No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard: The Sneaky Sabbath Edition
Episode Date: August 30, 2026From dinosaurs to flying birds, beauty queens to eating snakes we've got it all for you on our monthly mixtape. Join us for some brand new tunes and some all time bangers. Dinosaur Jr - Blowin' Up... Beacon - Between the Waves Ace of Base - Young and Proud The Clientele - Harvest Time Paul & Linda McCartney - Eat At Home Enigma - I Love You... I'll Kill You Beauty Queen - Blade of Light Mastadon - Snakes For Dinner Rattlesnake Milk - Bank Robber The Cranberries - Sunday Good Flying Birds - Every Day Is Another Ace of Base - Voulez-Vous Danser This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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No Filler.
Hi, I'm Mike Judge, and you're listening to the Pantheon Network.
Welcome to No Filler. I'm Travis.
And I'm Quentin.
And on this month's What You Heard, we're going to play a brand new single from Dinosaur Jr.
This song is called Blowing Up.
A pleasant surprise, dude.
New Dinosaur Jr. That's awesome.
Yeah, they got a new album coming out.
in well as of the recording of this like for yeah at the 28th of August so depending on when this
comes out it might already be out here but yeah if you're like wait a minute that doesn't
sound like Jay Mascus you're right that's not him on the vocals that's Lou Barlow he's
one of the founding members so he's one of the OGs but he he's the bass player so but yeah
Jay Mascus is still appearing on the on the record on vocals there's another single
that they put out from this record
a couple weeks back called Several Got Away and Jay is singing on that one.
So if you like your Dinosaur Jr. because of J.M.askus, don't worry.
If he's vocals.
Yeah.
Don't worry.
But I really liked that.
I liked his singing style quite a bit.
That was it great.
Does he sing in other Dinosaur Jr. albums or a song?
Yeah.
I'm sure he does.
I'm not sure he does.
I'm not sure he does.
Dinosaur Jr. man.
I mean, one of the like, just they've never lost their, their relevant.
see I feel like you know what I mean totally you know they've just they're they're
consistent I feel like every time you listen to to Diogen Jr's Junior it sounds like it
could have just come out the day that it came out I mean if that makes sense like do you
know what I mean like it doesn't sound like the day that you listen to it you mean I just
I just mean like they don't sound dated ever yeah yeah even the new stuff just just it just
sounds they're just consistent you know they're great so anyway totally definitely
a high possibility
that one of the tracks off that
new record shows up in a few
months on our best of
2026. I can't believe it, dude. In a few months.
Yeah, how's it August already?
Already nearing
past the halfway mark
of this year. Right, dude.
Yeah, it's crazy.
But I tell you, man,
I'm all about it, dude. This is my favorite.
The last half of the year,
or the last quarter, I should say,
is my favorite quarter of the year.
You know, you got to, if you're ranking your quarters, you know, the last three months.
Yeah.
Come on, man, it doesn't get better.
Fall, dude.
Yeah, but I, man, I fell in love with the spring.
I mean, not like I haven't loved spring up here since I moved to Washington in 2014,
but like really getting into it with the flowers and the blooms and doing all the pruning and stuff in my backyard.
I don't know if it can beat, if fall can beat spring anymore, dude.
Fair enough.
It's such a small window where those flowers.
are popping, dude.
And it's, I think that's what I like about spring, dude, because it's like, it's just so,
just such a small window.
But then the, you know, the summer months and the weather's fucking great.
But yeah, just, just seeing those flowers for like three weeks and then they're gone.
Makes it special.
Well, I'm living in Satan's butthole, dude.
Yeah.
Right now.
Yeah.
I know, dude.
And that, that's not going to stop until, like, October, probably.
plenty of room for you all up here oh all right let me just pack my things up and i'll see you in a few
please please do well anyway this is our monthly mixtape we call it what you heard we both bring
five tracks each plus you know the intro and the outro track so 12 tracks total that you're going to
hear yeah no rules as to the genre the decade it's whatever whatever we've been listening to lately
hence the name, what you heard.
And you went first last month, Q, so I'm going to play another track to start us off.
Sweet.
Let's do it, man.
All right, Q, let me see if you remember this record from the New Dust Days, which is the indie blog that we used to run for a hot minute.
You remember this record, Beacon?
Oh, hell yeah, dude.
Now, are you as shocked as I am that this band has not appeared on this show?
Because I was shocked.
Yeah, actually.
This is the only album I think that I'm familiar with.
So Beacon, right?
This is 2013.
This would have been right in the thick of new dust.
Yes, yes, yes.
So it's a duo electronic act.
Yeah.
What gets you back into this album?
Do you know?
This is one of those albums that I've had like saved in my,
Spotify library and sometimes I just scroll and see oh let me listen to this this album again it's been
a while since I've seeked out this kind of music I still don't really anymore but sometimes it still
hits right dude yeah this is bringing me back dude I'm gonna have to re-save this to my library yeah so we're
gonna play a track that that has always been my favorite track on the record so here you go this is again
a group called beacon this is off of their 2013 album the ways we separate
rate. And this song is called Between the Waves. Good stuff, man. There's a lot of good stuff like
that coming out around that time. Reminds me a lot of sawn, S-O-H-N. I was a big fan of this stuff back in the day.
