No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Mole Man Edition

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

From sleazy synth-pop and bruised alternative rock to slow-burning dreamscapes and cathartic heavy nu metal, this edition of Whatcha Heard covers a little bit of everything. As always, it’s a mix of old favorites, forgotten gems, and recent finds that have been rattling around in our heads all month. Tracklist: Choir Boy - I'll Always Let You Down Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf Possum Dixon - Nerves Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen Sevendust - Headtrip Robber Robber - The Sound It Made Low - Half Light Cinnamon Chasers - The World Is Yours Arcwelder - Finish My Song Ethan Durelle - Move Us On JunkBunny - Sedona Arcwelder - And Then Again This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to No Filler, I'm Quentin. And I'm Travis. And on this month's What You Heard, we're kicking things off with a brand new song from Quire Boy. This one's called I'll Always Let You Down. What years is it, huh, Q? Excellent. Excellent throwback, man. Dude, yeah, these guys crush it.

And they've been doing it like this for a while. These guys were under my radar, man. I never... Let me see if I... Let me see if I recognize any of the album covers. Take a look, dude. It's on my screen. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right.

Passive with Desire looks familiar. That's their debut, and it's great, and so that came out in 2016. So you've listened to these guys before? I just, I mean, I just got into them after hearing this single. So have they always done this? Yes. Some form of this, yeah. Like a new wave.

Yeah. Almost kind of tears for fears and all that kind of stuff. Depeche Mode. The Smiths. Yeah, definitely. Sweet. Really, really good, dude. Yeah.

I feel like there's kind of a, there's a handful of artists that are doing this, this, you know, keeping this sound alive, you know, like. In really cool ways. I don't know how to pronounce it, but that, you know, the Russian. Oh, oh. Dolkot. Yeah, Molotov cocktail. Molkot Domo, there it is. There we go.

So close. Well, Google knew exactly what I was talking about. It's funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Anyway.

Yeah. Dude, what a great, great starter for sure. I love the lyrics too, man. It almost reminds me of like, isn't it ironic by Alanis Morris? We're like, all the lyrics are like, you know, if I get some money coming my way, I'm not going to, you know, I'll find a way to piss it, piss it down the drain. Right. If you need to count on me, I'm not going to be there. I'll always let you down.

Hey, at least he's being up front about it. So I think I'm kicking us off. You want to talk about Spotify? Oh, oh. You want to jump right into that? Yeah, I can see it. Yeah, let's do it from the beginning here. Yeah.

Okay. So, yeah, we just, I mean, we talked about this on the episode that you ironically can't hear on Spotify right now. Then maybe the one before that too. But like, basically our announcement to our listeners is to just forget that we even exist on Spotify, is how I would maybe phrase it. because it's not, there's just no rhyme or reason to win. There's no telling when one of our episodes will get off. We don't have any way of knowing if one of our episodes is going to be taken off as Spotify. Like it just happens and sometimes without warning.

And it's happening more frequently, dude. Yeah. I mean, way more frequently now. Yeah. Within the last like three days, one of our, dude, one of our ancient episodes. Episode 37. That's been sitting. Yeah.

It's never had any problem up until this point. Yeah. And suddenly they take it down. It just seems like they're getting more strict, dude. Yeah. I mean, it's just like there's certain bands that if you put a song of theirs on your YouTube video, instant. It's gone. Like it doesn't even make it.

Yeah. Because they've got, they've got like detection software and shit. Yeah. That just takes it out. immediately. So like, yeah, more and more record labels perhaps are just getting more strict about it. And it doesn't matter how many times I, you know, respond back to some of these, like, automated emails and stuff that come my way. Yeah. That we are a music podcast, we review and critique music. It's educational podcasts. We have the right to play this music. We're not making

money off of this fucking podcast. So, like, what's the big deal? But yeah, it doesn't matter. Nobody's There is no human reading these messages, obviously. It just... Yeah. But anyway, if I'm able to get ahead of it, sometimes it'll pass whatever the test is and they keep it on. But anyway, regardless. So it's, yeah, it's unfortunate because if you're on Spotify right now and you find us, it looks like we haven't dropped an episode in a whole month.

Right. Because, yeah, the last one it dropped was our... What you heard for March. Right. So anyways, as far as I know... the majority of the other podcast aggregator apps, you know, where you can stream podcasts from like Podcast Republic. Isn't that one of them?

