Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - Songs with the Best First 5 Seconds

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

The guys do another playlist challenge to determine the songs with the best first 5 seconds + discuss getting the novel coronavirus for a second time and learning about sex on AM radio.Follow the show on socials: https://www.linktr.ee/QQPodcast Soren Bowie: https://twitter.com/Soren_Ltd Daniel O'Brien: https://twitter.com/DOB_INC

I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright I wanna hear your thoughts, wanna know what's on your mind I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright The answer's not important, I'm just glad that we could talk tonight So what's your favorite? Who did you get? When will I be remembered? What's it out there? Where did all the guard wings go? Oh, forget it.

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is my co-host, Daniel O'Brien. Daniel, I think these people have waited long enough. Give them what they came for. So, hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Sorn and Dan. No, did you do this part already? Did you do the exciting, high-energy intro that explains to new listeners what the show is? Well, we don't have new listeners, so what I'm doing is like an AM version of it. Like a late-night AM version where we've had the same 12 people listening the entire time and so now it's all like a community may i ask what is your uh biographical

experience with that kind of radio that you're aping, where did that show up in your life? Were you listening to late night radio? Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah, I listened to, it wasn't am, it was actually on the FM that we would listen to it,

but yeah, in the Valley, the Valley, there was some of that. And it was, um, a lot of it was like, uh,

well, I shouldn't say a lot. I think there are only like two stations that did this, but they were like, you had the sense that you weren't supposed to be listening. And I think that was the point. Like it was like sexy. And so they would play like some sexy music, but they would also like their, their shout outs and stuff when people would call in a lot of times would have to do with sex. You didn't ever have this? no so i i think when i was older like i would watch loveline on television because vh1 started airing loveline with dr drew and at the time adam carolla which was like uh which filled that gap for radio stuff but i i'm realizing but i know exactly what and i've always known what that kind

of like hey it's the if you're just joining us at three o'clock in the a.m this is smooth curls with yeah your friday night whatever that's one of those pop cultural things that i only experienced as a reference on something else like there's so much of like american cinematic history that like i don't know from watching it, but I know from watching Looney Tunes who Peter Lorre is or who like Edward G. Robinson is. And like these late night things were referenced a lot on Simpsons and Saturday Night Live and Hey Arnold used it a lot.

So it's one of those like pop cultural touchstones that I'm familiar with, even though it's never like directly impacted my life or interviewed with my life. Interesting. Yeah, we had it. I guess it all came and it wasn't totally in our Valley. I guess a lot of it came from Denver, but there was like, there was definitely these late night shows where they would talk about the songs, but they would also talk about lovemaking a lot and stuff like that.

And then occasionally people would call in and they'd like request a song because it was the first song that they had made love to things like that oh man yeah it was it was and look any port in a storm dan i didn't know anything about sex i was living in a cabin i was psyched for any of it yeah Yeah. And this is also you trying bras on yourself to unhook them. Hold on. You were talking so much in this intro. My mind, it takes walks, you know? It was, I was having fun. I was making a meal of it. Okay. You know why I do these? So that I never have to do them again. And you know why I do these? So that I never have to do them again. I put a pillow out in my room and then put a bra on the pillow so that I could really get a sense of the anatomy of the bra strap and figure out how to take it off one handed. I see. nobody's just like learning that from having a bunch of sex.

So I suspect everyone's learning it the same way I did in a cabin in the woods, listening to AM radio. This is, I don't know how familiar to our listeners of an experience this will be. I know it's not your experience. And I also don't know if this is going to hurt my brand as a nervous awkward kid or not but all of my taking off bra stuff was learned uh the summer between eighth grade and freshman year of high school with a bunch of just like willing and supportive female friends who would just like we would all hang out guys and girls together and they were just like take take our bras off we wouldn't like get naked or anything but you could unhook a bra without like breasts just spilling out or anything so we would just like practice part of it was competition of like all right let's line up and see who could take it off the fastest uh but a lot

of it was just like no i want like i'm not gonna even if i don't win i want to nail this i want this to not when it actually matters when it is the real show game time i i want to to seem like i know what i'm i'm doing here so we were just like very fortunate to have wonderful platonic friends who are like no we understand you can you could just practice on us and this will be like one of the things we do together over the summer i'm trying to decide which is weirder now mine was pretty wholesome you're a bunch of girls lined up and said take our bras yeah with me and my buddies and and make it a competition make a little little game of it. I think these girls wisely recognize that me and the kind of guys that I hang out with are no threat to anyone. Like we're truly just in this as a learning experience and nothing more.

