Episode Transcript
[00:00:05] Speaker A: All right. Hey, everybody. Welcome to what I listened to this week. We're back again. We've got a full panel again, which is great. This is awesome.
So, hi, I'm Melanie, here with Sergio, Eric, and John.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: What's up?
[00:00:16] Speaker A: And as always, we're gonna kick things off with a round of what's new and Good.
I'm gonna throw it to Eric because I know he's got something new and awesome. So. So I'm going to throw it to you first.
[00:00:27] Speaker C: I went to see Rhiannon Giddens at Chautauqua, and she and her band put on an incredible show. I had a great seat, and it was just. It was wonderful. It was. It far surpassed what I thought it could have been.
And she's incredibly talented. I didn't know that she had won a Pulitzer for an Oscar, that she. Excuse me. For an opera that she wrote.
And she also had got a MacArthur genius grant.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: Whoa.
[00:01:00] Speaker C: But the show itself was just incredible. Just a bunch of incredible, talented musicians playing Americana, basically, but blues and folk, and it was just great.
[00:01:17] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:01:18] Speaker A: Nice. That is awesome.
How big? How. How many people? I've never been to a show there. How many people can, like, fit in that venue?
[00:01:27] Speaker C: I think it's about 1500. What do you think? Okay.
[00:01:29] Speaker E: That's a good size 15 Chautauqua.
[00:01:32] Speaker C: Maybe a thousand.
[00:01:32] Speaker D: Maybe a thousand.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: A thousand.
[00:01:34] Speaker E: Wow.
[00:01:34] Speaker C: Thousand. At least a thousand.
And it was back.
[00:01:37] Speaker D: Pretty cool.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: Yeah. That's a nice venue for that, too, because it's, like, intimate, but it's still, like you're gonna. It's a good, like, atmosphere.
[00:01:45] Speaker D: Scary bats flying over your head sometimes in there.
[00:01:48] Speaker A: That's cool, too.
[00:01:48] Speaker C: The funniest part was she came on at the end and was talking and she was doing this lead in, and it sounded really serious, and she got to a point and said, so you need to go over to the table and buy her merch.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: Nice.
That's awesome.
That's so great. Was there a highlight from the show other than that, that you liked the most? Like a certain song they did.
[00:02:16] Speaker C: I don't remember the name of the song, but they did an African song.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[00:02:21] Speaker C: Her former partner in Carolina, Chocolate Drops, Justin Robinson, had really researched his background and found out where he was in Africa. And it had this beautiful, plaintive African song about the experience of not letting your kids go outside because they would be stolen.
And it was just. It was heart wrenching, but it was heartrending.
But it was. It was good. It was a beautiful song, too. So. Yeah, I mean, there were A lot. But yeah, it was good.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: Wow.
Nice. Awesome. All right, John, I'm going to throw it to you. What's new and good?
[00:03:03] Speaker D: All right, so my story today is. And this is.
I have pictures if you don't believe me. I have a.
I'm doubtful already.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Picture didn't happen.
[00:03:15] Speaker D: I have a spider about the size of an almond with legs. So imagine that pretty good sized body and it lives in the side view mirror in my truck.
And so this guy, he creates these big webs and I hardly ever drive my truck. And so today I took.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: What kind of truck is it?
[00:03:34] Speaker D: It's a Nissan Titan.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:03:36] Speaker D: Yeah. So white. It's white. Okay.
So anyway, so I started to notice this. And this is like a couple weeks ago. I drive. I've been going up to Eldora, bringing a lot of gear up there and stuff and plywood and such. But I noticed this spider who will be like, hey, hanging on a thread blowing around my window. And I'm just like, wow, that spider is really hanging on.
[00:04:01] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:04:02] Speaker D: And going into a headwind at 45 miles an hour. That spider has hung in there.
Eventually he'll get into the mirror itself where. Where it's safe. But he had a very elaborate web and I forgot all about him today. And so I was cruising on 36, going 70 miles an hour, just like, look over there. Spider's just like up and down and up and down. And I became a little panicked because it kind of bonded with the little guy. And I was like, can I get over to the right lane and slow it down a little bit here? Because we're going 70. And he's. And I got to Costco and he was hanging there and it looked like he was dead. He was just like, not wind whipped. And I was like.
But when I came out of the store, totally back to life and reinvigorated and.
Yeah. Took him home, took pictures of him.
I gave him a name today.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I was gonna say. Did you name him? I was waiting for this.
[00:05:02] Speaker D: His name is boss and it stands for big old spider with the L being silent. So it's boss.
[00:05:12] Speaker E: B, O, S. It's not Bols, it's boss.
[00:05:14] Speaker D: Boss. But anyway, so boss. Yeah. And I think he has babies in there too.
Probably a she.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: Wait, so, yeah, I was gonna say maybe it's a lady spider. It's probably a lady boss. Lady spider.
[00:05:26] Speaker D: Boss lady.
Yeah. Anyway, and also I got a. I have a new granddaughter yesterday. What?
[00:05:33] Speaker B: Okay, so you.
[00:05:35] Speaker D: I led with the spider.
