Episode Transcript
[00:00:05] Speaker A: All right. Hey, everyone. Welcome to what I listened to this week.
We're just three today. We're missing Sergio, but that's okay. We're still gonna have a good time together.
But Molly's here, Eric's here. Yeah.
[00:00:19] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: Melanie's here. Hi.
My PBS shirt that I'm very excited about.
Yeah. So let's kick it off with a good old fashioned round of what's New and Good.
I'm going to toss it to Eric first.
[00:00:38] Speaker C: What's New and Good?
I was talking to my friends in Washington.
[00:00:44] Speaker A: State.
[00:00:45] Speaker C: State.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:00:46] Speaker C: And they're coming down for my son's wedding.
[00:00:49] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:00:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: Whoa. Sorry.
My phone was so excited, it started playing music.
There we go.
[00:00:58] Speaker C: It's.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: Cause it's unlocked. Oopsies.
That was like a fun sound effect.
[00:01:07] Speaker C: The timing was impeccable.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: That was so good for my son's wedding.
Love that.
[00:01:15] Speaker C: And our friends from Texas, who now live in New Mexico may come up to.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:01:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: Where is the wedding happening?
[00:01:24] Speaker C: In Boulder Canyon.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: Oh, fun.
[00:01:27] Speaker C: And at what used to be called the Red lion was a big destination. Wild Game restaurant. And now is a wedding venue.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[00:01:37] Speaker C: So there will be people from. And I think my son's friend from Norway is coming over.
[00:01:43] Speaker A: Wow. That's huge.
[00:01:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: When is the wedding?
[00:01:47] Speaker C: August 28th.
[00:01:48] Speaker A: I think that's my birthday.
What a great day to get married and be born.
Friday, August 28th maybe.
[00:01:58] Speaker C: No, then it's a Saturday.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: Then it's the 29th. Yeah, that's okay.
[00:02:02] Speaker C: But yeah, looking forward to that. Looking forward to seeing them.
And it'll be a big reunion of a lot of people.
My sister may even come out from Chicago.
[00:02:12] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:02:13] Speaker C: Yeah. So it's. It's a big deal.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: That's awesome. You know, I feel like nobody gets married in August anymore.
I like my parents generation. I feel like that was like primo month. I feel like everybody does like the fall now, so that's cool. Yeah, it's a great month.
[00:02:30] Speaker C: So looking forward to seeing them and it's gonna be a big party.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: Nice.
Party back. That's so exciting.
Nice.
[00:02:38] Speaker C: Okay, so that's my new and good.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: Nice. Awesome. All right, Molly, what's new and good with you?
[00:02:42] Speaker B: Well, it's funny that you mentioned the 28th because the other BTS concert I
[00:02:45] Speaker A: was telling you about is on August 28th.
[00:02:47] Speaker E: It's a great day.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: It's a great day.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: So within the past month, it's been a little bit hectic. The main thing I will talk about is the BTS concert. But I also did Fan expo, which was like the last weekend of June.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: Is that the one that was in Denver that had all the X Files people and the Lord of the Rings people? Yep, I knew a few people that went to that. That was it. Awesome.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: Oh yes, so much.
[00:03:12] Speaker C: Who'd you see?
[00:03:14] Speaker B: So me and my siblings were going to do the Hobbits, but we did not know it was a ticketed event. We did not find out until day of that it was a ticketed event. And apparently tickets went on sale like months prior and we never knew and there was no information that we were like we were seeing on any of the sites. We were constantly checking.
But we got to see
[00:03:38] Speaker A: the people
[00:03:38] Speaker B: who play Eowyn and Gimli.
We went to their panel and that was a wonderful time, heard some wonderful stories.
So that was probably one of the bigger panels that me and my sister did.
One of the other things we did like we did quite a bit of was there's this D and D group called Dragon Fodder who were they were doing. They did a few different panels there. One of which was teaching people how to play D and D at like a really basic level. And then another one was telling people how to take D and D skills and use them in the workplace or in whatever settings of just like if you're a dm, these are skills that transfer. If you are a player, these are skills that transfer to like these scenarios and like how you can technically put that on a resume and stuff like that.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: Wow, there's a LinkedIn post out there. Like what DND taught me about B2B marketing.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: It was so informative and so cool to hear about some of that stuff.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: So those are some of the bigger things that we did.
But one of the Dragon Fodder ones was the room was sectioned off into four places and each section was its own character. So the section me and my sister in were a rogue.
And me in particular accidentally started like a 300 year long blood feud between the rogue and another character to go through generations. And it quickly spread because everyone was like chaos when the DM was asking how chaotic and funny we wanted it to be. So it's like my one action turned into something massive and I was like, well that's not what I wanted, but this is what I needed.
