No Filler Music Podcast - Sidetrack: Feist - Leisure Suite

Episode Date: March 10, 2018

On this week's Sidetrack we take a look at Feist's second studio album ​Let It Die ​with a quick listen ​​​of track 5, "Leisure Suite". Feist also appears in a couple tracks on Kings of Convenience's ​Riot On An Empty Street​, which was covered on last week's No Filler episode. We intro this Sidetrack with a clip from "Know How", which features Feist's vocals. For more info, check out the shown notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/ep-7-kings-of-convenience-riot-on-an-empty-street#sidetrack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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riot on an empty street. And we're going to talk a little bit about Feist today, who is featured on a couple tracks on that album. And we're going to dive a little bit into her 2004 studio album, Let It Die, which was recorded in Paris between 2002 and 2003. So, Travis, give me that backstory, brother. I want to hear it. Well, I'm not sure exactly how it went down.

But it sounds like she recorded Let It Die in Paris. After she was done recording it, she moved to Paris. And while she was in Europe, she collaborated with the Kings of Convenience. And ended up co-writing a couple of songs, like you just said, one of which we played last week, the buildup. And what you heard in the intro to this episode was the second song that she collaborated on which is called know-how. So, again, I'm not exactly sure how they met up, how they got together.

But yeah, she really added something special to that album. I think so too. Yeah, and they don't have other female singers. I mean, they don't have any other singers, period. Yeah, exactly. That's the only time they collaborated with another singer, which, you know, So there's a lot about Feist, you know. Dude, I just read this on Wikipedia.

I did not know this. Can you tell that we're not prepared for this one? We're kind of doing this on the fly, friends. Apparently Feist was a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene, brother? Did you ever get into them? No, never did. Me neither. But that's pretty cool because they're, you know, quite the beloved indie rock band.

Well, here's what I'm more interested in. Under Associated Acts on her Wikipedia page, they've listed Mastodon. What? Are you familiar with Mastodon, Q? I know that they're a metal band. Yeah, they're a heavy metal band. A really kick-ass heavy metal band. I guess she, oh, dude, listen to this, okay?

On record store day in April 21st of 2012, Mastodon released two separate vials. The first, it was a... a split seven inch with Feist titled Feistadon. Oh my God. Macedon covers Feist's A commotion and Feist covers Macedon's black tongue. Whoa. That is awesome, dude.

That's amazing. That right there would make a great side track someday. Maybe if we do Massadon, we can do a sidetrack on Feist covering black tongue. That would be sweet. but we're not doing that we're not doing that this week are we Q? No, we sure aren't, friend. So, I love Feist.

Everything that she does I love. I don't know about you, Travis. I can honestly say that I've never really listened to anything of hers other than maybe the singles that she's released, like the ones that everybody knows. And then her... Like what?

I don't know, what is it? One, two, something? One, two, three, four. Yeah. Yeah, I know that one. And I feel it all. You know that stuff. Yep, that's a great song.

Oh, it's so good. That was a great one. Well, yeah, and my other favorite single of hers came out that same year. So that album is called The Reminder, which came out in, I want to say, 2007. The song's called My Moon, My Man. It's so good, man. Dude, you got to listen to that album. But we're talking about Let It Die today.

Whenever I listen to It I Feel It All. I feel it all. You know what I mean? Oh, my God. That's a great song, man. It just, it's one of those feel-good songs, dude. Yeah.

Yeah. So, Let It Die. Again, it came out in 2004. This is her second studio album, recorded in Paris. One single off of the album

that you might be aware of, Travis. It's called Mushabum. Never heard of it. It's good. And in the past, we've just picked a random picture of the artist for our side tracks to put up on our website. But I'm definitely going to throw up the Canadian cover for this album. She's a Canadian person.

A person. Person, yeah. And the Canadian cover for this album is really cool. Can you see it, Jeff? Dude, that's kind of funny because that's the kind of like scribbled, like logo idea. Yeah. That I would think of. you know. Right. I like it though.

I could make the T and the F connected by a circle. Yeah, let's connect the F and the T. Make a circle. But it's Feist, so it looks good when she does it. Yeah, I bet that's her handwriting, dude. You're probably right.

Anyways, the song that I picked, and we'll make it a lengthy clip, you know, to fill in the space between the singles on our favorite records. Leisure suit. or leisure sweet it's track five it's a doozy

I'm a big fan of it everything about it without further ado here is that tune yeah I'm almost tempted to yeah I'm almost tempted to just

insert all the things that you were saying to me while we were listening to it You were blown away, man I mean, this is one of those moments where it's like How did I miss it? What the fuck? How have I not heard this before, dude? Yeah, it's good.

There's so many different, like, genres in there. Lots of things going on, lots of instruments. Mostly jazz. But, like, there were so many instruments that just kept popping up. Yeah. I'm interested in who this guy, Chili Gonzalez is. Oh, dude, you're in for treats if you don't know this guy. Holy shit.

