No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard: The Softies and The Sundays Edition

Episode Date: October 20, 2024

Tracklist: The Cure - Alone Catherine Wheel - Receive Adorable - Sunshine Smile Makeup And Vanity Set - 360P Jon & Vangelis - I Hear You Now Staflyer 59 - Second Space Song Alex Albrecht pres. Melquíades - The Blacksmith Air Miami - Bubble Shield The Softies - Hello Rain Seam - Bunch The Sundays - Life Goes On Air Miami - World Cup Fever This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This song is called Alone. Amazing, man. I wasn't expecting to hear a new Cure song. 16 years, Jeff. This is the first new song in 16 years? In 16 years. First album in 16 years. And this is the opening track off the record,

which is not out yet. They're just teasing with this, the opening track. I mean, he's lended himself to many, project, I think, over the years. Like, you know, he showed up on Blink 22's self-titled, remember? Oh, yeah. That was probably, that might have been

long than 16 years ago, too. Yeah, maybe longer, actually. But, yeah, that's great. Man, dude, the lyrics, too. What a great. I know, dude. The lyrics are great for the first new song from, you know,

a veteran new wave band, you know, this is the end of every song that we sing. That's kind of interesting, right? you know i kind of it's it sounds like they're singing about like you know the end and like reflecting back on what we have been you know stuff like that it's interesting yeah yeah dude what a beautiful you don't talk about a runway yeah and seriously that was that was that was literally halfway through the track before we heard him seeing but that's i i like that it's like hey man we're back let's let's

ease you back into this year and it's like whoa he sounds exactly the same sounds incredible yeah man that's i'm so excited you know i feel like we've We've heard so many shoegays veterans put out new records over the last few years. It's nice to see the, yeah, slow dive, drop 19s. There's been a bunch, dude. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's exciting, man. But it's nice to see the, you know, the new wave.

The new wave bands coming around. So, yeah, that is how we're going to kick things off for this installment of our What You heard episodes where we're bringing five tracks each, our monthly mixtape, as we like to call it. And Travis, I'm going to let you kick things off. What'd you got? I got a great track to follow that one. So, Q, you reached out to me a couple days ago and said that you were listening to Catherine Wheel. He went back and listened to... Ferment? You went back and listened to Ferment and you listened to Chrome, right? Freaking solid records, man. Yes, we covered, we did a whole episode on Chrome, and we actually played a couple tracks from Mint on that episode as well.

So go back, you know, a couple years in our feed, and you'll see that episode. But one thing I haven't really done was listen to the album that came out after Chrome. And so I went back and skimmed through a little bit of it, found a pretty great track. So, like, you know, if you're familiar with Catherine Will, you know that they actually kind of did this interesting thing where they sort of merged. Like if you go and listen to Ferment, it's this interesting mixture of, you know, it's Shugaze with a little bit of kind of like a new wave vocal flare to it. And maybe that's just because he's British, the lead singer.

And then Chrome comes out and it's like Shoegays plus Grunge, right? So by the time their next record came out, which is called Happy Days, came out in 1995, they're like more fully into like the hard rock grunge stuff like they don't even have this record doesn't even have the shoe gaze label on it right so if you like Catherine wheel because of like the shoe gaze elements that they throw in like that's kind of gone by the time you get to this record but that doesn't mean that there's not some some great tracks on here right so here we go this is Catherine wheel which is one of my favorite bands from the 90s and this is off their 1995 record Happy Days. This song is called Receive.

And they should have been more popular, dude. That should have been a huge hit in the 90s. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah, man, there's just one of those examples of a really good band just getting overshadowed for probably no fault of their own. Maybe it was a record label thing. Who knows?

But, I mean, if you think about, you know, 95, like in the U.S. or whatever, like, I mean, they're competing with the best of the best. in terms of grunge at that point. So you can kind of see how it would get just lost in, you know, we were just awash with grunge dude at that point. And I was thinking that particular flavor of grunge and his voice even sounds a lot like Bush. Dude, yeah. And 16 Stone came out like the previous year. Yeah, for sure.

So, like, you know, I'm thinking in the U.S., it's like, man, we only got room for one British grunge band here in the U.S. and it's Bush right now. So sorry, Catherine Wheel. You're going to have to take a back seat. This was like the end for them, basically. I think Chrome, they got some success, but it sounds like they kind of tapered off around this time. But, again, it's just like, you know, some solid tunes on here.

