No Filler Music Podcast - No Filler's Best of 2020: Listener Favorites

Episode Date: December 28, 2020

We close out our Best of 2020 episodes with a little help from our friends. We asked our listeners and some No Filler guests from the past to share their favorite tracks of the year with us, and we've narrowed it down to our favorites from the list for this episode. And we end our favorite musical moments countdown with arguably the greatest thing that happened in 2020: the epic drum battle between ten year old Nandi Bushell and Dave Grohl. Tracklist: The Nychillarmonic - Mean Thee Oh Sees - If I Had My Way Nicole Atkins - Domino Crack Cloud - Post Truth (Birth of a Nation) Four Year Strong - Get Out of My Head Sufjan Stevens - Ursa Major Tame Impala - Is It True Dave Grohl's Nandi Bushell Tribute Song This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And welcome back to No Filler, the music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms that filled the space between the singles on our favorite records. But not this episode, Q. This is our listener favorite records of 2020. I'm so stoked, man. This is a first. We haven't done an episode like this before. But as we've been reminding everybody for the last month, we put. put some feelers out there on Twitter for anybody who follows us or listens to send us their

favorites. And we took all of those favorites. I'm talking hundreds and hundreds of them, Q. No, it was, you know, a handful. But, you know, we went through them and we came up with only six songs, Q. We narrowed it down. Only six. And a few of these.

are coming from previous guests that we've had on the show. Yeah, this is going to be a very similar format to the last few weeks. We're just going to go one song at a time. And Q, you know, I got to confess to demand care, Q. Yeah. I haven't listened to any of these songs yet. I know you haven't, dude. Does that make me a shitty person?

Yes. I wasn't expecting you to say yes, Q, I was expecting to say, no, Travis, you're a busy guy. Here's what you should have said, dude. You could have completely framed this differently, and you could have been a hero. I'm curious how I could be a hero. You could have said, now, Quentin, I purposely didn't listen to these songs so that I could be excited today on the air. Well, if I said that, that would be a lie, and I don't lie to our listeners. Well, guess what, Travis, that was a test, and you passed.

I passed the morality test. You passed it. Let's get right into it, dude. So I want to start with a song that was brought to us by, I'm going to call her our number one fan. Except for, I mean, aside from Mitchell, our lifelong friend. Yeah, Mitchell gets that title. But, yes, this particular person, we actually gave her a shout out because it was a tweet from her that, that we have reason to believe is what put our follower account over a hundred.

Which is small potatoes to a lot of people, but that was exciting times. It is, yeah. This isn't, you know, this isn't T Swift numbers by anyways. But. Yeah, she gave us a shout out and a few other, a few people that were in that shoutout chain started following us on Twitter. So she goes by at Ronnie underscore KGGG. on Twitter, her name is Ronnie. Shout out to Ronnie.

What's up, girl? I don't remember what our interactions have been like with her over the year. But, you know, she's my favorite person, basically, is what I was trying to get. Yeah. But yeah, I think she recommended our show to some tweet, Twitter. Some little tweet that was asking for podcast recommendations. recommendations or something like that. Yeah.

And I've never floated around the room like I did that day, Q. It was like a magic carpet was underneath me. All right. So she brought a song from a band, and I think I'm going to pronounce this right. I'm going to do my darndest. It is an 18-piece progressive jazz rock orchestra. Oh, my God. They go by the New York Chill Harmonic.

And that's all one word. NY is capitalized. so I'm going to assume. But she brought an awesome song from an album of theirs called Mean. So we're going to get right into it with this song. Again, this is a band called The New York Chill Harmonic. This song is called Mean. That's great, man.

I love it. Fucking awesome, dude. Yeah, I mean, all of those things. I like jazz. Rock. Rock. Orchestras of any kind. And I'm reading here.

on the band camp page for this, that this was recorded remotely in quarantine. So this is another one of those quarantine records, which is cool. But yeah, this is one of those bands that you would want to catch live, you know, for sure. Oh, for sure, dude, an 18-piece band. That would be a dope-ass show.