It's kind of dark, right? Like dark. Dark, synth, brooding down tempo. Yeah, man. No surprise.
They were on and possibly are still on Ghostly International, which is perfect, perfect record label
for that kind of stuff.
Oh, totally.
Guess what, dude.
As it always happens,
they are putting on a new record this year.
Of course.
So I'll have to check that out.
So, yeah, they've got a new record coming out.
Oh, in five days, dude, August 7th.
So I haven't listened to any,
I don't think a single track from them
besides what was on this record.
Same.
So I have no idea what they sound like.
Like have they evolved?
I'm sure they have.
you know so yeah anyway so yeah i'll check that out how dry a cinder but yeah so go listen to it now it's
already out so we go again this was beacon the song was called between the waves off of their 2013 record
the ways we separate and i'm going to throw it to you for your first track cue when are you got for us
all right dude i think you probably know this because you visited us recently ronan found his way
to some asa bass man and the thing with spotify
I don't know how it happens, you know, because usually what he does is he's listening to a song and then he'll scroll down to similar artists or he'll click on like that artist's radio, you know, so that's like the radio playlist that just plays similar artists or artists from the same era.
And he found the sign by Ace of Base.
And then you were with us, Trav, at that record store.
And they had just random cassette tapes like on their little display.
wall in the back and running goes are you kidding me right now and grabs he said that i don't
ever yeah dude it's his favorite thing to say right now that's funny are you kidding me right now dude
he used it perfectly you know i know and he grabbed he saw the sign that this must have been
the album that blew them the fuck up dude because uh all that she wants is on there don't turn around
yeah the sign from 93 that's the album and we're gonna play a track from it dude because so we got i got
got a boombox for Ronan.
And old school boombox, looks like probably early 2000s boombox.
Play CDs, plays cassettes, Traff.
It's got a digital FM tuner, Travis, which was a big deal back then.
Anyways, so here we go.
We're going to play track three off of the sign from Asa Bass.
And this pairs perfectly with Beacon, I think.
I mean, there's no better time than now to play Asa Bass.
So here you go.
This one's called Young and Proud.
Well, Q, I don't know about you.
but all I had in my head was the scene of Will Ferrell and Chris Catan
op on their heads in their car.
I mean,
Not at the Roxbury?
Not at the Roxbury, yeah.
They were doing it to what is love, right?
Yeah.
Maybe I don't hurt.
Which an all-time banger, dude.
Which, you know how much this dates us, dude, that that's the reference you're bringing up?
I know, I know, dude.
Come on.
But yeah.
No.
Yeah.
Totally.
what a banger so when did that come out 93 okay well guess what the what is love came up before that so
okay okay what's your point i was good just to me it reminds me like dance dance revolution
and the sure the bangers ever on those did you ever play that i didn't uh i played guitar i played
the controller version of it i never got on the dance pads dude i never did it in the arcade
But I was really fucking good at it on the controller, dude.
Really good.
Yeah, dude.
I've been banging out to that song.
And this whole, this whole freaking record, dude, for the last, like, month.
It's awesome that he's got his first music player.
And I think it's kind of cool that it's a consent player.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Ace Bass, is the only one that is his.
Yeah, that's cool.
I have some CDs left in the class.
I saw, I traded them to you, Trave, not that long.
go. So I got rid of most of the good ones. But yeah, he listens to a lot of Josh Grobin,
which is Sarah's one of Sarah's loves. Josh Groven. Josh Grobin.
Yeah, some Manatee commune. We have like one of his CDs. Anyways, yeah, dude,
he's a bass in your face. Pass it back to you, brother, what you got. All right. Now, Q,
I know that you're not as big a fan as this group as I am.
but I have their best of on vinyl,
and so I busted it out and listened to it.
A group called the clientele.
Barning.
Yeah, well.
Well, we saw them open for Spoon, Q.
Do you remember that?
I wasn't there for that, dude.
See, that's confusing to me.
I feel like it wasn't there for that.
Okay.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't think I caught that one.
I think I only saw Spoon once in Deep Ellum.
That does not compute in my brain, Q.
We saw them several times.
You've lived there your whole, you still live close enough to go see bands in Deep Ellen.
Of course, of course.
But I'm just saying like I remember seeing Spoon with with you several times.
But maybe not.
I don't know, man.
Anyways.
Either way.
So this is a, the best way to describe their sound is almost like a, like a dream pop mixed with like Brit pop kind of sound.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That checks out, dude.
Yeah, but he's got this incredible voice and he's got the reverb tone that he gets on his guitar is like amazing.
Very clean guitar tone with just drenched in reverb, but not in like a shoegaze reverb wall of sound type thing.
More just very like I said, jangly, dreamy.
And this song has always always been a favorite of mine.
So here we go.
We're going to listen to the clientele, one of my favorite bands of all time.
