No Filler Music Podcast - Sidetrack: The Pathetx

Episode Date: November 9, 2020

Hot off our White Stripes episode, we went digging through Third Man Record's roster to see what gems we could uncover. The album cover for The Pathetx's 1981 called out to us, begging for a spin. A collection of unreleased material from this classic 80's punk outfit from Detroit, 1981 is eighteen minutes of raw energy that only 80s punk can truly deliver. Tracklist The Pathetx - Piss On My Shoes The Pathetx - Energize Tears For Fears - Mothers Talk SASAMI - Mess The Pathetx - Kmart Krowd This show is a part of The Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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. My name is Quentin, and I've got my brother, Travis, with me as per usual. This is our sidetrack episode for the White Stripes. Last week we covered their album from 2003 elephants. So, Travis, this one's going to be short and sweet, brother. Trying to stick to that true format. One and done, side track, you know, as a singular track should be.

It is called side track for a reason, because it's not called side tracks. No. It's not called side full-length episode, you know? No, it is not. But you will hear more than one song. Because we will do our watcher herds as we usually do at the end of the episode. All right. So I'm going to try to make this full circle, dude.

And we're going to go all the way back to last week when I mentioned that they were. And I couldn't find the article. And I promised that I would give them proper cred. But, you know, the white stripes being rock and roll's past, present, and future all rolled into one. Yes. I, when you said that, it was the most perfect description of white stripes that I had never heard. You don't have to say anything else about them. It's perfect, right? Yeah. One thing that's great, dude, it kind of seems like Jack White is doing that as best he can in the music that he represents in his record label.

If you scroll through their catalog, first off, they do a lot of really cool reissues. but they've got a really wide range of music, you know, contemporary. They have artists that, you know, that they are releasing material for, you know, like so brand new artists. And they have a lot of old stuff on here, dude. Like, and it's all over the place. So this band The Pathetics jumped out at me. They have an album on Third Man Records that was actually scrapped in 1981.

hadn't really seen the light of day until this March when Jack White resurrected it and released it through third band records. So in a way, this is a new release in the sense that this is the first time that this record has been pressed, right? Like properly released. Properly released. Okay. So it came out in March, which is cool. It looks like a proper, let me try to guess what kind of music these guys play. They look straight up punk, right? Please tell me that they're a punk rock group. Oh, yeah, dude. And what's even cooler about it, these guys are from Detroit. That is where Jack White grew up. And they were a super fast-paced punk band. Their final form, quote unquote, is how it's put on their bio on their website. It was finalized in March of 81. So that was the final

band member lineup came together in March of 81. So I wonder if that's why Jack White decided to to release this in March. So what I thought was cool about this is Jack White was born in 1975. I mean, he was just a kid. But it's cool to think that, you know, like what was happening in Detroit in the punk rock scene, you know, and just the Detroit music scene in general, what was going on around the time that Jack White was great. growing up. This is an example of one of those bands. Now, Jack White had mentioned that when he and Meg were starting to, you know, make their mark on the music scene in Detroit, it was heavily centered around garage rock. So that would have been, you know, probably really 90s by

that point. You know, just prior to that, we had some punk rock and these guys are no fucking joke, dude. I can't even contain my excitement anymore if you can tell by my voice. I'm so excited right. But then, I can tell you right now, though, dude, by the album art alone, like, I know that these guys are going to, are going to be fucking amazing. Like, you can just tell by looking at the album art sometimes, right? They're going to blow your fucking socks clean off, brother.

I got a clean pair of socks on right now, so they better be across the room after this clip is done. If I'm not having to get up to go grab my socks, somebody screwed up and I'm looking right at you. So let me read this little blurb from Stereo Gum. It says here, their shows were legendarily violent. Their songs fast and unhinged. As a proper punk rock show should be. Proper punk.

Okay, so I listened to this entire album. So it is worth pointing out this album did not have a proper name. because it was never released. So Jack White decided to call it 1981 because that's when the band was formed. So out of all the songs on here, I picked the one that is, I'm going to say slower.

It's not going to sound slower. But this one I feel like is a little bit more structured than the rest and really cool, unique guitar melody on this one. I don't know why, but I want these guys to have like thick British accents, but they're not going to you. All right.

So this song is called Piss on My Shoes. Well, my socks are still on, Q. Socks are still on. But I was getting some, like, man, I don't know what I was getting, but I feel like there's a hint of David Byrne, which is, I don't like to toss that around, but a little bit, just a tad. I was going to say Devo. Okay. That's better. That's better.

Yeah. I've said this before. I feel like on the mic, but I don't really have a proper definition or sound in mind when I think of Rockabilly. But I don't know. I kind of felt that with this song. So you know how the word sidetrack is singular? Yeah. Let's play, dude.

