No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard - The Blast From The Past Edition

Episode Date: March 31, 2025

Pia Fraus - Across The Street Spoon - Pink Up (Live on KEXP) The Starseeds - Behind The Sun Men I Trust - Organon Rival Schools - World Invitational Ted Lucas - Plain & Sane & Simple Melody ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U (DJ Set - Live from the Boiler Room) Let's Active - Room With A View Elastica - S.O.F.T. Averkiou - South Wall Marumari - The Mutated Wisdom Youth Group - Shadowland This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rink on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no. But chicken tenders, yes. Because those are groceries, and we deliver those too, along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol, and other everyday essentials. Order Uber Eats now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Hi, I'm Weird Al Yankovic, and you're listening to The Pantheon Network. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Travis. And I'm Quentin. And we're kicking off this month's What You Heard with a brand new single from Pia Frouse. This song is called Across the Street.

Yeah, they're interesting, man. Like, can't really get a beat on them. I haven't listened to as much, nearly as much Piafrost as you, because I know you're big fan. I'm a big fan, and they put out a new record a couple of years ago that definitely appeared on my best of for 2023. But to the point you're trying to make, Uh, this song sounds a little bit more like they're older stuff.

Uh, Evening Colors was the new record that came out in 2023 and it's a, it's a little bit, it's a bit more mellow. A little bit. I was getting kind of like, uh, almost like a, Bell and Sebastian. No, I was thinking like, sound like a, like a shoegaze sound carriers. Okay. Because sound carriers has a little bit of that quality to them too, you know, that dream. Psychic, it's almost like a psychedelic pop.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this one had that, that little, you know, a little bit of a shoegays bend, a little wall sound. With the, with the guitar, the whammy bar there. That was great. So that just came out earlier, what, last month? Back in February. Yeah, about a month ago.

Nice. A little over a month ago. So I don't know if they're, if they're gearing up for another release or if they're just dropping some singles. I guess we'll find out. But anyway, that was called Across the Street. And that's how we're kicking our, what you're heard. it off for this month. If you're new to the show, this is our mixtape format, is what we like to call it. So I bring five tracks to the table. Quentin brings five tracks. There are no rules for these

songs. And speaking for myself, Q, I'm going to be all over the map today, dude. Oh, me too, dude. Yeah, this is going to be a fun one. Yeah. Sweet. Well, I think I think you start start us off for a excuse. So what do you got for us? So I'm sure you can relate, Treve. One thing I love about sharing music with people is that a lot of times you end up like revisiting, you know, one of your favorite bands, right? Because you're showing that band to someone for the first time, you know, and then that gets you like thinking back to like, oh man, dude, you should like you got to check out this this live performance or something like that and i ended up doing that with uh you know some classic spoon spoon stuff with with one of my friends who had never

heard a spoon before which i love it when that happens dude because spoon is just like how can you not like spoon once you you know yeah if you give them the goods right because there's a lot of spoon out there you give them the goods like it's going to blow them away and i yeah so i revisited their live on K-E-X-P from seven years ago. So this was right when hot thoughts came out. And God damn, dude. I mean, have you re-watched this? I sent you a link to it.

You did. I didn't watch it, though. Okay, man. So, so for those of you who aren't too familiar with Spoon, there's two main members, you know, right? that have been there since the beginning. Britt Daniel, of course, because he's like the main dude. He's the singer-songwriter.

And then Jim Eno, who's the drummer, who also does a lot of the producing. And they've cycled through a few different members. There's a few others that have been around for a while. But like, I think since Hot Thoughts, which came out in 2017, they've like solidified, like a, like, they've just got a really solid group. And dude, I mean, they're firing on all. cylinders in this performance, dude. So I'm going to, for the audio, I think I'm going to do, I'm just going to play from the life performance.

So we can use that in the episode. So here we go. This is one of the songs from Hot Thoughts, and they played it during this performance. This is track five off the record. This song is called Pink Up. Yeah, I mean, it is kind of weird to think about people out there who don't know who spin is, You know, because, like, they've been, they've been in our lives, at least, like, the majority of my adult life. My, well, even more than that, dude, I think we, I think the first, my first exposure to spoon would have been.

