No Filler Music Podcast - Coldplay - Parachutes

Episode Date: November 11, 2019

Fresh out of the Metal Month oven, we hop onto the cooling rack and chill out with a little Coldplay and their 2000 debut Parachutes. We admire the atmosphere and tone with some tracks that aren't named after a primary color with a look at the dark mood of Spies, the dreamy Sparks, and the hard to ignore Radiohead vibes of High Speed. Perfectly paired with the piano and acoustic melodies of Chris Martin, it's the guitar riffs and segues of Jonny Buckland that make these filler tracks so memorable. Take a listen with us as we explore one of the most successful bands of all time at the moment that started it all. Tracklist: Coldplay - Spies Coldplay - Sparks Coldplay - High Speed Penelope Isles - Round Horse Jumper of Love - Sun Poisoning Travis - Big Chair This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden jokes. gyms that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. My name is Quentin. Got my brother Travis with me as always. And we made it through the metal sludge. And we've emerged into the month of November. And we're pulling a 180. I feel like it's pretty much a 180 at this point.

We're done with Metal Month. We're on the other side. you survived. I think you, you may pretend like you weren't paying attention, but I feel like you walked away with some, what of a better understanding of what metal is and like what it means to people and how it's more than just the corny satanic worshipping that we showcased with ghost, you know, although they're doing it to be ironic, I think. But they're, they're what I, like, when I think of metal, that's just what I assumed. Like, with all metal, it's ghost. Yeah, right, which it's, yeah, I mean, I think, I at least demonstrated to you that that's

not the case. No, yeah, totally. Dude, it was, look, I enjoyed it. But now we're talking about Coleplay and their debut album, Parachutes. People who are fans of Coldplay, you probably recognized Chris Martin's voice in that clip that we played in the beginning there. That was an interview around the same time period. And, you know, this guy, he was 23 when they put this record out. And like, if you watch that video, we'll put it up on the show notes on our website. He is so baby-faced, man. And they had no clue the kind of success that they were going to see, you know. And that's what I, that's what I like about that, that interview. It's like, you heard what he said.

He's like, man, we would just love it if, you know, the people who listen to our music, if, you know, when they go through their record collections with their kids, you know, 20, 30 years from now, they, you know, come across a Coldplay album and they pick it up and say, man, you know, I just, I really loved this record. Here's what makes me so happy right now, dude. That is like almost verbatim, the clip that we played to end. intro in for the strokes yeah you're right we did with is this it dude almost verbatim you're right yeah that just makes me happy dude because we covered their first uh debut album or uh we covered their debut

album is this it and it was um what the uh drummer it was the drummer i don't remember his name at the moment god damn it he was like man you know like what matters in this industry and like what we're hoping for is just, you know, we want to release a record that stands the test of time. Like that, that to us is more important than anything else that, you know, journalists or anyone else right now could say about us. Like, what matters is to release a record that could stand the test of time. And that's, yeah, dude, that's what it's all about when you're in a band, dude. You just want to be remembered and cherished, you know, that's great, dude. Well, I think the irony of Chris Martin saying that is, you know, they've put out plenty of albums since then and have skyrocketed.

Obviously, I mean, they're one of the most successful bands of all time. But I would say that, you know, the albums that are going to stand the test of time are going to be their earlier pieces, which would be parachutes, a rush of blood to the head, maybe even X and Y. from then on, it's like, they're, they kind of have become a pop band, right? They're pop stars. Their biggest song, at least by Spotify's play count, is that song, something just like this, which is a collaboration with some other band. Everybody's heard it ad nods. I don't even know what, you've heard it. You've heard it. I've heard this. I've heard it. Absolutely. Let's play it. All right. Let's play. Yeah. Let's take a little listen. There's no way you have. If you exist on this planet, you've heard this.

Superhero Some fairy tale Blitz Just something I can turn to Somebody I can kiss I want something Just like this

Like this Dudeoooooooooo Shit man All right I had to get a minute in Before I realized Yes I have heard That song

Everybody's heard that chorus Right Yeah Yeah Just take a guess How many plays Do you think That song

Has on Spotify Dude I have no clue All right Let me give you some context. So you can have a better chance of getting this close, at least the ballpark. Okay, so yellow, right? The song that put them on the map, 525 million plays, right? Okay. And that's the album that we're talking about. Yellow shows up on Parish Shoes. That's one of the series of Yeah. And that song's been, been out for forever, right? Since you've been able to... Almost 20 years now.

