Labouring Over Everything at the BBQ | S3 E4

[00:00:05] Speaker A: Hey, everyone. Welcome to what I listen to this week. Welcome back to Sergio and Eric and John. [00:00:12] Speaker B: John. [00:00:15] Speaker A: I'm back. Yay. [00:00:17] Speaker B: You are alive. [00:00:17] Speaker C: I'm alive. [00:00:18] Speaker A: So we've got a full panel this week, which is really exciting. And as we've been doing this season, we're going to do a round robin of what's new and good. So. So I'm gonna throw it to Sergio first. Sergio, what's new and good? [00:00:33] Speaker B: Uh, you know, it's almost summer. Uh, I like, do like spring. Good biking weather. I think that's what's new. Good. Just been biking a lot, enjoying the gravel trails and the hail. Got hail. Well, almost got. [00:00:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:00:47] Speaker B: Pictures plastered by hail up in Fort Collins yesterday. Not yesterday, uh, Sunday. Luckily we were. We found a barn and we spoke to the people. We're like, hey, could you shelter us? And like 10 seconds later, it started hailing and it was like quarter inch hail. So we survived luckily. Anyway. Yeah, that's what's good. Been biking a lot. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I saw your pictures. I drove through it. Not the same storm, but I drove through a similar one. It was about the same. It was probably like, yeah, maybe like quarter, half inch. And I was fine. The car was fine because I was on 25, but there was a motorcycle in front of me. And I was just sitting there like, good Lord, buddy. And he, like, was not. I don't want to get preachy, but he wasn't wearing a helmet and he just had his vest, like, pulled over his head. And I'm just like, oh, my God. [00:01:37] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:01:38] Speaker A: I'm glad you found shelter, though. Jesus. [00:01:40] Speaker C: Was the road straight so he didn't have to see? [00:01:44] Speaker A: No, because it was through all that Loveland massive stuff. I don't know how he was doing it. [00:01:49] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:01:49] Speaker A: But anyway, it was. Yeah, it was pretty scary. Anyway, glad you're okay. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Me too. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Eric, what's doing? [00:01:56] Speaker C: Good. [00:01:57] Speaker D: I want to give a shout out to my friend Jackson Finken, who graduated from fifth grade today. Oh. [00:02:04] Speaker A: Oh, Jackson. Nice job. [00:02:06] Speaker D: Yeah. And he's going on to middle school. He's a kid who's a friend of my good friends. He's a grandchildren. And I used to take care of him when he was a baby. And now he's a kid and he's a great kid. So just shout out to Jackson. Sweet. [00:02:29] Speaker A: Shout out, Jackson, good job of fifth grade. Get ready for junior high. He's coming in hot. All right, John, what's new and good? [00:02:37] Speaker C: All right. You helped me find my New and good thing. I'll do a shout out, too. The guy that I had sort of young kid working on my last film was part of the 48 Hour Film Project in Denver. And their film won for the state of Colorado. And then they went. [00:02:54] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:02:55] Speaker C: And then they went to Seattle for the world competition, and they were selected to go to Cannes. And so now they're at the Cannes Film Festival. Wow. [00:03:04] Speaker A: Dang. [00:03:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:05] Speaker B: This Amuro. [00:03:06] Speaker C: Mikey Hardesty. Yeah, Amaro and Mikey were both working on this film, but, yeah. So that's awesome. Just amazing. [00:03:15] Speaker B: Huge. Yeah, that's amazing. [00:03:16] Speaker A: What's the film called? [00:03:18] Speaker C: My film is called Now Versus Then. Yeah. So. And it's also gonna be broadcast on Rocky Mountain PBS in June. So it just got selected for a thing down there. So that's cool. [00:03:32] Speaker A: Nice. [00:03:33] Speaker B: Sweet. