No Filler Music Podcast - Sidetrack: Post Malone & Co. Give Us A Socially Distanced Proper Nirvana Tribute Concert

Episode Date: May 4, 2020

As we're wrapping up our 90's rock binge, we thought what better way to do it than to share a few of our favorite non-singles from Post Malone's April 24th Nirvana tribute concert. Playing alongside (while maintaining at least 6 feet distance from each other) songwriter & bassist Brian Lee, guitarist Nick Mack, and legendary drummer Travis Barker, Malone & Co. breathe new life into 15 classic Nirvana tracks, some singles, some deep cuts. Post Malone's special livestream performance was put on to raise money for the WHO in support of their COVID-19 efforts. Tracklist Post Malone - Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Nirvana cover) Post Malone - School (Nirvana cover) Post Malone - Very Ape (Nirvana cover) Fishmans - Wasurechau Hitotoki Built To Spill - Mountain Top (Daniel Johnston cover) Post Malone - Something In The Way (Nirvana cover) 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 to know that you're leaving, the often as you're giving, that hidden gyms that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. My name is Quentin, got my brother Travis with me as old. always. And to wrap up our 90s grunge rock binge, we are going to cover Post Malone's Nirvana tribute concert that happened last week. Because my God, that was a doozy. Yeah, man, it was something else, dude.

Like, as far as Nirvana tributes go, I mean, why even, if you're a Nirvana tribute band, you're looking at that going like, God, Damn it. Imagine being a Nirvana tribute band and you've been doing it for years. And then you watch that and you're like, well, shit. And you're like, fucking, post-Malone? What?

Travis Barker, huh? I can't compete with this. But yeah, it was amazing, man. They nailed it. The fact that he got Travis Barker to jump on the drums was also amazing because that's kind of, I mean, how cool is it to see Travis Barker playing Dave Grohl's songs, right? Dave Grohl behind the kit. I mean, there's no one of the best drummers of all time.

Both of them. Both of them. They're up there, yeah. I mean, that would be a really interesting conversation to have about who's better. I know where I land on that, but. They're different in their styles. Yeah. But Barker just nails the Dave Grohl, like, sound.

Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing to watch, and they fucking nailed it in every single way. So, yeah, it's a great. The timing is perfect for us to end our little 90s. stint here with one of the biggest acts in the business right now paying tribute to them. It was awesome. Yeah. So this happened on the 24th of April.

So what day was it? Was that last Friday? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they did a live stream from Post Malone's house in Salt Lake City. And he had bass player Brian Lee, who also is a songwriter. turns out. He's written songs for Justin Bieber for Post Malone and Selena,

Salina Gomez. He's just kind of all over the place. And they have guitarist Nick Mack. I tried to look into him. I think he really is just a friend of posts that plays guitar. I couldn't find anything on that guy. I mean, it's probably safe to say he's in a band, right? But maybe he doesn't have the publicity. Yeah. And then you got Mr. Travis Barker on the kit. Yes. And, yeah, dude, they fucking crushed it. They had one fixed camera on each of them.

They were in separate rooms to do the whole social distancing thing. And they fucking knocked out 15 Nirvana songs. And I counted, they played seven singles. The rest of them were all just random ass no filler tracks. Perfect for us. Yeah, dude. So the reason we thought it would be great to, like I said, wrap this up, wrap up our 90s stint with some Post-Mallone Nirvana coverage.

We are going to be kind of switching gears next week. And we're going to cover Blinkwyn82's Inima of the State, which just happens to have Mr. Travis Barker on the kit for good old Blinkwin 82. We did not plan all this. just the stars are lining. Yep. Yeah. And, you know, it's worth mentioning that the intimate of the state came out in 1999.

So it is still a 90s rock album, but totally different, totally different genre, totally different building, really. Yeah. And we'll kind of explain a little bit later, maybe at the end of this episode, what our plan is for the next few months. Yes. So let's jump into some tunes, though. Let's make this one short and sweet.

