No Filler Music Podcast - Emery: The Weak's End

Episode Date: June 22, 2020

Continuing our exploration of the music from our youth, we crank the angst to 10 and go full emo with a listen to Emery's debut album, The Weak's End. While the record leans more toward the poppy, melodic side of the emo spectrum, the sporadic scream and aggressive attack of the 3 guitar players pack an effective punch when utilized. And while some would say that side of this record is under-utilized, we argue that it is what makes the record so effective: the emphasis is on the melody and the clean, non-whiney vocal delivery that is perfectly accentuated by the well-placed screams that are typically associated with emo music. So comb your bangs over your left eye, paint your fingernails black and join us for a trip down Angst Avenue. Tracklist: Emery - Walls Emery - The Ponytail Parade Emery - By All Accounts (Today Was A Disaster) Emery - Bloodless tricot - 初耳 Disasterpeace - Neutral Town Occupation - The Stealthy Midnight Getaway This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Winners, find fabulous for less. And welcome back to No Filler. The music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. my name is Travis I got my brother Quentin with me today as always and Q I want to know

how many people do you think just dropped off they heard that they heard the screaming in the beginning of that of our intro clip and they said I'm out I can't do this guaranteed we lost a few if they did then

this isn't for them anyways and I'm glad that they left because this would be torture otherwise But I hope that we, if you did stick around and you're on the fence about bands that, you know, scream like that, maybe we'll turn you around on it. Now, with that being said, I don't seek this music out. I didn't listen to it. I don't either. heavily.

But there was a time cue when this album was the shit. And that was back when we were in high school. And this is our continued look. at some of these bands that were, that were seminal. Seminole, was that the words? Seminole. Yeah.

That were, that were, that were pivotal to us, to our developing years, to our high school years. And this record, we were bound to do it eventually. And this band is Emery. And the album is The Weeks End. It came out in 2004. That, of course, was the song,

walls that play this in. If you remember Emory from back in the day, you probably remember the music video for this song. It was nutty. Basically just looked like a bunch of preppy college guys throw on their music gear around and screaming. Yeah. Well, let me say something about the preppy look to these guys.

Yeah. So, I'm trying to think. It must have been 2003. Like, it must have been the year that this came out that we discovered these guys. You know, so this was when I was. was first dipping my toes in the emo screamo world. And I feel like I must have at the time associated this music with a certain type of look. You know what I mean?

Like, I guess, I don't know, black fingernails super. Yeah, the long. Straightened black hair and, you know, maybe even some eyeliner. You know, like more like the goth look. You know, usually covers at least one of the eyes, right? Like a punk look. Yeah. You know, and I was not into that at the time.

So when I saw these dudes, and we'll post a link to the music video in our show notes, when I saw these guys looking, you know, like normal-ass dudes with... Looking respectable. Yeah, collared shirts, like sweaters over the top. Some of them clean-shaven and, you know, nice-looking dudes. I don't know. That may have been something that also drew me into this band. Well, they have an interesting dynamic to them, you know,

And we'll hear all that as we get going here. But yeah, they, you know, as I professed earlier, it's not like I'm well-versed in emo music. You know what I mean? Like I almost never really, really gave it a shot, a fair shot, unless we're talking about bands like Jimmy World, right? Which we later learned fell under the emo umbrella, which I didn't realize at the time. Yeah, I didn't know that the Jimmy Eat World, that that kind of music was considered emo. I didn't realize that it was such a broad category. But it was more about the lyrics.

Right. Like, yeah. The stories that were told. That's what makes it emo. Yeah. But I always associated emo with more the kind of screaming that we just heard in that intro. Right. Yeah, me too.

