No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard - The Extra Long Chili Cheese Coney Edition

Episode Date: January 31, 2023

Tracklist Narrow Head - Caroline Beak> - Brean Down Beak> - King of the Castle Tokyo Shoegaze - Just Alright Liquid Liquid - Scraper Madeline Goldstein - One More Day Windows96 - U Know Actress - Leaves Against The Sky Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Room Mate Galaxie 500 - Tugboat Pia Fraus - No Need For Sanity Kings of Convenience - Homesick Boris - Sometimes (My Bloody Valentine Cover) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners, I started wondering, could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list? Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. At just $39.99, how could I resist? This luxurious will throw for my sister. This gold watch for my partner? A wooden puzzle for my niece? Leather gloves for my boss? Ooh, European chocolate for the crossing guard?

At these prices, could I find something for everyone at winners? Stop wondering. Start gifting. Winners find fabulous for less. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Travis. And I'm Quentin. And to kick us off today, here is a brand new single from Narrowhead. This song is called Caroline. Those boys from Houston can do no wrong cue.

Just terrific. No wrong. Yeah, Narhead has, you know, probably one of the most heavily played artists on No Filler, I think. If you really look back at all the, you know, what you heards that they've been on, the year-in, best-ofs that they've been on. They were probably on the best of the decade list, right? Yeah, because satisfaction, their first full-length record came out in 2016. So, yeah. Yeah, ever since I stumbled upon these guys, I've just been absolutely in love with them.

Everything they do is just, it's the perfect amalgamation of, like, all of my favorite rock styles, you know. They got the 90s ground sound that they'll throw in there. They've got some shoegays in them. But yeah, I mean, this song had maybe a little bit of, like the 2000s era post-punk stuff that we liked as well, right? So, I mean, they put it all into this, you know, they wrap it up into a nice enchilada. And we know about enchiladas in Texas Q, which is where they're from. Our head does too, yeah. TextMex. That's what I'm trying to get at.

So, hey, Q, here we are. This is our brand new year, brand new format for no filler. We're doing monthly episodes now. Coming at you once a month now. Once a month with hopefully a format that you have all come to love as much as we do, which is our What You Heard format. Yeah, I really hope that there aren't a lot of listeners out there who have been skipping our Whatchaard's. Well, let's put it this way. If you hate what you heards, well, thanks for listening, you know, but you'll probably,

you probably won't be coming back. But that's all right. Yeah, so we're switching it up just, you know, because life got in the way for me. Life got in the way for you. I'm super busy, dude. Every day busy. You're so busy that you're scarfing down chili cheese dogs on the Zoom call. I'm scarfing down an extra long chili cheese coney right now because we just put our newborn

down for his, you know, his overnight sleep. And we didn't feel like making dinner, dude. It's understandable, Q. You know, when you need something quick, extra long chili cheese dog, sometimes that's all you got to do. But I'm telling you right now, dude, I can't even stomach that. I don't think I would do well with that. It's one of those guilty pleasures, dude. Sure.

It's for something for something about it, dude. I've always gone straight to the extra long chili cheese cone. I don't get the regular size. I get the extra long. Have you ever done two regulars? Does that equal the length of an extra long? It's just not the same, dude. It's not the same, okay.

It's not the same because with the extra long chili cheese colony, I got to say the same. I'm hoping that Sonic will sponsor us, you know? Yeah, right. New Year, new sponsor. Just something about that dog just like dangling off the end of the bun. I mean, you could just take the regular dog and just sort of like pull the, no, no, no.

Pull it out a little bit and make it feel like it's dangling a little bit. No, no, no, no. Well, my guilty pleasure, fast food guilty pleasure for the longest time was the jack-in-the-box taco. I still get those. Yeah, it's been forever. But yeah, dude. It's got those like street taco vibe. You know, like it's fried.

They freaking deep fry the damn thing. Yeah, they do something to it. They fried in a pan and some super hot oil. Yeah, yeah. But let's get one thing straight. There's no way that's meat. You know what I mean? It's not real mean.