It's a better story. Anyway, I don't know anything about my granddaughter. She's in grad junk since she was born. Stella.
Her name is Stella.
[00:05:45] Speaker E: Not boss?
[00:05:45] Speaker D: No, not boss.
But you know, being a former language arts teacher, if you name a child a daughter Stella, you know people are gonna do this thing.
So you're gonna, you're gonna have to have a good comeback when someone does that.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:02] Speaker D: Anyway, so that's all good. It's out in Grand Junction. I'm super happy.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: Oh, that's exciting. Congratulations. When are you gonna go see Stella?
You're gonna bring Boss. I'm gonna imagine you're gonna bring, bring him along for the ride.
[00:06:15] Speaker D: No, I'll probably take the electric.
[00:06:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.
[00:06:18] Speaker D: I'll leave Boss to procreate, take over the neighborhood.
Yeah, I don't know, I'm gonna go out there soon. There's lots of grandparents. It's one of those things. They're all descending.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: Wait in line.
[00:06:33] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm gonna wait till she can manage a smile.
[00:06:38] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You've got spiders to worry about. Yeah.
Nice. Oh man, I can't believe you told the spider story first. That's great.
[00:06:50] Speaker D: I hope they don't hear this.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: She's going to grow up and she's going to have all kinds of trauma tied to this. One time my grandpa prioritized a spider.
[00:06:59] Speaker D: By the way, btw, by the way.
[00:07:05] Speaker A: My husband has a hornet's nest in his side view mirror of his truck. It's, it's like, I'm pretty sure it's like defunct now, but we were driving recently and he was like adjusting his mirrors and I like look out and it's like all like built like on the inside, which is way less cool than a spider friend.
[00:07:21] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: New and good. Well, I wasn't gonna say this but then you mentioned it, so I feel like I should say I have a new nephew.
Oh, see, yeah.
[00:07:32] Speaker D: You were just gonna leave it out altogether.
[00:07:34] Speaker A: I was gonna leave it out, sorry. Casey.
[00:07:37] Speaker D: Yeah, Casey, the new nephew.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So I don't know when he'll see him. He's out in West Virginia so I don't know, maybe holidays or something like that when we'll see him, but he has just a shock, like just all black hair, like just came out, just all this black hair and he looks like he's in an emo band from the like late 90s.
[00:08:00] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:08:02] Speaker A: But yeah, it's, it's really funny because I was texting with his mom, my sister in law the other day and I was just like, I can't wait to buy him minivans.
Mini, like, band T shirts at Hot Topic. He'll probably, like. I'm sure he'll. It'll grow out and it'll be blonde.
He can dye it, but I kind of hope it doesn't because I just love it. It's just so. It's so intense. I've, like, never seen a newborn with, like, that and, like, just absolutely intense black hair. So it was. Yeah, he's very cute.
That is.
That is new and good. My other new and good is that next week, one of my best friends from high school is flying in, and we're going to Taos.
[00:08:43] Speaker D: We're going to Taos.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: We're gonna hang out, and we're gonna be old desert ladies for the week. It's. I'm just. I just want to relax. Yes. We're gonna drive, and we're just gonna chill, and I'm gonna, like, think about.
[00:08:58] Speaker E: The desert and do some shrooms, peyote.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: Look at the sun, maybe drink some margaritas, charge the crystals, you know?
Yeah. So that was what I was gonna share. That's new and good. Oh, that's nice. Yeah.
All right, Sergio, what's new and good?
[00:09:17] Speaker E: What's new and good? Today I passed an inspection on my basement bathroom remodel.
Framing. Framing.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: You framed it good.
[00:09:26] Speaker E: I framed it good.
[00:09:27] Speaker D: You framed it yourself.
[00:09:29] Speaker E: And my dad and I just pound in all that wood and we framed it good.
So that's part.
Or was it step one out of many parts?
Second thing. I recently discovered the show on HBO called Green Porno. Has anyone heard about this?
[00:09:47] Speaker C: No, No.
[00:09:47] Speaker E: I think it came out, like, 2008, 2009. It's this French woman who.
This is perfect for public access tv.
She basically does, like, one to two minute clips of how insects have sex, but she dresses like the insect.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:10:07] Speaker E: So she'll do one on spiders.
[00:10:10] Speaker D: Oh, okay.
[00:10:10] Speaker E: Or an earthworm. And she'll slither around.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:10:15] Speaker E: But it's the funniest and also very educational.
[00:10:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it sounds interesting.
[00:10:19] Speaker E: I've learned a lot. I mean, you could watch the season, like, 20 minutes.
[00:10:23] Speaker D: Oh, wow.
[00:10:23] Speaker E: Or two seasons in 20 minutes.
[00:10:25] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:10:25] Speaker E: So I highly recommend it.
[00:10:26] Speaker D: Green Porno.
[00:10:27] Speaker E: Yeah, Green Porno.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: Okay. I'm going to look for that. That sounds fun.
[00:10:31] Speaker D: Is it for couples?
[00:10:33] Speaker E: I mean, we watched it.
[00:10:36] Speaker D: Do you have to kill your partner?