So, yeah. Anyway, that being said, if you're somebody out there who's listening right now who considers yourself a huge emo music fan, you might listen to this and be like, but yeah, this is, this is like, this is basic stuff. This is like, this sounds like every other emo band. This sounds like generic emo, you know, you should really listen to this band or that band. Tell us what we, tell us what we're missing out on, you know. Point us in the direction of a better, a better emo band because, honestly, I just haven't, haven't really dove into it that much. Aside from this record, I don't think I'd go back and listen to any other bands from that era that really do

the whole screaming thing, you know? Yeah, and Travis, when you showed me, um, what was that band that you showed me that with the album called repetitions? Oh yeah, unwound. Yeah, when you showed me them, like, it's kind of like how, how you are when you, you hear a band that you really like, you're always like, all right, more of that, please. If I can find more of that, I would love to hear it. If I could find if someone could point me in the direction of another emo band that is in this vein, please do. Because I think we mentioned this last week. This album, The Weeks End by Amory, is not an album that I just revisit simply for nostalgia.

It is up there for me as one of my favorite albums of all time. Yeah. And as we'll hear, it's mostly because of how effective they are at the emotion. I mean, I hate to use that word because it's an email band. No, but this is like a perfect example of that. And they have a really interesting dynamic between the two main singers as well. There's a very clean, clean vocals and very screaming, more dirty vocals, if you will. Bit more harsh vocals.

It's mostly the clean vocals that dominate. But that's what makes it interesting because when that guy does scream the way that he does, I feel like it's more impactful because it's used sparingly, right? So anyway, let's just, let's go, man. Let's get into it. We're doing nothing but tunes today, man. Yes. No history lessons today.

No history lessons. Like we said, these guys are on tooth and nail records, and we're going to spend some time with tooth and nail over the next couple weeks. Yeah, over the next few weeks. For some reason, this is a record label that we spend a lot of time with. A lot of the bands that we listened to back in the day was tooth and nail. So, and this is just the first, very first stop on our bus tour of, of tooth and nail. We've been on the bus now for weeks, skew.

Raminous to music from our school days. And are we just, dude, are we just in the bus, like, doing donuts in the school parking line? No, no, no. Are we, is there a destination? No, no, no. Dude, I said, we're making bus stops, dude. Every band, every album is a stop on the bus tour.

And we, you know, when we get there, we get out and we fucking, depending on the band, you know so when we get out on this on the stop right here cue you're going to have your your dopey haircut that you had all right all right dude i if i can if i can remember the password to my my space page maybe i'll share maybe i'll share a picture i could definitely log into mine cue i still i still got well you don't have you don't have pictures of me on yours no but i could find your profile picture you were looking respectable in high school that's because I tried too hard man yeah yeah you did let's just get real

I mean I did too but like yeah uh all right anyways so let's just dive right into it uh took us a while to land on three or four songs to play you know because I mean if we

speed along quickly enough this episode might be two hours long you know even if we keep up the pace because I want to I want to focus on the lyrics and all that. And there's, there's four, I feel like there's four songs we need to play. Three that we definitely have to play. Uh, and also I think there's, there's at least one that we have to play all the way through, right? Yeah. All right, let's just, let's just pick one, dude. What, what are we doing first? I mean, I mean, typically we like to go in order of the album. So

if we were to go in order, then I guess our very first pick cue is ponytail parades. The Ponytail Parade's track two. And yeah, I think this is a good little intro to Emory. If you've never heard Emory before beyond the intro track that we just played, this will give you all you need to know. This has got all the main characteristics of a good Emory song. So yeah, this song is called The Ponytail Parades. All right, Q.

One of my favorite songs on the record, man. I mean, this is all we're playing today is our favorites. Yes, yes, yes. It's a great stuff, man. So, okay, here's you want to talk about. Let's name off the roster real quick. Okay.

You know, let's get some names to who we're hearing. Okay. Because there's actually three singers in the band, right? Yes. That's what you found out. Three singers, three guitar players. All right, so yeah, Q, we got Toby Morel is the primary vocalist. He's a lead.

Wait, I'm sorry. Devin Shelton is the primary. vocalists that you hear primarily. This is what I said, primary. He's the main vocalist. So he's the clean vocalist, right? He also plays guitar. And then you've got Toby Morel

lead and unclean vocals. And he also plays a guitar. Okay, so what they're saying there is Devin and Toby, if you hear no, wait a second. But what I don't. So Toby screams and sings nicely. Toby does both.

And then you got Josh. head who does nothing but screen. Well, I don't see where you see that. It just says lead and unclean vocal. I guess they're saying lead vocals equals clean vocals. Yeah. Well, then I bet you Toby's the main guy. Toby's, see, that's a funny thing.