But yeah, if you go on the band camp page, like, you know, this is no joke. It's an actual, like, orchestra, you know, they list out the trumpets. players, trombones, tuba, strings, saxophones. I mean, it's dope. That's really dope. And the fact that they were able to do that remotely, like, I'm wondering if they all recorded their pieces, you know, separately. That's, that's pretty cool. Good point, dude. So yeah, that was, again, the New York Chil Harmonic. And yeah, thank you, Ronnie, for sharing that one with us. We're going to move right along

to a song from our buddy Mitch. Oh man. I'm a big fan of these guys. So I want to say that this band, the record that they put out last year, was on our 2019 recap. Yes. The OC.

So these guys are longtime favorites of mine, and I know Mitchell is a massive fan. He had tickets to see him live and stuff like that this year. And dude, You want to talk about a band to see live. Oh, yeah, dude. I caught some footage of, it was some festival that they were playing. And, you know, they have two drummers, or at least they did for this performance.

And the energy and the, like, intensity that these guys bring to a performance, you know, it comes through on the record. So, as you can imagine, like, seeing them live, it's kind of like, you know, what the name of their record last year, face stabber. You know what I mean? Like your face is just getting stabbed over and over again in a good way. Yeah, dude. And these guys are ridiculously prolific, man. Yeah, it's absurd. So we're bringing a song that Mitch shared with us as one of his favorites of the year.

This is from their album Protein Threat. This is a song called If I Had My Way. These guys are really consistent to you. Like, their sound, you know, well, you were saying that they, they are super prolific, right? They've got a ton of different names that they go under, you know, that they've recorded under. Like every different variation of OCs, the OCs spelled in every different way you can imagine. But it's pretty consistent. And like, to me, what I always think about with his voice and the tone of their guitars, like that dirty, fuzzy sound,

It kind of reminds me, I'm going to throw this out there, see if you can hang with me on this, Q. You know that song, Louis Louis by The Kingsman, that really dirty kind of garage rock sound from the 60s? Yeah, yeah, dude. I feel like they get that perfectly. And then they do a really great job. This is back-to-back progressive stuff right here, Q, because the, in my chill harmonic was progressive. And the OCs, I wouldn't call this song progressive. but the OCs are also kind of a progressive rock band, too, especially face stabbard.

A super prog rock. Exactly. It was more the band cue with a face on the record. King Crimson. King Crimson style progressive, right? Anyway, but yeah, I always think of like the 60s grungy garage, not grungy. I'm mixing up my decades, but the 60s garage rock sound, but the more like the dirty side of it. For some reason, I think of Louis Louis by the Kingsman.

No, that's a good, that's a good pull, dude. I would love to hear them cover that. That'd be great. But anyway, yeah, solid track. You can always rely on Mitchell to bring the goods when it comes to music. Oh, yeah, dude. Always. One of these days, we're here.

We're going to do a country music episode. Yes. And we're going to have Mitchell on the episode, my friend. Oh, I can't wait for that, man. Yeah, he'll be bringing all the tunes for us on that one for sure. That's right. look at that. What am I looking at? I'm seeing a name hopped out of me and I'm wondering, I'm just, I can probably guess. Oh, shit. Is that the song we're playing? No, but that's awesome, dude,

that you, that you saw that. Okay. So I, people don't know what we're talking about. No. But I pulled up our next artist's, uh, Wikipedia page and I pulled up the album. So this is coming from our buddy, Mr. Tyler Darling. Well, this is why that name popped up on the record. I know, dude. Hey, you know what, you're jumping the gun, bro. Sorry. So, Tyler Darling, also known as Mr. Spoon himself, which is what I like to call him. He has a podcast called I Turn My Podcast on, where he goes album by album and covers All Things Spoon. We had him as a guest on our Dyer Straits episode, a friend of the show, super good guy.

