Sally Was a Bird in the House of Love | S2 E10

[00:00:05] Speaker A: Hey, everyone. Welcome to what I listened to this week. We're back. We have a full panel. John is here. Eric is here. Sergio is here. Melanie's here. Hi. [00:00:16] Speaker B: Hello. [00:00:17] Speaker A: We're excited because we're coming up on Thanksgiving. And so our icebreaker today is going to be sort of about Thanksgiving. So it'll be. You know, what I would like to hear is kind of what your favorite tradition is, your favorite memory, or if you have, like, a unique tradition, just something about your Thanksgiving that you think might be fun to share or something you want to share. And I will start with Eric. [00:00:46] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [00:00:48] Speaker B: You're on the spot. [00:00:51] Speaker C: I was telling John that there were. I basically have gone to Thanksgiving up until last year with the same group of friends for the last 35 years, at least. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Wow. [00:01:08] Speaker C: And unfortunately, the woman who usually does all the work had a stroke last year, so we didn't have it last year. I doubt that we'll have it this year. But we watched the kids grow up. Some of them weren't born. Well, most of them weren't born when we started. They were. So we would show embarrassing pictures of them when they were babes and would run around naked. And now they're large and cool, and guests were very embarrassed. So that was great fun for the parents. So. [00:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that. One of these days they're gonna pull out embarrassing photos of you. [00:01:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:50] Speaker A: And the kids are gonna turn it on you. That's cute, though. I like that. 35 years. That's awesome. [00:01:57] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. With the same. Basically the same people, except for the ones who died, but, you know, that happens, too. [00:02:03] Speaker A: Yeah. That's incredible. [00:02:06] Speaker C: Yeah. So it's been really good. It's a great way to stay in touch with people. [00:02:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:13] Speaker C: Okay, that's mine. [00:02:14] Speaker A: All right, John, you're next. [00:02:15] Speaker D: I have a story, and it's a cautionary tale that might help you guys, too. You should know that the probes on meat thermometers are not interchangeable, even though they work and they plug into each other. And I learned this the hard way on a Thanksgiving dinner where I. Because I'm always cooking it. And I plugged the old meat thermometer in there, popped it in. You're supposed to cook it to 165 degrees. And I had this thing in there for, I don't know, 14 hours or something. I mean, it was turning into a sawdust product, and it was terrible. And it was just smoking like crazy. And I just keep looking at the thermometer and it's like, wow. It's 151 still. And then I got. Then I. Then I decided at some point. And maybe it was the drink as well. I don't know. But at some point, I got one of those little stabbers thermometers, you know, and I go, well, I'll check it with this thing. [00:03:22] Speaker A: Sure. [00:03:22] Speaker D: And it was like 270 degrees or something. This bird was. It was so bad. Hot, hot, hot, hot, man. And what would have become gravy was a sort of, like, caramelized paste stuck to the bottom of the pan, and you just throw straight in the garbage, you know, so there's no gravy. And then this dry thing. And, you know, the oven was just smoking like crazy, too. And, you know, everyone was a good sport. [00:03:51] Speaker C: Was there alcohol involved here? [00:03:53] Speaker D: There was. There was alcohol involved. And I wouldn't recommend getting a Turkey to 275. But there was no worry of any food poisoning. [00:04:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:03] Speaker D: Or anything like that. [00:04:05] Speaker B: Maybe the burger. [00:04:06] Speaker C: Too much protein. Yeah. [00:04:08] Speaker D: The bird died in vain, let me tell you that. Because not even a dog would eat that. That was terrible. [00:04:15] Speaker C: So what'd you do? [00:04:17] Speaker A: Yeah, what did you tackle about? [00:04:18] Speaker D: Well, you get all those sides, you know. [00:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:04:21] Speaker D: I mean, there's all the stuffing. We did the Stove Toppy type stuffing. So we had this stuffing and all the veggies, and people brought lots of sides. So, I mean, it's kind of like we just put the bird out. It's