[00:10:38] Speaker E: I mean, that is. That's actually a lot. It happens a lot.
[00:10:42] Speaker D: I know. I was surprised to get it to her.
[00:10:45] Speaker E: Yeah, that really is.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: They're not really useful for anything else once it's over.
[00:10:53] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:10:53] Speaker E: So anyway, yeah, Highly recommend it.
And then last thing. Yeah. I went to go see Ghost. I think maybe I told all of you. Anyway, yeah, it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. It was at the ball arena.
When we got there, they gave us a pouch to put our phones in that they would kind of clip and seal.
And later I realized that there were certain areas that you could go to if you wanted to use your phone, but you couldn't. Like, there were no phones at all during this concert. It was maybe two hours.
It was awesome. It was incredible. Yeah, a lot of. Yeah, great.
Great performing. A lot of great. Good performing. Good lighting.
Yeah. The graphics on the wall or whatever they were doing. I don't know. Projector. It was incredible. Highly recommend everyone go see it. Go see them. Even though you may not like metal, but I think you're always like.
[00:11:46] Speaker D: And they wear masks, right?
[00:11:48] Speaker E: They wear masks.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Yeah, they're like. I feel like they're like the Daft Punk of, like, kind of Nordic metal.
[00:11:56] Speaker E: Nordic. They're Swedish. Yeah, Swedish.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah.
[00:11:59] Speaker E: Yeah. There was actually an article in the New York Times about more artists wearing masks. And Ghost was featured in this article, which was kind of fun.
[00:12:07] Speaker A: I like the pouch idea. That's interesting. Like, as much as. I don't know, I would want to have my phone on me these days, just safety, whatever issues and large venue things. But it's nice to know that you got to pay attention, Immerse yourself in this.
Stop looking at your damn phone and enjoy the music.
[00:12:29] Speaker D: I wonder, is it that or they're afraid that people are going to.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Oh, I think that's what the reason is, but that's why I like it from my point of view. You.
[00:12:37] Speaker D: No, I. I think that's a really good reason.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:41] Speaker E: Yeah. Like, there's not too many. There's not a lot of footage out there about the concert, so I think that's part of it. And other parts. Yeah, just people disturbing, you know.
[00:12:51] Speaker D: How do you do an encore? Like, they had a. Do the lighters. Do you bring the lighters back?
[00:12:57] Speaker C: Remember the lighters?
[00:12:58] Speaker E: No, they did three songs for their encore. But, yeah, everyone was, like, so focused on the show and made it really fun.
I mean, I was a little bit disappointed. I wish I could have taken a picture or two just to show the experience, you know, or try to. And there's been some photos. I think they hired a. They hired a guy to take Some photos, and they're actually making, like, videos out of every city that they, like, play in.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:24] Speaker E: With some recaps and stuff. So I don't think Denver's is out yet, but I'll share that when it's cool.
[00:13:29] Speaker A: Well, it's also, like, a good marketing tactic because there's now, like, an enigma around, like, what their shows are because there's not a lot of, like, footage of people just recording it on their cell phone. It all ends up being either those professionally taken ones or, like, word of mouth. And then if you're a fan or even if you're, like, remotely a fan, you're kind of like, well, I want to go. I want to see what this is. And then that turns into ticket sales. So I think it's like, it's. I'm sure there's many reasons why, but that's. It's a good marketing tactic. It's a good way to create, like, FOMO and demand.
[00:14:02] Speaker E: I agree. Yeah.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: Put on my marketing hat. Take off my marketing hat. I do enough of that during the day.
[00:14:10] Speaker D: I would love to be a folk singer with, like, four people there and make them put their phones in the trash.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: I'm picturing, like, the Longmont venues. Like, there's a band playing bricks on Main, and you walk in. Jennifer's like, give me your phone. Put your boat.
[00:14:27] Speaker C: There's a park seat.
[00:14:30] Speaker E: The funny part was, like, when you left. So they had all these people that would help you unclip the pouch, but you could totally have just walked off without your phone. Be stuck in the pouch.
[00:14:41] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: Was it like those security things like they have at clothing stores? Yeah, that's what I imagined. It would be interesting.
[00:14:49] Speaker D: Comedy shows in Denver do that.
And I really understand that because the comedian, the jokes. You won't laugh if you heard it before, you know, and you don't want.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: To get Dane cooked.
[00:15:00] Speaker D: Exactly.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:03] Speaker D: Yeah. I went to the guy from Silicon Valley, Camille Kanjani.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:15:07] Speaker D: A Pakistani guy.
Everybody put their phones in a pouch for that. That's cool.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: Where did you see him?
[00:15:13] Speaker D: At Comedy Store on Larimer, I think.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Oh, man, I love stand up. I should go see more stand up.
All right, well, Sergio, speaking of ghosts, I think you're first up on the list. And we all had a bet going as to whether I almost did a ghost song. But no, we didn't really have a bet.
[00:15:34] Speaker E: I'll set the stage, and then I'll play the song.
[00:15:36] Speaker D: Cool.
Are we allowed to visualize this.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: As.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: Long as you're not recording it.
