No Filler Music Podcast - Hughes Tunes: Weird Science

Episode Date: October 5, 2020

We continue our deep dive into the music behind John Hughe's iconic 80s comedies with the next stop on our journey through Michael Anthony Hall's puberty: Weird Science. Everybody remembers the title track to this shenanigans-a-plenty 1985 comedy (it is Oingo Boingo after all). But what about the other tracks featured in the film? We listen to a couple of tracks off the film in this week's installment of Hughe's Tunes. Tracklist: Oingo Boingo - Weird Science Ira Newborn - Lost On The Internet Killing Joke - Eighties Killing Joke - Europe The Del Fuegos - Nervous And Shakey The Del Fuegos - Out For A Ride Toro Y Moi - Ordinary Guy (feat. The Mattson 2) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Radio Waves This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So, what would you little maniacs like to do first? 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. And this is our next look, John Hughes and his tunes. The tunes that he put on his iconic 80s films, cute. And, I mean, if you couldn't tell by the song, that played us in there. We're talking about weird science today, which... Weird science.

I mean, instantly, that's what you hear in your head, right? Everybody hears the Ongo Boingot song. Yeah. When the two words weird and science are set together instantly. Now, I feel like we should know this, but I didn't look into it at all. Did they write that song for the movie? Sure does sound like something that we should know. Surely they did, right? Yeah, yes, it is, yes. It is, yes. It is the theme song.

song. Well, that doesn't really tell me if they're... Hold on cue. Yes, listen to this. Here we go. Dude, we're learning stuff on the fucking fly. We're pulling this one out of our ass a little bit. Sometimes, you know, sometimes we do a lot of preparation for an episode. Sometimes we just show up, turn on the mics and start chatting. And this is one of those moments. Although, obviously, we both watched the film before the episode, all right? At least we did something. We did. We did, and we'll get into that. Listen to this here. The song was written spontaneously by Elthman, as in Danny Elthman, if you didn't know that, in the car while driving home to Los Angeles after a phone call from John Hughes,

asking him to write a song for the movie of the same name. So you can just imagine him. He's like, what's it going to be called, John? Weird science. Okay. And then he's just driving home, weird science. You know what I mean? Just like having a blast with that name. From a heart and from my home. Exactly. I can see it now. But yeah, that's kind of cool. So.

Yes. So we're talking about weird science. We're talking about weird science. So this was John Hughes second film, right? No, Breakfast Club had came out since then. Okay, that's right. We skipped over Breakfast Club. Yeah, it was, um, okay.

It was 16 candles, breakfast club, weird science. Anyway. So yeah, Q, before we get into this movie and all the shenanes that went down, just like last week with 16 candles, there are plenty of. of shenanes to be had in this film. Even more so, I would say. The shenanes get wackier. Well, let's just say, man, they hit on a lot of those tropes again.

Yes. But, I mean, at least with this film, you get to have a little bit of science fiction fun, you know. Oh, and they had a blast with it, man. There's some things that happen in this film. Oh, my God. That are absurd. But anyway, before we do that, Q, I know that you're feeling the same right now about this podcast. I'm feeling the love, man

I'm floating around, dude I've been floating around my house all day and I needed this after the debate last night I can't tell you dude I'm exhausted too man I was down in the dumps

because of the shit show that we were forced to watch as a country last night yeah dude and then we got a tweet we got a mention from somebody on Twitter who was a listener

yeah we got a Tim mention wait what Tim mentioned he's a he's a comedian I don't know what that you would hate him because he's a he's a musical comedian so oh he's he's one of those guys no wonder you don't know him so yeah um I don't know her I don't know if this is her real name but I'm just going to call her RG because that's what her display name is RG she uh she recommended our podcast cue in response to somebody asking for podcast recommendations yeah we got a little mention from her which was beautiful dude I can't tell you

the language that she used, Kew. Touched my soul. My cheeks have never been rosier. As far as like blushing, you know. She said, Q, that we're her favorite album review podcast. Just so damn good. Damn.

Thank you, R.G. That is something. I mean, hey, I love to hear it. You know what? It keeps me going. It keeps me going. Keeps the spark alive. That is the kind of motivation that we need to keep this thing afloat.

So thank you, RG, for listening. And I also want to thank her because her mention of us and the people that read that and are now following us, that bumped us over to 100 followers. Dude. On the tweets. We finally have 100 followers. How long do you think it took? It took long enough. Dude, joined.

Here we go. This is sad. We've been on Twitter since December of 2017. It took us almost three years to get 100 followers. How long do you think it took Kim Kardashian to get 100 followers? But, dude, we weren't really that active until... No, that's very true. Until we joined Pantheon pods, pantheonpods.com.