He brought a song from an artist named Nicole Atkins, and wouldn't you know it? Britt Daniel, lead singer of Spoon, shows up on one of these songs. Not the song that we're playing. That's a shocker. You know what, dude? Maybe it's because that one with Daniel is a single and entirely knows the rules of this podcast. That's true. That's true.

All right. So we're going to play a song from, so she is just a solid singer-songwriter, super catchy stuff. here is a song from her album Italian Ice this one is called Domino everything about that dude I know dude it just makes me want to fucking go strut down the street I knew from the opening notes that I was gonna that I was gonna love that song

I really like that piano that sound that they have on that piano in the opening it's almost like a whammy bar on a piano kind of thing that's right and not to mention that killer base baseline, dude, yeah. It's funny. So we've talked about, we may have talked about this when the mics were hot, but we may not have.

Tyler is like a kindred spirit musically with us. Yeah, I did. Absolutely. I think he stumbled upon our podcast because he went through our catalog of episodes and, you know, all of the albums that we talked about like he was a big fan of kind of thing. Well, yeah, yeah, he had the idea to do that Spoon podcast, and he was like, you know what, I've got to make sure that no one, someone hasn't already done this. And we were the first podcast to show up when you typed in Spoon, which is pretty cool. But yeah, it's no surprise that I would love everything about this song because, you know, we listen to the same, the exact same type of music for the most part. I know he doesn't appreciate heavy metal like I do, but that's fine.

I also want to say too that he also suggested a song from the new Strokes album. He's a big fan of The Adults Are Talking, which is the opening track on the new Abnormal from The Strokes. Of course, we're a huge fan of that album as well, but we didn't. We decided to leave the strokes off of our lists this year. But yeah, thank you, Tyler, for sharing that one with us. And, dude, let's just knock out all of our previous guests. picks. So we're going to move down the line to one that was sent to us from our buddy Nathan

Forster. So he was on our In Rainbows episode from Radiohead, which we covered that, dude, that was still to this day the only episode where we literally played every single song on the album. Yeah, that's right. That one, that one was a doozy. Because we couldn't pick three or four songs to do like we had to. It's in rainbows, man. You got to, you got to listen to every single song. So Nathan actually had a hand in our brainstorm list for this, which I think we're going to publish on Spotify, because there's a shit ton of songs on there. Nathan brought, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen songs to our 2020 favorites brainstorm list. There's a lot of good ones, dude, but I just, I narrowed it

down to this one that I really likes. This is the one we're going to play. So let's go. So let's give a refresher on the man and the myth. Exactly, Nathan Forster is. So we go way back, we were, I shouldn't say,

we were in a band together. I should say I was the guitar player in his band for like a hot minute. I mean, we could almost say you were a guest rhythm guitar. Yeah. I pretended to be a musician for a couple of weeks. It was a little bit more than that.

But I was, I played guitar in a band with him called Grass Fight. And he is the lead singer guitar player for Grass Fight. I might be wrong on this, but I don't believe Grass Fight is still together. I might be dead wrong on that. But Nathan Forster has a, you know, a bunch of different music projects that he's kind of, he dabbles with in and out of, and Grass Fight just might be an hold or hiatus, just something like that. But anyway, so one thing that I credit him for is. turning me on to

Radiohead in the way that I'm a fan of Radiohead now versus just like a casual listener. Yeah. So we had him on our radiohead episode where we talked about in the rainbows.

He could have been on every single one of him because he's a radio head like expert, you know, but anyway. So that's who Mr. Nathan Forster is. Yes. And I am going to bring a song

from a seven piece Canadian art punk band. These guys are weird, dude. It's a band called Crack Cloud. They had an album that came out this year called Payne Olympics. This one's a doozy, dude. So here is a song again from Crack Cloud. The song is called Post-Truth, Perinthases, Birth of a Nation. Nathan is still taking me to school, you know. That's great, man. Really unique. Yeah. Here's what I love about rock music, indie music, whatever. you want to call this.

