No Filler Music Podcast - Songs For The Newly Sane: 311's From Chaos

Episode Date: February 12, 2026

Our buddy Mitch joins us again, this time to chat 311's unique blend of funk, metal, and reggae on their 2001 release, From Chaos. Tracklist Amber Sick Tight From Chaos Hostile Apostle Uncalm I'll Be Here Awhile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Travis. I got my brother Quentin with me. And we got Mitch back. Howdy, howdy? Mitch is back in the house. And we can see him this time. He's got a nice microphone. It's a new year. New microphone. New year. New microphone. New Year, New Mitch. That's right. Yeah, no more guy in the sky. That's right.

Just inside, just in my mind. I mean, I'll always be the guy in the sky in my mind. Always. Always float. You're the guy in your own sky, man. That's good. Bro, speaking of floating. How about that intro?

Yeah, man. That's a single. I know that's a single, but who cares? Because we're not really going to talk in depth about it. But what a movie. We allow singles for intros. And yeah, dude, how can you not play Amber? Right.

If you're going to cover any three. alive. But we're covering the studio album that that that song is featured on. I don't even think the Spotify streams paint the picture of how much that song, how wide spread that songs, you know, Spotify's nothing in that. I'm sure it's got millions and millions. But at the same time, that song, it's so popular. It's like a meme song. You know what I mean? Like it. And I support that. I support the parody of it because it's kind of, you know. I don't think I've ever seen it featured in a meme. Is it actually like featured in pop culture and stuff? You mean like it's, it's so embedded into the Zite guys.

Yeah, of like, of like college bro that's growing out his dreadlocks. Hockey sack. That's not, that's not, yeah, he might be a white dude doing it right. Like, it's kind of, and that's fine. I fully support my freedom choice in that way, but it's also a little big cornball, which is just, just the right amount. We'll touch on that more when we play some more songs off, off this record, this record. You know what?

That's a great way to put my, my views on 311 all these years. Just, just a smidge of cornball. Exactly. The whole scene, the whole new metal scene. So, yeah. So where, what? This is the year 2001, so we're right in the golden years of it or what should be the peak of it probably, right? Yeah, right.

The record is from chaos. Thank you, Mitch. Yes. I'm going to let you take this one, Mitch. Yeah, yeah. Because we had talked, you know, we had talked, you know, briefly about doing incubus together and I couldn't hop in on that. Because I realized it was, they weren't as I didn't have any of their records in rotation. I had this one.

And I had somehow, like, browned out of my memory maybe because of that kind of, you know, pitchfork. disease of like being the edge lord that doesn't want to admit that he likes the song Amber, right? Even though, you know, that he likes some of that new metal sound that it's very easy to, it's kind of low-hanging fruit to punch at sometimes, like bands like corn or lent biscuit and stuff. And I'm guilty of that even. So, and that's about back when I was younger.

I'm kind of going on a tangent here. These guys, I think, represent a good positive side of the new metal hip-hop rock and roll fusion at its zenith, which was probably right around 2001. You know, Incubis was fucking huge. 3-11 was huge. You know, we forget these guys were selling arenas, you know. Right. And this was like, like you said, the positive side of it.

Because we also had bands like corn. Right. Right. Extremely dark. I don't, I'm just not my flavor, you know. And I know Travis loves corn. I can't. I can't change it. I'd rather listen to the sound of the road go by.

You know, listen to the corn. I'm serious. You can't change it fast enough? You got to be in the right kind of, you know, for your mind. Totally. And I got, And that applies to 311, too.

What you just said applies to 311, no doubt. Well, and that's what I, when I think of new metal or it, dude, one of the genres is placed on 311, rap, rock. Right. Because that's what people thought it was before we could say new metal, right? Yeah. And I think of bands like Limp Biscuit or corn or even freaking Lincoln Park maybe. I don't know.

Yes. But like you said, dude, you know what this is? Here we go, boys. I think Travis, we mentioned this. but, you know, presidents of the United States of America, were they grunge? I'd say so. But they were like the lighthearted side of it, you know. Yeah, I don't know if I would call them grunge, but.

But yeah, they talked a lot about it, Chabh, on our own episode. Did we, oh, so that was the thing. So they were lumped under grunge? That's weird, man. Yeah, yeah. Does grunge inherently have to be, like, foreboding and like inward looking and, you know, depressing? I always think of grunge as a little bit thicker.

I don't know if that's a good way to describe it, but the sound is just, like, thick. That's fair. A little sludgy. But I always, like my archetype for Grunge is Allison Chains. And they're like on the heavier side of Grunge. I was going to say, yeah, that's going to lean you towards because a lot of people wouldn't even say they were, Trave. Some people would make that total counter argument. So what are you going to say, Q?

So what is from K or what is 311 to what you're saying? 311 is just exactly the same. It's a lighthearted side. Not lighthearted. I can agree with that. Totally. Not lighthearted and like a tongue and cheek funny kind of way like presidents was. There's a big difference.