So yeah, there's that. And then around that same time I also started my practicum internship for my master's program.
But what really kicked off the whole great scheme of greatness that has been that chunk of Time was I got to go see BTS live.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: Yeah, we need the full report.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: Yes.
My parents were driving me home.
They went and picked me up at the airport, and I would not shut up about the concert for, like, a straight hour.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: That's great.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: So I'll try not to do that.
Yeah. I went to Las Vegas. Day two.
They're doing, like, multiple stops in every single location. So they did four stops in Vegas, and I got day two tickets, and it was.
I. I have never seen them live before, partially because it's like I was a broke high schooler, and they don't come to Colorado.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: But it's like I. I barely even pulled out my phone. Like, I took some videos of some of the intermission stuff. I tried to get, like, a few cool pictures or memories to just, like, remember the moment, but for the most part, I was just like, I was there. I was dancing. I was with my great aunt. I was with one of my closest friends, and all of us were just sitting there having such a great time.
And we got so lucky because they had a 360 stage.
So it was like four spokes go into each of the corners of the stadiums they're performing. The spoke where they enter and exit from was the one we were at.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: And the way the show opens up is so much fun. It's a song called Hooligan, and they have.
They have a whole bunch of backup dancers and stuff, but one of them has a giant flare and just sprints out onto the stage to up the ramp, onto the stage, all the way across, and that's how you know the show's starting. Is this guy just full barrels down with this flare up in the air.
And part of the really cool thing, too, is each of the cities they're stopping in is doing so much around the concert, too. So Las Vegas, the entire time we were there was red the entire time. Like, the Ferris wheel, the globe, everything. And the show opens up red.
And it's so much fun, too, because they have screens all along, too, so they were doing fun visuals in addition to everything else that was going on. So it opens up in black and white, but everything's red, and then it fades into red as the music starts.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: It is so cool.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:07:54] Speaker C: How long was the concert? How long was the concert?
[00:07:57] Speaker B: Two and a half to three hours, I want to say.
[00:07:59] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: Wow. That's a long show.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: Yes.
They had two pretty lengthy intermissions.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: And it's these guys BTS used To do a lot more intensive performances. Like, when you watch some of their older shows, they were 120%, like, 200% dancing the entire time.
But that also led to some moments where members were passing out or almost passing out or hurt themselves, and they're like, we're not doing that anymore.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: Yeah. So they're.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: They're taking it a lot. Like, yeah. They're being a lot nicer on their bodies. And everyone's like, as much as it would be cool to see those dances, take care of yourself.
So it's like they have songs, like, they have some songs that they're dancing to.
But one of my favorites perform. One of my favorite performance pieces was they do Not Today, which is the song that I brought last time, followed by a song called Mic Drop. And then they have two songs called Fire.
So they did the newer one first into the second one, and then they did a mashup of the two. And this is back to back to back to back performances.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: And for Not Today, it made me a little sad because I would have loved to see the dance break. But also seeing what they did afterwards, they didn't dance that much during Not Today because they started dancing for the rest of it.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: So it's like they are solidly performing for what I will say is four and a half songs.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:27] Speaker B: And it is so much fun.
Me and one of my friends were so confused at one point, but also, like, what the hell? Because during Fire, like, some of the backup dances have literal blowtorches, and they're, like, shooting fire up into the air.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:09:42] Speaker B: It was like, that chunk of the performance is probably my favorite because it was just, like, it was so much fun and had so much great energy.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: But one of probably my favorite visual pieces from the concert is part of what they were wanting to do with this album is very much celebrate their Korean heritage. So during one of these intermissions, like, they get walked off stage, and then there's a little bit of a break, and then you have backup dancers start coming out with blue, red, white, and yellow. I want to say, like, really long banners. And they come out and do, like, a little lap around the stage just to kind of celebrate the Korean colors.
And then they have, like, some other dancers come out and just do, like, some really simplistic but really pretty pieces. But the really cool part to me, and I can show you guys a picture later, is the final part before the guys come back on stage is these backup dancers come out, and they have red and blue cloaks on and it's a circular stage and they had a top down camera. So what they did was the dancers came out and they were all organized in a way to make the Korean flag on stage.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool.
[00:10:52] Speaker B: It was so beautiful to watch that happen because it's like they have these cloaks and then you can open them up and they're kind of white, but it's still mostly their colors. And yeah, they're organized on stage in a way that it's the circle for the Korean flag. And then when you're looking up at the monitors, they have this visual effect going on that just makes it like this really, really pretty wavy white aspect to it.
