No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Mort Garson Horror Picture Show Edition

Episode Date: April 25, 2022

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up a wine machine a wine machine a baby he never disappoints never does that was the first time I heard that song yeah Jack White

dude he's just so like he's such a unique presence in this realm of rock and roll yeah yeah and really one of the last true front men I feel like you know what I mean

like yeah as far as somebody that is so his his personality and his presence and his images of like that. In rock and roll, like he's, he might be the latest example of like a guitar god almost up there with like Paige and, and, you know, all the other gods. Jimmy Page is the only one that can come to mind right now, but you know what I'm saying. Sure. Yeah, dude. You're right. Yeah. And I remember last year and I think we actually had this, not last year, it was 2020. One of our.

You know, in our year-end batch of episodes, we had a best moments in music that we would play at the end of each one. And I want to say we played a clip from his appearance on, it was either Conan or, it was some late-night show. But he maybe, actually, it was SNL. It was Saturday Night Live. And I just remember, this was like the first time, you know, they were starting to have live performances back in the studio again. And it was just like, oh, yeah, this is why live music. is so amazing. Just watching him perform up there. This is what we've been missing out on for the last couple of years. Yeah, he's one of the best guitar players of all time and like one of the best

performers. And like his music always like just packs a punch, you know, and this little song right here, this was off his brand new record that just came out Fear of the Dawn. This is track number three. It's called The White Raven. And yeah, just there's like three different guitar tones that you're hearing and like effect pedals and stuff that he he just he's so experimental with with guitar sound he's one of the probably the most like experimental guitar players ever and yeah it's always a blast to listen to this guy yeah he's got like he can hear his fingerprint oh yeah in his version of like blue like gritty bluesy guitar he has like an undeniable like signature sound just amazing so i'm looking at the Wikipedia page for for fear of the dawn. And I just noticed that Q-Tip shows up. So Tribe Called Quest,

Q-Tip shows up on a song called Heidi Ho. Yeah, that's one of the singles. I just thought that was cool because Jack White plays guitar on a Tribe Called Quest's latest record, which came out a few years back. 2016, I think we got it from here. Yeah. So that's cool. He makes an appearance on there. Well, yeah, there you go. So if you haven't listened to it yet, of course, it's, you know, it's a ripper, you know. If you, uh, if you're a fan of Jack White, if you're a fan of old white striped stuff, it's kind of like required listening, right? Like, you got to listen to whatever he puts out. Totally. Uh, so yeah, check out his new album, Fear of the Dawn. That song was called The White Raven. And yeah, this is our What You Heard episode for April. If you're new to the show, basically, this is like a mixtape episode.

is kind of what we'd like to call it. Basically, this is our version of all songs considered on NPR. It's exactly that, dude. I don't know if we've ever made that comparison, but yeah. I've thought about it. Okay. And that's what this is. So, yeah, I bring five tracks.

Quentin brings five tracks. The only rule is that it should be a song that we heard between the last what you heard and this one. So that's why it's called What You Heard, because, you know, Quinn and I listen to music all the time. So here's what we've been listening to in the last month. Yeah, here's what we've been playing and can't stop playing. Here's a song that we really, really stood out to us and all the music that we listened to day in and day out,

like here are the five that I've just been jamming on, you know, the last month. So, yeah, dude, I've got some great tracks, dude. I've got a pretty good mix as well. So, all right, well, before we do that, let's take a quick break. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. So, Trave, I actually have used BetterHelp in the past, and it was a really, really great experience. I loved my therapist. He gave me a lot of great tools that I still use to this day. You know, without a healthy mind, being truly happy and at peace is hard.

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That's better h-E-L-p.com slash no filler. Thanks again to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode. All right, Hugh, I don't think we could have planned this any better because my first pick that I'm bringing is very much related to Tribe Called Quest. So, Fife Dog, who, as we all know, passed away, in 2016 of like complications with diabetes or something like that. He actually, I guess his, I believe it was, his longtime DJ, Dion Liverpool,

came out with a posthumous record of previously unfinished demos and a bunch of other stuff. I think last month is when it came out. But yeah, so I've got a song from that record. It's called Forever. And yeah, it's just awesome to hear Fife Dog, you know, stuff that you've never heard from this guy, you know, from years, you know, going back years. There's always something great about, I guess melancholy or bittersweet is probably the

better word, but like, you know, posthumous music, it's like hearing them, like they're alive again, right? Because you're hearing this new music. Yeah. And sometimes the music is very, like, reflective of, like, you know, it's kind of, like, Kind of like you think about David Bowie's, what was it called Black Star, that song that he put out right before he died where it's like, it was almost like he was talking to us from the grave with the lyrics that he was writing because he knew he was dying. So yeah, this album is one of those albums where it's like, man, there's even a, his mother is featured on one of the tracks where she's talking about him and like, wow, just like, apparently she's a very well-known, I think poet or something like that. Anyway, I'm not playing that song.

Maybe I'll bring that for our year-end episode. But you have to have the clean-exes nearby, you know, because it's a very emotional song. I'm sure. But I'm going to play a track that features a singer that goes by Lyric Jones. So here we go. This song is called Residual Curiosity by Fife Dog. People coming to your life for a reason, season.

