No Filler Music Podcast - The Duct Tape Edition

Episode Date: September 5, 2023

Held together by duct tape and super glue, this month's episode just barely made its way into your feed. But we're glad to be here with this month's batch of tasty jams from earworm K-Pop to 70s prog, from a song you've probably heard on TikTok to 60s sunshine pop, tune in to hear our monthly mixtape. Tracklist Drop Nineteens - Scapa Flow Crayon Pop - Bar Bar Bar Yuragi - sleeptight Air and Alessandro Baricco - Pat Cobhan Ride Pinegrove - Need 2 Beach Fossils - Tough Love Blur - St. Charles Square Wishbone Ash - Leaf And Stream Gui.tar - Feel Flows Free The Paper Kites - I Don't Want To Go That Way Margo Guryan This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Travis. And it's just me doing a quick PSA here slash apology. You're going to hear a lot of background noise on Quentin's track here on this episode. He has got this ridiculous litter box that is basically like a self-cleaning litter box type situation. It sounds like you're getting your car worked on at the mechanic shop when you're in that room and that thing starts cleaning the litter box. Trust me, I know, because I was there last month sleeping in that very room that he records in. Anyway, so that machine was going off for the first like 20 minutes or so in this episode. So I tried my best to work around it, but, you know, there's only so much I could do.

You know. So anyway, apologies for that. But if you can get past the background noise, there's some good tunes in this episode. So anyway, thanks for listening, as always. And here we go. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Quentin. And I'm Travis.

And we're kicking off this month's suburb. with a brand new single from Drop 19s. This song is called Skaepa Flow. How cool is that, man? Yeah, I wasn't expecting it. Yeah. Well, and it's a whole new record coming out soon. It's a whole new record dropping November 3rd called Hard Light,

their first album in 30 years. Yeah, I mean, this has been happening with 90s, all, bands, all rock bands, and Shugay's bands too, right? I mean, we had Inlet by Hum, came out in 2020, and then I'm trying to think of some other ones like Failure, came out with the record in 2021. Our intro for last week was Slow Dive, Slow Dive. Right, new slow dive. So it's a good time to be a fan.

And the funny thing is like, you know, since we're, a lot of these bands, I just stumbled upon the last like five years, you know? Yeah. Most of them through this podcast. A lot of the shoe gates fans. Think about it. Drop 19's fans have had to wait 30 years for new tunes. You know, me, I just had to wait like two or three years, you know,

because I just found out about them. So it's pretty cool. Yeah. But yeah, that song, you know, I feel like it's not as noisy and stereotypically shoe gates, but. Well, you never know, man. You've got 10, no, 11 tracks on this new record. This is just one of them.

It's cool, yeah, when they all, and this is the original lineup. Okay, that's cool. I was going to ask that too. All five members. Yeah, okay, here's another example. You remember American football, that band that came out? They put out a record in 2016. Over the last decade, we've had a lot of these 90s bands that, you know,

have gotten back together and made music again. So it's really cool. And yeah, from drop 19s, I mean, they consistently make best of shoegays lists. You know, Delaware, their 1992 record consistently shows up on lists of best jukegaid's albums of all time, you know. Yeah, I was looking right now at a pitchfork list. It's number 45 out of 50. Yeah.

On the best shoe gaze albums of all time. Yeah, we did a, I think we did an episode on that record, actually. We did. Yeah. Really good stuff. Cool. Q, so, you know, as we've said, we don't record these episodes like, you know, the day before they drop or whatever, right? It's a few weeks prior to when you're listening to this, right? So we're in the past right now talking to you.

I haven't actually started piecing together last month's episode yet, which is confusing because last month, for us was July. And that episode is dropped. I haven't pieced together August episode yet, which is confusing because we're recording this episode in August. My brain hurts right now. But I'm just saying, you know, I'm apologizing to the listeners who had to wait like another week or so before they could listen to last month's episode because it's not

going to come out for probably, you know, a week or two prior to then to when these usually drop. But anyway, whatever. I apologize. I've been busy at work. I think we're doing okay for getting an episode out once a month. Yeah. And this episode is free 90 free for those listeners right there. So you know what do you want? But I still feel bad. So well, anyways, yeah, you're busy too, man. You're flying up here to visit us for Ronan's one year old birthday. Is that how you say that? Ronan's first birthday. His first birthday. Yeah, I'm excited. first birthday. So. All right.

Well, you know what, dude? Let's get this show on the road. Who gets to kick off this month? Is it me? I'll go first. I'll go first. All right. Go, go for it.