And, you know, I don't want to say that rap rock is different from new metal or the same because there's a difference. You got bands like Cypress Hill, right, that have like guitar shit thrown in. And then obviously that big hit with Aerosmith and Run DMC that like everybody was like, holy shit, Jenny or Jim, that you can have the two together. Like, you know, with Aerosmith and Run DMC like made. And it's so fucking catchy, right? Like you can't deny that.

And this record will hit those, those parts and then come back to like. some kind of like a Cali vibe, but, but, you know, they're not from Cali. You know, they're from, we found out they're from Nebraska. Omaha. The smack dab in the middle of America and the cornfield is nowhere, dude. That is crazy, dude. That's all I can think of is like Hollywood, like Los Angeles, California. Right.

Right. Yeah. Santa Monica type, like long board shit. But it's this kind of funky, new metal, heavier rap rock vibe out of Nebraska, dude. So it's unique in the in the scene. I feel like it's unique. And they have staying power, I think, you know. Yeah, I think so too.

Well, when you, let's just go back for a second and talk about Amber because like, it's just funny to, you know, the way we just described all this like lighthearted and stuff like that. Amber is so far from almost anything else. Yeah, that's true. All the, all the, all the, all the word of new metal left and right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Amber is not anything. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. But Amber, like, dude, it just, it feels like you're in a fucking lava lamp or something like that.

I just feel like I'm just kind of just floating around like fucking jelly. It's just, Cure, I mean, Kear, you said while I was playing, you're like a butter. A butter. Yeah, which I think I think I think I think I look at it. It's a yellowy amber. It's straight up. Amber is the color of this bud. And it's like, really, if you listen to the whole record through, which is what is what you should do because that's what the ethos of this podcast is, it's a banger all the way through.

and that's like a giant single, arguably their biggest hit, right? But it's well-paced, and by that point, you almost need that song, and then it just keeps going, and then it leaves you wanting more. So it's quick when it's all over and said and done. It feels chaotic, hence the name. But I think what the message is is from chaos comes order. And I mean, he comes just short of saying that and some lyrics on some of the songs. And Amber is, it's like a jewel, like an Amber Jewel in the record. It truly is.

And I don't know if they knew that song was going to be that big when they wrote it because it's so simple sounding, man. Like, it's just that guitar effect and some fucking, you know, a vibe. Yeah. Well, here's the thing, dude. Let's talk about peak position and charts. So these are the 2002 charts. Yeah, because this was the end of the summer, I believe, when this came out. Yeah, the album dropped in June, and then they released this as a single in February of the next year, so 2002.

It peaked at position 13 on the U.S. Billboard modern rock tracks. U.S. Billboard adult top 40, peak position 27. And then it was peak position number three on the U.S. bubbling under Hot 100. I'm curious if corn. I think corn may have gotten higher. I feel like corn had because they were more like shock jockey vibe had maybe more of an impact in that way. But I feel like 311 has probably had a wider impact. Well, like here's the thing though.

Like I remember, and I talk about this all the time, I remember seeing corn music videos on TRL. I don't know if I remember seeing 311 videos on TRL. I was about to bring up TRL because I think that made a huge impact on like the charts. You couldn't deny it back then.

But I mean, to the point you just made like Shockjack or whatever. Yeah. That's probably why. Well, Corn had some groundbreaking music videos too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. That they, yeah, that they leaned into. Oh man, that, uh, the freak on the leash

video is so, so dope. Yeah, that's stuff I like a lot. You know, the music freaks me that loud, but whatever. Yeah, dude. So anyhow, yeah, let's get this from chaos. boy. So I want to start talking about the song Sick Tight. I think

it's the second track. That's what's a funny name. I mean, just the title. Yeah, just the title alone should tell you all. Kind of the tone. These lads consider themselves sick, fucking tight, right? Out of Omaha. Those are the words that we were using to describe really cool fucking shit.

Oh, dude, I still use tight. I still do, bro. I'm not going to lie. I still tight. It comes out. Like, oh, that's tight. I don't think I've used sick to describe something cool. And definitely not sick tight. But, you know, I'll say this song is sick type, man. Hey, well, let's just, let's just put this out there, too. So 2001, we were like, what, freshman?

Mitchell, maybe you were a sophomore? Yeah, no, no, no, freshman. It would have been a freshman, yeah. Yeah, we might have still been in middle school. That's true, man. All right. Yeah, so that's the headspace. They would have been like an exotic band, like, oh, wow, all the potheads in school,

listen to 311. That's, like, the cool, like, whoa, dude. All the freaks. They smell funny when they come back from lunch. with the dreads exactly yes what's that other like what's the like the like the Rishiki or what does it like the no no like

that uh the classic like stoner hoodie that looked like it was made out of a oh I don't know if I should know that yeah I know what you're talking about yeah a poncho it's made it's got it looks similar to that it's got it's got a it must have a name but hey look he actually like the way those things look they're pretty fucking cool it's like the pointy hood and like the

I don't think it looks like a surf towel or something repurposed in a hoodie. Yeah, those are pretty fucking cool, dude. Yeah, yeah, I did. Here it is, dude. I just found it on the Reddit. Today I learned the real name for those poncho hoodies that stoners like to wear, also known as drug rugs, is a Baja jacket. That makes sense, yeah.