17 years is shorty still got me cheesing. 23rd birthday how could I not remember Flew me foggy day 20th of November Plain de Lays galore three hours at LaGuardia Son take a shot now we went out to order We gotta show in the Great Lakes scene Joe Lewis Serena boy you gotta love the D 20,000 see the home of the Red Wings

So sold out gotta do the damn thing Reg you know we're on the bill and daylight makes it insane Shahid Mohammed said better bring you A game So 313 represent represent Detroit City represent represent crowd rumours to front in less than a set a tcq that's what I call respect yo eyes phonology okay I cut it short because I want to pick it up in the second part because there's a really really fun kind of endearing thing like this really cool moment that happens later that I wanted to play but what are your initial thoughts cue I mean I love it dude hard not to love it right love it

and so do you know when these recordings actually occurred there's really nothing the I can find the talks about that. Because he references, he mentions De La Sol. Yeah. And, you know, and like, sure, they're still around, but, you know, like, they were all coming up together in the early 90s.

I'm just wondering how old these recordings are. And I'm also wondering, like, these vocals that are featured in all these tracks, did they record and add their vocals in with this release? You know, like, was that part of the original song? Or did they add? Well, like how complete were these songs in these recordings?

Yeah, well, here's a little something I can read that I think talks a little bit about this here. So before his death in March 22nd, 2016, Fife Dog had spent roughly a decade recording tracks for his second album originally titled songs in the key of Fife, volume one. According to DJ Rasta Root, two thirds of the album was recorded before he stepped in to complete it. Okay. For the final third of the album, he used a lot of blueprints. and clues that Five Dogg had left behind in the form of rap notebooks, the detailed producers, featured guests, and liner notes that he wanted for the album. So it's possible that some of these songs had been recorded in the decade prior to his death.

So going back to 2006, you know, possibly. But, but yeah, it's a great, it's a great record to just pull up and hit play. If you're a fan of Tribe Call Quest and, you know, the kind of stuff, that they did, the kind of stuff that Fife Dog did, you know, it's just, it's really a special record, right, to listen to. Yeah. All right. Well, that's my first pick cue. But you got clip two? Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. Okay. Let me, let me, yeah. Okay. There's something really funny, funny, clever, just kind of special happens. So I'm going to, I'm going to pick it up again. I'm a little bit here, hear what I'm talking about here. So here you go. Again, this is residual

curiosities by Five Dogg. I left for a few weeks. We stayed in contact. Made a few calls, but shorty didn't chirp back. Had a show at Sack State. Ran into a sister. Gave her a hug on her cheek. I kissed her.

Was good with twin. Called her but no callback. Said Juanita passed. Christmas seed fucking car jack. I stood frozen. Still consoled a sister. Damn what I do just a kiss her. I said a nigga stood frozen.

Still can't hold her sister. Damn what I do. Just a kiss. So I've been. That was great. I love that moment. Just shows you kind of how playful the guy was, right? Yeah, and how fun they're, how much fun they were having in the studio.

Exactly. So, you know, he starts singing her part, basically, and she's like, you know what, let me, let me take over from here. Let me do this professional. Let's the professional take over here. And then she, you know, she's kind of laughing and then she starts, it's just, it's great. Anyway, there's little moments like that throughout the record, you know, like little, little things like that.

There's also like this, you'll, you'll have to hear it to know what I'm talking about. There's little nuggets like that that really kind of, show you just how this guy enjoyed life. There are songs on this record about, you know, he's rapping about taking care of his family members and finding peace and stuff in domestic life. Yeah, it takes on a whole different meeting, listening to it after his death. Exactly. All right, well, anyway, check that record out. It's brand new. It's called Forever. It's a collection of a bunch of previously released Fife Dog stuff. So, anyway, all right, Q, what you got for your first pick. All right. So, this is a group called Rain Parade. They were active from 81 to 86, roughly. And I'm going to

read this right up here. Travis, have you ever heard of the Paisley Underground? No, I don't think so. All right. Paisley, like the bandana print. Like the pattern. Yeah. Pattern print. So it says here, In the early 80s, it wasn't fashionable to look back to the psychedelic sounds of the 60s for inspiration. But a small group of fellow travelers on the West Coast did just that. Dubbed the Paisley Underground, the groups took different elements of the era and updated them for the times. The rain parade were part of this small movement, and they were the most indebted to the mystical psych and hazy pop of the bygone era. So when it wasn't cool to sound like the psychedelic sounds of the 60s and 70s, these guys and a handful of other bands on the West Coast were doing it.

Bringing it back early 80s. When it was all about the synth and the drum machine, they were like, no, no, no. We're still obsessing over the psychedelic rock, and we're going to drop some solid psych tunes on you. Cool. and they have an album called Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, came out in 83. This song might be one of my favorite discoveries of this year. So here we go.