And since the beginning of Spotify, you've probably been able to look this song up and push play, right? So that just tells you like how long of a time frame that it's had to get play counts tallied up. Okay. You said 500 something million. Yeah. So take a guess how much this song, which is, you know, has huge crossover. You can play it at a club. You know, it's a pop song. And like you said, this is a song that they did with another band called Chain Smoker. Yeah, which is like a producer duo. Shit, dude, I don't know. Uh, 900 million? Close enough. It's $1,170 million plays. Jesus.

Now, that's insane. So anyway, that's a long-winded way of saying that... That this is one of the biggest bands on the planet. Yes, and little young green Chris Martin in that video clip just had no clue. You know what I mean? They literally just put out their first album. That was from 2000, right? That interview.

And he is so young in that video and like they had no idea what was coming. So I like watching interviews, kind of like the Strokes interview that we saw where they just are starting out and getting sort of a hint of like some success to come their way. You know, it's interesting to see what they say and like how they. Oh, they're just so like fresh-faced and energetic and like just, you know, because they've got. Just now stepping into the idea of being. like full-fledged professional musicians, like, as their career. This is why, to me, if I, if I go into an artist, like, I hear of an artist, I hear a song that I like, I always go back to the first album because that, I feel like that's always

their most, like, the purest form of, of the band is their first album because, like, you know, they're getting together, you know, they've got nothing to lose. There's a handful of albums that we've covered since starting this podcast where that is absolutely the case, dude. Because they've, you know, a lot of times they put maybe years into writing these songs before they have a, you know what I mean? So it's just, it's them at like the early stages. This is the point in their like time as a group, as a collective, you know, where like they've been playing live shows and like perfecting these songs. live and these are songs that that are like, like, these

are their, like, most important and, like, most cherished songs as a band. Like, that's the, the songs that are going to show up on their debut. Yeah. They, they pour their... It doesn't matter how long they've been together. Like, these are the songs that they think are the best

to showcase what, like, who they are as a band and what they stand for. Yeah. That's what's going to show up on their on their debut record. Right. And, and, you know, a lot of times they pour their heart and soul into it. it, you know. So Coldplay, everyone knows, everyone knows about this band. Should we name off the roster at the very least? I just want to dive right into the music because no one cares about their history. Let's be honest, dude. No one cares. If you care, you already know. Let's put it that way.

Exactly. Yeah, good point. You know what I mean. Okay, so let's name off the roster then, dude. So I know we got Chris Martin, right? He's the main dude. Lead singer, piano player. He also plays the used to guitar, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Who else we got, dude? Come on, Vera. I don't have the roster in front of me.

I thought you were doing this. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I thought maybe, yeah, I thought maybe you even knew like on top of your head. Oh, no, dude. You're a bigger cold play friend than I am, dude. I like this album. That's where it begins and ends.

I'm not a massive cold play fan. Okay. If I know Wikipedia, which... Look, man, I've got the record right here in front of me that's got, let me pull out the liner notes on the actual vinyl record. This will be the source of truth. Fuck Wikipedia. All right. So for the roster, at least the roster at this time, you've got Chris Martin, of course, vocals, guitar, piano. A lot of times he would play. Philanthropy. Yeah. Philanthropist. At this point. At this point, I don't know about it in 2000. Was he a

philanthropist in the year 2000? I doubt it, dude. So a lot of times Chris Martin plays acoustic. And you've got Mr. John Buckland, who is one of the co-founders. So him and Chris founded the band. He's on the electric guitar. You've got Guy Barryman on the bass and Will Champion on drums. So I will say, and we'll hear it on the songs that we've got picked, I'm a big fan of John Buckland as a guitar player. Like I think he provided some really interesting riffs and melodies and whatnot.

Yeah. So from what I've read, some influences for Coldplay, number one, radiohead. Multiple members of the band were huge Radiohead fans. There's a pretty funny quote from Rolling Stone with Martin here. He's talking about radio head. He says, sometimes I feel like they cleared a path with a machete. and we came afterward and put up a strip mall. He says, I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

Who said that? Chris Martin. Okay. So when did he say that? Now, when did he say that? That was from a Rolling Stone article in 2008. Okay. Well, okay.

No, I think it's really important that he mentioned the OK Computer. and we'll see why when we get to our third song. All right, so with that being said, let's start playing some tunes here. So, you know, we've talked about this era before because we've done an episode on The Strokes. Is This It? That came out in 2001. I feel like we've covered a few bands.

Yeah. A few albums from this time. Well, I guess what I'm trying to get at is I don't think we've really talked about a band or a sound like this before. Maybe the closest thing could be, Kings of convenience, but just because it's piano and keyboard, or piano and acoustic guitars, but you can't even compare those two either. The closest band that we've covered to Coldplay is Radiohead easily.