And it sounds more like the grunge you'd hear on the radio nonstop in the 90s, right? So that's what I liked about Catherine Wheel was that they blended grunge with shoegaze in a really awesome way on Chrome. So, you know, in a way, this album isn't what I like about Catherine Wheel, but I can still appreciate the music, you know, like I just really like him as a vocalist, Rob Dickinson. His voice is great, yeah. He's got a great voice. You know, I feel like it's just one of those things.

It's like, oh, you know, I love Catherine Wheel. I got to check out their whole discography, so I'll get there eventually. But anyway, Happy Days 1995. That song was called Reason. And I'm going to throw out to you, Q, when you got for your first pick. All right, so this band, I remember seeing while we were recording our last episode on Kitchens of Destruction, oh, districting. Kitchens of distinction.

I can't remember what, like, this was just like some pocket of bands that had like a name thrown on them. I think it had to do with the label they were on. I can't find it now that I'm looking into this band. But I remember seeing this band in like the, you know, the group of, artists and I just clicked on it because I'd never heard him. The band's called Adorable and they were only active for like four years from 1990 to 94. And they are, you know, just another shoe gaze band trap. There we go.

So it says here, the band's wall of shimmering riffs drew comparisons to shoegazer icons such as My Bloody Valentine and Ride. However, their most noticeable influence was Echo and the Bunnyman. There's some new way for you. Yeah, exactly, dude. So anyways, here we go, Jeff. Adorable song is called Sunshine Smile. Especially for like a first release. Yeah, like, hey, this is what we're all about.

It's interesting that you can't, there's nothing on Spotify, at least. Like, that's the only track on Spotify. It appears on some compilation record. A compilation record, yeah. I don't know if this is all, yeah, who knows what this is, dude, like, if this is even, like, legit, yeah. Legit, yeah. I mean, I haven't, I haven't heard of most of these records, these artists here on this compilation,

so that's interesting. We're all about those forgotten gems, Q. Yeah, so that was adorable, wasn't it? And, I'm going to pass it back to you, what you got. All right, cute, it's time for a 180, my friend. surely this artist has showed up on this on this podcast at least once. And I'm not sure how familiar you are with this guy, Q. He is a synth wave producer that goes by the name Makeup and Vanity Set.

Can't say that I... That's a name that you'd remember, Q. Right. So anyway, he's definitely up there with, at least in my opinion, with the Kivinsky's and the perterbaters and all like they're really well-me- Say that again? What was the second one that you said? Perter-bator? I think that's how you pronounce it.

I have no. Let me see, let me see that, please. Let me see the word. Perter-bator? Perter-bator, dude. I don't know about that, man. I just want to see it on paper so that I can laugh when it's like paper.

You know, on the screen, on screen. Okay, God. Perter- I mean, I don't know, dude. How do you even spell that? Pertorbator? Pertor. Pertor.

Pertorbator. Did you? Perterbator. There's a good, dude. I fucking do it. Oh. Perterbator. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. Wow. I guess I've never heard of this before. 31 million plays, dude. He's very popular. Anyway, like I said, a carpenter brute. You've heard a carpenter brute, right? What?

Power glove? All right, whatever. If you're familiar with synthwave, those are the heavy hitters, right? I put Makeup Advantage set up there. In fact, I think he's more talented than those other guys because he has a wide, wide range. And if you look at his releases,

he's got video game soundtracks that he's scored. He's got movies that he scored. He's got like little television shows that he scored, like little mini-series and stuff that he scored. So anyway, and this is proving the point. So like this record that he put out this year, It wasn't good enough to make it in my best of. But it's drum and bass, like big time drum and bass.

Like Amin Tobin style? Yeah. Which is like far from synth wave, right? So anyway, this is just a little seven track, a little record that he put out. Dude, super prolific. So anyway, again, this is makeup and vanity set. His actual name is Matthew Pusty. I'm not even going to try.

But he's from Nashville, which is interesting. You don't really think Nashville and Synthwave. You know what I'm saying? Definitely not. So here we go. This, again, is a make-up advantage set. This song is called 360P. So drum and bass can be a little bit much sometimes, but that was done right.

You got a fine line. That was really good. I liked that. I liked where he was going with that. And it got intense, but in a good way. Sometimes you've got a little D&B in your life. I'm not talking about Dave and Busters. Okay.