I feel like rock is starting to experiment again. Like, you know what I mean? Like bands are starting to get more experimental with their sound. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like from the OCs to, you know, a band like this or that band that we started with. Yeah. Progressive rock, if you want to call it that, like the kind of rock music that incorporates

little flourishes of like a quarter of like a quarter of. like a choir operatic type thing like that, you know? Yeah, it's whatever. Yeah, really cool, man. And that's another mega, mega band, right? How many people are in this band? Like six. Six?

That's not the photo I'm looking at. There's like 12 people standing here. But it's probably seven, seven piece. Seven piece. Okay, well, they must work with a bunch of different. They must collaborate with a bunch of people because I'm, I'm saying here 20 member. after comprising over 20 members with seven of those dedicated. Says alongside the seven touring members,

a large number of multimedia artists are also associated with the crack cloud project. Yeah. Due to its strong focus on visual storytelling. Well, shit, man, they don't even need any visuals. That song was pretty vivid on its own, you know what I mean? Well, yeah. And like, it's just a bummer, dude, that like the year where concerts were canceled, we had all this great stuff coming out that just demands,

be seen live, you know? Yeah. So I'm looking forward to loading up 2022, maybe, if we want to look that far out with concerts. Oh, yeah. I do. Yeah, I'm just going to be, I'm going to be on a crack cloud flowing around. You know, that's how, I don't know what that means. I guess I'm going to be, I'm going to be cracked out on concerts. You know what I mean? I do know what you mean, dude. All right, let's move along. This is another song brought to us from a previous guest. Joel Fruth was on our episode about the emo darlings, Ethan Durel. That was a great show, man.

He reminisced on the glory days of emo music in the Dallas music scene in Deep Ellum. He was a huge part of that scene in the early 2000s. And right on brand, dude, Joel brought us an awesome post-punk emo band. This is a band called Four Years Strong. They have an album that came out this year called Brain Pain. I haven't listened to the whole album, but according to Joel, he said you pick any song on the album, basically. They're all great. So, again, this is an emo band called Four Year Strong.

The song is called Get Out of My Head. Fucking love it, dude. I mean, it's just a classic emo post-punk song, you know? Yeah, man. Dude, I was going to say, while I was listening to this, I was thinking to myself, like, we're living in a great time for rock music again. Yeah, man. You know what I mean? Like, there's a lot of bands out there that are revisiting the 2000s.

the like the 2010's like emo sound. And there's bands out there that are revisiting grunge in a really great way, as we've talked about extensively. And then there's bands like Crack Cloud that are that are experimenting. You know what I mean? Like there's... It's all over the place. Yeah.

Yeah, it's every possible type of rock music that you could hope for. There's a band out there making it. You know what I mean? It's great. Yeah. Well, here's the thing about four years strong, dude. Their first album came out in 2007. So again, this is some OG.

Okay. Well, they're still going. You're still going strong. Good stuff, man. They're still going on. And there's bands, there's new bands out there that are making stuff that sounds like this. That's why it could go both ways, right? It could be a band like the strokes that are still making great music, you know?

They were the fucking the forefathers of the post-punk revival, right? Yeah, totally. Dude, I was reading a quote, this is random, but I was reading a quote from Jim Atkins of Jimmy World. There was a quote from him about that era, and he said there was basically the strokes, bands that wanted to sound like the strokes, and then us in the early 2000s. You know what I mean? Anyway, that's random.

