No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Could You Repeat That Edition

Episode Date: November 1, 2021

On this month's Whatcha Heard, Travis breaks our lengthy metal dry spell with some Norwegian thrash metal, Quentin gets reacquainted with one half of Air, and Adriano Celentano leaves us scratching our heads with his classic 70s hit full of English gibberish. We also dive into some dark and moody synth-pop from the 70s and 80s, and a sprinkling of post-punk and emo for good measure. Tracklist: Animal Collective - Prester John Calm - Demons Reloading Such A Beautiful Disease Trigger Pull This Trigger Thomas Leer - Looks That Kill Parquet Courts - Plant Life Pixx - Small Mercies Alien Weaponry - Hatupatu Nicolas Godin - Turn Right, Turn Left Nicolas Godin - What Makes Me Think of You The Breeders - Doe Krisma - Black Silk Stocking Supersport! - Uppi Sofa Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol Dijon - Many Times This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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from Animal Collective. This song is called Prestor John. So, Q, you're more familiar with Animal Collectives entire catalog than me, right? Not really, dude. I kind of... Well, let's put it this way. My only true exposure to them is Mary Weather Post Pavilion.

I mean, I know we did an episode on song and tongues together, but you've listened to at least three or four of their records pretty intimately, right? Yes, but Mary Weather Post Pavilion is the last one that I listen to all the way through. I've heard singles and random songs are there since then. I guess the point I was trying to make was that this sounds different to me. Like, I mean, would you say that this aligns more with some other earlier stuff? Or, I mean, it's not. It sounds like a new animal collective.

Yeah, this one is more like melody driven. It's got way more of like a traditional song structure, much like the songs on Meriwether. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, this is really, this sounds great, man. That song is awesome. Yeah, I love it, dude. I love it. almost like 60s, like a 60s kind of vibe to it. And I think that's the way that they harmonize

with their voices that can kind of nod back to the 60s. But a lot of the song kind of reminded me of like the 60s psychedelic stuff. I mean, Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear, his vocals and the way he harmonizes, you know, rather he's harmonizing with himself when he's just doing Panda Bear or if he's harmonizing alongside A.V. Ter. Yeah, dude. He always reminds me of like, kind of like Beach Boys kind of harmonizing. He's got one of the best voices, man, in indie music. I love Noah, dude. Or just rock in general.

I love his voice. So when does the full record drop? So this is, according to this AV Club article, this is going to be their 11th studio album. That is crazy. Yeah, right? And this is their quote, quarantine album. They wrote it over the course of 2020. And the album's called Time Skiffs.

And it should be dropping on February 4th. Okay. So we might get another single or two before then. Yeah, dude, I can't wait, man. So this single drop was great timing, man, just in time to be our intro for this What You Heard. And very soon in the next couple weeks, you're going to be covering Mary Weather Post Pavilion, which, as Travis said, is the only album there is that he's intimately familiar with. Yeah, I listened to that quite a bit.

And we went and saw him live, you know, during that tour. or probably one of the best shows I've seen. If I go back, then look at all the, all the shows from that era. That one stood out to me. Definitely, dude. And then after that, right after we do Merry Weather, we're going to cover my favorite panda bear record, person pitch. So that's going to be a great couple of weeks, dude.

Yeah, awesome. All right, so that was Animal Collective's brand new single Prestor John. And it's our next What You Heard, dude. This is our What You Heard for the Month of November. I started us off last week. I'm not, you know what, dude, I'm not going to explain what you heard is anymore, you know. Yeah, yeah. We're 11 what you heard's into 2021. If you don't know what it is, just, you know, you'll figure it out. And we've plastered them all over our Instagram account the last month or two. So yeah, all you got to know is you're about to hear 10 songs from 10 different bands.

You know, I will say there's a small chance that one of these days we will both bring the same artists. One of these days we might bring the same song. That would be something, dude. But no, with certain, one particular song on my track list, there's a chance that you brought another track from them. But we'll see. We'll see what happens. On tonight's episode?

Tonight's episode, yeah. All right, we'll see. So you are starting us off, dude. What you got for us? What you've been heard in? First off, Q, I told myself I would bring this up. Because this is a music podcast, and I talk about soundtracks. If you haven't seen the Dune film, go check it out if only to hear the soundtrack,

because it is an amazing score. I just wanted to put that out there. This is a music podcast. We would be remiss, not to talk about the amazing score on the new Dune film. I have this sort of ongoing joke between a coworker and myself that he's in the Hans Zimmer camp, and I'm in the John Williams camp as far as like, who's the greatest movie composer of all time. Because come on, John Williams gets that title, right, Q?

I'm not, I don't have a hat in this ring, dude. But yeah, but here's, here's all I got now, dude. Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones. Fucking Star Wars, okay? Yeah. There's no, there's no competition, right? But what does Hans Zimmer done? Batman.

He's only done Batman. No, no, no, no. Hold on, hold on. He's done a ton of shit. But I think he, you know, he's known for like, you know, the, um, the inception. and he did Blade Runner 2049. So he just has, I mean, I will say he has a wider range compared to John Williams. Totally different vibes.

