Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: Hey, everyone. Welcome to what I listen to this week. We're back with another episode with Sergio and Eric.
[00:00:11] Speaker C: Hey.
[00:00:12] Speaker A: Hello.
[00:00:13] Speaker B: And me, Melanie.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
We're excited to talk about some new music this week. But first we'll start it out with our usual round robin of what's new and Good.
And I'll toss it to Eric today. What's new and Good, Eric?
[00:00:30] Speaker A: I ran into a friend of mine and she said we were talking about music, of all things, and Rhiannon Giddens name came up and Rhiannon Giddens is going to be at Chautauqua next month. And she says, well, do you want to go? I said, yes.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
So, I mean, because it was like, just fell into my lap and it was, yeah, I really want to go see her.
So that was good. And Go Go Penguin is going to be at the Boulder theater.
[00:01:02] Speaker B: I saw that.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: October, I think it is.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like October 6th or something. Yeah. I was going to message you about it because I. One of the many, like, concert venue emails that I'm on, they sent one specifically about that. They were like, hey, Go, Go, Penguin's going to be there.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: Yeah. So definitely going to go see that one.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: Maybe we should do a podcast outing to go see it together. Yeah, that would be fun.
[00:01:24] Speaker C: We can record the podcast there while the show's going on.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: Live reaction to every song.
I'm glad you saw that, because I saw it come through a week ago and I was like, I gotta send this to Eric. I gotta get on those Chautauqua emails, though, because I never know who's going there.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Yeah, there's some other really good people who are going to be there. Oh, Leo Cocky and Julian Lage are also going to be there.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: I don't know them.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Leo Kaki is like, he's real old, but he's really good. And Julian Lage is like the new iteration of Pat Methany.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: Okay, interesting. That's fun.
Cool. Well, that is new and good. Awesome.
I'll go next because mine's related. I also.
Mine's related to a concert. I went to Red Rocks last night and I saw Weird Al, which is kind of a random thing. I feel like most people I've talked to are like, what?
Really?
[00:02:23] Speaker C: I didn't know he still played music.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't either.
[00:02:26] Speaker A: I didn't know he never played music.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: But he's still cranking out stuff.
But it sort of was like kind of a greatest hits tour, if you will.
So they Played a lot of stuff from his full catalog, including this I didn't know, but he apparently does a lot. He did, like, the Captain Underpants movie theme song. So there were a lot. There were a fair amount of, like, families there, which is kind of interesting because, like, some of the content was a little, like, maybe not family friendly, but there was a lot of, like, let's call it like, 8 to 12 year olds, which kind of tracks. Because, like, when I started listening to Weird Al, I was probably, like, 6, 7, 8 years old. And so I think it kind of makes sense that they. Maybe they discovered him through, like, Captain Underpants and then like, also discovered, like, Eat it or whatever, his greatest hit. Yeah, yeah, but it was really interesting. And he did a couple of, like. He always does those polka melodies medleys of, like, popular music.
And so he did, like, a newer one that I guess I wasn't 100% sure because I think it was just because I didn't know any of the songs because it was a lot of current pop music that I wasn't aware of.
So he did that and then, yeah, did all the classics like Eat it and Fat and Dare to Be Stupid and the Star wars ones and Amish paradise and all that.
So it was a really. It was a fun show. And they did a lot of, like, medleys that weren't necessarily, like, parody songs or whatever that were really impressive from, like, a musicianship standpoint. So it was. It was kind of. Yeah, it was interesting. I was not expecting it. I was sort of pleasantly surprised. I kind of went for, like, the nostalgia factor of it, but was actually pleasantly surprised by the music that I heard. And everybody in the, like. Most people in the band, with the exception of, like, maybe three. Three people, it was a pretty big band, are all, like, a lot older, like, probably his age or older. So that was kind of fun.
And the crowd definitely skewed older. I would say that I was probably about the average age there, which makes sense. And then there was a lot of, like, folks who were probably, you know, maybe 10 or 20 years older than me, but definitely a lot different because I saw Peach Pit there a couple weeks ago, and that demographic was, like, 20 to, like, 25. So it was like. And everybody was like. The difference is, like, it was, like, 20 to 25 year olds who were, like, standing and vaping throughout the entire show. And, like, this one was, like, everybody sat through, like, almost the whole show and, like, ate popcorn.
This is very different. But it was. A lot of. It was a lot of Fun. And if you have a chance to see him live and you're, like, kind of a fan, I would definitely recommend it because he puts on a really good show. It's kind of like a comedy show, too. Like, there's bits in it and stuff. It's kind of funny.
Yeah. Anyway, that's new and good for me. That was a long one. Sorry. Hey, Sergio, what's new and good with you?
[00:05:42] Speaker C: I guess I can stick to the music theme. I did buy tickets to go see Volbeat, which will be my first metal concert ever. So I'll be at the ball arena in July.
No, just going for full tinnitus.
And then I saw that Rachel and Vilre. I don't know if you guys know who they are. Rachel. I think her last name is Pricer. She's from Lake Street Dive.
[00:06:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:06:10] Speaker C: She does a duo with this other guy named Vilre, who's a guitar player. Yeah, they did their first album, came out a couple years ago, and they played at the Boulder Theater, which was awesome.