Pantheonpodcast.com. But yeah, anyway, so thank you for that. Yes, thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Those out there who want to follow us on Twitter, it's at no filler podcast. we're not very active but um if more people communicate with us on there you know i'd be more active on there totally and you know what we are we are in the works trying to be better about

about uh the tweet the tweers we're trying to get better so anyway um thank you again and let's just keep on rolling here cue let's keep it gone by keep it going i mean let's start as what a weird film. You see what I did? It was different. Like it, it, it,

it, it, it didn't feel like a John Hughes film. No. And I think that was probably intentional on his part to, to kind of mix it up a little bit and do something. I mean, it was still,

it was still a film about teenagers and their shenanigans. I'm going to see how many times I can say shenanes or shenanigans in this episode. but he gets his go-to awkward teenager who has aged quite a bit since 16 candles, you know, when we see him in this film. But he gets Michael Anthony Hall to come back. He's kind of the lead character, him and this other guy. And basically the gist of it is a couple of nerds are enamored with females as, as, you know, teenage, awkward teenage boys typically are.

And they're sitting there, you know, that opens with them in their gym clothes, oobling and... Swooning. Just sweating about some cheerleaders warming up and gymnastics and stuff like that going on. And then, you know, long story short, they're like, hey, what if we used your fancy system? I like how in 80s films, computers are always called systems, which I think, make it's funny. It's like, just do it on your system. The other character,

what are their names? Let's get their names. So the character names are Gary and Wyatt. Okay. Which one's Wyatt? The other guy. Wyatt is the computer. Okay. So Wyatt is the computer geek. Yeah, they're watching the 1931 classic Frankenstein.

Yes. There you go. And then Gary goes, oh my gosh, that's it. Why don't we use your computer skills. Why don't we use your system? And create our own woman. Yeah. And, you know, there's this really funny kind of generic computer hacking. Yeah.

So they like hack into, I don't know, the military computer, like the mainframe to get more computer power. And then, you know, there's a classic like, oh, the entire city is just blowing up now because all this power is just running all through this one computer and they get as much power as they can to create this woman out of his home computer system. Dude, my favorite part is when they started cutting out pictures from magazines and like feeding it into the computer system. Like a picture of Albert Einstein to give her...

Because she's smart. A high IQ. Yeah. And then all these just different pictures of pinup girls from Playboy. It's just hilarious, man. Yeah. And then like all the computer graphics that they show, like, it doesn't make any sense. Like there's like, like, it almost looks like those old school computer games that they're like, I don't know, they're like hacking into this like matrix like system.

And there's all these silly like graphics on the screen. Like where are these graphics coming from? Over the top absurd. But I mean, you know, back in the 80s, I could fly for. Oh yeah, I bet you that is what it looks like when you're hacking into whatever they were hacking into. I guess it was like the government. It was like a military. Who knows?

Yeah. It just cuts some random guy in a room with a bunch of equipment around him like kind of freaking out. Like, holy crap. What's going on? Oh, smokes. Yeah, with a bunch of lights going off and smoke and shit. Anyway. Yeah.

And so our first pick is going to be another Ira newborn piece that he wrote for the movie. So we mentioned a couple of times now. Ira Newborn is basically John Hughes. That was his go-to composer for his movie scores at the time. Basically, he had three people on speed dial, Molly Wingwald, Michael C. Hall. Damn it. Michael Anthony Hall and Ira Newborn, right? Those are the three that it seems like he went back to over and over again. Yeah.

Yeah. So we're going to play a song written. by Ira Newborn. The song is actually called Lost on the Internet, which, I mean, think about that back in 85, dude, lost on the Internet? That was some, like, you couldn't even imagine being lost on the Internet back in the 80s.

Oh. Yeah, so this is actually, so this is playing during the scene where they're, you know, just pulling out all the stops to try and make this woman from a computer. So here it is. Ira Newborn's song, Lost on the,

internet. Dude, what a dope song. Yeah, right? So, I mean, as we've talked about before, like, this music is very much a thing again. You know what I mean? With synth wave and to a lesser extent vapor wave, but like synth wave music is kind of making a comeback. And like, I mean, there's probably plenty of synth wave artists right now that that

wish that they could make a track like that. Ira Newborn was a pro. Ira Newborn, I mean, he's very versatile. You know, we've, think about the song that we played in our Ferris Bueller episode. Totally different. When, uh, when Ferris and Cameron are chatting it up. Yeah. He's a well-accomplished musician, this, this fellow.

But anyway, yeah, what a perfect song for the scene, right? Yeah, it's a classic 80s montage going on, you know. But there's all sorts of crazy stuff going on. Like, no wonder that the song had to be so, so, like, wacky and sort of, like, buried, too. Because, like, there's a ton of, I almost said weird, which is fine. There's a ton of weird shit going on. There's some weird science going on. There's some weird science all over the place.