I have a couple songs that stood out to. me first one and we'll just play this whole song because it's short and sweet. This is a song called School that shows up on Nirvana's debut album Bleach, which came out in 1989. Yeah. So this song is called School. That's fucking awesome, dude. Yeah. The pipes on post, dude. He's got some rock chops, man. He's got some, he could, you know, obviously. I think every fan of Nirvana or every fan of rock who tuned into this, all we want to hear right now is Post Malone put out a rock record, you know? Yeah.

Because, I mean, yeah, like you said. And we didn't touch on this yet, but, you know, he grew up listening to rock and roll. Like he, that's, you know, part of his musical upbringing, you know. Yeah. So his first stint in the world of music was, he was in a heavy metal band. So, yeah, I mean, this is what he came from, you know. And he's a mega Nirvana fan, dude. That tattoo that's slapped on his forehead.

Which one? Stay. It's on, it's above his right eye. It says stay away. That's a Nirvana song, dude. Of course, yeah. So, yeah. He's a bigger Nirvana fan than I am.

I'll tell you that much. Yeah, it's amazing. Dude, I looked at the lyrics because, you know, they're so simple. Won't you believe it? It's just my luck. You're in high school again, and then the chorus is no recess. So apparently, Cobain described this song as representing the Seattle grunge scene parallel to the clicks and featured groups at high school. Wow.

So in other words, him, you know, the band's trying to break into the biz at the moment. the Seattle scene. And he's, you know, he's like, I feel like I'm back in high school again with these clips. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I'm back in high school, but I don't get any recess. Yeah. There's not even any recess.

I mean, high school didn't have recess anyway, so. Whatever. Whatever. But yeah. It's funny. I think it's funny because, I mean, obviously, Kurt Cobain was so aware of, like, the music industry, obviously. Like, he was so critical of it, you know, while he was in it after they. exploded, you know?

Like that seemed like he was very, very, like, self-aware and, and aware of just the music industry in general, you know? And that was a song that was on their very first full-length. So by the time that they got into the studio, he was already aware of those clicks, you know? Yeah, and it's, it's funny because, like, you know, they created a click in a way, right? The grunge flannel or dot.

click. They created a bunch of posers, that's for sure. Yeah. All the bands that came after them like Bush, should I say? Where they were like, hey, we're grunts too. See this flannel shirt? Yeah. Keeping it unbuttoned too.

Got my Doc Marns on. All right. So I'm going to play another one. This one is towards the end of the set. This album shows up on in utero. The album shows up on the album. Oops. This song.

This song shows up on In Utero, which came out in 93, which was, I guess their last full-length album. MTV Unplugged comes out in 94. But anyways, this song is called Very Ape. It's unbelievable, dude. It's unbelievable, man. I just fucking love it. Yeah, I'm getting Guesley's over here. Speaking of Goosley's, dude, apparently Courtney Love chimed in during the live stream.

and she says, Go have a margarita post Malone. Nothing but love from here. Base player for Nirvana, Chris Nova Seleck also chimed in at some point during the concert and said, I don't think these fellas can play any better. They are on fire. That is extremely accurate.

Like, they couldn't have done it any better. Like, they just, it was perfect. So I missed the actual stream. But I watched it the next day. And it was like 1 a.m. when I pressed play, like not thinking I would watch the whole thing. And I just couldn't. I couldn't stop, dude.

Right. I couldn't stop. Yeah. It was just, it was just captivating. Like, it was just. It was fun, too. Yeah, man. They goofed around in between each song.

Right. And to top it all off, another reason why we wanted to do this for our sidetrack today, they're raising money for a relief fund. It's called the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. for the World Health Organization. These donations are going to go towards just making sure that we get supplies to frontline workers

and to help towards research for vaccine developments and other kinds of treatments for the virus. So we'll post a link to, I think let's just post a link to the live stream YouTube link. Because you can donate straight from there. Right now they're at close to 4.5 million

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That also shows up in utero. I want to start first, dude, for the What You Heard's. I just heard this today. And just one of those magical music moments that, you know, I'm a big fan of. It happens a lot. Okay. This is a Japanese band from the 90s called Fishmans, all in word. All right.