So it's like with the top down camera and then with the visual effects, it's like it's a really pretty Korean flag.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: That's neat. Wow.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: And then what I didn't realize was the guys are actually some of the people in the cloaks. So the backup dancers start leaving and take the cloaks off of them and then they're there in the middle of it as the backup dancers and stuff are walking away for them to come back and start performing again.
[00:11:37] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: That was probably my favorite intermission slash visual aspect of the entire concert was like that whole. The whole creating the flag, doing the visuals and then also having them be revealed from. It was just such a cool dynamic.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: And it was like, it felt like it had so much meaning.
And there were some of the fan projects that were going on for the concert too, were trying to get people to bring Korean flags to wave for them because to them it's like they've been, they've been away from performing for like four years at this point and they're back home, they've completed their military service and they are just happy to be back and back in Korea and just being able to do what they want with the fans and everything.
So being able to see the whole performance and how they're bringing those aspects into it is just. It is so cool.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Oh, that's so neat.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: So yeah, I went. I got to see that live.
I forget what date. Like second to last weekend of June they had their 13th year anniversary where I watched their performance, which was kind of the same thing, but they added some different songs and performed some older songs that are more like not saying that these like the more modern songs aren't meaningful to the community, but ones that have a bit more history.
And then yes, I have tickets to go see them again.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Yeah, it'll be cool to like Be able to, like, compare. Compare notes from the shows.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: Soldiers field in Chicago.
[00:13:03] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Great.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
I think it's the same set list, generally speaking, for the entire tour, but they have a section where they're doing surprise songs where even the members don't know what songs are coming up.
It's Some staff member is just like, we have a list of older songs that aren't on the set list. We're just gonna pick some.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: Nice. That's cool.
[00:13:24] Speaker B: So there was one of the songs that came on because the audience doesn't know either, that the music just starts playing, and you're like, I recognize that.
So there was a song me and one of my friends were very excited to see like as a possibility, and that was one of the ones they played. And me and her just looked at each other and hugged. I was like, yeah.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Oh, that's amazing.
[00:13:42] Speaker B: So that's been an aspect that a lot of people have been excited for for this tour is seeing the surprise songs because they're like. They're going all the way back to their first album from 13 years ago and pulling songs, and they're performing them to the best of their abilities. It's mostly backing tracks at some point, and they're seeing the fans reactions, but they're like, we remember some of the dances.
So that's been. I think, one of the wholesome moments of the tour as well, is them traveling back in time and seeing the fandom just kind of enjoying the older songs and hearing how much it means to people for the songs that they're performing.
[00:14:18] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: It is just such a great experience.
[00:14:20] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: I could talk for hours.
[00:14:22] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:14:23] Speaker A: That's amazing.
You should have a BTS podcast.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: I could. Yeah.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: Do it up.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: I'm slowly converting my boyfriend.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:14:34] Speaker F: Cool.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: Well, I'm glad we got to get the full report from last time when you were telling us about it. It's exciting.
Yeah. New and good with me.
I'm done with my work travel. I think that's what the new and good thing is, is that I can finally be back in Longmont for more than, like, three or four days at a time. So, yeah, so it's. I've been back. It's nice doing lots of biking and swimming and stuff. So just getting back into the outdoors and the nice summertime.
Yeah. So just happy to be in Colorado.
It's a great place to be. Yeah. All righty. Well, let's get.
The first song on our list is actually Sergio's song. He did send us a song in Absentia let's do it. So we're gonna go ahead and start with that. It's called the Radiator.
Radiator.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Harshly.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: The Radiator. By a group called Get Down Services.
Let's list.
[00:15:50] Speaker C: Ouch.
[00:15:53] Speaker E: Bang my head on the radiator.
I hang my socks on the radiator.
I bang my head on the radiator.
I bang my head.
I bang my head on the radiator.
I hang my socks on the radiator.
I bang my head on the radiator. I bang my head.
Stuff's coming out.
Oh, yeah. Let's actually go.
Go. Yeah. Weigh scales on my belly. Oh, yeah. I trust them.
Oh, yeah. I eat more flour. Call a cake.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
My body fizzes and my armpits trickle.
Oh, yeah.
[00:17:08] Speaker D: Stroke the doggy.
[00:17:10] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. And then hit the doggy.
I've got three words for you.
The Dyson Airplane's just a man looking at his hands thinking, I'm gonna make these so fucking dry, you won't believe it. Lifelong fiddling.
Stop twiddling.
1400 minor tweaks.
A big fat ghastly. I feel sick. The smell doesn't stop.
I feel sick. I just stop sniffing it. I feel sick. Five, six days a week.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: Shout it.
[00:18:58] Speaker E: Like a Gungan burial chamber. Oh, yeah.
Someone punched me in the face. Yeah.
