JAR Media Posdact - 2024 Wrap-Up (Prt 2)

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

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Good afternoon morning, evening or night. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm pretending we're not recording this on the same day as episode 38. This is episode 39, part two. Funny joke, different day it is. It's funny, isn't it funny when, like, you do a bunch of laundry and you just happen to wear what you're wearing in the previous episode? Just coincidentally. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so, it was weird to like, do the intro again after already doing it. Yeah, it is. Um, this is the part two to the sort of media, end of year wrap up conversation. I don't normally split it into two, but it just has to be this way. I'm sorry.

I'm Alex joined by Jim. Um, before we get too deep into the show, let me shout out those jarlings. over on the Jiam Media Patreon to make the audio version of the show possible they get ja after hours they get all this goodness um what else do they get the Jha Media group chat this one's a little bit different than normal the structure of it being a sequel it's like Doom part two you know this is the payoff you know all the setup was in the previous one so I just want to get moving because we got games to talk about and we got music to talk about um for this year's wrapped up um so let's talk about games yeah

Let's talk about games. This is my weakest category, I will admit. I was a little bit embarrassed looking at like my Steam wrap-up and my Xbox wrap-up of what was in there. Does Xbox do that as well? Yeah, yeah, everything does it now. Yeah, yeah. I only played six games, I think.

Wow. On Steam, anyway. Yeah. And I've only got five no-knit down here. Okay. Yeah. Do you want to start or should I start? You start.

62% of my total playtime was Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2. Oh shit, that wasn't what I was expecting. Hell yeah. For the first quarter of the year, all the bars were just on Red Dead 2. Okay. Wait, is that Steam or Xbox?

That's Steam. I don't play on Xbox at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm glad you said that because I didn't have it on my list, but I did. Yeah, of course, because he did the big video. Yeah, yeah.

yeah yeah um but i i also did a bunch of modding that's right yeah you did all the modding of the i i modded the fuck out of the game because i mean first things first i i had my hdd well not hdmi display cable the one that isn't hdmi it goes like straight into the graphics card oh yeah but i had that plugged into the wrong slot yeah i've done that before yeah so whenever i play red dead um it would run at like one fps oh is that one was causing that yeah yeah it's quite difficult to get running well yeah this i didn't know and like i was i was going full on hackermode like going into the game files and like changing the the resolution and stuff manually and yeah yeah all this that and the other and then i was like wait a minute

Had a little look see changed the plug then it ran beautifully and then I thought now I can finally play the game And then I spent days just modding it to the point where I was like My logic was like red dead is a dream game. Yeah, but I'm gonna make it the dream dream dream game Mm, you know, I'm gonna make it everything I want that you changed it changed the economy and stuff like that Yeah, so I got like an economy mod I kind of Mark solst it where so every time you die you lose all your money. Oh really?

But there's also a banking system. So you can go into any bank in the game, interact with the bank teller and deposit money. So then it turns into a thing of like if you want to get an upgrade, you've got to save up deposit money. Because you might die. It's surprisingly easy to do so. Yeah, I might do that in like a few years or something. Yeah. Yeah.

It's definitely worth it. But it slows the game down to a cruel. Really? Because I also changed how much money you get paid on every mission. Any time you get money, it displays the original amount that the game would give you. But in the background, it's like minusing 30% every time, if not more. So you're getting very little money. I also downloaded mods to add like bounties and like recurring bounties from the online mode.

um so that's just in the game also random missions where you've got to like protect people on wagons and stuff um delivery missions so like in saint denny you'll be going to different buildings and delivering packages and you're only getting like 20 dollars from doing this but it just makes everything so satisfying and it makes the world feel like twice as big um yeah it's great for that yeah i've barely gone into the story at all but i it's become of like a sandbox to me yeah yeah it's perfectly legit to play it that way um i think it's interesting that like dunky recently uploaded that video yeah um yeah because he's done like three videos on it no and from his first video he was saying how stinky it is and naked jakey did

that one this year as well like he had a similar angle as me being that he modded it a bunch yeah to make it appeal to him more whereas my mods aren't quite as severe as his right i reckon but yeah yes it's just a mainstay of a game I feel like every year it's gonna be on my mm-hmm yeah there's camp interactions those characters that dialogue their music the graphics what the fuck um yeah just m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m yeah agreed um i'll start the i mean mine aren't really in any particular order uh but i'll start at the bottom and go up frost punk yeah really cool game like i

didn't realize how easy it was to become a fascist that's quarter of the year that's a year you either become a religious extremist or a fascist like this this is the how the game works and there's like DLCs where you become a communist and shit like it what's the genre again it's a city builder

but not like city skylines or whatever yeah yeah um it's because it's also survival based it's the same developers as a game you might remember me playing years back I remember exactly what you're going to say yeah

this war of mine awesome game but for us punk is so much better and the sequel is coming out soon I believe um which I'm really interested in but I love the the art style the the I guess it's steampunk um yeah based in like the 1800s which I didn't know that yeah when steampunk is based it typically um so it's like that late industrial revolution i guess um and i i love in a city builder kind of like in sieve uh when you have a city and you're zoomed out and it's kind of just a mess but then you zoom in

and you can kind of imagine how this city functions and how like different areas are more or less deprived than others yeah um but the the music claps um um And for the genre that it is, the way it keeps you tense and engaged non-stop, like, the harder difficulties don't even have a pause function, so time just goes. But even on the easier difficulties and the restriction of resources, you're just like gritting your teeth the whole time. And it's something where you have to like start from scratch multiple times. Because you're not going to understand it.

Yeah, like an ex-com or something. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And I just love it. I love the natural way there's like a plot. Mm-hmm. And it's relatively simple. What's the music genre in the soundtrack? Classical, I guess.

