No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard - The Blogosphere Edition

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

On our first Whatcha Heard of the year, we wax poetic about the good old days of the indie music blogosphere and reminisce with some proper chillwave artists. And we bounce from Brenda Lee to to Nu Shooz to Chat Pile in possibly our widest spread of decades and genres yet. Tune in for all that and more for our first monthly mixtape of 2025. Tracklist Whirr - Collect Sadness Chad Valley - Fast Challenges Brenda Lee - Emotions King Biscuit Time - I Love You Film School - Don't You Ever Camera Obscura - Liberty Print Vashti Bunyan - Rose Hip November Small Black - Goons Chat Pile - Anywhere Iniko - Jericho Nu Shooz - Don't Let Me Be The One Nu Shooz - Point of No Return This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Hi, I'm Mike Judge, and you're listening to the Pantheon Network. Welcome to No Filler, I'm Travis. And I'm Quentin. And on our first What You Heard episode of 2025, here's a brand new track from the band Wher. This song is called Colleen. Slecked sadness.

Let me tell you something, Trabb. I haven't listened to war. I don't think I've heard any other stuff yet. It's the first thing I've heard from them. Well, I mean, that's the thing about them, dude. They're massively popular in the, uh, in the shoe gaze, you know, circles. Like, you hear them mention all the time on the shoe gaze subreddit. Well, yeah, let me mention this, dude.

I was, I was going to bring that up because in like the, I don't know, uh, description of our shoe gaze. that the moderators add, you know, it says, are you new here? Try these albums. It's got loveless. It's got Suvlocki. It's got Nowhere by Ride. And then it says, want something more modern?

The first one is Feels Like You by Were. Yeah. And then Deceiver by Dive. They are fairly modern. They formed in 2010. So. But I haven't given them a proper listen, dude. And that was freaking great, dude.

So here's the thing about this record. It came out of nowhere. Nobody was, nobody, you know, they, they, didn't tease it. They didn't do anything. And they dropped it on Christmas Day. And the description on their band camp says here, for our families, friends, and anyone who believed in us, thank you for listening. So it's literally like they just put this, they released it as a literally a Christmas gift, you know, to their, to their listeners and fans. It had been, you know, five years since their last release, which was an LP called Feels Like You, 2019, which is the, which is the

one that they just mentioned on the subreddit, right? But yeah, dude, when this dropped, I saw, like, the posts on the Shugay Subreddit, people were losing their minds, dude. And it's, it is a good, it's definitely a good listen. It's called Raw Blue is the name of the record. Again, that song was called Collect Sadness. Yeah, it's just one of those, I'm with you, dude. I haven't, I've never actually listened to them. It's time. It's time. Yeah. Yeah. And this is a good, This is a, you know, a lot of people are saying this is their, this is their best stuff yet on this record. Awesome.

So, yeah. Anyway, cue it up. Raw blue. Pretty, pretty new. Still pretty new. You know, it's a couple weeks old, this record. And yeah, that's how we're going to kick off 2025 here on No Filler Q. Of course, we're going to start with some shoegaze.

Of course. Of course, man. Now, I will say, I've brought five tracks today, Q, that are nowhere near shoegays. So, you know, we're mixing things up here. You know, I don't think I have any shoe-gates either. Actually, I mean, I have a few that are in maybe the same vein. But before we get in the tunes, Trave, I have a couple big announcements to make.

You do have an announcement to make you? No, I have two big announcements. And you know what both of them are, Trave. And I think they almost carry the same amount of weight as far as, like, importance. Why am I having a hard time thinking about what the second one is? Because I definitely know what the first one is. Well, first and foremost, I'll put it this way. My son, Ronan, it's going to be a big brother.

Yeah. And I'm going to be a father to a daughter, dude. It's amazing, man, because I'm so excited. I don't know if we've shared this detail about our family, but we only produce boys in this family. For the last couple generations, yeah, because, you know, our dad has a sister. Yeah. Yeah.

But he only produced brothers. Yeah, me and you. It was a two for one with us. And our older brother Spencer, he has only produced boys. Correct. I broke the mold, dude. I broke the curse. I have two nephews on my wife's side.

Okay. Wow. That's what I'm saying. Dude, I have five nephews. Yeah, dude. And so I'm excited to finally have a niece, dude. I'm really excited. I'm so excited.

She's going to be, I'm going to. I'm sorry, I'm just going to say it right now, Q. She'll be my favorite. Okay. Number two, big announcement to make, Ronan has been requesting to listen to Daddy's music. That's right. That is a big moment.

That is huge. And here's the great thing. So he's figured out how to navigate through Spotify because he has his own playlist, you know, Ronan's faves. and he found his way to my like narrow down best of picks for 2024. Like he was tapping around and just stumbled upon it. Don't even get me started on how good he is at this dude. That's nice, man.

And he literally just now, we went to the store. He wanted on repeat, It's Rough on Rats by Jack White, which is probably my favorite song on the no-name album that Jack White released last year. I mean, that's like... On repeat, dude. With Jack White, I mean, that's a good, just like, rock intro because it's got... I know. It's bluesy, you know, it's old school kind of style, you know, sounded in rock, blues bass and stuff.