just sort of a. A decoration. You know, put that on the table. But, you know, it's kind of a. Sort of looked like a mummy from Egypt or something. [00:04:39] Speaker A: It was pretty bad, isn't there? I feel like there's like. Is it the National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? Is that the movie where they, like, go to cut into the bird and it just, like, deflates because it's, like, so dry and horrible, and there's, like, nothing on the inside. And he goes to cut it, and it just, like, defines. I think it's that movie. Anyway, that's what I'm picturing. All right, well, that's a good lesson. Do not. The meat thermometer probes are not interchangeable. [00:05:09] Speaker D: Right. [00:05:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Love it. All right, I'll go next. I don't really have anything, like, super exciting or interesting from, like, family Thanksgivings or whatever, but our tradition is we always try to go to New Mexico either for Thanksgiving or right after Thanksgiving. We have no family there. We have no reason to go there. We just. That's what we do. And we like it. I like a Place where the margaritas outnumber the people. And last year we actually rented like a tiny home, which was a really fun experience because it was really cozy and it was just really nice. It was like 375 square feet or something like that and. But what I didn't really think about is the fact that it didn't really have like a kitchen kitchen. It had like a hot plate and a microwave and that's it. Or it was like a. It was like a two burner hob and then like a microwave and that was it. No oven. But we don't eat turkey, so didn't really have to worry about roasting a turkey. But our Thanksgiving dinner was like a lot of pre made things from Trader Joe's and like microwavable things. But it ended up being really good. It was just, you know, it was unique. I didn't make really anything from scratch. It was just like, stuff that I could assemble in a kitchen and it was delicious. And I brought a pie and that's all that you really need anyway, so. But yeah, that's our tradition. Margaritas on Thanksgiving. All right, Sergio. [00:06:47] Speaker B: I'm trying to remember. I think for us, I force my mom to make stuffing. I love stuffing. She adds like pecans into it. I don't know, I need to get her recipe because I could eat this stuffing like every day. And then fruit salad. [00:07:07] Speaker A: Oh, that's different. [00:07:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And I just. I don't know, I. I love that stuff. Trying to think what else. I do remember one time, since obviously you know, my family is Mexican. So I think one day I was like, mom, can we have like a typical Thanksgiving dinner? And she ended up making like the green bean casserole. [00:07:32] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:07:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it was fucking nasty. It was so bad. And I was like, I never want to do this ever again. [00:07:39] Speaker C: So. [00:07:40] Speaker B: But that's. Yeah, that's kind of it. [00:07:42] Speaker A: I mean, put those. I'll put those fried onions on anything. Those are really good. But like, the rest of it is, like, it's gnarly. My dad always would, like, beg for the, like, sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top. [00:07:55] Speaker B: Ooh, that's pretty good, actually. [00:07:57] Speaker A: So that's like the classic. It's just too. It's too much for me. But he would always ask for that. That was always his request. Well, anyway, happy Thanksgiving to everybody who's listening and I guess let's get to the music. [00:08:13] Speaker B: Sure. All right. The first song on the playlist is what Up Dog? By. [00:08:18] Speaker C: No, it's actually Spy in the House of Love. [00:08:21] Speaker A: Oh, not. [00:08:21] Speaker C: What up, dog? No, I thought I. It's down at the bottom of the picture that I sent. [00:08:27] Speaker B: Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Scratch that. Hold on. [00:08:31] Speaker A: We can go to the Sergey. Why don't you go to the next song and then I'll add that one, the other one to the playlist. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Okay. You're going to be in at the end. [00:08:38] Speaker C: Okay. [00:08:39] Speaker B: All right. [00:08:39] Speaker A: Sorry, Eric. [00:08:40] Speaker C: Yep, no problem. [00:08:41] Speaker A: That's my bed. [00:08:42] Speaker B: The official first song is called Sally Was a Cop by Chuck Proffitt and Keen Save. [00:08:52] Speaker D: Hi. [00:08:53] Speaker B: And I will just start playing it because the discussion is coming after and we're all going to be. [00:08:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, we're going to discuss after. [00:09:01] Speaker B: Critique this song heavily. Just kidding. Sally was a cop. Here we go. [00:09:25] Speaker E: Sally was a cop now she's a song soldier Another foot deep another day. [00:09:37] Speaker F: Older. [00:09:42] Speaker E: I used to be on top Now I just roll over I used to run hot Now I run a little col. Well, they're marching up the street People hiding in their cupboards. [00:10:24] Speaker A: From. [00:10:25] Speaker E: The crooked politicos to the mercenary lovers the socializing psychopaths are dancing with each other Sally was a cop but now she's a soldier Shot in the back in the ditches of Takate 35 bodies lying in the highway Children forced to dig the graves of their fathers Sally was a cop now she's a soldier they're marching up the street People hiding in their cupboards from the crooked politicos to the mercenary lovers the social arts and psychopaths Are dancing with each other Sally was a cop now she's a soldier. [00:14:04] Speaker B: All right, that was Sally Was a Cop by Chuck Prophet. [00:14:08] Speaker D: Prophet? [00:14:09] Speaker A: Whose song was that? [00:14:10] Speaker D: That was my. Yeah, okay. And I heard that song about a week ago, and I'm like, ah, who the heck is this? And Chuck Profit kind of rings a bell. That was kind of interesting. And then I heard it today, and for some reason, I don't know if it's how your mind works or whatever, but I heard it today and it just drove me crazy. It was just like the second time around, it just cranked it up. I had my earbuds in, and then I went home and I watched. There isn't a music video for this, but I brought it up on YouTube and listened to it again and did a little bit of research into it. And I just thought his. I thought his voice is so honest, just so pure. There's nothing about that voice that has any artifice to me. You know, it's just so easy. And I thought the guitar was. I Just I love the guitar. And I would play that in a playlist with. Hey Joe, where you going? That gun in your hand hey, Joe. But anyway, I guess it's about. The song is about. He and another guy from Mexico wrote this song together, but they were down in a area that was kind of narco area. And while they were there, 37 people ended up dead on the highway. And it completely creeped him out. And the guy was kind of like, yeah, this is. This happens all the time. And. But he said that, you know, the militias and the cops and the narco groups. He just said you didn't know who people with the guns were. You know, he just. But anyway, so he just. This album just came out. He just got off of chemo. He's got lymphoma, but he's testing clean, so for cancer. And I don't know. I'm gonna dig more into this guy. But I mean, this song just really hit me today. [00:16:09] Speaker C: I thought it was great. It sounded to me like the great lost Dire Straits song. [00:16:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I was thinking Dire Straits too. Okay, cool. [00:16:19] Speaker C: But I mean, it turned dark. Whoa. That just went way dark really quick. Yeah. And the other stuff was sort of Dylan esque. And I said that's cool. But yeah, really like that. [00:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah. I also thought Dire Straits. That's really interesting. I think it's probably the voice. The voice and the guitar mixed together. I didn't love the voice, but I do agree with you that I. It's like. It felt very raw and very honest. It kind of almost had that, like, he was definitely singing, but it was almost like sometimes you could almost hear like he could be on the verge of talking, but also singing, which is kind of neat. And I think that's cool because it does feel very raw in that style. I love the guitar. I especially love that, like, solo bit towards the end. I thought that was great. Also love, like any. I forget what those instruments are called, but they're like often fish shaped, but they're like the percussion instruments with the ribs and you like rub the stick up and down on it. But yeah, no, yeah, that's what. Yes, that's what it is. Like in Spanish, I think. I don't know what, like the English version, if there's any. There may not be an English version of that. But yeah, I'm. I always love hearing that. But yeah, I think. Yeah. Love the guitar voice kind of meh. But like, that's just the style and I totally get it. And that's totally just like my pov. But yeah, really cool. [00:17:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I