They were giving you any leg, any foothold you could get. Yeah. Like, listen, at some point you need something because you have no weapons in your arsenal. Yeah. Okay. Well well I learned on a pillow yeah hey you got there man I did and you know what you cover your tracks and you do it in real life and people are like hey that was pretty impressive and you're like yeah it's just a thing I know don't ask how right

it's everyone there's such a great mutual understanding if you are with someone in high school or whatever and you take their bra off and they acknowledge that you did it easily they don't pry and and we all really appreciate that yeah thank you thank you. Thank you. I have a update before we get into the show. Okay. You already know this, but our listeners don't. Last week's episode, I mentioned being sick again. I described my usual winter illness, the cold that lasts forever. I have since learned that it wasn't a cold

at all, but it's this virus you all might have been hearing about on the news. AIDS? The woke mind virus. It's the novel coronavirus. I got COVID for the second time. Oh, man. And it was a real bummer.

Yeah, because you have to quarantine. It's not like a cold where you can just go off willy-nilly. It was, again, a situation where by the time I found out what I had was COVID, I was on day five of what would have been a quarantine. And I had successfully stayed inside anyway. Again, I thought it was a cold uh but i don't go anywhere most of the time in my day-to-day but i was still like running and doing home workouts and living my life and then it was just like day four or five of the sickness where she just like

looked at me after having after like being very exhausted in the middle of the day and and like having a little bit of lung pressure she was like you should really do one of the at-home covid tests and then i did it that was confirmed and then i did reverse math from when my symptoms started yeah and i was like oh shit i i guess yeah this makes sense it was the day after i had come from the city which involved taking a ferry and taking a train and being in a theater full of people. Like the one, one of the few days that I did a thing. You got it. Immediately got COVID from it.

Seems to happen a lot. Yeah. And did Shay get it or no? We don't know. Okay. Because she also thought she had a cold that week, but, and that could have been a real cold or it could have been COVID. Yeah, we got sick recently. I thought she had a cold that week, and that could have been a real cold or it could have been COVID.

Yeah, we got sick recently. I thought we had it. We did not. Nobody tested positive. It was just my daughter and me, and then Colleen thought she was getting sick and then didn't, but really my daughter and me. And then my daughter got an ear infection afterwards, which is like a thing. It's just, yeah, it's just like these, it's, it's what keeps colds feeling like they never end is that they get a lingering cough. And then they

also just get this residual stuff, this like fallout at the end of a cold. It's like, oh yeah, did you know you could also get this? Oh, oh, did you want a little bronchitis after a cold? Like they always get shit along with it. I thought for sure that i was never going to have it again because there are a few times that i thought i had it and i attested and was negative and i thought and just very wrongly assumed like well that's it then i just have super immunity forever and it's never going to be me and i'm i'm grateful that my symptoms were light light enough that i thought it was a cold and again still like ran and and lived my life put a whole week of work in uh but yeah it's still a bummer it still sucks and i i i'm curious if it was part of me thinks maybe it was worse this time around than it was

the first time i got covid but another part of me uh like it might have been a mental thing as soon as i got the covet diagnosis i was like oh oh take care of me i have that disease from the news the serious one it's not a cold i wasn't being a baby i'm so tired. Cliche. Yeah. I think I had it twice. I never tested positive the second time. My whole family basically had it. And the first time I was the only one in my family that got it. Cause I was very careful about like just staying in a room by myself or when