And if, like, if I didn't have it set to be on repeat, once it started to play the next song, he'd be like, I don't want this one. Want rough on rats. Hey, you know what? He's got to start somewhere. He also really likes wishy. Triple seven I know now we're talking

particularly that song Triple seven which is one of my favorites on that record he really is his daddy's boy man it's awesome cool man

so my songs are finding their way onto Ronan's faves once he gets a little bit older he can listen to Uncle Travis's music and I'll show him some metal you're going to get him into metal

all right of course that's cool so I want to start dude I want to be the first one to go. Yeah. Go for it.

So if you're listening for the first time, we call these are what you heard episodes. And basically we each bring five tracks and react and review. That basically that's how it is. So, you know, a lot of times it's going to be shoegades. It's going to be obscure 90s stuff, 90s rock. It's kind of our wheelhouse. But then we also will sprinkle in, you know, any number of different things.

As you'll see tonight, because I've got five wildly different tracks, some of which, the type of music we've probably never had on this podcast before. So I'm mixing things up, cute. But yeah, you're going first. So what do you got for us? All right, dude. So I was doom scrolling through YouTube shorts the other day. Classic. And this clip from, did you ever see the, I guess, I don't know, romcom called Warm Bodies from 2013?

I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it now. It's, I don't, it's nothing to. It's about a zombie, right? Yeah. Like a dude dies and then. It's a kid zombie. Yeah.

It's, yeah. And it's a, it's a romance. It's a comedy. The girl falls in love with the zombie. Okay. That's all you need to know. We've all been there. And there's a scene where, and this was the scene that was playing in the YouTube short.

And I had seen this movie before. And I'm sure I got super stoked when I heard that this song. was playing in that scene, but I had forgotten, obviously, about it. But the song was by Chad Valley, which probably rings a bell to you, Jeff. Maybe not. It does ring a bell, dude, from the, from the New Dust Days, right? From the New Dust Days. Yeah, let me tell you. The song was Shell Sweet off of his 2011 album Equatorial UltraVox. This is the one I remember. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and let me tell you something about this, this song, dude, and this album. This, this album is a straight like catapult back to my college days.

Like it takes me right back there because I, now I don't know if it was this album, but I mean, 2011 is the year that I was still in college in 2011. But it was this album and his EP from 2010, the self-titled where, and dude, I had this on repeat walking around campus.

And my earbuds in, Chad Valley to me is, walking around campus at Cedar Valley College for me. And yeah, dude, it just brings me right back. So we're going to play... We're not going to play Shell Suite, the song which is featured on Warm Bodies, but we're going to play my favorite off the record. Now, you would call this guy, he's under the chill wave umbrella, right? For sure. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Yeah, yeah. And just good stuff, dude. I mean, it's hard

not to like this stuff. Here we go. This is, again, Chad Valley. This song is called Fast Challenges. Really great composition and build up and like release of, you know, when he hits that kind of like climax moment there. Yeah, dude. Really good stuff. Yeah, I love it, man. This is one of those albums I revisit pretty often. So I wonder if that was featured on our, you know, we put out a playlist at the end of the 2010s. Was that on your best of the decade?

I guarantee you. A song from that album was 100% on there. I wonder if it was on there. Because that part, that very last part at the end there is ringing bells. Like I've heard that in the last few years. Because I don't listen to this guy on my own. Let's see. Chad Valley.

Yeah, there it is, dude. Fast challenges. So yeah, this is not on that place. So yeah, this is one that you go back to a lot, man. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Awesome. You know, we talked about this.

we've talked about this before like plenty of times on this podcast but like there were so many bands doing that sound in like the late late 2000s and into the 2010s and stuff and you know some of them were just kind of you know dime a dozen okay at it and then some of them like kind of really did really cool things with the chill wave and the bedroom pop kind of sound and I think yeah I think his his stuff always stood out to me you know

is a little bit different for sure Yeah, I haven't really like kept up with him. I don't think he's really doing much anymore. His last album was dropped in, I think. 2019, nope, that's a remix. That doesn't count. 2018 was his last album. So it's been a while.

But yeah, dude, that's just equatorial UltraVox, 2011. One of my favorites as far as like heavy nostalgia overload. This one gets me every time. Really good stuff. Yeah, awesome. All right, brother. Pass it to you. All right, Q.

So I've got a very purposeful progression that I'm going to take us through for three of the songs that I'm bringing tonight, dude. And it just worked out this way, and it's pretty cool. So I'm going to bring a track from three different female artists, one from the 60s, one from the 70s, and then one from the 80s. Whoa. What the heck? Yeah. So like I said earlier, like one of these tracks, I don't think we've played a song like this ever. So, you know, this is what you heard. So what have I been listening to, Q, since the last time we recorded? I've been listening to a lot of Christmas music, right?

Yep, yep. Me too. And this one particular singer, you know, I've been listening to her my entire life because of one of the Christmas songs that she sings. is something that we all listen to quite a bit of, which is rocking around the Christmas tree by Brenda Lee is her name. I think I know where you're going with this, dude. Where am I going? I don't know. I think is she the one that like she was like 14 when she recorded that or something?

Oh, I don't know about that. Okay. Maybe. Yeah, recorded in 1958. Yes, she was 14 when she, I didn't even. Yeah, that's why. Isn't that nuts? So she had her first, she had her first billboard hit at age 12.

and she was nicknamed Little Miss Dynamite. So I was like, you know what, man, I've been listening to this woman's music, her Christmas music at least, my entire life. What does her stuff sound like? Her other stuff, you know what I mean? So also just, I wanted to point this out, she's also known one of her biggest hits is that song that was featured pretty prominently in Tommy Boy. You remember when he gets hit in the head with the two by four on the side of the road?