This song, and we've got two clips to play, this song is called kaleidoscope. And this is their first and only record? They had two records. Two records, okay. Their second one, Crashing Dream, came out in 85. You know, I always think it's interesting because we always talk about synth music and the 80s.

right. But the same year is when REM's murmur came out, right? Which was a whole new thing. A whole new thing, right, because this band is still making 60s psych. R.M. was taking bits of that plus this new alt rock thing that they were doing. I guess that's what they were creating at the time, but I mean, that's what we call it now, Alt Rock. But R.M. is mixing that with this newer kind of sound. But yeah, it's kind of, it's always always cool to um because yeah you you know you're not going to hear about rain parade at least we didn't hear about them no because they were going against the grain at the time yeah exactly i feel lucky that that they popped up on some random playlist of mine because yeah they seem to be pretty damn obscure

and the whole album's great man like there's definitely a lot of like recycled sounds right of the 70s but this this song really stood out to me like i love the lyrics yeah i did like that too using you know imagery of a kaleidoscope using that as like a metaphor for life dude i'm just going to read i'm going to read the whole song dude real quick and then we'll play clip two but i love these lyrics dude like a kaleidoscope i turn and i'm turning what i thought was gone is now returning i wonder if it matters as the pattern shifts and shatters like a kaleidoscope revolve and revolving what i thought was there is now dissolving I wonder if it matters as the pattern shifts and shatters. Like a kaleidoscope, I turn and I'm turning.

What I thought I knew, I'm just now learning. I wonder if it matters as the pattern shifts and shatters. Such great lyrics. Yeah. My favorite line, dude. What I thought I knew, I'm just now learning. I think that the damn truth, dude. Always.

That's life, man. But yeah, I just like the imagery of a kaleidoscope is also very psychedelic, you know? And yeah, it works out really well for what he's singing about. All right, so clip two is basically just going to be this really great breakdown, like, guitar solo that happens that I just love. So here we go, clip two from kaleidoscope. I mean, I'm definitely interested to hear the rest of that record. Yeah, it's great, man. Is it all pretty mellow like that, or do they?

No, definitely not. But, you know, it's, it's in this vein for sure. True to the, to the decade, I guess, the 60s. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool to, it's cool to hear like, all right, here's what, you know, a group of musicians, like, here's what psychedelic music sounds like to them, having grown up listening to it, you know, and making music in the 80s. Like, here's their take on psyched. You know, it's like how.

grunge is making a comeback, you know, like narrowhead. Like here, here's them doing what narrowhead has done now with grunge. It is great because just like these guys and even like maybe Kevin Parker, Tame and Paula stuff, when your years removed from it, like you're able to look at the entire body of grunge and like pull different pieces of it, you know, and make it this new sound, you know, so that's kind of what. Right, exactly, which is cool. So yeah, check out emergency third rail power trip.

That's the album that this song, Collidoscope, is featured on. And again, that was Rain Parade. Pass it to you what you've been heard in. All right. So I've actually been sitting on this one for a while. It did not make the cut last month, but I've still been listening to it. So this is what I've been heard in for two months now, Q. But I don't really know much about this particular artist,

but I learned a little bit about this record that makes it kind of interesting. So this is a UK electronic producer. His name is Rob Ellis, but he goes by the name Pinch. And this record that he put out in 2020 called Reality Tunnels is his first album in 13 years. and this is sort of like a concept album, I guess, based on this concept called Reality Tunnels, which is the name of the record, that was put out in this book in 1983. There goes that year again, 1983. And this book called The Prometheus Rising by Anton Wilson.

And so it's essentially like a reality tunnel relates to an idea. This kind of reminds me of the kaleidoscope stuff, dude. An idea on how we create our own perspective, the subjective filter that we each apply to the world around us, the things we perceive and what our consciousness deems worthy of attention, i.e., what we see and hear is entirely relative to what we do not. Wow. And so the way pitchfork sort of wraps this up is that this is an LP meant to probe the various corners of his musical universe. what I thought I knew. I'm just now learning. Yeah, there you go. But in a nutshell, this is like darker electronic techno kind of stuff. Cool. Which I know you like as much as I do, Q. Oh yeah. Here we go. Let's just play the song. This is off of Pinch's 2020 release,

reality tunnels. This song is called Returnity. It's very trancy. You know, it's like the trance-hot. Yeah, I should have mentioned that it helps to listen to it with the bass turned up if you have the ability to crank the bass up on your whatever you're listening to this podcast on. But yeah, sometimes you just got to find a record like that key like you said that just like you can just zone out and just like kind of get into a trance, right? Sometimes you got to do that. And I always gravitate to this kind of electronic music for that kind of stuff. And sometimes I just in the mood for it, you know. And like this record kind of scratches that itch for me. Seems like it comes in waves for you.

Like you'll get into it. Yeah. At least once a year you'll get back into it. Yeah, I go on waves like, you know, metal and electronic. And then, of course, the mainstay is just like rock, 90s rock basically, but like just the umbrella, you know, of rock. But yeah, it definitely comes in waves. And I had like a couple of days where I was just seeking this kind of stuff out. And I pulled this record back up and hit playing.

I was like, man, this is good stuff. So anyway, this guy, again, his name is Pinch. And he is a UK electronic musician. That record is called Reality Tunnels. And that song was called Returnity. So I'm going to throw it back to you, Q. What do you got for us? All right.