Oh, yeah. There's a section where like this vibe. Lynn comes in and it's it's like stunningly beautiful but also so like bone-chilling and stressful yeah yeah I was so impressed by that game yeah yeah oh yeah um my next one is destiny 2 which had 23% of my game time on uh wow steam yeah um I was planning to have my video out at the beginning of this month, but things didn't quite go as I was anticipating. So obviously my deeper thoughts would be out at some point. But yeah, complicated, very complicated relationship with that game.

Abusive, yeah, Stockholm Syndromey. Despite the final shape, probably being their best expansion they've ever made, arguably. Oh, spoiler. Asterix, asterix. With caveats. Yeah, I'll leave that for... Okay. For D.

I think... My next one... I don't know if you... I know you have played this, but this for me is a mainstay being, as I mentioned, Siv. Siv was on my Steam most played. Yeah.

I did a... I started a save anyway. Mm-hmm. Um, this year. yeah i don't know what happened but i'm like significantly worse at the game now um i've never been good at it but it's still addictive nonetheless yeah it's it's i don't think i really treat the game right um i definitely don't yeah i mean it depends how nitty gritty you want to get yeah i think if you're good at sieve you're like fucking good at sieve but it's kind of it's got to be like it must be your game yeah yeah like all you play um um

Um, but I just find it's, it's a podcast game. It's, yeah, it's good for that. Have some, have, like, listen to something in the background. Um, even as, like, music or something, you can. Yeah. Let's do an album. Yeah. Yeah.

Um, but it does also have those, those, like, Frost Punk, the, like, when you're zoomed out and you've got this. just like cacophony of mess on the screen but then you zoom in and it's like I did all that yeah and it's it's fun to like imagine this society especially when you like get into the religion part of it as well and you like make a religion and you love doing that stuff you can call the religion what you want um it's really hard to get a religious win though I've never even tried yeah yeah but it's it's just it's It's an easy time sync. If I have a lot of time,

then it's something I can easily sink hours into. What time just disappears when you play, yeah, it's not something I'd start up if I'm like, oh, I've got an hour and a half. No, no, you know? You need like a big chunk for it to be worth it. Yeah, for sure. Um, I'm sure this is on yours, about Eldon Ring.

Yeah. I was like, on Steam, it was only 8% of my game time. I was like, huh? And I was like, oh, yeah, because I played the DLC, on my Xbox, which had, it's probably not accurate, but it's probably not that far off, 175 hours on Eldom Ring. Right.

Some of that will be like AFK. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Played the fuck out of Eldom Ring this year. Mm-hmm. And even like the past few weeks, you know, I said I was going to start a save and like do the all quests run.

Like I've been doing that. Just seeing stuff I've never seen before. Yeah. Are you enjoying that? aspect yeah yeah it makes me mad at like how obtuse and like how hidden it is and yes the stories are so cool yeah yeah and the characters are cool and like stuff that happens is cool um but yeah i thought the dc was fantastic um yeah yeah deserves game of the year and i suppose it briefly while we're on the topic it was the game awards recently and there's like

another elder ring coming out night rain yeah Yeah. Yeah. And I've seen loads of people like, they're poo-pooing it. In comments, they're like, oh, it's just an asset flip. It's like, that's kind of... The Majors Mask was an asset flip. Yeah. Dark Souls 3 was an asset flip. They're like all, they all just build on the previous one. I love that idea of like, you know, you can play with the Sekaro character, with the deflect ability, like fighting Dark Souls 3 bosses. Yeah, there's a lot of idea.

There's mods that do. that like people make videos that are just that and it's like man i i wish that was easily accessible and it is yeah we're still going to see that like the execution and how that online stuff works but yeah i think i think it's going to be good because apparently um like from soft devs were into the the moders who made the seamless co-op mod they were like that's really cool yeah so i think that might have actually yeah yeah i think that was this year didn't we yeah i think that was this year. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that's a great mode. Incredible mod. And to see FromSoft, see that and then kind of build a game around it as well. Mm-hmm. So like... It's not like Miyazaki directed, but...

Eldon Ring has sold, like, 20 plus million copies. Of course they're going to do something else with it. It would be dumb not to. Yeah. And also, I'm here for it. I think Eldon Ring simultaneously has sold more than all of the Souls games combined. Yeah, yeah.

Also, um, the biggest downside of Eldon Ring is replayability, because it's so big. So they're making a version of Eldon Ring that is just designed to be replayed. Yeah, yeah. So, like, with that in mind, like, that's exactly what I want. Mm-hmm. You know, and I don't need to, like, interpret it as its standalone thing. Yeah. Or as an Eldon Ring thing, sorry, I can interpret it as a standalone thing.

Unlike, like, a bungee that has just, like, siloed themselves off and hasn't looked around at the industry of, like, what's happening in, like, the roguelite genre and asset flipping in a way that's, like, a good idea. Yeah. And not so, like, blatantly barefaced. Yeah, I don't know why they haven't embraced, like, rogue light stuff sooner. I think it's just a great idea. Yeah. I'm bouncing off of that on my list, I have Hitman. mm because i a mega hitman game yeah just a ridiculous package of a game like now if you buy

hitman i think it's just called hitman world of assassination and that's the three games in one package it's it's insane with the roguelike mode that's so damn cool oh that's got a roguelike too yeah wow yeah yeah that hence my um way it's really really sick because it's spoilers but the end of hitman 3 is agent 47 kind of going solo and then instead of like making a new game it's kind of of just like him going solo is this mode you you have like a safe house that you gradually upgrade um that's a good idea like you collect weapons in your underground area.

When did that come out? I think it was it was either late last year or this year. Okay. It might have been last year. Fairly recent. Yeah, semi-recent. And it's like if you own the game,

it's just totally free. It's just using all the maps. And if you're into Hitman, a big part of it is like perfecting levels, knowing how to get from A to B and like how to, infiltrate certain areas and stuff. So it's super rewarding for someone who knows the game.

You know? They can just be like an elite assassin. And then there's all the challenges on top. Yeah, it's so much fun. It's really cool. I love that game. I noted down Sekaro and Gears Tactics. I don't really have much more to add on them.