Yeah, and it cuts to the diner. Yeah, and that song, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's her. That's her. That's one of her songs. Anyway. Nice. Yeah, it's called I'm sorry. Anyway, she was 15 when that one came out.

Anyway, so I went and listened to this album that she came out with in 1961 called Emotions, and I'm going to play the title track. And, dude, you're going to love this, man. This is great. But, yeah, again, we don't really flirt with this kind of stuff typically, but I wanted to stick with my guns with this and play this. So here we go. All right, here we go. Again, this is Brenda Lee's 1961. song,

emotions. You've got me crying. Pretty great, dude. There's something, there's something about that. This is, all right, man. Whenever you hear music like that,

like that era, it almost feels like it was written on a different planet or something. I don't know. They're just, I'm with you, dude. Because it, rock and roll especially changed,

so, drastically pretty quickly after this and like never looked back. You know what I mean? And like when you listen to this stuff, it's almost like, what? You know, and like music from the 20s and stuff. Or it's just like this just feels otherworldly, you know? Yeah, a lot of that to me is the background vocalists in the way that they just like, I don't know, their singing style is so like, no one seems like that anymore.

And it was like it seems like it was a very narrow. down time in the history of music where they did sing like that. Yeah, and that's, and that's, you know, everything sounded like that. You know, because like there was only, what, a handful of, like, studios and labels and stuff. And they were all just putting out music that sounded like this, right? Well, and there was, as far as I know, I mean, I don't know how many, but a handful of professional songwriters writing these songs, Rindalee didn't write these songs. Right.

Yeah, it was written by, uh, um, Mel Tillis and Mel Tillis, yeah. Oh, no, written by Ramsey Kearney and Mel Tillis. Oh, no. Chat Chachy-T is wrong. Chad-G-T, dude. But apparently, yeah, I think this Tillis guy wrote a ton of songs. Anyway, so, but yeah, also, I mean, how amazing are her vocals, dude?

I mean, I wonder she was named Little Miss Dynamite. Yeah, that's why she was so famous was the way. that she interpreted the songs. Yeah. But, you know, and that's another thing, too. Like, music like this now, like in pop culture is used in, like, horror movies and, like, or, like, the fallout. Fallout. Yeah.

Fallout, the Fallout, like, series always put stuff like this and it's marketing materials or in the TV show. Did you guys watch that on prime? No. It was awesome, dude. Anyway, music like that all throughout. And so, like, now it's just become this kind of, like, usually it's paired with, like, sci-fi stuff or like weird

you know horror movies and stuff anyway but I just wanted to to see I was looking through like you know I typically pull up like a lot of those like Christmas compilation playlist and stuff and you've got your all over you know you've got your Bing Crosby obviously

your Sinatra and all that kind of stuff Knack King Cole but then you got stuff like Brenda Lee and like Perry Cuomo and let's not forget Chuck Barry brother oh well yeah sure I think he only really strong. All of his. I think that's his only.

Yeah, all of his songs sound the same. But I'm just saying, like, you never really think about all the other stuff that they, at least I don't. I never really tune into all the other things that they put out. So I just wanted to check up Brindalee. And, yeah, this record's pretty awesome, dude. This was cool, cool songs on it. Anyway, so that was Emotions, Brenda Lee. Again, maybe the last time we ever, we ever listened to a song like that on here.

Let me tell you something that blew my mind. What's that? I didn't know this. but guess who's saying I'm getting nothing for Christmas guess? Shirley Temple? Yes. It was? I didn't fucking know that, dude.

Me neither. Yeah, that's Shirley Temple, dude. It's like the only child star that I could name off the top of my head. That's where I went with it. Well, good call, dude, dude, I hate that song. I'm just, me too. I hate it. And it's not a good song to play in front of your kids because then they just get all

these ideas. I also hate I want a hippopotamist for Christmas. I bet you that was her too. Probably. I bet you she put out a record. Let's find out dude. I want a hippo. For Christmas is my two front teeth. That I heard too? Song by Gala Peevy, a 10 year old.

Performed by a 10 year old. What's up with all these freaking, I hope they got paid, man. All these kids. These 10 year olds making music. Good God. I'm glad it wasn't some like adult woman, and, you know, trying to sing like a child. All right, Q, that was kind of a side track. But anyway, there's also...

That was great, though, man. Yeah, yeah. That was really good. Sometimes you got to mix things up a bit. You know, we play a lot of the same type of music on this show, so... Got to sneak in a 60s classic every once in a while. All right, Que, I'm going to throw it back to you. I bet you're going to give us a 180, huh?

You have to. This is going to be the onest of 80s, dude. You have to, yeah. Let me see if I can pull up some more stuff on this band because, and you know what, I am kicking myself because I did not save this article. Oh, you know what? Okay, it was specifically, it was albums that came out in the year 2000 that didn't get the recognition they deserved. And this artist is called King Biscuit Time. Okay.

You heard me correctly. All right, here we go. A little something from on Spotify here. King Biscuit Time is the side project of beta band frontman Stephen Mason. This Scotsman released a solo EP, No Style in the fall of 2000, complete with four brand new songs and four previously available tracks from King Biscuit Times, sings Nelly Foggett's Blues. What?

Anyways. Sounds like some chat GPT wrote it. So yeah, let's listen. give it a listen, Traff. Because this is, I saved this album because I thought it was so, the song I listened to was so different and really unique. So here we go. This is King Biscuit Time.