Was mine as well, dude. And I think it was, it was, it was a late night. I think it was, yeah, it was either Jay Leno or Conan. I think it was Conan. And it was small stakes. Small stakes from, yeah, killed the moonlight. Yeah, so that would have been around. The time of that album, and that would have been, what?

Early 2000. 2001, 2002. Yeah. Kill the Moonlight came out in 2002. So we would have been 15, dude. Well, what do you think of the performance, dude? It's fantastic. Unbelievable.

Now, I, now what I need to acknowledge here is that I haven't given this record enough spins, man. Like, this is. The majority of the albums is really, really good. think this is one of that ones I may have slept on, man, which is funny because I'm here. I'm talking a big game about being a lifelong spoon fan, but, um, how thoughts is great, man. Um, I mean, they, they haven't put out a bad record, right? And they've got so many records. Yeah. Um, but the, the beauty of, of rewatching this KexP performance is that like, I fell in

love with him all over again. I forget, like, just how just amazing these guys are. It's just a group of musicians like right the way they can pull this stuff off live is is I mean it's incredible dude and yeah I think you know if if you want to hear us dive deep into spoon you got to go way back in our catalog where we did four episodes on them right so we did I mean actually we've technically done more because we did a little sidetrack episode on their Stranger than fiction oh that's right the stuff that they wrote for Stranger Than fiction yeah I think we did series of sneaks through through give me fiction game fiction yeah so we did we did uh the records that they put out from what was that 96 98 98 to 2005 uh well yeah dude so yeah give hot thoughts

another spin trav um it's it's a good you know it's a solid spin like like i said like okay i think i think it was um they want my soul where that was they had yeah and i think that was the first time that they had these, you know, five, what is it, six. Oh, yeah. However many people they are right now, that's, I think that was, that was the first. That's been the lineup for a while, yeah. Yeah, for a while. Yeah, for a while.

And, yeah, man. Anyways, yeah, we're going to spend an hour talking about Spoon if you don't. Yep. If you don't, pass it along, try what you got for your first pick. All right, Q, just like last months, what you heard, I've got a blast from our past for you. So I would like you to avert your eyes or just don't look at the screen. I'm not looking. Because I like to surprise you.

I'm not going to say anything about this. I'm just going to push play and then we're going to talk about it. All right. Here we go. Haven't heard that song in a long time. Star Seeds. Right. So what was the song name?

That song was called Behind the Sun off of their tooth, no, I'm sorry. Off of their 1997 record parallel life. yeah man so so that was that had to be one of those i think we heard it on um pandor pan d was on pandora yeah that was our like the awakening for you and me uh for uh down tempo music and yeah id whatever you want to call this yeah whatever you want to call it so uh about this group this is a British duo. I guess they're from Britain. It's the Canadian

Regina Danhoff. Shout out to Canada. It's all I'm going to say. Composer, lyricist, singer, co-producer, and British Alex McGowan. Composer co-producer. So yeah, it's a duo.

As many great down-tempo groups tend to be duos. We've talked about lots of them over the years. But yeah, it's just a really blest out record, man. Like, I feel like this is one of those things you just put on, maybe turn on that lava lamp, you know, zone out. Yeah, and it's got, she's got that, like, deadpan, monotone, like spoken word kind of delivery that. Yeah.

When it's done right, man, it's great. Yeah, when it's done right, it's amazing. But, yeah, the song that I always remember, because the name is so funny, Heaven's Airport Coffee Shop Restaurant. That's the name of the song. Yeah. And, man, I would love to, I would love to eat. there. It's like going for like a Brian Eno vibe or something. Yeah,

but yeah, yeah, no good call. But yeah, the Star Seeds, again, that record was called Parallel Life, came out in 1997. And I just realized the album cover is what is etched onto the golden record on the Voyager.

I noticed that too. Didn't pick up on that the first time I came across his record years ago, but now I'm cultured cue and I know things. now. But yeah, that is pretty cool. I mean, what a perfect image for your record. It's called the Stars Seas. I think that, you know, that song in particular was called Behind the Sun. So like a lot of there, there's a song called Earth, Moon, and Stars. It's very like spacey, sci-fi kind of imagery and themes and stuff. It's really cool. All right, Q, I'm going

to pass back to you. How are you going to follow that one up? Okay. Hmm. Okay. I think I'm going to stay in the same vein, but I'm going to bring it, back to the current century. So men I trust. I know of them. No stranger to the pod. Oh, they have an album coming up. Need-oh.