There's a bunch of them. There's a bunch of Podbean. Yeah, Podbean. And if you listen to, I mean, if you, if you have an iPhone and you use the podcast app, we're on there and they don't take off any of our episodes. So iTunes, we're on, yeah. So yeah, like I was going to say, just find any other podcast app and all of our episodes should be intact. Yeah. I mean, it sucks to have to ask people to do this because, like,

you know, if you're somebody who uses Spotify all the time, it's just easier for you to switch between listening to music and listening to podcasts. I understand Spotify just makes it easier, but let's just put it this way. If you continue to to follow us on Spotify, you're just not going to get every episode. So even if you want to scroll way back into our older episodes in the catalog you might not see one of my favorite ones dude a handful of my favorite ones are gone the beck see change out episode gone now just now we just found out the nick drake episode with with our buddy larry loggra gone yeah um so anyways yeah we just wanted to throw that out up front uh but let's move on dude yeah let's i got some great great tunes tonight yeah so this is

our our monthly mixtape is what we like to call it um so yeah we're each going to bring five tracks and we're just going to talk about it, react to it. And it's usually a mix of a lot of different decades and genres. So I've got a good batch lined up, Q. I'm sure you do as well. And you're going to go first. So what have we got? Well, dude, I'm going to keep us in that new wave pocket with a true to the era group, soft cell. We all know them, tainted love, massive, massive hit. Classic. It's funny, this feels like forever ago

because we recorded our April, what you heard, so early on in April. It feels like forever ago that I heard this song from them, but we took Ronan to, I guess, and River, but Ronan was the one who really wanted to go because we told him that it exists. First off, he's never had sushi before,

and it was one of those dope-ass conveyor belt sushi restaurants. You ever been to those? Those are fun. Yeah, I have, yeah. He had a blast, dude. Awesome. Anyways, not to judge a book by its cover, but I 100% guarantee you that our server was in charge of the music that night. Because-

Why you're judging books, dude, she fit the part, man. She looked like she was straight out of the 80s, like just a tinge of goth. But, you know, like she just- Was she a little bit older? No, she was probably younger than us. She's probably in her 20s. And she was very cool. She was awesome, good with the kids.

And she had some great fucking tunes. plan man um you know i heard like depechemo the smiths but like they were deep cuts as far as i know what's her name irene come on anyway so i didn't know this song was from soft sell uh because apparently i mean these guys are no like let's just say if you all you know is tainted love you're going to be a little bit shocked by these lyrics, dude. By the lyrics. Oh, yeah, dude. Oh, goodness.

So, um, is this going to, is this going to be a hard sell? Oh, something's going to, something's going to get hard, dude. Hey. Whoa. Uh, so this is actually the same album that Tainted Love was featured on. It's called nonstop erotic cabaret. Hey now. I know.

Now, first off, was this their debut? Let's take a squeak piece. I think it was. I think this may have been their debut. Oh no, their first, their first album was nonstop ecstatic dancing. 1981. The same year nonstop erotic cabaret came out. These guys. Anyways, dude, I had to shazim it quick when I heard it because I fucking loved it so much. Guess what this one's called, Jim? What's it called?

That's called sex dwarf. Let's do it. I will parade you down the high street. You've got the attraction. You've got it with the dump. Ice. Sugar and spice. Lurring it's going to... This is playing in the restaurant.

I was going to... Well, it's just funny because you're like, she was picking all the tunes. And, boy, she was great with kids. It's like she's playing sex dwarf in the background. I mean, it's just hilarious because I guarantee you. The owners of this restaurant were not paying attention, dude. Obviously. Yeah.

I mean, it's, I mean, this, okay, do you remember that episode of Friends where Ross is, it's a flashback and Ross is playing his keyboard? I feel like this is a song he would play. Or this is like a flight of the Concord song or something like that. Like it doesn't sound, it's, it's for yucks, right? I mean, obviously. And, you know, if they tried to come out of there today, I think it'd probably, you know, they'd have to go with sex little person, right? But, you know. But, like, what is, what are they talking about here?

But I mean, like a, I mean, I don't know if I'd go as far as a sex slave, but, you know, like a BDSM type. Is he fantasizing about having a little dwarf? Yes, so he could put it around town on a leash. In Israel's Roars. Yeah. And I think it's, you know, I think it's. I want to see a drag show with this song. There has to be.

And I was going to say, if not a drag show, there's got to be at least one exotic dancer out there. Oh, yeah. especially if you're a little person. And yeah, a dwarf. I think that's okay to say, Chap. And you're, you know, and this is the song that you pick on the poll. I mean, dude, if I was even short statured and I was an exotic dancer. Hey, man, you got to own it.

Exactly. Anyways, imagine, though, I don't recall exactly what the lyrics are in tainted love. But, I mean, hilarious to think that, like, I don't know, you're a teenager or something, a teenager in 1981, and you want to, you know, save up your allowance money to buy your first record or CD. Are you, CDs in 81? I don't know. I don't think CDs are out yet. Probably not.

But, you know, and you convince your mom to go buy, well, shit, never mind. Just the album, just the album name alone would probably stop her from buying it. But just hilarious to think that you go and you buy it for Tainted Love and then you get hit with sex dwarf. Okay, I may have missed that. This is the album that Tainted Love is on. Yes. Hilarious. And also fantastic.

Okay, so like, you're a few songs in. And you've already heard Tainted Love. Yep. Track two is Tainted Love. This album's great. And then you get the sex store. So. You get, yeah.