This song is called, I Love You. Wish I could be with you now. It's the day I cried for the first time. Just another day to come up. That's just a big in all the life That's great Yeah, yep Big time

A mix of his like A particular era Really old stuff And maybe even a bit more of his like Oh man What's the name of that album That Won him a Grammy a few years back, that kind of stuff.

Yeah. Because that, I mean, there's one thing about Beck is that he's never, never the same. He's always changing, right? Yeah. Yeah, it reminded me of morning phase that album mixed in with like a little bit of a super, super old stuff, that like bluesy stuff that he did. One Foot in the Grave. Yeah, I think we did a sidetrack on that. We did.

Yeah, that's right. But yeah, really, really good. So apparently King Biscuit Time is what this guy was doing before he joined Bata Band. And so this was kind of like a re-release of his old stuff. So is Beta Band like in the similar vein? I honestly have no idea. I don't know anything about Bata Band. So King Biscuit.

Is that just one guy? King Biscuit Time. Yeah. King Biscuit Time. Steve Mason. Okay. Yeah, you wonder if like, you know, he's King Biscuit is for this. style of music and then beta band is something radically different. You never know.

I'd tell you, did I recognize these album covers. I'll say that. Maybe I have listened to Beta Band before. It's possible we covered him on the music blog. Oh, maybe. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, great track. I haven't listened to all the songs on the record, but it's kind of like a compilation record. It's some of his recordings. It's like two different EP's of his stuff under King Biscuit Time. So again, that album EP was called No Style by King Biscuit Time. That song was called I Love You. All right, Traff, what did you get?

All right, so here's a song that I had planned to play during the best of 2024. And I was tricked by Spotify Q into thinking that this track came out in 2024. Oh. So I was like, man, this was on my list for months, you know. I was excited to play it. And then I found out that the record actually came out in 2023 and this is the deluxe edition. And the deluxe edition came out in 2024. Anyway, so you may have heard these guys before.

They're called Film School. You know, they're kind of indie, indie rock, indie pop. they get the shoegays label on them i don't i don't see it maybe not on this record at least but this is a album that they put out again in twenty twenty three called field and this is just a solid track so here we go again this band is called film school this track is called don't you ever awesome awesome awesome how long have they been around dude i don't know if i know much about this band for a while, dude, for a good while. Yeah, really good, man.

But yeah, they've been around for a long time, man. And this record is amazing. Amazing record. Dude, here we go again, man. Time to deep dive on another band where it's just like, how? Yeah, because I mean, listen to this, man. How did I not?

Listen to this description of that first record, brilliant career. Says here, over the years, film school has continued to buck trends and expand their sound into the effects swathed, psych rock, and powerful live sets they are known for, well ahead of the recent shoegaze renaissance, drawing comparisons to bands like Slowdive and Catherine Wheel. God, what the up?

All right, awesome, dude. Yeah, Catherine Wheel, we've talked about how, like, what I love about Catherine Real is that they blend, like, Garanje's, or at least, you know, on their one particular record, Chrome. And it made it so unique and different. Yeah. And if film school is doing that, also they've toured with Sword Driver. There's another name that we know I love.

So anyway, film school, again, that song was called Don't You Ever. Also, you have to acknowledge they're obviously, in my opinion, paying homage to kick the tragedy by drop 19s with that very long, like almost sounds like a diary entry. Like the cadence, the sound of her voice sounds exactly like that that, that, part and kick the tragedy that I absolutely adore. Listen to them. They're awesome. I just kind of stumbled upon them at the end of last year. So I'll be

digging into them for sure. All right, Q, what do you got for us? All right, here's another band that's been around forever, and I haven't really given them a proper listen. And again, kicking myself for not saving the article, because I like to give credit.

You can start to give credit. I know, I like to give credit. I thought that I did. I have a Google Keep Notes thing where I post these links to these articles so I can reference them, but it's not in there. So this was a, I have literally like probably over 10 albums that I saved from this article. It was an article on like, you know, seasoned veterans of the indie world that released records last year in 2024. So, which is cool, really cool.

But yeah, these are just a, you know, a solid list of artists that, you know, have been around the block and have earned their respect and, you know, like, cemented themselves in the world of like indie music who all dropped albums last year. One of them being camera obscure. I know the name's familiar, Trave, but have you listened? Have you, yeah, have you dove into them? No, but they ringing all kinds of bells. Oh, yeah, dude. It says here, camera obscure a

Scottish indie pop group who became one of the most celebrated acts in the UK's. Here we go, Trave. Twee pop scene. Here we go, dude. Yeah, that's it. Yep, we did it. First episode of 2025,

and we're all to drop them Tweet, Twee Pop. We couldn't even go a full month without doing it. Yeah. Frequently compared to Bell and Sebastian. Yeah, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I think of when I think of Tweed is Bell and Sebastian.

Yep. Formed in 96. And here's the thing. Before this album, so it's called Look to the East, Look to the West, dropped last year. Before that, dude, it had been 11 years, dude. 11 years since they had dropped anything prior. Wow. say for one one single in 2022, they hadn't released really anything in over a decade.