I'm trying to figure out where to go from here, dude. All right. So this is a group that we have featured on the podcast before. And I didn't really dive into anything else from them. They appeared on the, I think it was the obscure shoe gaze episode where I jumped into that shoe gaze roadmap that we've referenced a few times on the pod. And I remember towards the end of it, like we, you know, We were kind of like running light on time. So I just picked a random artist and played a song from the album that was featured on that roadmap.

The group is called Nothing. Oh, yeah. I'm familiar with them. Really good. But I haven't checked out anything else from them. Have you? I've sort of like listened to singles and stuff because they've been putting out stuff over the last few years. Yeah.

So they just dropped an album in 2020 called The Great Dismal. I was blown away by this album, dude. Blown away. So we're going to play my favorite off the record. It is a single. And the title of the song is, I'd say probably our generation's favorite politician. And, you know, he was our only hope. So here we go.

This is a song off of Nothing's album from 2020, The Great Dismal. This song is called Bernie Sanders. Yeah, so where were they on the map of the roadmap of Shoegays? Do you remember? because, like, they're kind of like dream poppy with a little bit of not doom gaze, but like, the guitar tone is fuzzier for sure than your traditional shoe gaze. It's heavy, man. It's heavy.

This album is very heavy. But his vocals obviously very soft. Yeah. Dream poppy. Do I still have it, man? I don't know if I still have that roadmap. I don't know if I'll ever find it again, dude. Didn't we tweet it out or something?

I think so. But yeah, I'm pretty sure it was up towards the right. corner at the top, which was more like leaning towards the doom gaze. Yeah. Like the more, I guess, grungy psychedelic side. Yeah, if it was like a quadrant, four quadrants, whatever, it would definitely be approaching the doom gaze. Because in the middle was my bloody Valentine slow dive and I think Jesus Mary Chan, like,

they were in the center of the map. And then everything spanned out from there and got, you know, more noisy and more metal and more just straight up like weird like the farther out you went yeah nothing was definitely like a little towards the the more like heavy side of grunge her of she well here it is here i found the map um we did in fact tweet this out cool so um yeah where are they on here keep going up man i think i think there it is see up top here it is yeah guilty of everything so it's going up from loveless it's on the heavier like you should said heavier side of shoe gaze but not where is something doom gazing it's not i guess it's not the

top top of like the heavier side right it's not the far corner of the heavier side which would be more doom gaze stuff but um yeah we've we've touched on a lot of since we did that episode we've touched on a lot of bands on this map yeah i'm looking at pale sense and we have plans to chapter house is coming up if you go back up to the top right you can see low is featured in the little box there. Yep. We should almost just scrap this whole podcast and do a shoegaze podcast. Anyway, that's kind of what this is.

Yeah, great, great stuff. And yeah, if you're out there and you're kind of like us and you're really trying to deep dive into shoe gaze and whatnot, listen to guilty of everything by nothing. That record in particular is one of the records that you hear mentioned all the time in like shoe gaze. subredits and stuff. Again, this is from their latest record, the great dismal that came out in 2020. So yeah, man, cue this album up as well. It's fantastic. So, all right, pass it back to you, man. What you got? I've got the perfect segue cue from that record. So we talked about this sort of grunge resurgence that's happening right now, and I've got another band that sort of falls under that umbrella. So these guys are called trauma ray, and I learned just now

that they are from Fort Worth, Texas, which is cool. Narrowhead is from Houston. So it seems like Texas is kind of leading the charge here on this grunge resurgence stuff. Cool. But anyway, they've put out a few EPs. They just put out a new song a couple weeks ago called Lift Off, And that's what kind of brought me to them because somebody on the Shugay subreddit posted a link to this track. But as you'll see from at least this song that I'm bringing, this is less Shugays and more to me kind of a grunge throwback. This might be my favorite song. One of my favorite songs that I've heard recently. Like it's just on constant repeat.

So here we go. This song is called New Haven by Trauma Ray. Fantastic. It's great. Love it. Nothing to... That's it, man. Yeah.

What more is there to say? Like, it's perfect. It's a perfect rendition of that sound. Yeah, and that's the thing. Like, yeah, I think we probably had similar conversations about this every time I brought a narrowhead song. Yeah. Over the last couple of years. But it's like, it's just, you know, you always think about like, you call them like, oh, they're a throwback or, oh, you know, it's a,

resurgence, but like in the same way that Shugays has been going on ever since the late 80s, this is just another grunge band if you want to put it that way. Right. Not even grunge, really. But just that 90s, that very distinct 90s alt rock sound, they're just picking it up again, you know? And I think there's got to be something to be said about some of these new younger bands returning to this sound.

Like, it's encouraging, you know, because I love. this decade of rock. I feel like it's the last good decade for rock music, and it's great to hear that the four-piece rock band that's making rock harder, heavier rock is not dead. You know, it's coming back, right? I think a lot of people probably thought that it was dead. Yeah.

For a while. Do you look at this on the band campaign for this record? If you like this, you're like, look at the first one. Nothing. The great does more. that you just played a song from. Anyway, there is a genre that this gets lumped under. Same with narrowhead.