Let me see what the other song names are, Secret Life. Seedy films. Facility girls. Fun City. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I mean, I love it, man. I fucking love it.

We've all thought about it. They just wrote a song about it, you know? Right. So there you go. Anyways, dude. Yeah, that little, like, little synth. Wee-wee-wee-wee-wee. I love it.

Pretty cool, yeah. Had to Shazam it. Well, Q, there's no way. Yeah, good luck, man. This is going to be a 180 for sure. It has to be. Well, I could give us a true, true 180, but I'm going to save that after later. And I'm going to play a song because, you know, Mait Q.

I am all about the 90s, right? I throw a rock and I hit a great 90s. track that I'd never heard it before from a band that I've never heard of before. I've got a couple of those today, but I'm going to bring for my first pick to kind of keep it in the same kind of playful vein, I guess. This song's awesome, dude. Have you heard of this band called Possum Dixon before? I have not. So this is a band from California that is classified as a neo-new wave, pop and post-punk this album I was actually gonna play the song

and not even tell you what year it came out to see if you could guess but I've already spoiled it so anyway I'm just gonna play the first track this song speaks for itself alright so again this band is called Possum Dixon the song is called Nerves

Are we still talking about soft sales or Oh Sex to Wharves Yeah I know it I mean it's God damn it man I mean it's just it's un I loved it I know I loved every second.

Dude, I was not expecting it at all, right? Where did you hear this? Okay, so this is what I do, right? I stumble upon an obscure 90s band that I never heard of, and then I just scroll down to related artists, and I just click around, and I go to the first album of whatever the band is, and I listen to the record. And it's the first track on their debut record. It's funny that we spent all this time shitting on Spotify.

I know, I know. I know, I know, dude. Hey, we're both giving them money. do you want for me? I switched the title and just the catalog just wasn't as big so I'm sorry. Yeah. And I have, dude, I have years of playlists, man. Me too.

That's the problem. They got their hooks in me, dude. I know. I've got playlists that I've been curating for like a decade. You understand me? I understand. Anyway. But back to Possum Dixon, 1993. Shut my mouth, huh? I loved that freaking like Rocket Man

diddy at the end. And I think it's going to be The lyrics are great. I'm hilarious, dude. I like this one. The girls are on glue when their rent checks do. I just like it. Landlord church, car crash, work, funny men. His vocals are great.

Anyway, it's just... Did you listen to the whole album? Yeah. All like this and the same thing. All has the same kind of frenetic energy, for sure. Yeah, yeah. But that to me was the standout track on the record for sure. But anyway, so again, that was Possum Dixon.

And that was off their self-titled debut record at 93. That song was called Nerves. And I'm going to throw it back to you, Q. What do we got? Well, Chav, I'm going to bring something from 93 as well. Excellent. Yeah, so here's the deal. Say no more.

I think Mitch also was in the same boat as us. Never really got into the Afghan wigs, right? And we found out that some of the guitar work on the Foo Fighters self-titled record from 95, that was our episode from a couple episodes back, but it's gone now from Spotify. Anyways, we found out that there were a few, guitar work on a few of the songs. It's from one of the members of the Afghan Wigs.

So I went back and I found, so Food Fighter's self-title came out in 95. I went back and checked out the album that was released closest to that time from the Afghan Wigs. And they dropped an album called Gentleman in 1990. 93, which a lot of people consider the group's greatest record, and it's considered an essential release from the 90s traff. And we're going to play the title track. So here we go.

And this was, dude, I was just going in blind, right? Because I don't know anything about the Afghan Wigs. And this blew me away, dude. So here we go. This is, again, gentlemen by the Afghan Wigs. I mean. Yeah, same year, man, as that Possum Dixon song. Yeah.

I mean, just say it, dude. Just say it. We're broken records, dude. We can't escape fan girling over the 90s every freaking episode, man. I just feel like it was a, I like the early 90s too, like before the Grunge wave came, that there's still, you know, and it was happening probably right around this time, but like there's still some bands that have their foot in the 80s a little bit with the alt, the alt-rock sound of the 80s, but then there's just a little bit of that heavy, heaviness to it

that that was coming around the corner. This kind of reminded me of a band of Susan's. I think we did a full episode on them, didn't we? That sounds familiar, yeah, yeah. We did? Yes. Hey, it looks like it's still on Spotify. Oh, that's good.

That guitar melody was amazing, man. That was really, yeah. But there was some other stuff going on, too. They're really, really, really creative there. Really cool, man. Yeah, well, dude, I've got another 90s band that I'm going to save or later. So we will be coming back to the decade to, and actually, if you'll permit me, I would like to close the show out with another song from this band, because I could not pick.