So it says here, look to the east, look to the West Camera, Obscura have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades, while also being their most sophisticated effort to date. Now, that doesn't mean much if you're hearing this stuff, you know, if you're hearing this band for the first time. But let me tell you, it's a doozy, dude. I love deusies. Yeah, me too. Definitely, it's, you know, piquing my interest. I'm definitely going to dive into their catalog. So here we go. We're just going to play the first track off the record. It's so good, dude. Here we go. This song is called Liberty Print. Yeah, man, no wonder. No wonder they're so popular.

That's fantastic. Yeah, I love that little solo at the end there. I mean, Yeah. Yeah. It was like a synthesizer saying the thing. It almost sounded like a guitar. It was, I mean, it wasn't a guitar, but I mean, it kind of sounded like some sort of synthesized. It was awesome, dude. It was very like cars.

Yeah, exactly. Which is cool because that nothing else about that song is in that vein, you know. It definitely came out of nowhere. It reminded me of Jenny Lewis, Riloh-Kiley. Yeah. And that came out last year. yeah you know in May of last year

this is what we typically do dude in the first like couple months of of the year we always find all this this great music that came out the year prior you know I've got literally like 20 records that all came out last year that I saved from from this article yeah and these are these are all from like you know seasoned veterans of the

indie genre and they all dropped records last year. And half of these bands, dude, I've never heard of. If you ever heard of the Innocence Mission? Nope. You ever heard of the High Lamas? Ever heard of?

Have you? Mercury Rev. Paul Weller. Mercury Rev is ringing bells. Mary Tammone, Red Cross, primal scream. There's just too much music. Richard Hawley. There's no time. Yeah, to listen.

Tinder sticks, the Wolfgang Press. Tinder sticks, I've heard of. The wooden tops. I mean, come on. I've never heard of any of these groups. Anyways, maybe half of them is trashed, dude. I haven't actually listened to them. Most of them.

Good point. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, I'll probably bring in a lot more tracks that came out last year over the next few Watch It Hurds. So, yeah, camera obscure a look to the east, look to the west, solid album from, I mean, one of the, one of the greats of the, of the, of the indie scene. Awesome.

All right, Treff. What'd you get? All right. Now we're going to jump to 1970. So, this album was amazing, dude. I'll tell you the story about how I

listened to it, how I came upon it. So, I saw this joke post that somebody made on the vinyl subreddit. I think it was, yeah, it was Christmas Day. Two weeks ago. That's when Christmas Day was at the time of this recording cue.

So this guy posted, my girlfriend got creative for Christmas, but she made a mistake. And he said, my awesome girlfriend gave me a coupon for two free records of my choice. And then he said, although there wasn't a price limit for what I can see, it looks like I'm getting just another diamond day by Vashti Bunyan. and I was intrigued by the album art. So basically what he did was he posted a screenshot of discogs where it shows like, you know, for sale from. Like if you were tried to buy this on the discogs marketplace, and it's like, you know, $7,500. There's one for sale.

$7,500. It's a very rare folk record that has kind of a cult following. So that was the joke he was making that his girlfriend was going to have to buy him this record. And then he says, update, my girlfriend left me after a $7,500 charge was made to her credit card. She is now in debt, but I have a grail on my hands. Oh, the things I will do for rare folk records. Anyway, so I was like, well, I got to listen to this. And so this was like late at night, Christmas Eve, I think, when I was listening.

Actually, no, it was Christmas Day. And we were still, we were rapping presents because we still had some Christmas. was stuff to do. And so I was like, just me in my dining room with my headphones on, listening to this record. And it was magical, dude. So here's the description of, of this individual. This word I'm about to say is just a French word for a female singer, by the way, because I had never heard it before. Okay. Vashti Bunyan is a folk shantous. It's like, just, just say female singer. Folk shantos. I think it's pronounced shantos. and singer-songwriter, best known for her 1970 album

Just Another Diamond Day, which was rediscovered in the 21st century as one of the great musical finds of its era. So basically, she's this very free-spirited person. She, when she was 18, took a trip to New York, and while she was there, fell under the spell of Bob Dylan's music,

especially his album, The Free Wheel in Bob Dylan. Once back in London, Bunyan was committed to her career in music, and through theatrical agent Monta McKay, she soon met Rolling Stones manager, Andrew Long, or Andrew Lug Oldham, and then she started making music. Anyway, I'm going to play a track off of this cult following album here, and just strap in, dude. I think this is actually a pretty good follow-up from Camera Obscure, actually.

So here we go. This song is called Rose Hip November. Autumn will Cold and fortune will surround you I mean that song is just perfect for autumn and winter Oh yeah

It's in the name Yeah dude Dude um Yeah and that's like I immediately Like just a winter scene Comes to mine When I'm listening to that

Like Oh yeah It was just very like Quiet and minimal. It reminded me of like, you know how, just look at this album. When there's a, just look at the album art, okay? Just do it. When there's like a, you know, fresh snow on the ground, it like, dampens. No, I don't know what that's like here. I live in Texas.

I'm sorry. Although I might find out tomorrow. You might find out, dude. I might find out tomorrow. Yeah. Well, it like dampens the sound, like echoes are just kind of like dampen. Like everything is just quieter outside. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you've got fresh snow on the ground. Yeah. It reminded me of those kind of scenes. dude that was beautiful yeah so uh you know kind of like the story of the record is that like it kind of caught on later you know um it yeah it didn't it was overlooked when it came out uh so in 2010 a book called electric eden unearthing britain's visionary music rob young the author states that vashty bunyan's still small voice of calm and her bold improvised trek over britain

serves as a powerful symbol of the wider panorama of non-mainstream rock and folk. That's what you, when you listen to this record, yeah, you're transported to like this small farm, you know, on the countryside, because that's what most of the songs are about, that kind of stuff, you know. She would be great to have, just to sit by your bedside and sing a lullabies too. Oh, my God, I'd be asleep in a minute. Yeah, I did. There's like, anyway, just go listen to the record. But find a special time to listen to it, man, because I guess it's just one of those.