Just a smidge. I think we should. That was a short song. I want my socks to be clear across the room. I picked that song for the side track just because I really love that the guitar line. The guitar line. The strumming is really cool. Like, bam down jicadda-dun-d-d-down.

Yeah, I love that. Yeah, those good. But this will be a side-tracks episode today, Q, because let's get another one in there because these are really short songs and you know what these guys are known for putting on shows filled with beer and blood and violence okay let's fucking play a song that you know properly reflects that let's play a song called energize yeah um i like that because i showed another another side of this guy's uh vocal delivery right yeah and that was kind of like more old school kind of metal a little bit,

like a, you know, kind of a nod to hardcore at least, like, you know. Yeah. So apparently these guys were getting their influence from bands on the West Coast, and the punk scene at the time in the West Coast with bands like the germs, Black Flag, and Dead Kennedys. And they stood out in the crowd among more, the local punk scene in Detroit, who were kind of getting more influences from the Stooges.

and MC5. So that's what made these guys different, you know, at least, at least in Detroit. And that's, you know, what made them stand out to Jack White, I imagine. Yeah, I mean, you can just totally imagine seeing a show like that live, man, you know, back in the day. And I'm sure the distortion and stuff like that has dialed back a little bit. You know, I'm guessing that for this release, like it was remastered and stuff like that. Dude, if you saw these guys live in the early 80s, your socks would have been blown clean right to fuck off.

Oh, my God. There would be, it would be nothing, nothing, but barefoot people walking around in that venue for sure. Everybody's like, I'm looking for my other, where's my other sock? Like, I found, I was wearing two socks and I got one. Where's the other one? That's why I never want to rule queue, never wear socks when you go to a concert. That's not a rule. All right.

Well, all right, dude. Classic, classic sidetrack cue. I love it. This is what we're all about. And you know what? In and out. Let's just tell everyone we're speeding it up even more because Travis has stuff to do. Well, I got some engagements to like.

Yeah. Some previous. All right. Well, let's jump into our watcher hurts then, brother. All right. I want to go first, dude, because this is a band that I know both of us really love. Okay. So I got bit, dude, by the new wave bug, man.

I've been swimming in it. And so I dusted off my copy of, songs from the big chair. I know you're familiar with that album, huh? I have no clue what that is. Tears for Fears. Oh shit. Sorry.

That's okay. Yeah, it's a weird name for an album. So, yeah, dude, I love that album. And there's a song on there that, you know, I've heard this album many, many times. And there's an outro to a song that finishes Side A that I fucking love, dude. So we're going to do something a little bit different. I'm going to fade in at about the halfway mark of this song, and they're going to listen through to the end. Okay.

So this song is called Mother's Talk. That whole outro is just so cool, man. Yeah, yeah, the outro was great. Yeah, you're right. Now, does that fade into the next track on the record? Well, that is the end of Side A, dude. So you've got to get up and flip the record at that point. Yeah.

So I've moved my record player into my room now. So I was just, you know, folding laundry, putting clothes. away and and I just had to like stop and like fucking rock out for a little bit dude yeah it had some like you know that signature 80s like 808 hip hop sound almost sometimes like there's that yeah the drum beat yeah and kind of like um you know it reminded me like uh janet jackson song or something like that even yeah dude that's that's what to me this this is the kind of stuff that makes tears tears for fear stand out among all the other fucking new wave artists around that time yeah you know like think back to some of the artists that we were playing on the, you know, on the John Hughes tunes.

Right. I mean, we picked the songs that I think were above average and the bands that were above average, but there were a, there are a ton of songs and artists in those John Hughes films that show up that, I mean, really aren't, I mean, they just kind of blend in with all the other bands from that time. But this, that's what makes Tears for Pure so cool, that kind of stuff. Kind of catches you off guard, you know. Yeah, definitely. All right. So again, that was a song called Mother's Talk from Songs from the Big Chair,

their album from 1985. Such a good album, dude. You should give it a lesson all right through at some point. You're right. One day, Q, maybe we'll do a, maybe we'll do an episode on them, a proper episode. I think we should do a proper run of New Wave episodes. Because, I mean, doing John Hughes was one thing,

but I think we should devote some time to New Wave a little bit more. I would love to do that, Q. All right, brother. What have you been heard in lately? My turn, Q. So, as some of you know, because we like to talk about it, when we remember to talk about it, we have a Spotify playlist that we keep all of our What You Heard's

going back to the very first What You Heard. And I was, you know, sometimes I like to just hit shuffle on it. And I was reminded of the song Q that I'm guessing you brought to the table at some point by an artist named Sasami. Yes, sir. And you brought a track from 2019 called Morning Comes. And I was like, this song is fucking killer. So I went and was like, well, what's she been doing lately?