Sure, man. Go for it. Yeah. So anyway, pass it back to you, Jeff. What do you get? Okay. So I'm going to give us our first proper 180, which is what I, I feel like that's the role I serve, Q. Because. Someone's got to do it. I think you know where we're going. Because usually when I bring a 180, it means it's time for some metal, right, Q? That's right. So I said on the last Whatchard heard that you can't hear on Spotify right now. But I wanted to do a grab bag new metal episode. And I'm not convinced that we're going to do it.

And so I'm just going to bring a new metal track to each of our Watcher Heard's. and maybe we'll do an episode, maybe we won't. But this is a band called Seven Dust, and I had never really listened to them. I saw this clip going around on Instagram, because I follow a bunch of just like music profiles that post videos from like Conan O'Brien musical appearances and stuff like that. So I saw them playing a song off this record, and I was like, man, those guys are awesome. And so I listened to this record. It's called Home.

It came out in 99. So we're still in the 90s. But yeah, man. New Metal is, I don't know if it's making a comeback, but, you know, you've got this, have you heard of the sick New World concert? No. So like a festival kind of thing when there's a huge lineup? Yeah, there's actually one that's coming to Dallas, but the tickets were out of control. They had one in Vegas.

Basically the same, like, you know, the big names on this show is System of a Down, Corn, Deaf Tones. you know, Papa Roach a bunch of other bands but like incredible bands, right? I think the Dallas one has perhaps even more. I think Prodigies playing the Dallas one. Yeah, let me see here.

Perfect Circle, Allison Chains. Oh, damn, dude. I mean, so beyond just new metal, but like system of a down, right? Actually, I guess corn is not playing. It doesn't matter. I'm just saying like this is a pretty big deal, right? But anyway, so logstore a shirt, seven dust.

I'd never really heard of him, and I was really impressed by this, and I think you're going to like it Q. This is new metal that takes itself a little bit more seriously, if I could say that. If that makes any sense, we'll see. All right, so here we go. So this song, this is off their 1999 record home. This song is called Head Trip. That's good shit, dude. Good, good new metal.

I mean, it's there. You're slowly coming around just like I knew you always want. I'm not. Why now? I'm not. But I mean, I appreciate it. That was just literally about to come out of my mouth, dude. Because like, hey, that was a focus on the.

Okay, well, let me ask you a question. When did new metal come around? Was it more like mid-90s or was it at the tail end of 90s? Like early 90s. Okay. Yeah, so I was going to say, I appreciate it. And this is another one of those things where it's just, like, fuck, man, you know, another like branch of rock that spawned in the 90s.

Yeah. That was just totally different. Yes. Yes. I mean, yeah, that's why we always talk, you know, just endlessly about the 90s as this, you know, untouched decades. Yeah. Of music because the genres were, were unreal.

You know, just the industry itself was just different, man. And like, you know, with MTV at its peak, you know, you could almost say between the 80s and 90s. Yeah. Like it just made this perfect, like, you know, environment for just a whole. And then, of course, you could say that TRL didn't really feature much variety because it was mostly, it was mostly boy bands and Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera battling it out. between, you know, and sync your backstreet boys. But what else are you going to hear corn freak on a leash followed by, like, hit me maybe one more time or whatever.

Like, you know what I mean? So, like, yeah, anyway. But yeah, dude, I just think it's funny. I feel like every new metal band has at least one song where they do the exact same cadence and everything. And they say, shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck. I mean, every single.

Totally. has, I think, a song like that. I'm sure a limp biscuit drops out all the time. Probably every song by a limp biscuit. But anyway, I was going to tell you to listen to the record, Q, but I have a feeling you won't. Yeah. That's fine.

So anyway, there's our proper 180. And usually when I do a 180, it means free to another 180 because you can never match metal. And don't you dare play PetSmart again, Q. If you don't know what we're talking about, install a different podcast. app install. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Install a different podcast app. Yeah, that's fine. Because

Spotify dropped that our most recent watcher. Yeah, that was a great episode, man. We got a lot of good song. Yeah, that was fun. So, yeah. I think this one fits, bro. We'll see about that. A brand new album, try. A brand new album. Okay. And here's the thing.

I would say only this track off of this album fits in... It doesn't fit in new metal by any means, but it's on the heavy side. This album blew me away, dude. Never heard this band before. They're called Robber, Robber.

Have you ever heard of them? Robber, Robber. That's two robbers, Traff. No. Man, I... There's no doubt that a song from this album's going to make it on my best of for the year.

And I'm purposely bringing the one that, like I said, is kind of on its own as far as for the rest of the sound of this record. This is the opening track. So the album is called Two Wheels Move the Soul. This one's called The Sound It Made. Illogic to the Sun. Just mask, vicious task,

Charlie problem, vicious man, revolution, crickestands, says a lot that we're with him. Here's the sound I make after listening to that cue. Wow. That's all I got. Dude, that was, what a perfect time to hear in that song, cute, because I've been listening to a ton of, like, drum and bass type stuff. Jungle is what they call it.

Whoa, dude. I didn't think you're going to compare it to that. Well, the jump beat. The jump beat. Sure, sure. Yeah. But, yeah, dude, what, I mean, there's, there's, like, industrial in there. Yeah.

