No Filler Music Podcast - The Globetrotting Edition

Episode Date: April 3, 2023

On this month's episode of No Filler, we bounce around the globe from German emo, to a Russian electro pop artist, to some UK hauntology. Tune in for one of our most wide-ranging collection of tracks from bossa nova to horror rap. Tracklist Beach Fossils - Don't Fade Away Twin Peaks - Casey's Groove 125, Rue Montmartre - Disco Hijack Kate NV - Inn Belbury Poly - The Willows Getz & Gilberto - Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Start) De La Soul - Eye Know Steely Dan - Peg Beck - End Of The Day Geto Boys - Time Taker Sohm - Bloodflows Gamma Intel - Trust This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You gift the good stuff. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Travis. And I'm Quentin. And we're kicking us off today with a brand new single from Beach Fossils. This song is called Don't Fade Away. And that song got me pumped, dude. Well, you're a lot.

in luck, dude. They got a brand new record coming out in June called Bunny, which is why they have t-shirts that they're selling with a bunny rabbit on a cue that you saw on my screen there a second ago. So yeah, that's the first single of their brand new record. And again, that song was called Don't Fade Away. And yeah, it's just, you know, this is like the natural progression for them, you know. We talked about their debut record last year. Like we kicked off January of 20th, 2022 with an episode on their first record. And we talked about the term Tweet Pop, which is like a genre that we heard mentioned once attributed to some band that we talked about. And we had never heard the term.

And then we just kept seeing it everywhere we looked, you know, one of those types of things. Yep. Let me remind the listeners out there what Tweed Pop means Q. It's a term. I'm reading the description straight from our episode, Q, from last year. Straight from your own mouth, dude. Straight from wherever I copied this and pasted it from. Says here, the term is used to describe music that is simple and innocent with boy-girl harmonies,

lyrical themes about love and catchy melodies. You know what that is, dude? That's it, dude. That is yee-ye. Yee-e-pop, that French. Yee-yee, yeah. Yee-ye. I apologize if y'all can hear my cat.

She's going nuts, but that is exactly what that is, dude. Yeah. Just, yeah, that super happy go lucky kind of innocent, simple pop songs. Yeah. And when you go back and listen to Beach Fossil's first record, it's very lo-fi. Like when you hear that new song that we just played, it just sounds like the same formula of a Beach Fossil song, but just more polished, you know, like more, like higher production value. This is kind of way you'd expect them to be 13 years on, right? 14 years on because they've been around for, you know, since 2009.

So anyway, that is exciting. So look out for that coming out in June. If you like that kind of stuff, if you're a fan of Beats Fossils like I am, their new record is coming June 2nd. So I'm sure they'll drop a couple more singles between now and then just to get us more hyped queue. But anyway, here we are. This is our, I guess this is our.

our April what you heard. So last month, the episode that came out this month, I think I called it our February, what you heard. I got mixed up. I think we skipped February basically is what happened. So we put out, you posted that at the beginning of March. Yeah. So I think I just got a little bit, a little bit confused, cute, because our very first episode of the year came out at the end of January. Yeah. And it was technically our January episode, but yeah, whatever. I guess maybe it gets kind of confusing when you go from posting once a week to once a

month, you know, you're like, when do I, when do I record this? Or when did we record this? When do I need to put pizza together? Yeah. It feels like, like an eternity between each episode. It does. It does. It's, I know.

It's still crazy to think that we managed to record an episode every week for five years? Is it five? Maybe five. Yeah. Actually, no, this is our fifth year because we started in 2018. So, yeah. Full years we did it. Yeah. Pretty much not stop. Quite the feat, Q that we pulled off there. And we're continuing on with our What You Heard format going once a month moving forward for now, for the time being. Give us a little bit of break. So yeah, this is our What You Heard format. And that's what the show is all about now. If you want to go back and listen to us, dive deep into some of our favorite albums of the last several decades. Go back and listen to our catalog. We've got a deep, rich pocket attunes.

There's over 200 episodes a few to listen to of that exact thing, where we're diving deeper into specific albums or artists. So there's lots of content out there. If you're tuning in for the first time, you're like, this what-you-heard format's kind of goofy. Well, go back and listen to our previous catalog, and maybe by the time you're caught up, we'll be back to that format again. But for the time being, we're doing monthly episodes where we're just doing this format that we call our monthly mixtape. So I bring five tracks. Quentin brings five tracks, and yeah, we just play tunes. No rules.

I mean, it's any genre, any decade. And that's basically it. pretty straightforward and I believe cue you're kicking us off this month so what do you got you got set the stage here we either go uphill or downhill cue from here so you got to set us in the right direction well yeah I was just thinking about that dude and like would you rather be climbing up a hill you know like straining your muscles or would you rather go downhill I was thinking more of like a roller coaster you know and so like when you're going up you got that anticipation that's good got you're a little bit scared nervous you know

Well, then we're climbing the, we're climbing to the peak here. Okay. Speaking of peak, I'm bringing a song from Twin Peaks. Interesting. Not the movie or the show. Okay. The band Twin Peaks. Oh, wow.