All right. All right, man. We're kicking things off. We're just, let's just play some K-pop for the first time ever on this show. Cool. Let me tell you the funny story behind how I've heard this song and how I've heard it probably a hundred times by now. Okay.

We got this. amazing little plush toy for Ronan from Sarah's mom. It's called Cactus Gump. And it's a cactus with googly eyes, and you can dress them up in different clothes. And you press a button, and it plays a bunch of different songs, and he'll dance to the songs. You can also speak, if you speak anywhere near it, it's going to repeat back what you say. a in a high-pitched chipmove voice while moving around. So am I going to be like, I'm going to be hearing that?

Oh, yeah. For sure, right? Yeah, because this is the second song that plays through the cycle. Do the clothes have anything to do with the songs? Like you put on a little cowboy hat and he started singing a country song or something? No, no. No. Okay.

And guaranteed that whoever made this toy did not get the rights from these record labels to have these songs play from Cactus Gump because Michael Jackson's beat it is on there. It's just super random, made in China. Gotcha. Amazing little toy. And this song is awesome. Okay. The group is called crayon pop.

It's an all-girl group. If you had to guess, how many times you think have you heard this song? Realistically, probably like 40 times. 40 times, okay. It plays like 10 seconds of it. Or maybe a little more, right? But anyways, this song came on 2013. You're going to love this dude.

I'm ready to love it. All right. The group is called crayon pop. This song is called Bar, Bar, Bar, Bar. Q, a lot of parents have to listen to Baby Shark over and over again. Or, you know, any of those kind of songs, right? Consider yourself lucky that you get to rock out to that song every day. Yeah, I get to rock out to that.

I get to rock out to a lot of they might be giants because they come out with kids' albums too. Yeah, yeah. Actually, I think I brought one of their songs to what you heard. You did, yeah. It was after I played a song from the horror movie Smile. I played like the song from like the opening title sequence. And then we transitioned into some kid song from they might be giant. only on no filler will you get that kind of back to back.

But dude, let me tell you something that's going to blow your mind right now because is what I was thinking about when I was listening to this. Just imagine if the Hives covered that song. How amazing that would be. I'm trying to imagine it. Yeah, that would be amazing. I'm just saying it gave me the same energy and vibes of like the old, you know, the Hives record that was super, super popular.

I could just see him like. The Hives or the Vines. No, no, the hives. Oh, wait, the hives. Okay, yeah. The vines was that one group that was like a one-hate wonder. Yeah, the hives. Dude, yeah, and his, like, they're not theatrics,

but like their stage presence and everything. I'm just saying I could see a really awesome cover of that song, but done as like a rock garage rock type song. The hives being like the perfect band to do it. So I've actually never heard that chorus because what it does is just loop the. I like that part, actually. liked the transition. That was really cool. Yeah. But dude, you'll hear it. It actually loops it in a really fucking cool way. So yeah. Not so janky after all then.

Well, yeah. I guess they took their time with that. All right. So that's crayon pop. Little K pop to kick us off this month. Kick it over to you, brother, what you can't. I think I'm going to go with a Japanese Shugee song. So I found this article on the Shugee sub-Preddit Q. Somebody posted a list of like, somebody wrote an article for their blog or something like that. And it was 20 obscure shoegays albums or something like that. So I queued most of them up. And this is one of the songs that was on that list. Or this is one of the albums that was on that list at least.

So this is a group called Yuragi blends a beauty of silence and dynamic noise. Or at least that's the. description of their latest record, but I think it's applicable to this one too. This record came out in 2016. It's called Nightlife. This song is called Sleep Tight. It's nice and grunggy. Nice and grungy. I love the drums. I love the drums. Yeah, definitely. You know, I think we, it's hard to sometimes describe you guys besides just talking about the wall of sound, quote unquote, you know what I mean? But I think when it comes down to it, like, what I've always liked about a good Shugay song is the balance of like the loud with the

really soft vocals, you know? You know, you could really kind of just boil it down to those two things, really if you really, if you really wanted to. And I think that, that record, or that song, at least did a really good job of that because their vocals super quiet and breathy, right? But then the guitar and the drumming, just like, you know, very, very loud, grungy, like you said. Yeah, just a great, great track. I'm always surprised by Japanese shugay's artists. Like that, the shugay scene in Japan, you know, has been amazing for as long as it has been. In America, it feels like, you know, and over in the UK and stuff.

Yeah. I've never actually thought about that, but you're right. Wall of Sound. super loud distorted guitar, soft vocals. It's the balance of those two things, I think. Yeah. It makes it, that works so well, you know. Yeah, and a very, like, not a, like, a wide range in, uh, in notes.