I got you. Well, I think I know what you're getting at, dude. This Dune soundtrack is Hans Zimmer? Yeah, his stock is going up for me, dude. Cool. You can't beat John Williams, but this is a damn good soundtrack and a really awesome film. So go see it if you haven't. You don't need me to tell you that.

It's getting a lot of love right now. So, all right. Let's kick off our what you heard track list here. No, last month we were, we were floating on cloud nine the whole time. Yes, yes.

Very blissful, ambient stuff. Yeah, and that really was reflective of what I was listening to. So it's not like I purposely tried not to bring any tracks like that, just to mix it up. Right, me neither.

But, yeah, we're going to take, we're going to take some, some left turns quite a bit throughout my list at least. I'm going to be taking right turns, dude. Okay. All right.

I'm going to stretch. Shut up. And we're going to talk about this for once. All right. So here's a band from the 90s. I don't even remember how I stumbled upon this. They're a band called a Calm from California. Very, very short-lived.

But they were kind of a, you know, that post-punk, post-emmo, alt-rock, not grunge, right? But, like, the kind of hardcore type of stuff, right? that was happening in the 80s and whatnot. So they're kind of in that camp. And I'm going to play a track off of an EP that they put out in 95. And then, yeah, let me just play the track and then we'll talk about it a little bit more. So this song is called Demons Reloting Such a Beautiful, Diseased Trigger, Pull This Trigger. If that's not an emo title.

I know. Yeah, that's the name of the track, dude. I didn't come up with it. All right, here we go. So this was 95? Yes. How long had they been around by that time? Not long at all.

Okay. You know, they formed in 94. They put this out 95. They were done by 96. So they were like, they came and went and just, that was it. Man. I wonder if they were in, you know, what kind of bands they were in before this group or if they played in a lot of bands before this,

because this sounds just like what was happening in 93, 94, you know, like on the more shoegay side of the grunge coin, you know? Well, yeah, one of the band member, or I think the main guy went on to form this band called Mohender. But yeah, let me read this little snippet here, which I think is a good. So they have a band cam page. It looks like they re-released all this stuff. Maybe they put it out on a new label or something like that.

But they released all three of their EPs that they put out. You know, they came together and put this music out and either went on to other groups or what have you, right? Anyway, calm surfaced in the mid-90s to feed on the wage-depressed suburban Gen X malaise. That's, I think that's a really long way of saying grunge. Yeah, a little bit, right? And that guitar riff is grunge-like, for sure. Grunge spawned from that, like... The Gen X. Melaise, right?

Yeah, right, exactly. So, let me continue this here. The trio of Clay Parton, Albert Menduno, and Indian Summers, Mark Bianchi, ripped off a six-song EP of chugging riffs, thunderous drums, and muted vocals. And then I just love this, dude. They have a... Their bio, their short bio on their bandcamp page says, Calm is a Polaroid still waiting to be developed.

I fucking love that, dude. I like that. You know, they came and went really quickly, and had they maybe stuck together, they could have gone on to make a lot of great music. But anyway, that was a band called Calm. And that song was called, Demons Reloading Such a Beautiful Disease Trigger,

pull this trigger. I don't know. I mean, why would you do that to yourself? All right. Anyway, all right, Q, I'm going to throw out to you. So I've started us off with some 90s post-punk. So what are you going to do? We're going to take it? All right. So I have been skimming through this book called Mad World and oral history of new wave artists and songs that defined the 1980s. And it's really cool, dude. Each chapter is a different. song by a different artist and they cover everything from like new order the smiths tears for fears echo in the bunnyman flock of seagles thompson twins and quite a few other bands that i hadn't heard of before and they interview the artists and talk about specifically about one song from the group

and then with each chapter they have like this little mixtape section and they have five other songs that would fit either in that style of music or fit in like the area of the UK or whatever where the band was from. Anyways. So one of the artists they cover is Gary Newman and of course Cars, right? Are you playing another Gary Newman track? Not another Gary Newman track, but I am bringing an artist that is featured on his mixtape. Okay. Which was called five more synthetic songs filled with paranoia and alienation. And this is a track by an artist named Thomas Lear. I'm going to play a song of his called Looks That Kill

from an album of his called Contradictions that came out in 1982. All right, here we go. Again, this is looks that kill. You saw the story go, look and see, trace and bad that you've learned to come too slow. There's a time. No, yeah, I really like it. I like the synth.

Some tasty keys, dude. Yeah, I like the synth quite a bit. That particular synth sound, you didn't really hear too much in New Wave. That particular synth sound, like that, very specific one. It was more funky. Yeah. I keep going back to Prince's Miniat. Yeah, Minneapolis sound.

It's always hard to say that. Minneapolis sound. I always say it wrong, Minneapolis. Yeah, add another in there. Minneapolis sound. But that's what that reminds me of. Yeah, the blending of the, like, the new wave with the funk. Yeah, exactly.