I just played them a fair amount this year. I played Sekaro when I first got the projector because I just wanted to see a game like that. And it was awesome The best game I love that game But the only other thing I played from this year

Is Hades 2 I played a good chunk of that game Is it fully out yet I think Fairly recently They actually put the other Full Like run in

I think you could get to like The second boss Of the other You can go up or down So yeah I haven't done that yet But when I was playing it I played the shit

out of it. Yeah, I love the new characters. I love the new like weapons and everything. It's just, you know, it's more Hades. It's just what you want from a sequel. I think that's the first sequel. I can't remember what those devs are called, but it's the first one they've made. Yeah. Like they normally would move on to a new fresh IP, but I think Hades was good enough and there was enough to iterate on there to justify doing that and just a gem of a game. Yeah, like the first one. I played the first one a fair amount. Um, on Steam deck

yeah it's just perfect for that it's so addictive yeah there were just one more run type thing

or just one more room yeah masterpiece territory yeah like the character designs and we in the first part of this

we're talking about like the the Greek influence and all the characters in there it's awesome yeah it's cool

when you can like connect those wires um yeah i love it um that's all my games so i'm put my hands up i've got two more and an early year one and a late year one which one are you interested in do early first let's go chronologic okay so for the first time i finished cyberpunk after playing through the d o'lc this year it's taking me this long to actually finish the game um i fucking love it you love you love i i'd say it's maybe even easily cd project's best game mm like it's with phantom phantom liberty

what a fucking package and story wise as well they added some stuff recently, I heard. Yeah, they keep updating it. They, they've said a while ago, like, no, they were done. Yeah, they're like, we're done. Um, we're doing like, cause, cause. Yeah, the Witcher, the Witcher 4 just had. Yeah, the reveal trailer. Um, but no, they're still just doing like cool shit with cyberpunk. I, I think part of it was them like implementing popular mods. Just into the game. It's not a bad idea to be honest. You kind of see what Bamboslite is looking for. And something cool with CD Project Red is that they have, like,

mod integration, um, incentives. They, they do these, like, competitions on Steam where it's like a mod contest. They're like, modders do this. Like, do, do the best X, Y, or Z. And then, like, so it makes people, yeah. It, like, motivates people to do that.

Yeah. but yeah i love the gameplay of cyberpunk um the stuff they changed with the phantom liberty update which i talked about ages ago um it makes the progression so cool so like you start off the game as a human by the end you're like a death machine psycho fucking yeah yeah like i did like a hack Playthrough. So you're just before you've even started like a fight You're just making everyone like vomit some dudes who's shooting themselves in their heads like through through their brain being hacked Like other dudes are being set on fire seems like the the promise of like that watch dogs game but actually Yeah and it's not even like a hacker

It's not the point it's like an option but if you want you can be a super strong guy Yeah, um the gorilla sword guy who can move really fast yeah also because a lot of people like the sand evistan from yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um all stuff that they improved in the Phantom Liberty update um and since the anime I think to make it more similar to her and plot wise I I wish I'd finish the game because what I didn't realize is that I'd been at the last level twice before I'd done two play-throughs and gotten to the last level and never know well it says before you do it like you're

going to a point of no return I didn't know how much game was after the point of no return but there were like bits I wanted to mop up and then I'd burn out and give up on the game or some some bug would happen I'd be like fuck this turn the game off but yeah i wish i'd just done it because what a fucking ending um and i looked up all all the potential endings afterwards they're like so thoughtful yeah let's finish it at some point yeah really solid narrative um and going on from that my other game is the witcher three oh yeah you're playing that on PC or deck or both both um again it's a god damn masterpiece that with more caveats the the moment-to-moment gameplay can be fucking donkey dick uh-huh like it's it

it goes from being at moments you're like holy shit this is actually kind of really cool when you're having to use specific potions and approaching fights in like a catered way other times you're just like flailing around you know gerald just like slides around sliding yeah yeah um like whiffing sword swings and stuff it can make you feel not at all like a a witcher um which I think the game is setting out to do but it just pulls you back in narratively um yeah incredibly good characters um the main story kind of falls apart right at the end i know there's a bunch of like cut content and stuff oh i didn't know that yeah it's kind of awkwardly wrapped up but then the deal c follows and you play hearts of stone and it's like can it get much better than

this yeah straight up it apart from the fucking frog that that thing fucking sucks like a boss or something Yeah, because apparently the CD devs were inspired by Dark Souls. Oh, really? Yeah. Huh. Because, like, they made The Witcher 2, and then they were making the Witcher 3, and Dark Souls started getting popular in it. Like, you can kind of see it.

And they were inspired exploration-wise with Red Dead one. Oh, cool. Yeah. Was it with Frog Bosses, though? That Star Wars game had that really bad. Yeah. They don't have, like, they're hard to read

yeah how do you read a frog they're like super still they do nothing and then they are suddenly move yeah yeah that's like it's gonna suck and the only other thing they got is a tongue yeah that boss sucks but the rest of the DLC

fuck me I've talked about it multiple times on job before incredible and I've been playing the other DLC which I actually never finished blood and wine oh you never finished blood and wine no I've never

finished it before um i think partly because the vibe is so different you know how the witch is kind of like dark and gloomy and like mud and yeah just corpses saturated isn't it like blood and wine so yeah blood and wine like pops and yeah it's the the south of france basically is like yeah where you are in the world um but it it's really cool there's heaps of content um what i don't understand is how much content is in the game that is of the quality like it's all voice acted it's all well acted and like they've put effort into 95% of like every quest um apart from like the treasure that's for a dlc well and and the main game is it's the the dc i've finished a side quest recently and it's like a full-on fairy tale story that's also kind of bleak it's just like it

they can be intentionally subversive like it's it's going one way and then there's like a twist in the story and then you've got to make a moral decision that's kind of like the yeah yeah the standard of quest but the amount of times you just constantly feel um genuinely torn and you can't predict what the decision's going to be in the best of quests and sometimes it's something just as little as

there's this one quest where on an island somewhere a tower has appeared and since it just appeared there's a storm so you go in you sort the problem and you find a bunch of dead island islanders in there and you sort the problem you get back to the village that sent you on the mission and you just get the option to say um they ask you did you find the other islanders

and you get the option to say yes or no and if you say yes you're saying they're dead if you're if you say no then they can like imagine that they run it away with the tower or something which I chose to do and it's like it's a bit more gray a bit more agency yeah and it changes nothing in the world whether you make that decision but it does have value because it's like it's just a little moral quandary like would you want to know the truth or because you think it yeah and just the simple the prompt is almost more important than what I chose it's like man what should I say and it's very cool yeah the way it's able to do that is awesome Sorry, I was waffling big time, but