So I was gifted, and it's funny to you. So it came late, but I got a Christmas gift for my nephew-in-law, Wesley, who I think I've given him a shout out a few times on this pod because he's introduced me to some good music. And he bought me the untourable album, which is what it's called, which is their album from 2021. I know one of the songs from this record has appeared on the show before. You brought 5 a.m. waltz a while back. But it was one of those things where I wanted to wait until I had, you know, the house to

myself so I could really enjoy the record as it, you know, from start to finish. That's part of the beauty of having records. So I waited until Sarah and Ronan were out of town to listen to it. So I just finally got around to listening to it. And man, I hadn't actually listened to the album prior to this. Oh, man, it's just such a great record, dude. I feel like there's a lot, a lot of bands in this vein coming out, I'm spending out music these days.

Kind of, you know, kind of dream poppy, very, similar like female vocalists lead vocals with you know just a lot of bands out there doing it but men i trust there's something special about them um and yeah i just love it here we go so we're just going to play the the opening track on the record this song is called organon maybe organon organon okay i'm gonna go with that yeah i think that is a good follow-ups to star seats because you know another like kind of very loki, soft vocal delivery. Ethereal. Ethereal for sure.

I'm a big fan of men I trust. And now it is a group, right? I know that it's the, I think so. Okay. It's like they put out a record a few years back. I think it was called like Anklit jazz or something like that. And it was, it was very jazzy and like funky. And it was really interesting.

So it's a trio. It's a trio, man, dude, shout out to trios, dude. I love trios. So do you remember if were bands, was live music back in August of 2021? And was it still, you know? I think people were going to shows and stuff.

I'm wondering if that's why they called this the untowable album because maybe this, you know, it's came out in 2021. So this was just a year after the pandemic and maybe they were working on these songs in lockdown. I mean, I think it was one of those things where, like, for the most part, I think they still, it wasn't really a thing. Groups weren't doing like a full-blown tour and shit like that.

I mean, I think you could still go out there and find live music if you try it hard enough. So, yeah, that was Organon from Min I Trust's 2021 untowable album. Pass it back to you, Chaff. All right. I feel like we've had so many episodes that I have to, I have to now go and make sure. sure verify that we haven't talked about a group before. So I pull up the old trustee RSS feed, do a little quick search. All right, so we have not talked about this group.

Have you heard of a band called Rival Schools? I got to see some album art to confirm. Sounds familiar. Here's some album art. United by Fate looks extreme. Oh yeah, dude, I've listened to at least, yeah, that album from 2002, 2001, United by Fate. Well, you're about to hear another song, okay. Oh, cool.

Well, I don't remember anything about it, but I just, it was a great album cover, man. Yeah, totally. So this is a, they kind of sound like a punk, kind of a post punk, post, definitely, you know, this is the post-grongera, you know, and you got garage rock right around the corner. So I feel like this is where Rock was kind of like still and sort of like had one foot in the 90s still and one foot, you know, in the post-punk era. But the way that these guys are described, born out of a hardy, hardcore pedigree, the members of rival school stepped to the plate with a phenomenal history and the qualities that would point towards an amazing future. So this is kind of a group made up of members from other groups kind of thing. So the singer and guitar player Walter Shrifles was in an 80s hardcore band called Gorilla Biscuits, which I'm going to have to listen to next because that's how can you know with a name like that?

And then he went on to play in a band called Quicksand, which we've definitely featured on this pod before. So yeah, he had some cred to him by the time he came around and started making music under rival schools. So let's just play a track here. This is off their debut record United by Fate. This song is called World Invitational. That's great, dude. Yeah, maybe I've only ever seen the album cover and I never listened to it because I didn't think it was going to sound like that. I had a totally different style in my head just based on the album cover.

So don't judge a book. No, I did. That was great. It kind of looks like a Bords of Canada record or something like that. That's where my mind was. I thought for sure that's where we were going. Right. But yeah, a really cool baseline.

It almost had like a, I don't know, reggae. The baseline sounded very reggae. Yeah. That was the only. aspect of it that was yeah i could see that but like i was kind of reminded and maybe the punchy guitar but yeah man like this was that what i like about some of these records from from like the late 90s early 2000s like i said like there's still a little bit of of 90s all and grunge flare like you know and especially this guy was in quicksand for crying out loud you know what i mean

like he was in that from that era you know what i mean Right. So yeah. I just like kind of like, I always like that the transitionary period where it's like we're about to go from one, you know, era to the next. And it's still like the music is still kind of like the rock is still like transitioning. You know what I mean? It's kind of cool. Yeah.