really liked it. Yeah. I want to listen. You said that album just came out. [00:17:56] Speaker D: Just came out. [00:17:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:56] Speaker B: I want to listen to it. [00:17:57] Speaker D: Yeah, he had one hit on it. You might have heard it on the radio. Got a lot of airplay. It's called Summertime Thang. [00:18:05] Speaker A: Oh, that sounds familiar. [00:18:06] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:18:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:07] Speaker D: Let the B and A beat goes on. Yeah, you know that. [00:18:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I know that one. [00:18:11] Speaker D: That song hit on it. [00:18:12] Speaker A: But yeah, it's cool. It's interesting because, like, I often, like, my husband will give me crap for, like, artists that I. Where I don't like their voice right away. I'm like, that's it. I'm done. And I'm like. And I can't. But oftentimes, like, it'll grow on me. But there's a lot of artists that, like, I. I just like discount because I just can't do the voice. But. Yeah, but I. I would give this more of a listen just to see if it, like, wore on me. [00:18:41] Speaker D: I think artists that overdo it, just like Florence in the Machine, I change instantly. Or Adele or sometimes Bono, you know, just like, I hate Bono just over singing, you know, just. [00:18:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I could go on for hours about Bono, but I won't. All right, cool. Good choice. Like, it. It felt different than maybe what we have heard in a while. [00:19:11] Speaker B: All right, the next song is called Tumast Tincha by Tenari Wen. [00:19:24] Speaker A: Walking through wind. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Walking on the water. [00:23:16] Speaker F: Sa. [00:23:42] Speaker B: That was too most tincha by tanari1. Do you want me to start or do you guys want to come? [00:23:50] Speaker A: Normally, we've been reacting without you giving anything. Well, it's yours, right, Sergio? [00:23:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, I'll go. I really liked it. It was really interesting at the beginning, before the singing started, I actually was getting like division bell, like David Gilmore, like, division bell vibes at the beginning. But then the singing canceled that out. But they like the guitar and the sound. The kind of like, sort of like ethereal space guitar sounds is kind of what I was thinking. But I think what I. What I thought was really cool and what I really liked about it was how there were a lot of moments in the song where the voice mimicked the movement of the guitar, which I feel like you don't often hear when it's like those little, like, bendy. Bendy things. Well, I don't know what the. I don't play guitar, so I don't know the term. But like, when you're playing it and you do the little, like, bendy thing on the String. But, like, the voice was mimicking that. And I feel like sometimes when you hear a song, like, you don't. The voice may mimic, like, the melody of the guitar, but it doesn't mimic those, like, little, like half, quarter steps or whatever they might be. So I thought that was really interesting and kind of cool. It just was very different, I think, than things I usually hear and usually listen to. And I always think that's really interesting, and that always intrigues me. So. Yeah. [00:25:21] Speaker C: Is that Native American? [00:25:23] Speaker B: No, they're actually from Africa. It's like. I'll get into it. [00:25:30] Speaker C: Okay. I was wondering because it sounds like I've been watching Dark Wind, which is a Native American mystery series based on the books by Tony Hillerman. And there's like a zillion books. But anyway, they made a couple of seasons of a series of it. And it sounds like it would be a soundtrack for that Native American in the desert, you know, where weird things happen kind of movies. I mean, a song. I liked it. I didn't recognize the language at all, so I just sort of. Just sort of transported me there. But I liked the music. [00:26:11] Speaker D: Yeah, I totally liked it. And it's one of these songs you want to listen to with headphones. [00:26:16] Speaker A: Yeah, no, absolutely. [00:26:18] Speaker D: The orchestration's so tight. And I would bet. Was it Ry Cooter that produced this, or. I have no idea, because it has so much Ry Cooter in this. And Ry Cooter did a lot of the. It's like Ali Akbar in Nigeria or something. And he. He also did the Cuban one with. [00:26:41] Speaker C: The Social club point of his Social