Vocal melody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's almost like monotone. Yeah. At least, yeah, it can be. It can be.

I mean, but, yeah. Most of the artists I can think of that, you know, are like the. textbook shoe gays are exactly like that. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Anyway, all right. Well, there you go. That band was called Yeragi. That song was called Sleep Tight, off of their 2016 record Nightlife, or EP, I should say.

All right, Q, I'll throw it back to you. This is an album from Air that I didn't know existed. I thought you were going to be more excited about that. Well, I was distracted. because when you said air, I immediately remembered that, so you know Josie Records. Uh-huh. On their Instagram account, they post new records that came in. Like, not new releases.

I'm just saying, like, records that come in. Dude, you're getting me excited already. Well, I didn't. But here's the thing, though, you might be disappointed me. If you, hang on. No. I didn't buy anything. I mean just finished sense.

Okay. I'm already mad. I'm not going to be mad. Somebody had sold the Chosie Records a copy of Moon Safari. Oh, okay. See? Calm down.

But I'm just saying I had an opportunity to go get like this really cool pressing of Moon Safari that was like a limited brown or something like that on a really cool like blue colored vinyl and I didn't rush out and get it. Was that a big mistake, Hugh? Well, no, I got too excited.

Moon Safari I've seen in Record Story. I don't ever see Taki walkie. Okay, got it. Oh, so you thought I would perhaps. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. That's one of my last records, honestly, that I really just would love to have on vinyl. Okay. I didn't. Like, I'm not really like buying a bunch of records anymore. It'll happen again someday. If I did find a copy and bought it for myself, I'd give it to you.

That's a sweet brother. That's a sweet brother. I don't know if it's been press. heavily or not. But it was moon safari. And I thought to myself, you know, a few days later, like, man, that would have been cool to have mood safari. But, oh well.

Yeah, that would be cool. Sexy boy. It's a classic. So, okay, I remember what I was doing. That was a side track. That was a sidetrack. So I share a lot of music with my nephew-in-law, Wesley. I've actually brought some tunes.

and I think I'm going to be bringing one to this, tonight, that he shared with me. So we passed back music back and forth all the time. And so I shared with him, Takiwaki, as I started talking about sea change. And then that went to Taki Walsi Wally. What did you start walking about? Because they're both produced by Nigel Godrick anyways. And so I hopped over to Nigel's Wikipedia just to look through again and all the awesome records that he's produced, right?

All the radio heads. And then I saw another Air album that he produced, and I'm like, hold up. Never heard of this Air album. It came out around the same time as Taki Wagi. Let's give it a listen. Let's give it a spin. It actually came out one year before Takiwocky. And what it is is a collaboration between Air and this Italian writer named Alessandro Barrico.

apparently he asked them to perform background music at a live theater reading of a book of his called City. He asked them if they could play music for him live while he reads passages out of this book. And then they turned it into a record, dude. It's called City Reading. And we're going to play it, dude. So there's going to be a French dude reading his book during this, but it's got classic air tunes in the background. Okay, interesting. Yeah, it is very interesting.

And it's weird, but, you know, I can't not play it after hearing it. So this song is called Pat Coban Ride. Pat Coban rid, with a skimum of beer in the barba and odor of cavall in the man. There is a violinist that's a man. The gently he tir a money. The cat will rackoguirling and then he returns from the badron. and coming on the zampes posterior and he infila the moneta in the taska.

The violinist is ceco. Pat Coban, Ride. Fanny, he lavora, with the filer of the pastor in through the gambes. The filer of the pastor is called Yang. He has tenured the camisade of osse and has the capple of hair, inzuppated of sudor. Something like a terror. Fanny he says, Scopammy, Yang.

But he's rigid, and shivol the way from the coche open. He doesn't know where to look. He prent he premed on the sess. She says, Yes, Yang. He'll caress. Say, bellow, Yang,

he says. He looks at the eyes. He leck, hella, the palm of the man. Then he comes to caressarra, spholando the appellate. Dye, says, Yang, Dye.

Kude the eyes. And he says, not I don't think a nighet Fanny guard the proper man and then the sudor

on the face of Yang and the new one of the proper man that shivola on his self. That could be

a B-side to Takiwaki that's what I love so much about it man. Yeah that's cool. My all-time favorite

one of my top 10 maybe top five records of all-time Taki-Waki I can't get enough of that album and

this is produced by Nigel Kotrick. I bet you, if anything else, they just continued working with Nigel and started recording Taki-Walki, probably around the same time of this. Yeah, well, the only thing I could think of was like, man, I wish I knew what he was saying. Right. What if you're saying some really, like, racist shit? I was just fucking, look at the album cover. It's kind of creepy.

