No Filler Music Podcast - Not So Dumb: The Forgotten Alt-Rock Gems From The Dumb & Dumber Soundtrack

Episode Date: May 3, 2021

From sitcom reboots to the return of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, if you grew up in the 90s you can't take a step these days without falling into a rabbit hole of never-ending nostalgia. For us, the beloved slapstick buddy comedy Dumb & Dumber is a film we watched over and over again throughout our youth, and it's no exaggeration to say the 90's alt-rock soundtrack helped shape our musical journey from a young age. Join us as we explore some more tunes from the bands behind the film's now iconic soundtrack. Tracklist: The Sons - Too Much of a Good Thing Green Jelly - The Bear Song Green Jelly - Carnage Echobelly - Insomniac Echobelly - Taste of You Gigolo Aunts - Where I Find My Heaven Gigolo Aunts - Lemon Peeler The Lupins - Take The Primitives - Crash This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From festive and cozy fashion to lux beauty and fragrance sets, our special selection has something for every style and price point. Visit our Holtz holiday shop and store or online at Holtrenfrew.com. And welcome 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 sometimes our favorite movie soundtracks, Q, because that's what we're doing today. If you're a fan of Dumb and Dumber, you may recognize that song from the soundtrack. And that's what we're doing today, Q, we're talking about maybe the best rock and roll soundtrack of all time.

No, I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that at all. But it's definitely one of those soundtracks that you remember, as much as you remember the film, you remember the music from the film. At least I do. Yes. I feel like the music was such an integral part of the road trip type film that this was, right? Which, you know, come to think of it, dude, the early 90s had its fair share of road trip comedies, you know, like Tommy Boy. Yeah.

Even Black Sheep, which was another Chris Farley film that was pretty much the same movie as Tommy Boy. Right. But that was a thing, dude, in the early 90s. So this one came out in 94. And, yeah, this is one of those movies, dude. For us, I mean, we watched it dozens of times every year. So last year we did a batch of episodes on the music of John Hughes films, right? And we must have said the same thing about Ferris Bueller's Day Off that we watched that.

movie countless times, right? Yeah, we covered quite a few Hughes tunes, as we call it. We covered a few of his films, but yeah, out of all of them, Ferris Fueler is the one that, I mean, it's on the same level as dumb and dumber as far as like, yeah, movies that we could, that we know like the back of our hand kind of thing, like we could quote it to each other. Yeah. We won't, we won't do that. We won't do that to you, but, but yeah, there's just something about,

probably in the same in the same way that john hues was very much involved in the selection of films that went or the selection of music that went into his films i bet you the fairly brothers were similar it really seems like it yeah dude yeah um there is another movie there's that i really like called kingpin and yeah same thing dude lots of great music um do you remember that guy i was about to bring up something about mary because and his fucking name escapes me at the moment but I brought him as a watcher heard

not that long ago he's the guy that's sitting up in the tree yeah yeah I have to I gotta get his name here dude one second right so I mean speaking of like music being integral

integral to the film I mean something about Mary like you said this guy is like a a narrator type character right that shows up throughout the film and he's just singing Jonathan Richmond is his name yeah yeah he's just singing

singing kind of like, you know, singing the story, right? Yeah, yep. Because he shows up in a tree, like he said, he's just singing in a tree about what's going on. And Jonathan Richmond shows up as he's like lead singer in a band that's playing in some little dive bar in the movie Kingpin. So yeah, very similar to John Hughes. Obviously, Fairleigh brothers are huge music fans and they like to bring in music that they

enjoy and throw it in the film. And very much like, the way that they, that John Hughes would use the new wave artists and stuff like that because that's what was going on at the time. I feel like Fairley Brothers in this movie in particular is kind of similar where they, you know, not only did they have just bands from the 90s, all rock bands for the 90s, but they had a couple of bands put out singles just for the movie soundtrack, which is crazy to me. Well, yeah, and it's, it is also kind of, you know, and we're looking back on the film now, but it kind of seems like a lot of these bands are one and done artists, I feel like, that didn't really go anywhere

significantly in their career. You know, the majority of these artists are very obscure. Yeah. So like the two singles that were put out for this record is New Age Girl by Dead I Dick. It's a great song. Which charted at 27 in the U.S. which is crazy to think that a rock song written specifically for a movie soundtrack would chart. I mean, I think that happened a lot more frequently back in the day, but it doesn't really happen anymore. And then Crash Test Dummies version of the Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, which actually had a music video that featured Jeff Daniels playing Harry in the music video, which is great. That's funny.