Can I do the questioner again, please? I don't think my personality came through.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: Sergio can't defend himself here, so we can just rip him apart.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: I feel like I've heard it before. I feel like I've actually heard that one before.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: Interesting.
I mean it. I did a little bit of.
I, like, looked briefly what the deal is with that group Get Down Services.
And they're like a couple of dudes from Bristol.
I can sort of imagine them just, like, sitting in a garage with, like, a bunch of synthesizers and, like, drum machines and just, like, looping weird stuff while they get really high, but.
And they're. Bang their heads on a radiator. I mean, it was like kind of a jam in that. It's like you're sitting there, like, bopping your head and you kind of want to move around, but then you're listening to it and you're like, what is.
[00:20:07] Speaker C: This is kind of sick.
[00:20:08] Speaker A: This is. Yeah. What is happening here?
The other thought I had was, like, do kids know what radiators are?
[00:20:18] Speaker B: I know what a radiator is.
[00:20:20] Speaker C: If you grew up in Chicago, you know what radiators.
[00:20:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that's my thought is like, in New England, like, you definitely Know what a radiator is, but, like, if you
[00:20:28] Speaker C: grew up in Colorado, probably not.
[00:20:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I know what a radiator is, but there's also. I don't know if people younger than me know.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: Yeah, that's sort of. Yeah. When I said kid, I was referring to people younger than you.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: But yeah, I grew up in the weird area. Area between like, I got VHS and DVDs and like the.
I'm thinking like mixtapes and CDs and stuff like that. So it's like a lot of people, my generation don't know those things, but it's like, I do, I do.
[00:20:55] Speaker A: I promise.
[00:20:55] Speaker C: Yeah, when I hear mixtape, it's like, well, what was that one? What's the tape?
[00:20:59] Speaker A: Yeah, right.
But yeah, I was like, oh, man, do people know, like, you can dry your clothes on the radiator Anyway, that's like. That's a random thought that I had.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: That could be a lime in that salt.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: Well, he said he dried his socks on the radiator. Okay. Yeah, so it made me think of it.
Anyway. Yeah. What are your thoughts for Sergio? We can report back.
[00:21:19] Speaker C: That was. It was definitely. It was kind of a jam.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: It was kind of a jam.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: Yeah, it was.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: It's just weird.
[00:21:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
But, yeah, definitely. Maybe two guys you would want to hang out with.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I looked at the pictures of them too, and I was like, they have really short hair.
It's like kind of curly and it's shortish.
[00:21:45] Speaker C: Are they skinny with long necks?
[00:21:47] Speaker A: No, no, no. They're kind of like pot bellied.
Are you picturing people from Bristol?
[00:21:54] Speaker C: I'm picturing the kind of guys who would do this song.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
Like burnouts is what I'm picturing. Yeah. Like just like over here profiling these people.
Trainspotting. Yeah. Oh, I was just. It's funny because I was just talking to Sergio about Trainspotting. I wonder if this is somehow related to that. We have all these conspiracies about why he chose the song with no context.
[00:22:17] Speaker B: We can just. We can interview him later.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: Yeah. We can layer in his opinion next time he can tell us more about it. But I liked it. I mean, I was. I really enjoyed it. It's just. It's kind of messed up.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: The ending breakdown, I had a lot of fun with.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: I did like the ending breakdown. Yeah. And the video game noises in it were kind of fun.
Anyway. Cool. Thanks, Sergio. Thanks for sending something. It dropped up. I have a similar song that I almost brought, actually. Not quite as, like, messed up maybe, but.
All right.
Cool.
Fun. It was a bop. I like that.
Next one is We Got By. Sorry. This is Ericsson.
[00:22:56] Speaker C: For something entirely different.
[00:22:57] Speaker A: For something. And now for something completely different.
[00:23:00] Speaker B: That's what we're here for.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: I want musical whiplash. Yes.
That's the goal is for us and the listeners to have musical whiplash.
Yeah. This is We Got by by Al Jiro. Is that right? Awesome.
I will leave it at that. We will listen and we will reconvene.
[00:23:28] Speaker F: Oh, I hardly had a belly fool never knew a new bicycle Hand me down books and shoes they brought the Yuletides in July I rode a bus, a train Sometimes strolling for miles to a movie show Singing the song Shoes While birds and rich folks flew right on by but we got by we got by.
We got by Lord knows we got by Winter wishes wait till June we brighten July with that hot dog fun Tell your mama you're with Sue Baby, you bring some beans and I will find the wine Them neon lights will bridle too and sneakin back home home with this girl named Jill I hurried down to say I do instead My first man child in the eye
[00:25:07] Speaker C: but
[00:25:07] Speaker F: we got back we got back.
We got back God knows we got back Sometimes I sing.