Yeah, it's really cool, yeah. It's just a horse just staring very menacingly. at the camera. Yeah, that could be a horror movie, like a folk horror movie poster or something. Well, and it says in parentheses, trace story Western. So I wonder if it's a Western novel.

It's a good guess, cute. Yeah. So, yeah, this is a spoken word record. Cool. So they did not release an instrumental version. That's the only version of it came out? I can't find any, any, none of those tracks, I mean, I'm going to be honest,

they didn't listen to all the songs. Yeah, yeah, sure. All the tracks, because, yeah. But no, from the few that I listen to, there's no instrumentals. And, like, yeah, there's no, like, companion record that's all instrumental. That's fine.

That's fair. I mean, I think that's, that's cool. But to me, this was just more air in the vein of talkie-walky. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. And they don't sound, they don't really do music like that anymore. And you said it came out around the same time.

It came out a year earlier. Okay, so, yeah, That was like the headspace there. Guarantee you, they already had talky-walky songs that they were working on. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. So anyways, that was air. The song was called Pat Coban Ride.

The writer was called Alessandro Barrico. And I'm going to pass it back to you, brother, what you got. All right, Q. This song I've been kind of obsessed with for the last few weeks. And if you're somebody who's on TikTok or Instagram, because a lot of times TikTok reels show up on Instagram, that's how I saw this. So this song is associated with the TikTok dance. And what makes it different is that it's like this kind of fulky emo band, if you want

to call them that. They're called Pine Grove. It was the name of the artist. Dude, I heard. Well, you might be familiar with this. You may have been familiar with this song. So if you already know the trend that I'm talking about, you know exactly the song because on TikTok it's referred to as the Pine Grove Shuffle.

So I'm going to play the song. And then I'm going to play you the video. I bet they were so stoked when that came the thing. Well, they just went on hiatus recently, actually. So they haven't really been able to capitalize on it. But funny enough, they did release like a little four-track EP of four different versions of the song. It's literally just the song, but either sped up, sped up really fast or slow down really slow, all for TikTok. So people can take it and use it however they want to use it.

Anyway, the song is catchy as hell, dude. Dude, I think, what's the name of the guy that does the Spoon podcast? Oh, Tyler? Yeah, I think Tyler brought a Pine Grove song. Someone brought a song from Cardinal. Okay. To watch, to no filler at some point. Okay, okay.

One of our guests did. Well, this song is off of their release called Everything So Far, came out in 2015. And apparently it's like a compilation of a bunch of stuff they've recorded. that never made it on to other records, I think. Anyway, I'm just going to play the song. But then I'm going to play you, Kew, the original TikTok that started this because it's kind of interesting. The dance is pretty hypnotic.

And the guy doing it is not a dancer at all, like you can tell. And so you can see why it caught on because it's a dance that anybody can do. Because a lot of the TikTok dances are like super hard. You know what I mean? Not that I've tried, but anyway, all right. Here we go, Q. This song is pretty catchy. So here we go.

Again, the band is called Pine Grove. This song is called Need to. Love the harmonizing. I love the guitar strumming. The banjo. Yeah, the little banjo thing in the background. That's a cool sound. It is a great.

Yeah, it's a really cool sound, man. And I was, you know, anytime I see something like that, like I'm trying to figure out who the band is so I can look it up and listen to it and stuff like that. And the guitar strumming almost had like a, I don't know if this is right, but I mean, I almost had like a Smith's quality tour or something like that, like a new wave kind of quality. Maybe I'm stretching here. But like when I first saw the video, all you see is the strumming. And I was not expecting like a fulky song to come out of it because you don't hear the banjo in the in the video.

Anyway, you might be asking yourself, what kind of dance could you do to that? I am curious. Let me show you. So here's the guy, the original guy that did it. His handle is Garrett Lee, 39. And the guy just looks like he's going through something, dude. So here we go. Can you see him? Oh, I can see it. All right. Let me go back. That's it. Interesting. So he's just kind of flailing his arms and legs around, basically. His feet are going to the... Yeah, but it looks. But look, okay, you see that at the end. No, it's not. Now, watch his face, man. He looks, he's getting trouble. He looks like he's about to cry, right? Yeah. Anyway, so what happens is, you know, as TikTok does, you know, there's now compilation videos and stuff out there, everybody doing the song. It's kind of like

a, I guess, a solidarity thing about like, yeah, dude, we feel you. We're all going through the same shit that you're going through. You know what I mean? So like, here's a bunch of people doing it, you know? So anyway. Awesome. Get out there and do the pine grove shuffle people, if you're curious. The lyrics are about basically like, you know, why am I? It basically, it sounds like the lyrics are kind of saying there's nothing. Let me read the lyrics to you.