Okay, there you go, Baja jacket. Baja. Anyway, all right, let's jump in. Let's jump in a man. Let's jump in the first track, brothers. So yeah, so let's just put this out there too. Me and Travis are coming in blind. Yeah, I didn't listen to this album.

Yeah, to get back to where I originally started this, this long, frigging chaotic tangent was that incubus, definitely my flavor sometimes, but not necessarily all the time. This, I knew when we, I was like, oh, my God, I could talk this one at length. So I got the lead on it, boys. Let's get sick tight. That was fucking on. Can I just say something real quick. Okay. I know.

Mikes are hot, dude. I'm just so happy that we're sitting here listening to 311 with Mitchell, motherfucking Mcnight, dude. Who would have thought we'd be sitting here doing this with you, Mitch? Investigating 311, boys. Yeah, if you told me, I must have got this. I don't know. Because as soon as I saw the cover, it's a very kind of bold cover, like red and green. It's like some kind of planning on fire on fire.

It's a cool album cover, man. I know that I had this record 20 years ago. So, yeah, it's like time warp, bro. It truly is a blink of the eye. I was going to say, like, I mean, I've never listened to this album besides Amber, but that just transport. Like, I feel like I've heard this song, like, or this type of song, like, so, like this just transported me back. Dude, the drum be straight up, I feel like that's a, what's the huge band out of Baltimore right now? Turnstile, bro, that's got like they're, I mean, Kings of the World right now in that scene.

And that drum, that, I swear, there's pockets in this record where it sounds like a fucking turnstile song, dude. It's that super tight snare drum, pick up that pick a little snare. And then they're playing off of, like, rap and rock. Like the guy comes in with a verse, you know? Yeah, dude, that guy, um, straight up was like. I mean, I don't know. Beastie boys or the far side. Maybe not as heady as far side or something like that, but certainly as confident or as like brash as the Beastie Boys.

Yeah, it's like an homage or like a trit. You know, like he's paying respects to like old school hip hop. It's their style, dude. I guess they grew up in middle of Nebraska listening to that kind of stuff. I don't know if you could call it old school hip hop in 2011 or 2001. 2001. Exactly. But still, I mean.

There's a funky pace to it, right? And, you know, the references are super funky baselines. You know, it's funny. It gets you laughing in parts and, you know, just simple stuff like talking about how can, you know, you're crying about your life. You think it's absurd. What could be so bad? You come from the suburbs. Like, bro, quit being so bad.

I need to hear that a lot, too. We all three need to hear that. Yes, dude. He just paints a picture of essentially like, you know, being grateful and realizing the privilege you have in certain ways. And the straw that you grab in life is probably longer than nine people out of tens, right? So that message, right? And it's kind of aggressive the way he does it, but the message leaves you with a positive thing, right? And it's just fucking great.

There's something about that sound. That's the reason I'm like, well, you know, I feel like I've heard this song before. Like this just, it makes me think of like, you know, teenage, teenager culture. Yeah. When we were teenagers, obviously, but like I'm just imagining like walking through the mall and I'm walking into like Gadzukes or something. You remember that sort? Dude, that was the first taste of freedom that we had. Yeah.

Absolutely. This is the kind of music we were listening to. And the song has enough, like, danceability, be it mashability or, like, groove ability to be playing where people are, like, not having to pry into the, you know, quote unquote heavy lyrics or at least, you know, kind of in your face message that's there that I think is in the bands like Incubus and Rage Against the Machine, bands that I do gravitate towards in this rap, rock fusion. That's what I look for, too. Something more than just like, you know, you know, just talk. They may just be a message, right? So we find that a lot in this record we're going to see. My favorite line, dude.

Yeah, tell me, tell me, because it's good, bro. I'm talking honestly, we are assuredly dope. I smoke it, but not every day. Yes, bro. Because anything all the time's a drag I say, bro. And that's good advice, dude. Anything all the time is a drag. And moderation is key, dude.

Yeah, but then there's like corny lines. Like he spells out his name, right? He works that into his flow. The name's Nick, H-E-X-U-M. Like, he spells out of it. That's a hip-hop move right there, dude. Yeah. Yeah.

really is. And it's an old school hip hop move, right? Like an early style. Yes, yes, or a Beastie Boys move. Like, you're spelling out. That's awesome, dude. Straight out. Awesome way to start us off. Yeah, hell yeah. I'd say it's sick tight even. That's what I was thinking. Indeed. So, you know, the first half of the record is kind of this vibe. The second half is a different vibe, but it all matches together. So we're going to move a few songs forward into From Chaos, the title track of the record. Nice. Not a single. Another cool fusion style song. of, you know, weird rock and roll that's got a hip-hop backbone to it because it's, there's no denying it, dude. All right, let's do it.

Yeah, I hear. We warn you. We're shaking and rock boys in me. Your bloods and girls in calif. That's all rhythms. You want to get them. I'm a police show rock and roll. And we are back in control.