And now baby's got a belly for y' all and finally Is that bicycle working? Pray in June to June and Mama's got Eller Glee in her eyes.
We got back yes
[00:26:17] Speaker G: Ooh, we got
[00:26:18] Speaker F: back on those we got back See, we kept on walking and tugging and hopping and wooing and cooing and wooing Loving and tugging and hugging and rubbing and sucking and praise Swinging leftin and friction and getting begetting Lying and flying and trying and dying.
[00:27:02] Speaker G: I see, I see, I see we got back we
[00:27:09] Speaker F: got back.
By.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: Being a sweet, sweet.
[00:27:49] Speaker F: Didn't we get there that.
Thank you, Mama provided thank you, Papa.
Causing me to tremble.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: All right, we got bye we got bye through that song, I guess that was such a journey.
I feel like it, like, ended up somewhere where I didn't think it. It was like there was just so much building towards that crescendo at the end that I was not.
I mean, I guess it's not that it was, like, unexpected, but I was just like, whoa.
I didn't think it was gonna do that from the beginning of the song.
And I wasn't.
I couldn't, like, fully. I didn't, like, fully retain the lyrics, but when the key changes. Is he talking about how nice things are now?
[00:29:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. I thought that was kind of Nice. That's sort of like what I picked up on. Physical storytelling, which was, like, kind of cool, right? Like, I love that. I thought that was so cool. Like, okay, well, now, like, our lives are better and key change. And, you know, I thought that was. That. I thought that was really, really neat. I really, really, really enjoyed that.
Also loved, like, the kind of scatting improvisation piece there. Whereas, like, he sounded like an instrument, which was really neat.
[00:29:42] Speaker B: It took me to Thanksgiving because my mom, she always plays, like, jazzy blues kinds of music around Thanksgiving. Like, that is. Her November playlist is just, like, that kind of music.
So.
[00:29:57] Speaker A: Whoa.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: Hello.
I heard that, and I was just like. I think I started going into, like, a mental turkey coma a little bit,
[00:30:04] Speaker A: because it was just like. It's a cozy. It's, like, cozy music.
[00:30:07] Speaker B: And I'm just like, I want to curl up with. And just, like, with my family and stuff. So that's where my brain went, was
[00:30:13] Speaker A: just like, hey, yeah, I was.
[00:30:15] Speaker B: I started spacing out just in a cozy feeling.
[00:30:18] Speaker A: Yeah. My head went to, like, slow dancing with somebody that, like, you have a long history with and you've been through a lot together, and it's like, well, remember those times? It was, like, a little rough for a while, and now we're doing good. Because that's just like, every life, right? Just have those.
It was, like, nostalgia for somebody else's life. You know what I mean? Because it's like.
It's not like any of the things that he was singing are reflective of my life, but it was like. I think everybody probably has those experiences, so it was kind of creating some of that. It was so nice. Yeah, it was kind of like this warm and fuzzy feeling.
[00:31:01] Speaker C: The story behind my story behind this one. Well, there's a long, shaggy dog story behind that. But basically, I went to see him open for a jazz singer called Betty Carter in Boulder, and I think this record had come out, and people were starting listening to him on KUBL or. Which at that time was kadx, I believe.
And he came out and he killed it.
[00:31:35] Speaker A: Yeah, he just killed it. I mean, if he sounded anything like he does in the recording, I would imagine he brought the house down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:31:44] Speaker C: And you're right about using. He does scat. He does make those horn sound. He makes his voice sound like an instrument. He also does beatboxing.
[00:31:54] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool.
[00:31:55] Speaker C: Yeah. So he's got a Live in Europe album.
I think it's at Albert Hall. And it's so good. I mean, all of His. Most of his stuff is really good. Later in his life, he got. He became sort of a pop singer.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: And I was like, okay, now you're
[00:32:14] Speaker C: just doing it for money.
[00:32:14] Speaker A: But yeah, that makes sense because when I added him to the playlist for today, it was like more yacht rock hits like this. And I was like, huh?
Because this didn't sound like yacht rock.
[00:32:29] Speaker C: But yeah, earlier in his career, he's a pretty hardcore jazz singer. And I just.
I've been listening to him lately and trying to put together a Al J. Rope playlist of everything that I like, and he's got a bunch of songs.
[00:32:47] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:32:47] Speaker C: Yeah, so. Or if you don't know him, stick to the early albums. Yeah, he's really good.
[00:32:53] Speaker A: Good to know. Yeah. So you must have seen him a while ago if it was pre Kubo.
[00:32:59] Speaker C: It was 80s.
[00:33:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Because Kuvo was 85 is when Kubo started.
[00:33:04] Speaker C: Might have been right around there.
[00:33:06] Speaker A: Right around there, yeah.