club. [00:26:46] Speaker D: And he's done a lot of world music type of raikutors. This real master of that. But it had such. The Raikuter sou. The way. The way he would engineer an album. But I'll look that up because I would almost bet. But it sounds so good. And I was like, where have I heard this? And it was. And it really reminiscent of that. But, yeah, just reminded me it would be great road music. Right. Just for your big drive. [00:27:19] Speaker B: That's exactly why I picked. It's kind of like a comfort song or even comfort music. I think this album, I think, came out in like 2013 or something, so it's quite a few years old now. But, yeah, I'll give you some of the context behind it. Just. And I have some stuff written up. So Tanari Nguyen are. Maybe. I might butcher this, but Tuaregs. So they're children of a nomadic Berber tribe who have roamed this inherent desert for thousands of years. So. And I guess colonialism has kind of obviously took over some of the ancestral territory into different countries, so Mali, Algeria, Libya, and Niger. And the group was actually formed back in 1970s, where the founding group's father was named Ibrahim Something, who was the son of a Tuareg rebel who had witnessed his father's execution at the hands of the Malian government. And he built his own guitar using a tin can, a stick, and a bicycle brake wire and taught himself how to play. And he basically just, like, drifted through towns and refugee camps in search of work. And he met, like, other musicians, and they, like, hang out around a campfire and, like, write songs and stuff. So all, like, the. All their albums have that, like, nomadic, campfire, desert blues type feel. And, yeah, it's very unique. And I actually got a chance to see them live in San Diego, of all places, a couple years ago. But if you like this music, it might be worth checking out some of their other albums. [00:29:01] Speaker A: But that's cool. How did you. I mean, this came out a long time ago, but how did you. [00:29:09] Speaker B: I had a friend recommend all into them. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Okay. This. [00:29:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Introduce them to me. And then because he also listened to this whole album on a road trip, he was like, I couldn't stop listening to it. And then he sent it to me, and I was like, yeah, it's. It's awesome. I don't know. It's comfort road trip music. [00:29:28] Speaker A: Cool. [00:29:28] Speaker B: For me, anyway. Winter music or. I don't know. There's a vibe to it. [00:29:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of cozy. It's got coziness to it in a way. Interesting. Really cool. [00:29:40] Speaker B: All right, nice. Up next, song called I'd Miss the Birds by Joy Oladukun. I may. I may have butchered that. [00:29:51] Speaker A: I don't actually know how to say her last name. Their last name. [00:29:55] Speaker B: Okay, so here we go. I'd miss the birds. [00:30:10] Speaker G: Lately I've been dreaming Of a house out in the woods with the big backyard My dog and my lover gave Nashville a chance and made it farther than they thought I would but it doesn't mean I should hang round and suffer this world on fire still has good to discover I wouldn't make I miss the traffic or the runaway trains and the proud boys and their women Just make me feel out of place oh, but I'd miss the birds and the music that they make but even they know when to fly away I think it's time to fly away Dusty Silverado, Take Me to another. This town has a Way to lead you Wanting for all its brand new buildings and its heroes on parade this town still isn't big enough to love me and I'm still too damn proud to beg for company I wouldn't miss the traffic or the runaway train and the proud boys and their women Just make me feel out of place oh, but I don't miss the birds and the music that they make but even they know when to fly away. [00:31:46] Speaker F: I. [00:31:46] Speaker G: Think it's time to fly away. [00:31:51] Speaker A: I. [00:31:51] Speaker G: Think it's time to make a change it's time to make Spread my wings and drift away I think I finally learned that you can't get back to ease but you can always come back to the place I wouldn't miss the traffic or the runaway trains and the proud boys and their women Just make me feel out of place oh, but I miss the birds and the music that they make and the fear of the earth beneath my feet in early May and the magnolia leaves as they. [00:32:34] Speaker F: Fall out of place. [00:32:39] Speaker G: Even they know when to fly away oh, I think it's time to fly away. [00:33:09] Speaker