No Filler Music Podcast - Hard By The Tide: Blind Melon's Soup

Episode Date: March 15, 2026

Mitch joins the pod again and brings with him some truly hidden gems from Blind Melon's dark and vulnerable Soup. The album holds nothing back in it's exploration of singer Shannon Hoon's experience w...ith substance abuse and recovery, with a lyrics that chronicle the ups and downs and everything in between. Tracklist Blind Melon - Galaxie / Hello Goodbye Blind Melon - Vernie Blind Melon - Skinned Blind Melon - Toes Across The Floor Blind Melon - Walk Blind Melon - The Duke Blind Melon - Soup This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:10 Sussie Bates. They will kill you only in theaters March 27th. Hi, I'm Weird Al Yankovic, and you're listening to the Pantheon Network. Welcome to No Filler. And welcome to No Filler. The music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gems that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. My name is Travis.
Starting point is 00:03:09 I got my buddy Mitchell with me. Howdy y'all? He's back. Back in action, man. He's back and he's bringing some soup. Blind melon, some tasty soup, and a nice hot dish. Yeah, that was their little, that was the first track off the album with a little, like, a cold intro, you know, while you're waiting for that soup to cool off a little bit
Starting point is 00:03:29 before you take the first bite, you got to listen to him. That's right. Say his little piece there, you know? Like the decision to start a record like that, Because it's very like, especially back, dude, back then, like when you. 95. So we're in mid-90s. Yeah, 95.
Starting point is 00:03:42 You're kind of keeping up from the episodes before kind of staying in that pocket for lack of a better term. I call it white dude dreadlock music for better or worse. So are these guys, do you classify them as white? I kind of do. Yeah. Yeah. That kind of, that proto-neo hippie of the 90s that kind of took the hippie towards from
Starting point is 00:04:01 the 60s. I do. Absolutely. Long hair, cultural lifestyle, drug use, you know. I mean, yeah, to me, when I think of Blind Melon, I think of no rain. Yeah. Oh, dude. Of course.
Starting point is 00:04:11 It's their massive hit, right? And, like, that does have that kind of, like, vibe too, that a lot, especially the guitar's tone and stuff that kind of like easy. They get folk rock smacked on a lot of their descriptions. But that, dude, that song, I mean, the poem, whatever you want to call it, that intro and stuff. Yeah, a poem, yeah. Yeah. It's a choice, dude.
Starting point is 00:04:28 With the horns in the background, it's a great choice, right? It's a choice. Yeah, to do that. Because, like, back then, too, like, you walk into a CD store and you, you know, I'm going to check out the new Blind Melonon. record. I don't think you ever expect to hear something like that. Right. You hear some horns and a guy like reading some kind of literature to you. Yeah. But then that riff that starts. It keeps in. It was hard for me, Travis. It's hard. You know, I'm taking the lead on
Starting point is 00:04:48 this episode because you're, this is your first time tasting this here soup. It's tasty so far. For me, I had a buddy, oh man, this is back early days in Austin when I first moved at a Thunder Cloud Subs. He would put this record on when we were opening the store to make sandwiches. And it was just banger front to back. No filler, as they say. That is what we said and and that first track does kick right the fuck in it does man that that's cool that riff was tight the juxtaposition of it really works it really does and his voice man i was getting like i was getting i i need to remember the dude's name but i was getting the lead singer of yes of yes oh yeah and that kind of high that higher end what's that guy's name man i got to figure it out i got to
Starting point is 00:05:29 say no clue aren't doesn't he say or doesn't he play bass too isn't he like dave hoey or chris squire maybe Steve Squire sounds familiar I think it's Squire I think Hoey's the guitar player Howie whatever like It does that's a good call Treve You know I haven't listened to a lot of them
Starting point is 00:05:44 Or maybe John Anderson But anyway yeah like that That higher pitch like kind of like progressive It's rare isn't it It's nobody really And when it with yes it doesn't always land If I recall right It's kind of like you kind of take it
Starting point is 00:05:57 Because it's like It's more the instruments Or more the highlight of the The experience It works really well With what they do Like the progressive Like, yes, we're talking about yes.