So again, that song was called World Invitational by rival schools off of their 2001 record, United by Fate. And I'm going to pass it back to you, Q. All right. Let's do a 180. Let's do the biggest of the 180s, dude. Okay. All right. Have you ever heard of an artist called Ted Lucas?

It's not ringing bells. So Ted Lucas was, to me, what seemed like in the similar vein as Nick Drake, who was just not appreciated. So he has a self-titled that came out in 1975. It was just, there was a reissue that just got released. So, you know, it's making its rounds. And the thing about this record is it should have never, no one should have ever really heard it. Because apparently he, he multi-tracked these six songs in his attic. And it started passing him around to different, well, he did it to the demos.

He was passing into like Warner Brothers and dudes, passed it on at all these different record labels. And no one gave two fucks about it, dude. you know and that disheartened him and yeah it took a while before they actually resurfaced it means just like a hidden gym just one of those things where it's like it's just like Nick Drake to me you know like the tragic story behind Nick Drake when you hear that music now you're just like how was he not appreciated well yeah it just sounds so ahead of its time you know yes um so anyways dude, I still haven't actually listen this album all the way through. I haven't had a chance to, but I mean, let's just do another track one, dude.

So here's the opening track. It is really, really good, dude. So again, this is Ted Lucas. The song is called Plain, Insane, and Simple Melody. Tell me good people. What do you? What do you want to know? Tell me good people.

How should it, how should it, should it go? It's a plain and sane and simple melody Means the same to you means the same to me It's a plain and sane and simple melody Brings a song to you, bring some joy to me Tell me good people What do you what do you? How should it, how should it, should it go?

I see the children as they dance around And I see their feet they barely touch the ground And they hear and learn the chorus of the song And they bring their friends to softly sing along. It's a plain and same and simple melody means the same to you, means the same to me. It's a plain and sane and simple melody

brings a song to you, bring some joy to me. I was not expecting his voice Kind of took me A back a little bit I was like, Same thing, dude But it's because it was very unique voice, very,

Um And the harmonies with himself, Beautiful. Yeah, yeah, I was interesting, like, very like, I don't know, dude, like I'm just, I feel like I'm sitting around the campfire right now.

This guy's like just, you know, like the best, camp counselor. Sure. Every. Anytime I think of Cam, I think of Cam counselors strumming their acoustic guitars, singing songs. And this came out when? 1975.

Holy shit. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. So he ended up just, like, distributing it himself after, you know, the record label turned it down. So there are all these different, like, versions of it and all these different, like, releases of it over the years, which is cool. So he ended up like, yeah. So I mean, yeah, so back then no one was hearing a dude.

Absolutely no one because he was passing him out himself. And I like, you know, he was distributing himself off with no major record label support. Yeah, but anyways, dude, a beautiful song. So what's his relation to Nick Drake? Or you're just saying it's a similar. Oh, it just reminds me of that. Yeah, okay. You know, where at the time that Nick Drake was releasing albums, no one was really paying attention.

Yeah. You know. Plain and sane. and simple melody. I like that. Yeah. That was a simple melody. He's not lying in.

I don't know if it was sane. I was a little, like I said, dude, campfire, I was kind of like, a little creeped out there. But I mean, I liked his voice

because I wasn't expecting it, dude. It was a very unorthodox sounding voice. It comes out of nowhere and it's right, almost right off the way. It's right there. Yeah,

yeah. That's what I was like, what? Yeah. Am I listening to? I know with the heavy harmonies. Yeah. So yeah, again, that was Ted Lucas.

Pass it back to you, brother. I bet we're going to do another 180. This is the most, dude, we could not. We're on another, we're about to be on another plan. If you're bringing another Musugah Track. No. No, this is better. There I said it.

So I said this to you. Speaking of which, I need to get my tics for that show. They're coming in the. You're going to go. I would see Meshugga? I would love, yes. Why are you surprised? Actually, that would probably be fun.