Wow. Yeah.
I thought. For some reason I was like, oh, this has made me new.
Interesting.
[00:33:16] Speaker C: Wow, that one holds up.
[00:33:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Really does.
Yeah. I love that. I'm going to add that to some of my playlists for sure.
Yeah, it's a good one.
Nice.
[00:33:27] Speaker C: If you show up for some event where we have beer, I'll tell you the shaggy dog story behind it.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: Oh, man. Okay, now we got to have beer sometime soon. Well, there's the LPM Members Happy hour coming up. That's right, next week. Which I can't go to because it's my wedding anniversary.
But maybe then one after that we can. We can do.
[00:33:47] Speaker B: I've got class until 6, but I'll try and stop by afterwards.
[00:33:50] Speaker A: Yeah, nice. I would be there if I. Yeah,
[00:33:53] Speaker C: the last one was really good.
[00:33:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Is it always going to rotate venue?
[00:33:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:33:59] Speaker A: Nice. Sweet. That's a good idea.
Sorry. Plug for LPM Members Happy Hour.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: Come visit us. We're lonely.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: Amazing. All right, cool. Well, I can't wait to hear that story.
[00:34:14] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a good story.
[00:34:15] Speaker A: It's not podcast appropriate.
[00:34:17] Speaker C: No, it's not.
[00:34:18] Speaker A: Okay, cool. That's fine. That's fine.
You gotta save it. You gotta save the good stuff for off mic. I get it. I get it.
Alrighty. Well, next up is Molly's Song. We've got this tune called Emergence by one of my new favorite band names, Sleep Token.
Let's. Let's let it rip. See what happens.
[00:34:53] Speaker D: Well, you were laughing.
I am the rose you relinquished Again you and I are down and versed in another world.
I have a feeling we're close to the end
[00:35:24] Speaker E: so
[00:35:26] Speaker F: come come on
[00:35:31] Speaker D: out
[00:35:31] Speaker F: from underneath who you are.
Come on, come on now you know
[00:35:47] Speaker D: that it's time to win My.
[00:36:07] Speaker C: Arms around me Arms around me.
Arms around me Arms around me.
[00:36:37] Speaker D: My blood beats so alive My vibe right through your lenses Midnight in my minds are drowning out the daylight God speak to my enemies of me Asking for that.
Hellfire on the winds that started from within my blood Be so alive myself right through my skins for show me what you meant by living past your half life and last step with the universe your well you know that I'm sanctified by what's below no matter what you do, no matter where you go
[00:37:58] Speaker F: you might be the one to take away.
Broke wide.
Nothing else is quite the same as
[00:38:18] Speaker D: I feel when I yourself.
[00:38:39] Speaker G: Wow.
[00:41:14] Speaker A: Wow, what a journey.
I feel like I said that on the last one, but I actually mean it this time.
[00:41:22] Speaker B: I have no idea what you're talking about.
[00:41:24] Speaker A: It's like, you know when you are watching a show and you're like, you don't realize it's the series finale or the season finale and you're like, oh, this is like a mini movie in an episode. Like I was like expect. I was not expecting this to be like a multi part series, which is what I feel like this song was.
The other thing is like, I don't think it was like a horror movie, but the first two and a half minutes were like, you know, something's gonna happen.
So you're just sitting there like waiting and then there's like that initial little breakdown kind of like rap thing in a way, sort of spoken word, whatever. And then that's not like the drop, I guess, is maybe what the kids would say. But then it happens like a little while later and you're like, oh, thank God, there it is. Cause like you were wait. Like you knew something was gonna happen, you just didn't know what. And I didn't know what it was gonna be because I don't know this band and I don't know this song.
And so I'm just sitting there like, what's gonna happen? What's gonna happen? Something's gonna happen.
So I felt like it like kept me on the edge of my seat. And then the end, like, what?
[00:42:31] Speaker C: Then it just clears up.
[00:42:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I can get out of the cave, right? Yeah, absolutely.
[00:42:36] Speaker B: Well, the song is called Emergence.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, that's true, that's true. But yeah, I just felt like there was like, yeah, solid two and a half minutes where I was like, man, what's gonna happen.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: It just, like, builds and builds.
[00:42:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And then resolves with, like, some sweet 60 seconds of saxophone, piano, and piano and piano. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:42:59] Speaker C: So what is this story about exactly? Because I was listening, but it was like the production is so dense, it's sort of hard to make out the lyrics.
[00:43:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:10] Speaker B: I think the music was also a little up high.
I don't. I don't remember the lyrics all off the top of my head right now, but Sleep Token, as a band, they.
[00:43:20] Speaker C: How many band goes.
[00:43:22] Speaker B: Oh, how many members are there? I want to say there's four to six.