Starting point is 00:06:06 But yeah, it can be a little jarring sometimes. With Blind Melon, I think it leads the pack. It's like, look what we have, y'all. This beautiful man who can sing and beautiful, you know, unique pitch and tone, you know, and he's playful, you know, and he really tries. You'll see you on the record. Yeah, yeah. He really puts himself out there.
Starting point is 00:06:27 Well, I really am going in cold of this, dude, so this is great. Yeah, well, good. You got some hot soup to warm me up. So, yeah, that was technically the first bit of the, the first track. We're going to skip another track that I love. Again, it's no filler. We're going to skip the track 2x4, but everybody should listen to that one also. And we're going to go right into one of my top on the record. We're going to move quick. We're going to play Vernie with a V like Victor. And it's named after his grandma, which when I was, you know, I never knew that. The
Starting point is 00:06:53 lyrics kind of always sat kind of playfully with me, but I never knew that. And yeah, it's named after his grandma. And let's just get into it, Travis. It's a good one. See what you think. All right, man. I'm stoked. Here we go. So this is a track. this song is called Bernie. This is different, dude. This is really different. Yeah, it is different. It's very different trap.
Starting point is 00:09:34 It's soulful, it's heartfelt. Yeah. Yeah. 311 or anything else we were covering recently. No, it's not the same. Like, almost nothing from the 90s sounded like that. Like, this is like very much a throwback. We got to move right to it.
Starting point is 00:09:45 I don't want to give the impressionation that, like, it comes in more with a gritty, grungy bang in a sense. Okay. It does. Like later on in the record? Well, no, the first couple songs, right? Like, we skip the first two. Yeah. Right?
Starting point is 00:09:57 And we're into the third now. Bro, I'm telling you, one through eight nonstop. It was really hard for me until I wanted to almost be like, well, this is split into two, Trev. But it's not, we'll move quick. That's why I wanted to save that last part of the song for you to hear. Yeah, this is like kind of Southern rock almost. Yes. Yes, dude.
Starting point is 00:10:12 Well, the dude's from Georgia. Hoon's from Georgia. That's why he's got those pipes. I think he grew up singing. He's like, I don't know. He just got it from the proximity of being. I don't know, bro. Like the Follow World Brothers, man.
Starting point is 00:10:22 Yes. He has soul, bro. He has it. And they met in L.A. and it's like some homies that were buddies in the Pacific Northwest, I think. So they have maybe some chemistry already. And it just worked, man. It really did.
Starting point is 00:10:34 And then they had a lot of money after their first record with that No Rain being a huge hit. I mean, it was parodied on S&L. Remember when Farley did the bumblebee girl dance? Oh, yeah. It came out and danced like the cover to that first record by Blind Mellon. So they had all this money and Hoon partied too much, blah, blah, blah, to tell as old as time. But the dude has fucking pipes, dude. He does, man.
Starting point is 00:10:54 And you live a life like that. And it also comes with ups and downs, which can be just fucking just ammunition for great songs, man. Oh, totally. So anyways, this one's about his grandma and it's beautiful. Yeah, yeah. Soutile, but not so subtle, you know. It's great. A place to display your glass chickens, you know, I love that shit, you know.
Starting point is 00:11:11 That's big mom, grandma energy. Yeah, totally. I think a lot of us probably had a grandparent that had a similar, you know, cabinet with some porcelain. With some chiros. Yeah, little china. Yeah, exactly, dude. And there's, of course, the one. that has the, you know, the butterscotch and the, and the, you know, peppermen.
Starting point is 00:11:31 The strawberry candies. Yeah, the strawberry candies. The little jelly inside. Yeah, dude. Yeah, bro. We all lived in that same life. I love that song, man. Trabb, when, when, next time you get around Q or after this, you got to tell them, listen
Starting point is 00:11:43 the whole fucking record and you do the same. So we're going to keep a good clip here. Let's, we're making some good. We're 12 minutes in. We've got a couple songs covered. I like it. Okay, so we're going to take a dip now. This is like the record's called soup.