It says here, I'm out. Nothing here to care about. What's that sound? What's that song about? It's nothing worth me saying aloud. So then why do I seem to need to? So it's kind of like this sentiment of like, why am I even bothering? Like, why do I feel the need to keep doing this shit over and over again?

Like, why am I still obsessing over this or thinking about it? Yeah, you can interpret it a lot of different ways. So yeah, I think I think that's kind of the idea. Anyway, Pine Grove Shuffle. I was obsessed with that song for a few weeks. That's a great song. It's a great song too. Yeah.

All right, Q, throw it back at you. Well, did you know that Beach Fossils released the new album? No, I didn't. I love the Beach Fossils, man. I know. I know you did. And we've done an episode on them as well. You know what, dude?

We actually brought a single from this record as an intro to one of our episodes this year. So they finally put out their record. That's good. Cool. Well, yeah. I wonder if I'm going to play a single. It's possible. Okay, it's called Tough Love

Is that the song we played? No, that's not one of the ones we played. Okay, it's green, man. Cool. So yeah, Beach Fossils, they were one of the, I'd say one of the freshman class of, uh, Dream Pop. Dream Pop, yeah, there we go.

Jangle Pop, dude. Yeah. Alongside, I mean, they came up alongside the, the Chill Wave movement too with Washed Out and Toroie Ma. Yeah, I feel like when, when Chill Wave came out, There was also this like dream pop thing going on too with bands like, um, sea pony and,

um, I don't know, Beach House is kind of a thing, but yeah, Beach House. Oh, yeah. I don't like talking about him because the,

their lead singer is an absolute piece of trash human being, but they were good. You know, we saw them live, right? Who'd they open for? Beach House. I think they opened for Beach House. Or probably

Wasn't it washed out And beach house? But I'm pretty sure that they were the opening opener Maybe All I know is I saw them live And I think you were there with me What were they called me? We haven't even said they were maybe

It would probably beat something Everybody was beach Something with a shark Oh okay Okay Okay shark Neda I don't know

I know Anyways Anyways Anyways Beach Fossils Yeah, one of the freshman classes of that movement in the early O's And they just released a new record out in June called Bunny And I'm gonna play a track from it

And it's fucking great, dude, you're gonna love it No surprise All right All right, here we go, this song is called Tough Love They're surprisingly consistent, you know what I mean? Like they've stuck with the same the same kind of energy and like and the spirit of like their first record.

The lyrics too. Yeah, it's, it's pretty terrible. I think it was Beach Fossils that you, that you mentioned like, and I thought it was pretty spot on. It captures like the feeling of being in high school. Yeah. Well, like the songs, like the lyrics that like the like the themes of the of the song, like what they're going through. Yeah. Well, especially.

that first record. Yeah. What was the name of that record? I think it was just self-titled, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, and that's the thing, dude. I mean, I think the lead singer of this group, what's his name?

Let's give us, let's shout his name out here. Dustin Paceor, probably mispronounce that, but like he was probably college age when he wrote this, the first record, at least. I bet you he was. So, like, he was still fresh in that, in that era of, you know, that. That moment in his life, you know what I mean? Yeah. And on that first record, there's songs about like, yeah, there's songs called youth, lazy day, golden age, you know what I mean?

Songs about the feeling you have as a carefree kid, you know what I mean? Or even as a carefree, like teenager or young adult, man. Somebody in college. Like before you have responsibilities and the real world knocks you on your ass, you know. So that's what I like about that consistency. Because like you're saying, they're still going with that vibe, which is great. It's kind of like listening to Blink 22 nowadays, and they're still singing about weird, awkward teenage stuff. You guys are in your fingers or whatever.

Anyway. But yeah, that's cool, man. I love it. Yeah, I'm up to cue that record up because they take me there, you know? Yeah, and you know what you're in for. Exactly, because they're very consistent. I'm going to pass back to you, brother. All right, Q, well, just like we talked about for our intro song,

you want to talk about another band from the 90s that just put out a new record. Did you know that Blur came out with a new record? I did not. But yeah, they, you know, their most popular song is called Song 2, right? Which everybody knows. Anyway, they put out a new record, Q, July 24th. not exactly new for those listening now, but still pretty fresh. The first album in eight years, the last one was The Magic Whip in 2015.