C: Well, there's a story, I think, that was back to front, just. Just a tale of a woman who, you know, gave it a shot, didn't work, had to leave. It's perfect. [00:33:26] Speaker B: I feel like it made me not reminisce. It's like how I kind of feel about. With the election of, like, you know, like, maybe it's time to go somewhere else. Like, America gave it a try and now we're fucked. But I don't know when the song came out, so. I don't know. [00:33:48] Speaker A: It's new, so. [00:33:49] Speaker B: Okay. [00:33:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:53] Speaker D: Yeah. No, yeah. The proud boys and their women would make me feel a little bit more than out of place. But, yeah, it's. [00:34:03] Speaker C: Maybe it wasn't those proud boys. Maybe it was just. [00:34:06] Speaker A: Could be any Proud Boy doesn't have to be capital letters. [00:34:10] Speaker D: Proud boy. [00:34:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:13] Speaker D: Yeah. No, Yeah. I think that's a dilemma that a lot of people are going through, and I'm. Yeah, but like, when you said, you know, about the election, you know, some people are thinking like, yeah, Idaho ain't good for me no more. You know, and some people are like, it's America, you know, so. Cause Boulder, Boulder, Longmont, whatever. We don't feel, it's not so in our face. But, gosh, I could imagine being in, you know, some crazy, racist Northwest place or, you know, and just. And thinking, yeah, I'm definitely out of here with the birds. See you. [00:34:55] Speaker A: Bye. [00:34:56] Speaker C: Well, she was talking about, you know, the Heroes going down the street. And I'm thinking that's sort of the establishment country guys and country girls who have made it bigger. [00:35:09] Speaker D: Yeah. Do you think it was sort of Memphis Y or like Nashville? [00:35:13] Speaker C: Nashville. [00:35:14] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:35:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:16] Speaker B: I really loved her voice. Sorry. Yeah, I really loved her voice and the song in general. Yeah, I liked how it was all put together. [00:35:22] Speaker D: Yeah, the music was great, too. The beat, I mean, the beat and just the pace of it was really good. [00:35:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So this song has been. I feel like I've been playing it so much lately. I did hear it on the radio. [00:35:38] Speaker B: What's that? [00:35:38] Speaker A: I'm just kidding. And. And then I. It was one of those ones where it's like, I heard it on the radio. Fortunately, I was not driving. I was, like, at home when it came on. And so I, like, quickly, like, went to my phone and, like, found it and liked it and put it in a playlist so I would remember it. Yeah. I love her voice. So she's a queer black woman from Nigerian, like, immigrants family who lives in or was in Nashville. I don't know if she's still there. So, like, I can imagine that being challenging in a place maybe that's not used to you and who you are. She. I hadn't heard her. Heard of her before this song or until I heard the song, but. But I was listening to some of her back catalog, like the album that came out last year, and I think she sort of got her big break in 2020 and she had like two albums. And her last album, she had a song with Chris Stapleton and Mountain Joy and Pretty Well Known People. And I wouldn't necessarily. This has kind of a little bit of a country vibe, twangy kind of country vibe to it, but wouldn't necessarily categorize her as that. And even listening to some of her back catalog, I wouldn't necessarily put it into the country. 100% country camp. There's definitely a lot of songs I listen to that are more bluesy in soul. There are songs that are more just kind of straight singer, songwriter sort of thing. What's interesting, though, about this album and the song that's on this album and the album that this song is off of, rather, which came out this year, is that she entirely self produced this whole album. So her previous albums were, like, produced by an actual, like, you know, production house producer and whatnot. But she did this one totally herself, which is really interesting. And I listened to it last week all the way through, and the whole thing is definitely very, like, introspective and kind of questioning a lot of things and, you know, wondering. Questioning, kind of like her place in society, her role in society, like questioning the status quo. It's really interesting. It's a lot of like, songs and then there's like talking bits in between where she's like interviewing