Yeah. So that's a bit more of like a bragyos-ish song or whatever the hell of the word is. Which is very, very, you know, very, you know, very, you know, in line with hip-hop, with rap music. Yeah. Well, what's funny, I mean, you know, you know, it's funny. or anything. You know, like in the 2000s, like rap was starting to, I mean, I'm no expert on rap by any means, but I feel like rap is starting to go to go away from the, and this is more like the classic

rap, probably because that's what they grew up listening to. You know, these guys go back to the 80s or whatever. So, I mean, they were actually around when hip hop sounded like this and they're still doing that. Yeah, this is not. These aren't samples in a beat made by a producer somewhere and then, you know, recorded over some other. Yeah, this is a different style of rap with an homage to stuff that they grew up listening to.

Has to be, right? With the way that he comes in with his name's S.A. Martinez, he has a verse and then Nick Hexom gets a verse. But I like how Hexom will sing throughout too. He'll try to provide some backing vocals and have like a chorus going, which I did, right? Because that keeps me familiar to kind of the pop song formula. Yeah, this is definitely like a braggadocious song, but it sounds like they freaking earn it, dude. I mean, it says like one of the early lines, I hear we were the model for the band. you front, we spawned you. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, bro. Yeah. You wouldn't be here without us. You wonder who they're talking about, you know, because like a lot of, you know, a lot of rap artists would do, you know, this is a fucking, this is a disc track, right? I mean, I wonder who they're calling out. Like, what band are they? It is, man, because they say glycerin tears don't fool me, you know?

Like, yeah. Oh, is that, wait a minute. No, is that, is that, is that a hit? Bush, I doubt it. I highly doubt it. I know they use glycerin and movie studios. This one for, for fake tears. It's like a, they apply it.

Oh, wait. a long time. That's slowly rules down. Glisterine. Gloucesterine, I think they're saying fake tears. Yeah, that's it. I know the record was written. It was the first time they got to do it in their own studio that they made.

Like they fucking built their own studio. So it was a big kind of middle finger to their first record label, I think, that had, and hence the name from chaos. So a lot of it might not even necessarily. It's coming at like, you know, the other side of it, the people, the non-creatives, the kind of the Yes Men and Corpos that, you know, probably have a lot of way more power than we realize, you know. So it's them getting to do their own thing.

I think it's more of that. It's a diss tract to a lot. But it's also like a hype track to humanity to be kind of extreme about it, right? Like, you know, they talk about, yeah, from chaos comes clarity. I tell you what you appear to be, you ought to know. But then that's in the same ethos of make yourself. I feel that that's in those two lines right there. I kind of thought that too.

It's chaotic, but it's going to be, you can come back to yourself and always kind of reinvent it or know. Delusions plaguing everybody? Yes. get humble, you know, the same from the lyrics in the previous song about coming from the suburbs. What the hell are you complaining about? Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, they're making a reference to come original. See that?

Finding it hard to come original, we warned you. Wait, when did come original? I think that was the last album before this. This is their sixth record. So at this point, they're fucking established, right? Like, we're just finding out of them because of in the time. I know that. Yeah, dude.

They're well, they've been around since. Since 90s, was what Homeboy says. Well, he says 90. Early recordings that says between 1988 and 92. You know how like Wikipedia likes to break it up into different eras. Yeah. Yeah, because, Trave, the only other record I knew besides this one was like 1991 or something. And it's way different sounding.

Way different. Yeah. So come original was, yeah, one of the singles off of the previous record sound system. And then they had a big hit called Down, too, that's real heavy. Oh, yeah. That's fucking great song, Trave. Yeah, I know you would like that because it's like a real cool, catchy guitar hook. Yeah, that's another one that I'm really familiar with.

Down and Amber part of the big two. Yeah, I think Down is on their, yeah, down's the opening track to their title track, or their self-titled record, came out in 94. Dang, dude. Actually, 95. Now, I remember Spencer had that record, or our older brother Spencer had that record. I remember listening to it. That's a bold sound.

That's a pretty unique move in 1995, bro, because, like. A self-titled? Well, just that sound, down. Oh, yeah, sure, sure. That's a heavy groove, and it's so fucking catchy. So let me read something, boys, because I like to at least find one. review that came out the year it dropped. This is punknews.org.

So I guess this is an aggregate website. Like, I don't know where this review actually showed up in 2001, but this person gave it a three and a half rating out of five. I don't know if that matters, but it says here, the first line here says, yeah, okay, I know. 311 is a far cry from anything punk, but I felt that this album was an outstanding. release and something needed to be said about it. 311 is the only non-punk band that I listen to, and that is because of their talent and emotion that really comes through on their songs.

It says here, I feel that I can directly relate 311's past albums the same way as Rancids. In the early 90s, 311 released their debut music and followed up on it with 1994's grassroots, which openly defined the 311 sound. A year later, they recorded their self-titled 311, which broke them into the mainstream, but instead of rehashing their sounds to continue their popularity, they went with a slower, more reggae sounding approach on 97's transistor and 1999 sound system before returning to their roots on From Chaos. So From Chaos is going back to their roots. That's a great quote for me because that paints a picture of kind of like a general general picture of where they were and what they sounded like. Because I know grassroots

pretty, pretty well from front to back and it's awesome, really awesome. And if they've been in the game that long, dude, they deserve that kind of respect. I'm telling you, I think Incubis formed in mid-90s, you know, early 90s. I know they were around a long time too, but, you know, yeah, these these dudes were kind of like moving around while we were, you know, not wanting to admit that they were cool at the time, right? Right. And now I can admit, like, this is a cool, right? Dude, and we had no idea how long that they were doing this. No, no.