But yeah, so it's just a good, I feel hopeful about rock music again, Q. Yeah. It was looking pretty iffy for a little while there. ever a year that we needed to fucking rock out. Yeah, man. It's this year, you know. Well, we're going to shift gears a little bit for this next one, dude. Now, this is another guy that's been going strong for years and has been consistently putting

out great stuff, really varied in his sound and what he does. Mr. Sufion Stevens. And we had a few people that shared songs from him. Nathan also posted a song of his on our brainstorm list. but this is coming from Eric Nash, also a family member of ours in the Pantheon podcast network. He's got two shows on the network, the Almost Famous Minute, where he goes minute by minute from the movie Almost Famous. I think he's almost done, dude. I think he's up in like the 70 minute range right now.

It's about to be over. You're going to have to pick another movie. He's also got a show on the network called Feels Like Weezer with his co-host, Zach Smith. It's all about Weaser Anyways, so he shared a Sufiont Stevens song From the album The Ascension, I believe, that's the album, yeah It's hard to keep track of Sufion and Steve

What he's doing, man, he's doing like five things at a time, always The song we're going to play is Ursa Major Always been a Sufion and Stevens fan, dude Man, he is just all over. over the place. Yeah, I can't say I've ever really listened to him all that much, to be honest with you. It's just one of those names that you recognize, you know. Like you said, he's been doing this for a long time. This guy. I got into him during the Michigan and Illinois era, which is the early 2000s. Yeah, I think that's the album that probably jumps out

of me if I saw the record label or if I saw the album art. Yeah, he used to do a lot more like, almost like choir heavy kind of stuff like really uh always very like orchestral and um like cinematic almost i mean this this album the ascension is no exception um he also let's see uh so eric originally sent us the song video game and so did nathan uh but that is actually a single and we're trying trying not to do singles on this on these episodes um but yeah dude one of one of the I think one of the most unique and, yeah, I'd say one of the more important singer-songwriters of our generation for sure, dude. Yeah, I think that's fair.

Good stuff. So again, that was a song from Sufion Stevens from the album, The Ascension. The song was called Earth's a Major. So that's it, dude. But guess what we're going to do, man? We're going to play another song from The Slow Rush, Tame Impala, another listener of ours. who took us to school on our grunge episode, dude, when we covered sound going. He had some opinions to share with us.

Infamous, yeah. And you know what? Nothing but respect, because this guy lived it. We were just little babies. Sure. Little kiddies. But we can, you know, we can observe it outside of it, you know? Yeah.

I'm talking about Mr. Dan former, listener of the show. Good dude. Lively debates with this guy. Just kidding. We'd never. I'm making it a larger deal than it is because, you know. Sure. It's fun to reminisce.

But he basically, he just straight up said the slow rush by Tame Impala. So he didn't give us an actual song to play. Good, because we have another one that we had queued up, Q. And here's the way I see it. Basically, he's saying every single song on this album is fucking great. And we agree. We brought the song one more year to the, I think that was on episode two of our best of 2020 episodes.

I'm going to play one of my other favorites off the record. Did she want to talk about getting up and moving and grooving, dude? Fucking hopping and squirming. I love this song, dude. The groove in this one, man, just makes you want to tap your feet. So this song is called Is It True? It's just so great. Yeah, I love the voice box that comes out on nowhere, that classic, almost like a daft punk.

It reminds me of cars. Or cars or Frampton or whatever, you know, name the band that's done it, you know. If there's going to be one artist that we were going to play two tracks from, in the span of our best of 2020 episode batches, like, of course, it's going to be Team Impala, you know. It's going to be Kevin Parker, dude, every time. Yeah. Yeah. He's just like, he's the king of. of hooks, you know.

Oh, yeah, dude. And he's everywhere, too, man. He's been producing a lot of stuff now, too. Like, everyone wants a piece of that, Kevin Parker. Yeah, he could be a producer and only be a producer if he wanted to. Oh, yeah. I'm sure that's what he'll be doing in the long term. Yeah.