I think there's just something special about them, Q.
So maybe I'm going to convert you right here right now to a clientele fan.
So this is off of their 2009 record Bonfires on the Heath.
And the song is called Harvest Time.
Back to the leaves go shivering my scared crows watch the verges of life.
I mean, but no one's there.
Harvest time through summertime.
Harvest time.
It's harvest time.
I mean, what's not to like, Traff?
That's what I've been asking.
I've been asking you for years.
I don't think you ever, okay,
I don't think you ever said you didn't like him.
You just never really connected.
It never like tickled a pickle.
Well, now your pickles's, it's getting ticked.
I mean, what needs to happen is this.
And this, hey, we preach it, Treve.
And I haven't been practicing it for this band.
Not once have I pressed play.
Come on it.
Hey, dude, that's just, that's probably what it is.
That's probably what it is.
Well, you got to listen to strange geometry, dude.
It is one of the best records of that decade.
It's so good.
Just a year before we graduated high school, dude.
Yeah, that's probably like when we saw,
that Spoon show was so I got to see them do a lot of stuff out of this record.
Here's my guest,
Trow.
Dude, it's so good, man.
I probably missed that show because I was, I probably had some freaking, like, obligation
with a girlfriend at this time or some dumb, dumb thing like that.
Classic.
That's my best guess, dude.
Yeah, that's probably, that's probably true.
Strange Geometry is one of those records that has probably been on the list of albums to cover
on No Filler since we thought about this show, dude.
And that's, it's shocking.
but probably because you were you were always like
let's just do this instead you know we just pivoted
every time I maybe brought it up but no let me ask you this
chav should that be my first listen yes
okay but they have
I don't know what's looking like six other albums
underneath that one travi you're telling me none of those are worth
me listening to as far as like
Strange geometry is a good entry point too
that's all okay okay uh and
I know for a fact that it's a no-filler record.
All right.
I'll give it a while.
Now, I'm not going to mow the lawn with this one.
But dude, there's a album, there's a track on here called Geometry of Lawns, okay?
Are you kidding me?
No.
What the fuck?
There's a track on strange geometry called Geometry of Lawns.
Okay.
So you have to listen to it while you're mowing.
See, that's the thing.
I only mow my lawn like every week and a half or two weeks.
So what's queued up then for the next one?
Um, well, it's, uh, clientele.
Paul McCartney's new album.
I haven't listened to it's new album?
Brand new album.
I didn't know that.
Just came out, dude.
It's supposed to be great.
The Boys of Dungeon Lane is what it's called.
I'm guessing it's some new, some guest singer on every single track.
Ringo Star is the only one that guests.
Okay, that's cool.
That's legit.
Because I think his last one was a, it was a collab effort, right?
Yeah, okay.
No, I've heard great things about it.
Sweet.
Okay.
That's awesome.
I got to get it in, man, because it's got to make it to invest of it.
It's a fucking Paul McCarty.
Well, that's dope.
Speaking of, dude, hey, speaking of, my next track is a Paul McCarney song.
Because.
Not off of this record?
Not off of the new one.
Okay.
So my brother-in-law, Isaiah, he's a big garage sale guy.
And he resales.
He goes to find retro games and retro consoles.
and he resells him.
Anyways,
anytime,
if he finds anything,
if he sees a box of records
that he thinks maybe
there could be some good,
he's not,
he's not really like heavy into music like me.
I've told him what to look to not,
not to buy.
Don't buy Robert Streisand,
you know,
don't buy Herb Albert and the Tijuana whatever's.
Like,
I've given him the list of like
what you're going to find at every goodwill.
Yeah,
every value village.
Yeah.
Right.
Exactly.
No,
that one,
I would love to have, actually.
That's like one of those holy grail ones.
So he brought home a box of records for me to flip through.
I just flipped through him today.
I picked, I grabbed some of them.
One of them was a very good copy of McCartney's Ram from 1971,
which has one of my favorites of his Monkbury Moon to Light.
I brought that as a song.
I remember that.
Because it sounds, dude, it sounds just like man, man.
It sounds like man, and even just,
like man man. Even the title sounds like a man man.
Totally.
Yeah, totally. And it's got some great, great songs on it.
So I put that record on earlier today just to play through it all.
I say it was hanging out with us.
So we're just going to play a song from Ram, dude.
So we're going to actually play the next song after Monk Mary Moondalight.
This one's called Eat at Home.
Yeah, man, like you were saying off mic,
he's he he might be the best songwriter of all time
guarantee you there's a lot so many people that would say
no fucking way but yeah dude I mean
as far as just prolific and just
diverse in sound and
I mean yeah
she just keeps going dude how
how many fucking songs can you have in your brain
that's what I'm saying dude
yeah and they're all
they're all
it's like it's breathing it's breathing
for him. Right. Right. And he's just a, he's just a, I mean, just a good dude. I mean, I don't,
I don't fucking know. But anytime he's, you know, and, you know, a long form interview, like,
in podcasts I listen to every now and then, he'll pop up. I think, I think he was on, like, Conan,
Conan's pod or something. He's just, he's just great. He, he still seems like the little lad from
Levitpoole. Right, right, right. Yeah, he just, he doesn't come off as pretentious. I mean, you want to talk
about somebody who, like, if anybody should have an inflated ego.