I find that I'm getting offended by that, but that's okay. I don't know why, but I feel like they're two very different bands, but I can see the comparison. I guess, let me step back a second. I think Radiohead and Coldplay can be compared to each, or are similar up to KIDA. You know what I mean? When KIDA happens,

I don't think you can really compare the two. But there's a lot of similarities on Pablo Honey, the Ben's OK computer. Okay. Yeah, so you're right. You know, those, you know, we covered OK computer. So let's just get, let's just get into it, man.

Let's play our first track. Why not? Yes. So let's do it. I think it's good that we played something just like this because that kind of shows you that's the kind of stuff that they're putting out now. Really poppy stuff.

Collaborations with producers. I mean, they might as well be, I mean, it's pop, right? It's a good contrast to what you're going to hear, right? So, all right, first song off this record. Also, let's point out real quick, there were four singles on this record. Don't panic. shiver, yellow, and trouble.

So there's a lot of singles off of this record. Obviously. And we heard a little bit of trouble in the intro. Yes, that's correct. Everybody and their mother knows yellow. That was the song that blew up and got them on, they got them the coverage. I remember the,

I remember the video on MTV. That was the heyday of Total Request Live. So yeah, it was all over the place. So anyway, I think everybody knows the singles. Have you heard the other stuff in between the singles is what we're going to find out today. What a dumb thing to say. Betwixt. I'm just trying to get into it.

Is that any better? All right. Okay. So our first track is track number three. It's called Spies. I said how do you live as a fugitive down here where I cannot see so clear I said what do I know show me the right way to go and the spies came out of the water feeling so bad and the spies hide

Yeah, so what I like about that song is like, it's almost got like this, like, haunting vibe to it. You know, it's haunted a little bit. I don't know. I feel like sometimes I throw that word around, but what I mean by that is like, you know, it's, it's darker. It's melancholy, you know. The lyrics are, yeah. It sounds like they're talking about. you know, trying to

evade getting captured, like somebody's trying to hide. You know, he keeps talking about being fugitives and, you know, there's spies hiding out in every corner and it's interesting

theme, you know? Yeah. But again, go ahead. Do we know, is it about any particular thing? I don't know, beyond the lyrics. Wow, it's inspired by

James Bond film. The song was inspired by the band's love of the James Bond films and longtime composer John Barry. The World is Not Enough was also in production at the time of the song's writing. And dude, this is when I wish we had our dad handy

to be like, oh, the world is not enough. That's this James Bond film. where this and that happened. Yeah, there were a lot of spies in that one. I would think that there's spies in just about every James Bond film, Kew. Dude, I feel like there's probably spies in every corner of every James Bond film, dude. That's cool. That's what he's thinking about.

Like, there's spies in every fucking corner of these films. Like, he's having a... Look, dude, there's one in that corner there? But see, the funny thing is to me, now that I... If that's the truth, if it was inspired by James Bond, that almost takes away what I thought was deeper meaning behind this song. But, okay, here's what I love about this, too, because, like, that's the thing, man, about music and that's one of the things that I love about it so much is just like, we're writing shit

that comes to us, you know, randomly. And we're making awesome tunes out of it. Listen to the lyrics, though. I awake to see that no one is free. We're all fugitives. Look at the way we live. that didn't that you're not inspired from a James Bond film to write that that's that seems like more of a political statement but dude the spies came out of the water that could have been that could have been maybe that's just one awesome but see that maybe that's talking about the world is not enough yeah well I've always I've always liked the lyrics I had no idea that he was perhaps inspired by James Bond I think that's kind of funny since the name of it is spying eyes. But going back to what I said about John Buckland on the guitar, he's doing a lot of interesting

things here, right? I mean, there's some like Trimolo in the verse that kind of, you know, you know what Trimolo is right? Yeah. That's Trimolo makes that like echoey effect, right? No, that's delay. Oh, God. Damn it. Well, but there's some delay in this song, right? Maybe. Yes. Maybe in the course. Yes, maybe a little bit. But, um, okay, I'm into it. Yeah. What does Trimolo do? it sounds like it's getting uh like the the signal is getting cut off and on you know what i'm saying like uh okay you'll hear it in the verse okay what what what i'm thinking of is like a sound almost like i always think of that scene in tommy boy when he's yes looking talking into the fan yeah that's right low aligh yeah is that yes is that tremolo uh it sort of sounds like that yeah or is that the as

that more of the delay? No, that's, that's, that's Trimolo, sort of in a way. Okay. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of, dude. Yeah, I love that shit. That's, yeah, it's, it's great. That's, that's, that's, the part that stands out the most for me in this song, dude, is that, in the verse, the guitar effect. Yeah, the effect. That's the Trimolo. Okay, yeah, yeah, dude. Yeah, okay, we're on the same page. Yeah, so anyway. Yeah, so, I wonder who he was inspired by. Johnny Buckland was inspired by Actually, this is interesting Q, the stone roses