Okay. Didn't know there was a band called Twin Peaks. I thought you were bringing something from the show, which would have been really interesting. That would be cool. But, no, this is a band. I've actually brought a song of theirs before to, you know. Okay. from the 2014 album Wild Onion,

which is that classic, like, psych pop revival that happened, like psychedelic pop revival, kind of garage rock band sound. But they've really evolved over time. And I'm bringing a song, actually, I'll bring track one from their 2019 record Lookout Low. Let's just let the song speak for itself, dude. I love this song.

This album is fantastic. So, here we go. This is, again, track one from Lookout Low from 2019. This song is called Casey's Groove. Yeah, it's got just like a classic Americana sound to it. Yeah, man. Dropping that solo?

Yeah. That was a... Solo had a little bit of twang to it. Just a straight-up classic guitar solo. Yeah, good stuff. Which you don't hear a lot of these. days. You don't. You don't. You know, coming from a band that is historically just your straight-of- Garage psych-rock band, it's really cool to hear how they've evolved. Let me just say,

if you want to hear a good collection of songs from how they used to sound, because really they've changed so much that it's almost, I would say almost like two different bands. Check out their album called Sweet 17. It's a singles compilation. And yeah, that'll give you a little taste of their old school garage rock sound. But let me just read the this quick write-up here, it says, armed with four excellent and collaborative songwriters, each member upped their game on Lookout Low. Lookout Low shows that Twin Peak is less a band and more a brotherhood,

one that's endured for almost a decade. The Sonic and Creative Leap, the five-piece takes in Lookout Low, feels like a total revolution in their youthful sound. Anyways, great tunes, great band, good vibes all around. That was Casey's Groove from, Twin Peaks lookout low. And I'm going to pass it back to you, brother. How are you going to start it off?

All right. So this is a holdover from last month, actually. So this one got kicked to the curb because I think he played a song that I had a better pick to play with it. So I kind of held on to this one, but I'm still rocking it. So this one's been on rotation for a little bit. for me. So this is a really interesting group. I don't really remember how I stumbled upon them, but that doesn't really matter. This is a very short-lived post-hardcore emo group from Germany. And they sing in German, which is really interesting. And they were only active for a few years,

1998 to 2000 and there's really not much material out there. They basically had like a split seven-inch single that they did with this other German emo band called Maggot. And then they put out a three-song seven-inch self-titled record. So no full-length record at all that they put out. But in 2019, they essentially compiled all of their songs that they had recorded into a single song. into a single record called discography, which is, you know, their discography, right? Anyway, so this song just kind of stood out to me. I really enjoy it. It's got this great energy to it, and it's just kind of fun to hear like a post-punk song,

sung in German, right? So anyway, here we go. So this band is called 125 Ru Marte, and this song is called, Disco Hijack. I was getting some Kim Gordon vibes. Interesting. Yeah, I can see that. Spoken word almost kind of singing.

Yeah, definitely spoken word, which is cool. And that's actually quite a bit of their style, is that kind of spoken word. Which I always, I've always loved that. I don't know what words are that they're saying. But I just, yeah, I love it. Just straightforward. you know, emo, post-punk. Actually, this particular song is off of their self-titled.

So it came out in 2000. So that's right around the time that you and I started listening to emo, right? And we've had this conversation a million times how we didn't really consider it email, but it was email like Jimmy A World and stuff like that. Emory, I mean, Amory was pretty email, but you know what I mean? Emory was what we thought of as the classic emo. Yeah. But that didn't even come close to some, like the Screamo stuff that was coming out around that time.

We didn't go that far. Yeah. I think we associated Emo with Screamo. Like that's, that was what Emo was. And Emory was a nice mix of the two. It was. That's what I liked so much about them. But yeah, you know, the term, you know, it's an umbrella term for a lot more styles than we originally thought.

So anyway, just kind of piqued my interest when I first heard. it and it's just again it's kind of interesting to hear a german emo band right so anyway all right q i want to throw it back to you what do you got all right so i think it must have been for our best of the year episodes i brought a song from a group called pet shimmers and then i found out that each band member has their own playlist on spotify just tunes that they like and that's one of my favorite ways to discover artists is through other artists. And that's the cool thing about Spotify is you can kind of link your Spotify profile to your group's Spotify page for the music that you put out. And you can share your own personal playlists. And I, let's see, one of the band members,

Flory Adamson Legette, and I'm bringing a song that I just heard earlier today from her playlist. This is an artist called Kate N.V. Dude, I've played her on what year before? Oh, yeah. I've recognized. She's really interesting. Yeah. I'm curious if it's the same song.

Well, this stuff kind of reminded me of, remember that, like, pioneering electronic group called Yellow Magic. Yellow Magic. Yeah. Yeah. I think they're from Japan. Kind of reminds me of that stuff. She's very experimental.