We don't mean fucking know. This is one of our favorite records. No, but that's the thing. For the longest time, I thought there was only two singers. Clean and unclean. That's because of the fucking video for walls, you know? Yeah. I think when you watch that, it looks primarily like there's two singers.

But anyway. Right. You know what? Who cares? I think what makes this band so great is because these two lead singers actually do have vocals that are very similar. Their harmonies are great. Yeah. And here's the thing. And you didn't really get to hear that in that clip that we played, but we're going to play the next part of the song and you're really going to get to hear it. And like we said earlier, it's when they go between the clean and unclean.

clean vocals that they do a really great job with it. At least from my experience, not being much of an emo fan, I bet you there's bands, there are probably a dime a dozen out there that do this. I feel like that's a huge, like a lot of emo bands do that. Right. But I've always, yeah, I think what it comes down to, I just really like the clean vocalist, whichever one it is, I think he does a great job with his delivery. and then when you sprinkle in the screams,

I think it's really effective. So let's get a good example of that. Now hang on now. Now, we got a name off the rest of the band, man. We got Matt Carter on lead guitar, Joel Green on bass, and Seth Studley on drums. That's right, Seth Studley.

Yeah, so that's, that's Emery. At least that's Emory at the time. I'm not sure who's still in the band now. that was Emory in 2003 for the week's end. All right, so let's hear some screaming, dude. Let's see what they can do with the rest of this song. Do you want to read lyrics real quick before we do the next part? No, let's read the lyrics when we get back.

Okay. Okay. All right, here is the second half of the ponytail parades. I could say these words, is this really happening? I never thought that you could say these words, is this really really? Happily Happening. It's one of my favorite moments in the album. Yeah, it's a great.

And there are a lot of great moments in this album. Yes. Yes. Now, here's a thank you. Let's not beat around the bush here. Okay. Especially the beginning of that second clip there. When he, the words are so fucking corny.

But, but, uh, isn't it? Let's just read him. Okay. Because it's not, here's what I want to say. Okay. So the lyrics are, I never thought. you could say these words.

Is this really happening? Don't say that we can't still be friends. Okay, but that's... Let's read that a little bit differently. So here's how they did that, though. For the rest of this song, it's two, like two thoughts going on at the same time. It's back and forth between those two singers. And I like how it's the same words repeated.

I never thought that you could say these words. is this really happening? And then they slowly, the guy who is singing on top of that starts by just saying don't say. And then he slowly drags out that sentence to where it ends with don't say that we can still be friends over like the next. Yeah, yeah. A few iterations of the repetition. Sure. But I guess what I wanted to say, I feel like the lyrics and even the way that the guy sings,

which I admitted earlier that I liked the way he sings, it almost sounds like an emo boy band. now I'm not attacking it necessarily. I'm just saying that's what, and that's what emo music is. A lot of times it's, it's wearing your heart on your sleeve. Yes, and that's what it's supposed to be. And I feel like with- And being very upfront with what you are feeling. And this is clearly a breakup song, and I think it's a breakup album.

It's a breakup album for the most part, right? So he's, like he's saying, you know, like there's some lyrics I think up above in the first verse. Yeah, it doesn't feel right, holding. someone else's hand. Right. I mean, now let me tell you something, Q. Okay. All right. I remember going through a tough breakup when I was a young man. Me too. I was about to bring this up and this kind of stuff can connect with you. If you're a corny ass white dude like me. Yeah, dude. Especially a teenager. Yes. When you thought that you were, that you met the love of your life. Yeah. Yeah, dude, you're going to grab on at the week's end and you're going to scream these words, man.

Yeah. Okay, here we go. Where was that line, dude? It says here, it doesn't feel right holding someone else's hand together on phone lines and living at two opposite ends. I don't know what the fuck he's on. It scares me to think that you could find takers other than me and better than me. Who hasn't had those thoughts in their mind? Let me tell you, man.