Don't know what that means. You don't know stone roses? We may have to do them as a side track at some point. Ride and my bloody Valentine, which are both suitcase bands. And here's where it makes sense. You too. So I can totally see how he sort of

you know, it's doing some of the edge type stuff, right? Yeah. He has a lot of guitar pedals that he uses, you know, the edge also plays the telecaster. So, and that's what John Buckling plays. So anyway, yeah. Anyway, I like what he, the layers that he adds on top of Chris Martin's piano and or,

acoustic guitar playing because Chris Martin seems to, at least on this record, do one of the two, right, from track to track. But John Buckland is always doing some sort of, he's got some sort of effect on his electric guitar. So I think it adds a really interesting sound here to otherwise like softer songs, you know? Yeah. And let's not to, you know, the thing, let's not even. I think we have to acknowledge how great of a vocalist Chris Martin is, right?

I was reading some early reviews and stuff of this record. And a lot of people attribute or praise him for being such a strong vocalist, right? And it definitely, I mean, come on. I mean, you can't get around it. Like, his vocals are what really stand out, I think. But anyway, the next track that I wanted to play, play has been a long-time favorite of mine. And I remember I used to fall asleep to this song back when I was, you know, in my

teen years back when this record first came out, I put it on repeat on like our old, like, Walkman, you know, hooked up to some like tiny computer speakers or something. Yeah, dude. I had another song that I used to fall asleep to that I think we talked about when we covered. There's nothing left to lose by Foo Fighters. I used to fall asleep to Aurora. Yeah, absolutely. I did, I had that on repeat in my earbuds. Yeah, so before we get into the next track, let's take a quick break. And we're back. Okay, so this is one of the softer songs on the record. It's pretty much all acoustic. There's a really nice bass line too, but for the most part.

This is my favorite Coldplay song. Yeah, it's a very pretty song. And it's just kind of got this like sleepiness to it. You know what I mean? Yes. Daydreamy kind of thing. That's a compliment. Sleepy is not a negative in this instance. So anyway, all right.

This song is, I believe, that very next track on the album, and it's called Spark. Or is it Sparks or Spark? Sparks. And it's called Sparks. It's just one of those songs, dude. Got to listen to it all the way through. Yeah, I can't argue with that. It's so good.

But yeah, it's just your classic love song, it sounds like, you know. It gets me, man. Gets me every time. Yes, it's a very, it evokes emotion, you know. Yeah. It's very, very. I love that song. It's a beautiful song.

I love that song. Yeah, I mean, it sounds like, you know, somebody fucked up. They're apologizing. you know because of first first first did I drive you away right yeah uh but i promise you this i'll always look out for you that kind of thing you know the classic uh hey man sorry but i still you know i love you or whatever the fucking is uh what's the sparks about like i i saw you know i've always thought of it as like hey you know sparks you know sparks you still get me yeah yeah I still get those butterflies.

Yeah. You know, sparks fly kind of thing. And Chris Martin, you know, famously went on to marry Gwyneth Peltro. So you probably saw some sports. Are they still together? I don't think so. But they had a kid named Apple. I know that.

Oh, yeah. Which was it. There's so many different possibilities as to why he chose the name Apple. I'm sure there's a reason, but. I feel like he. He's probably getting a little something from, uh, Steve. From Steve. Well, Steve's no longer with us, okay.

Well, then he's getting it from, uh, Tim Cook. No, dude. Uh, but, uh, I love that. I love that. Yeah. That's that to me, that's my favorite song on the record easily. Um, and it, like, Sparks is a song that, like, that is Cole play to me. You know? Like we have these bands where it's like this particular record in my mind is like that this is what the band is all about like with the strokes or Kings of Leon. Sparks is cold play to me.

Like that's their sound like perfectly embodied in, you know, three and a half minutes. I mean the thing is, I feel like that's a unique song in their catalog though. I mean, really. Well, then I don't know Coleplay, dude. You're saying to you, that's the song that you associate with Coldplay. That's the one that you have like a relationship with, right? Yeah. Is that what you're saying?

That's what I'm saying, dude. Yeah. And yeah, I guess I could have worded that differently. Yeah, but that's fine. No, that that is an important song to me. Yeah. Like, I don't have, it's not tied to any like relationship in my. life or anything.