There's the D&B stuff. That's amazing, man. And that's a new record, huh? Brand new. This song is, I'd say. the heaviest as far as that drum and bass style drum. It's a really hard album to pin down as far as soundy. Okay, okay.

But it's, man, it's fantastic. I can't wait to bring, to bring, and I'm sitting on the ones, you know, the really good ones for our best of, which is a long way from now, Traff. About halfway there. You will for sure be hearing another song from this album.

Yeah, no doubt, man. No 180 for me yet, Jeff. I don't know. That would be, would you put that in the same thing? No. Not the same, not the same van as New Metal, but I mean, you know, like, that works. It doesn't. Nah, nah.

Okay. All right. Well, but I mean, that was different enough to, to, to, I think, weren't a 180. We're so, we're so obsessed with getting these 180s in here, do you know? We like to mix it up on this, on this, on this, what you're heard format, you know, so. Well, bring, let's bring another one, Treve. What you got? I do have something that's a little bit different.

Um, okay. So, I. have been, as you know, Q, I purchased myself a CD player. You have? It's the first time hearing of it. Yeah. And I've been kind of, you know, getting into 90s and 2000s movie soundtracks. Because it turns out, as I kind of learned, a lot of times, soundtracks in the 2000s, the 90s and the 2000s, would feature songs from popular groups of that time.

that you wouldn't be able to hear. And, you know, it was released for the movie, right? And for some reason, so I bought like Escape from L.A. The CD for Escape from L.A. the other day, just for fun, because I had some tool and other bands. I don't know why I'm saying this, because I'm not bringing a track from any of those CDs that I purchased. But I'm just saying that, like, I am purposely seeking out soundtracks from those

eras. And I watched for the first time, I had never seen this film, The Mothman prophecies. Indigo prophecy? I wouldn't recommend. I mean, it's okay, but I was let down. Richard Gere is in it. Oh, interesting.

Yeah. Anyway, it was, it was all right. I was expecting more Mothman. More, yeah, and maybe less prophecies. But anyway, I'm going to say. Either way. Dude, I've been, actually, you know, this is a random thing, dude, but my favorite thing, I drive by it, I don't know, at least once a, once a week.

Is it a Mothman statute? No, dude, but it's, it's a sign that is advertising this guy's services, but all it says on there is mole man with a number. Densile spray painted moleman. And I love it because it just brings up, I just have more questions. Is this a mole man? Is he a superhero that goes by mole man? Or is he a guy that takes care of moles for you and kills him?

Do you think that's the sex dwarf's like sidekick? The mole man. Mole man and the sex dwarf? I mean, it writes itself, dude. See, that's a comic book. Anyways, I just love it, dude. It's my favorite son. That is funny, man.

It's my favorite sign. Yeah, there's that, you turn that into a movie, dude. Yeah. So anyways, sorry. Go ahead. A found footage film or something. Yeah. All right.

Anyway, so soundtrack was decent. And there was even a song, I almost fell out of my chair, which I do that a lot. Yeah, you do. I never fall out, but I almost do quite a bit. There was a Bowery Electric song on there, dude, which was awesome, dude. Anyway, so this is a song, I believe, made for the album or for the movie. It says it's got two artists featured on a group called Lowe, which is a group. which I feel like I've heard of them before.

Oh, that sounds familiar. And this is the main duo that did the soundtrack. Tom and Andy is the name. And they've done a bunch of soundtracks. Anyway, so here we go. This is an incredible song. Really good. The song is called Halflight.

That's awesome, right? So, hang on. When did this movie come out? 2002. Okay. Yeah. I think maybe the record was re-released or something like that. There's a 2020 date on the Spotify page.

but yeah, 2002. Yeah, man, a lot of movie scores, just movies in general, kind of took on like a, you know, this is like Fight Club and Matrix and stuff like that, like late 90s into 2000s. Like movies kind of went to like a darker kind of tone and palette and stuff like that.

I feel like music kind of had that kind of lean toward it a little bit, which is awesome. Anyway, yeah, so that was low. All right, maybe I should say Tom and Andy. I think it was a low song. I think Tom and Andy's name just gets tacked onto this because they did the soundtrack. But yeah, a band called Low. The song was called Half Light.

And I'm going to pass it back to you. What do you got? Oh, man. All right. I don't know about you, but every now and then a band from my past will just, just out of nowhere, pop back into my head. Does that happen to you? Yes.

And you're just like, holy shit, I haven't thought about this band in a decade, at least. It happens all the time, dude. Probably shit. I don't know, two decades for this one, maybe. I'm trying to think. I guarantee you this band was featured on New Dust. Do you remember Cinnamon Chasers, Traff? Hell, yes, I do.

They're still dropping music, man. Really? Yeah, I've got a pre-saved. One of those songs off that record. I don't know if you're going to play from that record. A million miles from home is the record. Yeah, I go back to that. 2011.