[00:15:43] Speaker E: The thought police.
No. Yeah, I'll try to explain. Yeah. So the song starts. Imagine you're in the ball arena. It's pitch black. The orchestral part of the song starts, everyone's cheering, and then the song starts.
And then these screens come up. So they had two screens, one on either side of the stage, and you see the main singer, guy singing. Then they turn on the light inside of, like, where they're performing, but it's covered by, like, black curtains with, like, slits in them.
And then right when the first chorus ends, the curtains drop and then he comes out on stage and it's just like. Everyone's like, ah.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: So this is what they opened with.
[00:16:29] Speaker E: Yes, this is what they opened with. So the song's called Peace Field by Ghost.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: So the dawn of prosperity, a faded.
[00:17:45] Speaker D: Scar.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: An end in calamity A slaughtered song we all need something to believe in until it's over Anything, anyone, anytime. But it's not over yet.
This is what dreams are made of this is what they're afraid of.
Alive with no reason when they finally reach you, you will have seen through the dark is the season your love bright as the starlight oh child, still we can see the black moon over the peace field oh child, stay close to me.
The end of a monarchy, a state machine unable to foresee the Widow Queen.
We all need something to believe in until it's over.
Anything, anyone, anytime. But it's not over yet.
Every new generation feels a grand usurpation devoid of treason it's all getting clearer that darkness, the season, your love brightness, starlight oh child, till we can see a bright moon over the peace field oh, this child stay home to me, you we are region join us one day f we'll find our way through the marshes of death and right back to the barer of light your love bright past the starlight, oh child, until we can see a black room over the peace field oh child, stay close to me your love right past the star light, oh child, till we can see a light rule over the beginning. Sam, that was not what I expected.
[00:22:23] Speaker A: Is that metal? Is that technically metal?
[00:22:25] Speaker D: That's the first question. Is that metal?
[00:22:26] Speaker E: Yeah, technically, yeah.
I've been learning more about metal and it's actually. I mean, it's hard rock. I mean, it doesn't have to be an umbrella term. Yeah, it's a big umbrella term.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: I mean, the chorus is maybe two notes off from that Journey song.
[00:22:43] Speaker E: Stranger ways, strange ways stronger Separate ways, Separate ways.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: Yeah, and I was like, Journey vibes all day, every day.
[00:22:51] Speaker D: I got a little Rush.
[00:22:53] Speaker A: Oh, Rush. Absolutely Rush. At the beginning, I was like, oh, this sounds just like Rush. And then once the chorus came, I.
[00:23:00] Speaker D: Was like, tiny bit of Queen.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe a little bit. Definitely more Russian Journey.
[00:23:03] Speaker C: Did they have that young people's chorus when they played, or did they.
[00:23:10] Speaker E: They did, yeah. They had two women with like.
Like spider web arms.
Skeleton. I don't know. Yeah.
[00:23:21] Speaker C: It. It sounded like something like Rush, like Journey. Like, not what I expected from Nordic metal.
[00:23:34] Speaker A: No, not at all.
[00:23:35] Speaker C: But I mean, I liked it. It was. It was good. It was nice to listen to.
Just totally different than my concept of what that kind of music is.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it was way more melodic than I was anticipating.
Not that metal isn't melodic, but like, you know, there's metal and then there's like more melodic stuff. I don't know.
[00:23:56] Speaker C: There was no screaming.
[00:23:58] Speaker A: There was no screaming.
[00:24:01] Speaker E: Most of their stuff is not screaming, by the way.
[00:24:03] Speaker C: It's. Yeah.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: Interesting. Yeah. In the beginning with the chorus, that, like, organ effect of the harmony, they make it. I mean, there was. I think there was organ maybe playing in the background, but they are also making the voices sound like an organ is kind of like that.
I'm forgetting what it was. There's like a song that was like, from the early 2000s that somebody did, and I'm forgetting the name is facing anyway.
But, yeah, that's. That was very unexpected, but definitely Journey and Rush, for sure.
[00:24:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:36] Speaker D: Did you feel that your ribs were going thump, thump, thump?
[00:24:40] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:24:40] Speaker D: I can always feel it just on my headphones. Forcing the air out of you.
Yeah.
[00:24:45] Speaker E: Yeah. This is their first song on their new album, which came out in April, and they played a couple songs from this album, but this is how they started the show. It was a great way to start the show.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: Pretty epic, no.
[00:24:59] Speaker E: Yeah. I do think it's not what people expect. I think most people maybe think of death metal or screaming, but in none other stuff, there's no screaming. It's mostly more melodic. Like this. Some 80s stuff. I mean, the last song, I try not to bring two songs or replete the artist, because I brought one of their other songs, Dance macabre, back in two years ago.
Um, that was also kind of more 80s hair metal, which is kind of.
[00:25:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:25:29] Speaker A: Anyway, yeah, I liked it. I liked. Because I was going into it, like, I don't know, sometimes metal is a little much for me. Just for me. That's just my taste.
[00:25:38] Speaker D: Yeah, that was.