Dude, I think sitting down Indian style in your living room wrapping Christmas presents at night on Christmas. I mean, that's what I'm saying. It was perfect, dude. Dude. It was amazing. Now, I wasn't sitting Indian style. I don't know who gave you that idea of you. I don't know.

It was what came to mind. I was at my dining room table. But yeah, it was, it was magical, dude. And I felt like she was just giving me a little concert, you know, just in my ear. Yeah, especially with some headphones on. Man, those Christmas presents looked great, dude. Anyway, all right. So that was Vashti Bunyan off of her record,

Just Another Diamond Day. That song was called Rose Hip November. All right, Q. I think we're just, this is 180s every which way. Although you could follow that up with another folk song, but. Not doing it, dude. All right. I'm bringing, I mean, let's do some more nostalgia trap, okay?

Oh, man, small black? Small black This, dude, we might as well be playing all the hits from our indie music blog days. From New Dust. I know, dude, I don't remember why this band and this album came to mind,

you know, but like it was just one of those things where I just had to listen to it again. I don't remember what made me think of the group because I don't, you know, I don't revisit this album often, but yeah,

small black is this, I guess, I don't know, electronic dance. Maybe not dance so much, but like, you know, chill wave in the chill wave vein. Definitely in that vein. Same as, yeah, same as Chad Valley and washed out and Toroie moi or Moy, whatever you want to, you know. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep. All those groups that are heavily featured on our music plug.

And every, in the music block at the time. And every, I know, dude. But yeah, this is just, this is their debut, debut. debut record New Chain that came out in 2010 and let's just

play a song up from it dude there's so many great songs on this album here we go we're gonna

play track who cares this song is called goons those are good times man this music was great

and they were really good times dude yeah and I think there's still bands putting stuff out

like this but like something about like that like I was saying like you know this was

this music really like captured people's attention in the 2010s and stuff. Like this was all over, what are they used to call? The blogosphere is what they called it. Yeah. Because that's just, you know, believe it or not, people used to get, listen to a lot and get a lot of music recommendations from music blogs.

I mean, we had a music blog. We talked about it all the time. It was called New Dust. Where were some of the other ones, dude? What's that one big one? Corrilla versus Bear is still gone. Yeah. Still gone.

What about Tyco's? Oh, I, so, Yeah, is that one's all right? Yeah, yeah, I think so. Of course, he did a mix-up of, like, music and graphic design, which is what was so cool about it. But there was like, uh, Burp FM is still going on, dude. Something drunkard.

I don't remember what that was. Shout out to Josh Blaylock. Dude, he's still going strong, man. He figured it out, man, because he's putting out those little mailers, you know, he sends little records in the mail. Man, he's simplified the hell out of this site, but yeah, burp. It's only, it's only playlists now. That's cool.

Yeah, that's cool. And he's got a record club. Yeah, good for him. Yeah. Yeah. He may have just switched gears and focused on this. Because I see ads for this on Reddit. Like, this is a legit thing.

So he's put, I mean, it's records and shit. It's, it's awesome. The vinyl post cards. Have you ever had one of those before? No. I don't remember. I think some random record store up here had, it was like for free, stacked up, you know, at the checkout. It's literally a postcard.

Yeah, I think it used to be a thing. Yeah, it's a postcard that you can play on your record player. Dude, if you go to Gorillaverse Bear, it still looks like kind of what it used to look like. And like that, this is how music blogs, like, they haven't changed. It's still got the sidebar with like the ads on it and stuff. It's pretty cool that they're still kicking and haven't really changed the format. But I was looking to see if they had their, because almost every music blog, blogs in general used to have on the sidebar or somewhere, they would have like a list of other blogs.

Other blogs, yeah, dude. Aquarium drunkard, that was the one. You remember Aquarium drunkard? I don't. Anyway, they were a dime a dozen, dude. Everybody had them. But the ones that stuck around, pretty sweet. Yeah, and we're just riding that nostalgia train right now.

Apologies, folks. But, yeah, that was a big part of our lives, dude, for a good five, six years. I didn't realize this, dude. A gorilla versus bearer is based out of Dallas. Oh, no shit. How did I not know that? You know, come to think about it, I've actually been to a concert that was like presented by Girl for Spirder's Bear.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So that makes sense. Dude, look at their little rotating logo at the top. That's what I'm saying, man. It just looks like this is a snapshot, dude, of the internet right here and there. I'm glad they didn't change it. This really is, yeah.

Check out Gorilla versus Bear. dot net, everyone, if you want to see. Because, yeah, dude, our blog looked very much like this. They all did. Anyways, dude, small black, blast from the past for me. Anytime I listen to that album.

And pass it to you, Jeff. All right, man, here we go. I'm stoked to play this track for you. So, I'm going to play another chat pile song, Q. You heard me. Who? Chat pile. I played one of their tracks. and our best of

24, too, of their tracks, actually. So I've just been obsessed with this group ever since I listened to their new record that came out last year, Cool World.