So this is their ninth studio album. Yeah, so I'm just going to play a track off of this record here. It's pretty decent record. It's blur, you know what I mean? So got to listen to it if you're a fan of 90s rock music, because these guys are pretty iconic. All right. So here we go. This song is called St. Charles Square off of Blur's brand new record, The Ballad of Darren.

Yeah, that's a cool track. I like his monotone, talking, kind of sing-songy delivery. Yeah, I like the lyrics too, especially kind of during the course. He's like saying something, it sounds like he's describing like some sort of creature or something like that. he says there's something down here and it's living under the floorboards it's grabbed me around the neck with its long and slender claw you know you're all about this whole yeah it gave me some uh josh hammy vibes a little i could see that the guitar kind of some of the some of the playfulness in the guitar or maybe eagles of death metal maybe more than that mean so i have a confession

to make you i feel like a real moron right now a real dumb dumb I'm sorry to hear that when I was listening to that song I was like man you know he sounds like the vocalist for the gorillas it's because he is the vocalist for the guerrillas

I didn't know that how can I know that I mean I because you know the guerrillas are cartoons right it's a cartoon band that's the whole sure gimmick sure sure sure

I guess I didn't realize that yeah that the singer of blur one of the most popular brands of all time went on to create arguably a more popular band. I mean, I don't know, maybe not, but I mean, guerrillas is massive, man. Yeah, I didn't know that, dude. I did. I mean, I just don't know much about guerrillas.

I never really got into them. They've got some iconic songs. Oh, I know. And I love them. I just never, like, press play on an album of theirs. They actually released. They came up with an album like a few years back that had. No, no, there's a brand new one this year that came out.

Well, they came out with one a few years back also. So that had a bunch of guest singers on it. Maybe that's just what they do now. Yeah, that's kind of what they do. Okay. Yeah, it was really good. Yeah, for example, Q, because he's putting himself out there any which way that he can. Guess who shows up on the new guerrillas record?

I'll just tell you. Tame and Paula. Dude, he's everywhere. He's everywhere, dude. He's doing one-off songs for movies and stuff. Yes. Dude, what movie was it? Barbie?

He's on that barb barbie. You just made my point perfectly, dude. Because I was thinking Dungeons and Dragons because he just did Dungeons of Dragons. And yeah, you're right. He did Barbie too. Good Lord, man. You know what, dude. He's got to make that paper though, you know.

But they're coming to him, dude. Sure, sure. But you know, dude, now we might be on it to something. Guess who else shows up on the new record, guerrilla's record? Thundercat. Maybe that's how they got hooked up, dude. I bet it was a joint session in the studio. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that might be a spoiler for my best of 2023. I was planning on bringing at least one track from that record. But anyway, there you go, Q. Learned something new. Damon Alburn, the lead singer of Blur, probably mispronounced that. It's also the lead singer of Gorillas. Who knew? So he's prolific this year, dude.

Okay. All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. Again, that. That was a song called St. Charles Square by Blur. And I'm going to throw it back to you. All right, dude. This is an artist I've never heard of before. This is kind of basically the gist of the article was this is kind of a sleeper, a prog rock album that needs to be heard and recognized more. Came out in 1972.

The band is called Wishbone Ash. Have ever heard of them, Jeff? Of course you haven't. No, I have not. Well, this is the album that kind of changed the trajectory for them. So they got, you know, they got on the map in England for this rock. Apparently they're among England's most popular hard rock acts. Believe it or not.

So I'll shut my mouth. Wishbone. Owl. Wishbone. No, Wishbone Ash. And you'll see why I do after this track. The album is called Argus. Okay.

And yeah, man, it's fucking great, dude. All right. In the vein of like, yes, very heavy. It sounds very much like yes. Okay. It looks like the dudes wearing a Darth Vader helmet. Yeah, I don't take it is, but yeah, I agree. It looks like that.

Reminds me a lot of fragile by yes, which came out a year before. Cool. So, yeah. All right, here we go, dude. This is, again, Wishbone Ash. The album is called Argus. This track is called Leaf and Stream. Myself beside a stream of empty thought

like a leaf that's fallen to the ground carried by the flow of water to my dream. Woken only by yourself. Listen to the walls my name of yes. Man, that was incredible. Yeah, dude you breath of spring again. Earth and sky water. Man, that was incredible.