Starting point is 00:11:53 And I like a soup, there's lots of different textural components. opponents in a good soup, my opinion at least, not like a pure-aid one, not the fancy schmancy, like a good chunky soup. There's textural bits that are all different, right? Oh, yeah. Some are grisly. We're going to get into a grisly one here. It's called Skinned.
Starting point is 00:12:08 And this is the only song in the record that's got banjo and a kazoo. Oh, yeah. It's funny. I mean, maybe I have a spoiling it here, but you, knowing that you told me earlier that the song is about Ed Gein. Yeah, and it's called Skinned, which is great. Yeah, dude. They don't really hide it in the lyrics either.
Starting point is 00:12:24 It's a tongue and chinked. chic perfect 90s like edge lord type of delivery but it lands man all right i'm excited right here we go i mean dude doesn't get any better than that i wonder what his grandma would think about that yeah what verney would think about that i mean that's right after yeah right after his homage to his tough badass grandma she might think it was funny man i love the banjo immediately The chasmu, the laughter in it, it's playful in the darkest ways, right? I like the lyrics, too. I mean, I like, I mean, he's talking about Ed Gein, but like...
Starting point is 00:14:52 It rhymes so beautifully. He sings it wonderfully. Yeah. I mean, this is a song about like, because, you know, and when will I realize that this skin I'm in, it isn't mine? It gives you some stuff to relate to the little bit. It does. So, like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:05 It's fucking weird. You start feeling like he can relate to Ed Geen a little. I feel sorry for Ed Geen all of a sudden, you know what I mean? Like a poor guy. That's a great take, man. Yeah. That's a great take. Well, we failed him, dude.
Starting point is 00:15:15 Society failed him. We did, man. It takes a village to raise a child, and nobody helped raise Ed Gein. He just wanted to try on some new skin. He just loved his mom, bro. He just weren't beer. But no, that's great, dude. That's great, man.
Starting point is 00:15:28 I know, I know, man. It's just that right amount of smarum where it's not like, and it's got staying power. Like, I'm not trying to throw strays anyways, but maybe like Bloodhound gang or like limpiscuit, like being edgy to be edgy. Oh, yeah. No, that's not what this is. This has got some wit to it. Exactly. This comes off a little bit more high brown a little bit. Yes, it's technical.
Starting point is 00:15:48 Yeah, but so what I thought of was Midnight Creeper Eagles and Deathmen. Same kind of energy where it's like the little kind of like creepy kind of like, you know, the lullaby type song. But this is actually based about a real thing, man. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Certainly, you know, and if you have any fascination with, you know, true crime or any of that, it just scratches those edges too.
Starting point is 00:16:10 So anyhow, yeah. So let's keep it going. So we've gone from that beautiful Vernie track kind of slow into that. weird kazoo and banjo interlude. A nice little album, you know, the transition from one song to the next, right? You know, you're loving the soup here, but that was a little grisly chunk maybe
Starting point is 00:16:24 that you kind of like, ah, you have to spit it in your paper. Or, you know, it's egg-eons or maybe like a toe or something like that, you know. That's right. Fingertip. Yeah. All right, so speaking of pinkies and toes,
Starting point is 00:16:35 we're going to go right into the next track, man. This is flowing with the record, you know, so we've got that same kind of vibe that they presented. So, yeah, the next song, man, we're going to go into it is called, and this is the only single that I allowed myself to bring. I think this one and two by four were the singles off the record. And I was surprised as a single because you'll hear it. But this just speaks to what the 90s was.
Starting point is 00:16:53 It was a weird time when almost anything he threw against the wall would stick in some way. A lot of lyrics back in the 90s were very dark. You think about like, you know, Allison Shane's lyrics. Yes, and they were popular. It was like on the radio. So, yeah, so this record, I know he wrote a lot of it after he got out of rehab and shit. Two by Four specifically. a song about the rehab he was at.
Starting point is 00:17:16 It has something to do with the numbers. But yeah, so we're going to this one. We had a lighthearted, kind of a love song to his grandma, and then we had a playful song, and now we're going to go into one that's a little heavier trap that I, this is one I've been looking forward to you to hearing the most so far. All right, this song is called Toes Across the Floor. Even Vernie's a little playful, you know, dip in her lip or snuffing her lip.