Anyway, their third album is coming out soon.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:06:25] Speaker C: They just had a new single release, so.
Anyway.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:06:29] Speaker C: That's kind of it.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: Neat.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: That is new and good. All right, let's get into the tunes. What's up first?
[00:06:36] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: DJ style.
[00:06:38] Speaker C: Pull up the playlist and.
Well, I guess it's. You did Falling Behind. Yeah.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:47] Speaker C: Okay.
The first song is called.
I get. It's the one I brought. It's called Rule number four. Fish in a Bird Cage by Fish in a bird Cage.
[00:07:21] Speaker D: I'm a fish.
[00:07:22] Speaker E: Inside a bird cage My brother always sings me songs and with his beak he tries to soothe me he makes me feel that I belong.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: He has.
[00:07:39] Speaker E: A wild imagination and tells me things that must be true like there's a world where I can take flight.
[00:07:53] Speaker C: Where.
[00:07:53] Speaker E: I can freely move so carry me these walls, brother of mine show me the world outside Light it has to be true.
I'm counting on you to be my wings in my eyes As I breathe into our silence There's a voice that comforts me It's a voice of understanding it's the voice of empathy Wings of feathers, tails and fin tips I feel each rock so different differently.
You gave me more than I could ask for Indistinguishability so carry me these walls, brother of mine show me the world outside it has to be true.
[00:09:17] Speaker D: I'm counting on you to be my world.
[00:09:21] Speaker E: Wings in my eyes so carry me on these walls, brother of mine show me the world outside has to be.
[00:09:50] Speaker D: True I count on you to be.
[00:09:55] Speaker E: My wings and my eyes.
[00:10:05] Speaker C: That was rule number four. Fish in a bird cage by fish in a birdcage by fish in a first cage.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: It was very theatrical. Like, it sounded like it could be part of, like, a play or a Broadway show. Like, this is the scene about the fish in the birdcage and it's having a conversation with a bird.
So that, that was like my initial thing or my initial kind of thought to it is that I think it was the combination of, like, the strings, even though they weren't.
I wouldn't call them like orchestral, but the combination of the strings with the production of the voice sounded very theatrical, kind of like musical. Ish.
I also sort of got like, if you sort of over. Not overproduce, but like more produce. The Decemberists. I kind of got that vibe a little bit too, which was interesting, but it was very intriguing. I kind of like that it had, like a story to it a little bit.
And it was kind of interesting that the music of it was like, pretty simple, straightforward. Just like that string part and then like kind of the repetitive, like, bass chord thing.
Yeah, very interesting.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: Kind of a bizarre tango.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: Oh, bizarre tango. That's a good take. Yeah, Yeah, I agree.
[00:11:35] Speaker A: And I'm listening to the lyrics and the lyrics are just odd.
So it's sort of like what I picked up on first was, hey, this is a tango. But the story is very Broadway. Or maybe off Broadway.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I would. Yeah, off Broadway.
Maybe eventually Broadway. I mean, you never know. Cats did have a long run.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: I was traumatized by seeing Cats.
[00:12:06] Speaker C: The Broadway show or the movie?
[00:12:07] Speaker A: The Broadway show.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: I think a lot of people of a certain age range were traumatized by seeing Cats.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: It's like, wow, this is really bad.
For real.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: So anyway, never say never. Never say always off Broadway.
[00:12:22] Speaker A: But I like fishing at birkage.
I like to beat and I like the production.
It wasn't overdone.
And it was kind of intricate too, the way that this strings, different strings play together and so, yeah, it was cool.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it was kind of a neat balance of, like, less produced, like, instrumentals and more produced vocals. Kind of like the instrumentals were kind of simple, but the vocals were a little bit more, like, polished, I guess you could say. Or I don't know if polish is the right word, but just sounded more produced, I guess.
Anyway, so what's the deal with this one?
[00:13:07] Speaker C: I, I, I, I don't know. I think I got fed them through Discover Weekly or something.
This is from their EP, which came out in 2014, and their subsequent albums, they all have, like, rule number one, whatever. And it's in sequential order. So I think they're up to, like, rule number 46. And each song has, like, a different theme or whatever.
I like this one. Yeah. Because of the, like, the simplicity of it. But then there's, like, all these other layers there. Love the. The violin, whatever string instrument is playing.
The lyrics, to me, was more maybe. I mean, they were weird, I think theatrical. I hadn't thought of that.
But to me, it seemed more of like trying to be, like, empowered or something, or wanting to be empowered would feel. Wanting to belong somewhere.
I don't know. It's just like. I think those two combinations kind of just struck stuck with me. And I was like, oh, this is kind of nice song.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:09] Speaker C: I don't have too much, but there.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: Was something, I thought, oh, with the song naming thing. So it's like every album, it's like. Like, their first album was, like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
[00:14:20] Speaker C: Yeah. So, like.
So, like, their first. Their EP is rule number one, Magic. Rule number two, Moonlight. Rule number three, Paperwork. Rule number four, Fish and Birdcage.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: What are their albums named?
[00:14:34] Speaker C: Their EP is named Fishing Birdcage. And then it goes through. Through the Tides, Waterfall, nanowar, Mentors, and. But, yeah, they have, like, so many.