[00:25:39] Speaker A: But it was great. It was enjoyable, but I Definitely got, like. I also got, like, Guitar Hero vibes. I played a lot.
Played a lot of Guitar Hero in college, and so I was just like, oh, man. I could, like, see this. I don't know if they still make that game, but I feel like this could be a good one. The guitar solo in the middle would be a fun level.
[00:25:57] Speaker E: Through the fire and flames.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
Neat. Wow. Learn something new.
[00:26:02] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. I kind of envisioned you at this metal concert, just, like, doing this.
[00:26:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just getting it all out.
[00:26:10] Speaker D: You're going to metal.
I can see you at this.
[00:26:13] Speaker E: No, everyone was, like, dressed up in, like, the main singer sometimes has, like, pope costumes, but with, like, kind of, like Day of the Dead, like, painting on his face.
Yeah. I don't know. It's hard. I'll try to see if I can find some videos of their concert just so you can see it, but. Yeah.
[00:26:33] Speaker D: All right.
[00:26:34] Speaker E: The next song is titled Gravity by A Perfect Circle.
[00:27:04] Speaker B: Lost again Broken and weary Unable to find my way Tail in hand Disney and clearly unable to just let this go I am so revenue in the unknown Me Heal me Lift me back up to the sun I choose to live I fell again like a baby Unable to stand on my own tailing hand Dizzy and clearly unable to just let this go I am so forever Glory to the unknown Catch me, heal me Lift me back up to the sun I choose to live I choose to live I choose to live Catch me, heal me Live me back up to the sun Help me serve my Sam Catch me, heal me Give me back down to the sun I choose to live I choose to live.
[00:31:54] Speaker E: That was Gravity by A Perfect Circle.
[00:32:01] Speaker C: Really interesting sort of REM vibes.
It was. That was.
[00:32:11] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:32:12] Speaker C: I like that. I haven't heard them before. I don't know this group at all, but I.
And I'm not an REM Fan, but.
[00:32:22] Speaker D: What's wrong with REM.
[00:32:25] Speaker C: You know?
[00:32:26] Speaker D: It's okay.
[00:32:27] Speaker C: You know, there are bands that you can like and bands that you don't like, but maybe they'll have, like, a perfect song.
[00:32:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:33] Speaker C: Like, I think Losing My Religion is.
[00:32:35] Speaker A: A perfect song and music video. It's a great music video.
[00:32:38] Speaker C: Yeah. So I'm not a big fan of their music, generally speaking, but I recognize their influence in other bands, and that sounded like. Like the perfect REM Song.
I liked it. I just don't know these guys at all.
[00:32:56] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:32:57] Speaker E: Yeah. I've never heard this or them before. It reminded me of, like, a darker. Is it Savage Garden?
I don't know why.
[00:33:05] Speaker A: I just Yeah, I like that interpretation of it. Oh, that's fun. I. Yeah, that's cool.
[00:33:13] Speaker E: The vocals were kind of, like, murky, you know, Murky.
[00:33:16] Speaker D: Like.
[00:33:16] Speaker E: Kind of like they were underwater. And the solo. That was a really cool solo, how it was kind of building up.
Yeah, I. I'm curious to explore or re. Listen to this and then explore some of their other stuff.
[00:33:29] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. So once again, we got that bass.
[00:33:33] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:33:33] Speaker D: The dumping bass. Yep, yep. No, I could. I could see sitting in the intersection and helping my fellow drivers out there enjoy that bass lick. It's just like.
[00:33:45] Speaker E: Yeah, gotta get you out for cruise night.
[00:33:47] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, no, yeah. The layers in it and just very spacey and just the title, Gravity. Are they Irish on this one? No, no, no. I thought. I thought I heard detective. Irish accent. You know who Luca Bloom is? No, the vocals are a lot like this, but, yeah, I couldn't pick up a lot of the lyrics.
It's almost like it would have to, like, you know, where's this going? And I was kind of wondering, you know, I was thinking while listening to the song, which I did, like, did they come up with the song first and write the lyrics to it or is it.
[00:34:29] Speaker A: You know, how sometimes.
[00:34:32] Speaker D: Because it felt like they had this melody going and the song and it's all. No, no, no. But, yeah, no, I could definitely, definitely listen to that.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: Yeah. So this is the last. This is. This song is the last song on the album titled 13th Step, which you can probably tell from the title is like a concept album about addiction, which is interesting because the lead singer, who is mainly the lyricist, admittedly, has never struggled with addiction. So it's sort of his interpretation of it through all of his friends who have. Which is kind of interesting. So if you listen to it in the scope of the whole album, and this is the last one, and it's sort of the most optimistic one. But all the songs are, like, either coming from the viewpoint of the person with the addiction. People outside of that, trying to understand the addiction.
I think some songs are even supposed to be written from, like, the drug itself, which is kind of interesting.
So it's kind of. It's.
When you listen to the whole album, it sort of is nice and comprehensive, but, like, listening to this with that in mind, I think is. Is kind of neat. I actually. I brought this. Well, one. I like this song. This whole album is like, one of my top albums of all time. And how old is it? 2003 was when it came out.