No, I love that game. This is four. Games done. Music time. Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-ba. What is that? Oh, that's my area, right? Mar-a-Malio.

It's me. I just note it down of like a bunch of songs and a few albums that kind of make my year. Can I shout out one album before you get into a? but uh sure i'm it's probably gonna be on mine it might no it won't okay but it's it needs bringing up vultures too it's weird you say that because the other night when i couldn't sleep i was going through some songs on it just like really yeah just out of curiosity um awful

just unbearably bad yeah um embarrassing what makes you bring it up because a bong I just feel with, uh, with some pretty important stuff happening in the, in the rap. Rapsphere this year. Yeah, big time. For Kanye to be doing that, he used to be like the guy. Like, he was kind of, he was being talked about no matter what. Mm-hmm. Like, nobody cares, man.

No, it's sad. He screwed the pooch. It's pathetic. Yo, fuck that, fuck that. I hate that. I hate that. That bad noise. Let's talk about some good noise.

Yeah. Um, I know you've probably wanted to talk about this forever. Because we haven't yet. G and X. Yeah. Let's just start there. Fairly recent drop. You've listened to it more than me, but I've noted down,

reincarnated Gloria and Heart Part 6 is my, my faves from the album. So far. I still got to listen to it more See, I feel like I would have been with you In a like an agreement On the best songs But not like us Like a woke something in me

Yeah, I know it down, not like us as well Yeah, the It's, that's a 2024 big deal Is that whole beef? But I believe that's not in like a wrap-up list Of like songs of the year Then I don't know like what Yeah

Rock you're living under Yeah I mean Drake would say That it's not fair That it was Yeah Well you know about the lawsuit

Drake is Oh yeah you're right You're right Soing Um Warner music or whatever Name Music group

I'm gonna sue you Yeah Um lame But my favorite From GNAX Squabble up because that that was teased in the music video for not like us and everyone was like

what's this one I want to hear that and getting to actually hear it it wasn't exactly what I was expecting um but it claps it truly does it's not like a concept album in the same way they're Definitely songs that feel like, like reincarnated is quite a high concept. Yeah, for sure. And Gloria. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's obviously a sprinkling in there, but it's more, I don't know, ain't like his previous album. No, it's, it's less consistent.

Yeah, not in a quality way, but in a thematic sense. But another one for me, probably my favorite song on the album is Hey Now. featuring Dodie Dodie 6 Yeah That one's like popped off hasn't it I don't know

It just resonate It's got that chorus right The hey now say now bit Yeah I mean I don't know if it's popped off On like TikTok I mean they're all kind of pop enough

To be honest Well that's the thing I think the biggest one And also another one of my favour Is TV off That's got to be the biggest um you might be thinking of luther oh no i'm thinking of luther yeah yeah no it's with scissor

yeah yeah no it's that one is that one yeah which is also one of my favorites um you just like the album and saying that whacked out murals is kind of one of my favorites he's going to do that fucking um no i i will say dodger blue and g and x i don't really get they they don't

they're the reason i don't put the song the album on just all the way through yeah because the other ones i can just have i'm consecutively liked and go through i kind of like the second half of the album more in my mind really yeah yeah i think i'm hmm no i just like the whole album and it's not it's not my favorite kendrick album because i always like the high concept stuff a little bit more um yeah like my favorite of the not like us song is that really scary one uh-huh i think my favorite is euphoria the the first one right yeah yeah the uh that album that song sorry had me laughing euphoria like would g and x has lots of kind of funny yeah um because another one of my favorites peekaboo yeah yeah and it's it it sounds so good um the attitude

of just dropping that album with no marketing and just like what do you mean there's a Kendrick album out right now what? Well yeah because I was here and I was just like scrolling on YouTube and I saw someone who posted like one of those pictures and they were like Kendrick just dropped yeah he's just on fire he's proven something

yeah it makes it feel effortless he does you know it's also he's for a long time just been like i'm the best i am the best and it's one of the few people that says that where it's like all right you are you yeah because when like it's it's a common thing in rap music to be like i'm i'm the best i'm the best guy when when when kendrick does it

it's always been a bit different um and he he comes from like back battle rap you know um so ever since the beef it's been like yeah Kendra might be the best and then he drops this album it's like yeah he's the best you know yeah it without a shadow of a doubt and the fact um because i'd say typically tyler has resonated with me more really um Um, yeah, uh, just in like, uh, I, I like his, his whole stick of like, I mean, it, it essentially boils down to like, be yourself. Um, yeah, I like that. And he's, he's, he's like, kind of, quite honest. Yeah. And he's, he's, he's weird. He's openly weird. And he's also really funny. He's got way more. Limes and bars. Yeah, but also outside of rap. Like, I, I love that freestyle. Um, uh, uh, that shit's hilarious is those of like funny pictures of him with like random people as well yeah and have you seen his um uh what do you call it when you get like a photo taken of you when you get arrested oh no yeah i haven't seen what are they called oh i can't run like hour

three of recording so i'm a little bit scrambled yeah um tell a creator Because Trump's one was obviously big this year as well Mugshot Mugshot, yeah Yeah, Jesus I'm shot Wait, that's real I've seen that before, but I thought it was like a video

I'm the fucking bitches Let's fuck me, let me see that shit again No fucking way And he got arrested because after one of his shows he was arrested for inciting a riot what the fuck that's hilarious that's a crazy picture yeah looks like it looks like it's got a million filters on it yeah i don't know how he did it's the funniest shit ever though um yeah so for that sort of stuff he's always resonated with me more a bit lighthearted and easier to like dip in and out of whereas like you're not

gonna just listen to you from to Pemper Butterfly no even though I do but like it's not the vibe but he's he's proven with this album that he can do both he can be

just the the most entertaining but and I love that being everyone was in all the disc tracks it was constantly like your latest album sucks dude and people are kind of kind of weird about Mr. Murrow.