It cuts to, like, some random house where this lady's, like, or the dog is on the roof. Oh, yeah. You know, like, just wacky stuff. All the power that is flowing through, you know, the power lines and everything. It's making all this weird stuff happen. Yeah, basically they're channeling all the power that they can into his little tiny system to make this woman cue. Yeah, to create this beautiful, intelligent woman. Exactly.

So weird science came out in 85. The original Tron movie, 82. Okay. So think about it, dude. That was already in the collective hive mind. you know, the idea of hacking into a computer to the point that you can, you know, actually like dive in, basically. Yeah.

You know, so like John Hughes took that and ran with it. He took that and he took Frankenstein and he ran with it. And the funny thing is, so the intro clip that we played, the introed in this episode, that is the scene where we're first introduced to, Lisa, which is the name that they give this AI woman that they created. You know, it's funny about that

is John Hughes got that name from Apple, the computer company. One of their early computers was called Lisa. Pretty clever, right? Yeah. And so she has this

these like superpowers, you know? She conjures up these superfats. sports cars and like magically changes their clothes and creates weird things. I mean, it's just absurd. She has these abilities. That's where you have to just kind of be like, okay. Yeah.

I see what's going on here. Somehow this computer, like what is she? What is she? Is she a robot? Is she? It doesn't really ever. Yeah. Because she can conjure up anything.

Like one of the first things that, the, she does, like you said, she puts them in these like fancy clothes because they're going to a bar and then she conjures up a pink Cadillac for them to cruise around in. Yeah. It's just like, I don't, they don't really, let me put it this way. If you're, if you're hoping for like some science or some explanation as to how she could do this, you're not going to get it. So Neil deGrasse Tyson would implode trying to. call out all the mistakes in this room. You know how he loves to do that.

He does, but I mean, certain movies, it's like, there's no point I'd even bother. He usually likes to do that on movies that are at least trying to present real science. Like, I think he famously did it for that Sandra Bullock movie, Gravity. Yeah. Yeah, he did it like while he was in the film or the movie theaters. Like, he was that dude. It was tweeting the whole time.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. So, so Lisa. is going to help Gary and Wyatt become popular. Right. Classic. These underage kids, she's going to, she's going to, you know,

Jedi mind trick people into thinking that these guys are old enough to drink and shit. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, so let's just dive right into the next song, dude. And guess when it happens? When does it happen? In an epic 80s party scene. Of course.

I mean, dude, this is one of those classic like, oh, so the entire student body is in your house right now? Is that what we're, like, that's what we're going to believe here? That's what's happening? That's right. Yeah, so Lisa gets this party going, you know, because if you're throwing a party at your house, then clearly you're a popular dude and all the girls should hang out with you, you know? So, there is a song by a band called Killing Joke, playing in, during the party scene.

and let's play a couple songs from these guys. The first one appears in the film, and I mean, right away, you're going to hear something familiar with this song, and we're going to talk about it. So, here is a song called 80s by a band called Killing Joke. All right, so I got to know. did Kurt Cobain was he a fan of this band

and then like without even realizing it wrote a riff that was almost verbatim had guitar riff when he wrote Come as You Are? Let's look at this up real quick. I don't know how, I don't know when Kirk Cobain was born but let's find out real quick

with the power of something called Wikipedia. Don't know if you've heard of that. Came out in 19... So I said came out. Kurt Cobain came out in 1967 as in he was born. So he was 18 when Weird Science came out. Yeah, and so this Killing Jokes song is on an album called Nighttime, which came out in

1985. Well, let's put it this way. Either Cobain heard the song just randomly or just through his own taste of music or whatever, or he went out and saw Weird Science, which is likely, you know. Yeah. So that riff was just rolling around in his brain and he, He didn't even realize it. I prefer Cobain's version of the RIF.

Does he get called out for it? Yeah. So I looked it up a little bit. So from what I can tell, they were, they being Cobain or, well, Nirvana, the collective Nirvana, and their management company were unsure about releasing, come as you are, as a single because they knew that this would cause some controversy, right, with. with the killing joke. And, you know, they acknowledged that it was similar, very similar.

But anyway, so they put it out, obviously. And, you know, Killing Joke later complained about it. So the reason that they released it is because Goldberg, being the head of the management company for Nirvana, preferred it and thought it was the obvious choice for a commercial song. So basically their management company was like, yeah, let's just roll the dice here and see what happens. Let's just do it. I mean, it's a great fucking song, obviously.