And all we know is Amber, right? That's it when it comes out. And it's a single. It's new at that point. And we got to feel it pretty fresh, you know, and it was just as good then as it is now, dude. Maybe better now. I don't know, because it's aged a little. I know.

That's another thing. We're coming at it now. Yeah, dude. And I mean, what, 25 years later? And I'm fully open to it. And I need to be more open to that kind of that mindset about it. Because, I mean, it's literally what he's the advice that he's preaching in this kind of also, right? Okay.

You know what's great, dude? Holy shit. All right. This punk news. org, this website has been around since then. This is like a blog, dude, because I'm reading comments from 25 years ago. Oh, that's a joke. This is dope.

Yeah, that's a hidden honeyhole. Dude, I love Stumbleone stuff like that. Yeah, man. It's like a time. Mine capsule. Here's a comment from someone who's got the username Sick Boy, B-O-I. Boy. They snagged that username real early.

That's hilarious, dude. It says, not to be a dick, but I hate 3-11. Two wannabe beastie boyish for me. And that dude's voice gets on my damn nerves. Reminds me of that early 90s white rapper, Snow. This is a gold mine. But anyways, I like the last line on this review. It says, overall, even though this is not a punk release, it is an amazing disc, disc CDs, hello?

Love it. And one that I would hope you would all listen to with open ears and an open mind. Yeah, balls the stones on this NADA machine. That's what they go by. For releasing this on punknews.org, I'm sure, yeah, dude, I'm sure most of these comments are negative. But how cool is that, dude? Hey, I can see the connection. There's a through line to it, bro.

I mean, you're playing reggae, you're playing ska. All of a sudden, you're playing a punk song, dude. Like, there's not, it's not that far of a stretch for me. So they should have covered more of them, honestly. It's sad that it took them that long to do it. But yeah, I mean, that's great. I couldn't have said a bit of myself. And that helps paint a picture of kind of where they were at.

Yeah, so that's cool. So they're returning to their roots on this record. And I think we probably know that Amber is the crest of the wave for them. Because, I mean, there hasn't been. I mean, nothing in the... Apparently it went triple platinum. Yeah, but it's huge, dude. It's like international type huge

Certified units sold That's how you get triple platinum my friend Yeah, it's the meme of the kid going to college for the first time And it's the on his poster or on his wall It's the Sublime poster and maybe a 311 poster Like they're that big in that kind of circle and I wouldn't surprise me if it was on Orange County.

Remember that show? That movie? Oh yeah, man Dude, I wasn't allowed to watch that one when it came out and I think y'all to see it. It is so good, man. That one or out cold. Colin Hanks, right?

I wasn't allowed to watch that. Yeah, and he's in that one too. Jack Black? Is Jack Black? Yeah, Jack Black. Yeah, Jack Black. Dude, that's a, I got to watch that again, man. I bet you anything, Abrams on that freaking soundtrack, dude.

Because doesn't you go to like a, like, it's got to be on multiple Orange County. Oh, yeah, for sure. Like an Orange County Community College or some shit. Anyways. Yeah, awesome. So. Cool. All right, man.

So, but just to kind of. Last pick of the night, dude. Yeah, last pick of the night is towards the end of the record. But, I mean, there's a run of them there at the end. And the last song we're going to play is Hossil, Apostle. hostile apostle, but he kind of rhymes it like hostile apostle. I love this one. This one's just got some kind of like heavier, way heavier vibe about it.

Certainly the standout song for me on the record, even over like Amber or I'll be here a while. But this run of Hossel Apostle through the very end of the record, I recommend. That's my favorite part of the record. I guess tracks 8 through 12 there, just nonstop. The whole record, no filler straight up. But 8 through 12, bangers, dude. And it starts with Hossil Apostle. You had me at heavier.

Yes. Yeah, Tribe, you're going to dig this. The lyrical content, more in your face. Again, more kind of that philosophic message of them trying to tell you something, not just, like, brag about shit. But you're going to love the guitar work. And yeah, man, I'm excited to see what Quentin thinks about the drums and stuff, too. Let's do it.

Hell yeah. A Beastie boy is doing that. No, no. Sick boy. I think they have it in them to do that. But no, they never, like, never came out with it, you know? Because I know those dudes were in a punk band before the Beastie Boys was like a parody, essentially that took off for them.

But yeah, bro, what a fucking tasty, like, chunky, chunky, riff there in the middle. Yeah, yeah. Metal all the way on that riff. I mean, this is, you know, this is the kind of song that, uh, that would earn them, you know, the metal cred that they would get the little bit. If the pit isn't going at this point, I'm certainly starting it off at this point, if I met the show.