No, it's... But whatever it is, it tastes great. But anyway. Anyways. Oh, yeah. Let me just say this one real quick. So that, again, that song was called Caroline by Narrowhead. February 10th, they have a new record coming out called Moments of Clarity, which I think is awesome

because we had, you know, we just got a new record in 2020 from them, 12th House Rock. So I'm just happy that they're cranking out these records, man. because it had been a while between satisfaction and 12th House Rock. It had been like four years. That's awesome. Anyway, they're staying active. Yeah, I'm excited, man. Cranking them out.

Yeah, all right. So as you were probably about to say, and then I interrupted you, this is our what you heard format. If you don't know what that means, this is basically a mixtape format, if you will. We each bring five tracks to the table. We alternate. you get to hear the other person react to hearing the song for the first time. Usually.

We're pretty good about bringing songs that the other one hasn't heard yet. Right, exactly. Because with what you heard, it's pretty much, you know, free-balling. I mean, I guess you could, yeah, it's free balling, I guess. It's pretty much free-range. I'm leaving that in, by the way, free-balling. Whatever. It's free-for-all, I guess.

Free-for-all. There you know. Whatever it is you've been heard in. between each month, bring it to the table and we're going to play it. Any decade, any genre. Yeah. None of that matters. Yeah.

But for the most part, you know, we like what we like. And so, you know, if you like the kind of music we play on the show, you're probably going to like the What You Heard's, right? We will do episodes in the normal format again at some point. Even if it's not once a week, I have a feeling we might decide to squeeze in an extra episode. My schedule will lighten up. Eventually.

At some point. At some point. Yeah. So we might get back to the old format, pick a record, talk about a few of the non-singles on the record, right? We had actually teed up a few that we were thinking about doing at the end of this last year. I'd still like to talk about those bands in greater detail. Stereo Lab, I think was one of them.

We talked about maybe doing an episode on. Indeed. Stuff like that. Anyway. So. So let's get to it, man. Let's just jump into tunes. Let's do a little rapid fire tuneage.

Yes. Yes. All right. So I'm going to go first. Okay. So, Mandu, I got some tunes for you. Q. Some tasty jams. I feel like you brought a song from this group before. I'm jumping the guy. I have not. I have not. Well, I recognize the album cover, so I may have heard this stuff. Okay. You may, you may be fun. I do remember liking it. Okay. So this is a group called Beek, B-E-A-K. Don't remember how I stumbled upon these guys, but it is kind of a, I guess, a super group, if you will. It's made of of, of, of, of, members that, you know, belong to other bands. With Jeff Barrow, or Jeff Barrow, that's sort of the name that jumped out of me, because he is one of the founding members of Porta's Head. And maybe more importantly, to me at least, he is part of the duo of composers that have done just about every Alex Garland film.

So he did the soundtrack along with this other guy named Ben Salisbury. for Ex Machina, Anniilation, Devs, which is this mini-series on FX that I absolutely fell in love with, and some other stuff. He's also done an episode of Black Mirror. So he's done a bunch of soundtracks as well. So anyway, he's awesome. But yeah, this group is really interesting. The best way to describe their music is kind of what they say here. It's experimental rock with elements of like trip hop and electronic in it. Some of it kind of reminds me of holy fuck, which I don't know if you've ever talked about them before, but... Yeah, we've brought them up before. Okay. I believe they were on our best of the decade. Yeah, and there may have been like a new song of theirs that I brought for

what you heard or something like that. Anyway, but yeah, I'm just going to jump right into this tune here. So this is off their 2018 record. Basically every record of theirs is just made up of greater than signs, basically. So this is their 2018 record with a... Three Greater Than Signs is basically the name of the record. So this song is called Brean Down. I loved it, man. The drums sounded very much like, you know, the crout rock group. Yeah.