Again, things that just don't happen anymore. Music videos just aren't a thing, really. Yeah. I think they're still out there, but they're not as like. They're not used the same way anymore. They're not as, yeah, they're not as cultural as they were, like, as far as, like, You know, obviously, total request live, MTV. The era of the music video is long gone, right?

All right. Anyway, so let's get into it here. So do you want to give a brief summary of the film just for fun? If you haven't seen Dumb and Dumber, you're probably younger. You're probably like a Gin Z ear that listens to our podcast because I feel like if you're from our generation, you've seen Dumb and Dumber. And if you haven't, then maybe you just don't like this. style of slapstick humor that kind of came and went in the 90s.

I honestly feel like it holds up pretty well. There's something about this film, dude. It holds up. Yeah. It's got a lot of heart. So yeah, we, you know, we're not going to go over the plot line of the film or anything like that. All you got to know is that it was Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.

And, you know, it was just your typical, like you said, this was kind of a formula of 90s buddy comedies was this road trip type. film, right? And this is one of those types of films. That's what you need to know. We're going to focus on the music and I want to kind of dive into, you know, how music that you hear in films or, you know, just music that you heard growing up, how much it can shape like your taste of music going forward, you know? I feel like this film was one of those moments for us. Really shaped the kind of music that I'm into now. This is the kind of stuff I think about all the time, Q. I've talked about on the show how I feel like early video game music. By early, I mean, the stuff I was playing

in the 90s. So Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, Shinobi. Yeah. Super Nintendo and on Sega Genesis. Sega Genesis, yeah. Mostly for us. Probably contributed to my appreciation and love for electronic music. Because when you listen back to it, that's what it was. You know what I mean? And there's a whole genre of music and dare I say it, once more. dude, hypnotogic pop that is completely built around that idea of our generation, you know, just clinging on to that nostalgic love for, for video game scores. Yeah, they call it chip tune. There are artists out there that make nothing but that type of music.

Yeah. That's why, right? Because it's nostalgic, like you said. But, you know, same with movie soundtracks. Like when you're a kid and you watch a movie over and over again and you hear the music, it's going to have an effect on you, right? So like what you're saying, like, it shapes that, you know, it's the, it's music that you're listening to without choosing to listen to it.

It's like you're seeking it out. Like, you're watching, you're watching the film. The music is just part of the film, but like, it's got to have an effect on you. And I think it did, like you said, like, I think it did. There's a reason we like this soundtrack. It's 90s rock music, you know? Yeah. So do you want to quote that, that tweet?

Yeah. We saw this tweet that stood out to us by this duo named Field Music. They said, taste in music isn't a moral choice. It represents when you were born, whether you had brothers or sisters, what your parents listened to, what your relationship with your parents was like, who your friends are, where you live, your taste and music is the story of your life. that really like spoke to us. Yeah, I love that, man.

Because it describes our relationship to music perfectly. Yeah. And this movie is part of our life, dude. We were around seven years old when this came out. We watched it every summer. I mean, every year we watched it over and over and over. So this music is part of the story of our life. Part of the soundtrack of our lives, yeah, for sure.

Yeah. And the funny thing is like we took road trips with our family. we had a van. I wanted to bring this up, dude. I'm glad you did. Go ahead. I don't want to cut you off here. We had a, yeah, so we had a, you know, we had a minivan. And this was the days before they had the little flat screens that folded out from

from the top of the ceiling, you know, in the van. Right, right, right. So our dad would put the old CRT TV in the back. You got these converters and like power adapters and stuff to get it to where we could plug in a TV. and our video game system. Yeah. And a VHS player? Yeah, I think it might have been one of those TVs that had a VHS built into it.