But, yeah, great way to close out our episode, our 2020 Best of tracks with a banger like that one did. Yeah. So thank you, Dan Former, for suggesting Tamipaala. I mean, you know, you know us well, sir. And yeah, thank you to everyone else who shared songs with us, you know? Like, this one thing that we keep saying over and over off the mic, but we would love for this podcast to become more and more of, like, a conversation

with our listeners, you know? Like, I want to do entire episodes where we cover albums and songs, and songs shared with us from listeners. Yeah, absolutely. You know, the few times that we've been able to interact with listeners on Twitter, it always results in something great. For example, our friend of the pod, Tyler Darling, and being able to get him on the show,

one day we may be on his show, one day he may, you know, give us Bird Daniels phone number. I mean, there's all sorts of stuff that could come from. that. I mean, that's just a, yeah, just a suggestion. Yeah, just throwing that out there as a friendly reminder that we would like to have for Daniel's phone number. Because I know you have it. He's on a first name basis with the guy, you know? Yeah, so, you know, if you want to give us a number, it'd be great. But yeah, we want more interaction with our listeners because it makes the show interesting. And like you said earlier, dude,

and shout out to Ronnie again, man. Yeah. It's a fucking magic carpet ride, dude. You know? Yeah. Euphoric. You know, we just want you to make us feel good, you know. That's the reason we started this podcast is to fucking inflate the ego. No, not really. Of course. No.

We do this because we love music. We love talking about music. And obviously, we can talk to each other about music for hours and hours. There's a whole back catalog of episodes to prove that. But, you know, we want to start talking to other people out there who love music just as much as we do. So interact with us on Twitter. Fill out the contact form on our website. I don't think anybody touches that thing.

But by the way, there will be a facelift to the no-fielder website coming in the not too distant future. So we'll talk about that when it happens. But I've got some time coming up here when I work on it. That's exciting. Yeah. Cool. Because you are just a whiz at the old HTML5.

Yeah. That is, though, that is still the current version of HTML Q. You got that right. Sounds like somebody is starting to take some classes, the fact that you even knew that term to throw up me. It's not, yeah. I am. I am back in school, dude.

HTML 6 is right around the corner, dude. Oh, well. Just saying. All right, Q, so we have, as we've been doing the last few weeks, we have our final. and I think we both agreed our absolute favorite thing that happened in the world of music throughout 2020. Yes, man. And it was the gift that kept on giving. I don't even remember the origin of it, but let me paint the picture here, as I like to do.

If you're a fan of Food Fighters or Dave Grohl and you follow him on Twitter or any other social network, you have probably seen some videos pop up of Dave interacting with this British musician named Nandy Bushell, I think is how she pronounced her name. I don't know how old she is. I need to figure that out right now. But she is probably like nine or ten. I think she's ten. So Nandy Bushell is a 10-year-old amazing drummer.

She's incredible, dude. Let me tell you the first time I saw her. and this was before Dave Grohl got involved. I'm curious to know if it's the same video I saw. System of a Down. Yes, that's the same one I saw too. The first one, so she has a YouTube. I think that's how she blew up was that cover.

She has a YouTube channel where she drums along to these very well-known rock songs, right? And I don't know the origin of it, but somewhere along the line, she challenged Dave Grohl to a drum off. I think it was ever long that she covered first of the coup fighters. But I don't know when the challenge came into play. It may have even been one of those things where she did the video. Dave Grohl saw it and challenged her. I don't know. But anyway, the drum off happened and we all got to watch it happen through these videos,

you know, throughout the course of the year where, you know, she would do a song and then he would do a song that she would have to play, and then, like, it went back and forth. And, you know, she wrote a song about the drum off. Yeah. And Dave wrote a song about her, too. That's right. It was, yeah, that was the kind of thing.