Every once in a while, dude. Yeah, really good. Solid, like. Synth, very synth-heavy. synth, night drive. I don't know if that's the right. A little bit. A little bit, for sure.

I smell you. You smell me? What was the name of that huge artist? Just to call out, when I say night drive, most people think of. Kavinsky. Yes, Kavinsky. Not that synth heavy, like, you know. But, yeah, in the same vein.

Yeah. So this album, again, a million miles from home, came out in 2011. So this is, we were in the thick. of New Dust at that time. Our old music blog, for those who don't know. Yeah, dude. So I'm going to just play one of my favorites off the record. This one is track four.

It's called The World is Yours. It's just a delightful song, Q. A true delight. Yeah, it's right on the edge of like the outrun. Yeah, yeah. Synthwave. It's a good call. You know, neon lights.

wide open city night night skyline you got the road in front of you i mean you can just keep going right char you don't know where you're going but you're going somewhere yeah reminded me it reminds me a little bit of what air was doing on talkie walkie i don't know if they kept doing it for you know with the uh the way that his voice sounds with it's kind of like uh slightly robotized if that's uh yeah maybe maybe a little bit of auto tune maybe Maybe, I don't know. Or flange or some kind of, some kind of effect, yeah, on his voice. Yeah.

Like Universal Traveler. Dude, please tell me that our talky-walky episode is still up, man. That's going to really bum me out if it's not, because that's another one of my favorites. And maybe you shouldn't even look at it. It's on there. It's on there. Okay, okay, okay. Anyways.

Yeah, dude. That album is just full of gyms, just like that. Awesome. Yeah. For some reason, I don't remember that song, but I definitely. remember this record. Yeah, it's phenomenal, dude. Yeah. And dude, that's just one of those right, man. They probably just lost the time, man. Look at the, look at the plays, Traff. Nothing. How, I wonder how we, well, one of us, Love Deluxe blew up, quote unquote, blew up.

I mean, that's relative, obviously. Right. Yeah. Most of these play counts are in the low 100,000, so let's put it that way. Which, you know, that ain't nothing. That ain't nothing. But sure, comparatively, right? I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Traff. Pass back to you what you got. All right, I'm going to take us back just as I promised to the 90s. Can't stay away for very long, huh? And I'm going to pull the lyrics up because the lyrics are phenomenal. And this is, again, I'm going to close the episode out with another song from them because I could not

pick between the two, but I've been obsessively listening to these two tracks. So this is a group called Ark Welder. I'd never heard of them before, Ark Welder. And this record is called Pull. Came out in 1993. And this is the same, dude, 93 is the year of this episode, man, for sure. Actually, the year of this episode is 2026, but I think you know what I'm trying to say. That's what, three tracks now from 93?

on today's episode. That's got to be a first. Yeah. The 1993 edition, am I right? I mean, the name just writes itself, huh? So anyway, again, this band is called Ark Welder, and I would classify them, I think, solidly, or at least, let me just put it this way.

There are two singers in this group, and I tend to gravitate toward this guy, This guy, let me pull up the Wikipedia here. So there's two singers that sing on this in this band. One of them is the drummer and his name is Bill Graber, which I always think is cool when the drummer, the drummer sings. You know what I mean? Totally, totally. I can feel it coming in the head.

Let me fact-check. Am I right? Yes. You're right. You're right. You've never been more right. Okay, Bill Graber is not the drummer. Scott McDonald is the drummer. But I am fairly certain that he sings on these two tracks. Let me verify that.

Songs written by. Yes. Okay. Wrote and I believe he sings as well. Yes, Scott McDonald vocals. So I'm, maybe I'm dead wrong on this. I'm trying to get the right answer from looking at like the liner notes and stuff, but I want to assume that the songs that Scott wrote, he also sung.

So, he's on the drums. I think that's pretty cool. And let me stop yapping and we could start jamming. So this song is awesome, man. I'm just going to love to speak for yourself. This song is called Finish My Song. Of course it is cute. It's 1999.

It's 1993. I was getting some Scott's type. Yes, R.E.M. Sorry, for some reason I thought you said, Scott's, creed? Yeah, I thought you were seeing what Scott Stipe. Yeah, Scott Stapp. I thought you were seeing Scott Stap for some reason. Yes, dude, yes.

Yeah, it's in the same, it's in that college rock. Yeah, yeah. All rock umbrella, under that umbrella for sure. Those lyrics, dude. There's the second verse, I could take a week if I could find a day. And I just think that's great for some reason. It gets hard to speak when all must be explained. It's kind of these like dichotomies and stuff.

And the chorus is saying, you know, I'm not giving up, I'm not going back, but I'm not going forward. I'm not going backward. Not backing out, not turning heel. I'm just not moving. Which I think is a sentiment that we probably have all felt. We're just like, I'm just kind of running in place. You know what I mean? I'm not going forward.