Yeah, I think it's too revealing for some people. And it's actually an album. As heavy as far. Yeah. And Tyler specifically loves that album. It's an incredible album. Yeah.

And it was really satisfying for Kendrick to, like, releasing it as sensitive and heavy album and kind of stand by it. Just let it be what it is. and prove that he can have that side to him, that like, introspective sensitive side and then pop out and be like, I'm still the fucking guy

you know, it's yeah, after with... Because this album, in it, what, it's been out a month? A month or two? If that, yeah. Barely any time. It's probably already more popular than some of these songs yeah yeah so yeah so yeah i mean unless you have anything else to say on that

do you um is it i mean it might annoy people but like it's probably going to be my most listened to kendrick album really yeah i'm i'm obsessed with it i don't know what it is but it's just caught me like right place right time i think the so where would you put it in uh kendrick like ranking in terms of what like what you're looking for in terms of if i want it on in a shuffle it's number one right you know like the the more poppy tunes are better than the ones on like damn the yeah i like it more than damn yeah for sure i think um the more like reincarnated

that's one of those um you get tingles up your spine songs yeah same with Gloria for me um his his like storytelling is so solid and it doesn't no song seems to overstay it's welcome just as long as they need to be

yeah change themselves up they're varied enough so I'd easily put it in top three Kendrick album Hmm Hell yeah you mentioned Tyler I got a couple to shout out there

specifically balloon from chromocopia yeah and Mario Cut and Mario Cut like Mario Sunshine I love that fucking sound is I love that I can't get enough of that song

I've only heard like the rest of the album kind of through you and in your car but I like what I've heard and just before you go on to Chromacopia randomly I ain't got time from Flower Boy was in my most played songs of the year hell yeah that's a great song

that isn't it's awesome song yeah that was in my most played in the playlist yeah um yeah chromocopia very cool

very cool album I think everything I've said about it before I don't really have to I don't have much more to say on it. I think Kendrick dropping, when he did, kind of took the wind out of his sales for me. Right. I thought that spot. Something cool on the second song in Chromacopia, Rattata.

Tyler says, I'm the biggest from the city next to Kenny. So he's saying like he's He's the second He's trying to top three He's the right Yeah he's one of the big three Bye bye fucking I can't remember his name now

Jay J Della Grippy Yeah Griffey Bye bye grippy What a song But yeah Um

actually I miss the most important part it's hmm grippy does he actually go yeah fuck that guy

um but yeah awesome album by Tyler again he he don't really miss either it's also cool that he does all his production he's got a sound yeah I dig that I do that

he's got a real sound to him um well my other like standout albums of the year didn't come out this year outside of uh bratt by charlie xcx of which i'll shout out apple von dutch sympathy is a knife and girl so confusing the version with lord specifically goes hard um never really listened to charlie before this album

didn't really like what I heard to be honest but I've seen about this one the attitude the branding the production I love like electronic music just grabs you man

and it's like some funny lyrics but also a lot of kind of honesty in there and just a good ass album CNL live as well it's like yeah this is a really solid album that I'll be returning to

yeah it's a nice like side swipe surprise for me i just was not anticipating to have an album like this on my top of the year but hell yeah hell yeah i mean she yeah i've heard some songs and even with my rule of not being allowed to listen to women sing i i'm like she might have to listen to this woman sing you know uh yeah genuine bad feature of being me. I just don't have like women musicians. Yeah, it annoys me. I'm trying to be very bad. Very bad. Yes. Sort it out. I'm very bad. Um, do you have any more albums to shout out? Um, yeah. Um, I know you've listened to this one. Uh, the Duke baby. Duke and it's such sweet that's that's a old ass old ass album yeah that's from like

yeah that's a good album uh-huh you know and it claps i yeah because if i i i halfway through the year started just going in on different jazz we had the podcast about it um but different jazz artists and albums um um but I can't find one that that equals this to me really because it was always um Davies for me yeah the thing is I'm really familiar with that already yeah I think through osmosis being I think being around you like kind of 2016 time mm-hmm it was just always on yeah just a rinse yeah and I mean the fact that I can still listen to them and not be annoyed from the abundance is yeah that that's

says a lot. They're incredible pieces of music. Yeah, such sweet thunder. I love the, I love how exaggerated it is, specifically the, the, like, love song. It's big. Yeah, it's like, you could be looking at a slug on the floor listening to that song, like, whewish. I'm going to kiss the slug right now. Yeah, I'm getting, I bet that slug's grippy. Oh my god. Yeah. No, it's a beautiful album. Yeah, a nice shout out. I highly recommend. I got a shout out the the challenges score, specifically the version mixed by boys' noise. Kind of takes the score and makes it like it doesn't sound like a score. It sounds like a dance album pretty much. Not that the original album is bad by any means, but I'd recommend that too. But specifically that version was on my most played.

as far as this is this goes hard I love electronic music I love Trent and Atticus just god I listen to it a lot this year hell of a lot yeah so I think I picked that up through osmosis as well mm-hmm yeah I'd be surprised if you didn't any more albums I'm sure you've got there's one I'm surprised you haven't said yet Jack White yeah no name yeah yeah I was I've got Archbishop Harold Holmes on here. I could put every song from here. Really, yeah.