It was, you know, they were kind of one-uping each other back and forth. And then it ended with Dave, you know, essentially doing a Zoom call with Nandy. And they just kind of were talking about. random stuff, right? But it was adorable. This girl is absolutely adorable. She's awesome. And dude, she is my current favorite musician. Yeah. Easily. I think, I think it's hard not to fall in love with her energy and like her. She's awesome. Fierceness that she, like when she's drumming, especially when you watch that toxicity cover. It's fucking amazing, dude. She just goes nuts, man. She just screams at the top of her lungs. Yeah, it's great, man. But anyway, but she's covered

you know, Nirvana songs. I mean, it's no wonder she showed up on Dave Girl's radar, right? Ever long. She's covered everything. Bring me the horizon. There's a cold play, Green Day. Like, she's done all these drum covers where she drums over the song, hysteria by muse. Anyway, if you don't know how this person is, go check out her YouTube channel. You'll fall in love her. They're just like everybody else has who has followed her. Anyway, so we're going to play a little clip here that she put out this video actually she put out a video in response to Dave Grohl's appearance on Stephen Colbert where he essentially like conceded the battle saying that he you know that she won basically so anyway we'll play that and you know what I'm going to do I'm

going to splice in Dave Grohl's song that he wrote for Nandy just so we can get some music Well, how about this, dude? Outro. We reacted, or at least you reacted to the Allison Shane's cover that I brought last week. Why don't we play this video? Because you haven't seen this yet. Yeah, I haven't seen this. And then we'll fade out a pro have our proper outro with the song that Dave Grohl wrote for Nandy.

Because there's a very specific reference that she makes in this video cue that I think you're going to love. I want to hear you react to that. So anyway, so this is essentially a, you're going to hear Dave Grohl talking with Stephen Colbert, and then she kind of like splices in like she's taking over the broadcast kind of thing, and then starts to just talk. So you'll get the idea. One of the few feel-good stories of this year,

she's like, ah! I challenge you to a drunk battle. She just wipes the floor. She's kicking my ass. This kid is like, kicking my butt. There's nothing I can do. She smoked you. I mean, it was...

I'll see you all in the playground after school. Oh my God, I'm going to get my ass cat. It just happened over and over, over. Sometimes you just have to concede. Defeat. My feet. The rock gods evolve. Watch you retreat.

Your legend in history will echo in time, but still you resign to a child of three years. foot nine. Sticks. Rock God be with me. I call on thee. Strum Hendrix,

slap lemmy. And sing with me, Freddy. The legendary Groh wants to jam with me. And we shall create the greatest rhapsody. Of the road, Mr. Grohl. And I can't wait to write our song together. We're not worthy. She's just amazing.

So, yeah, I'm a huge, I'm a huge, tenacious defense. So that was fucking great. Yeah, she, and she, you know, she, obviously Dave Grohl was, you know, he had a role as Satan in the pick of destiny. And she's kind of referencing that they're going to write. Travis, James. What? Clearly you're not a Tenacious D fan, brother. What did I say wrong?

Well, Dave Grohl is, he's their drummer, Tenacious D's drummer. You didn't know that? No, I actually didn't know that. So yeah, Dave Grohl is the drummer for Tenacious D, obviously. I mean, yeah. I didn't know that until just now. But, you know, he was in the movie Pick of Destiny as Satan. So she throws in that kick-ass reference for fans of Tenacious D.

A little Easter egg for us. And not to mention, what she's saying is very, it's fitting. She's saying that, and I didn't mention this earlier, but one of the things that came out of, and I called this a mile away, dude. one of the things that came out of the conference call that her and Dave had together was that they're going to

basically they're going to invite her on tour to do or to do at least one show like when they're in the UK or whatever she's going to go on stage everybody's going to lose their goddamn mind but then her and Dave are going to collaborate and do a song together so that's what she's referring to she can't wait to collaborate with Dave it's going to be the best song in the world

which is a tenacious day reference no tribute yeah so anyway she can't everything she does is amazing she's fucking adorable you just heard it right there uh we'll post a video on our our show notes page which i'm lagging behind on cube by the way i'm a few weeks behind on the website so that's all right apologies everybody no i know that no worries it's just people are just go to our website just flooded with thousands of people every day it's not the case which is why i don't often i mean last time i tried to get on the whole the server was down dude server was just