Or at least if you're, dude, now listen here. There's probably some people listening. They're like, are you guys the fucking biggest fucking. dopes if you ever thought if you thought these words to yourself it's like listen dude hey you know what some people are more you know emotional and get tied up and breakups dude yes and you know what it's not like these lyrics are only for men it's probably plenary women that sure that think that's but yeah that probably goes through everybody's minds in a breakup you're you're thinking and agonizing over the fact that this person that you that you loved is out there finding takers that are

better than you. Yeah, and look, I always liked that line. Don't say that we can still be friends. Because I always thought of it like, yeah, like going like, oh, don't you fucking, don't you dare say. Right, that we could still be. What I know you're going to say. Right, right. Because that, you know, that is such a cop out. Yeah. And it's not true. We all know it's not true. Shut up. Yeah. You're lying to me. Exactly. Don't fucking, don't want to say it. You don't even say it. Right. We can still be friends. Don't say it. Yeah. Because I don't want to hear it. Erase my name. from this page. Walk away from me this night is done. I love the way that the screener does that shit. Anyway. Me too. So yeah, look,

and that's the thing. We're putting it out on the table here. We understand and acknowledge this is cheesy shit. But they do it so well. They do it to where it, when you're listening to it, you're not thinking, man, this is cheesy. Like when you're listening to it, you read the lyrics, it's cheap. I think when you're listening to it, it can be kind of corny and

and cheesy too. But what I'm saying is think about who the audience is. Right. And just, just embrace the, the, the emotion that's getting put out there. Dude, I say you buckle in for the ride. Press play from track one and just get into the vibes. We are suspending our fucking, our, our, our critical eye here for a little bit. Ear. I should say a year. Not I. There we go. All right. Well, hey, you know what, dude? Before we jump into the next song, let's take a quick break.

Okay. Now that we're going to, we're going to be. we've teed all that up. I think, and I hope that this next song we play, you're able to sort of embrace that because I think this is my favorite song on the album, this next track that we're playing. And I think it has a moment at the end of it. And I think this might be the one that we play all the way through, maybe four minutes and seven seconds. I mean, dude, technically we played ponytail all the way through. True. We just split it up. But that's fine. There's a moment at the end of the song that gets me in the in the fields every time and it's i mean it choked like literally chokes you yes and it's not for anything other than the delivery of the the line by the clean vocalist whichever one of the

two it is he does it in such a way and conveys the emotion perfectly and if you're if you have a soul or a heart you should feel something at the end of this if you don't well to break it to you. But you're dead inside. So this next track is called, by all accounts, today was a disaster. All right. So was that your voice cracking? Now, unfortunately. Unfortunately, I think I listened to the song enough times this last week leading up to this moment that, uh, you lost it. I didn't get you in the fields this time. I'm numb to it. but it's that last few agonizing exclamations from the singer at the end where he's just screaming the word you over and over again saying that this person and it turns out we're

learning a lot about this song based on this one man's interpretation of it it could be something completely different than what I perhaps thought it was about yeah so genius.com yeah genius. dot com people like to put their interpretations submit your own yeah interpretations of lyrics and i know that this let's just let's just let's just open up the the fucking pandora's box here let's do it let's do this band is a christian band yes tooth-a-nale is a christian record label but the the thing about it is yeah if you it's not straight up worship yeah it is not worship music if you're not paying attention you wouldn't know because i had no idea that this the emery was a Christian band. Tooth and nail kind of makes sense. Sure. The words that the name of the nail.

But I didn't realize that this was a Christian band. So when you, when you know that, you can maybe interpret the lyrics in a completely different way. He, I mean, he does say God help me at the, you know, toward the end. But I mean, come on. But yeah. So I don't know what this is about. This especially the line right here, these broken animals, useless as they are, Yeah. And then he just repeats that a couple of times. Is he talking about man? Is man the broken animal? Well, let's see what, so here's one person's, uh, interpretation. They say, the song is about trying to stay strong as Christian men,

with all the sexual immorality that is around, and trying not to get roped into doing such acts. I mean, that's a toughie, dude. And yeah, yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe we're all, broken animals. Sure. But I mean, I gotta say, man, if this song is like a is a abstinence preaching song, fuck, you know, I don't know if I can, if I can get behind that. Inside this vacant, made up plastic life, only your heart survived for one last cry. Man, who cares, dude? Who cares what it's about? It's about the, it's about the, the way. It's about the, the

that they approach, there's a lot of great harmonizing, right? Great harmonizing. And I think that they really, they do a great job with the coming in and out of loud and soft, quiet parts, right? They do that really, really well. Sure. Yeah, they do that a lot, where they have two singers and they're both singing different things simultaneously.