Yeah. And she, this album, at least, is called Bina Sue from 2016. It's very like 80s Cassio keyboard level electronic music. Okay. So I brought a song from Room for the Moon in 2020. So and she's Russian, correct? Moscow based, yeah. So we're going from, we're going to Germany, Russia. We're all over the map today, Q, the world map. all right so again this is a track from the album beina sue by kate n v the song is called in yeah i love it yeah you talk about like kind of the 80s influence like she her voice kind of sounds like almost like a cindy lopper or something like that yeah that kind of 80s poppy female vocals but then there's that really kind of yeah lots of synth and that really interesting kind of

experimental kind of sound thing that happened. I don't know what to call that. That's the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Yeah. Influents that I heard. And of course, the electronic drumbeats too. Yeah. I remember the track that I brought was way more experimental.

So that's interesting. Maybe she kind of, if I remember correctly, she's like one of those artists that kind of reinvent herself quite a bit. And so by the time in 2020 hit and that track that I brought, It was kind of a whole different kind of sound. But, but, man, do I got a perfect follow-up cue. Awesome. I love when that happens.

And it's going to allow us to continue our globe trotting here. So this is a UK-based electronic musician, or at least, yeah, it's a single guy. So the name of the project, at least, is called Bellberry Polly. And it's the project of this guy named Jim Jupp. And he co-founded this British music label called Ghostbox. And he falls under the umbrella of hauntology, which I have talked to you about before. Oh, yeah. With that group that I brought, I think, to the best of 2022.

the night monitor. So here's something I didn't realize to you until hauntology is you know when you hear the word haunt you think of like spooky scary stuff right but it actually

has roots that goes back to well the 2000 I think this label is actually kind of like the founding some of the founders of that movement but hauntology is sort of the

precursor to hypnagogic pop and chill wave. Interesting. Holy shit. Because the whole point of hauntology is that it evokes cultural memory and aesthetics of the past. That's probably why it's called hauntology because it's like you're hearing ghosts of like these instruments and stuff from the past, right? That's cool. I like that. So Bellberry Polly, basically it's this guy Jim Jubbs side project, but he would pull in,

other musicians to make this music. Blending nostalgic yet futuristic influences such as library music, progressive rock, pastoral psych folk, and the early electronic experiments of Raymond Scott and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. So that's why I think it's a pretty good song to play after that particular song that you just played. So here we go. Let's just dive into it here. So again, this group is called, or this project is called Bellbury Polly. And I'm going to play a track off of the 2005 record, The Willows. This is the self-titled track. If that's ontology, dude, I'm all for it all day long.

I mean, you can totally see how this turns into boards of Canada, right? Yeah. And bands like that. Wow. Yeah. So that's that and that's a that's a very large rabbit hole that you could fall into if you just look up artists under that label ghost box. So anyway, I said self title track. I meant title track because that was the name of that song was called the Willows off of the record, the Willows. Anyway, so yeah,

really cool stuff and you can see how yeah, it's got it kind of evokes like early electronic stuff from like the 70s, you know. Yeah, totally. And, and, you know, when I read that description of like, it kind of pulls in, like, samples from, like, library music and stuff. I also hear a lot of, like, samples from old, like, BBC broadcasts and stuff like that that they'll put in there. Yeah.

It was almost reminded me of the 70s supermarket music day. Yeah. We would play on some of our episodes. It's kind of that Musack stuff, you know. Yeah, exactly. Yep. Totally. Anyway, all right. So that, again, that was the side project, or I guess musical project of this guy named Jim Jupp. And that group, I don't know what to call it. I keep calling it. I'm trying to call it a group, a band, whatever. It's a musical project called Bellberry Polly. And again, that song was called The Willows.

Thank you. What do you got for us? All right. So as you know, Jeff, I've been working on getting my, um, Turntable. My turntable and my, yeah, my stereo system set up at the new place. I finally got it. I see it. I can see it in the back right there. Yeah, you can see the turn table.

Is that, is that Getsalcobrto peeking out right there? It is, Tram. Dang, look that sharp on. And you know what? I wasn't going to play this song next, but I guess I'll go ahead and play it, dude, because I'm bringing a song from that album. Wow. Yeah, dude, I haven't been, like, actively listening to music since I moved.

to the new house and with a new job just haven't had as much time just to search for tunes so but I've been listening to a lot of records in the last few days since I got my system all set back up and one of the albums I always go to when I'm trying to to just get a feel for you know placing trying to find a good spot for my speakers to that sounds good is it gets in Galberto album. It's a classic for a reason. It's classic. And dude, just the way that that album was recorded, man.

There's just something about it. There's this warmth to it that's like unbelievable, right? Yeah. This could be the first proper jazz track to be played on the No Filler. I've brought a handful of them, but not a lot. Like classic, classic jazz? Maybe not like this, no. Yeah.

Well, I'm for it. I'm here for it. I just, I'm confident that you're not going to play. Girl from Impanina. I'm confident of that. But it might be, that's one of those, that's the song that if you know gets in Gilberto, you might not know you do. But when you hear girl from Impanina, you're like, oh, that's them.

Yep. Well, I'm bringing my favorite song from the record. And this song kicks off Side B. I always go straight for Side B, dude. I wonder if it's my favorite track on the record. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars. Nope. But that's a good one.

Corkovato? I think I like I like track three. There's the saxophone solo on I'm not even going to try to pronounce that, but yeah, it's all good, it's all good. It's such a good record, dude.