Yeah.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: It's kind of a neat way to name songs.
[00:14:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:50] Speaker B: I thought it was kind of clever, really easy.
[00:14:53] Speaker C: I was like, are you trying to put a message in each song? I don't know.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:56] Speaker C: You know, I feel like a rule to live by.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: I would have a hard time remembering, like, oh, yeah, this is the one that I really love.
But that's interesting. What a. What an interesting way to name songs, huh?
Cool.
[00:15:10] Speaker C: I don't really know anything else about them. I did not come prepared, but I guess Spotify is telling me that they're coming to the Paramount Theater.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: That's probably why they served it up in the Discover Weekly. They gotta sell those tickets.
[00:15:24] Speaker C: Oh, this is like. Yeah, yeah.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Cool marketing. I know how it is.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: I know how it goes.
[00:15:31] Speaker B: Awesome. Cool. That was a neat one.
[00:15:34] Speaker C: Let me.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Wait. Eric, had you heard of them?
[00:15:37] Speaker A: No.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: Okay. Something you said made it seem like you had known them. Okay, cool.
[00:15:44] Speaker C: Why is this not low?
[00:15:45] Speaker A: But I really like the concept of fish in a birdcage.
[00:15:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:48] Speaker C: Although the part seems weird to see. Yeah. Just flapping around in there.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: Is fish in a birdcage just a metaphor for, like, fish in a net? It's kind of the same thing.
I guess a bird would get out of a net. That doesn't make sense.
[00:15:59] Speaker C: It's like a fish in a barrel.
I don't know if you've ever seen that YouTube video with the German guy. No, no.
I do not understand the concept. Fish in a barrel. I'll have to show it to you, stupid.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: Okay. I mean, I know about, like, shooting fish in a barrel or.
[00:16:15] Speaker C: Yeah, he's like, I don't understand why you shoot the fish in a barrel. Why don't you just take the fish out of the barrel?
Anyway, on that note, the next song is called Kick out the jams by MC5.
I did that too early by MC5.
[00:16:56] Speaker F: But I couldn't get crazy now, baby.
Cause we all got it Tuna. Just a group. Got crazy now, baby I know how.
[00:17:07] Speaker G: You want it.
[00:17:22] Speaker F: I have to get my shit.
Baby, you can't do without them when you get the biggest feeling.
[00:17:50] Speaker D: My hand.
[00:17:52] Speaker F: Let me kick out the J Kick out the J.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: In your face.
[00:18:51] Speaker F: Let.
[00:18:52] Speaker D: Me be who I am and let.
[00:18:54] Speaker F: Me kick out the jail Damn. Kick out the jail I done kick them out.
[00:19:21] Speaker C: That was Kick out the jams by MC5.
[00:19:27] Speaker B: Oh, I could.
I don't know if anyone else here could see this, but I could see, like, Jack Black performing that in school for Hock. It was kind of like I was like, wait, was this one of those songs that the kids did? I don't think it was, but, like, yeah, I love the. What I love about this song is that it's one of those songs where as soon as it starts playing, you are just, like, bob in your head, and you're like, yeah, yeah. And you're in, like, a tiny club, and it's really loud and it's dark, and they're, like, unhinged on stage.
And everybody in the whole crowd is like, yeah. And everybody's with it.
Kind of got, like.
There were moments where I was getting, like, AC DC vibes in a way, but, like, not quite the same. Also, like, I also sort of got, like, Unhinged, Lo Fi, the who.
But, yeah, it's sort of. Yeah, it definitely has, like, a vibe of, like, yeah, we're gonna rock.
Which is, like. When I think of. When I think of that, I think of, like, those two bands.
So I think that's probably why that's. That's the full circle of what my brain was doing while I was listening to that.
But also, like, very punky, though, too. Like, it's not. It's not just, like, classic rock. It was Like, I think that's why it wasn't really quite the. Reminding me of them. It's because it was like, it felt it skewed more punk than. Than anything in my head. Anyway, that's my take. Sergio, what do you think?
[00:21:09] Speaker C: I think Eric brought this on because I didn't know who MC5 was.
I think I remember him telling me that, like. But then I was like, there was another song. Was it this song that I didn't know, or.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: I thought it was the Clash.
[00:21:22] Speaker C: Oh, it wasn't this band?
[00:21:23] Speaker A: No.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: Oh, never mind.
[00:21:26] Speaker A: Because I wouldn't expect you to know this band.
[00:21:29] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. I have no idea who this band is. It sounds. Sounds old. Sounds like they've been around for a while.
But they're like. Maybe they were, like, the impetus of something. Like they were the first or something to do something.
I could feel like I'm about to go through a history lesson with Eric, but I.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: Professor Eric.
[00:21:48] Speaker C: Professor Eric. Teach. Give me your music wisdom.
[00:21:52] Speaker B: Give me the context that I'm missing.
[00:21:56] Speaker C: I. It was fun. I echo the, like, bopping.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Maybe you want to, like, punch somebody in a mosh pit.
[00:22:03] Speaker C: Yeah. I got maybe, like, hints of, like, Labamba. I don't know why.
Maybe.
I don't know.