About drum and bass. When it's done right, like you said, Q, it is, you know, sometimes it hits the spot. You got to be in the right mindset for it. Because, yeah, you know, you're not putting that on for like, you know, I'm going to just kind of relax a little bit. You know what I mean? Right. That's like, you know, I don't know. Maybe, you remember you used to talk about music that you would mow the lawn to?

Is that mow the lawn music? I don't know, man. You, dude, you'd be done like that if you're mulled the lawn. on to that music. I don't even know if I would work out with that music. So what do we do with this music here? Okay. That's a clean. That's got, that's clean the house. That's deep clean the house. That's deep clean. Okay. Deep clean the house. That's deep clean. There you go. That's when you, it's when you're trying to get like down to the baseboards cleaning. Mm. Mm-hmm. Yep. You got to keep up with the tempo. You know, exactly. So again, that was 360P by makeup of vanity set off of his new record

digy res and i'm going to pass it back to you queue i'm guessing we're going to do another 180 from that i'd say so yeah but um man i'm excited to show this song with dvado i show this song i can't wait to show the song to you dude i can't want to show your ears this song um we were off the mic we were talking about uh the show that is on max called fired on Mars. It's an awesome animated series. Luke Wilson's the main voice actor on the show. I think he produces it. Great show about this, I guess, colony of humans that have settled on Mars. And the music on there is freaking great, dude. The, like the original score is awesome. They bring a lot of great, like, 80s songs in there. One of them being, now this is news to me, dude.

I was not aware about this group, but the duo is called John and Van Galis. Oh, Vangelis? As in Vangelis, Vangelis? Probably. Holy. No, hang on, dude. Now, hang on. John Anderson from yes?

Mm-hmm. And Vangelis? Yes, but guess what, dude. I just searched how to pronounce it, and it's Vangelis. Okay. Well, that's fine. I was too excited to pronounce it correctly. But, yeah, so tell.

me, so tell me what you know about Van Gales, Traff. He scored the Blade Runner soundtrack, dude. All right, brother. Well, you're going to love this. John, John Anderson, dude, aka the lead singer from Yes. This is a fucking big deal, dude. Yeah. And the scene that this song plays through is just great.

Like, it's a small group of like scientists, I'm not going to spoil anything, that are just basically going out on the surface of Mars to do some tests. So like, hold on a second, man. I'm still trying to process that the lead singer of Yes. And Van Gellas put out a record together. Yeah. Apparently. The fuck.

Vangelis auditioned to be Rick Wakeman's replacement as the keyboardist in yes. But apparently he, I forgot where I read that, but he didn't, he didn't make the cut. But him and John started making music together. You know what, man? If he was just torn with yes, he might not have done the Blade Runner soundtrack. So I'll take it. It says the role is given to Patrick Moraz instead. So Patrick, who?

Nobody playing. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, man. So yeah, picture of the small little like Mars rover car with scientists heading out on the surface of Mars. And this is the song that's playing as it's kind of like, you know, you get to like the landscape of Mars and everything. driving through it. I feel like I can, I feel like I'm watching the show right now, dude, the way you just described it. Here we go. All right. I'm hyping it up. The song is called

I Hear You Now. It's a good thing I was said damn cue. It's like great, man. Amazing. Um, yeah, of course that's John Anderson, right? Nobody else can sound like that. Right. Amazing. His vocals, man, what a, what a, what a, I'm not up to get my, my yes records out, Q, after that. I know, man. I just want to spend some more time with that voice.

There's no voice like John Anderson's. Mm-hmm. And the lyrics are great, too, man. And the lyrics, I mean, they're just great for, like, the thought of, like, venturing out onto the surface of Mars. Sure. You know, with the colony of human beings. Our love will be free.

I'm, I'm free as a bird right now. After all of a sudden, then, there is only us. We can make it right. Yeah, man. And who would have thought it'd show up on a goofy animated cartoon about Mars? I don't know if goofy's right. We're having them watched it yet, so I can't. Yeah.

It's definitely a funny series, but it's very serious, too. There's lots of serious moments in it. Cool. Anyways, man. Yeah, John Van Gales, short stories is the album. The song, I Hear You Now. pass it back to you, Traff. Another 180 probably. Yeah, I'd like to know how you expect me to follow that. You know what? I thought about saving it until the end of the episode, but I didn't want to wait that long.