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Support your local PBS station and call your congress critters and tell them how important it is. Decorator. That's awesome. Wow. Thanks, man. My new and good thing is not shouting out anybody except for myself, but springtime, which means the garden is going. And this is like, my favorite time of year for the garden because everything is in nice, neat rows because everything's sprouting from how I planted it. And everything's all nice and organized. And it looks so clean. No, you know, production really yet, but all the green parts just look so nice and just really excited. The potatoes are huge. The onions are huge. The radishes are coming in, and tomatoes and peppers are in the ground. So, yeah, just always get so excited this time of year. It's like, I can taste it. It's almost here. [00:04:28] Speaker C: So stay away hail. [00:04:30] Speaker A: Yeah, stay away hail. Yeah, that was me on Sunday. I was, like, running out to the backyard and putting little pots over everything. Cause I don't have a great hail set up, but, yeah, stay away hail. Cool. Awesome. Well, lots of new and good. Let's get to some new and good music. [00:04:48] Speaker B: Yeah. And I think we're gonna continue repeating how we've been doing. So we just listen to it. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah, listen. [00:04:55] Speaker B: If it's your song, don't talk, don't talk. [00:04:57] Speaker A: And it goes to commentary immediately so that we don't skew the opinions of the panelists. [00:05:06] Speaker C: Oh, I see. [00:05:07] Speaker A: So I think Eric's probably up first. [00:05:08] Speaker B: I think so. [00:05:10] Speaker A: So, yeah, time to get skewered. [00:05:12] Speaker B: No, I'm just kidding. [00:05:13] Speaker C: All right. [00:05:13] Speaker B: The name of the first song is called En lasan Las tinieblas by the Mars Volta. Y. [00:08:39] Speaker A: Who's gonna go first? [00:08:42] Speaker B: Feel like my ears experienced LSD for the first time. [00:08:44] Speaker A: So I was gonna say I haven't. I think I might have said this in the Slack channel, but I haven't thought about the Volta in so long. But, man, my, like, freshman sophomore year in college was, like, all about the Mars Volta and, like, drugs. That wasn't really what my focus was, but, like, that's the correlation I have with them. But, yeah, it's pretty wild. Kind of all over the place. I kind of like, how was. And it's, like, meant to kind of be sort of like. What's the word I'm looking for spatially? Yeah. Like, kind of jumping around left to right, like, speaker. Okay, cool. Yeah, it's definitely like, one of those songs that feels like an experience more than, like, I'm not gonna be able to hum back any of that to you, really. But it's like. It's definitely like. Yeah, it's kind of like you got thrown into, like, an aquarium of, like, weird drugs and fish and fluorescent things. I don't know. Drugs. [00:09:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it was really fun. It was funky. Yeah. I don't know. I kind of want to. I've never heard of them before. [00:09:52] Speaker A: Like, the bass line. Yeah, that was really cool. [00:09:55] Speaker B: It kind of reminded me of, like, being Meow Wolf. [00:09:58] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good analogy. It's like the music version of Meow Wolf. Yeah, I like that. [00:10:06] Speaker C: I thought it would be. For some reason, I was thinking about driving in a car and listening to that, you know, in the Separation, you know, if you don't have your headphones on. And I felt a very urban party Friday night soundtrack, like you're heading out for the evening. And it's very up music. You can really feel a lot of energy in it. So. No, definitely liked it. And the bass line really stood out. [00:10:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:10:35] Speaker C: I think what I don't like is I loved all the organic, sort of like, percussion sounds, almost like they're playing buckets and all sorts of things. But then when they start throwing in the computer, like, you know, sci fi stuff. I don't like that. But that's just my thing, you know? But I. But otherwise, I thought it was. And they only did that a little bit of that in the end. And I was kind of like, I wish I didn't do that. [00:11:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:02] Speaker D: So the story behind it for me is, first of all, I was writing, first of all, a translation of the title of the album and of the cut, and my pen blew up. So I've got. So I thought that I had put everything that I'd written Down in my back pocket, which I had not. So I figured you could tell me what an approximate translation is. [00:11:36] Speaker B: I don't. I don't. I don't know if I know that vocabulary. Let me see. Let me find the song again in La San Las de Nieblas. I don't. [00:11:52] Speaker D: Yeah, it was. It was a shot. I had it all done. And I'm sorry, I missed something with clouds or fog. [00:11:59] Speaker B: Cloud is like a link. [00:12:00] Speaker D: Like Darkness Shadow. Yeah. Anyway, so I was