Starting point is 00:20:19 This is a turn for sure. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, especially coming off of skinned, which is so kind of playful and kind of tongue and cheek and stuff. Like, this is a killer track, dude. I mean, the... Weird for a single, though, for like a radio play, you know? Because it does, because there's no chorus, really.
Starting point is 00:20:35 Yeah, the fact that this is a single tells me that, like, we rock rock music is fucking. Yeah. It's gone, dude. As far as like... It's back underground. It's in small clothes again and stuff. You've got to dig for it, Trave, you do. It's not on the radio.
Starting point is 00:20:51 No, it's not Big 40. There was a music video for this, dude. Yeah, because it was a single. Yeah, which is crazy. Equally depressing. I mean, that's insane, man. And introspective. It's awesome, dude.
Starting point is 00:21:01 It's real heady, you know. Yeah, what a great track, man. I mean, and this is nothing like, no rain. So, like, I haven't listened to their self-titled at all besides no range. I don't know if, like, the rest of the album. But I can believe that the same band made both songs. You can, yeah, sure. But yeah, it's such a, it's his voice, too.
Starting point is 00:21:20 I'm still getting heavy yes vibes. That's what I'm still hearing. I never noticed that, now that you said that that's a big, big link there for me. Yeah, yeah. He gets, he gets borderline screaming there.
Starting point is 00:21:32 Oh, yeah. Because he's, there's a lot of anguish here. Yes. Do you think this is talking about his time and rehab and stuff? Yes, absolutely. A lot of it, for sure. And talking about how he has to respond to people.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Scroll back up a little to the lyrics there. I'm looking at them. Yeah, just a little bit more. Yeah, right there. Right there. So now I'll take a little glue, put together a new glittered room for you talking about maybe just how it kind of just smears on a I'm an I'm an I'm okay face you know a glittery face for yeah and here it is this is it it's all good
Starting point is 00:22:01 you know so I can start sitting so pretty instead of sitting here not seeing clear just sitting here not fitting here instead of because he feels uncomfortable probably yeah nearly sober or or when he's out of drugs right when he's you know yeah I mean sitting here not seeing clear that might mean like he's, that's when he's high, maybe? Like, who knows, dude? I think that's, I think he's sitting here not, he's, even when he's in his own good state of mind, he feels like that, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:27 And so he wants to start sitting so pretty and that's when he's fucked up for a lack of a better term. Or the opposite of that. Or neither. I don't know, man. Like, it's, and the way it rattles off so quickly when he's singing, it's hard to understand fully, but it's just so heavy. And he's like borderline screaming that.
Starting point is 00:22:43 Yeah, yeah. I mean, the fact that in the previous track, he's talking about like, not fitting in your, like trying to find you skin and stuff to fit in. And then he's talking about like sitting here not fitting here. Yes. Even in the, even in the kind of parody song. Yeah. Yeah. To come on to this. It's interesting. Like that's probably a choice, right? And even in Vernie, he talks about how he, you know, towards the end of his grandma's song, he wishes how he had a heart like Vernie. You know, that's what he wishes he had, how he could be more like Vernie. A lot of the record is him wishing he was a better person, man. It's really sad.
Starting point is 00:23:13 I didn't know that he died so quickly after he was released and the band broke up. They tried to keep, They tried to keep it gone, but they couldn't. Well, it's interesting to get a peek into his mind, dude, and then how he went, how he went. Scraping his toes across the floor, man. Like, he has to get up and drag his fucking feet around, you know, to go, it's like, it's a combat or, you know, fight to do anything. You know, so. Interesting, man.
Starting point is 00:23:33 It's a good one. It's a sad one, dude. And from that, travel, we go, we're staying with the way that the record flows into the next one. It's called walk. Wow. I mean, that's, yeah, dude, toes are grabs the floor and then walk? I mean, like. Yeah, you know, I.