Sure. You know, like, it's not one of those songs. Yeah. But yeah, dude, it's just, it's just a perfect, you know, melancholy love song. Yeah, it's a great song. It's, it's just a really good song. All right. So now, Quinn, we were talking before we were pre-planning for this episode.

And you're saying that you may not have ever gotten or played past yellow. You may not have ever gotten the side B? Is that what you're telling me? I don't think so, dude. Okay. I'm glad that you said that. I've heard trouble because it's a single. I don't know.

I mean, I don't know if I've heard parachutes. I mean, that's the title track, but I don't know if I've heard it. Okay. But I feel like, okay, let's just say, you know, when I've revisited this album over the last, you know, 10 years or so, I don't feel like I get past yellow, which is five songs in, which is the next song on the album after Sparks. Yeah. Is the mega single yellow.

So our next pick is high speed, right? Yeah. And here's the thing, Q. I'm excited that you, that it's possible you've never heard this song. Because it's my favorite track on the record, Q. And you know what? Let's just, you know what, dude, I feel like we don't ever include our dear listeners. Maybe it's possible that a lot of people that are listening to this have never heard

either. It's not all about me, dude. That's fine. Look, man. Maybe there's a lot of people out there who are just like you. They play side A and never get the side B. Because yellow is where side A stops. Well, if you don't listen to records, side A and side B mean absolutely nothing. No, but back in the day, like it was important, you know,

there was thought that went into, hey, this is where side A ends and this is where side B begins. you know, that is a thing. I think a lot of bands still factor that in or maybe producers or everybody's pressing vinyl now, so I mean, it is a thing again.

But anyway. Probably wasn't in 2000, but yeah, dude, let's listen to it. So this is what? Towards the end of the album, really, this is yeah, it's toward the end of the record. So here's the thing about this song.

We talked about Martin and how he was influenced by Radiohead and how he would give his left nut to write anything as good as OK computer, right? Yeah, he said left ball, but I like nut better. I think the nut sound, it just has a better oof to it, you know, my left nut. I mean, I think left ball is funny because I've never heard someone say. Me neither.

I've always heard it as like my nut, you know. Left nut. My left nut. Left ball. Here's the thing about this song. there's a lot of similarities with this song and subterranean homesick alien, which is on OK computer. Did you play that song?

I think we may have, yeah. I feel like we did. But either way, it has a very similar kind of flowy feel to it, the guitar playing at least. And it's just a killer track, man. I'm excited to get your thoughts on it if you've never heard it. So let's do it. Again, this song is called High Speed. Huge influence from Radiohead on this one.

Yeah, I mean, right? I mean, subterranean. There's so many parts of that. Yeah, that is like verbatim subterranean. Yeah, I don't know verbatim, but yeah, no. I mean, the tone on the guitar, the effects. It's almost a nod to it. Yeah.

I don't know if it was unconscious or what. but you can't ignore. Dude, it's a good song. Oh, it's a killer song. Like, I'm not, I'm not dogging on it for that reason. Yeah. Yeah, dude, straight up. What's interesting about this track,

and one of the reasons maybe that it sounds so much different than the rest of the album, is that it was recorded on a whole different studio session. Like, this song was included on one of their early EPs, The Blue Room. Cool. And they didn't re-recorded. for for parachutes like it was recorded in a different studio with a different producer so anyway um

it i think maybe that's why it stands out to me and there's my favorite track on the record is because it's got such a different feeling than the rest of the album does and i just really like the the guitar is so like like i say kind of like flowy and like you're in sort of like this dreamy state, right? Kind of like subterranean. Yeah, no, that's a good way to put it. Like, it's, it's, it's kind of like your... Kind of free form, you know? A free, yeah, totally, like you're...

Yeah. Just kind of walking around, like, exploring a new world. Like you're a grocery store bag in the wind. There we go. A plastic bag in the wind. Thank you, dude. I'm glad you wrapped it up for us there because I was struggling to describe the feeling that you get behind that because...

Did you get that... Did you catch that movie reference? Yes, American Beauty. Dude, no, spot on. Yeah, all right. Cool, dude. So that's it, huh? That's our take on parachutes?

Yes, I think that is. Now, I wanted to mention this, dude. Two things that I wanted to make sure that I mentioned. If you... If you're a play enthusiast, or if you're like me and you used to push play on a record on your CD player

or whatever and just let it play and would just stumble upon hidden tracks at the end of records without realizing it then you would know that there is a hidden track on this record called Life is for Living and it is on

it plays around the five minute and 39 second mark on track 10 but what the point I wanted to make was that if you listen to albums on Spotify, it's not even hidden track anymore because they spell it out on the track. They're like, tracked in, everything's not lost. It includes hidden track.