So when did the, when did that record come out? 1985. No, sorry, 1982. 82, all right. Well, Q, I've got a perfect segue from that. Awesome. And this is a brand spanking new track from a band that we've talked about quite a bit on this show called Parquet Courts.

Oh, dude, yeah. I haven't listened to their new album yet. It's good. Actually, I've heard a single and it's not as, as, punk as their old stuff. Yeah. Yes. That's kind of what makes this record different is they're kind of doing a little bit more of a

dancey kind of thing. They're experimenting more with dance electronic type stuff. Cool. And I will just say one thing, dude. And I know that I do this all the damn time. I always compare bands to talking heads, but that is all I heard when I listen to this new record. And this song in particular, you can't escape the comparison, the David Byrne comparison. So anyway, yeah, so I'm going to play a track off of their brand new record that just dropped

like a few days ago from when we recorded this episode at least. This is a band out of New York called Park A Quartz. Again, we've talked about them before. Brand new record called Sympathy for Life. and I'm going to play a song called Plant Life. Yeah, it's really cool that they got David Byrne to sing with him and then. Right. Right, like I said, you can't, you just can't escape it. Yeah, it's awesome. That spoken word kind of thing there.

I mean, that's David Byrne all the way. And even the tone of his voice, he sounds like David Byrne. The rhythm and everything that sounds like the the Afrobeat orchestra, whatever they call it on Remainting Light. Yeah, it's not just the voice, the way the bass sound seems to me very like Remainting Light, which is the record that we talked about. I mean, the comparison, you know, it's not Afrobeat like Remainting Light was. Sure. But like. As far as like percussively.

Yeah. But apparently this record was born out of a lot of like. improvisation and stuff like that. So that's very much like Remainting Light, right? Cool. So yeah, I'm not seeing it as a bad thing. I'll take any band that wants to sound like talking heads, right? But it's kind of a, it's different. This is a different kind of sound for parquet chords. So they're kind of being a little bit more experimental, a little more dancey like I was saying. Yeah. The only album of theirs that I really know and love is light of gold, which is, I mean, almost 10 years old.

So I haven't really listened to a lot of their newer stuff. But yeah, that was great. Girls with the English accents, that's the song I like. I like Stoned and Starving. I think that's the one that we put on our best of 2010 playlist. The 2010s, yeah. So I don't know if we've ever mentioned this dude, but we used to run in the same circles as Andrew Savage, the lead singer.

Wait a second. He used to be at like a didn't. did in house parties and stuff that that that that we would go to was he in uh ferguson geronimo yeah yeah he was he was okay cool yeah he was he was you know one half of of ferguson geronimo nice i saw them i saw them play a show at um rubber gloves oh i was there with you dude i think we went with josh yeah okay well there you go and dude we may or may not have josh on on the next week's episode yeah we'll see um yeah this guy that we've mentioned a few times like he he was you know the co-founder if you want to call him that of new dust anyway

Andrew Savage of of Parkacords uh yeah he he he was in didn't or yeah it's like when i look at his face is like yeah of course there he is that guy right anyway now he's uh now he's in this big time band parka courts you know that's getting a lot of lot of love man didn't he used to wear like big thickroom glasses when he was in Ferguson for him who didn't he didn't especially in right yeah yeah anyway okay i'm gonna throw it back to you what you got oh which one should i go with dude all right so this is an artist i just discovered yesterday it's an artist called picks p i xx and she's like this i don't know man like synth pop um kind of punky like punk pop psych rock it's hard to pin her down dude and i i haven't really listened to this whole album but i'm

a big fan of of of the few songs that i listened to so this album came out in 2019 it's called small mercies and yeah i'm just i got to let the music speak for itself dude you got to help me help me pin down this this style okay so again her she goes by picks p i xx you can probably hear my dog being derpy in the background he really wants me to pet him so he's trying to get give my attention. Can you hear that? Yeah. All right.

The album is called Small Mercies, and this is actually the title track. I'll tell you what the style is cute. Fun. It's just a fun song, dude. Yeah, man. That synth melody thing is catchy as hell, dude. That is fucking awesome.

There is a song in particular, and I don't have the track name. off the top of my head. I'm sorry to all the Pink Floyd fans out there that are just screaming at me right now. Because there's a song on a dark side of the moon that sounds just like that. Oh, I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What song is that, dude? I don't know. Okay, well, I never really got into Pink Floyd. There I said it. Me neither. Whoops. And now we've lost like a quarter of our listeners. No, no, no. Here's a thing. That is an opportunity for us to do an episode on Pink Floyd.

True. Because we could totally do it. I'm not saying I don't like them. I've just never given them a fair shot, I don't think, beyond the songs everybody knows. Last time I listened to Dark Side of the Moon all the way through was back in my stoner days in Austin. As soon as we- That's like required listening, right? Well, listen, as soon as we heard that if you sink up Dark Side of the Moon with Waz,

the songs flow along with the movie, we were all on top of that, dude. And there is this- Is it true? I mean, it's pretty, when you're high enough, dude. No, actually, there are some moments. But like, was it intentional? They did that on purpose? No, no, no, no.