Starting point is 00:23:46 I never even noticed the way that plays off, right? And that's awesome. You got to think about like, too, like back in the day, like before streaming and stuff where you could just listen in whatever order you wanted to. Like they always crafted albums in a way, typically it would tell a story, like if they wanted to. And that's obviously what he's doing here, especially toes across the floor and then walk. I mean, that's like, hello.
Starting point is 00:24:07 That's what you're doing when you're walking. And I'm definitely coming in. The first half of the record has got some heavy hitters. And then there's some lighthearted ones like, spoiler, the one will, is a about it's about bad breath. The song Wilt is about a dude in his life that had bad breath, which is fucking hilarious, right? So, yeah, there's parts in here where there's some levity,
Starting point is 00:24:24 but it's a, it's a dense foreboding album for sure. So, yeah, let's go on a walk. You're going to notice kind of a turn back to the classic 90 style here. We're going to have some acoustic work. So this is not a Pantera cover, is what you're telling me? No, I'm fucking,
Starting point is 00:24:38 I'll give you, I'll give you a clear heads up if we bring any fucking Pantera to the pod. I kind of want to hear them to be a Super on Home, boy. All right. So here's not a cover of Apparentears on this. This is Walk. Yeah, this is the lesser-known song.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Walk from the 90s. Yeah, right, right. All right, here you go. Find myself singing in the same songs every day. Yeah. We think he had to smile. That's a beautiful heart-wrenching song, man. Yeah, dude.
Starting point is 00:27:17 Real pretty. Yeah. Still sad, but real pretty. A little more hopeful. maybe some of previous ones. Yeah, I mean, it ends with going to take a breath and try again, which is great, which is great, especially given all the stuff he's talking about here. But yeah, this is clearly his time with, you know, substance abuse, right?
Starting point is 00:27:35 Yeah. Shit, man, just being a human, you know, things that lead him to that. Totally. It's beautiful and that cool, like how everyone instrument works its way in, you know, the guitar comes screaming in with a sweet, like, thin Lizzie type tone, Southern rock type tone in the background. That's a good, great call. Just kind of creeping along in the back. there. What do you think about a little bit of
Starting point is 00:27:53 Neil Young a little bit? Yes, bro. Yes. Absolutely. I think they're fucking I think maybe their producer worked with Neil Young or something. I think I read that on the wiki. There you go. Absolutely, bro. Because there's folk undertones throughout the whole thing. The harp, the hard monica comes in, you know, they give it room for a whole fucking solo. Cool-ass like acoustic bassline probably in the background. Yes. I mean, that's what stands out to me the most about this record is the folky undertones, the banjo, the kazoo. Yeah, yeah. It's weird, dude. It's a weird mishmash that You think it'll sound different when you think of those put together before you've listened to this.
Starting point is 00:28:26 You think it's going to be more like punkabilly or like rockabilly if you say it's going to be fulky rock, you know, or it'll be something like Bob Dylan's electric shit. It's its own weird 90s, 10, all that. Right. Yeah. Yeah, that was a good. I love that one, man. I love how quick the lyrics tug and pull. It's just fucking great.
Starting point is 00:28:46 Yeah, that's a great track. A jam, dude. A true hidden jam. Yes, sir. So now we're going to stop. There's a few tracks in between the last song that I'm bringing, which is called the Duke. I don't know why it's called the Duke. But yeah, that's the last one, Trave.
Starting point is 00:29:01 And there's, that probably leaves, I don't know, about half the record untouched. So you'll have to go back and just put it on when you're doing something in. And it'll take you, it'll take you on a journey. From what we've heard so far, I mean, yeah, this is, yeah. I mean, you have to go back and listen to the rest of it. Yeah, it's good, man. You've laid it up. I tried listen to their first record, as opposed to this one.
Starting point is 00:29:18 It didn't stick the same. I was turned on to this at a pretty impersonable, impressionable era in my life, but it holds up, man. It really does. Well, this is such a personal record, man. Yeah, yeah, dude. Absolutely. Just like a bowl of soup is, man. It's yours.
