
with the chorus progression. Man, I love this song when
it hits out of the second portion of the verse,
It's just huge sound, super catchy chorus that you can't
help it sing long too. And the song ends the
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way it begins, kind of giving in that full circle field. Man,
this might be my favorite song on the album. It
used to be Piranha, But the more I've listened to
this song, and I think as my tastes have kind
of evolved over the years, this has probably become my
favorite song on the d.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I think you like the melody I.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Do, and I love the hugeness of the chorus. Yeah,
I mean, when it gets into this chorus right here,
it's just big man. Yeah, okay, you like a build up, Yeah,
this is that little pre chorus build into this chorus.
It's just huge. They're just all out and it's like
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a psychedelic trip in a way.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Right. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Those vocal harmonies just like a third above. It's great.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah that's pretty good. Yeah, man, I love this song.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
This is one of those where if you haven't heard
Tripping Daisy, and you're gonna pick two or three songs
off the album, Piranha and trip Along and the next
one I would even say the next ones you should try.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
The next one is the one that I really I
thought it was awesome. Right, So this is rain Drop.
It clocks in at two minutes and fifty seconds. Yeah,
I'm really this could have been the fourth single off
the album.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I mean the screeching, dissonant nature of the intro, ye
tim de, Laughter's high pitched sore.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It just freaking works man, Yeah, it works and really good.
It's one of the short tracks on the album, so
it doesn't stick around any longer than necessary. Well, then
you don't need it to.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
No, No, it's got some great dynamics to it and
like the little in between spots, yeah, verse and chorus.
I mean, it's just a short but fun track, kind
of your classic deep cut from the album. Because it
wasn't the single, I think it kind of fits that
deep cut.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, I would say this is the deep cut yeah album.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I mean to me, Yeah, if you're gonna listen to
three songs, you gotta pick Karanha, you gotta pick Trip Along,
and you gotta pick rain Drop.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah. Man, just a fantastic song.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
All right, Moving on, Moving on, moving on, We are
at the ninth track that's called step Behind. It clocks
in at three minutes and fifty nine seconds. Catch a
little intro and I think the as it transitions again
to like a heavier type of course. I thought the
track was pretty interesting, but I kind of gave it
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an all.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Eh. It's unique, yeah, but not in a way that
holds my attention.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I've just never been into this one. Man. It's not awful.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
It has its moments, but I'm probably gonna call skip
on this track.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I would agree, Yeah, it's a skipper. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Moving on to track number ten is a Noose, which
is four minutes and forty nine seconds. It's another skip,
a skippable track for.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, I like how big the chorus is, but again,
it's just another one that doesn't grab me, doesn't hold
my attention. Yeah, and I find myself wanting to hit
the skip button.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Which we just did back to me, skipped.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Back a little ways. Todd with the phone skills. I
know that's my fat thumbs. My hands are cold. It's
time to work out, bro, I know, all right, he
needs Todd wants to reach across the desk and slap me.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
No, I totally messed up.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So hey, this really long track clocks in at nine
minutes in nineteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Is the that's the name of the song.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Is what I would call Adam.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Right now, after those comments of my fat thumbs, I
got some other fat fingers and they're right there in
the middle at him.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, okay, I gotta look between the first and the third.
I guess.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Actually, I really like the way this track comes in.
I think it kind of makes up for the last
two that were kind of man. But it's the two
guitars that sound pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
It's a nine minute song. Yeah, it's interesting though. Yeah,
it's just a nine minute song. I don't know that
i'd skip it. There's enough going on that I can
kind of appreciate the various pieces of the whole. Yeah,
I do like how big it gets. Like at about
that six minute thirty second mark, the guitarist Rip and
Tim d Laughter just opens up with those soaring vocals
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that he has. I would say that I really like
one third of this song. Perhaps I don't just love
the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, I could see I could see that being.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, and I would say it's a legitimate comment about
this track. Yeah, on a nine minute song, any nine
minute song, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Have sections, right, Yeah, I mean yep.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And if it's unless it's just ridiculously redundant and way
overblown from the time perspective, you're probably going to have
sections of the song. This one has some sections that
I really like, but I would say, like two thirds
of it is sections that I don't. Yeah, So there
you go. Yeah, I agree, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
So onto the last one, on to the last track
of the album, We are talking High, which comes in
at three minutes and fifty one seconds.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So what do you think on this one?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, it's kinda eh yeah, yeah, I mean, you know,
the there's three songs on the album that I like
three songs that you really like, three songs that I like.
You like Period, I like Period, okay, and out of
those songs, you know two of them. I really like.
This is an interesting track. It's got a simple, repetitive progression. Yeah,
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there's some really weird lyrics like quote, step on God,
he can take it, man, He's the only one for
me when I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah, it's easy, kind of an easy listening track in
a way, but I would not say that it is
a standout.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I like it as an exit for the album. Though.
It's kind of a nice change of pace. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, the album kind of lost me on the second half,
like right after rain Drop. I just to me, it
was just it was really hard to listen multiple times, agreed, right, Yeah,
and to get a really good lost it steam after
rain Drop, well, and I started to see it kind
of slow down in the first half of the album,
where you know, the tracks that are popular I recognize.