Dude, why don't you play? Because the part that I just. talk about those lyrics these broken animals useless as they are that part illustrates it perfectly so if you don't mind cue cue that part up again let me see if i can let me see if i can find it useless as they are these bro there you go now again cue this could people who are big fans of emo music might be like yeah no doi this is what emo bands do but that's why i listen to this record is because sometimes you just got to embrace your inner angsty teenager, and this is the record that I turned to.

There's nothing more satisfying than cranking this record up in the car, just like I did when I was a teenager, and just belting out the lines, man. And then who knew that it was about, you know, staying away from those ladies? You know what? Maybe this person's wrong. Okay? Yes, the internet. That's true.

People are wrong on the internet. Um, let's, dude, let's reach out to the guys. The Emery guys? Emory boys. Yeah.

Hey, what's the song about? Yeah, well, see, but that's the thing you do. You might get some fucking verses tossed your way. That's fine. They at least will know.

All right, Q, so this very last track, I think we picked it for a good reason. This one might be my favorite on the record. Well, here's the thing. The other two songs, Pony Tailed Parades,

maybe had a little bit of, of, energy to it. But I think this song, this song is where you, where you, you know, if you're kind of dragging through some of these slower songs, the more emotional songs, when you get to this track, that's when the energy picks back up. Great guitar throughout the entire track. Really great moment. This is a solid, solid track. So are we listening to it all the way through? We might as well, man. But that's the thing. And here's what makes Emory Emery is they have so many different parts to their songs.

That's why it's hard to not play an entire song. And here's what's funny, dude. I can just hear the emo fans going, That's what makes it an emo band. If that's what you're saying right now, then fine. Then, again, please point me towards more bands like this. Give us your emo, your email picks, but just if you say fallout boy, I'm going to have issues. that's because of other reasons.

Fall Out Boy, I associate with a very particular, very particular person, Q. Oh, no. That I was, well, I was, I don't know where I'm going with this. Now, are you talking about a person that you listen to this album over? No, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, actually, I'm thinking of taking it back Sunday.

What, you know what, that's the same. Those are both the same to me. Well, here's why I don't like Fallow Boy, because as soon as I think about it, all I hear is, loaded gun, cock, cock it and bully. That's what everybody makes me angry. And it makes me angry. Fall Out Boy, I just remember, I remember strongly disliking Fallow Boy, only because of the people I knew in high school that listened to them, I couldn't stand those people.

So I was almost just like, it was like a false equivalency or something. guess what Travis those are the dudes that I know with when I was dating that one girl you don't gotta remind me dude I remember that shit but yeah uh yeah I'm just not a big not a big fan of fall out boy all right let's play this track dude all right so this song is called bloodless and you're gonna want to crank it up let's do it classic emery yeah and I think that's the most metal that they get the most they like lean in the direction of of metal you know especially at the end there Yeah. But yeah, I think, especially that very last part where it's, again, it's the dynamic of the clean vocalist who's singing at a very slow tempo.

And then the screaming guy in the background singing quicker and they're interweaving between each other. And it's interesting when you look at the way the lyrics are played out. It's not deliberate that way. The screaming guy is done with his part well before. I mean, it's hard to explain without looking at the lyrics. but I think it's really interesting. Yeah. The way that they intertwine with one another.