listening. My favorite sort of electronic group is Apex Twin. And I've been listening to a lot of old Apex Twin lately, and it, you know, the algorithm says, well, if you like Apex Twin, you'll like Bonobo, Illuminator, Taiko. And it popped up with this one. I said, well, I've heard this name, but I've never heard this group. And I've been listening to this album. And if you listen to the album, it's kind of a concept. Metaphysical Ugly Romance album. And it's sort of fascinating to listen to. I. I liked this cut. I. Because I like the percussion and. And how strange it sounded. So, yeah. [00:12:53] Speaker C: Just. Where. Where did that cut appear on the list of tracks? The third one. [00:12:57] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:12:58] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:12:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:59] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:12:59] Speaker A: So it's like a. It's a good one. Usually, like, the meat of them are like 1, 3, and 4. [00:13:05] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:13:05] Speaker A: On an album. So. Yeah. [00:13:07] Speaker D: Yeah. So anyway, that's how I got to that. But I liked it. I will listen to these guys, definitely. Again, along with Illuminator, Bonobo, Taeko, and more Apex Twin. [00:13:20] Speaker A: Yeah. I definitely recommend doing it while clam baking your car, which I think is called Hot boxing here in Colorado. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Clam bacon. Never heard of that. [00:13:33] Speaker A: I'm from New England. That's what we call it there. [00:13:36] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:13:36] Speaker C: We do Rocky Mountain Oysters here. [00:13:41] Speaker A: No, I'm just kidding. Also Aphex, when I haven't thought about them. And, like, probably since like sophomore year of college, too. That's a throwback. I feel like they were really big in the early days of the Internet. Like, I feel like there were like early YouTube videos or like they. We'd call them memes now that somehow involved their music. I can't think of any right now, but for some reason that's ringing a bell. But. Yeah, interesting. [00:14:09] Speaker B: I guess Latin is. Means darkness or dark. So it kind of translates to, like darkness links. The darkness links or the obscurity links. I know, it's interesting. [00:14:26] Speaker D: Listen to the whole thing as. [00:14:29] Speaker B: Or shadows. [00:14:30] Speaker D: Maybe you were listening to Tommy, you know, some sort of big concept Album. It's got that element in it, except it's really sort of dark and weird, which is the part that I really liked about. Yeah. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Could also mean shadows, so maybe, you know. [00:14:50] Speaker D: Yeah. I wish I'd brought my notes, but that's okay. [00:14:53] Speaker B: All right. [00:14:54] Speaker A: Anyway, the A for effort. I would love to listen to this on vinyl and, like, just, like, sit on the floor in the middle of the room and just, like, the sound is awesome. Surround you. Yeah. Now I'm going to look out for Mars Volta vinyl. [00:15:12] Speaker C: And you can't listen to that on two. You gotta turn up to 11. [00:15:17] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:15:18] Speaker C: Neighbors pounding on your doors. [00:15:21] Speaker A: Suck it, neighbors. [00:15:23] Speaker C: That bass. Is that the bass? No, it's the cops at the door. [00:15:30] Speaker D: It's ice. [00:15:31] Speaker C: It's ice. [00:15:32] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:15:33] Speaker C: Oh, no. [00:15:33] Speaker A: It's too brutal. [00:15:36] Speaker B: Just have to make it dark. You have to make it tinible. [00:15:43] Speaker A: Cool. Thanks, Eric. [00:15:44] Speaker B: All right, on to the next one. Next song is called labor or Labor. [00:15:51] Speaker A: She's British, so it's labor. [00:15:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I figured labor in British. British spelling by Paris. Paloma. [00:16:07] Speaker E: Why are you hanging on so tight? Till I wrote that I made it. [00:16:14] Speaker F: From. [00:16:16] Speaker E: Off this island this was an escape plan Carefully timed it so let me go and dive into the waves below who tends the orchards? Who fixes up the gables? Emotional torture from the head of to my table who fetches the water from the rocky mountain spring and walk back down again to feel your st. And I'm getting tired the capill in my eyes are bursting if all of that would that be the worst thing for somebody