Very similar flow with the drum beat alongside the rest of the music. But, I mean, nothing like can otherwise. It's kind of hard to place their sound. Well, here's the thing, too. They're all over the place of their sound. In fact, if you'll permit me, let me just play the intro to this other song on the same record, and you'll see what I'm talking around here. So let me just jump down real quick.

I'm just going to play the intro. You're going to love this. This song is called King of the Castle. The place. Yeah, because it's like, you know. It's kind of prog-rocky. Prog rock, yeah. At least that kind of organ sound almost, right?

Yeah. Anyway, one thing that's consistent is his voice, and he doesn't really have a singing voice. if you like a good singing voice, you're probably not going to like this group. But other than that, they're just really interesting and unique. Like, you're not going to hear any other group that really sounds like this. They're kind of an amalgamation of a bunch of different groups. When you consider kind of who makes up the band, let me read the rest of the roster. Billy Fuller, who is in one of Robert Plant's side groups, as in Zeppelin, right?

Will Young, which is in a band called Moon Gangs, and yeah, I guess it's a three-piece right now, but there have been some other previous members. But anyway, you know, it's just kind of a, it sounds like it's kind of like a side project for these guys. So, you know, this is where they kind of let their hair down and get wild, you know what I mean, with this sound. So anyway, all right, again, that band was called Beak. That song was called Breen Down.

And then I played another song there called King of the Castle just a little bit there. All right, Q, I'm going to pass it to you. What's your first pick for us today? All right, man. So shout out to the Shugay subreddit once again, you know, kicking off the year, dude, with another shout out to these lovely shoegasers on the Shugays subreddit, man. We have found so many great artists through this lovely group of people.

And this is, so I'm just going to give a shout out to the freaking username, man. I'm glad it's not like I eat dicks for. dinner or something. There's some weird ass us us usernames out there, dude. It's Reddit, you know. Yeah, username, I want an M3 guitar. This was posted last month.

It says, my new prized possession and rarest vinyl in my collection came in today. Tokyo Shugazer's masterpiece, Crystalize. Okay. That's the name of the artist. Tokyo Shugazer. And once you know it, it's Shugays.

It is a Japanese group that formed in 2010, and then they released this record crystallized the following year in 2011. This is just your straight-up loveless My Bloody Valentine Shugays dude, but it is fantastic. And I just found out from their Wikipedia that they actually contributed two tracks to a My Bloody Valentine tribute album called Yellow Loveless. that is nine different Japanese artists covering the entire Loveless album from Track 1 all the way to the end. I'm going to cue this friggin up as soon as I can't. I'm excited. I never thought of the possibilities of how awesome a cover of a song from Loveless would sound because that's just an album that it's just you don't touch it, right? It's a tall order, yeah.

Yeah. So anyways, they, my favorite track on that record, only shallow. the opening track, Tokyo Shugazer covers it. Anyways. Yeah. So again, this is a shout out to the Shugays subreddit again for introducing me to this group. Again, the artist is called Tokyo Shugazer. And this track is called Just All Right.

I love that album art, dude. It's perfect Shugase album art. It's like this cat just laying down and surrounded by guitar pedals, right? A bunch of effects pedals, yeah. Because that's essentially like a symbol for shoe gaze is just guitar pedals, right? Gazing down at their shoes, man. That's how it started. Yeah, especially that big muff pedal right there that you can kind of see.

Which one? The big one that's sort of, yeah, kind of spilling out of this. Yeah, anyway. I don't know my effects pedals, but yeah. Yeah, the whole album's great, dude. And they kind of go back and forth with the singers. Yeah, man, good vibes throughout the whole album. Some of it's a little heavier than that, but a lot of it's just, yeah, just those, it's a good mix of like heavier side of shoegaze and the classic Loveless mixed with a little bit more like the Dream Poppy, almost letting up despite Great Fall.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. At times. Anyways. So where can you hear the Yellow Loveless record? It's not on Spotify. I was looking for it, dude. Yeah, I think it's going to have to be a YouTube thing because I can't even find, like, there's no band camp for it either.