But Killing Joe, they did claim eventually that Cummage Gerard plagiarized 80s. But according to Rolling Stone, they did not file a copyright infringement lawsuit because of personal and financial reasons. But then Cobain died and that basically killed that. you know, there's no point anymore. But anyway. Well, that's a really cool song, dude. Like, I don't know much about this band, but, but this whole album has that kind of dark, you know, New Wave kind of post-punk vibe. I really like it. And we got another song I want to play from this album. That's really cool. So this one is called Europe. Good stuff. Yeah, I really like this kind of this kind of

new wave punk kind of blend, right? Yeah, me too. I really like New Wave, man. I like that sound. I think it's... Like, I like modern bands that borrow from New Wave, you know, and I kind of like Shugays. I like what Shugays has evolved into over time, you know?

Right. Like Shugays has been happening since it started happening, you know? And we've called it, Dream Pop at some point, like that's another name for it. But, um... Yeah, and that all stems from New Wave. Yeah.

And, you know, in post-punk. Yeah, it does. But yeah, I'm just saying, like, I really like this branch of the rock tree, you know. Me too. Same as you guys. I just, uh, they're kind of on the same, they're stemming from the same branch, you know. But yeah. Totally.

Love it. You know, and to me, it just sounds like the 80s, man. And I love music from this decade. Yeah, me too. Music that was done, like, right. You know what I mean? Obviously, there's a lot of cheesy stuff that came out of the 80s. But I like the, and that's what we like about John Hughes.

And that's why we're doing John Hughes tunes. Because this guy was a music fan. And every song that you hear on a John Hughes film was obsessed over, you know. Yeah. And this was the kind of music that was worth searching for. And, you know, back in the 80s, it was hard to find music that wasn't just getting blasted on the radio. You know, so John Hughes brought all this music to the big screen, which is really cool. But hey, before we jump into our next pick, let's take a quick break.

So the next band we're going to cover. They are called the Del Fuego's. And they're more in the garage rock kind of vein, if you can call it garage rock, you know, back in the early 80s. but so this this uh song from them happens it's still there's still a house party going on but so what lisa realizes is that gary and wyatt basically are cowards and so her whole existence is to try to help get them the girls you know get them more popular yeah she's like this very godmother lady that just shows up. Yeah. Yeah. She's like, I'm gonna fucking turn these nerds into a couple of hunks or whatever, with her wand or, I don't know, whatever godmothers did.

So she conjures up this like motorcycle gang, like these just classic villains, you know, like just bad dudes that come through, you know, bust through the, the window. their motorcycles and just destroy the house. And basically, it's up to Gary and Wyatt to take back control of the house and to, and to be the heroes, you know? That was a goofy scene. This movie was all over the place. Yeah.

It really was. That's when I was like, what is, what is happening right now? So this song is playing, and this is another one of those instances where if you blink, you miss it, you know? The song. Like, this song is playing for like a few seconds in that scene. and I'm going to play another song from them too. So we got two songs from the Del Fuego's.

Yeah, so this is a song on an album called The Longest Day, which came out in 1984. This song is called Nervous and Shaky. I want it to like about that, man. I was actually, love the harmonies. Yeah, I mean, I was going to say, like, I don't typically gravitate toward that style. I don't know if the rest of this album sounds like that, but it's kind of... Americana. Yeah.

I don't know. I mean, these guys are classified as punk rock. new wave, but I wouldn't classify that song. Now, we're going to play another song for them, right? Yes. Yes. Yes. So yeah. So she said that that plays while the bikers are going through the house or something. No, it's, it's at a point where like everything's at a standstill and they're, you know, they're face to face with these guys. You know, something's about to go down and you can hear it playing in the background. So I guess, I guess John Hughes was thinking, okay, this song is still playing, you know, like they didn't, they didn't stop the music from playing.

I mean, you got to have some soundtrack to the carnage. But it doesn't fit the scene, you know? So it's still like, it's just party music still going on in the background, you know. All right. So here's another song from that album. So again, this band is the Del Fuego's. And this song is called Out for a Ride. Yeah, I got to say, I'm not really, I'm not really filling this band, Q.

Really? Yeah, I love that song. That song's great. Yeah. He's a little too Tom Petty for me. His voice kind of reminds me of Tom Petty. that's funny because Tom Petty was a big fan at this band really yeah he actually uh pulled him on tour with him as an opening act well anyway um that's another conversation but i've never really been

much of a Tom Petty fan which well here's who i was reminded of dude uh i think they had some some Polaris vibes in his his vocal delivery yeah or you know or miracle legion yeah yeah um but yeah definitely more uh yeah In the Tom Petty vein, I would say that's Americana. I feel like Americana fits the bill. I don't know. I really don't know. I really don't know what Americana means. Me neither.

But you know it when you hear it. Yeah. Anyway. Well, I'm sorry, Jeff. That's all right, man. I was a fan. I was a fan. We can't like everything, you and I.

We can't like the same things. We do on quite a bit. But, you know, as we've talked about many of times, I am not a fan of certain vans that you are a fan of. And you're not really a metal fan like me. No, but you're chipping away at that, dude. Really? Yeah.