overloaded man yeah that's right um spoken like somebody who's learning how cloud computing works. Anyway, so that's that cute. That is how you wrap it up with Nandy Bushell. Really, I mean, like,

it's one of those, like, highlights of 2020, like, uplifting, like, feel good. Every time you watch her,

she just makes me feel fucking, I love it. I'm all smiles, man. Anytime a new video pops up with her energy, she's just so enjoyable to watch. And you can feel her excitement just like, oozing out, you know, of the speakers and the screen, you know what I mean?

Like her excitement and passion for music, it's great. Yeah, man. So that's it, dude. Is this going to be our last episode of the year? I think so. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, this is it, man. So, yeah, we'll be coming back at you at the beginning of 2021.

I'm not going to spill beans, dude, but we already have an idea of who we're going to kick off the new year with, which I can't wait, dude. Yeah, that's going to wait. It's going to be a good way to start the year. And then we've got some other ideas for what we're going to talk about. But, yeah, it's been fun talking about the great tracks from 2020. I'm looking forward to getting back into our normal format. A lot of good music this year, man.

I've been stashing away some what you heard's Q that I can go through now. Me too. So we'll be back with our regular format next year. So, and by that, I mean, next week. You said next year, that's such a funny joke, dude. That's your love it when people say that, hey, see you next year. See you next year. And it's like, next year's like tomorrow or whatever, when the person, it's like, wow, you're so fucking funny.

You know, I mean, I just did it. Anyway. So, yeah, hey, you can find us on Twitter at No Filler podcast. And you can find us on our website. no-filler podcast.com where you can find all of our previous episode show notes and you can listen to the episodes as well.

But yeah, every episode we list out our track lists. We list out sources if we had any sources that we cited. So if you want to learn more about the bands we talk about, check out our website. And you know what? I'm going to say you should probably follow us on Spotify

pretty soon here because we're going to have quite a bit of playlists here. Well, it's weird is our Spotify is actually my personal Spotify.

Well, shit. But I don't, hey, you know what, I don't have any, I don't have any playlists that are public

anyways, so. Okay. Except for our no filler ones, which we're about to have a few more on there. That's right. So,

you know, we may, we may start to, to utilize that a little bit more and share, just, you know, again, it's another,

another way to share music with people. That's kind of what we're all about. So yeah, I don't know how to tell people to find somebody on Spotify, but you can probably just search for no filler. If you search for no filler, you're going to see the Sum 41 album pop up, all killer, no filler. But then you'll probably find some of our playlists. So if you find one playlist, then you can then follow our user account, which is actually Quentin. Turns out.

That's my account. So there you go. Anyway. Yeah, and hey, you can also find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network. That is a music-centered network of shows, and we're part of the family. Lots of good music-centered episodes in the network. That is Pantheonpodcasts.com. And that's it, dude.

That is a wrap on 2020. And again, we're going to fade out with Dave Grohl's. tribute song to Nandy Bushal. With a special appearances by his daughters, I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a great moment, man. Her face is like just, like her jaws just dropped the whole time. I know.

I love it, man. That's great. All right, that's going to do it. Shout out again to Ronnie, Dan, Tyler, Joel, Nathan, Mitch. Did I get them all? I think I got them all, dude. Did you guys? Shut out Ronnie.

Oh, we had to. She was the first one. I should. Can't forget about it. Yeah. Thank you for sharing those songs with us. This episode would not have happened without you. All right. That's going to do it. My name's Quentin. My name is Travis.

Y'all take care. I'm sure it's epic. Let's see what he's been up to. Okay, Nandy. You got me. You win round one. But I got something special for you. Something you've never heard before.

Something I've never heard before, because I'm about to write this off the top of my head, or you.