And there's nobody else like him. They're a, I guess they kind of self-identify as noise rock, but they're a metal band, basically. But they blend new metal and grunge

and like sludge and, Doom and all this kind of stuff. So it's just like they're amazing, man. He's one of the best lyricists and storytellers out there. And I'm just going to play a song here off of their 2022 record called God's Country. So here you go. Again, this band is called Chat Pile.

This song is called Anywhere and Q. You're going to have to look at the lyrics with me because that's, you got to, that's one of the, it's required. Okay. All right, here we go. So this song is called Anywhere. You know, I appreciate it. I don't need you to like it, Q. No, I like it.

But I'll let me just put it this way. I'm never going to listen to that ever in my life, dude. Fun? But it reminds me of the kind of intensity and like stop you in your tracks music that me without you would put out. Yes. And we've talked about that before. Yeah.

Yeah, where it's like, there's, there's, yeah, the storytelling aspect of it. And like, using his vocals to, like, you know, enhance the lyric, you know, he's performing, you know what I mean? Like when he's saying stop it and stuff, the intensity of it, like he's, you know. And the story that he's telling, he's typically in character when he's singing too. Like, whatever the story he's telling and the song, a lot of times he is the narrator, you know what I mean? I will say this, dude, I would, I, if, let's say, if someone bought a ticket for me, I would go see them live in a heart, dude. I have a chance to see them and I just have to go by myself, dude. But they're playing on Valentine's Day in Dallas.

Okay, do it. Have you ever been to a concert by yourself? No, but I'm sure it would be awesome. It's really great. I mean, I have to do. I've only never been to one. It was, um, I got to go see Lossel life. I like to bring up.

Oh, yeah. At a church. They're playing at trees on, February 14th, dude, Valentine's Day. How amazing would that show to be? A heavy metal show on Valentine's Day? Get out of here. At trees, Travis.

Yeah, I'm going to have to go do that, kid. That venue holds a special place, dude. It does, it does. You know, I think I sent you the lyrics at least to this one song off of, I guess it was the same record. Yeah, God's Country. A track called Why. It's literally the whole song, he's literally asking, why do people live outside? I'm talking about like homeless people.

It was brilliant, dude. And it's actually was like written up in an article of like the, you know, the protest song of 2022, like, you know, because it's, anyway, it was like funny kind of, but very like, again, performative. Like, it's just amazing, dude. Awesome band. One of a kind, dude. Nobody else is making music like chat pile.

So if you're fan of that kind of stuff, definitely listen to their new record, Cool World, came out last year, came out October of last year, and then go back and listen to everything they've done. All right. So that song, it was called Anywhere by Chat Pile and we're spinning. That's how many one-80s we're doing tonight. This is going to be more than just turning around. It's like you're in like three other states over.

A different dimension. You didn't just spin around and look the other way. You went back in time. You're freaking gone, dude. So far removed from what we just heard. All right. So this is one of those artists that, might be one of those quote-unquote TikTok famous groups.

I don't know this, but I heard this song on a YouTube short. Okay. So I don't do TikTok. I do YouTube. So the artist is named Eniko. This song that I'm about to play has 161 million,881,271 plays, which eclipses all of her. other songs. Man, this song is really great, dude. I really enjoyed it. I hope you

you like it. It's, I don't know, I really don't know how to describe it. It's hard to describe. Lyrics are great. I'm just going to let the music speak for itself, dude. Here we go. This is Eniko. This song is called Jericho. And I'm going to say, I'll never listen to that. Oh, man. but I appreciate it. Definitely sounded like something you'd hear on TikTok. I don't know, man. And I almost don't even want to mention that because, like,

that doesn't cheapen the song or the artist or anything like that. You don't know what force causes a song to blow up on these. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, whatever. You know. Dude, I brought a song last year that came from TikTok that was an amazing. track. I don't remember what it was anymore, but it was like this little indie folk band. Yeah, that sounded like a song that would be the in credits song on like a superhero movie or something.

You know, it's very like, you know, empowering kind of lyrics and stuff. Like I'm going to knock walls down and all that kind of crap. This is your workout jam. Sure, yeah. Put this on your workout playlist. Yeah, yeah. That's just funny because that, like you said, dude, we couldn't have come from a different, like from going from chat pile, which they just sing about the most like depraved individuals and and psyches and stuff to go into that. Yeah, that's like,

couldn't be farther like on the opposite end of the spectrum, you know. Yeah. I just, yeah, really like her voice and the music is really, really cool. Yeah. Very like reggae, R&B. Yeah, some interesting influences there for sure. So yeah, dude. You know what?

And that's what, what? your heard's all about yeah right we like to bounce around you never know what you're gonna hear did there's this is a this is a fucking promise dude there is no other music podcast out there or you're gonna hear a 1970s french yeah british folk song and brendale and chat pile and then what was her name an eco and nico on in the same span of an hour like no it is never gonna happen. All right, dude, how are you going to finish us up tonight? All right, Q, so I'm going to, I'm going to end my trio of female singers here. And like I said, we're going from 60s to the 70s to the 80s. So, dude, I've been obsessed with this group. They're awesome. I had never heard of them

before. This is from 1986. Have you heard of a group called New Shoes? N-U-S-H-O-O-Z? No, I have not. definitely not. Okay. So the way I found out about this group is I, as I always do, I add Shazam, ready to go. We were watching this little documentary feature thing on HBO, which is really interesting if you want to watch. It's called the Texas cheerleader murder plot. That's what it's called. It's this true crime thing about this story about this cheerleader mom in like the 80s who had a try to hire a hitman to kill this other cheerleader

mom whose daughter got on the cheerleaders team and her daughter didn't or something silly like that. Just the goofiest thing ever. Apparently it was a big news story. Anyway, so there was a lot of reenactments and so there was a lot of 80s music playing

in this documentary and the song called Point of No Return by New Shoes was played and I shazammed it and then I was like, all right, well I got to listen to this record and it's awesome dude. So I'm not going to play that track.