Yeah, because I mean, I mean, you know, one of the labels these guys get is funk metal. And that's, that is what that is. That's kind of the, the elephant in the room, we haven't said whole, this whole recording dude is funk metal, I think probably applies to them. Yeah. And that, that song right there is a good, is a good. Because their hip hop leans into that kind of the funk ethos. It's not like rap.

It's like a funky hip-hop-y ethos, you know. Yeah. And that's what, you know, I don't know that new metal ever gets funky like this. It's true. It's true, Travis. Yeah. There's not, I mean, I'm far away from Lent Biscuit when I hear this. Lent Biscuit wishes it sounded like this.

I mean, like I said, I'm trying to be open to shit because Nick Hexham tells me to me. But, yeah. I'm never reopening that door. Yeah, yeah. No, thanks, bro. Closed, Lodd it up. He got to, dude, he got to get it. Was it even a door?

Or was it like a shitty puddle that we fell into? And I don't want to step into it again. You got to give props to Fred Durs. I think it may have been a dog turd that I stepped on. Yeah, exactly. I mean, he, you know, he's, you know, giving props for making a comeback, I think. You know, you guys see the clips of him on Instagram. People ride that nostalgia wave, man.

We're in, we're the perfect demo right now for it. Yeah, dude. But yeah, Hossil Apostle. I think Ders is probably a hostile apostle, you know, Like, there's a lot of lines in here. I didn't catch right away when I was reading it before the recording. But like all of your heroes speak nothing to me, dude. That's fucking heavy, dude.

That sounds like something that some dude, a cold line somebody would say before they're executed. Or like what you say to somebody before you execute them. I love that line. Yeah, it is a sweet line. Dude, that's a tattoo line. Yes. One emotion, one tempo and no real feeling. He's talking about popular culture.

And the mass produced bullshit that is out there at the time. Possibly deeper, political, sure, absolutely. I'm trying to figure out what they're talking about with that whole angry human leads impressionable boy to skulls and piercings will to destroy. Yes. I think he's saying either society has this angry approach at raising its young or quite literally that the father is angry. So it impersens, it leaves impressions on this boy. And then he goes to like skulls and piercings, which are seen as, you know, especially at this time. It's right.

And it wills, yeah, it's fucking great, dude. Anger leads to that, right? And then all of a sudden, all of your heroes mean nothing to me, dude. So now you've raised me with fear and anger. How do you expect me to do anything else but, you know, have fear and anger? I mean, this does kind of remind me of some of the lines from that Incubis album. Yes. Yes, bro.

And it's ethos. Not necessarily the way it sounds or like even how, when it comes out, like quite literally how it sounds and what they're saying. But when you read it on paper, bro, it sounds like, yeah, they could trade lyrics with each other. Yeah. And that kind of, that to me goes in line with, with the dudes and gals and whoever else is going to be forming a circle kicking around a hacky sack. This is like their bread and butter. Yes. Yeah. There's, there's, there's, the mindset that they're always, they're always thinking about this kind of stuff. I'm afraid that we haven't, you know, respected that kind of. There's a mini, like, I'm by a mini, I mean, minuscule kind of counterculture movement in that late 90s era, early 90s to late, all the way through the 90s where it's like hippiedum 2.0, but it's, it's, never took off the same way, right? It never really did. Yeah, it was pretty big. Yes. Right when we got out of high school too. Yes. Yes. Right before Occupy Wall Street and all this shit. You and

me, Mitch, we're riding that shit hard. And it's there. And it might come back around. And it's usually with the youth. There needs to be a new sound with it. You're always some kind of new sound with the, with the message, right? And I think that the fusion of hip hop and rock and roll was inevitable, dude. Like, there is no denying that. Oh, for sure. These guys were way ahead of the fucking curve when it comes to not only making good music but successful music in that genre. Yeah, definitely. Nothing but respect to them. Will I dive into their newer stuff?

Probably not. Will this be a guilty pleasure, so to speak, for me? Always, dude. I will work my way backwards from here and then see if I want to go forward with it more than likely. Certainly on that record that has down, because that song is fucking awesome. That's the one song that you could blur that to an alien, dude, and he's got the fucking group. For me, that's the first song that comes to my head and I think at 311.

It's not Amber. It's down. No, not for me. It's Amber for me. And then maybe something else like Hossil Apostle. Because I just like that title. I'm a sucker for lyrical play and words that sit pretty together and those just work together. Yeah, man.

Yeah. This is the album that Spencer had, the one with Down. Yeah. Look at that. That blue covered. Yeah, that's iconic. And their logo. And how cool is that?

You know, there was a time when rock bands all had their own logo, right? that you could scratch into like your binder or your fucking, your locker. You're right, man. Limpisket used like the exact same freaking font, man. That font was kind of, it's kind of got, it's got that early 2000s, late 90s vibe, dude. That's where we're headed. I'm curious, man. Check the record label.

Maybe they were both in the same record label and possibly had the same, like, graphic designer or something like that work. We could have done all this at the front of the recording, but fuck it, man. I know 311 is like, it's the police code. It's the police code in Omaha for an indecent expose. That's like the genesis of it. I was curious what it was about. So, I mean, that just takes the picture of like who they are, right?