Oh my God, it would be great. And it will be, hopefully. I just might be by myself. I'm trying to get everybody I know, anybody. I'm talking. Would Spencer not go with you? I'm going to try again, but he's a little timid on Mishug. But like, I'm about to start just approaching random people on the street and just being like,

you want to come with me to Mishug? I don't know why, but like I want to experience it with somebody. I don't want to just go on myself. Anyway. So, Kerry, I wouldn't be caught to it, huh? Fuck, no. I couldn't even, no. Yeah.

All right, Q, so I sent this YouTube video to you. I'm hoping you didn't watch any of it. That happens a lot. But you pretended like you did, so we'll see. Well, I'm about to catch you know why. Hey, I don't lie. So what? Okay.

So this was a DJ set. Oh, yeah, dude. I watched some of it. Okay. I don't watch the little thing. Okay. Hopefully you didn't get to this part. If you did get to this part, it's awesome every time you watch it.

I keep going back to it. So I kept seeing this clip pop up in my Instagram feed. And, you know, that's kind of how Instagram works. If you type into something, they're going to just keep sending it to you over and over again and similar things. So I was like, I'm going to go and just watch this whole thing and just listen to it. Because it just sounds awesome. And I don't typically like watch full DJ sets like this. But this is a very famous spot in Japan called the boiler room.

And this guy, he goes by Yusuki Yukamatsu. And he is kind of... He goes by that? Just sounds like that's probably his real name. But it's got a bunch of like dollar signs and weird stuff. So anyway. But yeah, that's probably his actual name too. So what's interesting about this guy, he had a...

Apparently, this guy had a cancer diagnosis, and the same day, he left his construction job and started becoming a DJ full time. And then, like, a few years later, he's doing the boiler room and had, like, one of the most popular, well-known DJ sets at the boiler room in, like, a long time, which is, like, one of those cool, like, kind of, like, fuck it, you know? I just got a cancer diagnosis. Yeah, dude. I don't have much time left. potentially, so I'm just going to go do what I want to do. That's freaking awesome. And he fucking destroyed this set, man.

So here we go. I'm actually going to skip, you know, this is an hour-long set. I'm going to play one segment from it because I thought it was pretty cool. You'll actually, you know, if you're, if you're in our age bracket, cue, you should recognize Firestarter by Prodigy is part of the song that he samples. And then he does this transition that just knocked me on my feet. So he, not knocked me on my feet. Knocked me on my ass.

Yeah. So there you go. Again, this is a live from the Borely Room DJ set by Yusuki, Yuki Matsu. Here we go. Freaking awesome, dude. That's got me pumped. For real, dude, I got my heart. I know, man.

I know. So I will say, I think this is entanced by watching the video because you can sort of feel the energy of that room. It's insane, man. Very cool. Yeah. Now, is this how most DJ sets are? Are they just surrounded on all sides? I don't think so.

But I think that's what's cool about the boiler room is it's kind of a smaller place. And yeah, you're just surrounded by people. Just, yeah, the DJ is surrounded by audience members. Yeah. I mean, they're right there, dude. They could reach out and touch and fuck his whole thing up if they were. If they could. But, yeah, dude, before I die, I would like to experience something like that.

But like that at that level, that that energy level, that type of, you know, house music. Right. But yeah, man, that's just. I haven't either actually. Yeah. And I would like to experience that one day. Dude, yeah. Yeah.

Now, that was just two minutes of, two, three minutes of an hour long set. So definitely go check out. If you want to just kind of pull it up and have it playing, just search for Yusuku, Yuki, Matsu. you could probably misspell that a dozen different ways. But if you put boiler room at the end of it, it'll come up because plenty of people have Googled this thing and watched it. But yeah, boiler room, that's the keyword there. And watch the whole thing.

It's amazing. Now, you know, it doesn't maintain that level of energy the entire time. But basically the first half of the performance is nothing but that those types of like transitions over and over and over again. Big buildups. Yeah, it's amazing. Anyway, all right, Q, I imagine that, how do we not do another 180 from that, you know? It's going to be a 180.

I just don't know which one, which, what type of 180 do we want to do? Because anything. Yeah, anything from that's going to be a 180. Yeah. So I saw, I saw this album cover on our vinyl subreddit. And I just liked the album cover. Oh, you're back on Reddit, huh? Wow.

