No Filler Music Podcast - Sidetrack: The Minus 5 - Find A Finger

Episode Date: December 21, 2018

We take a look at R.E.M. guitar player Peter Buck's side project The Minus 5, headed by Scott McCaughey of the Seattle-based The Young Fresh Fellows. The Traveling Wilburys also sneak into this episode as Quentin was shocked and dismayed that Travis had never heard of them before, arguably the most "super" of super groups to ever assemble. For more info, check out our show notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/music-review-rem-lifes-rich-pageant#sidetrack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Peter Buck, a little side project called the minus five. So Q, you said that you have heard of these guys, but have you actually listened to them? Actually, I was thinking about Maroon 5. You were thinking I'm Maroon 5? No, dude, I'm just fucking... Okay.

I've heard the name. I don't know if I've heard any other songs or anything. So it seems like the R.E.M. dudes, they had this side project that they all contributed to, even Michael Stipe, called the Hindu love gods. Oh, my. And I was listening to that. and honestly wasn't too impressed it sounded more

it was more like really blues based which is fine like I like blues and everything but I just wasn't feeling the vocalist the vocalist the primary vocalist for the Hindu love gods project is this guy named Warren Zvon and I just wasn't wasn't too impressed

what was Michael Stuy doing in that band if he wasn't singing? He would do like he would do like live concert like back in like early well

actually 84 so literally at the origin of REM Michael Stuyb did a he sang with actually he did drums and vocals when they did a couple live shows back in

80s. But he didn't he wasn't on the album. So he would just kind of sing with them on the side during live performances. But anyway, I didn't like the vocalist. So I decided not to go with Hindu love gods for the side track. But each of the members of the

of REM they've all kind of had projects on the side that they've worked on. Mike Mills had a group called, well, he's actually done his own kind of solo stuff. He also put out a album with a orchestra, like a kind of like a rock and orchestra type thing. That wasn't that impressive either.

But the minus five, I actually enjoyed quite a bit. And that's... Man, so they almost struck out there, dude. Two out of three side products you were not a fan of. Yeah. I mean, I was not a fan of. I'm sure there's people who enjoyed it. But the minus five is actually...

I mean, I don't... I'm not ever too impressed by straight, like, standard blues either, you know? Yeah, I mean, the only cool thing that they did on the one album that they put out, Hindu Love Gods, is they did a cover of Raspberry Beret by Prince, which is pretty cool. Other than that... Yeah, that's pretty cool. The album wasn't all that impressive. But the minus five, to me, at least, sounds like the most...

It doesn't sound like just some... thing, you know, for fun. Like, minus five is, is, you know, I feel like if, if REM wasn't hugely successful, minus five could have, could have been Peter Buck's main, main, main gig, you know. Yeah. But they didn't, they obviously didn't achieve success like REM did. But it's, basically it's a, this guy, Scott McAfee, who is

his main band is called the Young Fresh Fellows. They're a Seattle band. Man, they need to work on these names, dude. Yeah, yeah, I know. The Young Fresh Fellows? Young Fresh Fellows, yeah. That's the worst band name.

Yeah, they formed in 81 in Seattle. But anyway, so it seems to me like minus five is kind of a, I don't want to see a super group, but you know, it's a side project of a couple of other, a few other, uh, pieces. It's no traveling willberries. Right. No. I don't know what that means.

What? Traveling will, what, who? Dude, look it up. I'm not even going to tell you. What's it called? The traveling willberries. Traveling willberries. Come on, brother.

Oh, Tom Petty. Roy Orbinson. Bob Dylan. Uh-huh. Bob Dylan. Dude, you don't know, you don't know about, you don't know about him. traveling wheelbaries? Nope.

Sure don't. I think they've got one song that was really big. Dude, let's play it. You know what? Let's get some traveling wheelberries on this episode. All right. It's fine.