How'd you find out about these guys? They were on a playlist of mine on Spotify. That you created? No, no, no, no, no. It's like one of those, uh, one of those randos or whatever. One of those, yeah, one of those, uh, you might like this kind of stuff. Kind of, yep, exactly. Cool.

So, you know how fond we are of why to spoil life? Um, I am very well aware of how fond we are. Yeah. That poppy 70s disco kind of stuff. These guys were doing it in the fucking 90s, dude. So this is a song from an album called Orange, which came, out in 1994. I'm going to do my darndest to pronounce this.

This song is called Wazirachau. Saracha song? Wachirachau Hitataki. Very nice. So a female singer, I'm guessing? No, no. Oh, my Lord. Yeah, just like Ireland, dude.

It's just a high-pitched... Yeah, but Ireland's got a little bit of baritone to him. Well, this guy's name is Shinji Sato. And, yeah, he grew up heavily influenced by Western music. If you listen to, I went back and listened to a couple of their other albums before this one. Way more reggae. These guys are all over the place. They're actually technically, well, they're still around, but he actually died in 1999.

So they kind of have, in some one form or another, stayed around as a group, more just kind of as a tribute to him. So again, that band is called Fishmans. That was a song called Rasa Rachawa. That's all right, man. That one's track three on an album called Orange that came out in 1994. All right, brother, what you've been heard lately? All right, Qia.

I'm going to bring it back to the 90s, and I'm going to bring it back to Nirvana with this one. Okay. Say what? Here we go. So this is a band that I have, I think I've mentioned on here before as a group that we will likely do an episode on at some point. And we will likely do an episode on their 1999 record, keep it like a secret. Ah, yes.

And I am, of course, talking about Bill to Spill. Yeah, that's one of those iconic album covers. Yes, yes. and the band itself is just an iconic band from that era. Indy rock is kind of the best, probably the best, you know, umbrella to put them under. Indy rock, alt rock, certainly not grunge by any stretch of the imagination. But what I've always liked about this group is the lyrics,

the way that they, the guitar playing, the melodies, just there's something different and unique about them. Anyway, lately they've been putting out some singles for their upcoming record, a collection of covers of a gentleman by the name of Daniel Johnston. And if you recognize that name. That's the hi, how are you guy, right? The graffiti. Well, he's a musician, but yes. Yeah, that graffiti in Austin.

That's right. So if you ever been to Austin, Texas, which if you're a fan of music, I would imagine, that's kind of one of those mechanisms. I mean not a mecca, but at least a destination spot for music lovers. Yeah. You may have seen a mural on the side of a building with a alien frog-looking creature with the words, Hi, How Are You, written above his head? I want to say that's on the side of hole in the wall, which I think that's the name of the venue. I might be wrong.

You might be right. I mean, you lived there, Q. Yeah, you should know. I think it's on the side of hole in the wall. Let me look it up for you. I got something in front of me here called the Internet. The Internet. Let's see here.

So it was restored and declared a cultural landmark in 2014, Q. I'm still not seeing anyway what building it was on. Oh, Mexican restaurant. There's a Mexican restaurant that moved. Wait, wait, sorry. Yeah, it was on the side of an indie record store. Doesn't see which. and then the Mexican restaurant that moved in,

planned to tear down the wall in 2004, but Austin rallied around its defense. Nice. Which it fucking should. You're damn right. Okay, here's the thing about that. Here's the thing about that. Cobain.

So, okay, let me back up even further. That is actually in the name of one of Daniel Johnson's records. It came out in 1983 of the same name. It's called, How Are You, the Unfinished Album. And Kirk Cobain wore a t-shirt with that album mark on it. Which it kind of looks like a, isn't it like, it's like an alien-looking creature. It kind of reminds me of the creature on, oh, what was that fucking cartoon on Nickelodeon where he's holding his eyeballs? Oh, all real monsters.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It does kind of look like that. So anyway, this guy, he got his start passing out tapes, like, like, you know, demo tapes, I guess. at a McDonald's that he worked at in Austin in the 80s. And he's just kind of this like cult status kind of, I mean, I know, not cult, but like he has a following. He's a beloved musician.