All right, so let's kick things off with Side B from the 1964 Bossa Nova jazz record Gets in Gilberto. This song is called Quiet Knights of Quiet Stars Quiet nights of quiet stars

Quiet nights of quiet stars Quiet chords from my guitar Floating on the silence that surrounds Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams Quiet walks by quiet streams And a window that looks out and corkovao

Oh, how lovely. A can't a violin, this Amour, a song, a song, to make a felice to who a man. Much calm to think

and have time to sonyre from the janela see your corcovado the Redentor, that's beautiful I want a life always so

with you and you to me until the the old, and I who was

a trite discrente of this world when to when to you, I knew

just It just It's What is Felicity My love Just warms your soul Yeah

Just everything Around you just kind of melts away You know When you listen to this record Totally, It just something It just transports you To a whole other dimension almost

You know Absolutely man And man We're really keeping This globe trotting up Dude Because the Gilbertoes are from Brazil

Right They're Brazilian jazz musicians I believe so Jolio Gilberto and Astrid Gilberto I'm not sure about Stan Gats Well He cares about Stan Gets

Yeah no he's from Pittsburgh Yeah I'm just saying like as far as like Yeah yeah this episode is Touching every corner of the globe Sure man But yeah Astrid Gilberto That's her vocals on there

Which is And then her dad's I think it's her dad Is it her dad I, man, I feel we should know this stuff, dude. Just, yeah, click on any one of their lives. Because are such big fans. I know, I know.

A daughter of a Brazilian mother and a German father. Or is she married to him? She's, she'll go go to us. Okay. All right, so this is a, that's really something, dude. I've never stopped to consider that this is a husband and wife singing on this record together, you know, and doing his duets together. It's really interesting.

Girl from Impanina. Yeah. There's you go. Phenomenal record, man. If you're looking to dip your toes in jazz, you know, this is Bossa Nova, so it's a little bit different. But this is easier to get into than say like Miles Davis's bitch's brew. Sure. That would be diving into the deep end, you know.

That's like me going straight to Musuga. Yeah. Totally. But yeah, I feel like this record or take five by D. Babe Rebaugh quartet. Yeah, even that is way more complex than this. Sure, sure. This is just super simple, easy, just, yeah.

Like you said, dude, that just transports you to a whole other field. Yeah, if you really stop and focus on this record as it's playing, like, it just kind of, it makes everything all right, you know. Especially if you've got a good pair of speakers, dude, and you've got a good setup, like, find the, find the sweet spot. sit down and just freaking relax and listen to this record from start to finish dude put it on when you when you need to pick me up you know exactly all right brother i pass it back to you we're checking along with this one dude we're making good time you're booking it look at it good time all right cute well now we're gonna we're gonna go to new york and i'm just really i can't tell you how excited i am dude to play this song for you for fans of hip-hop you probably were as a

excited as I was on March 3rd of this last month when Dayla Soul's six records were finally available on streaming services. So I, you know, De LaSoul is one of those groups. I've always heard about them. You know, I'm familiar with, you know, me, myself, and I, that song that is kind of really popular by them, right? But I never really dove into their records because, you know, shamefully, I can, I could just say the only reason I didn't do it is because it was on Spotify, right?

I mean, I would go to YouTube, dude, and just play it. That's what I'm saying. I 100% could have found my way to these records, right, if I wanted to. But anyway, it wasn't on Spotify, so I never really got around to them. But I've always wanted to dive into their stuff, right? And so I finally have gotten to do that. I really like the grind date is an awesome record, dude. The grind date, okay.

The grind days from 2004. Yeah, and see, that one, I believe, was available on Spotify. Yeah, it's been on there for a while. But yeah, lots of awesome. Awesome, awesome tracks on that one. So I, you know, I started with their first record, three feet high and rising. And so one of the reasons that March 3rd was kind of an important day, that's the 34th anniversary of this record. You know, I was listening to the record, just kind of letting it stream in the background.

And then my ears perked up when I heard this particular song, Q. And I know you're going to your ears are going to be perking up too, Q, by the time it gets to the chorus. But I'm just going to let it kind of speak for itself. So maybe we'll talk a little bit more about De LaSoul after I play this because, you know, I think we probably mentioned them on our Tribe Called's Quest episode

because they're part of the same musical collective. We definitely did, yeah. Yeah. So anyway, here we go. So this song is off of De LaSoul's 1989 record, three feet high and rising. This song is called I Know. Greetings, girl, and welcome to my world of phrasing right up to bat.