I'm not going backward. I'm just not moving. You know, I'm not making progress in the way that I want to. I'm just sort of standing still, you know. Anyway, so I will close us out with another track by them. Again, that was Arkwielder. It came out in 1993. That song was called Just Not Moving.

Thank you. This is your last pick. What do you got for us? All right, man. It's a band we're familiar with Chapp. Did an episode on this group with a very special guest named Jill Fruth. Talking about Ethan Dorell.

Okay. Now here's the thing. I don't know if maybe, and I hate to say the words, Spotify again. But I don't know if maybe they just didn't have this album and streaming for like previously. But I only ever remember the album that we covered, White Knuckles on Turned Wheels, uh, available for streaming. But they have another album that came out four years later. So this was 2007, an album called Talks to the Dark.

Familiar with this track. Maybe I may have skimmed it. Okay. In the same vein. So I don't know how to, I really, it's hard to describe Ethan Derell. But it was, you know, a little bit, a little bit of emo, yeah. Emo for sure, but very. I feel like it's elevated.

It's a little bit elevated. Yes. Yes. It's almost math rocky in a way. Yes. Yeah, agreed. So anyways, yeah, I had to give the suspend, dude, because as far as I'm concerned, this is new Ethan Derell, in my mind, at least, even though it came out. Sure, yeah.

Almost 20 years ago. Right. But yeah, here's another fucking, just another solid track from Ethan Dorel, dude. Amazing. This one's called Move Us On. Amazing, man. We want to talk about, like, criminally. underappreciated.

Yeah, man. You want to look at small numbers? Look at these place, son. I mean, so these guys were a local act that you, you guys, didn't you and Mitchell see the show? We got to see,

so what year was it that you had to have your liver transplant draft? 2003? Four. Okay. Yeah, so yeah, we saw them tour not long after.

We saw their tour for white knuckles on turn wheels. And I will never forget, dude. They did, and I know Mitchell, remember says to they covered shout by tears for fears and fucking killed it

that must have been good dude um but anyways yeah dude his voice the way he the passion like the screaming like the way he yells yeah well you said it well I was playing about like you want to talk about Scott Skype dude I mean that sounds exactly like and also a little bit R.m. A little bit of Gordon Downey of tragically hip

sure man yeah awesome dude that's that's that That is, I mean, talk about kind of a natural evolution of their sound from the White Knuckles record. Yeah, so if you liked that, go back and listen to her. Let me just see. No, there's no big wigs. There's no record label that's going to give two shits about Ethan Derell that's going to move.

So I'm sure it's, I don't know why I'm trying to save and say like, oh, you'll still be able to listen to us on Spotify and still listen to this great. Yeah, yeah. It's dead to us, dude. We're telling you to go listen somewhere else. But listen to our episode on Ethan Drell's White Knuckles on Turnwheel. I think it's one of the, just in an exceptional album from early 2000s in that vein. Yeah. Just, I mean, nothing like Ethan Dorel, dude.

For sure. For sure. So, yeah, again, that was an album theirs that came out four years after White Knuckles. The album was Talks to the Dark. The song was Move Us On. And why we move on, Tram, to the last. Your last pick. What do you got? Man, I've got a great track for us to close, man.

Great track. So we were just talking, you and me, we were just kind of, I was shocked that we hadn't covered Newfound Glory before. And I feel like we've kind of shied away from pop punk in general. I mean, like we've done Blink 12. That's it, dude. I think that might be it, yeah. Did we do Hot Rod Circuit traffic?

If we haven't, fuck me. If we haven't done Hot Rock Circuit. We had to have done it for our back-to-school episodes, dude, right? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Emo Pop perfected. Sorry about tomorrow. Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

What a fucking great album. Yes, yes. So anyway, I'm not bringing a newfound glory track because we are going to do that at some point. But I'm going to bring a song. Dude, I mean, this is a pop punk is still alive, Q. I love it. This album came out in 2019. Hey, man, remember that group I brought it for our best of last year?

That's true. I forget their name, dude. Fuck. That's true. Just we little lads, dude. Yes, little babes, dude. Little babes. What was the name of that group, dude?

No, I have to. The paradox. Yeah. The paradox. Okay. Do me like that. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, go ahead.

Anyway, so this. Yeah, dude, alive and well. Alive and well. So this band came, or this album, at least, came out in 2019. It's a band called Junk Bunny. Love the name. Yeah, great name. Love it.

I know the song from the Tony Hawk Pro Skate soundtrack. You know, they re-released Tony Hog Pro Skater 1 and 2. And so everybody, I mean, the soundtrack on the original game was like phenomenal. It was amazing. And when they re-released it, they put

some newer bands on there too, which is kind of cool. And this is one of those songs. And dude, this song is a freaking earworm. And it's, it is, I would have put money on this band being one of the OG punk rock bands from like the 2000s. We were the perfect age for pop punk.