I'm back on Reddit, dude. You know, I missed the, there's this a dad subreddit that I really like. It's called Dadit. And, you know, and there's, yeah, there's like parenting subredits that I like to be a part of. Got it. So the band is called Let's Active. So this album came out in 1983. Travis, you're going to be really intrigued when you find out who the lead singer's main songwriter.

I don't know if you recognize the name, but you'll know who this is. Mitch Easter. He was the producer of R.E.M.'s early albums from 81 to 84. Okay. So that's what he's known for as a record producer. That's legit. And he's kind of part of that whole jangle pop sound. Okay.

You know, college rock. Alt rock, yeah, that REM was a part of. Cool. It's really, really different stuff, dude. Yeah, I'm curious to see what you think of it. So here we go. This is Let's Active. Play a song off of a foot.

This song is called Room with a View. Fucking phenomenal, dude. You liked it that much? That might be my favorite thing I've heard all year, dude. Are you kidding? That was great, man. Yeah, it was really all over the place if you think about it. I love it.

Yeah. So somebody had, so on Spotify, at least, there's only a handful of singles from the record. Right. I don't know why this doesn't put them all together under one record because those are the songs from a foot. It's a little EP. Okay.

Okay. So it's funny because, you know, these came out in 83. That's when Murmur came out. Was he the producer for Murmur? Yeah, he co-produced their first two albums. Okay. Wow, man. So he was producing R.E.M.'s first record the same time he was making this.

Yeah. Which is cool. That's awesome. Yeah, I just, I love the, everything about it. So I love the back and forth between the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the singers, um, the cadence of the, of the singer. Yeah. That was great, man.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. You're a big fan. I didn't think you'd like it. Yeah. Cool.

Well, yeah, you'll like the whole, the whole, um, the whole, I'll definitely pull it up. That was awesome. well I'll try with your luck you'll go to Josie records and you'll find it fuck hell no man maybe I'll try I will try well alright dude I think I've got a I think I got a pretty good follow-up here have you ever heard of a 90s group called Elastica I don't think so

the median price is 1087 for like an original pressing of a foot which means it $10.897. $10.97. Okay. All right. Which means, yeah, there's 19 copies for sale on discogs from $2.17. Okay, so that means it's out for you. Yeah, yeah.

Okay. Interesting. Anyway, go ahead. Okay, so this band is called Elastica. They had one pretty big single called Connection that you may be familiar with. I'm not going to play that song. You don't come here for singles, you know? This is no filler.

I'm going to play another song. And the funny thing is this might actually be a single too. I don't know. Let's see. Elastica, this album is their self-titled album. It came out in 1995. Let's see if this is a single. And I'm about to eat my words if it is.

Nope. Okay. So they actually have five singles off this record. All right. So here we go. I'm just going to play this song. I think it's a pretty good follow-up. So again, this group is called Elastika.

this song is called S-O-F-T soft. So if you're a fan of the 90s, you may recognize their single connection appeared on Mallrats. Yeah. The Kevin Smith movie. And that's one of those soundtracks that it was kind of like, it was kind of like John Hughes films, you know? Uh-huh.

You know, like if the song was featured on it, it's going to get, it's going to get some love. Right. At least I think it was connection. I can't even. Where is it? I'm looking at the track list here. Archers of Love. Oh, I'm sorry.

Line up. Not connection. Lineup was on the Mallorat soundtrack. They were on the nowhere documentary, maybe, movie. I don't know. But they were featured pretty prominently. on a bunch of 90s films. So they had their moment.

Very, very, you know, splash in the pan kind of band, came and went. Is it weird to say that they reminded me of the like? No, not at all, dude. Okay. I hear you. And that's, I bet you to say for something.

Covered that album. That would be something. By the like. That would be fun. Yeah, I don't know if it holds up, but we could try it. out. I don't know if anyone else what we're talking about. But it's funny. I was actually listening to, okay, I actually went back, I've been meeting, like, I'd always wanted to watch

it because it's kind of a, it's this movie called 13. Have you ever heard of it? No, I don't think so. Um, 13. Yeah, I swear I heard, man, a song that the, the rang bells to me did. Let me see if I can. The like is on there. I just saw it. There it is. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, Okay, I knew it because I heard it and I was like, Go back, hit back. Like, uh, where, yeah, so there it is. That's, that is from the record that we were talking about. Isn't that crazy?