But that's what I've always liked about this band. Same. And yeah, again, like we said earlier, this band is all about all the different parts of a song. And to me, I think they do a very, very good job with all those different parts and the interweaving of the parts and the back and forth between the loud

and the quiet. And again, like, yeah, that's probably just a hallmark of email music and and I'm just a dummy. And that can very well be the case. But, uh, so I did want to mention because I'm always curious, like, what does, what, what did the press have to say about this album? Really, the only good, the only good legit, to me legit review that I saw was from punknews.org. And I've referenced them a few times on this, on this podcast. But, uh, Here's what they said, and this is interesting. They need to decide whether they want to increase the tempo consistently and compose more intense without being artificial or pretentious orchestrations,

and then they put in parentheses Thursday, or piece together more intricate harmonious laid-back pop, and then they put in parentheses, Hey, Mercedes, which is a band that we talked about a couple weeks back. So basically, the conclusion of this guy, is for the things that I just said, how they go back and forth, he's saying that they need to pick one or the other because he thinks they are stuck in the middle ground. And I think that's a pretty fair assessment. Sure. I guess so. Because you can definitely hear the talent. And that's the

thing. If you're the writer back in 2004 for a website called punknews.org. Punk, right. I was about to say this guy knows his stuff. Yeah. I mean, you know what that tells me is that back in this, at least back in 2004, emo bands probably fell under one or two camps. And he's saying, you guys need to pick which one you want to be in. Yeah. And I guess somebody who isn't a diehard fan of emo music like myself,

not knowing the normal, quote, unquote, two tracks that an emo band might fall on, I look at this and I'm like, hey, this is cool. I like how they go back and forth. I'm not, you know, influenced by the email landscape because I'm not in it, or at least I wasn't back to the, does before. So his criticism above it to me are what I like about it. I like that they

tow the line between these two different like dynamics. I've always thought that's what made him great. Yeah, me too. Yeah. And that's, and again, even with that person's critique of it and, you know, if that's a no-no, that's fine by me. I would still like to hear more like it, you know. If there's bands that do it that way, I want more of it. And Q, that's the thing. It's like, you know, maybe we, I feel like we typically talk about bands that fall under umbrellas that we're pretty familiar with, you know what I mean? And like, I think it's obvious that we're not, or at least I'm not very familiar with email music.

So again, reach out to us if you have suggestions. You know what I mean? And maybe we'll name drop you in the next episode. Because I think, you know, this is. probably the most emo that we're that we're going to get because our next band is has has a little bit more aggression but also very poetic and fucking amazing so I can't wait yeah I'm excited yeah we're talking about another tooth and nail band next week and that's me without you all right well dude I've got a hell of a what you heard for you

dude I would like to go first okay good because mine is going to be way out from left field And I can't wait. Way out there. Okay, well, these ladies kind of fit the mold here a little bit. Kind of in the same vein of what we've been jamming to. Okay. Recently. So, a couple weeks back, I brought a song to the table by a Japanese group called Fishmans.

Remember them? They kind of had like a, uh, uh, Wattest Boy Alive kind of vibe. Well, since then, Spotify's been sharing me more Japanese. bands, which is awesome. I'm really starting to get into this stuff, dude. There's a lot of great rock bands from Japan. So this is a four-piece band by the name of tricot, or that's how it's stylized. I think it's, I mean, it's Japanese script, okay? A lot of the names, a lot of the song names and their albums are in Japanese script. I don't know what it says. It's four girls out of Japan

and they are in the math rock. I love it. I love it. Yeah, math rock vein. Really good stuff, dude. I'm going to play a song from an album of theirs called The. This is an album from 2013. I'm going to play,

I'm going to give you the track name because, or the track number because I can't read Japanese script. I don't know what it says. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I'm going to play track eight and, uh, dude, you're going to fucking love this stuff. You're going to fucking love it. All right. Again, this is a band called Tricott.

And this is track eight from their 2013 album, The. Yeah, man. Um, I love it. It's great, dude. The whole album is like that. Yeah, I love that kind of stuff. There is a, um, this is one of my watcherards. Actually, I think there's even one of my, our recap of, of,

the decade at the end of last year where we kind of brought, maybe it was the, I don't know if it was like of the decade, but we did a recap show where we said, here's our top five favorite discoveries from the last year. Yeah. And I brought a math rock band very similar to them called Toe, T-O-E. Oh, right. Right, right, right.

Yeah. And then, you know, when I discovered that band, Toe last year, I also stumbled upon a band called Elephant Jim that you should look up Q, because they're also very similar. All right. I love this kind of stuff. I mean, we talked about, I think my, what you heard from last week was Mercury program.