Yeah, in the same vein as Kendrick, it's like, these are two guys. You never expect Kendrick to release ever, really. You know, he's like twice a decade. Yeah, it was like five years previously between albums, right? Yeah, yeah. Jack White is kind of. the opposite he he's like on a steady grind he just keeps going he's consistent too yeah

he doesn't really release like duds no not at all this is a bad idea this is like uh his past few albums have been really cool and like experimental um but this one is like he just he he's he's used the serum from the substance yeah he's just like revived his his prime self and he's like back baby and fuck me he goes so hard on this shit like i was listening to the first song um in the gym uh when i remembered that this album had released because i saw no advertising for it um and i just started it and then i'm on like pull up 530 so i'm like holy shit i'm powered up listening to this um and suddenly the the album's just over i don't i don't i don't i I don't know how he managed to do it, but he makes this album fly by the songs.

Every single one just slaps. There's great lyricism in there. Yeah. Yeah, there's some particular standout stuff. I love how he's able to be a little bit goofy with it as well. Yeah. In the Harold Holmes one. Uh-huh.

He's perfectly mimicking. He's being like a preacher. Yeah. But is it kind of a Like a slimy preacher Yeah You know Like a sleaze bag

Yeah Yeah And you just pick it up Yeah That's really funny Yeah But he's just He's cool

Yeah he's He's fucking cool He's effortlessly cool Yeah Yeah He's He's He's someone you just wish

You could get like A One drop of his essence Yeah Yeah Give me a drop of it Like Put him in the dark crystal chair and drink his lessons.

Yeah. 100%. Um, see if I've got any other albums specifically to shout out. Yeah, there are. They are. There is. Random pool.

You've come a long way, baby, by Fat Boy Slim. Specifically, Rockafella, Skank, California, and Love Island. I've kind of always liked Fat Boy Slim But some reason that one Especially earlier in the year It was like my soundtrack for a while Yeah, I remember

Because I guess Praise you has rinsed so much Almost in like a daft punk way Whatever man And then you listen to it And the whole album And it's like, okay dude You're right

You deserved it for fuck sake Yeah So shout out to Fat Boy Do you have any other albums? No, just songs Can I do I've got two my albums And then it's just songs

Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Just spitballs and songs Both of these are LCD sound system albums Two I hadn't Listen to before Until this year

Which is why it's notable for me First one is the London session album that's on Spotify specifically the version on that of your cities of sucker which I was reminded by seeing it live so I actually really like the song there's edgy lyrics the yeah is you talking about London my city's not a sucker man I just like there's a line where says your city's a sucker my city's in heat I think's funny most of

songs have like just so much to break down the lyrics and these rhythms that build on themselves and I'm just loving these ridiculously long songs which leads me on to the album 4533 which I've kind of forced you to hear disgusting amounts of um because it's only got like four songs on it but the first song is 46 minutes long the title of the album is a reference to the two speeds records can play at that's cool the song isn't actually 45 33 minutes long the song is 46 minutes long yeah i noticed that that pissed me off that really upset you know the law so it's fine yeah yeah um it's it's like six songs in one but holy shit i love it i've listened to the full thing

countless times the full like journey it takes you on do you just sit there like with your hands on your legs just listening yeah yeah I just like staring into space like what the lyrics get at in the song at certain points it's it towards the beginning someone great an instrumental version of someone great is in there and there's this the particular portion once the instrumental of someone great ends and then it starts morphing into the next section like the rhythms that are coming out and these trumpets start coming in and it's like oh my god I could just sit in this for like ever it's so uh yeah i just can't stop moving i can't stop getting with this um that might be like my favorite find of the year to be honest as far as like a song um but it's like

extremely obtuse i guess and uh i don't know i don't think i've ever listened to a song that long before it's nearly feature late it's yeah it's longer than the wrong trousers It's two long trousers, pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, so shout out to that. I thought that was a great find that tickles my whistle or something. Yeah. Got to watch your whistle, baby.

Is that Flowrider? Yeah. Yeah, so my next shout out is Flowrider, Whistle, fuck. Whistle remix. Yeah. Yeah. DJ Khalid, Flowrider Whistle remix. So I've got like just songs now, which you.

sure. Someone from this year, somewhere from other years. I don't know the best way to go through at this. I mean, I'm just going to like shout one out. So I'm just using my my top songs. Yeah, that's how I can build this list. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But knowing you like this song also. Yeah, there'll be overlap. Algorithm. Yep, I got that one here. Yep. Charles Gambino. I've never really been into Childish Gambino Me neither

I like a few of the the songs Really cool Yeah I've got a handful of his songs But I don't really have full albums of his No and I tried Before and I was like Everyone knows because internet right

Is it okay internet? Okay internet? I can't remember I haven't really listened to it so Yeah But what struck me about algorithm on the album Alta Vista or something the lyrics

He's like compiled these thoughts That feel like I've been getting it you've been getting out for years And he puts it in such a like eloquent Oh you're right on the money there man You have nailed this like social media Landscape We're in And in a way that's so difficult to talk about that

Without sounding like cringy Yeah yeah he pulls it off he's got this like filter on his voice and it's like quite a heavy he's he's crazy talented because you can hear like when he sings he sounds great when he wraps he sounds great and like he's he's one of those like yeah he can act he can sing he's funny as fuck as well he's crazy good yeah yeah i mean it i'm just gonna ten it quick into the previous episode

Yeah, yeah But I've been watching him in a TV show Mr. and Mrs. Smith Which I was expecting to find lame as fuck Yeah, yeah But I think it's purely because of him Like he carries it

Yeah, he's so funny And natural On screen Um And it makes me Want to like his music more yeah i don't know how someone you know when it kind of pisses you off because it's like you're how you yeah well you're just kind of perfect can i some of your essence man yeah yeah get him

in the the dark crystal fucking chair they have you have you seen any of your community yeah i've watched loads of it's he's he's funny as fuck but very different vibes yeah he's like he's cool in um yeah he's like a dorking community yeah he's like an idiot dog yeah yeah whereas in the other show he's like kind of badass but also he's he's funny and charming and again natural yeah i really like the guy and it makes me like his music more and that song rocks i'm going to shout out a couple from the smilers the smile yes um i got teleharmonic on here which is my favorite song of those i think that i've heard at least and a zero sum of the one that did come out this year cutouts um

I love what they do with the, like, layering of the guitar in that song. Zero time. Is that when it's like a... No, I'm thinking of a different one. It's like, that is crazy. It's awesome. Whereas teleharmonics way more like the sad kind of sound. It's very radio-heady.