American singer-songwriter. Never forgotten. Yeah, so he died last year. September, right? September of 2019, so not that long ago. So Bill to Spill. decided to put out a record with them covering a bunch of his songs. So this song in particular was released, I think, this week as a single.

But it is called Mountain Top. And it was off Daniel Johnson's 2003 record, Fear Yourself. And again, it's called Mountain Top. I mean, what's not to luck about that? Yeah, pretty hard not to get into that tune and tap your feet. I wonder if polyphonic spree was influenced by Daniel Johnson. That reminded me of polyphonic spree. Polyphonic spree is from Texas, so it wouldn't surprise me.

Probably then, yeah. That was great. Do you know, have you listened to the original song? No, I have not. Me neither. Like I said, they've been putting out singles. They put three singles out so far. of these covers.

And I did go back and listen to one of them. And it was a pretty faithful, you know, interpretation of the song. Cool. So I wouldn't be surprised if this was the same. But, you know, they're throwing in their little flourishes, like, you know, the nice harmonizing and stuff and all that kind of cool stuff. But yeah, the funny thing is, that sounds like a built-to-spill song. You know what I mean?

It really does. So it took me, because I'm not all familiar with Daniel Johnson's music, when I first heard the single, the first one that came out, I was just like, oh, it's just another built to spill record coming out. I didn't put it all together, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the record is already out, came out May 1st. So if you like that, just pull up the record, hit play. Again, it's called Built to Spill plays the songs of Daniel Johnston. And it's pretty fucking fresh. It just came out a couple days ago. Let's talk about our plans here, Q. Oh, yes. So we teased. been teasing that we would sort of end the 90s with Blink22.

This was sort of more like the true end of the of the grunge stuff. I mean, it's not like no doubt wasn't grunge. So it's not like we've done nothing but grunge. And then depending on who you talk to, we've been going all over the place here since Stuntip of Pilots is not grunge at all. Right, right, right. But anyway, Blinkgoly 2, Inima of the. state, this was one of those records for us that it was a formative, transformative maybe record.

There we go. Not to say that it changed my life, but it was one of the first records that I remember having some sense of ownership of, you know what I mean? Right. It was important to us. It was in our formative years, is kind of what I was getting at. But, you know, we were, what, 12 when this came out? And we, yeah.

And we were 12 when we, you know, we were paying, it's not like we caught on a few years later. I think we got this record at the store, had to get, you know, our dad to buy it for us kind of thing. Because it probably. And that's because we were watching MTV and we saw, what's my age again, the music video for that. Yeah. Right. And of course, that features them running through the streets naked. But naked.

Yeah. all sorts of wackiness. But yeah, anyway, it was a punk rock record, and we'll get into that, whether or not this is true punk or not. Like, I want to dive into sort of how did we get to blink, you know what I mean, as far as like punk rock. Right, yeah, me too. And maybe I have a conversation about, like, is this when punk rock peaked as far as

as as as mainstream attention and popularity? I feel like it clearly this is the last. time that it was ever in the mainstream, right? Yeah, but I feel like we should save all this for next week, dude. Yeah, yeah, okay. Sure. But, so the reason we're switching gears here, so we're wrapping up with blink, which is perfect because it came out in 99, uh, Enema of the state, came out in 99,

but we are going to start a little run on bands and albums that we listen to in high school. In high school and in middle school. I mean, like I said, we were 12 when we listened to this record for the first time. Now, we're talking about records that came out in our formative years. So mostly high school records, some of the records that came out maybe while we were in middle school. Basically, this is like early 2000s, right? Yeah. Early 2000s, this is when you and I started paying attention to music and discovering music like on our own, independently of our older brother or any other influences that we may have had.

This is when we started to actually pay attention to music and seek it out. You know what I mean? So a lot of these bands, I mean, we stumbled upon them, you know, on MP3.com or something like that. You remember those old websites? They were literally MP3 sites and bands would have profile pages or their MySpace page or something like that. Oh, yeah, dude. We were seeking these bands out. One album in particular that we're going to cover was purchased at Blockbuster Music, dude.