Yeah, it was. It was fun. Yeah. I want to. I want to. I want to know more about them and check out some of their other stuff.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Okay. MC5. MC is Motor City. They're from Detroit there.
They predate AC DC, but sort of contemporary with the who. But as you were saying, they're sort of. And I think both of you got it. They're sort of proto punk.
They were one of the first bands that did this. And I chose them because I saw them play live in 1968.
[00:22:50] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:22:51] Speaker C: Wow, man.
[00:22:52] Speaker B: More street cred for Eric.
You just keep racking it up. You gotta spread some around.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: So. And the circumstance was. It was the day before the big night at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 68.
And then that happened in Grant park. But the day before, they played in Lincoln Park.
And so they got off this one because this is the hit, you know. Gotta start out. And start out banging.
And then the Chicago Police on three wheeled Harleys drove up on their low.
Their sort of low level stage and started tearing it up.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: So it was like, classic.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Chicago Police, you know, they were there to disrupt the meeting of all these hippies and all these, you know, Black Panther types. And me, because I was just a kid, and they ripped it up and stopped the music and the Next night was the big riot.
So there. That's my. My historical perspective. But I like these guys. They were associated with the White Panther Party, which was just.
They were like the Black Panthers. They had sort of the same goals. They went to feed people. They wanted to make sure people had basic stuff for living.
They were pretty radical for the day. And they screamed a lot.
[00:24:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: And one of them married Patti Smith, which is why her name is Smith and his name was Fred Smith, also known as Fred Sonic Smith.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: Okay, that tracks. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, it was one of those. It's one of those bands where it's like when Sergio said the name before he started playing the music, I was like, oh, this one is in some, like, weird Rolodex somewhere in my brain. Like there was some point in my life where, like, they came across me and it was like they were in my. And then like, I've forgotten about them. But, like, I was like, I couldn't tell you anything about them or, like, name a song by them or anything like that. But the name was super familiar.
So my guess is like. Yeah, my thought is like, maybe it was.
We used to have a punk show at the radio station I worked at and my friend, my like, best friend was the host of it. And so I would sit in on it a lot because I was not knowledgeable enough to host it, but I would show up and like, sit for the.
For the show. And my guess is it came across in one of those episodes. And that's why it's like, there's a weird nugget in the back of my brain. But, like, didn't know any of that.
But that's so interesting.
Wow. When you were there.
[00:25:44] Speaker C: That's so cool.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:25:46] Speaker C: There was. When I was adding the song to the playlist, there was an uncensored version.
[00:25:51] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:25:52] Speaker C: And it was like 20 seconds longer. And I was. I almost put that one instead of this one.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: You would have had to edit it out.
[00:26:01] Speaker C: Yeah. Is it. But is it mostly. Is it pretty much the same or what?
[00:26:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: Is there a rant at the end or something?
[00:26:09] Speaker A: No, there's a. There's a brothers and sisters or there's like the Samuel L. Jackson beginning.
[00:26:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:26:18] Speaker C: Huh.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:26:19] Speaker C: That's okay. We can swear on the show.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: It's fine.
[00:26:22] Speaker A: Yeah, but you know, you gotta watch the audience.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: Yeah. You never know.
[00:26:28] Speaker C: Well, there is a non censored version out there.
[00:26:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:31] Speaker B: For those who are interested.
[00:26:32] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: Wow.
Good stuff.
[00:26:35] Speaker C: I think that was it. Yeah. I Remember you telling that story, But I think that's why I was. I feel like you had told me.
[00:26:44] Speaker B: About MC5 before, but I really want to, like, find some vinyl. I bet it would be valuable. Yeah, yeah. Super valuable.
[00:26:53] Speaker C: Wonder maybe Doug has it.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Or this is one where it's like you have. You go where somebody is, like, cleaning out, like an estate sale or something, and you go through and you find something and they're like, oh, yeah, these are my uncle's records and I'm just trying to get rid of them. And you're like, yoink.
[00:27:16] Speaker C: Anyone who's listening has vinyl.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: You have a buyer.
[00:27:20] Speaker C: We take donations.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: Cool.
Nice.
Awesome.
[00:27:27] Speaker C: Do you have a lot of albums?
What's their discography like?
[00:27:31] Speaker A: I think they've got four, but they're included on a bunch of Best of.
[00:27:36] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Compilations.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:39] Speaker C: Cool.
Let's check it out.
All right. The next song is titled Falling behind by Laufey. Laufey. I think it's Laufey.
[00:27:55] Speaker A: I think it's Laufey.
[00:27:56] Speaker B: Laufe.
[00:27:57] Speaker C: Laufei.
[00:27:58] Speaker B: I wasn't sure. I figured Eric would know her, so.
Actually I do, but yeah, Laufey. She's Icelandic Chinese, so.
[00:28:07] Speaker C: Oh, wow.
[00:28:08] Speaker B: But it's her first name, which I think is Icelandic, so.
[00:28:11] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, well, you gave too much already, so sorry.
This is Falling behind by La La Fe.
[00:28:32] Speaker H: Moved out to a new city June is dawning down on me.
[00:28:41] Speaker C: Find.
[00:28:43] Speaker H: A sickly romance in the air Lovers stroll without a care inside.