But there is, okay, so someone mentions that they, so this is another Shugay's subreddit post that I saw when I typed in Yellow Loveless into Google. And it was kind of a debate, what do you prefer blue Loveless or Yellow Loveless? So apparently there's a blue Loveless out there somewhere. This is, I'm assuming, is another cover album. Okay. But someone says, I prefer yellow loveless, mainly just for Boris's cover of Sometimes. Now, that song is on Shugays, and that's going to be our outro. Okay.

Cool, cool. Because it's bound to be awesome. Yeah. Anyways, let's jump right into the next one. You said it on Shugaz, you made it on Spotify. That's what you mean to say. Oh, yeah. That one's on Spotify.

All right, so that was Tokyo Shoegazer. The song is called Just All Right. and I'll pass it back to you, Trave what you got. All right, Q. This band really threw me for a loop, cue. And I stumbled upon them through this other artist, through like a similar artist thing. For another artist, I'm going to bring a couple tracks from now.

So what blew me away about this band, they're called Liquid Liquid. They just sound kind of way ahead of their time. So they came out in the 80s, and they are a no-wave dance punk group. Ooh, it makes me think of the undoing of David Wright. I'm never here. Dance and punk. Dance punk, yeah. And a little bit of no wave, dude.

Yeah, I'm sure it's nothing like them because there's never. Uh, never. Uh, never. I'm doing it, David, right? But what's interesting about them is that most of their music, it's very centered around percussion and like congas and marimbas and stuff like that to make, uh, these grooves out of like percussion. Cool.

Really cool. So I'm just going to cue this song up here. The song, this is after 1983. E.P. called Optimo. The song is called Scraper. You guys must have been playing alongside all those other noise rock bands, right? Those coming up in New York, Sonic Youth, all those groups. I mean, without a doubt, because these guys are from New York. Yeah. And I had some David Byrne vibes a little bit. Maybe some Remain and Light vibes. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. And that's the thing. Like Afrobeat, you definitely

hear the Afro beat kind of stuff, right? And made me want to bang on a trash can, dude. Strum on a street light. 100%. And, you know, remaining light had already come out by then. So no doubt, an influence, right, on these guys. But yeah, you know, that's what No Wave was all about, ditching the rock formula, you know what I mean,

and just throwing that out of the window and just kind of doing just really unique experience. experimental stuff, right? So yeah, that EP is just really cool. Again, it's called Optimo. It's four songs. And yeah, they're all these kind of really interesting, percussive-based, like, songs. And that one had a little bit of jazziness to it with that xylophone, really cool, right? Yeah, good stuff, dude. Yeah, so that band was called Liquid Liquid. That song was called Scraper. And Rapid Fire, Q, what do you got? All right, dude, I got a great one. to bounce off that. This artist is named Madeline Goldstein, and they are a former front person

of Portland's infamous and long-running synth-pop outfit fringe class, who I've never heard of. I'm definitely going to dive in. And they've been doing solo stuff for just the last couple of years now. And I'm going to read this line here. It says, with emotion and a strong ear for pop melody Madeline Goldstein echoes the energies of new wave, dream pop, and dark wave, all while showcasing the vocal range and theatrics of femme pop icons of the 80s and beyond. Madonna? Madonna?

That just made me think of that burricade scene. Michael kid, Michael, Kid. Yeah, Madonna. Man, what a great movie. dancing around. Yep. Anyways, all right, dude. So, yeah, you're going to love this.

I like the term dark wave. I'm all about it. I've been getting more and more into that sound, dude. So when I think a dark wave, is that like, is that like Depeche Mode kind of stuff? Kind of. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And a quick shout out to Aurograph, an artist that you got me into, dude, that I'm obsessed with now.