It's like, spoiler alert, you know? Yeah. Yeah, man. We're of the last generation to get to enjoy the surprise of bonus tracks. Well, hidden tracks. I'm just saying for this, in this song in particular, on this album on Spotify, they just put it in the track name. They didn't do that for you and young name, but they split it. I'm just saying, there is a hidden track if you're interested.

It's just, you know, there's no, there's no like wonderment anymore because it's right there spelled out for you on Spotify. But anyway, one more, a little fun fact here. if you're a fan of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright movies like I am you may remember Chris Martin and John Buckland showing up at the end of Sean of the Dead Oh yeah, they were zombies right?

I think they were zombies but they also showed up at the end as like on this like talk show that was you know they had these shirts on that said Zombade, as in like zombie aid. They were, I think, playing themselves, but like pretending to be a part of this charity organization that... Anyway, I love that movie. It's one of my favorite movies.

Me too. It's a fucking classic. Anyway, yeah, that's it, man. Quick, dirty look at parachutes. Again, it's just one of those standout records from that era. you know, co-play obviously goes on to be one of the, the biggest bands of all time, you know, still today's day putting out tracks that, you know. Well, let's just put it this way, dude.

They've played the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Yeah, there you go. What more do you need to say? Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, this is, again, like a lot of times with, with these more popular bands, we don't dive too much into their history or anything like that.

That's not what this podcast is about, man. We're about playing tune. You know, we're about sharing tunes and, you know, just enjoying music together. I mean, if it's an obscure band, or at least what we think is an obscure band, I think it's more proper to give the background, you know, just to give context and stuff. But you don't need to hear about Cold Place background. It's cold play, dude. It doesn't matter at this point.

Yeah. All right, Q, so it's that time, dude. It's time for what you heard. And you're going to go first this time. Oh, good, dude. I'm excited, actually, to share this with you. And you know what? Number one, let's just make this clear.

We're not getting paid by Spotify. I wish we were because we mentioned Spotify in every goddamn episode. And we're not getting paid by K-E-X-P. And I wish we were. Because we mentioned K-E-X-P almost every episode. But- You need to broaden your... Actually, I take it back, you don't,

because you found a lot of great stuff from K-E-X-B. That's what I was about to say. That's got to be your only source, isn't it? One of them. Okay. Yeah, dude. Look, that is my go-to radio station when I'm looking for tunes.

So... When you're digging for tunes? When I'm digging for tunes. last week I heard a band on there they go by Penelope Isles and they're actually a brother-sister duo

as far as the songwriters at the band Jack and Lily Walter they just released their first album this year and guess what the day guess what and guess what

and guess what day it was that they released this record, dude, just guess. Like, you know, what significant date would I make a point to ask you to guess it? July 12. Yes, sir. That's our birthday. That's the day that we were released.

I mean, now we're making jokes about our birth, our, our, our, our, uh, now enough, now people have enough information that they can figure out who we are and where we live. Let's just put it this way, dude. We better get some fucking comments. on July 12 from our fans because they know it's our birthday at this point. Comments, where are people going to leave comments, dude? That's a great point.

On our Twitter feed, that we barely fucking... We need to, we need to get our act together and get on Twitter, dude. Yes, and do we want to leave this on record? I don't know. Maybe, so we can be held accountable for it.

Yeah, dude, I agree. So, anyways. You know what, dude? We do have a Twitter account. That's the final thing, man. I know, and we don't... Hey, you know what? Tweet us on July 12, and we won't read it because we don't get on Twitter.

I don't think tweet is the right. I think it's tweeter us. Tweeter us on July 12th. And just give us a shout-out. Irony, man. I think we're one of the younger podcast hosts on the Pantheon network. And we're the ones that don't have a Twitter account set up. Like, we're the ones who, if anything,

should be showing showing these oldies how to do it. They're schooling us on social media. What's our Twitter? What's our Twitter? It's at no filler.

It's either at no filler or at no filler podcast. Then give us a tweeter. Give us a tweeter on a birthday. Dude, it's called tweet. I'm sorry, dude. Anyways, this is just one of those bands, dude.

It's, you know, just throw them under the indie category. I don't care what you, how you describe them. We have one fucking tweet. Yeah, and it's in its foals, right? Which was from 2008.