It's Paul fucking McCartney, dude.
Yeah, dude.
Hello, or even, or Ringo.
Or Ringo.
But not as much, right?
Yeah.
But, but yeah, dude.
I always love songs that are to just feel like they came out of just.
I mean, it's him and Linda just singing about fucking in bed, I think.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
It's just, sure.
But like it.
So many of his songs, dude, are just.
But I, yeah, I like the, the songs about just daily.
daily, daily joys, right?
Oh, so many of his songs are like that, man.
Yeah, songs that you can just sing.
Dude, that probably came out of them just laying around the house, man.
And he's just, and like, if you're just, if you're Paul McCartney, like, you know,
you just stumbling over all the songs around, just laying around, you know, they just come out.
Yeah, you go, let me get, let me pick that up.
Another banger.
Oops.
Yeah, another classic track.
Yeah.
Just came out where we were.
Yeah. Yeah, dude. That's a great album, dude. Ram. Fantastic album. Now, Travis, we need a 180.
Okay. I got one. Okay. I'm trying to do. Boy, do I got one. All right. I got two. So,
I'm going to stick with my original flow here. So I've been sitting on this for a couple months because I'd never, I don't know, never really made sense where to put it. But that was just good at time as any.
So as I mentioned to you, Q, have I mentioned yet that I acquired all four Pure Mood's records?
Have I mentioned that yet?
I think you've mentioned that, Trevor.
Okay.
The group, if you want to call them to a group, Enigma is behind the Return to Innocence song that everybody knows, right?
Return to Innocence.
Oh, yeah.
Hi.
Oh, huh.
Was that not?
Did I not nail it, Traff?
I feel like I'm sitting on the couch in that commercial.
That infomercial is playing right now.
Yeah.
That infomercial is on the TV right now.
That does bring me right back to the den, man.
At Southampton.
Right back to it.
Lights out.
Yes, dude.
Yeah, dude.
It's crazy.
The soft glow, dude.
And maybe space, maybe we're watching space coast coast coast to coast, dude.
that would have been in the 2000s
but yeah
I'm pretty sure
the Pyramoods commercials ran
for a long time
now I think dude
I think in between
like for the commercials
during Space Coast
I think it was Girls Gone Wild
probably you're right
Adult Swam
Adults Swam
you're right you're right
Anyway so
I picked up the record
the actual record
that this song was on
it's called
The Cross of Changes
And when you say record
you mean CD
I bought it on CD of course
Yeah
Anyway, and I'm not going to play the, there's only one reason I'm playing the song.
So we're going to skip ahead.
It's a nine minute track.
The part that I want you to listen to, your ears, if you know the song, I know if Mitchell's listening,
his ears are going to perk up on a certain part of the song and he's going to be floored in the same way that I was.
Where I was like, am I hearing what I think I'm hearing?
So does someone sample this?
Yes, there's a sample in this track that blew me clean out of my chair and out of the window.
And I was probably on the sidewalk when I first heard it.
So here we go.
This is a song by Enigma called I Love You and I'll Kill You, which is a cool name.
And I'm going to jump into like the middle.
Like I said, I'm literally playing this so we can react to the sample.
So here we go.
I mean, did they get permission from Ozzy?
I can see them not getting permission from, you know, the couple, the singers that they stole the sample from for return to innocence.
I can see them not getting permission from them and getting away with it.
But no freaking way that they don't have to give permission from Sabbath.
But yeah, if you don't know what that was, let me just play 10 seconds from Black Sabbaths, the wizard.
So I got to hear.
That's the harmonica.
a little bit.
Yeah, which is cool.
But yeah.
Well, they had to like, yeah, syncopated, whatever.
Right, right.
The beat.
So, yeah, that, that samples actually played earlier on in the track.
But I wanted to just hear that sample and then hear like that pretty cool guitar solo, which, which.
Yeah, that was cool.
Which, um, we're not expecting on an enigma.
But yeah, dude.
Wow.
You know, the 90s had this interesting, like, spiritual kind of thing going on.
That was awesome.
Oh, dude.
The new age shit, dude.
New age.
Yes.
The new age stuff, man.
And that's kind of what the Pyramids
CD series was all about
and that's what this group was all about
That's why, you know, Enigma is like
It's this one guy
His name is Michael Cretu
Probably mispronouncing that
But like he is the visionary behind it
But like he purposely
Well who's the main vocals?
Oh who knows man
He's sampling all sorts of peeps probably
Oh I thought it was a
It could be this lady here
Andreas Andreas Hardey
I think he had a
a longtime partner that he collaborated with.
Well, Return to Innocence has a female lead.
Well, he sings a lot.
Her and this guy.
It is, but Return to Innocence had that sample taken from.
Sure.
Defong and Igay DeWana,
who he just stole the stole without.