So, you know, same, different side of the coin, but like same flavor, you know, math rock, instrumental, complicated tracks. All right, dude, what you've been heard in lately. All right, man. So, where else are you going to hear Emo, some Japanese math rock, and then some chip tunes,

all on the same episode. You're going to hear it right here on No Fillow. Only here on No. So, that was corny as shit. I still got some of that cheese from the Emery's song spilling out here.

Anyway, I am bringing a tune from one of my favorite chip tune artists of all time. I'm talking about disaster piece. Oh yeah, dude. I mean, when I think of Chip Toon, tune music, I think, of disaster

Yes. He, I feel like he's in a league of his own. I listen to quite a bit of video games. Wait a second. He was in that movie? Say what? He was in that movie? A league of their own.

God damn it. Oh, my God. My apologies. You should apologize for that. I'm really sorry about that. So this guy, his name is Richard Vreeland. Freeland, Freeland. But he goes by a disaster piece.

And up until recently, he's done a lot of video game stuff. In 2015, he did the score to the horror movie. It follows. So if you're familiar with horror movies and you saw that movie, then you're familiar with his music. But I went back and listened to some of his early, early stuff. So he's been doing this since around 2004, same time that Emory took the scene.

And probably a little bit before that, So my first album of his that I heard, and I believe I did a post on Nudus. Yes. For Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar. Yeah, honestly cute. You might have been the one that introduced me to him with that post that you did. Yeah, I want to say he, I don't know if he reached out to me or if. Are you serious?

But I don't know if it was him. It was probably a PR. Well, either way, that's cool to know that our introduction to him was actually through our, because of our music blog that we ran back in the day. It absolutely was. Yeah. That's awesome. Well, anyway, if you go back a little bit further than that record, Q, which came out in 2013.

Yeah, I didn't even know there's anything before that. There's a record that he put out was kind of like a concept record called Eighthite and the Warring Nations. It came out in 2006. It is a, the reason I call it a concept album, because it sounds like video game scores, as most Chipt-in music does, right? But it's not tied to an actual video game. It's kind of like this made-up story that he came up with. about these two warring nations, the Plaid Nation and the Argyle Nation. So here's his little write-up. He's got a little write-up here. He says here,

In an age that is not our own, a young boy lives a life of peace amongst the brethren in quaint, neutral town. Little does he know that tragedy has already struck as he sleeps. Yada, yad-yatta. And he says here, Beyond the gates of this humble life exists two mighty civilizations flying under opposite flags. They are dueling for the ultimate power. The means to emplace the order that they so choose. 8 by it will have to make a decision. Will he choose plaid or argyle?

Which will you choose? Press start. So there you go, Q. I like to paint pictures before I play my tunes, as you know. So this track here is really, really cool, really well done. It's, you know, there's lots of the 8-bit chip tune artists. There are a dime a dozen these days. But his compositions are exceptional.

So we're going to listen to track number four. It's called Neutral Town Occupation, the Stealthy Midnight Get Away. That's awesome. He's been doing that, those kind of great tunes for that long. I love it. Yeah. Very cinematic. Yes.

But, you know, I was going to say, I feel like with A-bit chip tune, it speaks to our generation quite a bit, right? Especially the generation before ours as well, because we were still pretty young. Like when we were playing, you know, Stake of Genesis, that was really the only console that we owned where we heard this type of music all the time. We've talked about this. I mean, we did have Spencer, our older brother, had a super Nintendo. Yeah, I feel like it wasn't in our house. house for very long though. Like we didn't we didn't own it well into our our youth you know. Yeah. Because once we got that in 64 I mean that was that was it for me and then and then the Xbox

came after that. But anyway, um yeah and we talked about this quite a bit on our calm trues episode. If you want to go back and listen to that. We talk about, uh, nostalgia and hypnagogic pop. If I can say that word again on this podcast. Don't you dare say that again. you know that's what I connect to this music you know that's why I connect to it because it takes me back to to childhood and honestly I mean that's a fucking killer track man you know yeah I mean let's forget about the fact that it it it's it's a chip tune song and maybe some people don't like that kind of thing but if you listen to the composition uh it's a that's a great track you know and that whole album is kind of like that it's really really well done like you said very cinematic

um so anyway uh that was disaster piece uh that was a record that he put out in 2006 called Eight Bite in the Warring Nations. All right, Q, where can you hear all of these songs, Q, are Whatcha Heard's, where can you hear them? Oh, yeah. Yes, we've got a little Spotify playlist that we just put together. If you can figure out how to spell Wacha, you'll find it. That's the reward you get.