I thought was my savage? You make me do a whole lot of labor the call on my hands is lacking if I love ends would that be a bad thing? And the silence on chamber you made me do too much labor Too much labor Apologies for my tongue Never lose busy laughing from flowing and stabbing with your fall I know you're a smart. [00:17:45] Speaker F: Man I know you're a smart man. [00:17:47] Speaker E: Unweaponized the FO's incompetence it's dominance under guide if we had a daughter I'd watch and could not save her the emotional torture from the head of your high table she'd do what he taught her she'd meet the same cruel fate so now I got to run so I can undo this mistake at least I got to try look at the reason my eyes are if I would that be the worst thing for somebody I thought was my sav sure make it feel a whole lot of labor the C scan on my hands is cracking if I love Ends. Would that be a bad thing? And the silence once I chamber you make me do too much labor all day, every day Therapist mother made nymphs Then a virgin nurse then a servant Just an appendage lift to attend him so that he never lifts a finger 24,7 baby machine so he can live out his picket friend's dreams it's not an act of love if you make her you make me do too much labor all day, every day Therapist mother maintenance Then a virgin nurse then a servant Just an appendage live to attend him so that he never lifts a finger 247 baby machine so he can live out his big advance dreams it's not an act of love if you make her you make me do too much labor. [00:20:05] Speaker D: Well, that was disheartening. [00:20:09] Speaker B: Bringing the mood down. Surrounded by darkness. [00:20:13] Speaker C: Yes. [00:20:14] Speaker D: Portrait of a bad relationship. I like the sound, though. Wow. Yeah. What a nice recording that was. Lots of space, great bass line. It was. And the lyrics were great. It's just the portrait that it painted was like, oh, gosh, you make me do all this. I got babies. [00:20:37] Speaker C: I got a 24 7. [00:20:40] Speaker D: 24 7. I gotta make this. I have to portray this person who I don't especially like, and you're making me do it. And it's not fun and. But it was a great recording. Like, her voice, too. [00:21:00] Speaker B: I wanna. Yeah. Echo everything that Eric said. It kind of reminded me of, like, maybe, like Adele almost. Like, maybe it did a little. I did a little, but more modern. I don't know. [00:21:12] Speaker C: I was gonna say a more mommy. [00:21:16] Speaker B: A mommy version of Adele. I don't know if she has kids or not. Maybe she is a mama. [00:21:21] Speaker C: Let's hope not. [00:21:21] Speaker B: But I do want to. Yeah. I want to go back and listen to it again and pay more attention to the lyrics or at least read them while I'm listening to it. But, yeah, that was. Wow. I really enjoyed that. [00:21:37] Speaker C: No, I did, too. I love the bass and. Yeah, I thought the sound was great. It was kind of. I got hung up initially with the too much labor. Thinking of the Labor Party and how this could be used. How this could be used as a commission. We've had too much labor. It's time for the conservatives. But how. But it's like, oh, it's not about politics. It's about babies, which is political. So. But I. [00:22:09] Speaker A: Is the Labor Party even in. Are they in charge right now? [00:22:12] Speaker C: Yeah, they are. [00:22:13] Speaker A: I haven't been following it. Okay, interesting. [00:22:15] Speaker C: Yeah. They are the prime ministers from the Labor Party. And then they have got the Tories or the Conservatives on the other side, so it's like too much labor. They just got started. Give him a break. [00:22:32] Speaker A: Yeah, so I heard this on the radio a couple weeks ago, actually. I feel like it was right after we did this recording of the last episode, and immediately I was like, I'm bringing this one next time. So I was like, locked and loaded. Yeah, I think it was one of those songs where when it came on, I wasn't really paying attention to it too much because I like her voice and I like the sound. But at sort of the get go, it sort of has that same tone that like, a lot of indie female singers sort of have. I can't ever really describe what it is, but it didn't really jump out at me as something particularly unique. But I think the, like, chanting part 3/4 of the way through the end is when I, like, really started paying attention to the song. And then I was like, oh, this is really interesting. I think. I think I was driving and I heard 247 baby machine and I was like, what. What is this about? And so then