Oh, well. I mean, I've got a good, I got a good track. I mean, in terms of like, on the scale of John Anderson and Van Gales, in terms of, like, talent, these guys are like way over here, you know? not under the same building. But this is an interesting group. They're called Starflyer 59. Oh, I've heard of them. Probably because I talked about them leading up to this, because I think I teased it as a deep dive. Anyway, they put on a new record back in August,

and that's how they came on my radar because I heard them get mentioned in the shoegaze subreddit. Now, I don't think they're shoegaze, but I can perhaps see why the label gets tossed around. but what's interesting about them, Q, is that they are one of the very first bands signed to tooth and nail records. Hey now, talk about a throwback to,

I guess maybe we were off recording, we were talking about music from our youth, but, dude, we listened to a lot of bands on that record label. May, Amberlin, me without you. Yeah, we've covered a few bands from them. So they were signed in 1993. And because they were signed to Duton Nail, they get the Christian Rocket label thrown on them as well.

Which is funny because the track I'm bringing, I think he does say the name Jesus in this track. But anyway, so we're going to play a track off of their, I think we're jumping a few records into their. Nope, this is their first record. All right. So this album came out in 1994. It's called silver And this song It's called

Second Space Song The effects song. The effects on that guitar What is that like Arpegating? I don't know. I don't know. Guitar pedal and stuff, dude.

Are you trying to say arpeggio? Yeah, yeah. Oscillating. Low. It's probably like a... Trimolo. Trimolo. That's the word.

There's a lot going on with that, with that guitar tone. Could have been a, could have been a phaser pedal. I like that, dude. His voice kind of gave me some deaf tones vibes. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, it's a good call. So like, yeah, the soft. It's kind of just like whispering almost.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. But yeah, interesting stuff. And they put out, so, you know, that record was called Silver. they then put out a record called Gold, which is their next record. So I was going to bring a couple of tracks, a few tracks from both of those records. And the sound changed a little bit

between silver and gold in an interesting way. But yeah, just one of those groups. They just put out a new record too, like I said. So there's brand new music from them that's pretty interesting. So yeah, check them out. They're called Starfire 59. That song was called Second Space Song for their 1994 record, Silver. And I'll throw it back to you, Q, where are we going from here?

Are you going to drop another bombshell on me? Maybe, dude. Okay, so I don't know what the deal is with this guy's name. So apologies here. I think his name is just Alex Albrecht. I'll break? Something like that. I've heard.

I feel like I've heard that name before. But this album is, he goes by Alex Albreak, Prez Melchiandes, and Prez is abbreviated. I don't freaking know, dude. Alex Albrecht, let's just go with that. He is a, he blends in like jazz structures with electronic music, very much down tempo stuff, you know, our wheelhouse, our vibes. You're going to like this a lot, dude. So this is an album of his called Coles Ridge that came on 2023.

This song is called The Blacksmith. That's speaking my language, dude. That's how you build layers, dude. That is how it's done. Yeah, really good. Perfect. Dude, let me tell you. Let me paint a picture for you because, you know, we've talked about this before with,

I don't know if you want to call this down to Bo, but IDM, whatever you want to call it, but like it's really good at sort of like conjuring up images, right? imagery. To me, have you ever been at staying in a hotel or something like that or maybe you're, you know, your downtown or something like that? And you can hear the faint like bass drum from like a club or something like that, but you can't hear the music. That bass was so deep and then that piano was so like separate from it that it almost

sounded like I was imagining like I'm in a hotel listening to some like nice jazz piano and the hotel is on you know is above a nightclub or something like that you can hear you know what I mean yeah that's just I love it because I like the juxtaposition of of that bass drum that constant bass drum and the very very nice classical piano and then that um I like that snare hit though it's like yes it's almost like he's like oh wait I probably should hit the snare again boom because like it would If you'd forget that it would come, it was coming again. I think it was actually on a beat the whole time. Like, you know, I think it was in time throughout the song,

but it was just like so spread out that you almost forgot about it. Yeah. And that's kind of like a dub, dub, not dub step, but like dub, you know, like the kind of stuff that Thevery Corporation or Toscar and bands like that sort of like incorporate that like dub music into the mix. But yeah, that was solid, dude, and definitely queuing that up later. Yeah, the whole album's good.