Ooh, this can't be right.
Cause the sun's engaged to the sky. My best friends found a new guy I'm only getting older I've never had a shoulder to cry.
Someone to call mine.
Everybody's falling in love and I'm falling behind.
Touched the ocean fell right in. Stepped outside and burned my skin My life won't go my way.
Bossa nova in my room Hope that I'll find Someone to. To love because the sun's engaged to the sky. My best friends found a new guy I'm only getting older I've never had a shoulder to cry on Someone to call mine.
Everybody's falling in love and I'm falling behind.
Everybody's falling in love.
Everybody's falling in love Everybody's falling in love.
[00:30:37] Speaker B: But.
[00:30:39] Speaker A: Me.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: One, two, three.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: It's the new bossa nova, but it's the nova.
She does it very well.
She's got a great voice.
The song sounded like something that you could have heard on the. God, you guys are too young. Do you remember these?
Like the Dean Martin show.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: Oh, I was thinking, like, Lawrence Welk, but, yeah, Dean Martin. Okay.
[00:31:45] Speaker A: Yeah, cool.
Or something that Frank Sinatra would have done, but he would have had a guest star, like his daughter singing it or something.
Very good. Very cool. Very.
Like I said bossa nova, and I like her voice.
I've heard her do more traditional jazz stuff, and she's good at that too.
[00:32:11] Speaker C: Yeah. I've never heard this before or have heard of her, but yeah, that was wonderful.
[00:32:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:17] Speaker C: I loved how it started, and then I was not expecting her voice. Love the voice. Love the song. She definitely has some fomo. You know, everyone's falling in love, but I'm falling behind. You know, it's like a millennial.
But no, it was. Yeah, it was really nice. Yeah.
Yeah. I want to listen, definitely.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: I think she is a millennial. I'm trying to do the math in my head.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure on that.
[00:32:44] Speaker C: I like the fake out at the end, you know, that was. That was nice.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: The fake out's really neat.
Yeah, I, I.
This one was interesting. It was one of those ones where I was, like, listening to the radio while I was making dinner, and, like, most of the time, I kind of tune it out, and then, like, you hear a bossa nova song come on the jazz station, you're like, it's a bossa nova song, and I like bossa nova. I tend to, like, skew bossa nova anyway. But then I was like, it. Like, something about it caught my ear where I was, like, starting to listen a little bit harder than I normally do.
I think it's like the agree. It's like, kind of, like the. The sort of throwback vibe to it. I think it's something to do with, like, the instrumentation of the, like, the piano or, like, the synthesizer that they're using for the piano. It sounds like you're, like, looking at, like, an ad in the 60s for, like, the modern American housewife would love this new refrigerator. Like, it feels like that's, like, the background music that would be playing, which I think is kind of interesting, like, when you combine it with, like, the acoustic guitar that would be normally in the background vocal. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
But anyways, that's kind of interesting. The fake out, like, I thought was. I love that. I think that's so cool. And, yeah, her voice. I love a female voice that has a lower range. It's so much more interesting to me than ones that are higher.
Because I think everybody, you know, everybody wants to be a soprano, but not Everybody is a soprano, so.
But, yeah, she's a Grammy winner. She won a Grammy for, I think, her second album, Bewitched.
I didn't know much of her, like, here and there. I'd kind of heard of her, and I don't really know, Like, I know some of the jazz stuff that she's done. I listened a little bit this week to, like, some of her other stuff that I would. I would say is, like, less jazzy or maybe more. I don't want to call it pop, but I would say just less jazzy. And I honestly didn't like it as much, so I think I'll probably stick to some of her jazzy stuff. It's not bad. It's just. I like the jazzy stuff better.
But, yeah, I think she started as, like, a cellist in the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra when she was, like, 15.
[00:35:16] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: And then. And her mom is a violinist, and then kind of, like, you know, Rose from there. She went to Berkeley, so. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
[00:35:31] Speaker C: Cool. Yeah, that's good.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:35:33] Speaker C: Good stuff.
[00:35:35] Speaker B: I have a bonus song.
[00:35:36] Speaker A: I think we should hear it.
[00:35:37] Speaker C: There's a bonus.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: So it is a Weird Al song, because I.
[00:35:43] Speaker C: Never mind. I'm just kidding.
[00:35:45] Speaker B: But here's. Here's the thing is, I was thinking about this on the way over, and I was like, I could play a song that I know by him, or I could pick one that I don't know at all.
And was basically. So I just was, like, making. I went to the show alone, so I was making conversation with people around me, and this guy next to me was like, I really hope he plays this song, but I know he won't play it because it's an original and it's, like, not the right venue for that song or something like that. And I was like, oh, I don't know that song. And then I was like, I should listen to it when I get home. And then I never did. And then on the drive over here today, I was like, I still haven't listened to it. Maybe we should all listen to it together.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Let's listen to it together.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:36:24] Speaker C: Let me add it to a playlist.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: Let me add it to the playlist. And then.
All right, it should be on there now.
[00:36:31] Speaker C: A Weird Al original that we've never.
[00:36:34] Speaker B: Heard before that none of us have ever.
All right, here we go. Okay.
[00:36:41] Speaker C: Unless Eric has heard it.