I, like, started paying. Started paying attention and looked it up. But, yeah, I mean, I think it's definitely. It's very dark, I think. Yeah, it makes me think of, like, a lot of women that I know who have either gone through similar terrible relationships or are going through them right now. And I think that's what made me, like, what piqued my interest is I was like, well, I've heard this before, but I think the. I don't know. Last, I think. Was it last time you were here? Maybe it was the time before that, but we were talking about protest music and Eric brought that rage song. And I feel like, I don't know, there's a lot of rage right now. And so I hear a song like this and I immediately, like, glom onto it. I'm like, yes, let's get really angry. And then I found like a bunch of videos online where she's performing live and, like entire concert venues are like, chanting that whole chant part. And it's like, yeah, so she's big. [00:24:31] Speaker D: We just don't know her yet. [00:24:32] Speaker A: Yeah, so this is her debut album. She's like, super. I want to say she's like 23 or 25. Like, she's super young. And I think she's been bigger in the uk. I don't think she's really made it over here. All of the clips that I saw, she was playing in, like, Scotland and Ireland and things like that. So I think she's a little bit bigger over there than here. I don't really know too much about her. She also did a song for the Lord of the Rings. Like, it's like an animated movie or show or something. It's like the War of. [00:25:08] Speaker D: The War of the Roaring. [00:25:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. She has a song on that soundtrack. But other than that, like, I don't really know, like, too. Too much about her other than like, finding YouTube videos and stuff like that. But, yeah, I mean, I just really like the sound. I love the lyrics. Anything that uses bedchambers, like, that's cool. [00:25:30] Speaker C: And. [00:25:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it sort of has this, like, almost like medieval feel to it. But I don't know if that's like, the lyrics or what it is, but there's something. Something about it that, like, gives me that vibe. I don't know why, but. Yeah, I just. I like angry women. So. Yeah, I want to join there. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. [00:25:52] Speaker B: Gotta print that quote out. [00:25:54] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:25:55] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. I just want to be angry. Anyway. Yeah, Anyway, that's. That's that. [00:26:03] Speaker B: Anything else? [00:26:05] Speaker D: Good. [00:26:05] Speaker A: Cool. Let's move on. [00:26:07] Speaker B: Sweet. Well, not sweet well. [00:26:11] Speaker A: 24 7, baby machine searching. [00:26:16] Speaker B: Maybe this song is not a good follow up to that, but this song is called Big Town Banky Blaine's Rockabilly Barbecue. I'll say that again. Big Town Banky Blaine's Rockabilly Barbecue by bear ghost. [00:26:41] Speaker F: 1, 2, 1, 2, watch out my. [00:26:44] Speaker C: Mouth. [00:27:02] Speaker F: Red lights what's cooking? Smoke to me just like a plebeian feast Bring all my dad prosperous behind it fatal flavor Come on down, bring your family what's the one who wanna stay afloat? Just one wholesome place of perfect witchy. [00:27:15] Speaker E: It'S time to rock and roll Elfino. [00:27:18] Speaker F: Looks mad his opponent is reeling Climber protected by this glass ceiling let's lose the win order Hot dogs are grateful you ain't the one to die for Another record for the cherry ingredients tenderized by the five from the first verse. Go ahead and throw up a boat if you want to go, you got the money, we'll see your ass. So this is our fate Scrapping for scraps below the table so we can live to fight another day Hot dog if I grateful you ain't the one to die. [00:28:29] Speaker A: Fight two, fight red, white, blue Fight one, fight two, fight red, white, blue. [00:28:32] Speaker E: Fight one, fight two, fight red, white, blue fight. [00:28:34] Speaker F: Big town always does it right. [00:29:05] Speaker A: This. [00:29:05] Speaker F: Can'T be the way this ain't alive it should survive Oceans of raveness improve this Eye I'm terrified that I'll be the catch of the night it can't be our face Just take my head One stand defiant more than the last of dance they mechanized when uniform. [00:29:47] Speaker B: Big. [00:29:47] Speaker F: Towns like a mini bomb Big town Biggie, big time. [00:30:21] Speaker B: Delish. [00:30:29] Speaker A: Whoa. Is that