I just pushed all the right buttons for me. I thought you'd like that. All right. Pass it back to you, brother. Why do you keep doing this to me, dude? Because I'm just, I'm one note today, dude. I mean, this is, this is, the songs that I'm closing out with are very much in the same, like, vein. So the next two songs?

Yeah. Are in the same vein as what you just played? No. But I'm saying they're very similar. Okay, got you. Yeah. Okay, well, I mean, this is fine because, like, you know, this provides the 180 that we like to do on this podcast.

You know, you're going to get a wide variety of tunes on our what-you-heard episodes. But here's another mid-90s rock band for you. So another band never heard of. Just stumbled on this record somehow. Probably and some artists you should listen to if you like X, you know, band. Mm-hmm. This band is called Air Miami. I was intrigued by the album art, as sometimes that's all you need is to get pulled in by the album art.

So Mark Robinson and Bridget Cross, this is a new wave-inspired sheen. Hold on. Let me just read this sentence. As Air Miami, Mark Robinson and Bridget Cross added a new wave-inspired sheen and experimental textures to the elliptical pop they pioneered with unrest so they're in they're in this other group called unrest and I've never listened to them either so I'm going to have to cue them up next but they've got this really interesting kind of dual vocal back and forth which I really like I love it when when a male and a female vocalist trade back and forth I love that dude or you know

one of them will take one track the next or the other one will take the next track or they'll both sing on the same track. But this, I don't know, this, this, this album sounded kind of ahead of its time when I heard it. It sounded like a lot of that kind of indie bedroom pop type stuff that we listen to in the, in the, back in our music blog heydays back like 2010s and whatnot. So anyway, this record is called me, me, me. And this song is called Bubble Shield. How'd you know, dude, that I have been super into music like that lately?

Really? That pushed all the right buttons in a good way. But it's getting pushed all over the buttons. In a good way. Because doesn't that mean like if you're pushing someone's buttons, you're annoying them? That's not what I mean at all. I guess so, I guess so. But that was, man, I love it, dude.

Love it. 1995, Q. So we'd like to talk about this too a lot. The 90s rock that we were exposed to was the stuff you're on the radio. there's no chance in how we'd ever hear something like this, man. And that's why I love discovering this stuff later in life because, like, this is such an obscure... We wouldn't have appreciated it anyways, dude. Yeah, we might not have appreciated it.

If it was on the radio, I don't think we would have been into it. But this song could have come out this year, dude. Yeah. It sounds, it's timeless, right? That sounds like it could have been, it could have come out. You know, if it was tweaked a little bit, it could have been a freaking 60s song or something. I don't know. It's very simple.

song. Yeah, yeah. But like, you know, just solid, dude. And the record is actually kind of varied. It's not, it doesn't all sound like that. There's some interesting things on here. I might even, if we don't have anything to close us out on, I might close us with another song of this record. That was very, very different. So we'll see. I'll have to pull up Instagram and see if anybody messaged us before we end the episode. Um, but anyway, all right, Q, back at you. All right, so shout out to Pitchfork for, or shout out to, I don't know, Google Algorithms for bringing a pitchfork article my way about a brand new album from this group, who I've never heard of. They're called The Softies. Have you heard of the Softies?

Man, that's ringing bells, dude. Rose Melberg and Jen Sabrasia, who dropped like, I don't know, three, maybe three albums in 95 and 97. and that's all they've done since then. But they dropped a new album, first studio album in 24 years. Here's the funny thing. I'm not bringing a song from the new album. But I just wanted to tee that up because I had never heard of this group, and they showed up on my radar because they released a new album this year.

And I'm bringing one of their new songs to the best of. But this album also came out in 95 Tramp. I think I know the title for this episode, Q. What? The mid-90s episode. Oh, the mid-nine years edition. You can do better than that. Fine, I will do better than that.

You just wait and see. When we were nine years old. Wait. No, no, no, no. This is why. The when we were eight years old episode. This is why I come up with the titles. All right.

So they dropped an album called It's Love in 1995. I'm going to bring the first track off the record. This is just Feel Good Tunes. man. I just, this music reminds me of Kings of Convenience. That kind of like just pretty music. Here we go. This song is called Hello Rain. I know. Tis all from you from crazy. Goodbye machine.