Gorgeous. Love that guitar. Yeah, that's great. So do they rock out on the record as well? I'm sure they do. Oh, yeah. Okay. Cool, man.

Yeah, I'll have to cue that up for sure. That was awesome. And, you know what, dude, for a Prague rock record, there's not a track over 10 minutes which you know what I'm okay with sure yeah that's fine all passing down to you Travis are you gonna play off of that one

another shoegays track rescue no surprise there dude so this is another another one on that list that somebody published on the shoegaze subreddit and this band I've actually heard I've actually listened to another track by this person off of a,

off of a, that had a completely different vibe. So I think, I think the story here is that, so the artist is named, he goes by guitar, G-U-I-T-A-R, probably pronounced guitar.

Es-G-G-E-T-R-E-T-R, I think. Gu-E-T-R, yeah. So it is the pseudonym adopted, by the musician Michael Luchner, Lukner, who, as the Spotify bio says, fuses organic and electronic sounds into music that embraces his wide range of influences

from cool era Miles Davis to the shoegazing chaos of My Bloody Valentine. So there go, Kew, you just mentioned Loveless. There it is. But on this particular record, he collaborates with a female vocalist, a Japanese female vocalist named Ayako Akashiba. And she provides that nice soft vocals that we talked earlier that accompanies most shoegay songs, right? So this record came out in 2002.

It's called Sun Kist, and it's just great, man, from start to finish. So I'm going to play Trek 4 off of this record. Again, this artist goes by the name Guitar. And this song is called called feel flows free. How hypnotic it is and like repetitive. The lyrics are great. At the very end of that clip there, like you heard, her vocals were played in reverse.

So I had this kind of weird sort of like... Yeah. Yeah, very, very hypnotic, you know. You can kind of get like kind of lost in that, that groove, you know? And the lyrics are about like just being free, you know. Feel flows free. You know, like a lava lamp or something.

It's very meditative, yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I love her vocals, and she's all throughout this record. So again, like, you know, if you listen to this guy's discography, she doesn't pop into every one of them. I think her vocals are what make this record. I mean, that's not entirely true, but I think her vocals make it a shoegade's record,

maybe compared to some of those other records that he's put out. But I like about this particular artist. is he does a lot of sort of like electronic stuff too. So like the beat kind of felt more like an electronic beat, right? Kind of like a down tempo track or something. Yeah. And the guitar was kind of looped over itself. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And if you listen to some of this other, some of the other tracks on this record, more kind of like down tempo drum beats, stuff like that. So it's really cool. And I think we've said that too, to you on this podcast, is that you can take the elements of shoegaze and apply them to just about any genre. works, you know.

Yeah. Or you can take elements from other genres and put it with you guys and it works, you know. It just, it just works, man, you know. All right. That's why it's our favorite genre. Yeah. Forever and always. Yeah, I think that's true.

All right, Q, what is your last track for us here? All right. So I mentioned my nephew-in-law, Wesley, earlier. Yeah, we heard about him. We're trading music all every time. We're trying music all the time. And the reason I got down the whole talkie-walky, Nigel Godrick, rabbit hole, is because he sent me a new single from his all-time favorite group,

a band called The Paper Kites, that kind of blew me away. He told me that, so it's a new album coming out that was actually recorded live at a bar in Australia. They played a residency there in that bar for about a month last year and recorded songs that they played. And they're releasing an album with those tracks. Anyways, this song has a super heavy sea change vibe, which, as everyone knows, I think, if you listen to this podcast, my favorite back album of all time. It sounds very much like the Golden Age, which is track one from C Change.

It's got a very similar vibe. The drums and the guitar at all sounds very similar to that. In that same vein. And it's a beautiful track, dude. You're going to love it. Again, the band is called The Paper Kites. This song is called I Don't Want to Go That Way. Absolutely beautiful track.

They didn't know the way to describe it. Captivating. Captivating. And that was recorded live, dude. That was live. You already said that. I can't believe it. Man, can you imagine being in that crowd.

I know, man. I would have been on the floor, dude. Melted. Yeah, recorded in a bar in Australia. What a testament to that guy's voice. man. I know, dude. Apparently they posted up and did a residency. I guess you just called it residency. You know, like, like, uh, yeah, yeah. Like Celine Dion does in Las Vegas. Like how the white stripes for Conan O'Brien's like house band for, yeah. But in a bar, how cool is that?