Okay. So somebody, how do you figure that out? Who pushed play on Darkshard of the Moon? Right when they pushed play on Wizard of Oz. Somebody probably just saw that the runtime was similar. That's, yeah, that's part of it. Anyway, that's cool. But there's actually, so this, I got to just give a shout out to, I don't even know if this video store is still around.

But do you remember I, I heart video? Yeah, in Austin. Yep. they had a like a VHS dark side of Oz where someone just had it clever yeah they just had it already done so anyways that was the last time I listened to Dark Side of the Moon and that was like 15 years ago or something YouTube like destroyed any of that kind of stuff like nobody's gonna that just goes on YouTube now that kind of thing nobody's gonna put a VHS tape out of that the city's like Austin there's still love for for brick and mortar keep awesome weird old video

stores, yeah. Anyways, yeah, that's what I was reminded of as soon as I heard that synth line. Again, the artist is Picks and the album is called Small Mercies. And yeah, dude, I'll pass it back to you, what you got. All right, Q, as promised to you privately, I am bringing some metal, finally. It's been a while since we've done some metal on this show. And it's that time of the year, man. I listened to Metal in October. Metal and horror just goes hand in hand. I've said that before. So I just found myself in the mood for metal in October.

So this band, these guys are awesome. They got a lot of buzz with their first record that came out in 2018 called T. Or two, I'm probably not pronouncing it right. But this band is called Alien Weaponry. And the reason they had so much buzz behind them is because at the time, They were probably, I think like 17, 18 years old. These guys were really young. It's three guys.

I think two of them were brothers. Yeah, two brothers, the drummer and the guitarist and singer. What made him so interesting is how they incorporated their native language, their native indigenous language into their lyrics and stuff like that. I love and bands do that. So they're New Zealanders, right? And so basically they would combine thrash metal, which is like, you know, Metallica, Slayer, stuff like that, with groove metal and stuff like that. And the lyrics, like I was saying earlier, I'm going to try to pronounce this correctly, but their native indigenous language, Tehr Maui.

I didn't say that right. I liked it. I actually watched the YouTube video to hear somebody pronounce it. And I can't, my mouth doesn't do it. Don't worry, man. I've got a song coming up that is the most ridiculous. word in the history of any word. All right.

Well, anyway, they put out a brand new record in September called Tangorora. Tangerroa. That sounds right? Tangeroa. Tangerora. I like that album cover. Yeah, it's dope, right? And I'm going to play a song where you can hear them actually saying some words in that indigenous

language. It's really cool. I might let this play out a little bit because it's just a dope-ass song. All right, this song is called Hatupatu. I'm actually going to play two clips Q if you'll permit me. Sure. What do you think so far? I can get behind that, dude.

Of course you can. For sure. You know, an ongoing joke on the show is that Quentin is not a listener of metal. And so anytime I get the opportunity, you know, I'm trying to bring them into the fold, right? I don't seek it out, yeah. I try to be careful with my picks, you know. I think I brought, like the last time I brought metal to what you heard was machine. sugar and I think I scared you away.

I can't do it, man. I can't do it. I've been digging on Ms. Sugar the last, and I've been listening to Gojira, this other gent band. Anyway, what did you think of this? You liked it, right? I mean, how cool. I love, there's something about the, you know, they're kind of doing like a chant,

almost like a war chant type thing is what it sounds like. I know that I could be way off on that, but that's what it sounds like. The cadence and like the rhythm of their language. Yeah, it just, it fits perfectly with, with, with, with the metal sound. You know, there's a very well-known, another thrash band called Sepaltura that did something very similar where they would bring in like their native language kind of thing. So these guys are definitely like picking up the torch for, for that band, because they've been around since the 80s, Sepultera.

Let's take a quick break. All right, I'm going to play another clip here because there's something that happens, dude. I think I saw God when I heard the song. first time, which I don't see him ever, right? I had a religious experiment experience. Had a religious experience cue, and we'll see. I'm just going to push play again, and then I'm going to see you ascend upward when it hits a certain. And this is the same song. Same song. I just want to play. There's a really cool thing that happens. Sort of a breakdown in the middle here. All right, here we go. Again, this is Hatu Patu by Alien Weaponry.

Yeah, it's good shit, dude. It's hard not to like it, right? All right, Q, so now that you've admitted that you like that, what are you going to, what medal are you going to listen to next? Well, let me tell you what I liked about it. Okay. So this will help you out. Maybe I can point you in the right direction of another, a similar band. And maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but the way that they harmonize with each other.

Uh-huh. That feels more like 80s metal. Hmm. Okay. Can you help me out there? Do you know what I mean? Maybe. Yeah, I mean, thrash, you know, start in the 80s.

So like thrash metal. Okay. Yeah. Points back to the 80s. I mean, honestly, there's not, I mean, look, dude. There's probably not a decade that encompasses that style of harmonizing in metal, but I enjoyed the harmonizing. I would say that their vocal style isn't, at least that harmony part isn't uniquely metal. That's just kind of a rock.