It's called New gaze. So there you go. New gaze is, I guess, newer shoe gaze, right? The next generation. Space rock is another term that we talk about for hum. They have this label on them, or at least that's the label they chose for themselves on their bandcamp page. Anyway, just a great song.

And I will definitely be on the lookout for my guess is they're putting on a new record this year because they just released a single. But if you like that, they're single that they put out, I think last week. It's called Lift Off. And you can hear their sound is getting a little bit more refined. But yeah, more of the same. More of that grunge throwback. So anyway, that band is called Trauma Ray.

That song was called New Haven. They're self-titled EP called Trauma Ray. So anyway. We'll throw it back to you, Q, what you got for us? All right, man, this might be my new favorite group that I'm, like, really, really excited to hear more from. They haven't been around for too long. It's a group called Mama. It is Allegra Wine Garden and Edda Friedman.

Man, dude, they drop some of the tastiest guitar riffs and just the catchiest pop-punk alternative rock kind of music that I've heard in a while, dude. And this song is an earworm, if I've ever heard one. And I love the lyrics. It's just a classic love song, really. It's so great, dude. I'm excited to share it with you because I know you're going to love it. I think all of our listeners are going to love it. So here we go.

This is, again, a group called Mama. This song is called Medicine. Yeah, dude. Within like two seconds, like you're already hooked, you know. Yeah, dude. Love it. I mean, I'm going to say that this is also a, a throwback to the 90s sound.

I mean, really. And like this is like, you know, the breeders or something, you know, so those 90s female led rock bands and that more like light alt rock sound. The 90s is coming back in a lot of ways beyond just musical sound. But like I'm looking at their record art. And, you know, there's a picture of like a 90s station wagon on the cover of this record.

Yeah. Yeah. Like 90s aesthetically is like. also like just coming back and it's weird to think about but like when you and I were growing up there was probably a you know vintage was the 80s 70s and 80s you know vintage now is 90s and so a lot of generation Z uh I believe is the current generation of youngsters you know I think are probably looking back at the 90s and what a different decade from the one that they're currently living through. And so it feels like there's a lot of like nostalgia for the 90s, even for people

who didn't even live through it. So I don't know. I'm trying to think of, you know, what's behind the 90s resurgence right now just in general. I don't even want to question it, dude. I'm just glad that it's happening. Me either. I'm happy, dude. I'm here for it. And that, yeah, I feel, you know, I think we've said this a lot recently in this decade and in the 2020 decade. whatever you want to say about everything else that's happened in these last like two years like it's a good time for music right now for rock i think definitely rock is coming back in a lot of good ways so that song Madison is going to be so that's a single and it will be featured on their album called household name that's dropping july first they have another full-length album called two of me that came out in 2020 that i

really love, dude. It's like, you know how catchy that song was? Yeah. All these songs on this, on this album are just as catchy. So they're just, they're riff machines. Dude. Yeah, really, really great musicians. And I love, yeah, their songwriting's great. Yeah, I'm ready for more of it, dude. I can't wait until July 1st, dude. I'm sure we're going to be dropping a track from that album on our, what you heard for July. Yeah. Awesome. So, all right, man. Again, that was Mama and the song was called Medicine. So I'll pass it back to you, brother. What else you've been hurting? All right. Well, I'm going to do a 180 on us here. But this, dude, this song is awesome. First of all, I get to talk about this really cool horror movie that I watched on Shutter.

So if you're a fan of horror movies like me, you probably have a subscription to Shudder. It's the, it's like Netflix, but for horror fans, right? It's a Shudder, it's a horror movie streaming service, basically, right? So they have a lot of exclusive content that, you know, you can only watch on Shutter. And they just put out this, this movie, or at least they just made it available. It's actually been out for a while, but it's called The Spine of Night. And what made it so cool is, it's an animated. horror movie.

That's rare. Done in like cell shading in the way that like old Disney movies used to be animated. So it kind of feels like you're watching a cartoon from like the 70s or something like that. The art style is incredible. I love that kind of stuff. So yeah, if you look up the spine of night,

you can kind of read about the movie. The movie was its own thing. It was just really enjoyable to watch. You know, the story was cool. The visuals were cool. But that's not what I'm talking about here, obviously. The creators of the show released a Spotify playlist called Doom and Thunder, music that inspired the spine of the night.

And so obviously I shuffled it, right? And this song came up by this guy named Mort Carson, who, Hugh, I think you... Oh, I did. I know. Yeah, he's a very... He's like a pioneering electronic composer, right? He did that album like... Plantasia? Yeah, like songs for your plants or whatever.

Exactly, yeah. Yeah, dude, I love his sound. Well, he came out with a record in 1975 under the name Adiraxia. And the name of this record is called The Unexplained. And the subtitle is... electronic musical impressions of the occult. And so it explores taro and astral projection, seances. That album art is gnarly.