from a musical? [00:30:35] Speaker B: I can't talk. [00:30:37] Speaker A: Well, I mean, you can acknowledge whether it is or not. It's not, because I'm like, picturing, like, a Broadway stage where there's like 80 different people on stage doing different. Like, one's playing an organ, one's playing guitar, one's playing drums, and. And then there's other people, like, dancing and throwing hot dogs at each other and, like, trying to grill and there's somebody with a gun. But it's all, like, very intricately choreographed because that's what it felt like. It's like chaos, but it's organized. Like, there's so much going on, but they're like. It's all, like, layered in a way. [00:31:06] Speaker D: That. [00:31:09] Speaker A: 90% makes sense. [00:31:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I think. Yeah. Chaos. Complete chaos. Holding that energy, which it does well, that, you know, it doesn't have any lulls. I mean, that is just a giant 4:30 crescendo. You know, it just keeps going and it. And it just holds that energy. I really liked it, but I was wondering about, like, okay, we're gonna rehearse this tonight, or what band would ever cover that? [00:31:38] Speaker A: Right. You know, what does it look like live? [00:31:41] Speaker C: Yeah, I was wondering. [00:31:42] Speaker A: I was wondering, is it like polyphonic spray? Like, we need, like. Like 40 people on stage to do all the things. [00:31:47] Speaker C: Yeah, but some of the vocals reminded me of Freddie Mercury. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:31:55] Speaker C: Freddie Mercury. Notes once again. Huge bass running through this that, you know. But, yeah, the rockabilly and it just. The title helps you frame it, you know, and helps you see some images of what's going on. But. But, yeah. [00:32:13] Speaker A: No, and who was the guy. Who's the guy that they got to, like, replace Freddie Mercury? Replace. But, like, Adam Lambert. Yeah, that was the other. That was like. I got those vocals too. But then I was like, oh, it's because I'm thinking of Freddie Mercury. [00:32:29] Speaker D: It sounded like the great Lost Queen Halloween song. [00:32:36] Speaker A: I love that. [00:32:37] Speaker D: Yeah, but I liked it. It was just so weird, but so energetic. But again, how do you do that on stage? Do you have 40 people for it? You know, how do you choreograph that? It was great. [00:32:55] Speaker C: I wanted a little squirrel nut. Zippers. Yeah, a little bit of that. [00:33:00] Speaker A: I want to see the MTV Unplugged version Of the. [00:33:04] Speaker C: Yeah. Acoustic, which is just one classical guitar. [00:33:11] Speaker A: Yeah, that's it. [00:33:12] Speaker C: And harmonica. [00:33:13] Speaker A: Yep. Yeah. [00:33:15] Speaker C: Unplugged. [00:33:16] Speaker B: Unplugged, yeah. So this was. Yeah. Bear Ghosts, I believe they're from Phoenix, Arizona. They call themselves Adventure Rock, which I call. I guess you can call yourself whatever you want. I've never heard that genre, per se. This song particular was mixed by Jeremy Parker, who I guess did Evanesce Evanescence and was mastered by Dan Shaikh, who did Mayday Parade. That was kind of some alternative stuff back in the. Back in the day. And according to Bear Ghost. So this song, Big Town, Banky Blaine's Rockabilly Barbecue, which I think is an awesome name, tells the story of an eatery patron by the wealthy upper class who pay to watch the less fortunate engage in fights to the death. The winner gets paid and gets to survive until the next fight. And the loser gets cooked and eaten. [00:34:16] Speaker E: Oh. [00:34:17] Speaker B: And I was like, I didn't know any of that. And I was, like, trying to figure out what the song meant. And you can kind of hear, like, when it comes, like, when it kind of transitions to maybe more of the, like, alternative side of thing where he's just doing a solo, like, kind of pretending to be or acting as, like, they're the. The lower class or something like that. Like, Don't Eat Me. At first I thought it was like, they were maybe personifying the animals or something like that or. But anyway, yeah, I. I thought, yeah, it has a lot of energy, very out there that kind of mixes a lot of different genres. I have not tried to find a live version of it, but I think it'd be really cool. This is from their 2023 album. [00:35:03] Speaker D: How many people in this group? [00:35:05] Speaker B: I don't know. I'm guessing five, four or five. But yeah, the album's called Jiminy. Came out in 2023. They started touring last year, and I think they're touring again