people and talking to people, which is kind of cool. But, yeah, it's just really interesting. And then this song is just. I think it's so. It's such like a perfect little package. Like, it's a great length, it tells a story. It's not too long, it's not like too repetitive. It has a great hook that gets stuck in your head. It's just a. Yeah, it's just a really nice put together song. And then the only other thing that I wanted to note that I didn't really think about it until I was listening to it today. But it sort of has like that descending guitar picking and chord progression that reminds me of Blackbird by the Beatles. And then this song is also about birds. And then I think the tour she's on right now is called like the Blackbird Tour or something. Anyway, it was just sort of like all these things coming together. [00:39:00] Speaker C: But yeah, so she's from that lineage of Joan Armitrodding Tracy Chapman. [00:39:10] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I don't know what. Who her influences are or anything like that. She actually has a song called Black Car, which I thought was interesting. And I thought at first it was a fast car reference, but I listened to it and it's not like a cover or anything like that. But. Yeah, I don't know that for sure. But certainly related. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, that's good. [00:39:38] Speaker C: Cool. [00:39:40] Speaker B: Last song. Finally. Finally. Eric, we finally got to you. [00:39:44] Speaker D: I got back to you. [00:39:45] Speaker C: No problem. [00:39:46] Speaker B: The song is called Spy in the House of Love by Was not was. [00:40:33] Speaker F: In the house. [00:40:34] Speaker H: I don't know what I'm gonna do this evening. Smile. [00:40:41] Speaker F: In the hustle the air. [00:40:48] Speaker H: Was filled with suspicion. She called us through my team and tried to guess my mission. I pretend that you know nothing especially the expression. But she turns those eyes on me. [00:41:08] Speaker F: And demanding of the mansion I don't. [00:41:12] Speaker H: I am a spy in the house of love. Gathering clues to be used and no more of the affections. I am a spy in the house of love. I won't be refused. [00:41:26] Speaker F: I'm winning your hearts. [00:41:27] Speaker H: You better look at him. [00:41:36] Speaker F: I saw. [00:41:37] Speaker H: Yes. I did everything that we serve. I recorded every movement and finding how to Caesar. I used the time to. I thought I Japanese her. I made a Voodoo doll I sat. [00:41:59] Speaker F: Around the street, Sir, I told her. [00:42:03] Speaker H: I am a spy in the house of love. Gathering tools to be used and no more of the affections. I am a spy in the house of love. I won't be refused. [00:42:17] Speaker F: I'm ready for your hearts deep back to shine. [00:42:20] Speaker H: I'll read your mail. I've got the phone. I'm on a trail you're never alone. One day you'll strip up and leave a lip on. Yeah, I'm a spy, yeah. But I just can't help myself. [00:42:49] Speaker F: In the house of love. [00:43:02] Speaker H: I use the side of camera. I thought I made a sat around. [00:43:09] Speaker F: The squeeze. [00:43:13] Speaker H: I was high in the house of look. Gathering tools to use and the war of the affections. I am a spy in the house. I won't be confused. [00:43:26] Speaker F: I remember your heart's infection. I am a spy in the house of love. Got my clues to be used and. [00:43:34] Speaker H: No more of the affections. [00:43:37] Speaker F: I am a spot in the house of love. [00:43:40] Speaker H: I hope in the future. [00:44:11] Speaker C: So this is obviously an 80s song. [00:44:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:16] Speaker B: There's no way. [00:44:17] Speaker A: If you had said it was not 80s, I don't know, I would have walked out of here. [00:44:22] Speaker C: It's really 80s. It's 1988. I was reading something and I saw Don Was his name. Don Was. Is a member of one of the founding members of Woz, Not Was. He's also president right now of Blue Note Records. For those of you who don't know, it's a historically important jazz imprint. So I said, oh, man. Yeah. So I started listening to this album. I love this album. When it came out, I wouldn't listen to it all the time. So I've just been listening to it again and again. And it's. Some of it is just really hilarious. But I love. The singer's name is Sweet P. Atkinson and he's passed now. But I just love this music. It's sort of. If you listen to the whole. This whole album, it's sort of between. Somewhere between Frank Zappa and Steely Dan. Except you can dance