I don't know how much I'd get to hear Kings of Convenience to cover that. I know. You are so right, man. Yeah, right, yeah. They would do that perfectly. I know, dude. It's really spot on. They do it, yeah.

Yeah. And let me tell you, dude, 24 years go by, and they drop a new album this year, and it's just more the same. Wow. It's really great, dude. And I kind of, I don't know. I'm sure most people are just going to go out and listen to the new album. Sure. Right now, which I'm not going to stop you.

But I'm going to bring one of the songs from the new album. Awesome. On our best of because it's great, dude. And like, how did I miss this group? You know? Dude, it's easy, man. How does it take just a random pitchfork or how does it take them releasing a new album so that it gets thrown into my news feed?

That's why you're hearing it right? Because they're... No, I know, but like, why didn't I hear... Dude, we ask that, we ask that question all the time, dude. But that's that beauty of being a music lover, man. There's just no way we would have ever heard this stuff. in 1999 or 95 5 Travis

what does it say 1990 right there did what you're talking about oh that says 95 yes I got really bad eyes did I would put that album art on my wall dude I know that album art's really cool man

like line art look at their new album art man I freaking love it look at this dude it's character of them obviously they don't look like that yeah they do they look exactly like that

I can exactly like that. I can exactly like it. Anyways, man. Yeah, so this, I love this sentence here. The softies comprised of Rose Milberg and Jen Subrasia embodied timeless themes of friendship and self-discovery through their minimalist pop sound world. Well, Trave, we got two more.

One each. Yes. And yeah, I'm excited to share this one with you, dude. And depending on how, How closely you follow this guy on YouTube. You may have seen this too, but you actually introduce me to this guy. He's a YouTube reactor guy named Jacob Givens. You show me this video of him reacting to mayonnaise.

Remember this guy? Oh, yeah. That guy's great, dude. Yeah. So I follow him pretty closely because he puts out these shorts on YouTube. Yeah, that's right. And possibly Instagram and TikTok, wherever he's at. Yeah.

But he's got a whole series on 90s treasures, which is what we're all about around here. But he did a pretty funny reaction video. I guess you can call him reaction. Basically, he's pretending like he's listening to a 90s song for the first time and like- They're pretty great. Sharing it with a friend, right? Yeah, yeah. But he plays the friend as well.

So he goes back and forth and kind of, anyway, with mayonnaise, like, you know that famous part in mayonnaise where the guitar kind of squeals a little bit? Mm-hmm. Which, by the way, dude, I just found out that that was because the guitar was malfunctioning. That was not for a purpose. I heard that too. We must have stumbled upon that.

It was an interview. Yeah, I saw that as well. What's it in, Billy Gibbons? And they left it in, Billy Corgan. Billy Corgan, yeah. Yeah, they left it in. Because, like, if he wasn't, if he wasn't, like, I don't know,

holding it a certain way or something, it would, it would, like, do that little scream that it does or whatever. Right. I don't know how it's describe it. You remember the story about how his guitar was stolen? but that guitar was like crucial to the sound of um of gish i think uh anyway and then like years later somebody realized that they had his guitar uh and like they returned it to him and stuff anyway

but we're not talking about smash republicanski we're talking about a band called seam and can you take a guess what year it came out Q 95 nope no no 1993, but pretty much every, dude, all but one of my tracks, this episode was between the years of 93 and 95. So this song was, you know, this guy, Jacob Givens, he did a little video on it. It's basically him just like sharing the song with his audience and sort of reacting to it. So here I am sharing it with you all, and here we are about to react to it. This band is called Seam. The record is the problem with me. And this song is called Bunch. I know. This dude, this record is incredible. The entire thing is great. Never heard. Yeah. You, you, I mean,

I know we say this all the time, dude. And you've got people making whole YouTube channels devoted. I mean, he doesn't, he does a lot more than just those React and read, they're like, devoted to sharing 90s treasures because it's a never dude it's a bottomless pit and it's pretty amazing amazing rock bands records styles it just split into so many different variants it's amazing rock man and that's like that's when it happened man that's second wave emo stuff right there so that's like 97 you said 93 uh they're from chicago but that's like that is that's email right right So, like, that's, that sound of, like, Midwest emo. I like that drumbeat, dude.

Yeah. Really like the drumbeat. But yeah, man. You just, you just, yeah, you mean. So enough time on this earth to listen to all the great 90s rock bands out there. And that's why you turn into no filler. That's right. All right, Q.