I mean, it all comes back to that, right? Like, indecent exposure. Okay, buddy. Yeah, so great band, solid record. I mean, no filler, boys, no filler, truly. I want you to go back and listen to it, man, especially, just start it hustle if you want and go through there and then just let it play back around. I was about to say, let's just play one more.

Let's just play one more. Let's do it. Was uncalmable a single? You tell me. I did a quick look at that. I knew Amber had to be. Because I was surprised that the last one was a single. I can look it up.

So what's the name, Q? Un calm. Un calm. Uncalm. No, it's not. So that one's mentioned in that review that I read. Yeah. It's a good one.

It mentions that uncalm is also a slower cut, quote unquote, that follows Amber. So, yeah, let's listen to it. Dude, that was the sickest and the tightest that they got. That's my favorite one. That was great. That was great. That was great. That was great, dude.

I'm glad. The guitar riff or whatever, the melody of the idea. Yes. I was getting like secret agent ma'am. It felt like a campy, campy that. I definitely did I get that. Undercover agents. Hell yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was awesome, dude. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, but then it's got like the very beginning it sounded like I was in a desert somewhere. And an Arabian Nights was about to open up or something. Yeah. know, very, and they have that kind of vibe about them because they're, you know, heady and smoke a lot and sing about, you know, counterculture type shit. So, yeah, it's like, it puts you in a different space, bro.

Yeah, and there was the really pretty harmonies that they do on Amber. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And this is back to back. Yes. On the, yeah, I like that a lot, dude. The second, I'm telling you, boys, listen, basically from Hossalon, I think, is like one giant song that's fucking awesome. Yeah, I really like those harmonies.

They're tougher at the front half of the record. I think they're coming out a little more, like, hard, and then they work, work into some cool shit. Yeah, the song is fucking great, dude. Really cool twist and turns. Yeah, glad we snuck that one in. Well, where do we go from here, boys? You know, we could kind of backtrack a few years. I want to say it came out in 97. It's a band. It is a singular record by a band that's well known. The band's Blind Melon and the record is soup. And I know it from front to back, dude. Let's do it, man. I think that's great. And I can kind of take the lead on that too. It's a no filler, boys, I'm telling you. It really is. do that. There's nothing, no big hits on it that I think anybody would recognize. I think we talk about chili peppers, maybe. We could do chili peppers too. Absolutely. Blime, I like Blind Melon. Let's do

Blind Melon. I mean, everybody in their mother knows fucking chili peppers, man. You know what I mean? It's a good one, boys. 97, I think. Is that what it said? 96, maybe. 95. 95. Okay, so, yeah, I mean, 311 at that point is already in their groove and this sounds kind of on its way out, you know, this is one I think maybe their second and last record. But yeah, we can do that one. We can stay there. And maybe we keep chili peppers up our sleeve You know that's a good band I know we haven't touched on them ever So there's a few records by them

I could talk about what sex sugar magic for sure That record's no filler for sure dude So we got some moves And that's and I mean I think we famously Travis and I know I know boys I mentioned this to you Mitch When we were doing this When we were I was you know

Doing a mic check with you Yeah you give me a crash course Travis I don't know if you remember this man But we used to go do like play Do poker and I nights. Oh, yeah. With Texarkson.

Yeah. With people in your grade, Mitch. Yeah. And I remember that night, Ted was there. Tim. Tim was there, a bunch of others. And Red Hot Chili Peppers came on and trapped. Me and I, Travis, we were like dogging on Red Hot.

I'm not surprised about it at all, dude. I'm trying to paint the picture here. So we certainly wouldn't have had like, we wouldn't have had Bluetooth going at that point. It might have been somebody on an iPod docked into like a station or a CD, somebody putting on like. And I think we were trying to say that it just sounded like the freaking Mighty, Mighty Bosstones. I mean, we couldn't have been wrong if that's what we said, dude. I just remember Mighty, Mighty Bostones came into that conversation at some point.

Oh, no doubt. No doubt. If we're talking about old Tim who is a fucking saint of Carrollton, then Mighty, Mighty Bostons were never far away from the conversation. Okay. We could do chili peppers and get awkward with it. But I'm telling you, soup, I know it really, really well. Yeah, let's do that, man. Let's do that.

Yeah, that sounds good to me. Cool. Sounds good. Well, then it's sorted, man. Yeah, Trav, Q, go back and listen to all those after. I want you to experience to that because it's banger and it's a vibe. And I think it's worth kind of keeping around and, and a pert or relevant to like a cool rock and roll sound. Indeed.

Songs like that and down, bro? Like, who else is making catchy, danceable? Like, your girl wants to listen to that song, but you can also mosh, you know, like, not many bands in that genre got that, those demographics. They nailed it, man. And we're going to fade out with I'll be here a while, which is the last song of the, which is another massive. Another single, massive hits. You were talking about music videos?

I think I remember this one on TRL, but I don't know. I got a weird visual memory. Maybe I'm making it. Yeah. Well, Chavez, you want to do the intro? You're also better at that than me. I mean, how. I'm just lazy.

How long we've been doing this show, man. I'm just lazy. That's all it is. That's all it is. That's, you know what? I understand, dude. Not everybody's got the, got these pipes like me. Well, sometimes I start a sentence and I don't know where it's going.