Yes. So yeah, they, they had enough buzz to, to show up on. I mean, it was kind of like a little indie film called 13, but basically a coming of age tale cue. The fact that the like was popular enough to be used in a little indie film means that they had a little bit of a buzz, you know. We saw them open for spoon, didn't we? No, they opened for,

Kings of Leon, dude. Okay. And the features opened, was the opener opener. I mean, they were on Geffen, dude. So they'd be pretty big deal. Yeah. And we're not even talking about the like right now. We're talking about Elastica.

All right. So, yeah. But no, you said Elasker reminded you of the like. And I think that's a good call. That was only a decade later that that band was making tunes. Anyway, so that was Elastica. The song was called S-O-F-T off their self-titled record. It's just a good lesson, just a solid lesson.

If you like that kind of like punky kind of 90s with a little bit of a little bit of a pop flare, check out that record. All right, Q, this is your last pick. What are you got for us? All right, man. So, yeah, so I am back on Reddit, which means I'm back on the shoe gaze. I won't. I won't tell your friends. No one cares, man.

I know. I know. The world's burning. Nobody cares. Exactly. So someone on the Shugge's subred had a cool idea, and he made a Spotify playlist from this list that people, you know, from these artists that people shared in this post. Basically, they say here, hey, everyone, I'm about to release my first Shugay's EP in a couple of weeks, and I know how tough it is for smaller artists to get heard. So I had an idea.

Why not create a Spotify list featuring Shugay's artists with less than 100 monthly list. listeners. So basically it's, you know, shoegays hidden jims. And that's the name of the playlist that they created. And wouldn't you know what, Trave? There's some solid shoegaze on this. Not surprised. All right. So, so this is, this is the, the first one that I liked enough to like. Okay. This is an artist called Averkew. That's how I'm going to say. Oh, you know what? I bet this shoegaze post just put them over the edge because now they have 101 monthly listeners. We did it.

And yeah, I really, really, really dig this stuff. They kind of reminded me of, man, oh, dude, I cannot remember the name of this band. It was around the same time that we were into Matt Pompier. And anyways, maybe it'll spark it because I think the guy, this guy's voice reminds me of that one. Okay. So anyways, this is Averkew, and this song is called The South Wall. I don't appreciate that now I am suffering of not being able to place that because I, yeah, man, that's right there.

Whoever this band is that we're being reminded of right now. First of all, why would this show up in a shoegaze Hidden Jim's playlist? You don't think it's shoe gates, huh? No. You know, dude, that's a broad umbrella. It really is. It's, yeah. But I agree.

I agree. Yeah. But yeah, that was a great, great track, man. It's just, it's taking me back. Came out in 2008, Tram. That's right around the time, yeah. Of all this stuff, man. Yeah, this is our, it's our coming of age type of sounds here, man.

You know, and yeah, this is back when we were listening to like long wave. Right. Just, just to good stuff, man, to good stuff. Yeah, I'm sorry, dude. I'm sorry that I did that too. I hope one of us can figure it out, man. It's right there. Dude, right there?

Something hands, right? I don't know about hands. I mean, I think there's something about hands, dude. Yeah, I maybe. I think it was something like the and then something right after that word. Like the, man, I know we've completely derailed this episode. That's fine. I don't care.

Damn it. And it's hard to narrow that down, too, because, like, yeah, it sure is. But, yeah, it's, it's, shit, maybe they're on the same record label as Matt Pond. Was it the band that opened for Matt Pond? Because we saw Matt Pond P.A. Hey, yes. I think they did open for him. Okay.

I think so, brother. How am I supposed to narrow that down? Well. Let's see. Mat P.A. What, when did we see them? We saw them at tree, not trees. it was gypsy tea room

wasn't it? Okay, all right Gypsy tea room Dallas It would have been 2005 probably Oh fuck When were you dating

Rose Around that time Okay Dallas, Dallas, 502 room ballroom 2005

Youth group Youth group Youth group I fucking found it dude Archive April 28th is when you saw them Holy mo Dude I'm gonna have to

play them. Holy shit. I haven't thought about this band in a long time. Skeleton jar. Oh, shit.

Shadowland. Yes. Oh, my God. This was a great record. All right. Cool. Well, I'm going to listen to this. Hey,

let's, why don't we do? Why don't we do? Why don't we do? With the youth group. That's what I'm talking about, dude. God.