I will tell you, my journey as a metal fan has been a long and winding road. So I think everybody goes on that journey. I mean, for you, it started in middle school, right? Yeah, definitely. Yeah. And, you know. I never jumped on that train, dude. Well, we'll have to jump on that train again.

dude and do some more metal episodes at some point. Totally. Here's a thank you. We can't talk about weird science without talking about the fact that a 14-year-old boy actor essentially makes out with like a 24-year-old supermodel on film. Yeah, dude. And how weird that is if you think about it. That was weird.

I mean, I get it. But at the same time, I'm like, I mean, it is. they didn't have to do that scene I know why they did it but it's like she's trying to teach them how to kiss so that they're ready to kiss real girls can you imagine

I read I was reading some stuff about this because I was like I need to know more about the scene because there's had to be some shit that went down we got to shout out the actor his name's I think it's Elan or Ian it's not Ian it's I-L-A-N okay Elyn Michael Smith

Elyn Mitchell Smith. Mitchell, I can't read. Yeah, so he's, he's the other dude. He's the computer nerd. So I looked up, he was 14 when they filmed that kissing scene. Arguably, the kids, his first kiss, arguably. Maybe not, but perhaps. Perhaps.

And they're like, okay, Elyn, here's a supermodel. I mean, she was legitimately a supermodel. Her name is Kelly, Kelly LeBrock. she was legit a supermodel, right? From what I read about the scene, is that Elon got so excited during the scene that he tried to slip some tongue in there. And she basically said to him,

if you ever do that again, I'm going to kick your fucking ass. And in so many words, right? But can you imagine being her, dude? You're like, all right, you got to kiss this 14-year-old boy. Yeah. Okay, can we take it again, please? there was a string of spit coming out of your mouth. Yeah, the boom mic was in the shot.

We're going to take it again. Yeah. But hey, dude, as long as it's on a Hollywood movie set, it's all kosher, right? But if I can flip the genders, dude, they would never film a scene where a 24-year-old male actor is kissing a 14-year-old female actor. Even if it's supposed to be like a robot or whatever the fuck it is. It's just weird, man. But anyway, they did it. You know what it is, dude?

80s shenan's, dude. Here's what John Hughes films teach you. Basically, what John Hughes wanted to do behind the director's chair was live out his boyhood fantasies, basically. You know, when you look at it through that lens, like, suddenly 16 candles make sense. This movie makes absolute sense. And that was plenty of boys' fantasies, right? what happens at weird science.

John Hughes just wishes that he was cool like Ferris Bueller and he could just take a day off like whatever he wants. But anyway, you know, I guess that's the thing that made his film so universally adored is that he tapped into a lot of kids' experiences in life, right? But yeah, I just thought that scene, I guess when you watch that scene as an adult, you're like, wait a minute, that kid's like 14 and she's like 24 and that's fucking weird. You don't think about that when you're a kid. No, you're like, oh, man, I wish I got it done yet.

So lucky. Yeah. But, dude, think about the disappointment that basically that set that kid up for for the rest of his life. Right. Think about it. I've already kissed Kelly LeBrock. Right. It's like I can only go down from here.

Yeah. But no, hopefully he experienced a true spark cue next time he kissed him one. Well, he got some practice, you know. Yeah, you got to practice on a supermodel while John Hughes was sitting there watching like a creeper. Right, hot lights shining. Can we take that again? An entire crew just staring at them. Right.

Well, all right, man. That is all I got. Weird science. Oh, hey, man. We got to talk about Bill Paxton again. Or we got to talk about Bill Paxton real quick. So Bill Paxton makes an appearance in this film. And I thought he stole the movie.

or at least I enjoyed his scenes like he was funny he was funny he was he was Wyatt's older brother that's just a punk yeah he does like at least early on in his career like he was kind of pigeonholed into like jarhead dopey jarhead yeah he was in aliens right but I think this was one of his first films first big films well dude you know who else is in this movie Robert Downey Jr oh yeah that's right a young Iron Man shows up. Robert Downey Jr. plays a boyfriend of one of the girls that they're pining after. Yeah.

And of course, he's a punk and he bullies them, him and some other guy. Yeah. But yeah, dude, he's super young in that. Super young. Yeah, that's true. So, yeah, there's a lot of actors that you'll recognize in this film. If you've been paying attention to, if you've been on this planet, you'll recognize Bill Paxton. Robert Downey Jr. for sure. Everybody knows who Robert Downey Jr. is, I mean, the dude

he's Iron Man. Landed the role of a lifetime. Yeah. With Iron Man. Anyway, all right, Q. So, we are nearing the home stretch here for Hughes Tunes. We are ending with Pretty and Pink, which I'm excited about. Me too. There's some great artists featured in that film. Yes, definitely. And so obviously, kind of like we did here, we played the song. We science. You heard it in the intro at least. We're going to, if not play the song Pretty and Pink by Psychedelic Furs. I want to at least play a psychedelic verse song because I like that band quite a bit. Yeah. So we'll try to find another song off of the Pretty and Pink, whatever album Pretty and Pink showed up on. Yeah. And we'll pick a couple other songs from other artists on the soundtrack.