Yeah. VCR built into it. But yeah, we watched this film on a road trip, which was perfect. I remember that. I think that was a road trip to Disney. Colorado. No, I think it was to Colorado. Okay.

Which is funny because that's where they're heading to in the movies. That is funny, dude. Dude, they're headed to Aspen in the movie. Fucking meta, right? Anyway. All right, dude, let's play some tunes. Let's do it. So, yeah, similar to our John Hughes episodes, we're going to play a song.

So we got like three or four bands here. We're going to play the song from that band that showed up on the film. And then we're going to play another song from the band, if possible, on the same record that the one fidget in the film was on. And a non-single. Because it's no filler. And a non-single, yeah. So basically it's like, hey, these bands that you may remember from Dumb and Dumber, here's some other stuff that they did.

Yeah, and this song that was played for literally five seconds in the film that you barely heard any of, we're going to listen to a little bit more of it. Exactly. All right. So are we going to start with Echo Belly? Did they show up first in the film? I think Green Jelly does. Green Jelly.

Okay. Well, this is a funny song to start with. So this band, I looked them up a little bit briefly because they're kind of goofy. but it's this punk metal kind of band I guess is what you could call them I'd call them a party band for sure party punk they've got they've got like a hardcore punk vibe to them but they're definitely one of those bands that you know they've got a gimmick to them right so like if you look at photos of them they wore like these costumes and stuff apparently the story is that they they saw gore you know the band of gore oh yeah

And we're like, hey, we should do that. So they started making costumes and stuff. Dude, do you remember, were you there for this? I was, this was one of those like weird two universes colliding in the same time and place where I was at a Matt Pond PA concert. I may have been there with you, brother. Was it in downtown, and Deep Ellum? Yeah, I was in Deep Ellum. Bellum. It was at the

the Gypsy Tea Room. Yeah, I was there with you, dude. We saw them and, uh, oh, what was the name of the other band? Youth Group. Yeah. Holy shit, man. Youth Group. Okay, yeah. Go ahead. Sorry. So you remember with Gypsy Tea Room, next door was Gypsy Ballroom. Gwar was playing at the same time next door. What? At the Gypsy Ballroom. And like, Matt Pompeii is this like soft, like, folky pop indie thing.

Oh, they're the, they're definitely quiet as the new loud. kind of band. Yeah, exactly. Same era. And then next door was Gwar and it was like this weird. Can you imagine the two groups

of people that were at that location? People like us, we were in high school. Polar opposites. Polar opposites. Anyway, so here's a band that you would also say is the opposite

of Matt Pompier. Here is the song that was featured in the film. It's called The Bear song. I really like that song. dude. It's a, dude, it's a fun song, man. I would... So that's a nursery rhyme. That's just lyrics to a nursery rhyme. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like some sort of like an Irish ditty, probably not. That's... Yeah. But yeah, it's a, um, like you see, a party, party band, man. I would love, imagine seeing

them in their heyday back in the day. Oh, I'm sure that they were a blast. Yeah, so this is off the record three, three, three, came out in 1994. So again, brand new song when Dumb and Dumber came out, brand new record. Now, do we want to mention the scene that was going down? I don't remember the scene Q. I'll do it, dude. I got it right here. I got the notes.

Oh, you got the notes. So this was when they're at that Dante's Inferno restaurant, and they're putting all those super, super spicy peppers, those atomic peppers in his burger. Yeah. And he's in the restroom. So they're pranking him by putting these spicy peppers in his burger. And then, yeah. Yeah, this is a guy with the ulcer.

The hench man with the ulcer. Yeah. And he keels over and dies after eating that burger. What does Lloyd say or Harry's like, why don't you eat up and we'll tell you? He's trying to get him to eat the burger. Because they were just trying to prank him, you know. Yeah, they didn't realize that he had a condition that I could turn things south real quick if he eats a pepper. Anyway, so, Q, you and I were talking about some of the album art for this band. And, you know, they try to make it look like it's the cover of a comic

book, right? That's kind of their thing. It really gives me some trauma film vibes. Yeah, you were saying Toxic Avenger. Yeah, Toxic Avenger. It also looks like the Cabbage Patch Kids, or no, sorry, not the Cabbage Patch Pais, the Garbage Pale Kids, yeah.