Sure. So I mean, yeah, maybe that's why you like it because it's not what you didn't like about Mushiga was the voice, right? Yes. You can't get behind the voice. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, these guys don't really sing with the you know, the guttural

you know, gravelly screaming kind of thing that most people don't, can't get beyond, right, with metal. Right. It's an acquired taste. I did like the, uh, I liked the thrashiness of it. Yeah, the, yes, dude. That's why you listen to metal, man, for the, for the thrashing.

If you like thrash, that is. But yeah, go check that out, dude. If you like that, you'll probably like the rest of the record. It's called tanga, tanga aura, something like that. You know what? I'm not New Zealand, a New Zealander, okay? Anyway, again, that was alien weaponry. I'm going to send it back to you, Q.

What you got? All right, dude. It's time for a 180. It's been a while since you've done one. Basically, anytime metal gets played, it's back-to-back 180s, right? That's true. That was a 180 from your last pick, big time, that synth pop thing. And then obviously you're not going to be able to follow it up with metal.

No, dude. I'm following up with one half of air. I was going to say, I recognize that dude's face. Right. Yeah, dude. So air, right? we've talked about them plenty times on this podcast. Huge, huge fan of their record, Talkie Wockey,

which came out in 2004. So they're that French pop electronic duo. Turns out, Nicholas Godin has been doing some solo stuff. I had an album that came out in 2015, which was his first solo record. And he just dropped another one last year called Concrete and Glass. And I got to give a shout out to the TV show that's on Hulu right now, Seven Perfect Strangers. It features a song of his from this album called What Makes Me Think About You?

And when I heard it, I thought, you know what, that sounds a lot like those robot sexy boys from France. And sure enough, it's Nikolaus Godin. I mean, no one does it better than them, dude. You know what? They do the robot voice better than daft punk. There, I said it. Whoa. Whoa. So as soon as I realized who it was, I pressed play on the album. And it is fantastic. He has a lot of guest vocalists on it. And honestly, the ones, my favorite songs on this record are the ones that are just his compositions. So we're going to play track nine on this record. You're going to love this dude. You're going to love it.

All right. I'm ready. So this one's called, and too, speaking to turn left and right today on this episode, the song's called Turn Right, Turn Left. Awesome, dude. Yeah, you're right. I did love that. I love his music, man. Yeah, that was great.

I wonder what directions, like, where does that take you? You know, you have to know where to start from, but that's pretty cool. He basically just took, you know, his TomTom. you were those? Yeah. And, uh, made it a song out of it. That's really cool.

But I love the bass, that freaking, that smooth bass that he, and then the strings. That's like classic air, right? Right. That's what I was going to say. Like this album, the whole album,

really reminds me of, uh, talky-waki, which is, you know, because I mean, air's all over the place. You know,

they've been around forever. Um, but like, Moon Safari, talky-walky, like that era, era of air. is the air that I love

and clearly Nicholas Godin has a lot to do with that because this is his solo stuff and it sounds a lot like it. So dude, since you played two clips of Musuga. That's not,

dude. I know. I know. I just want to play a little bit of the song that I heard on that TV show. You'll hear why my ears were perked, dude, because I'm like, hey, this kind of sounds like air.

So this song is, It's from the same album. It's called What Makes Me Think About You? That makes me think about you. What makes me think about your smile? What makes me think about you? The shape of a cloud. The color of the sky.

That makes me think about you. I think of you. There's nothing, I mean, what can you say besides praise? praise, you know. Just a fun song. Yeah, man. It's the instrumentation. Yeah, that's what stands out.

Just the music. Yeah, dude. That's what he's all about. The bass again. It's that French pop. Like, it sounds like that 60s, like, what was that? What was the name of that? Like, yeah, yeah.

I hate saying it. But that's what it is, dude. Yeah, yeah. That French pop from the 60s. Yeah, dude. It reminds me of that, that stuff. Totally. All right, man.

So that was Nikola. Godin, a couple songs off of his album from last year, Concrete and Glass. Passing it back to you, brother, what you got? All right, Q. I'm going to take us back to the 90s again. And we talked about this band when we did our Pixies episode a few weeks back. I'm talking, of course, about the Breeders, which is Kim Deal, base player for the Pixies, with this other artist named Tanya Donnelly,

who at the time was in a band called Throwing Muses. What's the Breeders mega hit? Cannonball, which you would know it if you heard it. Okay. Awesome song. Cannonball is just one of those like mega, mega hits from the 90s, right? But anyway, I went back and I wanted to listen to their debut record.

So this is the one that was, put out while she was still in the pixies, right? And, um, oh, dude, I'm just looking at it now that he did a cover of happiness as a warm gun. Yeah. And it is, it is a faithful cover of the song. But anyway, um, this record pod got, um, quite a bit of interest after, uh, a fellow by the name of Kurt Cobain cited it as one of his all-time favorite albums.