[00:43:26] Speaker C: And they're an actual performing act.
[00:43:29] Speaker B: None of them show their faces. They all wear masks.
[00:43:32] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:43:33] Speaker B: Yeah. They don't reveal their actual names or anything like that. It's like vessel, vessel one, vessel two, vessel three, or something like that. I want to say I'm a little rusty on my lore. It's been a little bit.
But their whole thing is, like, they have a goddess that they sing songs to, and that. That's kind of their whole performance shtick is like, these songs that they create are like their homage to their goddess.
And I think even on Arcadia, the album that this is from, kind of leans into that in particular.
So kind of the whole feel is, like, talking about this relationship with the goddess and kind of them, like, not to say that there's not real world aspects in there because they have another song called Carmel when they go into, like, people trying to reveal their names and faces and stuff, but generally speaking, it's all like, they are singing to their goddess for one reason or another.
But, yeah, they're like, they will. They wear full body paint. They have masks that almost fully cover their faces. The main singer has, like, an open spot over his mouth so he can sing, but, like, his face is painted too.
[00:44:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, they.
[00:44:43] Speaker B: They do. They put a lot of effort into making sure that it's like their performing identity is completely separate from their actual identity.
[00:44:51] Speaker A: So. Yeah, that's so interesting.
[00:44:54] Speaker C: They're fun.
[00:44:55] Speaker A: That's so interesting that, like, nobody knows who they are.
[00:44:58] Speaker B: Well, I think someone tried to reveal their birth certificates, and the fandom in general is just like, we're going to ignore that that happened because from the artist's wishes, it's like they have a particular thing they want to do. So we're ignoring that if that's real.
[00:45:09] Speaker A: Right.
[00:45:11] Speaker B: So I think people have tried.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Interesting, huh?
[00:45:16] Speaker F: Wow.
[00:45:16] Speaker C: It's very dense music.
[00:45:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:21] Speaker B: This is one of their denser ones, too. Like, that song in particular, it's Like, I. Again, it's been a while since I've like been in there and like looking at lore and stuff like that because I've been focusing on BTs, but it's like they.
It's a very musically complex piece with so many different layers and it's like you're going through so many different parts and it's like.
Like I said earlier, it's like it keeps on building and building on top of itself and then it just releases. For this particular song, they have other songs that are much lighter, but I wanted to bring this one because it is. There is just so many musical layers in it to create this kind of musically beautiful chaos puddle.
[00:46:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. It's like its own. Its own musical story.
[00:46:04] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:46:04] Speaker A: Within a song.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: If I were to suggest any album by them, my favorite one from them is this Place Will Be youe Tomb, which all the songs are a much lighter and water themed.
[00:46:14] Speaker A: Even though it's about your tomb, it's much lighter.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: Surprisingly, a lot of the songs are very happy in that. Actually, there's a song called Mine that's very sweet.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:46:23] Speaker B: But yeah, I wanted to bring this one just because it's like. It is so much of that musical journey in it.
[00:46:30] Speaker A: So. Yeah. Cool.
[00:46:32] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:46:33] Speaker B: It's hefty.
[00:46:34] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:46:34] Speaker A: Thank you, man. Broadening my horizons. I love it. Thank you so much.
Alrighty, last song up on the list here. It's Mine.
This is a song by the Beths.
[00:46:46] Speaker B: Let's do It.
[00:46:49] Speaker A: I believe it's off of their newest album and the song is called Metal.
Okay, let's go.
[00:46:56] Speaker C: Let's do it.
[00:47:11] Speaker G: So you need the middle in your blood to keep you alive and you read the compass in your eyes so you can stay right so you surf the earth's magnetic core to keep you alive so you need the middle and your blood to keep your you alive Keep you alive.
Keep you alive.
So you turn the water into steam to push up the track so you burn the finesse in your chest Till you anticipate that so you wear the color in your cheek the proof of the strife so you need the middle in your blood to keep you alive Keep you alive.
[00:48:22] Speaker A: Keep you alive.
[00:48:28] Speaker G: And I know I'm a collaboration Bacteria carbon and white A foreign orchestration A recipe of fortune and time It's a lot to take in when I try I see a short one.
I see a short word.
So you need the metal in your blood I want to keep the multitudes in sight so you need the metal in your blood I want to Feel the current pulsing through so you need the metal in your blood so you need the middle in your blood to keep you alive Keep you alive you keep your eyes.
And I know our collaboration Bacteria carbon and white the Florida orchestration A recipe Fortunate time It's a lot to take in and when I try I know.
Bacteria prominent light the florid orchestration and the recipe fortunate time It's a lot to taken When I cry I see a short word.
I see a short word.
I see a short word.