It's in that style. But, uh, cool album art, man. Totally. All right, we're going to play another song off this record. Uh, this is actually the opening track. It's called Carnage Rules. Dude, I love it, man. It's just so, like, Like, the lyrics are so cheesy.

Yeah, and it's the kind of lyrics that some, like, some teenager would write, you know, some, like, corny ass. I mean, listen to this. All day long, I'm completely insane. Crashing and smashing like a hurricane. It's just so, like, you know what I mean? I mean, dude, this is the kind of music that, like, oh, what was the name of the, the satanic panic? Yeah, satanic panic. Like, this is the stuff that your parents feared you would get your hands on.

This is nothing compared to the song that we cut from last week's episode. Oh, the redacted episode. That's why it's called the redacted edition of What You Heard. I brought a song with lyrics that Quentin advised, you know, we probably shouldn't play this. It's the lyrics and the delivery of the vocal delivery. It was just a very disturbing song. You want to mention the artist in songs, so people, if they want to check it up. Yeah, if you want to listen to a deleted song, a deleted segment from No Filler, What You Heard.

Listen at your own risk. Let's say that. But there is a song that I stumbled upon called Dallas Beltway by a band called Chat Pile. It's about some fucked up stuff. So listen at your own risk. It brought us down. So we said, you know, let's cut this out. Yeah.

And the lead singer is wasted while singing it. Or he's very performative in the way he delivers it. Or he's very performative. But yeah, he's slurring. his words, he's drunk off his ass, sounds like, in the studio. Just, yeah, very disturbing song. That's a tangent. That would also be a song that your parents would definitely not want you to get

your hand on. Yeah, that, yeah. This kind of stuff here, that's what I'm saying, this is reated PG-13. Listen, all you fools, don't you know that carnage rules? That's what I'm saying. It's so, like, corny, dude. I mean, dude, and I listen to a good chunk of this album, the majority of them are just just cheesy, dude.

You don't have to have but two, like, stones that you can rub together inside your brain in order to even, like, you know, you show up and you party. That's what this band's all about. Yeah, it's a party band. I was reading the bio on the Spotify page from them. This is interesting. I've never heard of this before. They were signed by a label called Zoo Records as a video only band.

What? I don't know that was a thing. Video only. Like, yeah, we'll sign you guys, but we're only going to fund videos, maybe. Is that kind of how that works? Like, you have to release your own music and shit, like on your own, put out your own music, but, like, we'll pay for videos, maybe. Well, speaking of videos, dude, I'm right in here that Carnage, the song we just played,

was the theme song for the 1994 video game, Spider-Man and Venom, Maximum Carnage. Oh, man. With the song itself being based off the Marvel character, Carnage. well there we go okay there we go oh okay maybe maybe well you know this takes on a whole new meeting that crashing and smashing squash any spider hanging by a thread

oh my god they're geniuses actually boom okay well that's cool that's even that's even better all right well anyway that was a band called green jelly we're gonna move on to our next pick from the dumb and dumber soundtrack so here's the deal dude I wanted to try to go in order of the film but we already messed up because I wanted to play this tiny little

like 30-second little theme music from the original score. And this happens pretty damn early on in the film. I want to play it. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. So I found out that Todd Rundgren is the name of the artist who actually did the original score for the film. Now, dude, wasn't that the name of the artist that our dad brought a song to the table?

That sure sounds familiar. Yeah. Yeah. It is. That is him, yeah, because he played a song off of his record, something, anything, you know, in 1972. Here he is, fucking 22 years later, writing music. Doing scores for movies.

For Dumb and Dumber. Yeah. Yeah. So, very similar with John Hughes, well, Ira Newborn, I guess. Yeah. I was wondering about that. Yeah. You know that song in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and it.

keeps cutting back and forth between Cameron and Ferris. And that, like, New Wave, really, like, synthy music that cuts when it cuts to Cameron in bed. Yeah. That, I feel like, had a really big impact on the kind of music that I like listening to. Same with this style of music. We're going to play it, just a little bit of it. So this is, like, right after the opening credits, where they're both coming home from work, and they both had gotten fired.