So you want to talk about an endorsement, right? Dude, I'm seeing Courtney Barnett also says it was a huge influence for her. What more do you need to know? And when I listened to this all the way through, I was like, man, this was, I don't know, it kind of sounds ahead of its time a little bit. 1990? 1990. All right, let's do it.

All right, so I'm going to play a song. This is track two. It's called Doe. That part at the very end is really cool. Yeah, that's great. reminded me of some pixie stuff. I wonder how many songs she co-wrote in Pixies. Well, you know, I think Black Francis or whatever, part of the reasons that she left or that

Pixies like dissolved and stuff is because he was very, you know, controlling of the songs and stuff like that. So I don't think he let her contribute much. But also, I want to bring this up because I actually was thinking of. about this when I was sort of going through like what I was going to say about this record and stuff, I think it's actually wrong for me to say that it's ahead of its time. Like what I mean by that is that you can hear the influence on so many indie bands. Yeah, it came in the 2000. So it's not really right to say that it was ahead of its time because that makes it seem like, oh, it was

ahead of its time. It didn't get the recognition that I wanted. Like they were so like ahead that people didn't really appreciate it, right? So it's a wrong way to say it. What I'm saying is like, sure, you can hear how influential this band was, right? Yeah, it's an album with a sound that had like staying power

as far as like its influence on future musicians for decades, dude. It's such a, it's a great record, man. Pull up and hit play. It's one of those records that it's just a blast to listen to you from start to finish. You know, it's listed on many different publications like best of the 90s, greatest albums of all time, that kind of stuff.

So cool. Yeah, I haven't listened to it, man. And, I mean, in case you care, it's one of Kirk Cobain's favorite records. It seems like that was the only praise that mattered at the time. So anyway, all right, that was the Breeders. That was their very first record called Pod. It came out in 1990. That song was called Doe.

I don't throw it back to you, Q, what you got? So this is a Italian new wave. electronic music duo, Chrisma. They've been around since 1976, if you can believe it, as far as like New Wave goes.

I was shocked when I found out when this song came out. It's very like punk rock, but it's like, it's kind of like this dark synthy punk stuff.

Dark synthy. Dark, funky synth pop. And speaking to Hans Zimmer, I already love the record. Speaking of Han Zimmer, their third album, Cathode Mama. features Hans Zimmer on synthesizer.

Whoa. Hello. But we're playing a song from their debut album called Chinese Restaurant. And I don't have the, I'm not going to have the track number here because, I mean, no one cares anyways because I can't find it right now. And I don't have my Spotify open. But we're going to play a song off of Chinese restaurant from a band called Chrisma. This came out in 1977. This song is called Black Silk Stocking.

Yeah, I feeling when she's waking in the morning, but she's talking, black silk stocking, and she is no talking, be sure she wants some rocking, black silk talking, interropping, your best to keep on walking, black silk stalk you, but she's only one to see you in her, black silk stalking, black silk talking, investigation, her splash, flesh, please stop, baby, no one's loving you to generate. Yeah, I really enjoyed that. it sounded very similar to your track a couple artists ago. I put it in the same vein.

Oh, Picks? Yeah. As far as like synthy with, you know, similar kind of voice. Kind of dark, synthy stuff. Yeah, I liked it. What I liked about it, and this whole album, I haven't listened to other ones, but this whole album, Chinese Restaurant, a lot of these songs just kind of extremely repetitive. You know what I mean?

Like, it was just the same kind of drive the whole time. Yeah, I'd love to do those. Catchy as hell. Yeah, and I like how, like, just kind of brood. Is brooding the right word, dude? I wish we should, we need to get David Brown back on here. See what he would say. But I like her, like, whispery kind of vocal delivery, you know?

It's just kind of, it made it kind of feel like noir, like smoky, you know, like, mysterious. Yeah. No, it's got that vibe to it. But I guess that's the dark synth type thing you're talking about. I'm just going to say it, dude, haunting. Anyways, dude, great record. Again, 1977 is when that came out. The band is called Chrisma.

This is it, dude. This is our last two tracks coming up. Yes. So I have a good one, dude. Another new track. This is an Icelandic pop band. Icelandic kind of like a dream pop type thing. And these guys go by Super Sport.

That sounds familiar. I don't know why it does, but... I figured it would, Q, because they have been featured on Seattle's K-E-X-P, which, as we all know, you are an avid listener. Yeah, I've probably heard them on there. So, anyway, yeah, these guys are called Super Sport. They are kind of known for, like, this collaborative way of writing music. So they bring in a bunch of other artists, right, that they were.

with and so this track that I'm bringing off of their brand new record which I'm not even going to try to you but here again I'm going to try it veer de gar oh dude you just completely skipped over that tea that's a bold move you know I saw that tea and I said that tea has got to be silent that's got to be a silent tea but I might be wrong on that veer de gar I like okay we'll go with that and this song in particular dude that's one of the hardest languages to to Icelandic pronounce Yeah. Well, dude, we're bringing all sorts of stuff today, dude.