Isn't that ironic that don't you think?
Where, hang on.
Now, where is Enigma from?
America.
No, he's not from America, dude.
Okay.
He is, he is from, he's Romanian German.
I was going to say, I just think we stole enough from the Native American stage.
But no, he did, he did, they did bring a lawsuit and won, so anyway.
Okay, good.
But yeah.
Anyway, so yeah, if you like that kind of stuff, it's an interesting listen.
The Enigma Records are like that, very, very new age, interesting background music.
But yeah, dude, when I heard that, I was like, wait a gosh darn second.
Well, there's no denying it, man.
Yeah, so if you look at the Wikipedia here, he sampled songs from several artists on this record, including Vangelis, U2, Genesis, and Black Sabbath.
So he's sampling left and right, dude.
He wanted to make this, like, weird kind of cosmic project where it's like, it's this amalgamation of all sorts of musical genres and stuff like that.
it's supposed to be. That's what the
name of the project was.
And most of it was like, you know,
taken from like, anyway.
So again, that was, I'll love you, I'll kill you.
Featuring a sampled harmonica
from Black Sabbaths, the wizard,
which is the only reason I brought this track
for us to listen to.
I liked it, dude. I really liked it, actually.
Hey, it's a great track. Don't get me wrong.
But we weren't going to listen to nine minutes
just to get to that, or five minutes or whatever.
It was just good. Anyway.
All right, Q. So now we got another 180 in store.
I'm sure of it.
No, actually.
this one's going to I think this one pairs well with at least the kind of breathy the breathiness
interesting of the voice um and Travis this so um I just I totally forgot that we did this for a while
and I think we need to start doing it again trav we were doing what you heard playlists now but
now the only problem with that is I mean we're already paying for Spotify I know you are and I am
I mean, we're shitting.
We're also at the same time.
We're shit.
I know.
I know, dude.
But anyways, like, I think it was cool to have.
So we had every song that was featured on a Whatcher episode, we would turn that into its own playlist.
So each Whatcher heard episode had us on playlist so that you could quickly.
A 10 track playlist.
Correct.
I don't know why.
Why do we do that?
Why did we do that?
Dude, there's a lot of publications that do, music publications that do that kind of stuff.
Only 10 tracks, though?
doesn't seem more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, burp, dude. Yeah, but he also does that shit all the time.
Anyways, so I went back and was just listened through to some of these. I forget which one it was.
But that doesn't matter. I think it was a watch aired from a few years ago back when we were doing these playlists.
And I revisited this artist named Beauty Queen. There's a song of hers from,
an album, an EP from 2019 called This Time Around that I brought on what you heard way back then.
And hey, wouldn't you know it?
She has a new album.
And I gave it a listen all the way through.
It's a delight, dude.
A freaking delight, man.
So we're going to play the first track on the record.
This one's called Blade of Light, which is the title track.
Just like that light.
I can always count on you, I have to say something corny like that.
It just comes out, dude.
What is this shub genre, dude, of Dream Pop?
If you want to call it that.
Like, what is it?
No, because it's prevalent, man.
It has been for the last decade or so.
This is, this is like its own little, you know, a little slice of.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Because there's lots of artists that sound like that.
And this, that's not an insult.
It's not a dig.
No, no, not a dig.
I'm just saying like, what, what is it?
I'm trying to go to.
band camp to see what she calls herself.
Bedroom pop, dream pop, lofi.
Lofi.
Lofi.
Who am I thinking of, dude?
Who am I thinking of?
I mean, she kind of has like a Japanese breakfast kind of vibe.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ah, fuck, man, there's another artist.
But there's so many of them.
J-SOM.
J-SOM, yeah.
Yeah, dude.
But it's his own kind of, yeah, it's just off-shoe, because there's...
Okay, hey, dude, here's what, here's what Beauty Queen says about it.
Sleepy Girl, Slom.
Sleepy girl bedroom pop.
Okay.
Sleepy girl bedroom pop, okay?
Okay.
Sure.
Bedroom pop.
So that's what she's saying.
And I think that works.
That works.
But I was just saying I like it when I always like it when the drums are doing or like at a pace that doesn't align really with like the softness of the like a drum and bass type.
Oh, yeah.
Over a dream pop soft kind of.
Yeah.
Sleepy girl pop.
You know what I mean?
because there's like a little bit of like a juxtaposition going on that I like quite a bit
you know so yeah yeah yeah did nothing not to like about it totally great album I'm sure I'm sure
she'll find the way to the vest of for the year because I came out back in April so yeah man
pass it back to you but we got what two two more two two more each okay and boy do I have a
184 house a dad boy howdy so here we go cute get your floaties on because we're going to wade into
the the metal oh god the murky metal waters uh all right you'll be all right you'll be fine
so this group has appeared on no filler they were on the best of for 2021 mastodon dude
killer group they've always been amazing and they got a new record
coming out in 25 days as of the recording of this episode.
So it's dropping the same day as that Dinah Dinosaur Jr.
Oh, boy, is that going to be a great freaking day?
Damn.