Is the Daisy A.D. You're about to walk top stage, so white galados on the mat. Hip-hop love, this is, and don't mind when I quiz your ball mince before the sun. But clear your court, because this are one-man sport, and who's better for this than plug one? But don't have to worry about me, squashing other deals, because they've already been squished. Freeze a frame of our moves the same, which we can continue right behind the bush. You'll stay with me, I know this, but not with me. because of all my earthly treasures or regardless to the fact that I'm posse the noose,

but because... May I cut this dance to introduce myself as the chosen one for speak? Let me lay my hand across yours and aim a kiss upon your cheek. The name's plug to, and from the soul I bring you the daisy of your choice. May it be filled with a pleasure principle

in circumference to my voice. About those other Jennys I reckoned with lost them all like a homework excuse. This time the magic number. but is two because it takes two and I breathe to seduce my destiny of love is brought to an apex sex is a me a molecule in this world of lust that I have for you it's true true and that is just a shining example of like what these hip-hop pioneers were doing dude pulling from their parents record collection and sampling these tunes and of course their parents had a copy of Asia right of Asia right everyone had

Asia. Such a great record, right? Yeah. And Pegg, that's my favorite song, dude. Yeah, man. Probably one of my favorite Steely Dan songs, period. I was smiling from ear to ear when I heard that, man. I was driving around yesterday, and I was just listening to the song. And what's funny is, like, I didn't catch on until I heard what's his name? Damn it. Dan Fogel. What is his name? It's Donald Fagan. Donald Fagan. But I heard Donald Fagan's voice. Yeah. After I heard that and realized what was going on. The baseline is also lifted from Pegg, which is such a great baseline. And it's just, it's amazing to think about, right? Because, and that's what I love about it is the story behind that, right? Like you said, it might maybe is or isn't their parents' records, but it's, it's a record.

I mean, that's the story that the, I think it was Q-tip when he was interviewed. Yeah, the tribe talked about, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's what they did, man, because they, like, they didn't need all the, all the instruments, you know, if they didn't have access to a piano, a guitar, a bass, whatever, they could just rip it from a record and sample it and manipulate it. And so, Q, I knew you'd be okay with this. And since we're doing good on time, let's just play a little bit of peg, shall we? Let's do it. Because when else are we going to get the opportunity?

Listen for the baseline. And then I think you'll also, you'll hear the obvious sample. But the baseline, too, which is, I think, an incredible baseline. But here we go. So this is Pegg off of Steely Dan's 1977 record Asia. For all you Steely Dan haters out there, there's the door. Yeah. See you later.

They get a bad rap. They do. It's one of those bands where you love them or you hate him. I mean, I think they really are pretty divisive like that. And we obviously love them. And what I love about Peg and some of the other songs on this record is Michael McDonald's voice just so. front and center. You know what I mean? It's so obvious. Yeah, right? If you listen to for it, it's like, yep, there he is. Anyway, well, there's Peg by Steeley Dan. Asia, one of the best

records of all time. And that's another turntable speaker tester right there, that record, right? That's for sure. I still don't have it, dude. I'm saving to find it out in the wild. That's shocking, yeah. And I haven't, dude, I haven't shopped around for records in probably three years, man. I miss it, but... I probably found that... I've had that for a long time. I think I found it at... You remember that record store?

This is not Josie. Yes. I do. I already know what you're taking up. Yeah, I don't remember what it's called. The place was massive. Entertainment, Mart. That's what it was called.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, there were a couple of those in Texas. There was one in Dallas next to the Galleria. Pretty sure I found it there pretty early on. Anyway, all right, Q. Well, that was a nice little detour. I'm going to throw it back to you. what do you got for us?

All right, dude. Another album that I always pull out. So we're just taking a stroll through your... My records collection, yes. Your record collection, which is fine. Yeah. I ended up getting like a 180 gram, like really nice pressing of Beck's seat change from 2002. A classic record?

One of my favorite albums. Is this the one that you won the Grammy for? I don't think so I believe that was for morning phase 2014 I'm not sure don't quote me on any of that well let's just look it up here in front of us

it's called the internet morning phase morning phase one Grammy which is funny because morning phase sounds very much like sea change it's in the same wheelhouse yeah he has that like he has these different flavors term right well see change is that notoriously it's the breakup record he was going

through some pain, dude. So it's a very sad, somber record. But Nigel Godrick, also known as Radiohead's main producer. The fifth Radiohead. Every record that that guy touches, I love. Errs. Talkie Waki. Yep.

Phenomenal record. Anyways, we have covered C-Change. We did a full episode on a while back, but I'm coming back. You don't remember that, Jeff? I do remember that, but it's been a while. That was probably their first year. That was a long time ago. But anyways, I'm bringing a song from this record that just it stops from your tracks.

Dude, every time I hear it. All right. So again, this is Bex C-Change from 2002. So if you're driving, you know, pull over to the side of the road. Pull over to the side of the road. You're about to slam on the brakes and stop. Yeah, exactly. And we don't want you to get hurt.

All right. So this is track six off the record. This song is called End of the Day. Yeah, pretty moving, powerful music lyric here. Yeah. I mean, it's fortunate that he decided to share these tunes, man. Like, because it's very personal. Ain't that the truth about a lot of music, dude, that like, if it wasn't for human suffering.

And for the willingness to share. Yeah, or human, like, you know, romance and love and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. I mean, that's what music is all about, right? Human emotion. Beautiful song. And, yeah, you can feel, feel what he's going through, you know, coming. This was a nine-year relationship, dude.

Three weeks before Beck's 30th birthday, he discovered Limon had been having an affair with a member of Los Angeles band Whiskey Biscuit. Come on, Whiskey Biscuit. Anyways. It's probably just an insult to injury that's probably a really shitty band, right? Probably. Says he wrote most of the albums 12 songs in one week but shelved them. So, dang.