No, not 2008. No, dude. That's when their album came out. Whatever. Keep going. I'm sorry, keep cutting you. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is just one of those just feel good albums, dude. It's a great listen. They released a few singles off of it. Anyways, I'm going to play track two on the record. I don't believe it was a single. This is, again, from the, band Penelope Isles. The record is called

Until the Tide Creeps in. It came out in July of this year. This song is called Round. Yeah, I like it. It's got kind of a you know, surf, rock guitar sound to it.

A little, little tremolo dive, you know. Yeah, I tried to avoid saying the word dream pop because yeah, sure. God damn it, if I, if I'm not just, I'm just, I'm just, end of Dreampop, dude. I'm, I'm, you know, that's just one of the, that style of rock, I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, we, we, you know, I've been on a shoegaze cake lately, just on my own, which, as we have mentioned is synonymous with Dreampop. Well, dude, can, let me, let me, let me just say this real quick, uh, and you'll appreciate this. I am super into that narrowhead album.

Dude. Isn't it great? Oh, man, I love it. Yeah. I've listened to it all the way through several times now, dude. Yeah, it's great. Yeah. But that's a grunge, man. Let's call it what it is.

That's grunge. Yeah. Anyways, what you've been heard in, bro? Okay. Don't. Are you challenging me to keep that in? No, I don't know what happened with my voice right there, but. Okay.

Oh, God. So you're not going to, I mean, I'm just going to say this now. You did not mishear me when I say the name. The name of this band is horse jumper of love. Oh, my God, I hate it. Okay. Let's just put it this way. You have to be really good if you're going to have a name like that, right?

Yeah, that's a good point. So these guys, I don't know. I have no idea. It's one of those things where it's like, there's like websites and stuff out there and apps where you can just say, hey, give me a band name. It'll just spit out something random. I feel like they could have done that. We did that when we were trying to do a band in like middle school. That's what I'm saying.

It was like, dude, I remember it. You remember the name? Yes. You had your fucking mind. No, dude. It was plastic butlers. Oh. That's actually a sweet-ass name, dude.

Right? No joke. Let's look it up. Let's look at it. Is there a band called Plastic Butler? Plastic Butler. No. No.

Not according to Spotify. Okay. We still got it for grabs. If you want to start a band sometime. Let me go ahead. The horse jumper of love, they totally They definitely used one of those websites. I think they did, man.

Band name aggregates or whatever. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, they're relatively fresh band. They've been around since the early 2010s, but they didn't really put any record out until maybe the mid, post-20, whatever.

Their first album came out in 2016. So like I said, they're relatively fresh. I stumbled upon them just by jumping around Spotify. So there's self... Wait, would you say that you were horse jumping around? I was horse jumping around Spotify. I was galloping around Spotify. There we go.

And honestly, I may have found these guys in the related artist section of... What are they called? Narrowhead. So it's not as grungy as narrowhead, but it's definitely a... their sound is sort of sort of a mixture of a lot of different things. Some of which is like the 90s rock sound, just not grunge 90s rock.

You know what I mean? Anyway, let's play a track off of their self-titled album. I literally just pushed play on this record today. So this is as fresh as it gets, did. And what jumped out to me is this was playing in particular as a track. called Sun Poisoning.

And again, this band is called Horse Jumper of Love. There's a lot of moments in that song where it like, it just demands your attention in a lot of ways. Yeah, well, it's very like slow at the beginning and sort of like, you know, more. Well, there's a lot of tempo changes. And like the drummer, the way that he is like, like the beat that he's playing, the way that he's striking the notes on that high hat,

like it's almost sounds like he's constantly trying to catch up with the rest of the song as far as like the rhythm of it. Yeah. Like it's very like calculated, you know, like it's on purpose. But it does sound like he's playing out of rhythm with the rest of the song. Like it's always trying to catch up with the rest of it. I don't know. That to me is what stood out like.

I was very, like, focused on that and that, like, kept my attention. That's a really great song, dude. Yeah. A lot going on in that, three and a half minutes that we played. So, Q, you want to know the genre that this is considered? Can I guess? You remember how were you talking last week about, because I said groove metal, and you're like, groove metal, what the hell is that?

So this genre, this song, or this album, is, is, considered slow core. I'm serious, man. At some point, we got to stop the madness, you know? Yeah. Slow core. Slow core. And by the way, here's what makes sense. Slow core. It's stylistic origins is indie rock

and alternative rock. That's fine. Okay, so why put the word core in there? Because it sounds cool. It's also a fusion genre of indie rock and sadcore. What? That's what I'm saying. It's ridiculous, man.

Sadcore. I thought we called that, don't we call that emo? Yeah. What the hell is sadcore? It's starting to get ridiculous here. Okay. Fuck. Who the fuck does this shit, man?