Okay, so they've put out two singles so far from this new record called Mero Deep.
Bone marrow, Traff, so metal.
So, so metal.
So fucking metal, right?
I mean, look at this.
Dude, look at that cassette tape.
Go back down.
That looks dope.
limited edition cassette tape.
It's blue, dude.
That's cool.
It's blam.
Let me get a running into Mastodon.
Oh, man.
Yeah, it did.
So here we go.
We're going to listen to the second single here off of the record.
Came out, I think, like today.
No, sorry.
Came out a month ago.
Came out July 13th.
So here we go.
This song is called Snakes for Dinner.
Morse, dude.
You're floating right now.
ain't no one drowning over here
not like that man
and you know why
I like the harmonies
it's my line
yes
yes
now I gotta ask you something about
I gotta ask you something about
MasterDon just because I just
always ask this question
what do you think I'm gonna ask
is all of their stuff like this
no
no but I was gonna ask
is this like OG singer
or I was like
uh probably
see because they've been around forever right
they've been around for a long long time
but this yeah this is Massadon
this is but the
always sound like you.
Okay.
Now, Q, you want to know why you also probably down in the, in the, in, deep down in
your brain, a little, a little bulb was going off.
Mm-hmm.
Why is that?
Because you recognized Josh Hami was on vocals, background vocals.
Oh, no, I didn't recognize that.
Josh Homi provided.
Okay.
Okay.
For this song.
And he, because I had like three, at least three people singing during the harmonies.
Yeah.
So he's going to appear, at least they say, they say that he is.
is featured in this track only,
but I'm curious if he's going to provide any instruments.
It says here at the bottom of the Wikipedia page.
The album will feature numerous guest musicians,
including Hami, Gieser Butler of Black Sabbath,
and Randy Blythe of Lamb of God,
which, come on now.
How cool is that, dude?
Come on, Charlie.
Come on.
Come on.
We're going to have Geiser Butler, dude.
Come on.
Who?
Geiser Butler, the bass player of Black Sabbath.
Okay. Cool.
So that's cool.
Anyway, Mastodon, their new record.
Mero Deep is coming out August 27th.
Anyway, check that out.
That's going to be a great record.
They do not disappoint ever.
All right, Q, here we go, spinning and spinning.
Because you can, there will always be a 180 following,
unless you've got another pet smart up your sleeve.
No.
But speaking of snakes, Tram.
I was not going to play.
this track tonight.
But fuck it.
Rattlesnake milk, dude.
I listened to the self-titled all the way through
since we recorded that episode with Mitch.
And I just got another fucking banger, man.
I say, you know what, I throw that term around.
Too loose, a little too loosely.
Maybe you call it, call it what it is.
You know, if it's a banger, it's a banger, it's a banger.
I guess.
But what is, you know, one of the kids.
How do you use it?
the term banger, Tramph.
What's a banger to you?
Headbanger?
Does that work?
Yeah.
It's got to be like a toe tap and kind of.
Okay, well, this is, this one takes the cake, brother.
Head banging.
Totally.
It's lit.
Are they still saying?
Are they still saying?
It's lit.
It's lit.
God, never, never again.
I don't know.
Nope.
Don't do it.
So.
Rattle snake milk.
Our official first country episode on this pod was all thanks to our buddy Mitch.
He brought some tunes from this self-title from Rattlesnake Milk.
These up-and-comers, darlings in the country, in the country world.
And the southern, I guess southern, I don't know, Mitchell explains it all.
This is like a specific flavor of country.
It's not your Mississippi stuff.
It's your like South Texas country.
Whatever.
I don't know, dude.
I still got so much to learn, Sensei.
Okay, Mitch.
But anyways, dude, yeah, this one's a, I fucking love this one, dude.
Get ready for some hoot and hollering, all right?
This track is called bank robber.
Yeah, cute.
That's not a banger.
That's a barn burner.
I mean, fuck, dude.
It's so great, man.
It doesn't, yeah.
I mean, that's, it's fantastic.
I love the, uh,
I just loved, I loved the, you know, I loved all of it.
Dude, surf guitar, I mean.
Yeah, yeah.
The way the guitar is just kind of, it's like a chicken picking kind of stuff almost.
Yeah.
That's something I just pulled out of my brain from my.
Chicken picking, dude.
That's a real, that's a real guitar style, chicken picking.
Okay.
Which I think might be what we're hearing, dude.
That just came out of my brain, the depths of my brain.
Chicken picking, dude.
Where did you get that from?
I didn't make it up.
That's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a,
That where'd you get it son?
It uses hybrid picking and string popping to create a fast percussive clucking sound.
Gobbledy goop.
I mean, do anything?
Gobble, gobble.
It's a fucking turkey, bro.
God damn.
It's not turkey picking.
Fuck.
He really messed up.
Well, cockadoodle do.
There you go.
But yeah, it was fantastic, man.
That's great.
And the yodling, you know, you don't hear yodeling too much.
No, he's definitely not like that.
No.
And who doesn't like that?
Who doesn't like a good yodel?