Lloyd gets fired as a limo driver. Harry gets fired as a dog groomer. So they're down under luck. It's the shaggin wagon, dude. It's the shaggin wagon. This is the music that's playing when they get home and they're kind of talking about their shitty days. So cue it up, brother.

That's it? Yeah, that's it. Man. That's it, dude. It's funny that you decided to... The funny thing is, like, that is one of the songs that to me is like, Oh yeah, dumb and d'ar, you know, even though it's 20 seconds long or whatever. Yeah.

But the reason I wanted to play it tonight. I want to hear a whole album of that from Todd Rundgren. Yeah. Well, yeah, like it's that reverby guitar. It's the synth. It's the simplicity of it. I don't know, dude. I feel like that very well could have shaped our growing minds as music lovers, too.

The 20 seconds. I love that sound. And it reminds me of that I were newborn song. in a way from when Cameron is sick in bed So it's just like you said Like there's 20 seconds Where's the whole track

You know he did more than 20 seconds For sure Somewhere So this is the actual score from the film And that's all I got for that dude There's a little taste A little taste of Todd Rundgren Let's take a quick break

All right Let's move on to the next artist here So this is going to be The scene When they're in the cafe Harry and Lloyd, they're sitting down. They're always in cafes. This is the second cafe scene.

That's true. But that's what you do when you're on a road trip, Q. And they are about to meet Seabass, which is just a random guy that's sitting like two booths behind them, just some trucker guy. And Harry throws an entire salt shaker over his shoulder because Lloyd said that he needs to throw some salt over his left shoulder for good luck or something.

Hits this guy's sea bass, and it's on. So I'm going to say about it. it, dude. This song is playing in the background. Let's just say that the Seabass is a real asshole, dude. Kick his ass, Seabass. He hawks a lugie in a burger that was about to be enjoyed by Harry. Yeah. All right.

Yeah, so this band, and we, I think we both agreed that of all the artists that we sort of dove into, I was most impressed with this record. Yeah. This is a band called Echo Belli. And, yeah, so we're going to play the song from the film. filmed first. Yeah, so this record is called Everyone's Got One, came out in 1994, no surprise. And this song is called Insomniac. Yeah, so like that, I don't think you actually get to hear that chorus in the film. You really just get the opening guitar riff. Right, right. But yeah. So, you know, they kind of remind me of like

cranberries or something like that, some other, and I'm only saying that because, you know, she's a female rock singer. that has sort of this accent that she sort of incorporates in the song a little bit. I was getting some Bjork vibes. Okay. Yeah, maybe more so the sugar cubes, which is that band that Bjork was in before she did her solo stuff. But yeah, so this was actually a single. Ensomiac was a single, it was a second single off the record. I really enjoyed this record, dude.

Yeah, it's good. So let me just say a little bit about the artist here. So her name is Sonia Madon, or Madden, born in India. raised in Britain defy many of the lyrical conventions of the scene, the Brit pop scene, which is important. And yeah, their music is sort of inspired, guitars inspired by the Smiths, which you can definitely hear throughout the record. Yes, I was thinking that too, dude.

Glam and New Wave. Yes. Same with the way that she sings. It kind of, it's a little bit more. She does sing like Morrissey. They put out this record, everyone's got one in 94. And another one called On in 1995, both of them reached the UK top 10. So they were pretty successful over in the UK.

So yeah, let's play another tune from this record. I liked Taste of View. You want to play that one? Taste of You. All right, here we go. One thing I took away from this little exploration of the bands on this soundtrack is that Echo Belly, is fucking great, man. Like, this was a really good record.

and I would recommend listening to it out there if you're, I would highly recommend it, dude. I enjoyed every single track on this record. Yeah, it was good. And I'm going to have to play the next record too on. I'll have to queue that up for tomorrow maybe. But yeah, like I was saying earlier, and you were saying Bjork, but I was very much reminded of the lead singer of Cranberries.