[00:36:42] Speaker A: No.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: No, I can't. Yeah.
[00:36:43] Speaker C: You know the name of it?
[00:36:45] Speaker A: No, but I.
[00:36:46] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:36:47] Speaker A: I have a limited exposure to Weird Al.
[00:36:49] Speaker B: Yeah, that's okay. All right. It should be on there now if you want to pull it up. It's called Al.
I was also intrigued because I was like, ooh, I like New Mexico.
But. And so when he said it, I was like, ooh, this is another one of those things where it's like, this sounds familiar. There's like a weird nugget in my brain that like might know this one.
So maybe when we listen to it, I'll be like, oh yeah, I know this one. But I didn't know it by name, so.
[00:37:12] Speaker C: Okay, let's do it. Here's the. Here's the bonus song. It is Albuquerque by Weird Al Yankovic.
[00:37:27] Speaker G: Way back when, I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait Shop. You know the place. Well, anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was just peachy. Except of course for the undeniable fact that every single morning my mother would make me a big old bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast.
Ah, big bowl of sauerkraut every single morning. It was driving me crazy. Instead of my mom, I said, hey mom, what's up with all the sauerkraut? And my dear sweet mother, she just looked at me like a cow looks.
[00:38:01] Speaker I: At an oncoming train. And she leaned right down next to me and she said, it's good for you.
[00:38:10] Speaker G: And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a fucking and force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was 26 and a half years old. That's when I swore that someday, someday I would get out of that basement and travel to a magical faraway place where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer and the towels are oh so fluffy. Boy, the Shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long and anyone on the street'll gladly shave your back for a nickel.
Wacka wackadoodoo. Yeah. Well, let me tell you people, it wasn't long at all before my dream came true. Because the very next day a local radio station had this contest to see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in Leonard Nimoy's bus. I was off by three. But I still won the grand prize.
That's right. A first class one way ticket to Albuquerque.
[00:38:59] Speaker D: Albuquerque?
Oh yeah.
[00:39:04] Speaker G: You know, I've never been on a real airplane before and I gotta tell ya, it was really great.
[00:39:09] Speaker I: Except that I had to sit between.
[00:39:10] Speaker G: Two large Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor. And the little kid in back of me kept throwing up the whole time. The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts. And the in flight movie was Viadome with Pauly Shore. And oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out. We went through a tailspin and crashed into a hillside. And the plane exploded in a jet giant fireball. And everybody died except for me. You know why?
[00:39:35] Speaker D: Cause I have a tray table up.
Am I seat back in the full upright position, Have a tray table up?
Am I seat back in the full upright position, have my tray table up?
Am I seat back in the full upright position.
[00:39:56] Speaker G: So I crawled from the twisted, burning wreckage. I crawled on my hands and knees for three full days, dragging along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag and my tenor Saxophone and my 12 pound bowling ball and my lucky, lucky autographed Glow in the Dark snorkel.
But finally I arrived at the world famous Albuquerque Holiday Inn where the towels are oh so fluffy. And you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna.
[00:40:21] Speaker C: Here.
[00:40:22] Speaker G: It's okay. They're clean. Well, I checked into my room and I turned down the AC and I turned on the Spectra Vision and I'm just about to eat that little chocolate mint on my pillow that I love.
[00:40:31] Speaker I: So very, very much when suddenly there's a knock on the door.
[00:40:34] Speaker G: Well, now, who could that be? I say, who is it?
[00:40:38] Speaker I: No answer.
[00:40:39] Speaker D: Who is it?
[00:40:40] Speaker G: There's no answer. Who is it? They're not saying anything. So finally I go over and I open the door and just as I said expected, it's some big fat hermaphrodite with a Flock of Seagulls haircut and only one nostril. Oh man, I hate it when I'm right.
So anyway, he burst into my room and he grabs my lucky snorkel and I'm like, hey, you can't have that. That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me. And he's like, tough. And I'm like, give it. And he's like, make me. And I'm like, kay. So I grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus and I bit off.
[00:41:13] Speaker E: His ear and he.
[00:41:14] Speaker G: He chewed off my eyebrows and I took out his appendix and he gave me a colonic irrigation. Yes, indeed, you better believe it.
[00:41:20] Speaker I: And somehow in the middle of it.
[00:41:22] Speaker G: All, the phone got knocked off the hook.
[00:41:24] Speaker I: And 20 seconds later, I heard a familiar voice. And you know what it said?
[00:41:28] Speaker G: I'll tell you what it said. It said, if you'd like to make.
[00:41:32] Speaker D: A call, please hang up and try again.
If you need help, hang up and bend out your arms. Operator, if you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again.
If you need help, hang up and down your operator.
Albuquerque.
[00:42:01] Speaker G: Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel. But I made a solemn vow right then and there that I would not rest. I would not sleep for an instant until the one nostril man was brought to justice. But first, I decided to buy some donuts. So I got in my car and I drove over to the donut shop and I walked on up to the guy behind the counter and he says, yeah, what do you want?
I said, you got any glazed donuts? He said, nah, we're out of glazed donuts. I said, well, you got any jelly donuts?
He said, nah, we're out of jelly donuts. I said, you got any Bavarian cream filled donuts? He said, nah, we're out of Bavarian cream filled donuts.