You know?
If you hear yodeling, you're either listening to a, to a, what is it?
What is that cough drop company, dude?
Recola.
Recola.
Now, you could be watching The Price is Right.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
Damn.
Yeah, Price is Right.
Shout out Southampton.
Dinn.
Yeah, dude.
C-R-TV.
Soft glow.
all right drive i'll i'm a pass it all right i'm gonna i've got a nice just a delightful fucking treat
that we can we're about to uh climb aboard a soft fluffy cloud that sounds great man we're just
gonna we're gonna float away um i this record is just something special dude and we all know it we all
of it. We did an episode on
the cranberries a long time
ago. And it was kind of
a grab bag of
of a few records. I think I jumped around a little bit.
But we're going to go back to
their debut. Everybody else is doing it. So why can't we?
Came out in 1993. That's the year. That's
the year of this episode, dude.
Wow. So I didn't play this track on the record.
So we're going to play it now. And dude, I just
listened to this the other day all the way through. This track
just, I don't know, man.
There's just something about it, dude.
About this album or this track?
This album, but this track in particular is just so great, man.
So here we go.
All right, this is the cranberries, and this song is called Sunday.
You just sunda the same umbrella as a shit, man.
The Sundays, I mean, that Sunday's album came out.
That's the name of the song, a year.
Wow.
Came out, I think, a year before this one, blind, that album Blind by the Sundays.
It sounds very much like Lingert.
Kameitra. It does.
I mean, is that not on the same album or is it?
It is, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, it does.
But, you know, it does some different things.
I like it.
I mean, you can't not like it.
It's the fucking cranberries, dude.
Yeah, man.
I mean, she's just, I mean, what a standout vocalist, man.
Totally.
Zombie gives me the chills every time I hear it.
A lot of their music just, yeah, man.
I mean, I know that we tossed this term around Lucy Ging.
do it. Just drop it again, dude. Drop it. Pick it up.
It just has very haunting locals, you know.
Very.
And that's the thing. Some of the tracks we played, we played this song called Pretty,
which is actually the very next track on the record.
And, man, the way she punctuated, she does the same thing where it's like soft,
and then she does a really loud sort of like, you know, she brings in sort of the Irish,
you know, folklore-type scene quality that just made them so different.
and like special.
But yeah, man.
What in a phenomenal record.
That's a,
that's a no-fieler record for sure, man.
And dreams and linger are some of the defining tracks of that decade, you know.
So linger for sure.
Totally.
Oh, for sure.
One billion, dude.
You know, a billion and 400, somehow thousand change plays on Spotify.
Yeah, that's bananas, dude.
Yeah.
B-A-N.
A-N.
A-N.
Yes.
All right, man.
So anyway, that was Sunday by the cranberries.
And where are we going for our last pick here, Q?
All right, man.
So I'm bringing up Wishy again.
We're not playing another Wishy song.
You son of a.
No, no, no, no.
Listen, okay.
Okay.
So last month, I brought that new song, All the Raged by Wishy.
And I quoted the singer, don't have his name, Kevin, Kevin Crowder,
quoted him as saying, that major inspo from these two,
bands, Artificial Go and Good Flying Birds. He saw them play a show. And that was some inspiration
for the sound, I guess, and that all the rage single. So anyways, I obviously, dude, I went back
and listened to those bands. And I'm bringing a song from Good Flying Birds off of an album
that came out last year called Tallulah's Tape. And yeah, man, here we go. This one's called
Every Day is Another.
classic twee right there cue
classic tweet there it is
I love it that's now that
to me that's bedroom pop
in my that is oh yeah and that's because
it sounds very DIY and that's
yeah that's what I think of that's
why I think of that
yeah that's gotta be where
yeah you're right dude bedroom pop
hello but I think bedroom though also
tended to at least
in like the in 2009
early 2010 it was washed out
yeah it was like it was like so
artists making music on their on their laptops in their room yes they could have maybe something like
an eight track yeah yeah right yeah so anyway but i don't know i yeah i tend to yeah that's why
probably why um beauty queen used the term lofi too because that's another way to describe that kind of
sound yeah like the DIY sound but um yeah man that was great well well they call it they call themselves
midwest jangle noise pop jangle there you go jangle there it is dude twee and jangle good flying birds
at AOL.com, Trev.
Bullshit.
Hey, dude.
That's what it says, right here.
What is AOL not, can you not get an email?
I didn't think you could give an AOL email address anymore.
I don't know.
Maybe so, maybe so.
Maybe they've been around since that.
But yeah, you don't do that without intent.
You know what I mean?
Right.
They're speaking to our generation.
Totally.
Because we all had AOL email addresses back.
Well, either that or Yahoo.
I also had a Hotmail at some point.
Remember Hotmail?
I still have Hotmail, dude.
Do you really?
Yeah, I do.
I still have it.
I still have it.
I still have my main email.
Dude.
So you log into Hotmail?
No, if you type in Hotmail, I'll come at direction, redirect you to Outlook.
Oh, okay.
But I still have my email domain from at Hotmail.
