No Filler Music Podcast - Sidetrack: The Fall - I Am Damo Suzuki

Episode Date: October 21, 2018

On this week's Sidetrack we listen to 70's post-punk band The Fall's "I Am Damo Suzuki". The Fall's members are all big fans of CAN, and this song pulls riffs and drumbeats from the Gods of Krautrock, and includes lyrics loosely based around the life and times of one of CAN's most influential frontmen Damo Suzuki.​ For more info, check out our show notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/ep-21-can-tago-mago#sidetrack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements. What you win is yours to keep groovy. Hey, I won!

Feel the fun! The meeting will begin when passenger Fisher is done celebrating. 19 plus Ontario only. Please play responsibly. Concerned by your gambling or that if someone close, you call 1-8665-3-3-2-60 or visit comex Ontario.ca. With Amex Platinum. You have access to over 1,400 airport lounges worldwide. So your experience before takeoff is a taste of what's to come.

That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no, but chicken tenders, yes.

because those are groceries, and we deliver those too, along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol, and other everyday essentials. Order Uber Eats now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. 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. This is our sidetrack episode for the week. My name is Quentin, and once again, I am all by my lonesome. Travis is busy again. I don't remember what he's up to this week, but he is out of town once again. So I'm going to throw together this quick sidetrack for our Cann episode. We covered their third studio album Tago Mago, which came out in 1971 last week. And I wanted to play a song that I just heard today for the first time.

So I was trying to figure out what route to take for a sidetrack. So can, again, is this German crout rock band that have been playing off and on since the 70s. And they had this singer that played with them. Now, I actually misspoke last week. I had thought that Damos Suzuki was still their singer today. because Ken still is a band, but Damos Hizuki actually only played with him for about four years. And he was the lead singer in the album Tago Mago, which we played for you last week. So there's this band called The Fall.

There are a post-punk band from England. They formed in 1976. You know, they're pretty heavy hitters in the punk alt-rock scene. got into them. But anyways, they have this song called I Am Damos Suzuki, and it turns out they were all pretty heavily influenced by the band of Cann. So the song I Am Damos Suzuki was on their album, This Nation's Saving Grace, which came out in 85.

So they actually pulled from a lot of different musical stylings when they were making this song. So they pull a riff that's based on the end section of a song called Bell Air from Cannes album Future Days, which is actually the intro track that you heard for this side track. And they also play a drum pattern that's very similar to the similar to the pattern on, oh yeah, from Tagomaga, which is actually one of the songs we played last week. we had both kind of commented on how much it reminded us of the drum stylings of Philip Selway, the drummer for Radiohead. Anyways, Damos Suzuki is a really interesting guy, and I just wanted to kind of dive

into him a little bit before I played this song. He's still kind of doing his thing. Apparently for the last like 30 years, he has pretty much been on this, I mean, it's basically a never-ending game. tour basically what he does he will pop into cities pretty much around the world and do these kind of one-off fully improvised shows where he pulls local musicians up on stage with them and they kind of just let the music carry the show there's no set list there's no lyrics everything's fully improvised it's really cool and he calls it damo's azoui

or, you know, the shows will be called like Damos Suzuki and the sound carriers. And the sound carriers isn't a real band. It's just the name that he gives for, you know, the other musicians, the other local musicians that are up on stage of them, making music with them. Really cool. So, anyways, yeah, this is going to be another short and sweet side track. Again, I'm going to cheat by making this little mini side track a little bit more lengthy. By reminding you that you can always find more information on our website.

No Filler Podcast.com, it's a really cool site. It's visually appealing. It's got your album art. It's got your band picks. Occasionally, it'll have live footage of the band if we find some cool footage. If you want to dive a little bit deeper, if you want to check into the sources that we pull from and read up a little bit more on what we cover. Chances are you'll find more information there.

And you can hear us on SoundCloud. That is where we host the podcast. We have streaming players on our website, so you can go to our website and listen to every single episode. You can also find us on iTunes. You can find us on pretty much any podcast app, any streaming service. We should be on there. and next week we will be back the brothers will be back once more and we're going to do kind of what we did

a few months back with spoon and we're going to start a little radioheadathon maybe i'll come up with a cooler name by then and we're going to do another every other full episode covering radiohead I think we're going to start with OK computer and we're going to end on in rainbows. I'm fucking stoked. It's going to be great. We have not talked enough about Radiohead since starting this podcast and it's time, my friends. And I know all those albums have been covered to death. But hopefully we can pick out some songs on there that maybe you forgot about or songs

that some people may have never heard. you know we're not going to cover the singles um so it should be fun uh so yeah next week we're going to start with okay computer uh and we'll go from there and it's going to be a blast Travis I miss you hurry home uh so anyways this is I'm just going to play the whole song I actually haven't listened to it all the way through but it's a punk band from the 80s it can't be more than like two minutes long right so this is a song by the fall and it is called I am Damo Suzuki and my name is Quentin I'm signing off take care have a good night or good morning whenever it is that you're listening to this bye bye now

okay turns out this song's like almost six minutes long but you know what I'm just going to play it all anyways enjoy