Chile Gonzalez is, for the most part, he's well known for his piano work. He does, like, solo piano piano. He looks like one of those fucking ones. Click on the fucking Wikipedia page for those dudes. Oh, I know, dude. I'm looking at him right now. Dude, God. Jesus, I just blew up the shit out of that.

Look at those eyes, bro. Ooh, damn, that's a stare. He looks like he's like the lost. member of Flight of the Concords. No, he looks like Sasha Baron Cohen. It looks like that's like a side character, like a new character that Sasha's fucking working on. Pretentious Dish.

No, but he's, yeah, he's quite the piano player, to put it mildly. Well, on the, on the lighter notes for this album, it credits him as piano and various instruments. So I'm guessing he was doing all those other things. because there's an organ that you hear in there in that song. There's an organ. There's like some kind of Japanese. Yeah.

Kyoto sounding. I was trying to find a list of all the instruments, but it just says various instruments. Yeah. Yeah. So he, I think he's listed as co-writer. Okay. For this song.

Is that him on the U.S. cover, whispering in, whispering in her ear there. Oh, fuck, I don't know, man. It kind of looks like him. Maybe. But yeah, I think he, I think there's a couple songs on this album that he helped write. So, and this album is credited for kind of launching her career.

I mean, I can see why. Now, Q, if you're, you've listened to her other works, right? Mm-hmm. does her later work is it as like eclectic and interesting as this because i know like you know i really very very familiar with feel it all and i love that song but it's not as like interesting as this song was to me as far as like but you got to think too feel it all was a single dude and that's why you know okay this the singles aren't as okay but i'm just like does she get this like jazzy and stuff and her later works she definitely does dude okay

time for me to listen to some feist yes you know it's just one of those just just one of those groups I never alright one of those artists I never really went beyond the singles but hey that's the dude

that's the whole point of this podcast and you just fucking did for me what I hope we've done for other listeners out there I feel it all do you feel all of it Yes.

So I'm curious to know how much of the two songs on Right on an Empty Street, like how much of it did she actually write? Was it more lyrics? Or was it more? I mean, there's no reason. There's no reason not to assume that she had a huge part in writing those songs. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, she plays guitar as well.

You know, she doesn't just sing. She probably had a dude. She was probably a fully part of the... And piano. Of the... Composition. Of writing... Yeah, of composing it.

Why not, man? If you have Feist in your studio with you, you know? Yeah. She, you know... Who knows, man? She may have... Utilize her skills. Fuck yeah, man.

Yeah. So again, friends, we pulled this one out of our ass. Well, you know what, dude? I think it... I think... The fact that I have never heard that song before... and now I'm sort of

sort of like, well, you know, what have I been doing? Now you're feeling at all. Yeah. You know, this happens to, I find that this happens a lot with me, dude. Same. Because there's so many great bands out there

that I've never heard or just never paid attention to. Like, there's so many moments where I'm like, well, how have I missed this, man? And like, there's so many years, dude, that I haven't been able to listen to that album because I, you know, if this album came out in 2004,

that's 14 years, man, that I could have been rocking that tune. Yeah. Listen to The Reminder as well, her 2007 album that has 1, 2, 3, 4, and I Feel It All. That was her big one, dude. And it's good. It's really good. I'm very familiar with Feel It All, dude.

That's a great one. That is a classic. Yeah. I haven't listened to it. her new stuff but well I take that back I listened to a single off of her album pleasure

that came out in 2017 and I I liked it a lot and it's a little more bold I'd say not so I guess no I'd say I was I was going for

not so mainstream sounding you know she's kind of doing like just at this point like fuck it I'm going to do what I want kind of thing it's more raw you know

so but I never listened to the whole album when it came out. But it looks like it has got some pretty damn high ratings. So, um, anyways, that's our little side track on Feist, the Canadian singer-songwriter, who collaborated with Kings of Convenience back in 2004. Uh, we played a little clip from Leisure Suite off of her 2004 album, Let It Die. Next week, we're talking about Foles. One of our all-time favorite bands, right, Jeff?

I'd say so. Yeah, definitely. They're up there for me. They're in my top ten. Yeah, this album for sure is one of my favorite albums of all time, probably. Antidotes could be a no-filler album. Yeah, you're right, dude. All the way through.

Yeah, definitely. I can't wait, man. I can't wait to play it to jam out to some of those tunes. It's time, we got to get some jammies on here. Yeah, that's definitely an album that you crank it up. Scratch that, scrans that, scrans, scrams that. Dude, when you say stuff like that, it makes me not want to scratch it. So I'm leaving it in.

I won't. But you'll never know until it's released. I've got the power. Oh, my dearie. This is what happens when we fucking record on a weeknight brand. And we'll talk at you next week. And, yep. Stay tuned.

Check us out on iTunes, SoundCloud. hop over to our website, no filler podcast.com for the show notes. Thanks for listening, as always. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. Bye. Bye. Share simplicity.

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