(30:37):
I really liked it as a kind of gun in
the Wrist album. I was like, Hey, this this is
a one for me. It ends with a bang and
ends I'm sorry. It starts with a bang, ends with
a whimper.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, that's kind of my feeling on this particular album
is starts with a bang, ends with a whimper. Final thoughts,
I'd say, like I said, the first two thirds of this.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Album, I'm a big fan of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But you know, if I had to give this one
a rating, I'm gonna say it's gonna be a six
and a half out of ten.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, I kind of gave it a five out of ten.
It was it just kind of didn't do it for me.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It has some absolute bangers, man, I can't disagree, and
it's a really unique album. Down the stretch though, like
we've said, it just starts to bog down a bit
lose steam, which kind of leads to that lower rating
I think for both of us. But regardless of you know,
what you think of the latter half of the album,
(31:33):
anybody out there listening, you need to go check out
the first half.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Of the album.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, Oh, I think, like you know, if you're just
looking for something to listen to, and you know, you
like the Toady's, you like some of the other bands
and DFW sn right, TREMP and Daisy's important about that sound. Yeah,
they definitely had three tracks that are just awesome, you know,
and some that three singles that got really good radio play,
(31:58):
one that should have been. I mean, so when you
look at kind of the four tracks that kind of
made the album. You know, when CDs when you find
and back in this day, you'd find those CDs that
are on special for like four ninety.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Nine or they used been at Hastings or they used
been at Hastings. This is when you pick up back
in the nineties and two thousands. This is when you
pick this up because you recognize, hey, I'll grab the CD.
It's got three tracks. I can rip them and put
them on my iPod. Now you buy Spotify Premium or
an Apple Music subscription and you just listen to it.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, and the artist makes you know, like a of
a penny.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You know, they're not even not even they're making micro
micro sense.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
But if you haven't heard Tripping Daisy before and you
liked it you heard today, go check them out again.
The album name is I Am an Elastic Firecracker. Yeah,
it took me a second. I blinked for a moment there.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Not to be confused with a a stiff firecracker.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
No, exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
The thing We covered this in the Todies episode that
Texas scene in the nineties. There was a lot of
just crazy things happening in Texas in the nineties from
like cults and you know, we weren't that long from
a like grander time perspective, off of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Movie and all of that.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
It was just a really Texas in the nineties was
an odd place, man, and so you had a lot
of bands coming out of there that were like thematically,
very different than what was going on in the rest
of alternative music.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I'd recommend like go back and.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Check out some of the stuff from that DFW music
scene in the nineties. There's a lot of really interesting
content out there that even went into the two thousands
when we had bands like Flickerstick and such coming out
later on, who we've already covered.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
We did a show episode for them well. And it's
a that music scene kind of takes care of itself.
It does.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
A lot of the bands really kind of help their friends,
like they promote, they cross promote each other, ye support
each other.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It's a really cool music scene, man.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I've always been a big fan of the DFW music
scene just because there's a lot of uniqueness in it.
There's a lot of camaraderie in it. Yeah, it's not
like cut through competitive like you'll see in the LA
music scene or the New work music scene, et cetera.
So anyways, man, it was a fun album to cover.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Actually, you know, I enjoyed prep Fort. It was like, hey,
it's always good to revisit an album that I mean,
I haven't listened to despite the usual track that comes
on excuse me on Lithium.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
So, speaking of which, next week, next week, oh, we're
going to be covering an album that I actually did
not ever remember listening to in full until I did
this listen through.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Okay, And I'm curious to see what you think about it, because.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
When I revisited this.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Album, I started seeing some covers of people doing songs
on YouTube, and then that kind of got me listening
to the album a little bit more. And there's so
much information on this album. There could just be a
whole documentary on just this album.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And its influence. And it's when you when you.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Talk about it's probably I mean, I was really impressed
and I'm still like listening to the album.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Do we want to tell people which album we're covering?
Okay Computer next week. Yes, yeah, and so I'm this
that album influenced really an entire generation of music.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, I think you have what it did for britpop,
what it did for I think the alternative genre and
the indie independent genre. You can think of countless like
the Radioheads influence, the influence off Okay Computer is everywhere
in music to be.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Yes, you see it a lot, especially in the britpop
that came in the subsequent years.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Huge Okay Computer influence there.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Yeah, it kind of changed the nature of alternative music
in a way. So I'm excited to cover Radiohead Okay
Computer next week. Already finished my notes, already listened to
it through. I've listened to it a couple more times.
I was surprised at my own take on it, and
so I'm actually really excited to cover that one.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Yeah, I imagine that's going to be a long, long episode.
We're gonna be playing a lot of it, all right,
So wrapping up, and just like that, we are at
the close of another episode of Adventures in Vinyl. For
more information on the band Tripping Daisy, check out their website.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
At www dot tripin Daisy dot com.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to check us
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Adam on Instagram at eat dot Prey dot armbar.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
And myself at Todd David Ward with that on Topward
and I'm Adam Barron and we will see you next
time on another episode of Adventures in Vinyl
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