How are we going to close us out? All right. I'm going to pull the curtain back a little bit again, Travis. because all right, here I got about to get roasted. You owe one of my favorite bands an apology. And so here's what we do. Okay. Every now and then, I'll play a song or Travis will play a song.

And the other person will just despise. They will be in disgust by what they heard, that we will, decide, okay, you know what, off the mic, let's pick another song, pretend like that never happened. Because we like to, for the most part, bring good vibes and bring songs that we both enjoy. Exactly. We want, we want this to be, this is not a podcast about tearing down bands, right? So I'm not going to poo poo on a band that you like. I will do it, but we're not going to keep it in. Exactly. If you bring in a band to me that you're really into, I'm not going to poop. I'm not going to shit all over it because chances are somebody else out there likes it.

And so like, why put it out there if it's just going to be one person dumping on it? But yeah, so let me finish the story here so I can take responsibility, Q. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. So this band that you're going to bring, we've done an episode on this album, by the way. No, no, not on this album. Okay, all right, all right. We've done an episode on this group. Yeah, you're right.

We did an episode on Blind. So we're going from the softies to the Sundays. But yes, so for whatever reason, dude, and let me tell you why I remember, because I reached out to you, I went back and I listened to it again. And I was like, I was wrong, dude. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for it. Or maybe it was like I listened to it with my, you know, listening. When we do this through Zoom, like I think some of the audio quality gets lost. For sure.

Because I'm listening to your shared sound from your computer. Yes. Zoom. Like it's not got the highest quality. So like I went back and listened to it on my own and I was paying attention to it and I really enjoyed it. So I have to take back all the nasty things I said that never aired. So nobody else heard it. But here we go, dude.

I'm ready to react to it again. Yeah. And yeah. So I'm excited to bring it again and share it on No Filler. So yeah, the album that we have covered by the Sundays is an album called Blind that came out in 92. And this is just a, I mean, just to feel good. Like, I think the name, the title of the episode, we named it like, warm blanket or something, because that's how it feels when you listen to the Sundays.

Yeah. And recently, they released on the streaming platforms, this EP from 97 called Cry, that as far as I know, wasn't like widespread released. I think maybe in the UK, maybe it's, you know, more available. But anyways, this is, so this is music that I, I haven't heard from the Sundays yet. The song is called Life Goes On. And you don't like it again?

No, no, no, no. I'm just trying to. Man, uh, let me just say it. Your reaction to it, the first time around, I was flabbergasted. I don't think I've ever been flabbergasted in my whole life. I thought you were going to rage quit. My jaw was on the floor in disbelief, dude. I think you said you should, what?

Like five times in a row. I have the recording. It's just such a beautiful song, dude. It is. It's the Sundays. Come on. Let me, let me, let me tell you, let me tell you what I think my initial reaction was, and then like my brain just like shut off, was that I just,

I got a hint of twang. Wow, dude, just a hint. I know. And I just got a hint of twang. Yeah, yeah. It's a little bit twangy, my brain went into like, I don't like twang, and so I'm just going to not even like this song. But then I allowed myself, and I'm telling you, headphones help at a proper volume.

So, like, I don't blast my eardrums off, like on this, during this podcast recording, like I have a little bit lower. But, like, listening to it at a proper volume with nice headphones really, really, like, contributes to the effect of this of the song. Her vocals are gorgeous. like beautiful, beautiful vocals. The lyrics are very. Yes, you can feel the pain in her voice and stuff like that.

The lyrics are great. Yeah, it's a great song. And you know what? I kind of, you know, it's not a country song. And so I think the twing is kind of interesting. She has that she could be a country singer if she wanted to. I think so, yeah. She's got that country twang to her voice.

How many times have I got to say twang? Just say it one more time. And so hearing that, Twang with a little with kind of like a 90s alt rock kind of vibe is interesting it's an interesting mix so I'm curious about the rest of that EP I might have to check it out yeah me too because this was five years after Blind which is my go-to Sunday's album they're right their album from 1990 reading writing and arithmetic you should give that one to spin dude if you really want to like give them a go start with that one all right man

So that wraps this up. Yeah, that was good. Good collection of tunes. For sure. Where else are you going to hear drum and bass? John and Van Gales. John and Van Gales, the softies and the Sundays. Where else are you going to hear it?

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