this year. But, yeah, if you like this, they have a lot of other really interesting songs too. [00:35:24] Speaker C: Did you see the music video for this one? [00:35:26] Speaker B: You know, there is no music video. [00:35:27] Speaker C: Wow. [00:35:28] Speaker B: It's just lyrics. Yeah. [00:35:29] Speaker C: They can. You can't match it. [00:35:31] Speaker B: No, I know. [00:35:33] Speaker A: It's like, too much to perform against or something. Yeah, man. Crazy things happen in the desert like this music. When you live in Phoenix, when it's 175 degrees and you're tripping balls because you're so hot, this is the kind. [00:35:48] Speaker C: Of music that you hear less fortunately fortunate people. With mustard Wild. [00:35:54] Speaker A: What a wild song, man. [00:35:58] Speaker B: All Right. On that note, unless there is there anything else. Spotify's being slow today. All right, the last song is called Over Everything by Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vi. [00:36:34] Speaker G: When I'm all alone on my own by my lonesome and there ain't a single nother soul around I wanna dig into my guitar bend the blues riff that things over everything by myself and. [00:36:52] Speaker H: It'S daytime cuz down under whoever it is I live when it's evening, you know I speed read the morning news and come up with my own little song. [00:37:04] Speaker A: So. [00:37:22] Speaker H: When I step outside to a beautiful morning where the trees are all wagging my hair, flag waving, the scenery raging my love love cascading in the smoke ha. [00:37:37] Speaker G: Over everything when I'm outside in a real good mood you could almost forget about all the other things Like a big old ominous cloud in my peripher. When I was young I liked to hear music blaring and I wasn't caring too new to my jams with earplugs but these days I inhabitate a high pitched ring over things so these days. [00:38:40] Speaker H: I plug em up When I'm struggling with my songs I do the same thing too and I crunch them up in headphones Cause why wouldn't you? You could say I hear you on several levels at heart decibels. [00:38:57] Speaker A: Over everything. [00:39:30] Speaker F: When I'm all alone on my own. [00:39:32] Speaker G: By myself and there ain't another single one around. I want to dig into my guitar and the blues ribs that hangs over everything. [00:42:42] Speaker D: That was a lot of guitars. I didn't understand what the lyrics were talking about especially, but I love the sound of that, of all that people play guitar in different keys and it sounded really expansive and just. I mean I Sort of country but sort of bluesy but sort of folky. It just had a lot going on and you're. John and I were talking about it when we were talking about it earlier, but the voices of the singers did sound sound very alike. [00:43:25] Speaker A: So I think this is a first for our podcast. We have a repeat artist. Oh, we do, yeah, we do. Yeah. We had Courtney Barnett on like two years ago. I feel like it was season one. I brought a song by her. But anyway, that's exciting because like you were not even around for that. [00:43:43] Speaker C: I was not. [00:43:44] Speaker A: I don't know where you were. I don't know where it was. [00:43:46] Speaker C: Oh yeah, Gone again. [00:43:49] Speaker B: No, Avant. Avant Gardener. [00:43:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's from her. I think it's like her first album maybe, but it's. I don't know this song, but it's interesting. Because when I saw it, when I saw you send it, I was like, oh, that's a good pairing. [00:44:05] Speaker C: Oh. [00:44:06] Speaker A: Because I, I, I, like, didn't know that they did this song, but, like, I know them both independently and I was like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. It makes a lot of sense. Sense. They have very similar, like, yeah, like, vocal. The way I think of their. Their vocal styles is. Is like, I know this isn't true, but it's like, I don't care. [00:44:27] Speaker C: No, I agree. [00:44:27] Speaker A: Like, whatever. I sound like what I sound like. This is what I sound like today. Deal with it. Like, that's always the vibe I kind of get from both of them. [00:44:34] Speaker C: Kind of like Dylan. [00:44:35] Speaker A: Yeah, like Bob Dylan. Yeah, exactly. Yep, yep. That was exactly my, My thought too. But, yeah, so it's like, it's a good pairing. And I know you said expansive. Eric. I also had that same thought of, like. Because I also think of them both as, like, not simple musicians, but, like. Yeah, it's like a lot of guitar and it's