I see a short word Sam.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: All right, that was Metal by the Best.
What are your thoughts?
[00:51:43] Speaker C: It sounds like. It sound reminded me, first of all of a Cure song.
And I. I don't know. I know it's deliberate, but it's like, okay. It starts out like that, and then he goes into the scarecrow thing and it's like. That's pretty cool.
Yeah, it's very melodic, but I love the Cure touches that they sprinkle throughout the song.
[00:52:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:07] Speaker C: So is there some connection there?
[00:52:09] Speaker A: I have no idea. I didn't, like, do a ton of digging on the song. I just. I was like, this is the one that I've been listening to a lot this week, and I'm gonna bring it.
So I don't. I'm not 100% sure if there's a tie to them, but I would be,
[00:52:26] Speaker C: because it started out just like Tuesday, I'm in love.
[00:52:29] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. It was very much of that.
That era.
When I heard it recently, it was on the radio and they played it right after a Smith song. And I was like, why are they playing, like, Morris Smiths or the Cure? Right after a Smith song? That seems like a bad DJ mix. Right. And then I was like, oh, wait, it's neither of those bands.
Which is kind of interesting because I had. Yeah, I had the same thought, like, that era of, like, Brit pop.
[00:52:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:52:58] Speaker A: Which I know they are, like, heavily influenced by. By that, but, like, kind of Brit pop sort of stuff. But anyway.
[00:53:06] Speaker C: Yeah, cool.
[00:53:08] Speaker B: My brain thought it, like, kept on thinking it was going to go into Japanese every now and then because it reminded me of some J pop songs.
[00:53:14] Speaker A: Oh, interesting.
[00:53:15] Speaker B: So I was like. There were a few points where I was like. And I think going into the chorus, the way that she was wording it, it sounded like some Japanese words to me, like, very similar. Just how they sounded.
Not knowing the lyrics, my brain was like, wait a second, is it. No, no, it's not.
But it's just like. It reminded me of some anime openings and stuff. I'VE seen before, just in English.
So that's where my brain kept on going, was like, huh.
[00:53:44] Speaker A: Yeah, that's really interesting.
[00:53:45] Speaker C: What's the story of this band?
[00:53:47] Speaker A: So they're from New Zealand.
So, like, that's why it sounds like middle when she says metal.
And so it's like. Because when the first time I heard this song, I was like, middle. And then I was like, oh, right, they're from New Zealand. Middle Kiwis. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, they're from New Zealand. I don't, like, know a ton about them. They are playing in Denver in a couple weeks, and I really wanted to go see them, but the shows sold out.
If anybody has any extra tickets to the Denver Botanic Garden show the best, let me know. Yeah, no, right.
[00:54:19] Speaker B: Like, so good.
[00:54:20] Speaker A: Such a great concert. I know I really, like, missed out on that one.
My chaotic springtime got in the way.
But, yeah, I mean, I think.
I'm sure there's, like, a little bit of a blurb in here on them, but.
But, yeah, they. They're from New Zealand. I think it's. I think it's actually just one woman, like, who's, like, the main. The main singer.
[00:54:49] Speaker C: Oh, you mean one woman in the group?
[00:54:51] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:54:51] Speaker A: And then I think the rest are. Are men.
But, yeah, their new album is.
I think it just came out, like, last year, which is called Straight Line Was a Lie, which is kind of interesting. Says something about how linear progression is an illusion.
Just kind of. It, which is kind of interesting.
But, yeah, they're just kind of like your classic, like, indie band. I don't know. They've been around for a while, but I don't really know. I just know they're from New Zealand, they have Brit pop influence, and they're
[00:55:29] Speaker C: playing at the Botanical Gardens.
[00:55:30] Speaker A: And they're playing at the Botanical Gardens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't have, like, a whole bunch of their backstory, but I just. I don't know. This one's just been on heavy rotation.
It's like, kind of. I mean, I like a lot of that, like, Brit pop stuff, so it sort of plays to my aesthetics a little bit, so that's probably why I like it. But it's kind of. Kind of summery in a way.
I also feel like there's that part in the middle where they start, like, harmonizing pretty tightly, or. I think it sounds just like the Cranberries.
And I was like, oh, the 90s part of me was very excited about this. So. Yeah, no, I just really like this tune, and I don't really have, like, a whole lot of stuff about it. Just liked it.
[00:56:10] Speaker B: It's catchy.
[00:56:11] Speaker A: Yeah, heard it, liked it, moved on.
Alrighty. Well, I think it's time for Molly to go to PNZ and for us to wrap the podcast today. It's time. But thanks everyone, for tuning in.
Don't forget, if you have something to for us to listen to, drop a comment, send us an email. Helloamapublicmedia.org until next time.