[00:42:40] Speaker I: I said, you got any cinnamon rolls?
[00:42:42] Speaker G: He said, no, we're out of cinnamon rolls. I said, you got an apple fritters? He said, no, we're at apple fritters. I said, you got any bear claws? He said, wait a minute, I'll go check.
No, we're out of bear claws.
[00:43:07] Speaker I: I said, well, in that case, in.
[00:43:10] Speaker G: That case, what do you have?
[00:43:12] Speaker I: He says, all I got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels.
I said, okay, I'll take that.
[00:43:19] Speaker G: So he hands me the box and I open up the lid and the weasels jump out and they immediately latch onto my face and start biting me all over.
Oh, man, they were just going nuts. They were tearing me apart. You know, I think it was just.
[00:43:33] Speaker I: About that time that a little ditty started going through my head.
[00:43:37] Speaker G: I believe it went a little something like this.
[00:43:41] Speaker F: Get him off me, get him off me.
Get him off. Get off.
[00:43:46] Speaker G: Get off.
I ran out into the street with these flesh eating weasels all over my face, waving my arms all around and just running, running, running like a constipated wiener dog. And as luck would have it, that's.
[00:44:01] Speaker I: Exactly when I ran into the girl of my dreams. Her name was Zelda. She was a calligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite and hair the color of strained peaches. I'll never forget the very first thing she said to me. She said, hey, you got weasels on your face.
[00:44:16] Speaker G: That's when I knew it was true love. We were inseparable after that.
We ate together, we bathed together, we even shared the same piece of mint flavored dental floss.
[00:44:27] Speaker I: The world was our burrito.
[00:44:29] Speaker G: So we got married and we bought us a house and had two beautiful children, Nathaniel and Superfly. Oh, we were so very, very, very happy.
[00:44:38] Speaker I: Oh, yeah. But then one fateful night, Zelda said to me, she said, sweetie, pumpkin, do you want to join the Columbia A Record Club?
[00:44:49] Speaker G: I said, whoa, hold on now, baby. I'm just not ready for that kind of a commitment. So we broke up and I never saw her again. But that's just the way things go in Albuquerque.
[00:45:05] Speaker D: Albuquerque.
[00:45:21] Speaker G: Anyway, things really started looking up for me because about a week later, I finally achieved my lifelong dream. That's right. I got me a part time job with a Sizzler. I even made employee of the month after I put out that grease fire with my face. Aw. Yeah, everybody was pretty jealous of me after that. I was getting a lot of attitude, okay? Like one time, I was out in the parking lot trying to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil when I see this guy Marty trying to carry a big old sofa up the stairs all by himself. So I see to him, I say, hey, you want me to help you with that? And Marty, he just rolls his eyes and goes, no, I want you to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw. So I did. And then he gets all indignant on me. He's like, hey, man, I was just being sarcastic. Well, that's just great. How was I supposed to know that? I'm not a mind reader, for crying out loud. Besides, now he's got a really cute nickname, Torso Boy. So what's he complaining about?
Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote. This guy comes up to me on the street and he tells me he hasn't had a bite in three days.
[00:46:22] Speaker I: Well, I knew what he meant, but.
[00:46:24] Speaker G: Just to be funny, I took a big bite out of his jugular vein. And he's yelling and screaming and bleeding all over. And I'm like, hey, come on, don't you get it? What are you doing rolling around on the sidewalk bleeding and screaming?
[00:46:35] Speaker B: Ah.
[00:46:37] Speaker G: And now completely missing the irony of the whole situation.
Man, some people just can't take a joke, you know?
Anyway.
[00:46:47] Speaker C: Where was I?
[00:46:49] Speaker G: Kind of lost my train of thought.
[00:46:52] Speaker C: Well, okay.
[00:46:53] Speaker G: Anyway, I know it's kind of a roundabout way of saying it, but I guess the whole point I'm trying to make here is I hate sauerkraut. That's all I'm really Trying to say. And by the way, if one day.
[00:47:04] Speaker I: You happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential quandary full of loathing and self doubt and wracked with.
[00:47:10] Speaker G: The pain and isolation of your pitiful, meaningless existence, at least you can take.
[00:47:15] Speaker I: A small bit of comfort in knowing.
[00:47:16] Speaker G: That somewhere out there in this crazy old mixed up universe of ours, there's still a little place called Albuquerque.
[00:47:30] Speaker D: Albuquerque.
Albuquerque. Albuquerque. Albuquerque. Albuquerque. Albuquerque. Albuquerque. Albuquerque. Albuquerque.
I said A, A, L, L, B, B, U.
[00:47:52] Speaker F: K.
[00:48:46] Speaker B: Well, I didn't know that was going to be 11 minutes long.
[00:48:48] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:48:49] Speaker B: When I checked it, that was.
[00:48:51] Speaker C: That was a glorious 11 minutes.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: It's pretty funny.
[00:48:54] Speaker A: It was like a concept album. In one song.
[00:48:56] Speaker B: Yeah, in one song. Yeah. And I just love that it was. It's like.
I don't know how many songs are written about Albuquerque. I hope that's like their city song.