And then that's going to do it, man. And then we're going to return to to normal programming in a way after that. Yeah, we're gonna kind of parking back to the old days, man. Yeah. When we were just pick an album and, you know,

pick non-singles from it and then just kind of go where the music and the styles take us from episode to episode. I'm excited to get back into that dude. Yeah. But we've had some fun, you know, we went back to school. We played some dad tunes, dove into some Hughes films.

Yeah, we've been doing a lot of these kind of themed batches of episodes. And yes, like you said, it's been fun. It's been an easy way to kind of keep us focused on a certain type of music. But at the same time, it's in a lot of ways, felt like it's too, like restraining and restrictive on us. You know what I mean? Yeah, but think about all the music that we've been able to play that we would have never in a million years played on this. Well, especially during Hughes Tunes.

Yeah, dude. But no, I will say that our back to school episodes, we call them back to school, that's some of the best. best episodes we've done. Like, that's the most fun I've had. Same. Just because we were, we were listening to bands that were so important to us back in high school and then middle school and stuff like that. So anyway, but yeah, we're going to get back to sort of the regular format of album episode followed by sidetrack episode, which we kind of haven't done the last few months. Yeah, the sidetracks have kind of turned into full-length episodes. Yeah, so we're going to return to that.

And, um, yeah. So anyway, hopefully people are excited by that. Um, also hopefully people have enjoyed, our listeners have enjoyed the, uh, the themed episodes. But, um, but, but yeah, it'll, uh, it'll be, uh, it'll be over here soon and we'll be back to, back to our roots queue, which I'm excited about. So anyway, um, it's time for our what you heard segment. It's time, brother. And I got a, uh, a great one for you, man.

I'd like to go first. Yeah, you go first because I got to pull up some info on this dude that I'm talking about. All right. So this is our segment when we each bring a song to the table from an artist that we've heard in between recordings. And we also have a playlist that we've made on Spotify that we are constantly adding to. It's our what you heard playlist that you can find, I believe if you type in no filler in the search bar on Spotify, there's a handful of playlists that we have on there and this What You Heard playlist dude is

I mean I want to say it's close to like 11 hours long or longer maybe at this point there is just so every every week we will add our What You Heard song to the playlist so it's ever expanding It's a really random playlist But it's a lot of fun There's a lot of great music on there

It's 155 songs dude at the moment as I am staring at it now, it's going to be 157 after this episode. Impressive. Yeah, man. So, anyways, yeah, you can find that playlist on Spotify. It's called No Filler Music Pod, What You Heard. And good luck spelling what you heard, by the way. Yeah, good luck.

We're not going to tell it. We had to come up with the name for this that was like, wait, how do you spell on it? Whatcha? Yeah, we had to phonetically spell it out. Yeah. Yeah. But maybe that's a joke because what people are going to be asking is, what chuh. How do you just what you spell?

How'd you spell it? How'd you spell it? How'd you spell it? Anyway. All right, Chav, so we're both fans of Toro Emois, right? I talk about a name that's hard to pronounce. Like, I've always struggled. Toro Emois, I think, is one of this.

Yeah, his name's Chaz Bundick. I love everything that this guy does. And he recently collaborated with these twins that go by the Matson 2. Oh yeah. Yeah, I've heard some of their stuff. They're great, dude. I actually got to see them open for Kronbun. What? You saw Kronkben? Yeah, you didn't know that, dude? I didn't know that. Yeah, I saw him about, I don't know, a year and a half ago, I saw them.

Damn. Yeah, in Seattle with Elena, it was fucking amazing. Oh, I'm sure. God, damn. That's a Houston-based band, man. Yeah. And the Mattson, too, opened for them. Anyways, Chaz Bundick, aka Toro Imoa, released. an album with them a few years back called Star Stuff, and it was Chas Bundick meets the Mattson 2. And he brought them on again to play with him.

So they're just a jazz duo, drums, guitar, vocals, twin dudes, Jared and Jonathan. And he likes to work with them. And he just released a single, which is actually a cover of a song by an artist named Joe Baton, I think that's how you say that. He was kind of like a soul singer from the 70s. It's a great track, dude.

So this song is called Ordinary Guy by Toro Imoa, featuring the Mattson 2. Yeah, this guy's, I mean, he is such a talented musician. He's great. Yeah, and if you listen to the original song by Joe Baton, it's really cool what they did with that. Actually, let's just play it just a smidge of it, dude. Okay. They kind of bumped up the tempo a little bit, changed up the style a little bit.