Yeah, it is, isn't it? And all these other things with, you know, his signature Moog synthesizer sound. I mean, he's up there with Wendy Carlos, yeah. So keep in mind, this came out in 1975. And this song I'm going to play for you is. awesome dude it's great but um so anyway i was going to save this for our halloween episode but i found something even better to do for our Halloween episode that i'm sitting on but anyway here we go so this song is called deja vu by mart garson uh on the 1975 record the unexplained

that's great right wow 1975 1775 it's great man it's great man But yeah, you can hear the influence of that on things like Stranger Things, right? Black Moth Super Rainbow. Yeah, tobacco. Totally, totally, yeah. But as far as like, yeah, that classic the Moog synthesizer sound, right? It's just. But this was like, he was ahead of his time, dude.

Like the, the-pionaire. The structure of the song, the drums, like the decision to go that route for the drums, I don't know. It just didn't, it wasn't the stereotypical kind of synth heavy electronic stuff that you were hearing in the 70s. As far as like the drum beat is what blew me away when it came in. It's like that totally made, it sound completely modern. Yeah. Well, yeah. And, you know, honestly, what it makes me want to do is just dive into this, like a rabbit hole of this kind of stuff.

You know, 70s synth, those had a little bit of a darker twinge to it, right? But like that's, yeah, I was blown away by that when I heard it. But yeah, anyway, that's the vibe of that movie, by the way, like 70s kind of like, you know, occult type stuff. The music was inspired by that kind of stuff as well. So there are other ways to watch that film besides having a subscription to a shutter. But again, it's called The Spine of Night, the Horror Film. By the way, it features the only name I recognize, but Padden Oswald voice is one of the characters on the cartoon. Oh, cool.

Which is, you know, he has a perfect character that they picked for him. But anyway. So, yeah, that song was called Dejaveau off of Mort Garson, who was going by the name of Adraxia for this release. His 1975 record called The Unexplained Electronic Musical Impressions of the Occult. All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you for your last. No, not my last. This is not your last pick. You got a couple more, dude.

All right, what you got? All right, so I have to give a shout out to the Shugay subreddit once again. You and I both discover a lot of great artists through the members of that subreddit for sure. Like once a week, probably. I'll discover a new band from someone on there. And I don't remember what the post was exactly, but it was, you know, what are some underrated Shugays albums? classic question to ask, you know. And there's always going to be tons of great responses and

posts like that. And this group is called Should. Have you ever heard of them, Joe? Probably not. I don't think so. Well, they're from Austin, Texas. It's a Shugays Dream Pop group, formed in the early 90s by brothers and Mark and Eric Ostermeyer and Tanya Mouse. So it was a trio for the longest time, they're still making music, I believe, to this day, minus Eric. So Mark and Tanya are still making music as should. Their first full-length album came out in 98. It's called Feed Like Fishes. A lot of it is that, you know, kind of what you'd expect for early 90s shoe gaze, you know, very fuzzy on the guitar. But then there's, there's moments in, in all of their music that you're just totally different and really good.

cool for the time that it came out. So I'm going to play a song from, again, this album called Feed Like Fishes. And this is going to be kind of a lengthy clip, but I really like just kind of the subtle ways that the song progresses. This is, again, a shoegaze group called Should. This song is called Mim Drive. Yeah, I love that spoken word thing at the end. It reminded me of Drop 19s last week. Yeah, right. I thought so, too. I like it when bands do that. I feel like when it's done right, like it makes the song so much more like personal, you know. Yeah. Because they're, you know, it's usually something sort of, I don't know, it's like you're hearing their thoughts.

It becomes more like, you know, like you're hearing the struggles or like the inner, the inner thoughts of, you know, the singer of the, the subject of the song or whatever, you know, whoever's perspective you're supposed to hear from the, from the song, you know. Yeah, it does always feel. feel very like train of thought. Yeah, but I think it makes it feel like you're, you know, somehow you're able to connect more with the storyteller, you know. Yeah. I love the drumbeat too, how they, yeah, I like it a lot. It was very simple, but like they, it would transition to something slightly different

and turn to slightly different beat throughout the song. And so since they've regrouped as just a duo and with just Mark and Tanya, they have since started to do much more dream poppy in like a letting up despite great faults kind of way. So, you know, much more easing up on the distortion, you know, but very, really great dream pop. So their last album was released in 2014. I don't know if they're still doing it, you know, because that was a while ago. But yeah, really good stuff. Lots of great music from this group.

I like their album from 2011, Like a Fire Without Sound, which is their first. album that they released when they got back together as a duo. But yeah, this record Feed Like Fishes is really, really good. Again, the group is called Should. And moving on to your last song, Traff. All right. Well, I'm actually going to play some Doom Gaze for us, Q. Awesome. Well, I shouldn't say Doom Gaze. It's more just Doom Metal. Yeah, it's more Doom Metal. But anyway, it's, yeah, so as we've talked about this particular genre of metal before, but basically it's Black Sabbath was the template for this slower, sludgier kind of metal sound, you know, especially on their record, Master of Reality.

I think came out like 72, 71, sorry. but anyway a lot of bands have sort of taken that sound and just ran with it and we talked about a band called Kimmiss who kind of get thrown under that they don't like the term but they they have that applied to them we talked about a band called Sleep which is a more well-known doom metal band but yeah here's just another band under that umbrella this record really stood out to me So this is an example of, I think, like, the perfect idea of what, like, doom metal is, slower-paced metal, you know, perfect for... Sludgy. Yeah, sludgy.