Not sure how long before in between him writing it and, uh, Yeah, it's personal, man. You've got to get to a place where you're comfortable with putting your heart out there like that. What a song, dude. And I mean, leave it to Nigel to make something really, really, really beautiful with. I mean, Beck himself is a fantastic producer. And what I love about this song is like it brings in his old twangy guitar that like that was, you know, he started off doing like freak folk kind of stuff.

Yeah, right. Like his album One Foot in the Grave. which is, I don't even know when that actually came out, because I've only ever known about it through the reissue that happened in 2009. Yeah, like that was, he started off doing like super dark, gritty, bluesy freak folk stuff. So it's cool that he still brings in that slide guitar every now and then. All right, dude, pass it back to you. We're rounding third base, right?

Got three more songs to play. I'm excited to share this song finally on the film. I think I've hinted at it before, but I feel like this was a perfect time to play this group after playing a day less soul song, because this is like the other side of the hip hop coin from this era of hip hop. So this is a group that everybody is familiar with, at least those of you who have seen the movie Office Space. So I'm bringing a song from the ghetto boy. right but not one of the songs that you would know if you're familiar with office space so you know very famously the smash the hell out of the fax machine uh copier scene right the song still by the ghetto boys is playing in the background and then another song up there is called damn it feels good to be a gangster

is also played on that movie right but that same record that still is featured on it's 1996 is the Resurrection is what it's called. And I'm going to play a song that lyrically has always just, you want to talk about getting stops in your tracks. This is a similar type of song. And these guys are such good storytellers, and that's what I like about their lyrics and stuff. But the reason I say it's like the opposite, like the flip side of the coin, the other side of the

coin of hip-hop is these guys are considered horror core or horror hip-hop, something. times is what it's called. But it's, you know, gangster rap in a way, but specifically they fall into this group, this genre called horror core. And it just basically means like the lyric, lyricism is like violence and, you know, murder, just darker themes, right? And like literally, they have a song called Chuckie, which is about Chuckie, the doll, right? Stuff like that. The murdering doll, right. Also cool about this group is that they are the first record, they put out the first record from a Houston-based hip-hop group, like some of the founding hip-hop groups from Houston, right? They're from this region called the Fifth Ward, this community

called the Fifth Ward, which is like, you know, a very high poverty area, right? Lots of violence and stuff like that. So that's what they're singing about. They're singing about their environment, right? Anyway, so this song always jumped out of me. If you pay attention to the lyrics, they're really pretty powerful and and moving just like that back song cue but about something entirely different so here you go this song is called time taker it's like a game of use some time focus on this straight line and trying to wait for motherfuckers so now I'm forced to take it was so interesting uh yeah and that's actually two different two of the members so they traded verses there uh and you know apologies to bushwick bill um

may he rest in peace he actually died through a few years ago but his verse was next i didn't get to play his verse but yeah that was scarface was the first verse and then willie d was the second verse but yeah i've i've always loved uh yeah their lyricism and they're rhythmically like how they lay down a verse if i if i may say so i use that terminology but like um as somebody who barely just is dipping his toe in in rap music right You know, a lot of their music is about gang violence and stuff like that. And this particular song seems to explore a guy, like a gang buster guy, gang buster, whatever. Yeah.

You know, a guy who commits some violence and then is experiencing some remorse about it, right? Yeah. Like, you know, he was hopped up on heroin and angel dust and didn't realize what he was doing until it's too late kind of thing. And now he's like, you know, he regrets it and, you know, is on death row basically and wants to essentially like trade places with the guy he killed, right? So that's, it's interesting. And then the first verse is kind of about this guy who's sort of like just reflecting on life like this particular lyric, you always jumped out of me. Life is like a game of dice. You roll him right the first time, but you seldom get to roll him

twice. So basically, you know, you're dealt the hand that you're dealt, right? And, that's kind of it you know you don't really get a second chance beyond that and if you're somebody who grew up in the fifth ward that's probably something you think about all the time it's like man i was i didn't choose this like i wasn't you know i was born born into this you know right definitely anyway yeah so anyway i thought that was a pretty good opportunity to play it after playing some de la soul because de la soul and that whole native tongues collective was known for sort of bringing like positivity and like good-natured lyricism to hip-hop right that was their whole vibe and then you know ghetto boys are during kind of the exact opposite with with that horror rap

trend that kind of happened and they brought attention and put houston on the map as like a place for rap but also just like the south in general you know anyway because you know back then a lot of hip-hop came from like the west coast right in new york or california right like the two coasts, right? Right, right. Good stuff, dude. I'm glad you brought that, man. Yeah, because I don't know when else we were going to get a chance to play that

besides of what you heard, right? Right. Which is all we're doing now, hey. Exactly. All right, Q, what do you get? So again, this goes back to me just messing with getting all my speakers set up down here in our den. I hit shuffle on one of Saris playlists that we've been both adding songs to forever.