[00:35:55] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:35:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Which was like, peak me being Real pissed about a lot of things. So I think when. When it came out, I interpreted it as like. Like a teen. Like an angry teenager would and didn't really think about the addiction angle. And then as an adult, as I listened to it, I was like, oh, wait a minute.
What are the. What is it? Oh, okay. I get what they're saying, but I think it's one of my favorite albums. I chose the song. I like this song, but I chose it because I thought everybody here would know this band. And so I didn't want to bring, like, the single or, like, the radio hit. Right.
Which is the second. There's. I think it's track two, and then track six on the album are, like, the radio hits.
So if you like this, definitely go back and listen to the album. Listen. Track two is, like, so good.
It's what made me. I had a coworker share that. It's called Weak and Powerless Coworkers share it in our, like, Music Channel in Slack at work a couple weeks ago. And it was one of those things, like, you know, when you forget about music that you absolutely love, not forget, but it's just, like, been out of your brain space for a while, and then somebody brings it up and you're just like, oh, my God, I love that song. How did I forget about this album? And so now I've just been listening to this album, like, on repeat because that song, like, jogged my memory from it, but it's like a. So the lead singer is Maynard James Keenan from Tool.
And so this was his side project that he did. The guitarist and the guy who started the side project was the guitar tech for Tool and the Smashing Pumpkins. So kind of all weaves into that, like, sort of 80s 90s rock.
And it was kind of a super group. I think one of their other original guitar bass players was from Queens of the Stone Age for, like, maybe the first album. This was their second album.
And then he left.
But, yeah, it's kind of like a California rock. Well, not all California. I just know that Maynard was in California.
But yeah, so they were kind of like a. Yeah. Spinoff from.
From that. And originally the first album, actually, the music was all written.
The. The guitar tech guy originally wanted to enlist the female singer from the Cocteau Twins, and that's who he wanted to be the singer for this band. And then she wasn't available, and so he was staying at Maynard's house, and he was, like, playing around with the music. Maynard's like, I can sing that.
So that's how he, like, came into the band, which is kind of interesting. But if you listen to the first album, it's like, all that music was written actually with a female singer in mind, which is kind of interesting.
Anyway, those are all the fun facts, but definitely recommend giving them a listen. It's such. It's such a good album. It's very. It's a lot softer, more melodic than, like, Tool.
It's like the. The softer version of that.
[00:38:45] Speaker C: Great song.
[00:38:47] Speaker A: Thanks.
[00:38:48] Speaker D: Yeah, if. If my song isn't up next and you could play it next. It goes well with this one. Oh, it's the opposite.
[00:38:56] Speaker A: I don't know what I put in order. I don't know if John's is the Shaky Graves one.
[00:39:01] Speaker E: Well, that one is last, but I can play it next.
[00:39:05] Speaker D: It's almost like a debate.
[00:39:06] Speaker A: Okay, cool.
[00:39:07] Speaker E: All right, the next song, we're skipping Eric, because we're gonna end on Eric.
[00:39:12] Speaker D: Okay, cool.
[00:39:15] Speaker E: The next song is called Roll the Bones by Shaky Graves.
[00:39:43] Speaker B: Sam.
[00:40:25] Speaker F: That sweet heirloom There may be stones.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: Or take a chance and roll the bones Cut off your hair Unplug your phone and sell your belongings or your clever drawings yeah Try to make a color from the grain Sell your.
Yeah, so it goes yeah, so it goes Go damn city boys in concrete clothes or take a chance there all the balls go crash your car Burn down your home I guess you Struggle all you like yeah Put a girl in fight they say that someday Everybody dies alone Struggle all you like yeah, but I'm love and finally say that someday Everybody dies along the faith lo.
[00:43:33] Speaker A: I love the, like.
The, like, sound of the, like. It sounds like they're doing, like. They're, like, slapping on their body while they're singing, which I love that. It also kind of sounds a little like, I know. Shaky Graves, but, like, I don't listen to them that much, but they kind of sound like Dr. Dog a little bit. Or maybe the Dr. Dog sounds like Shaky Graves, but they kind of have similar sounds, which I never really, like, thought about, but only because we. I brought them last time, so they were, like, top of mind.
But, yeah, it's. It's kind of a fun song because it's like. Or an interesting song because it's got a. The. Like, the slapping whatever is, like, kind of fun. Like, my toe is tapping the whole time. But then when you listen to the lyrics, you're like, oh, this is maybe a little darker than what they're presenting in the. In the tone. Right. So that's kind of interesting.
[00:44:25] Speaker C: It's folky, but kind of scary.
[00:44:31] Speaker A: Like goth folk.
Yeah.
[00:44:34] Speaker C: Yeah. Goth folk. That's a great description.
I don't even know what to say. I like it.
I don't know.
My son went to see Shaky Graves at Red Rocks a couple of years ago and said it was a great show, so I'm gonna go on that. And I like the music, so I'd probably listen to it again.
[00:45:00] Speaker E: I've never heard of. I've never listened to Shaky Graves before. This is my first song.
Yeah, I felt like. Yeah, more gothic folk. I don't know. I got some of that twang. Kind of reminded me of, like.