I did. He is my go-to for music to listen to while I'm working. Well, dude, you just took your first. step into a larger world. I know, man. Well, that's because I'm finally sitting down behind a computer desk all day for work, dude. That's what it's all about. Just started doing that. Anyways, he has a playlist out called Arrograph Selects, and this is one of the artists on there. So, again, this is Madeline Goldstein, and the song is called One More Day. I could listen to that one more time, Q. That was a great song. One more time for one more day. Yeah, that's just like that classic 80s

synthesizer born blanket you know what i mean that i just love uh great vocals too man yeah this belongs this belongs on the stranger things yeah yeah dude totally although i think they keep it they keep it real they keep it legit yeah legit song yeah i'm saying some the 80s yeah but um yeah i mean i'm gonna have to dive into their their one uh full-length album came out in 2020 called forget this because if it's more more of the same dude i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna have good old time yeah solid, solid. Awesome. So yeah, once again, that's Madeline Goldstein. The song is called One More Day.

Pass it back to you, brother, what you got? Well, we couldn't have planned this better, because this artist, I purposely picked because I think you'll love this artist as much as you love Argraph. Same wheelhouse, vapor wave, right? This artist, and here's another theme with vapor wave is beyond like the 90s aesthetic, right, of like weird, almost like you're

looking at clip art or something like that from like the 90s. Yeah, it's like Microsoft 95 or whatever. Microsoft or like Windows 95? What are they saying? Yeah, Windows 95. It's like Windows 95. The name of this artist's cue is Windows 96. Oh my gosh.

Which is the point I'm trying to make. I think I may have heard this artist before. You probably have. But I fell down a rabbit hole looking for all the examples I could find of artists that named themselves after 90s software. And I found a couple, or I should say I found a few. There's an artist named Wolfenstein OSX. There's another one named Encarta.

You remember Enkarta? Oh, yeah, dude. Enkarta was dope. Before Wikipedia, there was in Korni. there was in Cardiff. So there's an artist called US Golf 95. I've heard of them too and I was listening to some of their stuff. Anyway, that's just the thing that vapor wave artists do. Anyway, like I said, this guy, he goes by Windows 96. All you need to know is he's a vapor wave artist. This particular record, it's called Nematofi. It came out in 2016 and as he describes it here on his band camp,

this is a small, chill project I put together while experimenting with S-N-E-S games sound. sweet so speaking speaking my language right yeah that's cool so he he made this record using authentic sounds to the s&ES super nintendo entertainment system for those who aren't our age uh all right so here we go this song is called you know and again the artist is named windows 96 for people that like this stuff and I want to you know like how how narrow is it because I can't get enough of it man I think it's actually larger than we may think it seems like maybe it would only uh appeal to people in our age group because of this exact reason like a bit he's literally using sounds from from our childhood from our childhood exactly yeah but I think a lot of people in gen z

listen to this kind of stuff too. Because the only reason I'm saying that is because a lot of the artists that make music like this are from Generation Z, like young, young dudes. Cool. I didn't know that. Well, Vaporave started way before Gen Z was making tunes. True, true. Anyway, yeah, dude, if you like Arrograph, which I know you do, Q,

cue this record up on Spotify. It's called Nematofi. Again, the artist is named Windows 96, and he's got a bunch of stuff, bunch of stuff on his band camp and on his Spotify, like he's very prolific. As a lot of these vapor wave artists are, like they can just crank this stuff out. But anyway,

lots of stuff to dig into if you like that guy. All right. Back to you, Kee. What do you got? All right, man. I'm going to take us to the more like serious side of electronic music. Okay.

We're going to keep it electronic. Okay. This is an artist that goes by actress. I heard of her. And that's a dude. His name's Darren Cunningham. Kind of reminds me of Andy Stott, you know, that artist that you showed me, Treff, that you showed all of us here, actually. Yeah, we did an episode.