I'm going to give her name, Dolores Oroydian. Reordin? Oroiden. It's, I mean, it's definitely, it's Irish. So it's, oh, a right, whatever. Riredon. Ooh, I like that. We're probably saying that wrong.

God damn it. If you're Irish and you're listening, tell us how we, how we butcher that. Apologies, apologies. But anyway. Yeah, very much so in the vocal delivery. So I'm going to read something here that stood out to me because it kind of describes this band, not green jelly. Green jelly was like an anomaly on the record.

But there's a guy named Cameron Matthews who writes for Vice magazine, Vice website. He said he described the soundtrack as a perfect slice of the mid-90s sound, bubbly pop rock with jangly chords and just enough grit, which I think describes Echo Belly perfectly. Gritty for sure. Or also known as the thing you can give your kids when they one day ask you, what the 90s were like. I would say this film and the soundtrack

is a good explanation of what the 90s were like, right? But yeah, that's a really good description of this collection of 90s tunes, right? It's just a really good snapshot of like the 90s rock type sound with a good range. Because like, you know, also featured on the film, it's not on the official soundtrack,

but the butthole surfers are on there. Yeah, and they're doing a cover of a Donovan song. They heard a hurdy-gurdy man, yeah, Donovan. That's right. So, yeah, there's just, you know, like we said, crash test dummies, multiple times actually on here. The Primitives Crash, that's another one of our favorite songs, but I couldn't find any other good song by the primitives that I wanted to play, dude. But that song's classic. I think we should have that as our outro.

But hey, let's play that second half of the song I wanted to. to share. Yeah, so let's play the, let's play the outro of the song here. Talking about, dude. Yeah, and it fades into Insomniac, the first song that we did there. Yeah.

It's just, credit goes out to the other band members, too, because it's just really solid. Yeah, dude. Musicianship and just, it's a really good mixture of the kind of heavier side of alt rock and like the jangly kind of stuff,

like they were seeing the vice guy was saying, the jangly Brit pop type stuff. So yeah, really solid. Yeah, and I think it's a good transition into like the other side of 90s alt rock with this next band we're going to play Gigolo Ants. I got to say, man, this is probably one of my favorite tracks on the soundtrack. Me too. Or at least one that I have a heavy, heavy nostalgia for.

For some reason. So this is the scene where Lloyd picks up Harry on a little motorbike. that he trades their crappy shagginwagon van. He trades it straight up for a motorbike. Yeah, I mean, as he says, the bike's better for traveling. Yeah. And Harry hops on the bike and they two-person it all the way to Aspen. And it's kind of a montage scene, I guess.

It just shows them kind of driving through on their way to Colorado. And it shows him driving through like the Rocky Mountains and all this. you know, things are looking up, right? They make it to Colorado. Yeah, because they, you know, they had sort of a falling out over some stuff. Well, yeah, Lloyd drove a sixth of the way in the wrong direction while Harry was asleep. Because he was having daydreams about doing some kung fu on some dude. Rip in a heart out and stuff.

Yep. So Harry's pretty upset with him. One of my favorite visuals from the movie is just they cut to him sitting in the field with his butt cracking. I don't know why. It's just funny. It's stupid, but it's hilarious. Yeah.

I mean, they're kind of arguing about the whole situation. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. So let's play some jiggleo ants. This is a great example of just, I mean, one might call it a cookie cutter band, dude, from that time. But if we were to put this on like the rock and roll scale of the 90s, right, you've got Grange on one side. And then you've got bands like Paleris.

aka, not aka, like the Legion of, what were they called? His first project that we talked about, Miracle Legion. Yes. But yeah, or you could even say some of the stuff that R.E.M. was doing. I don't want to compare Gigalo ants to R.M. Because they're never close. But I mean, it's that side. I think it's Gigolo, brother.

Gigolo. Yeah, you're right. Jigolo. I kept saying it. It's Gigolo, definitely. That's how you see that word. It's jigolo. But anyway, it's more on the lighter side, if you will, of the scale of 90s rock, right? Yeah. But yeah, let's listen to it here. This song is called Where I Find My Heaven.