Starting point is 00:29:31 It's hot. You know, it can be nourishing. And you got, you know, just so much time to eat it before it goes cold, you know? That's true, dude. You better. That's right. That's right. All right.
Starting point is 00:29:42 All right. Here we go. This song is called the Duke. Dude, what a simple song, man. But yeah, perfect. Like, I'd say most of them are pretty simple songs, drive, you know? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:31 They seem straightforward enough. There's some weird ones in there, but... But, like, very, like... It's just emotionally, it's laid out there, so it feels so, like, abundant. There's a lot of layers and stuff, you know? Yes. Yes. Just like that bowl of soup.
Starting point is 00:32:46 And the way he sings, just fill, it fills your, if, for at least for me, it's effective on me, his voice. Yes, his voice is incredible. Perfect. I mean, that's an underrated, dude, underrated, man. I don't know if his voice was mixed with, mess with there, but it just sounded incredible. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:01 I mean, I don't think he gets the cred that he deserves for his vocals, man. He wasn't around long enough, man. He just had his, you know, and little ditties, like no rain and skinned, where he's just kind of like, yeah, anybody can kind of dish those out. But there on that song specific, man, and I'm glad we had this one kind of as our last song for it because it's a more positive note, right? I see him he's probably finding relief out in the ocean, talking about being sunburnt and not liking it, whatever, but then he's hit hard by the tide.
Starting point is 00:33:28 He's mad about it, but then he's happy. again. He's living. Yeah, he's living. Exactly. Hard by the tide, I'm living. So, yeah, getting smashed around, but still feeling alive, you know. Yeah, which is great, man. Great picks, man. Great picks. And the fact that there's so many tracks left unheard here. Yeah. Yeah, it's a longer one. A 50-minute record, you know, a lot of stuff nowadays ain't even half that sometimes.
Starting point is 00:33:50 Dude, now that's what I call fucking quick and fucking short and sweet, dude. Like, we're not even a... I know this, yeah, go back and listen to it, man, because you might find someone here that you appreciate more, but I think I really do. it cherry pick the better parts of the soup out. Definitely, definitely. You got all the alphabets, the alphabet letters out. Yeah. You know, when I was doing some basic research on it, they have a song called soup that's on a different record.
Starting point is 00:34:15 And we can do that as the outro because it's pretty too. And it's real pretty. And it's... Oh, interesting. I wonder if it's a nod back to that track. I don't know, dude. I don't know. And it's an introverted, because I read the lyrics along with it, which is fun.
Starting point is 00:34:27 And, you know, every now and you need to double check the lyrics on the... genius or something as opposed to the, the AI ones on Spotify. It can be a little weird sometimes. They were wrong. It said, it did not say Ed Gein. It said something else. So yeah, the lyrics are just wrong on Spotify. Yes, I think they're AI generated sometimes.
Starting point is 00:34:46 Oh, totally. Yeah. It's got a, yeah, there you go, Trev, with off the record, Nico. Okay, so these with this was, that's named after his child that he got to meet, but he died quickly after this record came out, the one we just covered suit. Okay. So that's the next record. Yeah, so there was uncut stuff that they put out to raise money for his child and his widow at the time.
Starting point is 00:35:05 Oh, after because he passed. He was younger. He was 27 or 28. Was she like a newborn? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:35:12 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:17 Yeah. That's when he relapsed after a show in Houston. And then that was all she wrote for him. Yeah. So a good 90s fucking. I know y'all hadn't, I knew you didn't touch on them. So I had this one up my sleeve, dude. That's an excellent.
Starting point is 00:35:29 Pigman. Yeah, and that's something that is, I really do think that, that I listen to a lot of 90s stuff, man, and that that's a standout record right there. Yeah. And some people would call them a one-hit wonder, and that's probably what they are, you know, with no rain. They probably legitimately are a bigger one-hit wonder. Definitely. In 90s was rife with that, dude. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably just the nature of like MTV and stuff too. Like you just... That too, yeah. Or you curious how a song like, no rain bubbles to the top and how it gets such motion out there. and other one, but, you know. I mean, No Rain has such a, such a lighthearted.