Yeah, and the name of the episode was the darker side of electronic, actually. Oh, there you go, yeah. So I was just scrolling through my likes to find an extra song for tonight because I did not come prepared, brother. But this song has just been sitting back in, you know, in the depths of, you know, the depths of, of the massive liked songs folder on Spotify. And it's an album called Karma and Desire came out in 2020. And the song is called Leaves Against the Sky. I knew you would, dude.

It hits all the right spots, cute. That song in particular, I love the piano. It added such a nice, like, kind of elevated it a little bit. This guy's been making music since 2004, dude. Well, I was going to say he actually has been on my radar for a long time because So another electronic musician Tyco who we all know and love we all know He I don't know if he still has it man I'd be surprised if he still has it But that blog it was a a blog yeah he had a blog okay it's still it's still active believe it or not

Called ISO 50 and yeah it's not the same format anymore but he he used to have, yeah, he used to post music on the blog side of it. And I remember it must have been 2012. He had an actress track from his 2012 record RIP. So yeah, I've been aware of this artist for a long time. I just haven't really delved too deep into him. And after he listened to this song, like, yeah, I got to get to jump into it. Because that was great.

It's great. So that was actress with the song Leaves Against the Sky. Pass it back to you, brother. We got two songs each left. What you got? All right, Q, I am not going to say much about this artist because I just want to hear your straight-up reaction to it without giving me any kind of clues or hints. So this artist, her name is Lizzie Mercier-de-Clo. I think I said that, right?

she's a French musician I'm going to queue up the song and then we'll talk about it because I don't want to say anymore this song blew me away dude so this song is called roommate reminded me of like

I don't know like this sporadic craziness of Bjork you know interesting like just a yeah super unique mind, clearly. How much of that is she doing on her own, right?

Or is it a full band? It's a full band. Okay. Damn. Amazing. So that record came out in 1981. Holy shit. What?

This is another no wave artist. Again, so her name is Lizzie Mercier de Clue. So yeah, Afrobeat again, right? This is right after remaining light came out in 1980, right? Dude, how did I not, man, where? Where? This whole record. So it's called Mambo Nassau, is the name of this record.

Has this been all this time? Great question, Q. Who's been playing it? I don't even remember how I found it. I may have found it on, stumbled upon it, either shazamed it when I was out in the wild or something. I don't know, but, and this is how I got to Liquid Liquid, because one of the related artists under, under her was Liquid Liquid. Anyway, so very similar to Talking Head, Talking Heads, or at least in a way,

because, you know, they recorded, I want to say Remaining Light, I'm not going to get their names, right, but the married couple in Talking Heads, they were off in, like, Africa or something like that, living in Africa. And that's where they were kind of experimenting and playing around with the Afrobeat kind of stuff and listening to Fila Cote, I think, writ records or something. Anyway, so similarly with Lizzie here, she wanted to go to South Africa and record with musicians from Soweto, which is, I think Soweto was like a township in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. Anyway, so she wanted to get legitimate African, South African musicians to record on this record, right? And apparently South Africa was still under apartheid at that time. So in order to persuade the record company, she recorded some tracks in Paris, inspired by South African music.

And apparently that convinced them. So I don't know if I mentioned this before because I didn't give you much about this artist, but she's from Paris. So she's a French musician, singer, singer, songwriter. name like that. Yeah, composer, actress, writer, painter. So she was very talented. She passed away a while ago.

But anyway, yeah, like I said, dude, blew my socks off. It's so ahead of its time, right? Yeah. Because so many female artists kind of borrow from that vocal style. That's kind of sporadic, like, vocal style nowadays, right? A lot of the stuff that's coming out now, the indie stuff that's coming out now, I feel like sort of nods to this. And this was going on 40 years plus four. over 40 years ago, right?

Crazy. Anyway, so check out this record. It's great, man. Mabo Nassau. The whole thing is amazing. And yeah, it'll just blow your socks up, too. All right. Doreen back of you, you got two more tracks cube.