Yeah, that one. I don't understand why it's not a radiohead song, to be honest. I don't... Yeah, it sounds like them... I don't get why the smile is a different project. It must be a reason. It's all the same people, right?

As far as I'm... I think eyes and mouth is my one from the latest that I've rinsed. Which is a very different type of guitar. Right. Where it's more like a sanding than the sanding and then a sandy.

It sounds like so rich. Yeah. Yeah. Very, um... They're very technical. And surprise. surprising they do lots of like unpredictable lots of modular interchange to kind of just flip the script on you yes i can be a fantano see that music theory is coming in clutch yeah boy i'll never be

as funny as him um yeah that's all i really have to say on them just fire just a little bit fire oh what there is i might as well um i've got the jumps which is a tom york song from the suspiria soundtrack that's kind of one of those like just in repeat on repeat songs for me which is an lcd song that i've had on repeat as well um and uh there was a radiohead song on here lotus flower of the king of limbs as well has always been has also been on heavy rotation especially when um when i was in portugal there was like a 45 minute scooter ride i was on i had one headphone in just looping um that song for some reason it just was nice along the harbor that's cool yeah that's why oh my god

i've got a shout out exit nine that i'm gonna shout that out i've got xer nine on as well yeah fuck that's a crazy good song off the album michael yeah like killer mike killer mike killer mike needs credit man that's a smooth song like in seconds yeah i think that's the best way to describe killer mike when like he just like rides on the beat you know he like surfs on it yeah he's not clashing with it he's like yeah it's he is riding that shit yeah even when he like his firebird off the curb Yeah, fuck, yeah Dude

What a great song Yeah The second you sent that for me I was like Yeah Get him in the essence chair I'm taking that I do want to shout at as well

Calling back to the video game section The Cyberpunk soundtrack God damn Yeah, you got some good songs in there Yeah the Grimes in there uh yeah

yeah she is sorry i only don't like her because um she's friends with Elon Musk friends um um

yeah let me pull up the album but um v the theme tune the like main menu music banging um

the rebel path holy shit it is it makes you just want to like fight yeah yeah it genuinely it makes you want to fight or run yeah like run away from

something with lots of motion yeah also total inverse outside of no more from the soundtrack is like the it's heartbreaking

it's a really powerful piece of music to me um yeah i don't know that one yeah i mean i i don't know why you would listen to it having not played the game but i i play for like 30 hours you've barely scratched the surface um i think it's used a lot in that was written by drake really yeah are you serious yeah genuine straight up weird um fun fact yeah i discovered that recently i don't like it now yes it's so shit um yeah it's also used in the anime outside of no more um because it right i feel like the the anime is very parallel to the the themes and also i would have the sensations of the game yeah um and the emotions so did you see that special edition

statue they released from the anime of a moment i won't spoil who where a character gets destroyed and that's what the statue is of it's like a freeze frame of like someone gets like crushed it's like a statue of that moment it's fucking weird why would you pick that i don't know why not like them yeah so like every time you look over at your shelf it's like oh that horrible moment yeah yeah yeah that shit's fucking depressing man that whole show miserable I wouldn't have it any other way yeah it rocks it rocks hard as

fuck if anything I'd have a few more episodes to flesh things out a bit they're doing another one you know what there is another album I'd like to shout out um it's definitely not been in my rotation quite as much but um why lord by

Anderson pack yeah I haven't listened to that one yet because I really went on on a pack binge a few years ago yeah really fell in love with his son a couple of his albums yeah and there's always been something to me slightly just slightly missing which he kind of captured with bruno mars with silk sonic talking about smooth yeah uh get their essence that brunoz essence fuck me yeah drain him fucking dry that motherfucker um

But yeah, Anderson Park, he's been so close to, like, greatness to me. Not to say he's not great, but, like, I don't know, beyond greatness, like, sheesh. Like, who's that 70s guy, Bobby Womack? Ooh. You know, that, that kind of echelon. Yeah, I mean, he's that only essence you would need. Yeah. Incredible voice.

Holy shit. Incredible voice, but incredible, like, sass as well. incredible you know just essence I guess but Anderson back seems to

channel that essence more with this latest album and it's got a bit more of a sour tone to it he's you know why Lord you know he's going through some shit

you know true because normally he says yes Lord yeah yeah it's like his catchphrase huh yeah he's he's like uh he was happy kramer and now he's sad kramer it's like imagine if kramer came in the room and he didn't he had like no energy oh that's that is a sad image holy shit yeah um i mean i said grimes i don't give five shits i hate yel musk we'll we had that whole section in the previous episode about how much we hate your yeah yeah yeah but i love grimes i love grimes i'm sorry I fucking love Grimes

Okay Um Fucking traitor Specifically the song that was in my wrap up was a flesh without blood A brutal song Where the lyrics Seemed to be Um

Talking about someone who like she was friendly with in the industry Who she's like fallen out with And it was Uh Great lyrics Great She's always got interesting like weird Sound design going on with her stuff

um sound design yeah like noises weird noises electronic stuff i did grimes i don't give five shits what you say um yeah i don't know i with elons the thing is i i can't remove the association i know it's meant to be like art artists like death of the artist luckily i'd heard a bunch of her stuff before yeah yeah so like yeah so your association is based in something else yeah yeah whereas mine is like I discovered her through Elon and cyberpunk and in cyberpunk she murders her boyfriend so she's in she's a character yes and she's a woman made of gold she hires you to find and she make and that gold character has music like are they a musician yes she like plays a celebrity

in the cyberpunk universe cool yeah well you didn't tell me grimes was in it well i got a good play it now. Yeah, I might actually play it. Just together do the Golden Grimes quest. Go fucking play it on your Tesla though. Um, go there are a few more here.