Got it.
I've had it for that long.
Yeah, yeah, love the track.
I totally see the major inspo.
Yeah, sure.
That would be.
Sorry, I'm distracted.
Of course, you are.
You're coding with Claude at the same fucking time.
Not coding with Claude.
Not coding with Claude.
I'm deriving Instagram.
I'm even worse.
Dude, you are, you terrible, man.
You're worse than the fucking boomers, man.
Well, I usually pull up, like, whatever band we're talking about.
Sure.
And then I just get a little sign track.
Uh-huh.
But, yes, of course, dude.
I mean, look at that.
They even look like they're playing a house show in that video right there.
I mean, that's a house show for sure.
but um yeah look at these picks man look at those boys look at the house dude look at them
this just makes me happy dude look at these young whippersnappers dude these wippersnappers dude they gotta be
in their early they gotta be in their early 20s man oh 100% yeah dude dude
love it yeah love it i hope that um kids are all right kids are all right yeah kids are all right
i hope the train continues man i think it will i think there's going to be a huge i think ronan's
generation is going to give a huge fucking middle finger to all things like automated and you're
probably right really dude and i think they're going to i think that's they're going to be a huge
uh you think about desire to own physical things again yeah think about this man like you know
when you're a kid and you're a teenager especially like he whatever your parents are doing
you don't want to do it you know what i mean you don't want to do that right that's that's lame
technology, social media,
to think that social media could be considered something for the last generation,
the last generation did that.
Our generation is not doing that.
I could see that happen.
I mean, Facebook was basically taken over by boomers anyway.
Yes.
That's their, you know, that's their social media network.
I'm just saying, I can imagine perhaps Gen A, Gen Alpha, which I guess is your kids.
Oh, dude.
Just being like, just fuck.
all of it. River just made it under. She was almost going to be in Generation Beta. She would have been
a different generation than her brother. But I'm just looking at that right now. Generation Alpha is 2013 to
2025. Okay. Anyway, yeah. I'll, dude, I'll welcome it, man. Exactly. And then I'll just be tech
support for the rest of my life because they won't know how to do anything. Do you know that technically
millennials are Generation Y? Yes, of course. Gen Y. I didn't know that. Well, yeah, dude. Which one
came after us, Gen Z.
And which one came before?
It's Gen X.
That's how it works.
Just nobody ever called this Gen Y.
We're like, you know, we're just millennials, man.
Anyway.
So then after beta is going to be, what, Zeta?
Alpha Beta Zeta.
I guess so.
Yeah, they're just called Gen Z.
Kappa.
Anyway.
Yeah, man.
Good times.
It's a good song to close.
How are we going to wrap it up, dude?
We could do another ace of bass song, dude.
And he's fucking for a...
Oh, you're that.
I thought you were frozen, dude.
You were not moving a single muscle.
All right.
Well, that'll do it for this month's.
What you heard.
And I'm stoked about our next deep dive queue.
I've been talking about it.
I wanted us to record the deep dive before we recorded this one.
That's how I was how eager I was to share these tunes of you.
We're going to be talking about a group called Days of the New.
We're going to talk about their 1997 self-titled record.
And I'm stoked, dude.
It's this very, very unique blend, perfect,
the perfect harmony of grunge and country.
Southern, Southern.
I don't want to say country necessarily.
Hey, now.
So this is going to be all over.
and rock kind of situation with very, very incredible harmonizing that kind of is reminiscent
of Allison Chains, harmonizing.
But anyway, that's going to be good times.
So that'll be our next deep dive.
But until then, check us out on the Pantheon podcast network.
If you want to subscribe to their main feed, then you'll get our episodes and all the other
episodes under their network.
Find this anywhere else besides Spotify.
because with Spotify, it is not a guarantee that our new episodes will stay up.
And the majority of our back catalog was wiped off of Spotify.
That's been that.
I still can't believe it, dude.
I really can't.
Maybe they'll flip a fucking switch and they'll just be back suddenly.
I cannot believe it.
Yeah, right now they're not there.
So anyway, find us somewhere else and subscribe to us there.
And yeah, we're going to close out with another.
Ace of Bass
Tracks,
I'll hand it to
you Q to cue that up.
Yeah, man.
So me and you,
all we knew
were the singles,
right,
from,
uh,
ace of bass.
Don't turn around.
I mean,
some absolute
chart hoppers,
dude,
chart toppers,
dude.
Um,
but there's some other
hidden gems,
man,
and that's what we preach
on this pod.
Day and night,
dude.
Uh,
this one's called,
we're going to fade out
with,
with another track off of the sign.
called Vulevue
Dancer. I hope I said that right.
Sure sounds like that's how she says it in the song.
So that's going to do it for us today.
Tune in next month for
what's the name? Trees of Life or whatever.
What's the name of the new?
Days of the Night.
Oh, because of the tree on there.
They have trees on that.
Yeah.
Tune in next month for our deep dive on Days of the New.
Until then, thank you.
As always, for listening.
My name's Quentin, and I'm Travis.
You know, take care.