And this is an artist. Actually, I think one of his songs made it to our best of the decade. It might have been this one, actually. The artist goes by Son, S-O-H-N. I'm curious to hear what you think about this one. Yeah, I'm familiar with that artist. I don't know if I've listened to any of this, but I've seen the name pop up. Yeah, he's great, man.

We've seen him, I think just once. but we saw him come through Seattle, probably around the time this album came out in 2014. It's just him and his keyboard, and he has another guy, at least for this tour he did, that kind of helps drop to beats and whatever. But beautiful songs, beautiful album. The album's called Trimmers,

and this is one of my favorites off the record, dude. This song is called Blood Flows. crack the way again make me see sharp eyes for me infiltrate in my body also hear Tom York a little bit a little bit like the range is the same you know like he said those highs and kind of the way you know kind of lets the note kind of flow from one to the next really reminded me of some of

Radiohead softer stuff. Yeah, really good. He's got a great voice and he sounds just like this live, dude. He fucking kills it. A lot of interesting things going on in that song too, that you would pick up like these, you know, different bits and pieces of like little electronic stuff happening in the background,

synth. Yeah, he's fantastic, dude. The whole record's awesome. And, you know, it's a good memory's tied to this album with me and Sarah. So I always like to go back to it. Cool. And yeah,

just popped up on. the shuffle. A couple weeks back when we first moved into the new house, I got the surround sound system set up. So I was shuffling tunes, giving it a listen. Blood flows by son. And I'll pass it to you, Tram. How are we going to wrap it up tonight? All right. So that song that you just played essentially picked my track here because I had four songs to

choose from here and I feel like this is a good could be a good way to play this one like it pairs well with that one or at least in the sense

that I feel like that song could be played at like a dance club maybe you know maybe sure sure well this song is a rager

that would fall under the umbrella of kind of the darker electronic, which I know you're increasingly a fan of as well, Q. But this is just kind of your classic electronic house kind of song. So this is a brand new track too from this guy who I've kind of been, you know, paying attention to for a couple of years now. He goes with the name Gamma Intel and I'm just going to let the song play. This is a brand new single, I'm a brand new, came out in Fairbush.

It's called trust. Here we go. Kind of music always like puts me in like a 90s. Matrix aesthetic kind of vibes. Yeah. Yeah, it just makes you feel like you're like you're a hacker, you know. Neo-futurism. Did you say neo?

Oh my God. I didn't even do that on purpose. Yes, I did say that. Yeah. Agreed. I was going to say the same thing. Like it just makes me feel like I'm getting. I'm getting plugged into the matrix, you know?

Yeah. And I'm just, I'm floating through once and zeros queue, which you know all about. Tight leather spandex. Sure. Not spandex. It's like a tight leather body suit. Oh, okay. Body suit, all right.

You mean like what? Like broke or something? Didn't she wear a leather outfit? Oh, she wore all kinds of things. That's it. She wore all kinds of things. What was the, what was the, the girl's name on the Matrix, dude? The other main.

Trinity? Yes. Like Trinity. Okay. All right. And like the weird sunglasses and stuff. Yep. Yep.

The Oakley's. Yeah. This, this kind of music is really good for just kind of zoning out, you know, and you're, you're just, you know, you're coding. If you're a coder, you know, you're, this is good coding music. Or just driving around at night, you know, this is a good night. I drive music for sure. Yeah, going into like some sort of like, you know, underground dance club, you know.

Isn't there like a famous massive orgy scene like one of the matrices? I think so. Matrices? Yeah, sure. I think so. I don't know which I, I honestly have not seen. I don't think I've even seen. I think it might have been the third one.

Okay. I don't know. Did you see the latest one? No, I heard bad things about it. It's a circle jerk, dude. Yeah, I didn't want to get disappointed. It's all right. It was fun, but yeah, it was kind of a disappointment.

Yeah. Anyway, yeah, kind of an interesting way to end things here. But, Q, I would like to congratulate both of us for making it through the episode without playing a shoegaze track. Wow, dude. That's big for us. And I had a lot that I could have pulled from, of course. I had a shoe gaze track, too. That was one of my four that I may have played.

Did I share that playlist with you, dude, that ambient shoegaze? Yeah, you did. Yep. It was like it was instrumental shoegaze, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so we'll see. Maybe next month. Maybe next month, you know? I mean, technically beach fossils is kind of a, you know, they're under the dream pop umbrella at least, but yeah, they're not, they're not shoegays. No, no, no.

Yeah, so there you go. I didn't think we could do it. And I say we close us out. I'd say you just fade back into Pegg, man. Oh, hell. Yes, dude. Wrap it up with some steely, steely Donald. You can't go wrong with Donald Fagan. local or whatever. Yeah, good call. We'll fade out with some peg.

But yeah, I couldn't tell you how tickled pink I was Q when I heard that sample on that Dayless Soul track. It was amazing. And what's funny about that is that like that's only like 12 years removed from Asia, which is kind of weird. Because, you know, Asia came out in 77. That record, the Dayless Soul record came out in 89. I can't believe Asia came out in 77, man.

that's mind-blowing just because of how like just how that record sounds you know there's something about like recognizing a song that's been sampled there's something magical about that yes it is it really is it always makes me feel more connected to the artist you know right because we're like okay we're listening to the same stuff you know like that's that came out of your record collection you know right or your parents record collection and like that's the thing asia is essentially came from our dad's record collection collection, right? That's how we know Steeley, Dan. So it's just cool to think about like, you know, the day less old guys, their parents were playing Steeley for them when they were grown up, right?