All right, man. So this is a group that I've been listening to you on enough for a while now. Never really got past this album of theirs. It's from 88. for going back to the 80s. The artist is called Galaxy 500. I've heard of that. It's another Shee guys record, right?

Sort of, yeah, a little bit different. Almost more like... Exterior Lab? No. Bell and Sebastian. Sort of like Miracle Legion, that side of 80s music. Gotcha, okay. I love that, dude.

I love that style. It's like the old rock, early Al Rock stuff. Yeah, a little more, like a little more soft. So, yeah, I haven't heard any other album theirs, and they've got quite a few. And I don't really know what I'm waiting for you because I really like this album. And yeah, we're going to play track nine off the record. So again, this group is called Galaxy 500. This song is called Tugboat.

Yeah, I mean, you can totally hear that as a song that might get played on Pete and Pete, right? because the P&P music selection was all from this style of like 90s, Shugay's and Alt Rock. Yeah, man. Well, I've got a perfect song to follow up from that one. So, yeah, again, so that was, I'm going to say it. I'm going to pass it off to myself. That was Galaxy 500.

The song was called Tagboat. What do I got? Let me tell you. For my last song here, here's another band, dude. get ready to just slap yourself and be like, why, where, how? Have I not heard of this band before? So this is a dream pop group that formed, I believe, in the 90s, and we're putting out music in the 2000s as well.

It's a band called Piafrau, and this is one of those songs that will just have a flowing around the room queue. So again, this record is called Insularium. Came out in 2002. This song is called No Need for Sanity. Why did I miss it? It's just too much good music out, dude. You can't find it all, except I guess you found it now, but. That's the thing, though, dude. And that's the thing. You can't get mad at yourself for missing out, right? Because, you know what? Here we are, enjoying it now. And yeah, I'm glad I'm hearing it now, dude. But here's the thing. And here's the thing. You'll never. know if I

stumbled upon this in 2002 when it came out would I have liked it? Probably not. Because I was into like the strokes in Interpol back then, spoon big time. This wasn't my cup of tea at the time.

So, you know, music finds you when it, when you're ready for it to find you. You know? Truth. I'm going to put that on a fucking bumper sticker, dude. Or a shirt or something. just a thought. All right, Hugh, what is your last pick for us? What are you going to bring us home with? I saw a track on your list that's interesting to me. Well, yeah, yeah. So I'm bringing a king as a convenience song, dude. That is one of my favorite songs of theirs, by the way. Yeah, and the reason

I'm bringing it is because that is one of the songs I sing to Ronan. Oh, that's precious. Every night I sing, that's one of the songs I sing. It's kind of, one of the lullabies that I sing them. We're still talking about a song called Homestick, which is track one on Kings of Conveniences, album from 2004, riot on an empty street. The record that we haven't talked about,

I think we've done both the other records. We did, yeah, that was a bonus. That was a pulling from the vault record. That's right, because I think we recorded it and never launched it. But never, never played it, yeah. Never put it out, yeah. Yep, exactly. Anyways. Did we play the song on that episode?

I don't know. It's probably the intro song. But anyways. Cool. Anyways, dude, it's a song that's always in my head because I sing it pretty much every night. It's a great song? Yeah, it is. And, yeah. Kings of Convenience, no need for an introduction for these two boys.

These two Norwegian boys. Norwegian folk pop boys. One of our favorite groups. Maybe, I think they're up there now, number one for me, dude. Favorite group of all time, dude. They're definitely up there. Spoon has now been toppled by Kings and Convenience, just from album to album. Yeah.

There's just something special about them. Just something special about these guys. Anyways, so that's how we're going to wrap this one up. So again, this is Homestick by Kings of Convenience. Some sales and my boss won't be happy, but I can't stop listening to the sound of two sides. Loft voices blended in perfection from the reels of this record that I found Every day there's a boy in the mirror asking me what are you doing here Finding all my previous motives

Growing increasingly unjust I believe in As soon as I hit land All options I'll be phony So I'll lose some sales And my bars won't be happy But there's only One thing on my mind

Searching boxes Underneath the counter On a chance that on a tape I'd find a song for Someone to long for Because I no longer know perfection, dude. Absolutely beautiful track.