Damn. All right. Yeah. We did it. We did it. That was fantastic. Peace and a lot together. I, dude,

I'm going to leave everything in. This is great. All right. So, first off, shout out to this archive.upcoming.org. I think it's just literally, it just archives concerts. That's awesome. So, okay, March 10th, 2006 is when we saw Matt Pond, PA, and youth group at the Gypsy Team Room. That's awesome.

Wow. That's great, man. Yeah, and you remember, this is what we always like to talk about. Next door was Gwar. So this was a, and I don't know if that, I mean, you know the band Gwar? Yeah, yeah, but they wear the masks and the goofy stuff. We saw, yeah, we saw this very light indie folk pop band. Extremely.

And at the same time, next door at the Gypsy Ballroom was Gwar, which is this over-the-top gimmicky metal. Yeah, exactly. So it was just like the world's collided there and it's kind of weird. But all right. Well, I'm going to close this out. with a little bit more of a chilled, chilled back vibe here. This should be a good one to close us out.

I've been listening to this artist for a long, long time. So this is a hypnagogic is what I'm going to. I'm going to go with hypnagogic, lofi artist that goes by Merrimari, or Marumaree, maybe, solo projects of Electronica Visionary, Josh Processan. So yeah, here we go. This is a 2001 record super mogadon. I love picking albums that I can't pronounce. And this song is called The Mutated Wisdom.

I can get down with that, too. Kind of like a video game, it's, yeah, it does kind of flare with that, which, you know, I listen to quite a bit of that kind of stuff. but you know i it it gets the idm label on it which i don't know i don't know if i would call it but what a what a weird term i've actually like talked about that before uh you know when when if i you know if i talk to people about music and say what i like to listen to it never ends well do because i'll say things like you guys and people like what you know well you know it's funny, dude, I've revisited our episode on Andy Stott recently because my friend Nathan

is actually into Andy Stott. Oh. And so I got me coming back into that. I thought about listening to that. And we spent literally half of the episode trying to figure out what the hell it's called. You talked about how you were, you're talking to one of your coworkers about, about the kind of dance music you listen to. And you basically were like, you know, I only listen.

to intelligent music? That's what I'm saying. It doesn't, like it makes you sound like it really comes across. It's very pretentious. But that's what it's called,

man. I didn't make it up. But now, yeah, so if you look at, if you pull up, if you pull up the Wikipedia page for Mr.

Marimari. Actually, let's go to Discogs, man. Discogs is better. Discogs, if I type in Super Magadon, Maramari.

Yeah, abstract. IDM down tempo so the record is pretty pretty all over the all over the map there's a there's a track on here called baby M that's a lot more

club house not really house I take all that back but more down tempo I could see how that would be a little bit more of a down tempo not nearly as playful as the song I just played because that song I just played was kind of like yeah you like you said it's kind of like a video game kind of vibe to It's kind of playful.

But this record is kind of all over the map. So, yeah, that was Mar-Marie, Super Mogadon. Yeah, I would kind of put him in the same camp as like a Boards of Canada. You know, it's kind of in that same kind of, you know, lo-fi, hypnotogadip hop type category. So anyway, so that'll close us out for the month that those are. pretty fun episode. And we discovered, rediscovered an old band of ours from the past youth group. And so if you're like us and you listen to this kind of folk pop, I don't know what the hell

you call it, but we were all about it. It was everywhere. It was. Basically, this is like, if you, if you, you know, went to Starbucks, you'd be hearing something like this, some sort of like, you know. For sure. A copy shop. This is the copy shop. This is the copy. shop soundtrack kind of crap, you know what I mean? But yeah. And I say we outro out with Skeleton Jar. Yeah, that's a good call. That's not the first track.

Or Shadowland, I'm sorry. Shadowland. Skellandjar is the name of the album. The name of the record. So, all right. We're going to, yeah, we're going to close out with Shadowland by Youth Group. And until we next, until we next, Kew. Until our next episode.

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Because I don't really don't really do it, Q. as we all now. Let's see. Let's see. I need the... Nothing again, dude. Nothing. Come on.

Dude, it doesn't matter. We don't get any love. We don't get any love right here. That's right. Thanks for listening, as always. Again, we're going to close that with an oldy but a goody. Shadowland by youth group. Until next time, I'm Travis.

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