Like we were saying, just cookie cutter. I was reminded of breakfast at Tiffany's Deep Blue something. But yeah, there you go. That's the other side of the rock coin, if you think about it, like garage. Yeah, definitely. But yeah, just innocent type of lyrics, you know. Alternative, pop rock, whenever you want to call it. Alt rock.

But just a solid track. Like I was saying, if it wasn't for the film, I probably would have no interest in the song. I think it would be. I'd still be bobbing my head along today. Sure, sure. But there is some good stuff on this record. So we are going to play, we're going to play one more track here from them. So what's the name of the album?

I don't think we... The name of the album is called flipping out. Okay. It came out, of course, in 1994. And that's kind of what I was saying. Like, all of the music that you hear on Dumb and Dumber, not all of it. Most of it came out the same year the film came out. So much like John Hughes, who would work with and seek out and try to feature new bands, right?

Rather, probably very obscure at the time, bands, yeah. Yeah. I don't know if the same can be said for some of these artists that, like, hey, you know, the Fairley Brothers put us on the map. You know what I mean? maybe. I mean, it sounds like, you know, crash test dummies put out a music video featuring Jeff Daniels.

So that probably, their inclusion in the film probably helped them a little bit. And that's probably true for some of these. Yeah, I think so. How many people picked up the soundtrack and then dove into the bands that were featured on the soundtrack because they liked what they heard? Probably a lot. Anyway, so yeah, let's play another track here from Gigolo Ants. I'm going to keep saying Giglo

for some reason. For whatever reason. I know the word jiggleau. We're going to play a song called Lemon Peeler. I think he's singing about a motorcycle. I think so. Yeah.

Or bike. He called it the lemon peeler. He said put a baseball card through the spokes. So, I mean, that makes me think it's bicycle, right? Yeah. But anyway, again.

Haven't lived until you ride, dude. If he's literally talking about riding a bicycle, doesn't get any more tame than that, right? But that's... Well, maybe he's singing, he's thinking back to his childhood the first time he got a bicycle.

Maybe that's something that he said to his strengths. You haven't lived until you've taken a ride on this bicycle. Until you've taken a ride on my lemon peeler. Yeah. But I will say, for me at least, the majority of the songs in this album are pretty unforgettable. You mean pretty forgettable? You said unforgettable. Oh, pretty forgettable.

Yeah. Again, if we were to recommend one album to check out, it's that Echo Belly album that we play at a couple tracks. For sure. For sure. But again, a decent track. a good snapshot of a dime a dozen bands in the 90s that were putting out music like that, right? Yeah.

But yeah. I like where I find out. That's just the bottom line. I wanted to play that song. The funny thing is there's a picture on Spotify of one of the band members wearing a Dio Beanie, which means they at least grew up listening to metal. Didn't make its way through to their music, but anyway. Definitely not.

Kind of mellowed them out, maybe. They went the opposite way. I mean, that's a kind of hard rock and lick on Lemon Peeler. Good track for sure. There was another song. What was it that I mentioned? You said it was technically a single that I really liked. It was a single, yeah.

Bloom. Bloom, that's a good song. Yeah. Cope is the one I wanted to play, and that was another single. And then you focused on the other single, Bloom. That's funny, dude. Go figure, right? All right.

Well, I think we have another track. At least I wanted to play this track. I couldn't find, I looked on YouTube. because YouTube sometimes has stuff that Spotify doesn't have. I was trying to find another song from this band because, you know, we're trying to play what you heard in the movie and another one. I couldn't find another track from these guys.

But I really like this song. I don't want to play. I want to play the track from the movie. This band is called The Lupins. And the scene that this song was featured in is Harry and Lloyd are stopping for gas. And Harry is talking to that girl while he's pumping the gas. With the skis, dude, I love that exchange, man.

Yeah, and then he sets himself on fire. Are those your skis? Yeah. Both of them? Right. So this song is called Take by the Lupins. Solid tune. It's a banger, dude.