You know what? Let's just remind ourselves, like, why we struggled and like, honestly, dude, it was maybe a blessing in disguise that our music blog got shut down for, like, virus reasons or whatever. Like, we were struggling. with like, yeah, we had a lot of great music to share with people. How are we going to keep up with all these sub-genres? Exactly.

Like, like, every week, every day, we were writing posts and, like, trying to figure out how to describe these bands. And, like, I get it. If you're a music journalist or whatever, like, oh, God, I don't know. Let's just say, let's just call this slowcore. Or, I don't know, dude. Like, it's emo, but it's... Why don't you just call it slower tempo and indie rock?

Slow. It's slow, but you don't have to It's indie rock It's alternative rock That's the end of the discussion Here's the way I see it Just let the music play for itself Yeah, right

Just listen to the music Right, exactly Anyway, now here's one thing I wanted to mention I'm on the Wikipedia page for Slowcore Because I was like, what the fuck does this even mean? Yeah, who else is in that category? So here's, I just wanted to mention this Because we covered this artist

I think it was an out, we didn't cover them It was an outro song on our Kings of Convenience episode. Ooh. Red House painters. Yeah. They're considered slowcore. Okay. So there you go.

So that means it's been around since, what, early 90s? Early 90s, yeah. The origin of it is the 90s. So listen to this. This is interesting. The genre began in the early 90s as an active rebellion against the predominant energy and aggression of grunge. Wow, dude, we're bringing it all back around.

So there you go. Anyway, I just think the word sadcore is just fucking dumb. I don't care what you call it. That was a great tune. I'm definitely going to listen to more of that band, for sure. Yeah, I've got their next album, Q'd up. They came up with their record this year, too. So they've got a new record that came out in June.

So there you go. I'm going to listen to both of those tomorrow. And you know what, dude? I think, I feel like you're right. man there's there's a I feel like grunge is making a comeback dude and I mean I'm just as excited as you are you can't really put them in the grunge camp though I don't care but no hey the 90s that 90s like sound that the 90s rock yeah sound which is heavily you know it's it's grunge whatever other you know spin on it that that that bands had in the 90s I feel like that style is coming back and

I'm super stoked about it. Right. Yeah, it's good. I've been going down a rabbit hole, I'm trying to find more bands that are bringing that sound back, you know? So I found some good stuff lately. Yeah, dude. I'm into it.

Keep sharing it with me, dude. All right, that's it for today. As always, you can find more awesome podcasts within our network, Pantheon Podcasts. You can check us out on Pantheon Podcasts. com. There you can access tons of other great music podcasts. I would be shocked if there wasn't at least one other podcast in the network that

has dove into Colplay. I'd be shocked. Anyways, you can also hop on our website, no-filler podcast.com, if you want to dive a little bit deeper into each episode with our show notes and all that good stuff. I've got an outro song in mine, dude. There's a band. Guess what they're, called, dude. It's a band that was that Chris Martin and other members of the band were heavily

influenced by. Hot play. No, dude. That's funny, though. Their name's Travis. What? I've heard of Travis. Yeah. Well, they've been around since the 90s, like mid-90s from what I gather. So there were a band that were prevalent at the time that Cole play was like making waves, you know, like, Like, they had already been an established band at the time. So this was a band that was around and already making albums when parachutes came out. And there's this article on Chris Martin from 2007 where he is quoted as saying that the band Travis invented cold play. Wow. Okay.

Yeah. So that's how much of an influence these guys had. on on cole play and uh he was super stoked because he basically uh like debuted a new Travis song um on this radio station where he was being interviewed at the time like he got to kind of like hey here's a new song from Travis you know right right uh this song is called big chair which came out on uh Travis's album from uh 2007 called The Boy with No Name. And, oh, you can absolutely hear the influence that Travis had on Colplay.

It's a good tune. And we're going to fade us out with that. So, yeah, next week we'll have our little sidetrack. And we're going to continue to try our damnedest to not play. You know what, dude? This month is distortion-free. Let's just put it that way. No distortion in the month of November

because I think we had enough of that in October with all those metal bands. I mean, I can't say that one of my what you heards might not have distortion. I don't know what I'm going to be here over the next couple of weeks. But that's okay. Yes, the main attraction of each episode

is going to be on the softer side. Distortion-free November. You know, more fall appropriate. There you go. All right. So this is, again, a song from Travis. Me? Not from you.

From their album, The Boy with No Name from 2007. This song is called Big Chair, and we will be shouting at you next week. My name's Quentin. My name is Travis. You'll take care.