I'm going to play another single off the record, though. I will say if you've ever played Grand Theft Auto's Liberty City, I think it was called like Tales of Liberty City or something like that, you may have heard the song, I Can't Wait. It's also been featured on a bunch of other movies and stuff. But I'm not playing that song either. I'm playing their third single. I'm just going to let the music speak for yourself.

and maybe we'll talk about the band a little bit. So here we go. This song is called Don't Let Me Be the One. And repeat all day, dude. Yeah, man. This record is amazing, dude. It's called Poolside. The whole thing is amazing.

Man. It's all that. The whole thing is that. Give me that. Give me that. Give me more of that. Yeah, dude. Give me more of that.

And then the record that came out after that, look at this. Dude, look at this album, I mean, it's called Told You So. It's almost like the, to everything about it. Take on me music video. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like hand drawn kind of like over the photo. So what's interesting about this group, it's a duo. So her name is Valerie Day. It's her and this other guy named, I don't know if this is a real name, John Smith, but he's the guy who does the guitars and the keys and all that stuff. And then she's doing the vocals, which I thought was kind of cool. Because usually like with these, you know, groups like that, it's usually the name of the singer

and that's like how they're known. Yeah, and then it's almost like studio musicians even that are the backing band. Yeah, I mean, of course, on that record, you have a ton of other musicians besides the two of them. Yeah. You've got a saxophone player, you got trumpets, you got all this kind of stuff.

But the core group is just them too. And they're still making a music. Look at them, dude. Look at them, dude. Look at these two. Damn, dude, they're looking sharp. They're looking great, man. But anyway, Again, dude, pull side and told you so. 1986, 1986, 1988. If you like that kind of stuff.

And you know what happened in between those two albums? We were part. We happened, dude. There's just that kind of 80s music, dude, just special plays in my heart. And there's not, I think when you find like exceptional, something that just sounds, because like, again, dime it doesn't, right? Artists like that, songs like that. But when you find an album that's like really well produced and like the,

arrangements are really solid. Yeah. It's, it's awesome. I've been wanting to try to do a deep dive on this kind of stuff, man, and try to find. We could do this record. We could do a whole episode on this record. Okay. Or on this group.

I'm not even kidding. Yeah, I kind of want to mix it up for this year, dude. All right. You know. So we're going to do an episode on new shoes at some point this year. So stay tuned for that. Well, anyway, thank you for listening. That was our first, what you heard of the year.

11 more to go, Q? Because, well, actually, we're going to have. to talk about this, Q because when when your daughter shows up, I feel we may have to, what are we going to do? Well, dude, I don't know. This isn't your first rodeo. Let me tell you. Let me tell you this.

This is going to be totally different this time around because, well, I'll be taking over watching the monitor every nine. And, you know, basically, Ronan and I are going to be, you know, thick as thieves. We're going to be thick as thieves, dude, because we're going to be. You're going to be given Sarah her space and letting her do her thing with, you know, breastfeeding and taking care of baby girl. She has a name, but we're not. What's her name? We're not giving that away. Have a nice try.

Okay. All right, all right. Sarah's going to be on her own schedule. Okay. With making sure that she's taken care of, you know, and I'll be making sure that Ronan doesn't try to, you know, barge into Sarah's room at any point. Fair enough. Yeah. And he's on a good sleep schedule now.

So, like, I think we can still keep it going at the pace that we're doing now. All right. Excellent. Well, good. So, yeah. All I'm saying is we're not going anywhere. We're still going to have two episodes a month. And, yeah, like you said, Hugh, we're going to try to maybe mix things up this year.

But for sure, we'll sneak in, you know, probably another awesome obscure 90s band, rock band because that's just our wheelhouse shoe gaze that's our wheelhouse but it'll be nice to kind of you know back when we did one episode a week we bounced around all the time because we had 52

I mean I can't it blows my mind dude that we did that but we did what now that we had an episode a week that's a week I know dude I know crazy town but we did it I mean shit dude I listen to podcasts that put out an episode a day so I mean obviously that's their full-time job but anyway so yeah we're a little bit more selective

with who we decided to cover now that we only do you know 12 deep dives a year but new shoes dude they're blowing my my mind dude and you just you were tickled as much as i was with that song yeah that's what we're going to do all right so uh check us out on the pantheon podcast network if you haven't already that's pantheonpodcast.com if you follow their main feed you'll get our shows plus all the other shows under the network. Surely there's something else on there that you'll like. It's a music, uh,

music centric podcast network. So it's nothing but music podcasts. Hey, how would I close us out with another new shoes, Q? Let's do it. Now, that means I'm not going to play this track.

And that's fine. I'm not going to play this track on the deep dive. Um, but this is the song that, that I, uh, that I heard and, and was curious enough to Shazam.

And it's just another solid track. All right. Well, as always, thanks for listening. My name is Travis. And I'm Quentin. And here is point of no return by new shoes. Y'all take care. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you.

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