They've got, like, words that are the entire alphabet. I'm trying to say words from this indigenous New Zealand tribe. Remember what I told you, man, that I'm bringing a song that has the most ridiculous word known to man. Is that the next track? Yeah, it is. That's my last track, dude. So I think I know the episode title. It's going to be the hard-to-pronounce edition.

All right. So here we go. This song is called Uppi Sofa. and the artist that collaborated with him is a female singer-songwriter, a dream popper named Koala. So I am not sure. My guess is koala is the vocals that we're going to be hearing here. But yeah, there we go.

Super Sport. It's a song called Upa Sofa of their brand new record, Veer de Gar. Some jammy jams, dude. I can get down with that all day. Isn't Bjork Icelandic? I think so. I was getting some Bure crimes. Probably just because of the language.

But yeah, a lot of cool things happen in that song. A lot of, like you said, that's a jam, you know, right there. Smooth jam. I love the little, you know, a little instrumental ditty in the middle there. It had some like 70s, like, I don't know, like, Why to Spoil Life kind of stuff. Okay, yeah. Very dream. me. This would have been a good addition to last month's what you heard for sure. If you like this

song and you didn't listen to last months what you heard, the whole, like, you know, accidentally, every track that we brought kind of fit into that vibe. So anyway, all right, Q. Well, again, that was a band called Super Sport. Yeah, we've said this several times throughout this year. This is a, there's been a lot of great music that's come out this year. Dude, my list of favorites so far that I need to sift through is massive. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of musicians, a lot of groups used the pandemic, you know, 2020 to buckle down and write some music. That's what happened with these guys.

I was reading about it that they, you know, they came out with some music in like in 2018, 2019. And then when the pandemic hit, they just like jumped on it and like wrote a bunch of new music like in quarantine type stuff. So many bands that put music out this year, that's what they did. You know what I mean? They took advantage of the lockdown. You're in lockdown.

Yeah. What better time to create art, you know. And you know what, dude? A lot of shit went down the last year, last year and a half. Yes. A lot of stuff to write about. Absolutely. All right, Q, you're going to close us out.

What do you got? All right, dude. I've got a really fun one. So this is an artist. He's an extremely popular artist, apparently, in Italy. He is an actor and musician. His name's Adriano Silentano. And back in 1972, he wrote a song in gibberish, inspired by American English.

The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English, spoken with an American accent designed to be Bob Dylan-esque. However, the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of a few words. So he really just wrote a song that kind of is what English sounds like to people that don't speak English. And, you know, it's kind of a novelty song, but it's a freaking banger, dude. I mean, I've had this song in my head since I heard it a couple days ago. It's fucking great. And I mean, look at what I've got myself up against. Dude, look at this fucking word. That's an actual word, huh? Well, I think this is part of the gibberish that's made up. But he says it right at the beginning of the song, so I've heard it a million

times. Well, let's just let him say it, dude. Hey, now, I've been practicing. Okay. I want to hear it. So again, this is an artist. His name is Adriano Silentano. This is a song, it pays from 1972. song is called Prisncholinencininincinin Kulso I had you I mean I'll I'll applaud that

All right thanks You hit all the letters I heard all of them Just get ready dude Just get ready Okay What he says Okay

Alright Yeah Breezing colon ain't Twozo You the cold You're the cold maids Say one Prez and calling

Anson nine Juzol All right The Conal boss died Got a good time Dude I loved it I know, dude. How did you stumble upon this again?

It was on Reddit and it was like a, there was like a music video or I think it was from like an old, one of those old like top of the pops kind of shows where, you know, it's like a live performance. Yeah. And it's just, it's like a one minute clip of this song. And I'm like, I have to find out who this is. Like the artist wasn't mentioned in the post or anything. Luckily in the comments section, people like, oh, that's.

That's prison colon needs to be a little single so. That's pretty good. So, yeah, dude, I fucking love it, man. I loved his, I'm reading that that was his wife. Yeah. The female vocalist that chimed in. Uh-huh. That was cool.

Again, like that, this sounds very much like that French pop kind of stuff from the 70s. Dude, interesting, under the genre, proto-rap. That's interesting. The predecessor to rap. That is interesting. I bet we could spend a whole episode on, figuring out where that rabbit hole leads. I think it probably just means like the spoken word.

Yeah. Style that he delivered the lyrics like before hip hop and rap took off, right? So he says here, the intent was to demonstrate the idea that while many Italians loved authentic English language songs, not many knew English well enough to understand what the authentic songs lyrics meant. He says, ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang, which for a singer is much easier to sing than Italian, I thought that I would write a song which would only have, as its

theme, the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything. That's awesome. Yeah. Didn't our boys from Kings of Convenience say something similar? That's why they write in English because... Right. Like, it's easier to write like expressions of of love and stuff. A lot of songs, and stuff like that. Cool. Yeah.