like, pretty straightforward, but, like, they fill a space with so much sound. Even though it's like, yeah, mostly guitar. There's that, like, there was, like, the fuzzy. What's the word? Like, they were using, like, a pedal or a filter or something sort of towards the end that added even more into the sound. That was kind of cool. But, yeah, I liked sort of how much how, like, lush it feels, despite feeling being, like, relatively simple. It's not like there was like a string section and an organ and all this kind of stuff. It's, you know, pretty lush for that. I think my only complaint is, like, I felt like it went on just a teeny bit too long. Like maybe 15 seconds, 20 seconds. Could have cut towards the end, but otherwise. [00:45:40] Speaker B: Yeah, this might be one of the longest songs on here. Maybe 6 minutes and 19 seconds. [00:45:45] Speaker A: Maybe. [00:45:45] Speaker B: I don't know. Maybe you brought something longer than that one time. But I think once, early, very early, early, early days. Yeah, it did sound familiar. Like, I've heard it before. Maybe it was because he had brought Courtney Barnett early, but it did remind me of, like, Dylan. And it felt like the song was, like, made in the 80s or something. I don't know. Or 90s. I. I don't know. It didn't feel like a, like Today song, I guess, but I don't know when it was made. [00:46:18] Speaker C: No, I think the theme resonates for today. You know, I don't want to talk about it. Big old dark cloud on our periphery and I just think about Washington. Yeah. Courtney Barnett is a kind of a punk Australian, and Kurt Vile is from Pennsylvania. And the two of them look so much like brother and sister. It's amazing that they both sing the same and that they both have amazing senses of humor. If you have. They have. This is a whole album called. I think it's called Whole Lot of Sea Lice. [00:47:04] Speaker A: Courtney Barnett album. [00:47:05] Speaker C: All the tracks are great. Courtney Barnett, she has some great titles. One of her albums is Sometimes I Sit in a Chair and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, but. But kind of stoner, I felt. But I felt like a real grunge, twangy sound wall. That was punky, too. It had this sort of. Just fill in the space. And I heard this song a long time ago and it came back up and I was like, yeah, no, this is perfect for today. So Perfect for the mood. [00:47:44] Speaker A: Yeah, that, like, fuzzy is very. The fuzzy petal or whatever. I'm not being articulate in what that is. But, yeah, that's very, very punk. And that's how. Yeah, that's sort of how I think of her. It's like punk adjacent. But, yeah, her lyrics are always. I remember when I brought her on the song on a couple years ago, we talked for a long time about her lyrics and, like, her album names. Yeah, they're all super funny. But, yeah, I don't know this album, but now I. Now I really want to listen to it because I never. It's like one of those things where it's like, you don't really think about. I wouldn't have thought about the two of them coming together independent, like, without this album coming out. And then when it happens, you're like, oh, my God, of course, if they. [00:48:27] Speaker C: Ever got married, they should do a DNA test because the babies will be fun. [00:48:32] Speaker A: Pennsylvania is the Australia of northeast United States. Yeah, that's cool. Nice. [00:48:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:46] Speaker A: Awesome. [00:48:46] Speaker C: Well, there it all is. [00:48:48] Speaker A: All righty. [00:48:48] Speaker B: That's what we listened to last week. [00:48:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what we listened to this week. Anything else? Any. Any other comments on the music we heard today? [00:48:58] Speaker B: H. No. It was all good. [00:49:01] Speaker A: It was all good. [00:49:01] Speaker B: Different genres. [00:49:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Good variety today. [00:49:03] Speaker B: Maybe there was an underlying theme of despair. I don't know. Maybe not. [00:49:08] Speaker C: They're all pretty energetic. [00:49:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:11] Speaker C: In their own way. [00:49:13] Speaker A: Even if the energy is negative, it's still energy. Right. Cool. Alrighty. Well, thanks, everybody, for listening and tuning in. Don't forget, if you have something you want us to listen to, you can drop a comment below the YouTube video or send us an email. Helloongmountainpublicmedia.org until next time. Time. Bye. [00:49:37] Speaker B: See ya.