Perfect for lighten up a J-A-Q, as you like to say. Have I ever said that? I don't know. But here we go. This song is by a band. Did I mention the band yet? No, probably not. No.

This band is called Elephant Tree. And this song is off of their self-titled record. It came out in 2016. And this song is called Wither. Yeah, that's just like right on the nose, dude. Because it sounds almost like it's being played at a slower speed. Yeah. It really does.

Like the way that the drum beat, and it sounds like everything's just being dragged along. Yeah. That's the point of it too. Yeah. Like the slow bend of the guitar note and stuff like that. Tony Iommi did that back. in the back of the day, early Black Sabbath stuff. Like, that's, you know, again, like, just sort of like taking it and running with it, right?

But, like, at the same time, Desert Rock and Stoner Rock in general sort of is mixed up into Doom Metal a little bit. So there's, like, some Allison Chains a little bit. If you really try hard enough, you can hear some Allison J. If we want to throw back the 90s grunge into this, again, even, like, thematically with that song, like brushing off the dirt and stuff like that. It's got talking about lyrically, I think, stuff that Lane's daily used to sing about for some of the Allison Chain stuff, the iconic stuff. But anyway, I've got a good, this is a good description of it here. This is a write-up in Revolver magazine that says, this group seamlessly blends desert-swept Kaiusian, as in Kaiusian stoner metal with the space, A.C. Alt rock of Smashing Pumpkins.

Mm, nice. So, you know, you're going to have to listen to a little bit more than just this song to hear some of that smashing pumpkins, because I didn't really pick up any on, any of that this song, but they've put out a pretty good selection of music. And I will say there's a song on this record called Aphotic Blues or Apotic Blues. I'm not sure how to pronounce that. that has one of the best outros of any stoner song or doom metal song I've ever heard. So yeah, check out that song.

But yeah, just, I mean, like I said, these guys have put out quite a bit of stuff. So they have, I guess their latest full-length release came out in 2020, but they have quite a bit of stuff underneath their name. So if you like that, check out elephant tree. Again, that song was called Wither. and yeah, I'm going to throw it out at UQ for the last pick here. What do you got? So this is a group called the Iron Curtain.

Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain, and there is a metal band that is also called the Iron Curtain because it's a great name for a metal band. But this is a group from the early 80s. So I'm going to read this right up on this blog from a guy named Ted Mills from back in 2010. says here in the early 80s, a small genre of electronic music began to emerge. Minimal, homemade, rough, and icy. Influenced by the cure, joy division, craftwork, and crout rock,

the sounds were made on early model, cheap, portable synthesizers. The lyrics took on alienation, paranoia, fear, and the general landscape of post-war anxiety. retrospectively called either minimal wave or cold wave, the groups came from economically depressed cities like Sheffield, Berlin, Brussels, Manchester, and Santa Barbara, question mark. So this is a group from that subgenre that was emerging in the early 80s. There's only one album on Spotify that's easy to stream of theirs. It's kind of a compilation record.

called desertion. So it's music from 82 to 88. And I just want to play it, dude. I'm going to get your thoughts on it. Okay. I don't know when this song came out. It came out somewhere between 82 and 88. But this is for sure my favorite on that compilation record.

This song is called Love Can Never Die. I'm getting some very heavy like David Byrne vibes. I was, there are very specific talking heads. songs that kind of they kind of sound like that yeah he definitely didn't have like quirkiness of David Byrne sure in like the way that he who else does I don't think anyone on this planet is like David Byrne if you like squint you can kind of hear talking heads and like that more you know because it's a it's a synth song and it sounds a lot like other 80s synth stuff very rudimentary

But they are not that cliche to where it's like it's forgettable or whatever. Like this is something that like you said, you said you were blown away by it. It's definitely. It just wasn't expecting it, you know? Yeah. But that's a thing. Going back to our kaleidoscope lyrics about like, you know, just when you think you know something, like you're relearn it or whatever, you're learning it again. And that seems to be the case with my, like, you know, I feel like I have certain sounds just live in these boxes, you know, from decades or whatever, these decade boxes.

And like, anytime you hear a song like that song we played earlier from 75 from Mord Garson, where it just sounds so modern and stuff like that. But it just tells you that you don't, that we don't know, but we just don't know. how you know we have things so like siloed or whatever sure and like i'm constantly surprised by a by a song that came out in a decade that i that i wouldn't expect that sound to to come from that day right all the time right all the time so it just tells me that i don't know what the hell i'm talking about as far as like i'm always learning right and that's that's that's that's the dream right always hearing new things, always learning. That's what we love about music.

Yeah, you'll always be surprised by something with music, you know. Yeah, and this band is definitely one of those cases, dude. Like, there's some songs on here, to me, is straight up interpol moments, like with, you know, like the vocals of Paul Banks where it can be very, like, almost like what we heard here in that song, Love Can Never Die. And then on a dime, it'll just get kind of sporadic and, you know, just intense.