Right now, right now we're sitting at, man, I don't know why my browser version of Spotify does not update. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. I'll give you the count. How long is this playlist, brother? This playlist is eight hours and 33 minutes long. It currently sits at 118 tracks.

And as you just heard from our two tracks that we brought today, it is a very wide-ranging collection of songs. So you don't necessarily have to push shuffle because it's pretty shuffled to begin with as far as genres and whatnot. But it never hurts to. to push shuffle on something, right? You'll hear something new, a new order every time you listen. But yeah.

Yeah, I've played it a few times. You know, I've hit shuffle on it a few times. I mean, there's just, there's hundreds of songs on here. Well, maybe not hundreds, but at least over 100. Well, now there's 120. I just saw you add these two. These two tracks just popped up right in front of my face here, Q. So you're on top of it.

No, but last time I shuffled through it, it's kind of crazy how often it does. flow really well, like even with genres from one to the other. Because, you know, a lot of the music we listen to is pretty similar for the most part. And a lot of times that's what we've been heard, you know? So a lot of times, a lot of times it is a pretty great flowing playlist. Other times, it's random as fuck. Can you let me ask you something? Because I know you're like me and you have, you have a bunch of, you have a lot of

playlist that you have on Spotify, right? that you personally make, right? Correct. Have you ever, you know, for some of these longer playlist that I have, like I've got some that I've been adding to for years, and I always listen on shuffle. Like you just said, sometimes the order of a shuffled playlist is so good.

Have you ever gone back and been like, what was the order? Because I've got to bring these over into a separate playlist so I can listen to these songs in that exact order again. I do that often, yeah. That's the sign of a true music. lover, I hope, Q. I'd like to consider myself that. Yep, that happens often and I do that quite often. Yeah, and that might just be habits from our music blog days where we used to put

together mixtapes. But those days are long gone, Q, now all we got is this playlist. This is all we got left. Oh, and this lovely podcast. And this podcast. And this podcast. Now, where can you find the podcast, Travis? You can find us on our website, nilfielderpodcast.com. And man, Q, I'm just so excited. it that you're learning how to code. That's a segue. Let's throw that out there. But one of these days, you'll be able to update the website without me having to do it all the fucking time. So that's nofielderpodcast.com. You will find all of our previous episodes and show notes for each episode, which include track lists. So every song you hear on the

episode will be listed out. That includes what you heard's intro songs, outro songs. and we will also list out any sources that we cited or even if we didn't cite them explicitly on the episode any any articles that we read or interviews that we watched or in this case like quentin was saying if I find a picture of Quentin's corny ass from high school I'm going to put it on this particular episode's page I forgot about that and I think we said we were going to put the music video for for perhaps the one single on this record we'll put that on there just you can see these guys jumping around with their preppy college clothes on screaming and hollering, hopping and squirming. And you can also, of course, find us on our podcast network that we are a part of.

That's pantheonpodcast.com. And there you can find a ton of other great music podcasts. Anything from a podcast dedicated to Kiss to a podcast that's about hip-hop. we got the rad what is it called the dad dad bod rap pod dad pod rap pod those guys just joined the network

a few weeks ago a few months ago I don't remember I've lost all track of time since the pandemic started but yeah check that out that's pantheonpodcast.com and that's that cue

next week we're going to listen to another emo post hardcore Christian band who would have thought that we would be talking about Christian bands. But like you said,

Christian bands, but not necessarily Christian music. Nofilterpodcast.com is where you can find us. So hey, we're going to fade out with the last few minutes

of walls because it ends really awesomely. Nice. Yeah, so that's going to do it for us today. Thank you as always

for listening. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. You all take care.