Same thing. The on the spot improv. It just goes here and there. I was like, man, I hope this ends well. Okay, bye, thanks. You see what I like to do is, you know, I just go into a trans student. And it just, it's like a script. It just comes out.

And then I'm done in about 10 seconds. And then I come back to you, and I'm like, oh, okay, I think I did it. And then you log in into your editing software and you go, I'll be here a while. And I've got it. Pull up the old No player out. That's what I said when I looked at the length of our Freaking Best of Part 4 with old Mitchie.

Hey man, that's fucking hard. You have no idea how hard it was to like And I still feel like I dropped the ball on some songs. I was listening to one other ones I picked out. I was like, fuck, I should have played that. Did you listen to our first watch of the year, Mitch? It just came out. It just dropped.

Okay, no. I was going to say, I was looking for that. Yeah, I was going to ask you all, too, if you had done that. Yeah. And half of the. The songs are 2025 songs that I summed. I'll admit. I'll admit it right now here and there.

You guys want to hear me admit something? Yeah. I regret playing the Capeop. You know, bro. Don't try it. Don't. Because it's good that it's good that you do. It's good that it's on it.

It's like a, it's, I don't want to say it's like a level of humility, but it's like keeps it like light. All right? Because we're so you can, you don't want to be too like. Okay. Like I said that pitchfork disorder of like, you know, I get the name is pitchfork. Like get your pitchfork. but at the same time like brown i didn't want to fall prey to that you know what you know what you know

thank you michael yeah right i'm not gonna i'm not gonna take it back i think i'm not gonna double down i probably not you know what uh maybe it's just that you know it's a it's a if if you if you listen back in two years to that episode you know it's a time capsule of like uh you know what the uh what was in the zeitgeist at the time you know you we reject things you don't like is probably it's like oh well i'm just not hip to it so i've got it back bash it, you know? That's right. Like, I don't know what this is, so I'm going to make fun of it or shake my hand at the sky.

Old man shakes hand at sky, you know? Like, it's going to play no matter what, dude. That's right. All right. Well, let me just get us. Let me get this out of here, okay. See, now I'm too nervous about it. You guys are well to watch.

I'll do it. You want we did it? That'd be hilarious if you did it. All right, we do it. Okay. Yeah, all right. Let's cue it up because I'm going to have to piece this together. Well, Mitchell, dude.

Mitchell, you've been listening to this show long enough because see if you can do the outro for us. Okay, that was it. Can you? That was it, y'all. From Chaos by 311. This was no filler. The podcast where we play none of the singles, only the stuff between them. And I was Mitchell, y'all.

Good enough? And, yeah, no. I mean, yeah, dude, I think what I'm going to do, what we should do is just clip that out and then we'll just use that for, the outro for every episode going forward. You know what I mean? Like, there's never, we're never going to be able to top it. Never play a single. I was going to see if you could remember.

No, I don't because, no, no, no, no. This has been. What we say about this Pantheon podcast. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, hell no. This has put your pants on network and, uh, we really appreciate it. The pants on that work.

Over. Dude, that's, that's hilarious. You got to say over, right? over and out oh that's right yeah Travis you take it it's close

it was close enough yeah yeah clip it yeah yeah yeah so yeah

well here we go guys just let me show you it's done all right well thanks as always for listening to the no feel like

see I'm in my fucking outro yeah you never that's not in my fucking outro now I forgot what it is to it I don't mention the name of it

I'll do it I got it I got it you know what let's see yeah let's see what you got you It's been a while, dude.

All right, well, as always, you can find us on the Pantan, the Pants in the Sky. It's all over, guys. It's all over. It's over. Yeah. As always, you can find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network. That's Pantianpodcast.com. We can find a lot of other fantastic music, heavy music-centered podcasts like ours.

Reach out to us on Instagram at No Filler Podcast is the handle. That's basically our email. You know what I'm saying? Until next time. So I guess we're going to cover, we're covering what, soup? Yeah. You know, the food item. Covering soup next.

Your favorite soups. Yeah, dude. Yeah, pick out your favorites. I'm more of a Campbell's chunky myself. Oh, dude. If I'm getting a canned soup, it's Campbell's chunky, dude. Or maybe progressive. Yeah, oh, yeah.

If you got a little more coin. So we're going to cover Blind Melons. Soup. Soup from 95 next time. But we'll have a what you heard in between that, Traff. Cool. Look forward to that, boys. Definitely.

I look forward to soup. It's a grungy gemstone, I think. A lot of people are going to know about out. Blind Melon was huge. They had a huge hit, just like the band. We just covered 311. So I look forward to bringing some songs that are, that needs some light, shined on. Yeah, that's going to be awesome.

So we're going to fade out with I'll be here a while. Until next time, my name's Travis. I mean, oh, man. Now you're, you're absolutely. You know, why? Because I'm usually the one who says it first. Because you're the one. Yeah.

And I'm usually one of piecing it together. So I always hear you. Dude. My name is Quentin. I'm Travis. And I'm Mitchell. You all take care.