There's some moments of that in this music, which is really cool. Like he does a lot more, there's a lot more range in his vocals than just that song that I played. Dude, speaking of Interpol, they're putting out some new music this year. That is great. Oh, that's exciting. Here, save that for our best of. Oh, yeah.

That's the struggle, dude. Do I bring a brand new track to what you heard or do we wait all the way until December to hear it? Because sometimes it's worth the wait. Sometimes it is. But anyway, so Interpol's putting out some new stuff this year, new record coming out. Awesome. And if you are lucky enough to be in a city that the tour is stopping in,

Tycho and Interpol are touring together. Whoa. That's a show. Which is an interesting mashup, but... That'll be cool. Yeah. I've never seen Interpol live, and I'm a, you know, turn on the bright lights is one of my all-time favorite records. same so but hey man for as much hate as Carlos D gets the bass player he's not with Interpol anymore

and you know right his baselines man or what make that record so awesome anyway well let's wrap this up brother yeah this one's going to be long all right well and we got some shoutouts to do that's right yeah so you know at the end of most episodes we we put a a plea out there for anybody to out to us on Instagram and tell us your thoughts, give us recommendations for music. And, you know, we actually had two listeners reach out to us in the same week. In the same, in the same day. In the same day, which is crazy. It was a beautiful thing. Yeah. So a guy named Adam reached out to us on Instagram and said he had listened to the hum episode and recommended this band out of Chicago called Seam, which I had never heard of. I don't think you'd ever heard of him either. But,

But man, there is a, there was a trend. I think even Britt Daniel talked about this when he came up with the name Spoon, that it was like kind of trendy to do these one syllable band names back then. Yeah. You know, I think he was also influenced by Cann, you know, the band Can, right? Yep. As far as why he came up with Spoon. But anyway, just another one syllable band name Q, Saseem. And, yeah, he recommended this song called.

burlitz as a good one to listen to. Yeah, I listened to the record, at least one of the records. I listened to the problem with me, came out in 93. Definitely similarities to hum with like very heavy guitar balanced with some like nice soft vocal. So it was a good, good recommendation for fans of hum for sure. But yeah, a great example of, again, just more of that, you know, different shade of grunge. kind of stuff that's coming out in the early 90s that we just weren't aware of. Right. Yeah.

So he recommended a song called Berlitz off of their record. Are You Driving Me Crazy? So we will have that song, Outro Us, for this episode. Thank you, Adam, for reaching out to us. That's what we're hoping for is, you know, interaction with the listeners. You know, make it more of a collaborative thing where you guys are kind of giving us bands to listen to. albums to check out. You might have your recommendation be the outro in one of our episodes, or in the case of this next listener who reached out to us, we're actually going to do a full

episode on this band thanks to her recommendation. So Marita reached out and said, hey, you guys should listen to Swerve Driver and do an episode on them. And yeah, I will admit that I haven't really listened too much to them. But I know for a fact that this record, Meskelhead came out in 1993, it's another one of those records that I see all the time on Shugay's recommendation lists, right? It was on that map queue,

that Shoegay's map that we referenced a couple times this episode. It was up there in the top right corner. But anyway, yeah, I listened to their first record and fell in love with it. So we might do an episode on their first record, Rays, or we might do an episode on Meskelhead. But either way, we're doing an episode on Swerve Driver at some point, thanks to her recommendation.

So yeah, shout out to Marita for pointing us in their direction. But yeah, if you're out there and you're like, hey, I'm loving what you guys are talking about right now. Why don't you check out these guys? Or have you heard of this band, you know? Send us a message on Instagram. Yes. We would love to hear from you.

send us anything, literally anything in the wide realm of music. You know, we'll give it a listen and, you know, we'll give you a shout out at the very at least and we might play it on an episode as an outro. Usually I watch your heard episodes, the perfect opportunity for that because it's just a random collection of songs, right? Anyway, you can find us on Instagram. Just search No Filler podcast. We'll pop right up.

and you can also find us on the Pantheon podcast network. That's pantheonpodcast.com. That's the home of many, many great music-centered podcasts, including ours. And yeah, that's it. So thanks for listening. This is our monthly mixtape that we like to call What You Heard. We will return next week with some heavier bands that fall under the alt-roids. umbrella of 90s rock, more obscure 90s rock.

This is going to be, I've said alt metal before, but alt metal, you know, you sometimes also think of corn when you think of alternative metal. And that's not the direction we're going. It's just heavier alt rock stuff. That's not quite grunge, you know, but also not as light as like REM or lush even for that matter. So heavier side of grounds, Hugh, I do like that term.

But these bands are going to be a little bit more. Maybe punk metal oriented alternative rock bands. So yeah, I've got three that are kind of lined up. I'm excited, man. Yeah. I'm ready to be enlightened. Yeah. So anyway,

this is when I take over, Q. This is my wheelhouse. But anyway, so yeah, we're going to keep this train rolling as far as more obscure 90s rock bands that just weren't on our radar when we were growing up. So it's never too late. Nope. All right.

And we're going to outro out with again, recommendation from Adam. This is a song called Burlitz by the band Seam. And that's going to do it for us today. Thank you as always for listening. My name's Quentin. My name is Travis. Mail, take care. Holiday Magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you.

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