And that's what we got to talk about. We got to have Mitch on and talk about that for sure. But anyway, all right, so here you go. The song, it's funny enough cute, it's called Sedona. And that's where our dad lives. So here go. He lives in Scottsdale, son. You're right, you're right.

And Prescott. You're right, you're right. But Sedona. Depending on the season. Yeah. It's just a short car. I mean, it's just a, is it? I don't even know.

Go ahead. Probably a couple of hours. Anyway, all right. So this song, again, the band is called Junk Bunny. And this song is called Sedona. I mean, that's just straight up. Spot on, right? You know what, though?

This is similar to what we're getting with Narrowhead and all the other, you know, new bands that are rehashing out the grunge stuff. It's, it's new. It's fresh. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And that's the weird way to describe it. It's like, it sounds like, I mean, dude,

plucked from that era, dude. Yeah, and he's got like the, the cadence and stuff. The Tom Delange. Yeah, Caden's like, yeah. Yeah, however they do it. Where are you? Yes, exactly, man. And I'm so sorry.

Anyways. Is Tom in the room of this right now? That was my time. That was my Tom impression. It's pretty good. It's pretty spot on. But yeah. Just an earworm, dude.

earworm. Really good. Yeah. So again, that was junk bunny. The song was called Sedona. Yeah, that'll wrap us up for this episode.

Dude, great tunes tonight, man. Of course, man. That's because the 90s keeps on giving. And then we sprinkle them.

I mean, yeah. Dude, that track from Robber, Robber, that once again, I almost fell out of my chair. You know what,

dude, I'm not trying to like keep that album to myself to be able to deliver another song of theirs that you haven't heard by the end of this year. You can claim it, dude.

You can claim it. No, no, no. What I'm going to say is, please dive in, man. Give it a listen. Oh, I, yeah, I just, I just saved it to my. Oh, dude, it takes some turns, man.

And I was doing yard work listening to it last, a couple weeks ago. And, I mean, I just had to stop. I had to stop mowing. I did. I had to let go with that trigger every, you know, every song and add it to the playlist, dude. Yeah, I mean, listening to music while moving along. I mean, that's, dude. I remember trying to shove my Walkman CD player into my pockets.

Yes. Dude. When I was mowing the lawn back in the day. And, man, no, that was when you were really pushing the limits of their claim that it's not going to skip. Oh, yeah. That's the thing skipped all day, dude. But I guarantee you I was listening to Black Album by Metallica when I was mowing the lawn as a 13, 14 year old or whatever. It was funny because I was probably listening to like The Stills.

Or it was Freak on a Leash that record issues from Corn. It's so funny, man. Yeah, their differences in what we were listening to back then. Probably a lot of hives. Or, dude, Queens of Stone Age for sure. I was listening to that. Anyway. Well, yeah, that was our, that was our, what you heard for June, right?

No, May. That was our May. This is May. This is May. And so I think it's the irony in us, like, pleading for our listeners to go elsewhere to stream us is that they may never hear this. What if this one gets pulling off, dude? And our pleas will never be heard. That's true.

Well, like I said, I think we need to record a little PSA and put it on Spotify only. That's the thing. I don't know how we could push it to just Spotify. But I mean, we could. Just for fun, we should play that, you know, 70s supermarket jingle in the background the entire time. Just to have some music playing, but music that we know for sure they're not going to touch. Yeah, music that's like public domain or never. Yeah, totally, dude, just to really ensure that it never drops.

But yeah, I think we need to do that because, like you said, man, so many, the people we want to hear that message are the people who are who listen to us on Spotify because they need to hear, stop listening to us on Spotify. Right. If you're listening to us on the iPhone podcast app, you don't need to hear this. You've already switched. You're already doing better than those listening. that are still on Spotify. So next episode is, oh, yeah, we're going to do Guster. We're going to do an episode on Guster.

So I've got the tracks picked out, and I need to do a little bit of research on them just to bring some little bit of background, because I'm not sure how active those guys are anymore. I know they put stuff out here and there, but that was really the only record that I really dove into. But anyway, so we're going to talk about Gusters keep it together. which must have been, I don't know, 2003, 2003. So, man, what a phenomenal record, dude.

That's going to be a blast. And that, you want to talk about a very, very different type of album than we usually cover. Yeah, yeah, dude. Definitely. And another snapshot of that era. Yes. When did that come out again? 2003.

Yeah, I feel like, you know, rock was getting a little bit softer, you know. Quiet as a new loud kind of stuff. Yes, quiet as the new line. Yeah, Guster was nowhere near like a fulky type of musical group, but that was where rock was going, which is interesting. But it makes sense. If you come out of the 90s where like New Metal and Grunge, I mean, actually, New Metal was very, very prominent in the 2000s as well,

but either way, that's just kind of how it goes, right? All right, so I'm going to close us out with another track from Ark Welder. This song is called And Then Again, that's going to do it for us. Thanks, as always, if you're listening, my name is Travis, and I'm Gwen. Y'all take care.