Playing with something. I'll play my favorite one. Oh, this one, dude. This is my favorite one. Handle with Care. So is it primarily petty on vocals for the, like, the main? Or do they kind of alternate? I don't.

I don't. Honestly, I haven't listened to too much of it. But yeah, dude, you want to talk about it? That's your super group right there, man. Yeah. Yeah, I'll give you that. All right. So anyway, let's get to it.

Like I said, this is a side project of Peter Buck, guitar player for REM. And we're going to play something from their first album. Came out in 95. So, I mean, that's well into REM's. R.M.'s career, right? Yeah, well under their

hair day. Right, exactly. All right, so this song is called Find a Finger. Dude, that was great. So I'm getting some spoon vibes, right? I was getting some early Beck vibes, too. Yeah, yeah, sure. Just with the lyrics.

Yeah. Or kind of, I guess, wacky, would be, or like the timing of, of, of, of, the melody and everything. I liked it. It was just good old mid-90s. The guitar kind of was a little bit, not grungy, but, you know, it's like, you know,

all the good vibes from the 90s rock, you know. Yeah, I agree. And I had that piano toward the end there. Yeah, that was cool. Most of the, of the songs and the lyrics are kind of playful like that, as far as like what they're singing about, you know. They were just having fun, it seems like. Yeah, I like it a lot.

Anyway, so, you know, that song didn't really feature heavy guitar work by Peter Buck, but that was him on the guitar. There's some more, I will say that his guitar work on this, on this album, on the first one at least, is not the kind of stuff that he does for R.A.m. Like, you know, he wasn't, uh, yeah, his R-A-M stuff has always been really, um, sort of, uh, expressive and, like, melodic and whatnot. For this side project, it seemed like he didn't really do the same thing that he has always done for R-A-M. So maybe he just kind of used it as a, you know, sort of like with, with the Hindu love gods,

like they were doing blues rock, basically. So that seems to be probably kind of the thing that, the people do. when they get the opportunity with side projects, it's like, you know, hey, let's, you know, do something different. Yeah, totally. So yeah, man, that's that. Short and sweet. Dig it. So, Q, we talked about, we've talked about doing a sort of year-end episode where we, you know, sort of do a extended what you heard for 2018.

Like, just kind of talk about our favorite songs. we've stumbled upon bands we've stumbled upon in 2018. Are we going to do that next week, or are we going to continue our radio head fest? Because, you know, we're running out of days here. Yeah, no, let's do it, man. Let's cover it. So, hey, let's pause and appreciate the fact that, I mean, we've been doing this for more than, wait, hang on.

We've, I think we've been doing this for a year now. I mean, we've been recording for over a year. But, yeah, I mean, well, we released our first one beginning of this year. So yeah, dude, we're coming up on a full calendar year of doing this podcast, man. Yeah. Yeah, dude, let's do it. So, yeah, what I was thinking would be cool. Yeah, we just devote an entire episode to our favorite watcherhearts from the past year.

Yeah, sounds good to me. But, you know, I don't want to limit ourselves to just songs that we've already talked about. on this podcast. So I might bring something new to the table. I'm basically going to go through songs that I've listened to this year, like the heavy hitters, and just bring maybe three songs

from my discoveries over the year. May or may not coincide with what you heard's from episodes past, but there might be some overlap. Cool. Sounds good. Yeah, we'll just be a music-heavy episode. to run out the year. All right, so yeah, let's do that.

That'll be a fun, fun episode. Sort of a break from the usual. So, you know. From the weekly grind. The weekly grind. All right. So, yeah, that's that. That was our sidetrack episode for this week.

That was the minus five side project of Mr. Peter Buck, guitar player for REM. And next week we're going to talk about reminisce over songs that we discovered and loved in the year 2018. So that'll do it for us. Visit our website, no-feelerpodcast.com, where you can find all of our episodes and show notes for each episode. And that's that. My name is Travis. And I'm Quentin.

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