That's awesome, man. Yeah. Incredible. And a shout out to their, uh, their sound guy, too. Seriously. Yeah. I mean, crazy. Sounds amazing. Yeah. Incredible. Well, there you go, man. I mean, that's that's why you go out there and you see live music you know that's right man that's the funny thing is like being there would have been infinitely better but just like hearing it recorded live like that just yeah it makes it that much more special you know yeah beautiful track that's great yeah again that group's called the paper kites song is called i don't want to go that way shout out again to wesley levy bud and travel past it back to you. How are you going to finish us off? You said you got a track from the 70s you're bringing?

60s. Oh. So this record came out in 1968. The artist, I'm probably going to mispronounce this, but her name is Margo Geryon, Geryon, something like that. So kind of like a pop act. from the 60s but her music this record in particular is said to have kind of influenced countless dream pop acts of the past several decades including bands like like Bell and Sebastian and probably a ton of other groups that we've talked about on this podcast right but this is 60 so 1968 so well before the dream pop that we know about rain that we talk about happened. But yeah, it was just an interesting, interesting listen, very, very, very 60s. But this track is the last track on the record and it does something a little bit

different than the rest of these tracks. It has this very long, like instrumental intro with a bunch of different, bunch of different stuff going on. And it's really interesting. So this is going to be a little bit of a link to your clip, but it's our last track, so it's kind of how we're going to close it out, too. But anyway, so again, Margo Girien, this record is called Take a Picture. It came out in 1968. This song is called Love. Dude, I kept thinking, like, cool, now the song started. Like, man, I like this groove.

This is cool. And then it stopped and, like, changed again. Like, okay, cool, finally. This is awesome. And then it changed again. It was kind of, like, disorienting at the beginning. Yeah. I really liked.

There's a lot of noise going on. The beginning when you first hear a proper drumbeat, that was some crazy, like, time signatures and, like, I'd never heard something like that before. Well, the drummer's name, Q, is Buddy Saltsman, a session drummer, which is probably not surprising. It reminds me of Tago Mago specifically. Yeah.

So, well, let's see here. That particular drummer, so he's known for his work with the Four Seasons. So he's drummed for the four seasons. He's, apparently he's one of the drummers listed for, I'm a believer by the monkeys. Well, he got around. Apparently they didn't actually. I think that's one of the jokes about the monkeys, right? They were just like actors or whatever.

They weren't really musicians. Dude, he's played with Peter Paul and Mary. So anyway, yeah. Sounds like he's a session drummer. Yeah, he was a session drummer. Yeah, he was a session drummer. And then cuts to the real song and dude, you're right. She's way ahead of her time.

Yeah, well, yeah, she had that vocal quality that became. Serial lab. Yes, yes, yes, yes, totally. Yeah, and that's the thing that says here, lounge and dream pop acts. So yeah, definitely. that kind of stereo lab kind of like of course

stereo lab was sort of like harking back to this particular 60s jazz kind of yeah vibe right but yeah yeah exactly anyway yeah it was just a cool cool record shout out to the vinyl subreddit of course somebody posted that

but um yeah so I I'm just gonna read this because I thought it was funny So somebody was quoting, like on the Wikipedia page, they were quoting Billboard, as in Billboard records. And this sentence is just funny. Take a picture was praised by a Billboard who remarked on her fine sound,

which it characterized as commercial and said, should ensure strong sales. That's not phrased, dude. Should ensure strong sales? Like, what the hell? That's all you got to say, Billboard? Come on now. It's not a compliment, really.

Here's a better compliment. AllMusic said, although the song structures are simplistic on a superficial level, actually that's kind of a, that's a thing. The arrangements beneath them are anything but there are all kinds of intriguing things going on with or underneath the melody, either instrumentally or via effect. There you go. There you go. Anyway.

And then Merlingstone is the band. publication that said that this was an early prototype for countless lounge and dream pop excursions. All right, there you go, Q. So that's how we wrap it up here for the month of September. Oh, hey, it's Travis here again, coming at you with another PSA. So for some reason, my computer decided to crash right at the end of this episode as we were wrapping up. So I wanted to hop on here and wrap the episode up for us.

I'm telling you, man, this podcast is just held together by duct tape. But, you know, we managed to put it out once a month. So anyway, that'll do it for us this episode. We'll close out with more of that feel-flows-free song by guitar. All right. Well, thanks for listening. We'll see what happens next month. Hopefully there's no litter boxes and no crashy computers to contend with.

But yeah, we'll come at you here in another few weeks for our October episode. Thanks again, as always, for listening. If you want to get in touch with us, reach out to us on Instagram. Just search a no filler podcast. We'll pop right up. Thanks again, as always, for listening. My name is Travis. Y'all take care.