What's that song by Carolina Chocolate Drops?
Sweet. Is it Cornbread and Butter Beans for some reason. I don't know why.
Definitely made me feel, like, anxious for some reason. I think just, like, the spooky. Yeah. Spooky dread.
Like, something. I don't know. Something's gonna happen.
[00:45:39] Speaker A: Yeah. The note intervals that they were using, I think were probably. Or there was something with, like, the dissonance between the different string instruments that created that.
I don't know. Maybe there was some, like, seconds in there or something. I don't know.
[00:45:53] Speaker E: Yeah, more like psychological. Like, psychological horror. Almost, like. Just like. It's, like there.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:46:00] Speaker D: Shaky Grave.
[00:46:02] Speaker E: Yeah, but I like the. Yeah, the beat and, like, had a good flow to it.
[00:46:07] Speaker D: This. This is. I've never heard this version.
And it's the worst of them all.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:46:13] Speaker D: Really terrible. I was almost thinking, is this a cover?
I didn't even know if that was Shaky Graves. His version is so. The one that I had.
So bluesy. Oh, I mean, he really does this. So bluesy. And it. He's doing.
But he pretty much does it all by himself. He's just got the. He's got the drum thing with his feet. Doing it all by himself. And it's the reason I said to use this one after yours, because this is about addiction. But it's like, roll the bones. Go. It just. You know, it's. It's not like.
It's. It's like the Devil. The devil be damned, you know?
[00:46:53] Speaker A: Yeah. And burn down your house with a meth lab. Just do it.
[00:46:57] Speaker D: I saw this. There's a really great video of this. I think I might have sent it to you.
There's this.
[00:47:02] Speaker C: Yes. Yes, you did.
[00:47:04] Speaker D: Little Room in Lawrence, Kansas. And I hear that Lawrence is cool, but it's in Kansas.
But there's a. They have. And so any band that goes through Kansas, I think, goes to Lawrence and They have a video production class in Lawrence. It's called room 101. And he played there. And then they also had the Heart in the Head. They have all these different bands that will stop in and perform for the students. And the job for the students is to capture it all on video and do the sound for it.
[00:47:33] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool.
[00:47:34] Speaker D: And when he does it, he's just. He just stands in front of the whiteboard with his little drum in his feet and stuff and just hammers out. It's so cool and so bluesy and just real deep, gravelly, almost. Almost Chicago blues style. But this was a lot more Dr. Dog as far as the vocals.
[00:47:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:58] Speaker D: And I wonder. I don't think he was doing the vocals on it, but I liked it in the end. But in the beginning, I almost stopped you. I was like, no, this is the wrong one.
But.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: Oh, man. Yeah, I mean, I just. We. I just picked the. The first one that came up that matched the same picture as the picture that you sent, but I didn't look at, like, the credits to see, like, who was singing or anything.
[00:48:22] Speaker D: Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know he had different versions of the songs.
[00:48:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:26] Speaker D: But. Yeah, Roll the Bones.
[00:48:28] Speaker A: I'd heard that song before, too.
It sounded. Or at least it sounded familiar. Like, I'd heard it before, but I don't know if it was like, that version or what. But it didn't sound, like, totally unusual. But, yeah, we can.
[00:48:42] Speaker E: Seems like Rush has a version of it, too.
2004 remaster. But there. Yeah, it says Roll the Bones. Audio Tree Lie. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah, There is another with a different cover, like, album art.
[00:48:54] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:48:55] Speaker E: Huh.
[00:48:56] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:49:00] Speaker D: Yep. He was so. If you don't know, Shaky Graves, he was in Friday Night Lights. He was one of the actors in that. Oh, yeah. He plays one of the high school kids in that. And then he was. Became a. Oh, wow. A rock and roller.
[00:49:15] Speaker A: Oh, man. Well, sorry we picked the wrong one.
[00:49:17] Speaker D: No, that's. That's fine.
It's hard. There's so many versions of it.
[00:49:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Apparently. Had no idea.
[00:49:25] Speaker E: Well, sorry, you guys.
[00:49:28] Speaker A: Well, everybody out there, just listen to the other versions.
[00:49:31] Speaker E: We'll link to the YouTube.
[00:49:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, we'll put a. We'll drop a link.
[00:49:36] Speaker E: All right, the. And last but not least, next song is called Everything's Beautiful by Hiatus Coyote.
[00:50:21] Speaker F: I was walking down on my way I was fine, fine I was fine, fine the sun kid sitting on my face I was fine, fine I was fine, fine to let you know, don't you know love?
Don't you know Everything's beautiful?
[00:50:56] Speaker B: Don't you know love?
[00:50:59] Speaker F: Don't you know everything beautiful?
Singing through my headphones I was fine I was fine I am free from I was fine didn't you know te.
No love don't you know everything beautiful?
[00:51:34] Speaker B: Didn't you know everything beautiful?
[00:52:25] Speaker F: I know, I know.
[00:52:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:52:28] Speaker F: I was hoping that you notice.
[00:52:42] Speaker A: That's a good song to end on.