Oh, my God. Not even a thing anymore. music. Yep. Wow. Um, no, but I want to clarify too that the majority of the music that we cover on this podcast, a lot of it is from the early 2000s, but we're going to specifically focus on bands that we haven't necessarily continued to listen to for one reason or another. Because, you know, we've got spoon. We've got the strokes. Uh, you know, we got a lot of bands that we discovered and fell in love with in middle school or high school. cool. But the bands that we're going to cover these next couple months are maybe a little bit

more obscure or bands that kind of maybe reached their peak in the early 2000s. Yeah. I don't know. There's going to be a little bit, it's going to be a little bit different. It's going to be all over the place as far as genre. Yeah. It's going to be a blast, dude. I'm really excited. It's going to be good times. And, you know, some of these bands are going to be a little more obscure. Probably most of you listening, you may never have heard of these bands, so hopefully we'll introduce you to something. I have a feeling that if you are not a member of our generation, or if you're not in the

same age range, you might have a hard time relating to or finding something that's appealing about some of these groups. Right, because we were teenagers during, you know, it was. We didn't know what we were doing. It was exciting times, man. We got a driver's license, you know, we were on our own. We were independent. We were making fucking moves.

Yeah. Here's the thing, though, dude. With the records that we've already decided to talk about, I feel like we got a solid, a solid list of albums coming up, man. I think so. We got a couple months worth at least. I hope that with some of this stuff, let me just, you know, we're going to talk about some Emo.

There I said it. Yes. And I'm not talking. I'm talking early email. I'm talking third wave. We're not talking Jimmy World here. Or maybe fourth wave. I don't remember which way, but anyway.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, but you know what? There's a reason that I still go back and listen to this music. You know what I mean? So it's good shit and I'm fucking excited. I'm really stoked me. Dude, this is, this is crazy.

I'm on Facebook right now because sometimes I like to browse while we're recording. Oh, is that right? I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling. I'm scrolling. I always hear you typing away. on your keyboard. Just listen here. What?

You set your face to stunned. Okay. I'm scrolling. What? What's this? It's the fucking album art of Inima of the State. Somebody posted a link to a BuzzFeed article that says 41 reasons why 1999 was the greatest year in music history. And the cover art for that article is the fucking lady with the nurse costume on.

It's one of those moments, man. The cover art, trampank, I need to use. in the middle of the state. I'm telling you the stars are aligning here. Stars are aligning. So anyway, you know, probably Google's listening

to everything I say. That's exactly what it is. Right, dude. To my Facebook page. No, it's Zuckerberg that's listening, dude.

No, no, it wasn't an advertisement. It was a friend of mine posted it. So unless she's listening, which I doubt it. She's working for Zuckerberg, dude.

All right. So here we go. We're done. We're done with this episode here. hopefully we've enticed you to come back next week and stick around with us for a little bit while we a little segment we're calling new filler goes back to school so hopefully you'll join us get your Jan Sport backpack on and let's let's take a ride dude lace up those airwalks yes man airwarks get to step in uh what else did we wear who knows well dude we got a couple months to to to reminisce wax nostalgic

Yeah, dude, waxing that nostalgic ass. Don't really, that. All right, man. So that's it. As always, you can find us on the Pantheon podcast music network. We are part of the Pantheon family where we've got, I think, like, 35 or more shows now in the network. All music-themed podcasts, it's your one-stop shop. You can hop on the website Panteon Podcasts.com and you can actually find our show within their feed where it's basically press play and it just kind of cycles through all of our shows. You can also find us on no filler podcast.com. We've got all of our shows uploaded there as well along with show notes for each episode.

We've got links to articles that we reference music videos, all that kind of fun stuff. Until next week, again, we're going to be covered in Blinquin 82's 1999 album Inima of the State. I'm going to fade us out with, I think, the most memorable moment from the Post-Malone Nirvana tribute concert. I'm going to fade us out with his cover of something in the way. Yeah, dude. And that's going to do it for us today. Thank you, as always, for listening.

My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. y'all take care