I love that song. I wish I could find more music from these guys. They put out some records, but I can't find it. I mean, you got to like... You're going to have to go to a record store, brother. That's what I'm saying. I got to start digging. Flip through the CDs,

the CDs, right. Yeah. So do you know at least when that song came out? Was that another 94 track? It seems like it was released for the film. Okay. So at least digging through their discogs. I mean, it could be, dude, the lyrics are like, you know, take my car, take it to the outside,

drive it to the outside world. Yeah. You never know. I mean, I think that's weird, man, that so many of these bands wrote songs specifically for the film. But I guess that, I think that was more common. back in the 90s you know right now it's like hey can you can you write a song for this new bond film you know like that's something that still happens right and like hey maybe can you write a

song for this Lego movie or something but like other than that I feel like it bands don't obscure bands definitely don't because movies are like who's the who's the big name now you know let's get them to do a song but anyway there's a couple of releases around that time that early 90s that they put out according to discogs. But I do not see take on any of these. Anyway, I like the song that had kind of like a punk, punk vibe to it. Just the vocals at least. Anyway.

So yeah, that was the Lupin's. That song was called Take. And I think that's it, man. That's it, dude. There are tons of other artists featured on this movie. So we barely scratched the surface. Oh, the cats are here. We barely scratched the surface.

And there's a lot of good tunes to be heard, man. So if you wanted to pull it up on Spotify, you can listen to playlists that were put together. You can actually find the original soundtrack to you on here. But if you really wanted to hear and get a more definitive list, there's a website called tunefind.com that we reference sometimes. Yeah, we've used it before. for our John Hughes tunes.

Yeah, it's more of a definitive, like, you know, if you want to go beyond the official soundtrack releases and stuff like that and like, hey, this song appeared for 10 seconds and it was playing in the background on a radio in the background of this scene. Yeah, it's very cool, very cool. And it also has like brief descriptions of each scene as well. The scene, yeah. Anyway, all right, so that's that.

We're not going to keep this up. We're not going to keep doing soundtracks. we just thought since we were doing some 90s rock this soundtrack has always stood out to us was like kind of like that guy from vice was saying it's just a really good snapshot of 90s rock the funny thing is there's not a single grun song on this entire record so this is right when grunge hit dude but it's a good snapshot of like

the alt rock side the lighter side yeah for sure and then you got bands like green jelly showing up just kind of yeah for shits and grins Are we playing Crash is our closing song? Yeah, I want to close with Crash. Yeah, that's a good call. That's another iconic one for me. Like, just always, always remember that song because of Dumb and Dumber, of course. Yeah, definitely.

Yeah, so that's a song by the Primitives. So, Travis, do you want to cover the Cranberries next? Yes. Good call, man. I feel like it's been a long time coming. Good call. And we referenced them a couple times. So, yeah, let's do the Cranberries next.

Maybe we'll do something where we play a few tracks here and there off of some some of their records or we'll pick we'll see i'm gonna have to i'm gonna have to dive back into these guys for a little bit i'm gonna have to listen to some of these albums for the first time dude you've dove into them more than i was ready to do this this episode a while back because i i had prepared myself i had some songs picked out i'll i'll circle back and um maybe we'll do like one from each of their first three records or something like that right because like everybody else is doing it so why can't we came out in 93 that had dreams linger and then then their album after that, no need to argue, 94, same era that we've been talking about, had zombie on it, right?

Probably another, probably this is another single on here. Anyway, so yeah, we'll do cranberries next week. That'll be fun. Talk about another iconic 90s band. And we'll see what happens after that. We may stick in the 90s. We may hop around. All right, so, hey, man, where can you find this, Q?

You can find us on Twitter At No Filler Podcast I'm going to say our website's under construction dude I know you want to maybe revamp it I want to just rip it up to start it up to shreds Shout out to us on Twitter Send us a tweet or a message if you'd like We will absolutely get back to you

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And, yeah, we're going to fade out with. A song called Crash that is featured on the movie Dumb and Dumber by The Primitives, and that's going to do it. Until next week, thank you as always for listening. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. Y'all take care. It was the night before the gathering and all through the house.

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