It's so. It's like so silly. It's funny though, now I'm thinking about, like what that guy next to me said about, oh, it doesn't really fit the venue. He could have totally played that last night. And there were other songs he played that were probably just as long and rambling that. And we're, I would say, not as good as this one.
I think the other thing I love about it is that. So this came out on his Running With Scissors album, which came out in 1999. I just love, like, the references that only applied in 1999. Like the one that was like, oh, he knocked the phone off the hook. Like, Gen Z doesn't know what that means.
[00:49:43] Speaker C: The Sizzler.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: The Sizzler, right. Yeah, things like that. I thought that was awesome anyway.
What an experience.
[00:49:52] Speaker A: It was an experience.
[00:49:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it was an experience.
It kind of reminds me of like. Oh, yeah, my dad really liked Weird album. That's why I.
Because it's just like, silly. It's just silliness. It's like absurdist music.
[00:50:07] Speaker C: There's nothing like it anymore, though, is there? Is there anything recent that's similar to Weird Al now?
[00:50:13] Speaker B: So I think his opener is probably the closest thing, but I had never heard of it. It's called Puddles Pity Party and it's just a guy dressed as a clown.
[00:50:22] Speaker C: Oh, I have, yeah.
[00:50:23] Speaker B: Who does like, just weird stuff. And like, he played. The best thing he did at the opener last night was he played Stairway to Heaven, but he sang the Gilligan's island theme song over the Stairway to Heaven melody.
It was really funny.
And he just has lots of like, silly songs. He sang a song, like, in Spanish where he's talking about, like, being sad, and he made a person from the audience come up and wear a tequila bottle costume while he sang it. Like, just, like, silly.
[00:50:57] Speaker C: Oh, that's funny.
[00:50:58] Speaker B: Silly stuff like that. But it's similar in that, like, sort of kind of parody sometimes. Sometimes it's original. He sang a whole song, like, that was, like, basically. Oh, he's saying the Titanic song with, like, clips of Kevin Costner behind him because he loves Kevin Costner. Like, just absurd. Like, doesn't make any sense. But it's funny. Yeah, but it's not. Like, I think what. What's. What I think we can probably all appreciate about it is that, like, it's not topical humor. It's not something that, like, is politically oriented or, like, commenting on something that's, like, in the moment. It's just, like, silly and goofy. And so I think there's, like, probably some longevity to that. I mean, yeah, there was 90s references in that song, but, like.
[00:51:50] Speaker A: Oh, the Flock of Seagulls haircut.
[00:51:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, right. So I think it's like. Yeah, there's, like, little references here and there, but, like, you're not. It's hard to, like, offend somebody. Right.
When it's like, a political.
[00:52:02] Speaker C: Unless he loves our crowd.
[00:52:04] Speaker B: Right, right.
Yeah. So I wonder, like. I think that's part of the appeal is, like, it's not. You're not trying to, like, make a statement about any of this.
[00:52:13] Speaker A: Columbia Record Club, which is already outmoded by whenever they made this.
[00:52:19] Speaker B: Yeah. 99. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:52:22] Speaker A: You guys don't know what that is.
[00:52:23] Speaker B: Maybe he wrote. I wonder if he wrote the song earlier.
[00:52:27] Speaker A: Earlier.
[00:52:27] Speaker B: Because he was, like, big in the 80s.
[00:52:29] Speaker A: Columbia Record Club was this club from Columbia Records where they would send you a record and you didn't have to pay for it in advance.
[00:52:38] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:52:39] Speaker A: Obviously that didn't work for. It worked for a while, but it was depending on the honesty of people. And people were like, you know, they do it under different assumed names, and they, you know, they'd get the introductory offer, which was like, five albums.
[00:52:54] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:52:55] Speaker A: Yeah. So eventually they went out of business.
[00:52:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:00] Speaker A: This was a bad, bad idea, huh?
[00:53:03] Speaker B: Yeah. I'd heard of it, but I didn't know, like, what the concept was. I was like.
I was like. Were there TV commercials that I would have seen about it? No, I don't think so.
[00:53:11] Speaker A: No.
[00:53:12] Speaker B: Huh. That's really interesting. But I mean, like, his age would make. He would know what it is kind of a thing.
Anyway. Yeah, that was silly. That was a silly thing.
[00:53:24] Speaker C: Random person.
[00:53:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Random guy from Thoron has been. That was his seventh Weird Al show. I think he said.
I was like, what?
I had no idea.
If you want to catch him, he's playing the ford Amphitheater on September 4th.
[00:53:42] Speaker C: Well, you can go again for your second time.
[00:53:43] Speaker B: I could go again and then rack it. Rack up mine. My number is like that guy. I don't remember his name and I feel bad.
The people on the other side of me were Matt and Brad. They were also very nice. Shout out to Matt and Brad from Lewisville or Lafayette. One of those two.
[00:54:00] Speaker C: One of the L towns.
[00:54:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:54:04] Speaker B: All righty. I think that's enough for. For tonight or for today, but thanks so much for tuning in. Don't forget, if you have something you want us to listen to, drop a comment below the video or shoot us an email. Helloongmontpublicmedia.org until next time.
[00:54:20] Speaker A: Bye.
[00:54:20] Speaker C: Bye.