And she's put out a couple of singles this year. And we're going to listen to another one of her singles cue. So a quick synopsis on her. She is in L.A. area musician. that got notoriety in 2018, she shared her first track on SoundCloud

called Calus, which ultimately made it onto that first record that she came out with last year. I guess it's not really her first record, but her first full-length record that came out last year was called free. No, that was also not a free

if I could full... Yeah, her first full-length record was called free. That means, son of a bitch. Her first full-length record was self-title. record. And that SoundCloud track appeared on that record as well as it's called Callas. And Pitchfork awarded that track with the best new track label, which is a pretty, if you think about it,

that's what's great about the internet, right? Somebody can put a record out, a track on SoundCloud and get noticed, right? So anyway, she's kind of described as like bedroom pop kind of thing, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, let's just. You know, let's let the music play for itself, Q. Yeah. And, you know, it'll describe itself to you when you hear it. All right. So this song is called mess.

Just a solid indie rock song, indie pop. Yeah, I mean. That's the best way to describe it, dude. Sure, indie pop. Yeah, you're right. Kind of reminded me of Ginny Lewis stuff, like Riloha Kiley or Feist, even. Yeah, that's all, those are all. good calls, yeah, for sure. But the funny thing is like, I maybe wouldn't have thought of this

if I hadn't read the name just now, but she played guitar, she being a sassi. Her name is Sasami. Her name is Sasami Ashworth. That is her actual name. She played guitar on tour with an artist named Cherry Glazer, who was a what you heard I had from a while back. So. Yeah, Glazer with two R's, right? Glazer with two R's, yeah. Which was another, solid like sort of garage rock resurgence, if you will. But anyway, so yeah, no wonder she played guitar on tour with her because like they're in the same kind of vein, you know. But anyway, so yeah, Sasami.

Happy to hear she's still spitting out good tunes. Yeah, she's put out two singles this year so far. And if I remember correctly, the other one that came out called toxicity, which I was disappointed to hear was not a cover of System of a Downs toxicity. was a little bit slower and kind of more mellow. But anyway, all right, Q, as I told you, I have a previous engagement tonight. So I've got about seven minutes here to wrap this up. Oh, man, you've got it down to the minute.

That's plenty of time to tell you about no-filler podcast.com. That's our website. You can go there and find all of our show notes for every show that we've ever done, Q. And it's approaching 150. I think we're approaching 150 episodes, which is mind-boggling. to me. Do we know for sure, man? Let's figure this out.

You keep talking, dude. I'll investigate. Yeah. So, anyway, go there. That's our website. You'll find track lists for every show notes page has track lists. So any song that was mentioned, you'll find it on there. It also has sources wherever we got our information from.

Like if we pull some info out of some article or something like that, we'll put a link to the article so you can, you know, dive into the artist a little bit more if you're interested. And then, you know, follow us on Twitter. It's at No Filler Podcast. We're trying to get better about the tweeters. I heard that's what you call it. Yes. And, hey, I have pinned to the top of our Twitter page a link to our What You Heard playlist on Spotify.

There you go. You don't have to learn how to spell the word whatcha. Just hop on our Twitter and give us a shout out, you know, follow us, do whatever you like. You know, if you feel compelled. And follow that playlist. we update it every week. That's right. And Travis, not including the teaser episode, we are sitting at 146.

146 episodes. Okay. So there you go. Sometime in December, we will be releasing our 150th episode, which means it's very likely that the 150th episode will be a 2020 recap episode because that's what we like to do toward the end of the year. I love the end of the year episode. Yeah.

That's fun to just play tons of tunes, listen to a bunch of great music, brand new music too. Yeah, so Q and I, not QAnon, Q and I. Thank God. Tell me about it. We keep a playlist going between the two of us and some of our friends and stuff where we just throw new tracks on there that's been released this year. anything that we that stood out to us and then you know we go over it and kind of pick our our top 20 um our top 20 from 2020 I mean it just it's perfect right such a ring to it we'll be sharing that with you guys over the coming weeks starting in December um so yeah look forward to

that because that's great like one said it's just it's just not it's just a ton of music because we play five songs on each episode five songs five different artists that's right so anyway be on the look out for that. All right. And you can also find us over at Pantheonpodcasts.com. That is the home to our show. It's the network that we're on. And also a lot of other great music-related podcasts.

So if you like our show, chances are you'll like any number of different shows over at our network. So check that out, Pantheonpodcast.com. Follow them on Twitter at Pantheon Pods. and that's that. Yeah, so hey, let's fade out with the opening track on the Pathetics album 1981. We're going to fade out with Kmart Crowd. All right, so that's going to do it for us today. Thank you, as always, for listening.

My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. You all take care.