So the original song came out on an album from 1969 called Singing Some Soul. All right, so here again is Joe Baton's Ordinary Guy. Man, I just, I love that stuff, man. That era. Yeah, that, I don't know, Motown soul. Yeah. Yeah, man.

Yeah, what a great version. Yeah, no, really, really, what they did with it was great. Yeah, and I'm glad that he brought in the Mattson, too, you know, to lay down the instruments for him, because they're just such a phenomenal jazz duo, dude. Yeah. You know, they got that twin sync, you know? Yes. They were amazing live.

We know all about that, cue. We're the self, too. Have we ever... Where the self, too. Do we see our... Have we ever said our last name? I don't know if we have or not. Anyway, but yeah, dude, there's something about when you played the original song,

there's something like, there's almost like a haunting quality too. Maybe because it's just so, it just sounds so like it came from another world almost, you know. It's something about those backing vocals, you know, and the ooze and oz and the background. You know, like since the 70s and the 60s, a little bit, obviously, late 60s on, right? Rock and Rollers kind of like repeated itself quite a bit and borrows from, but it doesn't really borrow from that Motown stuff that often. No. So that's why it sounds like that sound is so foreign almost. As far as like, you know, it is so locked in with that era.

You know what I mean? I hear you. Yeah, dude. And that's why when you hear it, it's just so like, it's just like, man, like that time is gone, you know. Yeah. I feel that way about a lot of Bill Withers and his music, too, dude. There's a lot of that just. Yeah, there's a lot of sounds that stayed in their decade.

You know what I mean? And so. But they're timeless. Yes. You know. Yeah. All right. So anyway.

All right, man. What you've been heard in lately, brother? So, I mean, this is, this is no secret to anybody listening. but I'm a fan of video game soundtracks Q. This is the first time I'm hearing this. No. Everybody knows it. So I typically do this where I just bounce around from video game composer to video game composer

and then click on the more artists like this and then I eventually end up on another one and then that's how the rabbit hole. Yeah, dude. or whatever. We know all your secrets, brother. Yes. But the interesting thing about video game scores right now is that a lot of electronic artists are doing video game scores. So this particular artist, I first heard about how during our music blog days, I featured him on Electric Saturdays years ago. But he's shown up on plenty of people are familiar with this game because it got quite a bit of attention.

Monument Valley. Did you ever play that game, Q? It was a game on your phone. It was a game on your phone. But it was called Monument Valley. There's a scene where asked Face McGee. His name is also, what is his name? I mean, that's what I call him. But he was on House of Cards.

What was that guy's name? Kevin Spacey, Kevin Spacey. He deservedly has disappeared from the public. He's in hiding. Yes, which is fine. That's where he needs to stay. But there's a scene where his character is playing this game on the phone and they even talked about it.

So like this game got a lot of attention. So anyway, great game, really minimal and just like. Yeah, I've played it actually. I think I played it on the PS3 maybe. Oh, I didn't know. They ported it over to consoles. Maybe I didn't. I don't.

I haven't even said the artist. name yet, so I like to pay. So this guy's name, he goes by obfusk. That sounds familiar. Yep. Definitely. Which I guess is kind of short for like obfuscate, right? I don't think that's a word, brother.

Yes, it is. Obfuscite is a word. What does I mean? The actually, his name. Obviously confiscate. Obfusc means dark or obscure. Anyway, so he just recently, last year, He did the score for a video game called Neo Cab.

And, dude, here's the thing about most video game soundtracks is it's not fucking Mario. You know what I mean? Like, these, the music to video games a lot of times stand on their own, you know what I mean? And are legit, great, just albums in general, right? I almost never play the video game for the soundtrack that I'm listening to. I just like video game scores, right? Anyway, so we're going to listen to a track off of the NeoCab soundtrack by Obfusk. This song is called Prism Bloom.

I like. That's great, dude. So you like that? Yeah, really. So here's the thing about that, that record. There's a lot of stuff on there that's just like that. But it's also, I don't know, it is very much a unified. collection of music, if that makes any sense.

But they're not all going to be that laid back and kind of more chilled, right? Okay. But yeah, there's like 30 tracks on there. There's a ton of music on there. But I have no idea what the game's about. But what I like about video game music more often than not, and that's the thing. With video game scores nowadays, you can get super cinematic scores that sound like,

you know, a film score. Like if you think about like the god, War soundtrack, you know, any number. Or the Journey soundtrack? One of my favorite. Yeah, Journey. Game soundtrack. Sure, yeah.

But you also get a lot of stuff like this where, like, with video games, a lot of times the music is background. You know what I mean? Like, it's not necessarily going to. It's more passive? Yeah, sort of passive. Yeah. But at the same time, you know, it's compelling.