So I'm not going to say the name of that song again, but it'll be on our playlist. I'm just glad that I don't include the song name in the Instagram graphic that I thought. Oh, yeah, dude. For what you heard. But no, he was, dude, he was doing like a Bob,

is like Bob Dylan meets Elvis Presley or something. Yeah, interesting. Anyways. Yeah, that was, that was really, uh, dude. You heard it here. This song's everywhere, dude Like, you know In pop culture

It's been in a bunch of movies and films So yeah, dude I thought that would be a fun way to finish This off here And you know what? We haven't gotten any suggestions For an outro song So I think we do though

We do We do Oh Let me see if I can pull it up again Okay A reddeter on the shoegays Subreddit Asked for recommendations

For Doom-inspired Shoegays and I said, ding, ding, ding. Because we did an episode on Doomgays, right? That was one of my favorite episodes we've ever done, actually. So, yeah, basically I just said, hey, you know, I responded to the subreddit post and I said, yeah, you know, I basically dropped the track list from what we covered on the episode.

And then, you know, I just was talking to the guy and I was asking him for a recommendation, basically. I told him about what you heard and that, you know, maybe we were. We'll give you a shout out, right? And so he came through. This guy's name is Matt. His screen name is Matt Shue Zero. So I assume that's his name. But anyway, I said, that's so cool. I've been listening to the song many times by Dijon over and over recently. So it sounds like he's been listening to many times, many times. Oh, the song's called Many Times. Yeah, you should I did. As long as it's called many times, he's been listening to it over and over again. Many, many times.

Have you listened to it? I want to say I did. Okay. And I was expecting Shoegays. It's not Shoegays. So it turns out just because you post on the Shoegays subreddit doesn't mean all you listen to is Shoegays. Who would have thought that? Anyway, he also says that he makes music under a project called Lockstep.

and I should have followed up with him and asked him for like a song and if I could get a link to a band camp or something like that but I don't want to make assumptions about this band lockstep that I found on band camp I don't know that that's him and I don't want to play a song from a band that's not him but maybe I'll reach out to him again tell him that we played his pick and see if he wants to, you know, give me like a song or something like that from his band

because that would be kind of cool right? Yeah for sure dude. I should have followed up with him than that. But anyway, so we're going to play his song to close us out, his recommendation. So again, this is a guy called Dijan. But yeah, we'll get to that in a second. So yeah, Q, next week, I guess, is that our 200th episode next week? Yeah, dude.

Okay. So we've teased this a couple times. But yeah, next week, we are going back to the 2000s, the late 2000s into the 2010s. where Q and I had a music blog called New Dust. It's kind of where this whole thing started, man. Yeah, if you think about it, yeah. But yeah, that was the era of music blogs. Everybody had a music blog.

We were one of countless indie blogs, right? And, yeah, we, you know, basically it came up right around the time that the chill wave movement happened. So like washed out and Tori Ma'i and the dream pop like wave, right, that happened in the 2010s as well. It was kind of like what the early 2000s was for Garage Rock. You know what I mean? Yeah, totally. Whereas it kind of morphed into its own thing because it's not the dream pop, the shoe gaze kind of dream pop that's been going on since the 80s. Right.

Or even in the early 90s kind of shoe gaze. It was a whole different thing. And it was, I mean, I feel like that was when, like, DIY, like, bedroom, quote-unquote, DIY recordings were happening. So we were getting dozens of emails every week from underground artists just trying to get their music out there, you know? And that's what we did. We just, we wrote tiny little write-ups on the artist and had the entire song streamable for each post. And we started doing mixtape. and our buddy Josh, who were hoping to get on to chat with us next week,

started putting together New Dust concerts and started in Denton, and then he moved out to D.C. and was starting to do it there. So yeah, it was a lot of fun. And we're going to bring, it's going to be like a what you heard episode. So it's going to be a bunch of tunes, and we're bringing nothing but music from our New Dust days, artists that either reached out to us or artists that rediscovered and really liked from back then. I have a massive folder on my external hard drive.

It's just called New Dust. And it's all of the music that, at least that I had downloaded on my computer from the New Dust Days. So I'm hoping I can find some artists that came to us back then. You know what I mean? Yeah, that would be cool. And if we don't find enough artists that actually reached out to some stuff, we're just going to pick some tunes basically from that.

era, some indie stuff from that era and just play. You know, it's going to follow the same format as this episode did, the what you're heard episodes. So it's just going to be a bunch of tracks. All right. So, yeah, follow us on Instagram. Just search No Filler podcast. You'll find us.

And you can also find us on the No Filler. Nope. On the Pantheon Podcast Network, that's pantheonpodcast.com, where you'll find plenty of other great music-related podcast content. All right, so I'm going to play a song recommended to us by a Redditor. His name is Matt, I can assume. His name is Matt. And, yeah, the song is called Many Times by a artist named DeShan.

And yeah, if you reach out to us on Instagram, you could also hear your recommendation played on the show. You know, tell us what you've been listening to. We are constantly looking to connect with our listeners and talk about music together. That's what this is all about. That's why we do this. That's why we hit record every week. Exactly. All right.

Here we go. This is going to close us out. Again, this song is called Many Times by Dejan. My name is Travis. And I'm Quentin. Talk to you all next week. There you go again. on a show again. It's the holidays. How come it always ends this way? You can't take that

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