Starting point is 00:36:05 It does, yeah. It feels like it could have been written in the 70s more like a fulky song. Yeah, yeah. It's a little more approachable than some of the stuff we just listened to. Yes, totally. Which is a little more alt in their wheelhouse. That's why I was so surprised that toes across the floor was a single because it's just so heavy, the lyrical content. Right.
Starting point is 00:36:22 And that, exactly. And that's like the more alternative sound that they have as opposed to like folky southern rock. It weird. Hard to put a genre on them. Especially since it's so limited. Yeah, bro. They're fucking cool. Real cool.
Starting point is 00:36:33 I don't know where you boys are wanting to take it after mid-90s soup and, you know, 3-11s and. It's a good question, man. What else? Incubuses and. Oh, yeah. You know what? I talked about food fighters, remember?
Starting point is 00:36:45 Yeah. Dude, yes. Let's do that, Trave. You want to do that? The first record? Because I, I mean, the first food fighters record is fucking phenomenal, man. Because that leaves, that leaves color and shape open down the road, too. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:56 And the first one I have been listening to more, and it's fucking cool. It's so good, man. Dude, can you imagine his headspace after the band he was in implodes? I hope that wasn't insensitive way to describe it. But yeah, that's a cool record, man. It really is, dude. From what I understand, he was writing some of this music, even while Cobain was still alive. That makes sense, man, because for him to come out with all that, that quips, pretty intense.
Starting point is 00:37:20 And then color into shape, that too, like he did all the work, redid it all, re-recorded the drums because he didn't like him. So, yeah, he was in a probably in an era where he was like, no, I'm going to do it because I'm having control issues right now. Oh, yeah, yeah. Rightfully so, maybe. But yeah, I mean, we'll talk about all that when I'm you do the record, but yeah. We get Q back for that.
Starting point is 00:37:36 Got to have Q there. Got to have him. Got to have him for food fighters. You're the food and he's the fighter. You got to have Q and T for talking food. That's right. I know that. And Quentin has been, I think, a longer time food fighter fan than me.
Starting point is 00:37:49 Yes. Yes. He's been a champion for them way longer than either one of us, dude. Yeah. I was on the fence. Yeah. Same. Now I see.
Starting point is 00:37:56 It's fucking great shit. All right. Well, that's what we're going to do. for sure. Good deal, man. Well, it's good hearing from you, buddy. I'm glad you get to try some soup. That's right, dude. That was some tasty soup, dude. Tasty. And it's not, it's still warm. It's not even cool down. We still got one more dish called soup by the same band.
Starting point is 00:38:10 That's right. Came out, I think, post-humanously afterwards. Oh, man. Enjoy a second serving. Yeah, dude, definitely. All right. Well, you can find this on Instagram for search for no filler. We don't post anything. So don't expect any content from us, but if you want to get in touch with us, that's the best way to do it.
Starting point is 00:38:28 And then we'll ignore the message for like three months or so. And then decide to open up Instagram. Be like, oh, yeah. Hey, somebody messaged us like a year ago. So, but yeah, do that anyway. So that's the best place to get in touch with us. And then, of course, you can follow us on the Pantheon podcast network. That's pantheonpodcast.com.
Starting point is 00:38:47 So if you want to subscribe to their feed, you'll get all of our tracks when I remember to post to that feed as well. So, yeah, Mitchell, as always, thank you for joining. Yeah, man. Thanks for hearing me again. Thanks for bringing the tunes, man. Look forward to the next time, man. Definitely. All right.
Starting point is 00:39:01 So we're going to close again with soup from the very next record off of their 1996 record in Nico. So, man, they were pumping out the jams, dude. One after the next, man. It's crazy to think about how much stuff they would have put out. Yeah. Yeah. Dude. Maybe what they would have sounded like come 2000s, maybe at a DJ.
Starting point is 00:39:21 I don't know. What a talent, dude. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Burned bright, but burned quickly. Yeah, man. Definitely.
Starting point is 00:39:29 Just like so many rock stars before him. All right. Well, until next time, thanks as always for listening. My name is Travis. And I'm Mitchell. Peace. See you all later. Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything.
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