And again, like this is a band that we discovered. The funny thing is, this came out in 2002, 2004. 2004. So like, it's not like we were only listening to Interpol and Strokes. You're listening to this very soft folk band too. But this was this was this turning point for us. Like this was the first group that we listened to. And you were the first one to get into him, dude.

and it took us a while to latch on me and Mitchell and whoever else. I was slowly working on you guys. It was like I was bringing into the kiddie pool of folk rock, just like I tried to bring you into the kiddie pool of heavy metal. Well, that's one, you're still working on that one, dude. Yeah, I know. And yeah, this is the first track on the record. And it's been a while since I've listened to it with headphones.

And my God. Yeah, that's another thing that's always blown me away about these records is how well they're recorded. They sound amazing. They're very, very particular and very hard on themselves with their recordings, dude. Yeah. Yeah. What have we've learned?

Yeah, especially Erland. He's like a stickler for how it sounds. Anyways, dude. Yeah. A good way to close us up. I had to check the lyrics to make sure I was singing him right. Because I sing it to Ronan every night. I was spot on, dude.

It's because we've heard the song hundreds of times, I think. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it, might be one of my favorites of theirs. Yeah, it's special. And they're kind of like, I think we talked about this, speaking of just to tie this back to the Crosby Steelers and Nash episode that we did where, you know, we played that clip of, I think it was Graham Nash saying like something special happened to when the three of the voices got together, right, when they sang together. Same thing with these two guys, Ireland, Oria and. Eric Klembach Poe. There's just something natural about the sound of their two voices together right because hey yeah i i love

erin lydia he does a lot of solo stuff why to spoil life sounds great when he sings yeah why to spoil live same with uh i think he had a i forgot the name of but he had a side project the other one eric i rick had a at a side project they sound great by themselves you know but when they come together magic you know what i mean totally and that's kings of convenience All right, Q. Well, there we go. We've wrapped it up for this month. We're done. I can just, you know, first what you're having to take the next few weeks off. That's right. It's like minimal effort, maximum tunes, you know. That's right. Because we're still coming out with our, our music heavy episode format is not going away. That's the new template for no filler is what you just heard.

10 songs. You heard how kind of varied the songs were, right? Sometimes they're even more dramatic than that. Those were actually kind of had a nice flow to it, I think, those songs. I think so, dude. But, you know, if you tune in next month, it's usually me. I'm usually the one who brings in a 180 for us, but that's the whole point. You never know what you're going to hear on this show. If you like metal, listen long enough. I will sneak in. metal whenever I can. And Quentin will say that he

likes the music. He likes the riffs usually. Doesn't like the lyrics. Lyrics are dumb. But, you know, I'm working on it. That's fine, dude. You got time. Yeah, tune in next month for the next

episode. That's how that works. Monthly episodes. That's it. And we're going to wrap us up, dude, with the cover. of a song from Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. I'm stuck about this. This is apparently a sludge metal band. Get out of here.

Called Boris. Can you imagine, dude, a metal group covering My Bloody Valentine. Well, we know all about Dream. We know all about Doomgaze, Q. We do. We know all about DoomGaze. Yeah, this group, other genres, experimental rock, psychedelia, noise, ambient.

Again, the group is called Boris. And according to that one, Reddit user on the Shugay Subreddit, this song alone is worth listening to this Loveless cover album, just to have your ears be blown off by a sludge metal cover. I'm stoked about it. This is a cover of track 8 off of My Belletti Valentine's Loveless. It's called Sometimes.

And again, this is a cover by the Japanese sludge mental group Boris. And that's why we're going to outro us out for this. Japanese sludge metal, dude. All right. Thank you, as always, for listening. We'll be coming at you again next month. Until then, my name's Quinn.

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