Perhaps. I don't know the story. Maybe it just, you know, who knows? But let's just say that that's how it came to be. Because I mean, like you say, we know that a lot of the records that Tribe Called Quest sampled came from their parents' record collections, right? So that's just kind of cool, cool to think about, right? Definitely. I love it, dude. It's one of my favorite things. Yes, it's amazing. all right so we are going to end it at that and we will be back next month same time same place probably same format so 10 more tracks and maybe cue you'll have some time to listen to some music maybe i've got quite a few saved like albums saved that i've been meaning to to dive into

but that's the thing like we said there's no rules here so true i still i still found found five songs to bring tonight. Right, but I mean, you have been listening to music. You've just been listening to your records. I've been listening to a lot of classical music. And I don't know if I'm going to bring classical music to this pod because I've been playing a lot of classical while I'm working. That would be something.

So that is interesting to you because I am able to listen to any genre. I'm able to listen to podcasts while I work. You find that classical music is, yeah, okay. Well, dude, I'm typing up, I'm typing up emails to customers and trying to figure out what bullshit they've done wrong with their system. Okay. You know, I'm not making websites and stuff.

I have to like, and I have to type, you know, I'm typing up a formal letter multiple times of tehe. Okay. I could see, I could see how that would be, how much sugar might be distracting for you.

Yeah. But classical music and jazz, I can do. Sure. Yeah, totally. But that's the thing, man. You could listen to some of this hauntology, right? Instrumental stuff.

You know what I queue up every morning probably, dude? Ors of Canada? That album by the Sundays. Can't get over it, man. I know. You keep telling me about it. I love it. All right.

So, yeah. Well, Travis, you should queue back up, queue up that Sunday's album again when you have the time. I'm just not, I'm not in a place where that's the kind of music I'm listening to right now. All right. Well, I'll continue to remind you. I will say I'm,

I'm off of the metal wagon that I was on for a little bit. I go in cycles. I think I've talked about this before. Yes. Now I'm back to, like, I don't know, more instrumental, electronic stuff. I spend a few months with metal every year. Now I'm kind of going beyond that. But, you know, I'll get back to it eventually. Anyway, so you're safe from metal for the next few

months on what you heard. If you're, if you're a listener and you don't like heavy metal, you're safe for now, at least. Well, that's good to hear, dude, because I'm never ready for it. I know. But it'll come back. It'll rear its head again at some point. All right. Well, find us on Instagram if you want I mean whatever really what we'd like you to do is is message us on Instagram if you're following us on Instagram that's great but we admit we don't really post on there anymore that's really just the outlet for us to stay in touch with our yes that's the only reason we keep it around exactly use it to talk to us if you want to if you want to message us tell us what you've been listening to we'd love to start featuring

listeners submitted songs again we used to do that whenever we would get something sent to us from a listener they would you know people have instagramed us and said hey i've been listening to this track lately you know check it out and then we'll play i don't know if i don't know if you say instagram does that's dating you're i don't know what the term is you know you you're dms i think that's not any better i mean that's what you say though let's just stick with the instagram us. Okay. You, you, you, you messaged us on Instagram. How about that? Just reach out to us on Instagram. I don't know what the term is. I don't, uh, I'm not, I'm not hip. That's fair. Because I mean, really, I think if we were, if we were truly, you know, in line with the

times, we'd be, we'd be on TikTok queue, but we're not, we're not doing it. I refuse to do it. That's the last time we will say those words on this podcast. Yeah, not happening. So yeah, Find us on Instagram. Just look for a no-fieler podcast and get in touch with us. We'd love to hear from you. Also, we are part of the Pantheon podcast network. I think we're still on there. I don't know.

I'm not sure either. I feel like we're grandfathered in at this point. Like we could do whatever we wanted and we'd still be on the network. Yeah, we told him, hey, we're kicking back to once a month episodes. And they're like, yeah, well, it was, you know, it's a bummer because we really liked your podcast. I was what they told us, which essentially sounds like, oh, you guys are like, done, you know. That's what it sounded like to mean.

No, we're still around. We're just not doing it every week. Yeah. Well, anyway, for now, I think we're still on the network. So, yeah, find us there. And yeah, that's just a good network for more music-centric podcasts. So if you follow their network feed, you'll get our new episodes as well as all the other shows under the network. But also, obviously, you can just find our podcast on Spotify and any other place you can listen to podcast.

Just search for no filler. Actually, search for no filler podcast. Make sure you put that in there. Otherwise, you're going to get the 741 record. All killer, no filler. Yeah, but it usually pops up still. Anyway. Okay.

So, yeah, we will come at you next month with another What You Heard episode. In the meantime, we're going to fade out with more from Steely Dan's Peg. Thanks for listening, as always. My name is Travis. And I'm Quentin. Talk to you guys next month. Thank you.