to it. [00:45:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:26] Speaker C: So that's a basic rundown. [00:45:30] Speaker B: I loved it. That was a lot of fun. [00:45:32] Speaker A: I think that's what the kids these days call a banger, right? [00:45:35] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:45:36] Speaker B: Above mid. [00:45:37] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I wanted to dance so bad. It was really hard just sitting here in my chair. I sort of pictured these women in like really like sort of skin tight tube top dresses, like, dancing in the background. That's sort of what I was imagining. The lyrics are also kind of like. It's Interesting when you were talking about Frank Zappa, because is there a lyric where they're talking about a tiny camera and like a tiny voodoo doll. [00:46:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:03] Speaker A: That he hugs or something. [00:46:05] Speaker C: Yeah. It's odd. [00:46:08] Speaker A: And I was like, wait, what? But I feel like it took like a couple of minutes into the song before I was like, is that what he said? But yeah, I mean, technology of the time. Yeah. I mean, what was a tiny camera in the 80s? It was probably like this big. Yeah. I don't know. I just feel like it was. Yeah. This is like. I feel like I need big hair in a convertible driving. [00:46:34] Speaker C: This album. They've got two. They have an album after this, but this is the best of their albums. What Up, Dog? And I'd highly recommend it. It's fun to listen to. [00:46:46] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely fun. [00:46:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I thought. I thought definitely good fun. And that. The intro into that, the discordant where's it going? And then it just settles down. But I love that. I love that. And the orchestration. And another good. Another good headphone track to listen to. A lot going on in that. [00:47:09] Speaker C: Yeah. This group, I mean, it was pretty shirtless, but they had, on the second album, Ozzy Osbourne and Leonard Cohen both guest on it. And this one, they've got Frank Sinatra Jr. So. [00:47:27] Speaker A: Wow. Interesting. [00:47:28] Speaker C: Yeah. So just they're kind of everywhere on it. Wow. [00:47:31] Speaker A: I want to hear an Aussie collab. That sounds really interesting. [00:47:37] Speaker C: So anyway, that's it. [00:47:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:39] Speaker C: Love those songs. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Love it. I want to go rock out to that dance a little bit. [00:47:44] Speaker B: It reminded me of the. You remember you recommended a song for my. For our wedding, and it was like, kind of also funky. [00:47:52] Speaker A: Oh, it's a Cool in the Game. [00:47:54] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:47:55] Speaker B: It kind of reminded me a little bit of that. [00:47:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:57] Speaker A: Stepping Out. [00:47:58] Speaker B: Stepping out by Cool in the Game. Yeah. [00:48:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I could see that. Yeah. [00:48:03] Speaker B: I love the funky stuff. [00:48:05] Speaker A: It's that kind of music that turns on and it's like, you can't not dance. Dance. What do you. I mean, really? You're just going to sit there when that comes on? Come on. [00:48:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:13] Speaker B: I'm sad there's not enough funky music being produced now. [00:48:18] Speaker C: There might. Yeah. Not like this. [00:48:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:22] Speaker C: No. [00:48:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:24] Speaker B: Oh. I don't know what it would be. [00:48:25] Speaker C: But, I mean, there's some stuff coming out of England right now that's funkier than this. Like Ezra Collective stuff. Just look up Ezra Collective, They've got a new one and they're funkier than most, but there's a whole thing coming out of England right now. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Cool. [00:48:49] Speaker D: It's like, just like rock and roll going over there and coming back. [00:48:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:54] Speaker A: Thanks, England. [00:48:57] Speaker D: Repackaging our things. [00:49:06] Speaker A: All right, well, I think that's it for today. Thanks, everybody, for listening. Don't forget, if you have something you want us to listen to, email hellomopublicmedia.org or drop a link in the comments. Thanks for tuning in, and we'll see you next time. Bye.