I got into Justice, the band, so Never Ender from the album Never Ender, which did come out this year. That's a really good song with Justice and Tame and Paler working together. I'll also shout out the song. The song, new lens from audio video disco also by justice um

weird french people sometimes they every now and again they do something right yeah i guess they made brie right they made a brie la me so uh yeah sound it for way more time every now and again

um i've got a fresh song for thee you know paisley park by prince I love that song That's the tune It was weird because I first heard it And I was like this sounds like dick

And I was like holy shit This sounds like magic Give me Prince's assens Oh this sounds like dick Yeah Uh huh Yeah awesome song It's so catchy

Do da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da Seeing as we're on this kind of smooth kick, I need to shout out as by Stevie Wonder, a recent discovery. Another fairly long song, it builds itself up nice, and it's like, if you can stay still during this, you're a monster. Yeah, Stevie Wonder just screaming in your ear. Uh-huh. He goes through in that last part of the song. He really pounds it out. Uh-huh.

The backing vocals are great in that song. Yeah, what a banger. Yeah, I have respect for that song. There's a howling cat. That's my song of the year. Yeah, yeah. Should we just do a couple more? Yeah, maybe just like list.

I'll just list. Should I just list? Okay. like just Should we quick fire back and forth? Yeah, okay Right Isabel

Off the album post by Bjork Bjork Nice The Wheel by Woody Jackson From Red Dead 2 Oh that was on mine too Really? Yep

Saturdays of the album Bright Like Neon Love By the Australian band Cut Copy Nice Their first album I think Which I hadn't listened to and discovered this year

and it's a good-ass album Shout out to Haiku from Zero Another good-out album I love that album. I haven't just do it for a while but it's good Every now and again

I just remember and I jump in I'm gonna say another video game one Contact with you by Kota Hashino from Armored Corps

Oh that shit Yeah I need to play that Oh it goes crazy Yeah it's really really awesome.

Was I'm a call that was last year? Yeah, it wasn't this year. Yeah, it definitely wasn't this year. Turn around parentheses, Hey, what's wrong with you by Fats and Small? Found it by accident

because I had my phone unlocked on Spotify and it just was started playing. Oh, okay. I was like, okay. That's always nice. Yeah. Um,

a little bit overplayed, but that's entertainment by the jam. Yeah, I'm not sure if that's entertainment, that's, you've got to know it. I probably know it if I know. It's, um, who did Wildwood? In the Wildwood. Yeah.

Oh, shit. Yeah, it's his band, the jam. He was in the jam. Right. And then he went solo. Okay. Yeah. Moon in Water of the album Barking by Underworld.

Nice. Great songs. I saw that live Very nice Um Rode by George Winston Huh Road by George Winston

Winston Winston from Overwatch Yeah Also sorry Colors Dance by George Winston I just wanted to combine this Yeah I probably should have combined Shudder slash King of Snake

Of a Buku Bish Underworld Saw that song Live twice this year Banger Poon Oh

Sorry Fuck I think my Half my brain just exploded As I did that The Tower by Future Islands That's cute little song Is that a new one?

Yes Cool Martha Sorry No go on Martha My dear Um

Oh yeah The White album I changed it to Arthur My dear and played Red Dead Cool That's badass

I'm tired of being alone by Al Green What a What a song Al Gore's making music now Huh Huh? He's dead He's dead He got killed

He got killed A satellite of hesitation marks By 9 inch nails Hmm Great lines Um Hmm I love

How to disappear completely competitor to um Rackner That's a good choice I'm going to argue with you there Uh Home Soon of the album Hound's Tooth by dope lemon Hmm

You know what I said this in the other video But Nights by Frank Ocean And that's all she wrote That's as much as I've got That's what you got I'm obsessed with that song I'll just go crazy mode then yeah pound it out Fancy clown of mad villainy MF Doom

Newbody Rumba from the film white noise That's an LCD sound system song I didn't know about somehow And I think it's genuinely one of their best songs even that was made for a movie Drunk Girls Holy Ghost remix Drunk and Hot Girls Not quite Music for Chameleons of I Assassin by Gary Newman T-I-C-K-T-O-C-K off the album Geography by Tom Mitch

Park Life by Blur Floating Parade off the album Small Changes by Michael Kiwanuka The Adults Are Talking, the new abnormal That's by the Strokes and Reptilia from the album Room On Fire by the Strokes My Shine slash Angels trumpet fit. It was the two different songs from the album Tres Flores by Woody Jackson. What else we got here? Just about all of them. Resonance by Odyssey. That's just, I'm always

playing that for ever. Weird pull here, Mangalam. Off the album, Dekini Lounge by Prem Joshua. It's an Indian song. Really cool. Vaster than empires of the queer original score that's Trent and Atkus Ross with a Spanish I think he is I could be wrong I don't I'm not really familiar This fellow Keitano Velosi who seemed really popular but that song is aking and awesome Recent one I discovered dancer of the album tanked tank by idols and LCD working together And finally, the song, Image of the album, Imaginal Disc by Magdalena Bay. I thought you were going to say Imagine Dragons. Yeah, that's my final one.

What's he called? I'm not going to make it out of life, but it's not you. Cut through it. Cut through it by Imagine Dragons. That's the certified 2024 banger. Kind of sums up the year Absolute Imagine Dragons Belter of the year

Wow, I think we did it I think Billy did it Yeah So let us know Your favourite Songs and Games And songs and games And whose essence you want to drink

Yeah, whose essence Do you want to siphon out of the dark crystal Ha ha ha ha Yeah.