It puts you in the mood and gets you. you in the headspace of whatever environment you're in. Yeah. And that's probably why I gravitated toward it so much because I like, a lot of times when I'm working, I need the music to just be in the background. But it needs to be interesting enough that I can get some enjoyment out of it. And like, you know, maybe it's, maybe there's a part that I'm like,

oh, shit, that was great. Let me rewind the tape on that one. There's lots of moments of video game scores that do that. And that's because they tap in the, or they tap electronic artists like Opfusk, you know, to do the score, which is awesome. Yeah, or a disaster piece, you know? Yeah, disaster piece, exactly. Yep.

But anyway. Good stuff, dude. Yeah. So, yeah, there's a random video game score for you. That's what we like about what you heard, Q. Yeah, man. And that just shows how random our what you're heard playlist is. Indeed.

And I'm hoping that just because it's such a huge list that even though it's random, it'll still be enjoyable to hit shuffle on, you know. Absolutely. Yeah, I hope so. I mean, it is. It's all over the place. You know what I mean? It's so random.

So, yeah, it's an eclectic mix for sure. Totally. It's from the brain, the collective brain of you and me, Q. So there's probably some sort of thread that you could tie through there. Anyway, so yeah, that's that. Next week we're talking about Pretty and Pink to wrap up. our batch of episodes devoted to the music featured in John Hughes films. And yeah, that's that. You can find us on our website, nofillerpodcast.com, where you can find all of our previous episodes

and show notes pages for each of them, where we feature a track list, which is every song that was played on the episode, including our What You Heard's, intros, outros, what-have-eus, It's all on there. And you can also find show notes. Well, that's our already said that. You can find sources. So any sort of article or whatever that we may have mentioned or pulled information from. We'll put it on there in case you want to learn more about what we talked about.

And you can find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network. That is our home and also the home to many other great music-centric podcasts. That's Pantheon Podcast.com. and you can listen to us wherever you listen to podcasts, and you're already listening to us right now. You found us. Just keep listening on whatever platform you're on right now. But yeah, you can find us on Spotify, Pandora.

All of a sudden, apparently we're on Pandora now, which is random, like, who the hell uses Pandora? Yeah, I didn't know they did it podcast. But if you're listening to us on Pandora, I can tell you confidently that back in the day when Pandora was like the new hotness, I found plenty of great tunes on Pandora, man. Pandora was great. Still is, apparently.

I'm sure they've improved their algorithms and whatnot. But Pandora was like the OG, like music. What did they call it? Discovery outlet. It was a radio. It was radio. Yeah, I know, but they had like a name behind their technology or whatever. It was like, uh, oh, I don't know.

It was something, man. Oh, the music genome project. That's what it was. Oh, I didn't know that. Cool. But that's how they mapped songs together, you know, like this song features, you know, synth keyboards. So we're going to pair it with this one or whatever. But yeah, once I join Span, I was about to say Spandora.

Once I joined Spotify, like that was just the end for me. Spotify has taken my money for years. So sorry, Pandora, but we're glad that you can listen to no filler on Pandora. and a bunch of other platforms. So anyway, yeah, that's that. That's the end of my outro cue. Yes, thank you, Travis, for always being the one that takes us home. I just like, I fall into a trance and just say the outro because I've said it so many times.

I'm so glad you do, man, because that's a lot of words. It is. A lot of speak. Well, we've got an outro, dude, to play a band called orchestral. maneuvers in the dark. They've got a song called Tesla Girls that shows up in a mall scene in the movie.

Gary and Wyatt are getting bullied by Robert Downey, Jr. and his friend. Rob-d-d-d-d-d-d-d- And this song's playing in the background. But we're going to outro out with one of your favorite songs by OMD.

Orchestral maneuvers in the dark. That's it. Man, that's another band, Q. another band that showed up on my Electric Saturdays. You know, I have a playlist, um, Q back when we pulled the site down, I went through the database export

and made a playlist on Spotify, have as many of the Electric Saturday songs that I could find on Spotify. I have that's cool. Um, and, yeah, so for those of you who don't know, we used to have a music blog way back in the day. Yes, we did.

Called New Dust. It was called New Dust. And, um, Travis had a, uh, an electric Saturdays post. I had a weekly post came out on Saturdays where I literally just picked two electronic songs and played them. And that's kind of where my sort of deep dive into electronic music started because I would

try to bounce around, you know. But anyway, yeah. So the song here by orchestral maneuvers in the dark is called Radio Waves. and it's a dope-ass song, man. I love this song. It's great. Game off of their 1983 record, dazzle ships. And, yeah, that's that. That's going to close us out here, too.

So, yeah, check us out next week. We're going to talk about Pretty and Pink. And that'll do it for us. Thank you. Yes. Thank you, as always, for listening. My name's Quentin. My name is Travis.

Yeah, I'll take care.