[00:52:44] Speaker D: I know. I was just thinking about that.
[00:52:46] Speaker E: All this existential dread and then there's sunlight.
Everything's beautiful.
Thank you, Eric.
[00:52:53] Speaker A: That was great. I love. I love, love the vocals. I love how they followed the bass, which was kind of cool, man. That's the other theme of the episode, is the bass.
The flute was awesome. That's so great. You don't hear. I mean, you don't hear flute that often. I guess we don't feel like we haven't brought a lot of flute stuff.
Next episode is all Jethro Tall.
[00:53:17] Speaker C: Let's not do that.
[00:53:18] Speaker A: Yeah, let's not. Let's not.
I. Yeah, I love that. I mean, from start to finish, I feel like it went by. So is it a short song?
Okay. I was like. It went by so fast, and I don't. Sometimes that's just because I'm like, you know, I'm, like, in it and don't really pay attention. That was so fun. Love the, like, funk, retro, kind of funk sound to it. But it, like, was new. It was, like, updated funk.
But, yeah, her. I. I love, like, her crazy range. Like, that's.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: That's.
[00:53:47] Speaker A: That's really fun. That's really, really neat.
Yeah.
[00:53:52] Speaker D: Yeah, I love the funk. I mean, you could just feel that funk. It was so funky. And then.
Yeah, her vocals just kind of playing around.
It's. It probably very jazzy, very spontaneous.
I. I doubt that. It was like, okay, I'm gonna deliver these lyrics this way. She just was rolling with it, so.
[00:54:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it almost felt like she, like, did a take and then they saved it. Yeah, and then she did another one, and they saved it, and then she did another one, and then they, like, layered all of them. They took, like, all the interesting ones and then just layered them on top.
[00:54:29] Speaker E: I don't have any. Yeah, I. I loved it. I thought it was fun. I don't have anything different else to say than what these two have said. Yeah, I want to listen to more of it.
[00:54:39] Speaker A: She sounded like a little bird. I was sort of picturing, like, what was Snoopy's friend? Woodstock.
[00:54:47] Speaker D: Woodstock.
[00:54:48] Speaker A: Like, sort of a drunk Woodstock.
That's what I was picturing.
[00:54:55] Speaker C: They're an Australian band, and John and I were talking about it. It's like, well, Australia's taking over everything. But, yes, this was in their album from last year.
I started listening to them because my son said, I'm going to see them. I said, oh, okay.
And I started listening. And they've got.
They're a part of a movement called Future Soul. And you can hear little bits of Prince, little bits of d', Angelo, little bits of Maxwell.
It's a little bit of Ezra Collective.
But they're going in a sort of different direction. And the best soul music right now is coming out of Europe, it's coming out of Africa, it's coming out of Australia, of all places.
But I like them. They're goofy and weird, but it's good music to listen to.
[00:55:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Their band name is. Is a fun.
[00:56:00] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:56:01] Speaker E: Hiatus Coyote.
[00:56:02] Speaker C: Yeah. And it's like coyotes in Australia.
[00:56:06] Speaker D: They're dingoes. They have dingoes that eat the children.
[00:56:13] Speaker A: Yeah. But it's, like spelled. It's spelled differently. You can tell they're kind of a fun. Yeah. Fun band.
[00:56:20] Speaker C: And they've been around for a while. They've been around since, I think, 2010.
But their late music, their latest music has been really good.
[00:56:31] Speaker A: Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. Australia. Wait, why did you say Australia is taking over?
[00:56:38] Speaker E: Is there a new war happening?
[00:56:41] Speaker D: I mean, it just seems like Margot Roby. I just. I've been seeing all these things that just. Australians, Australians. I was watching Platonic and. And Rose, who plays with Seth Rogen, she's the opposite of him. She's amazing, but she's Australian. Just. And it's like, wow, there's so many Australians. I mean, the Cole Kidmans and everything.
Mel Gibson is now in charge of Hollywood.
They're taking over.
[00:57:07] Speaker C: But he's an American who.
[00:57:09] Speaker D: Oh, he is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:57:11] Speaker C: He's just pretending to be in Australia.
[00:57:15] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:57:16] Speaker C: Anyway, I like them, and that was one of their.
Their new album is better than this album, but I just thought I'd start there.
[00:57:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I like it.
[00:57:26] Speaker E: Cool, fun, really neat. Thanks for ending on a cheerful note.
[00:57:31] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:57:32] Speaker C: I think we needed it because everything is beautiful.
[00:57:34] Speaker A: Everything's right.
[00:57:35] Speaker E: Including you.
[00:57:35] Speaker D: I'm fine.
[00:57:36] Speaker A: Yeah, man.
[00:57:38] Speaker E: Including you, Eric, don't forget.
[00:57:41] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:57:43] Speaker A: All right. Well, on that note, I think it's probably time to end, but thanks for all the great music today, guys.
Don't forget, if you have something you'd like us to listen to, shoot us an email helloamapublicmedia.org or drop a comment here below the video or whatever, and we'll see you next time.
[00:58:03] Speaker C: See you.
[00:58:03] Speaker A: Bye. Bye.