I was with my family wearing an N95 mask. And the first time it fucking floored me. It really laid me out. And part of the reason was because I had only, I had lied to everyone and said I got the vaccine when I hadn't. Yeah, of course. No, I don't know why I got so destroyed by it. It was really kind of infuriating because also I was on a work trip

and no one else on the work trip got it either. It's just like me in an elevator or a cab or something by myself picked it up. Yeah. And then the second time it was like nothing it was a piece of cake yeah well should we do this fucking show yeah let's do this show do you have any uh any quick questions for me or should i no no no i like your quick question we talked about beforehand i want you to start it off yeah it's another uh playlist episode where we challenge each other to get the songs with the best opening five seconds and i was very

strict about five seconds because opening it up to 10 is a completely different world like if we did 10 seconds or even eight seconds my list is wildly different than the list that i have now yeah and five is is just much harder than i thought it was even going into this this is like a very it's a half-baked idea of mine where i listened to one song that had a funny opening five seconds i was like oh it's pretty good let's make a whole episode about that and then when i actually did the research into it, I was like, ah, shit, shouldn't have picked five. Should have done research first. Really, really hard to do five. Also, I learned a lot about myself doing this. Okay. First of all, let me just take a small carve out here to say, if you fuck me on this, Dan, if this is all just a bunch of lunch money criminals

and I start pontificating about like what I learned about myself from a five second song, I'm going to be very upset. What if it's only a little bit of lunch money criminals and i start pontificating about like what i learned about myself from a five second song i'm gonna be very upset what if it's only a little bit of lunch money criminals it better not be any fucking lunch money criminals on your on your album okay you're take it take it off you cannot have any all right then i only have four songs all right if it's a punchline i, I guess I could live with it. But in doing this, I was like, there's a lot of 10 seconds of a song where I'm like, that's how long it takes a song to gear up. Like, I think of it like a coiling spring. Like, you can do whatever you want for that first part, but then you got to like know the pattern of the song. And that doesn't happen for 10 seconds. So you've got like this buildup and that's all you're living with is like that.

You don't get the drop. You know what I mean? Like you have only buildup in five seconds. And so I'm like figuring these things out about myself. I'm like, what do I like in a buildup? Uh, that has nothing to do with the rest of the song. And I found some, it turns out some weird shit I'm into. I pick things, things uh because the

build-up is a real thing and there are so many songs like i thought for sure uh fallen by alicia keys would be in here but it doesn't really get into that drop until 10 seconds yeah and so i had i i pivoted my thought process to like how a band or an artist announces themselves in five seconds, what they do with that first five seconds. And in some cases, like there's one that I think is just very funny. And there are some that I think like this,

what they did with this five seconds just immediately transports anyone in the world to exactly where the artist wants you to be. That makes sense. Yeah. Okay. And just like how they're going to get you primed. Yeah. All right. Do you want to start this? Do you want to start with your first one? Yeah. I'm going to start with one that for sure no one, almost no one will have heard of, not because like my taste is so esoteric or anything like that. It's just, not because like my taste is so esoteric or anything like that it's just if for our listeners who bought a jazz album by a bass player then you'll know this one but it's the opening track for Jaco Pastorias's album and it's called Come On Come Over and the first five seconds this is

what I mean about a band or an artist announcing themselves the amount that goes in that they cram to just five seconds really astonishes me. It's such a party. It's such a bold way to start a song or not a bold way, just like a very confident way to announce yourself. And I think it's the first track off that album. confident way to announce yourself and i think it's the first track off that album uh and it's it's so loud there's so many notes crammed in there and it goes from this very big bombastic i just kick the door down and then you get your first glimpse of the bass groove that's going to form the actual meat of the piece and and the groove feels so refreshing emerging from that big loud explosion at the top i think that yeah i i also i'm in the same boat as you or like i want an explosion and horns really like like the cheat for that like horns feel like a kicking down of

the door where like as soon as like a song starts it's's just like a, I'm like, yeah, all right, I'm on board. It doesn't matter what comes after that. I know that this has got a horn section. So I, yeah, when I was like looking for songs, it was the same thing. This is great, by the way. This whole song is nice. It's a great song. I, one of the interesting things about that song for me is I love the groove so much.

I love the intro so much. I love the intro so much. I don't almost ever listen to that full song. It's a really great song for like pumping me up when it comes in. And then it was like, all right, as much as I love jazz, I also kind of hate jazz. Like I don't need too much of this. You know what? I feel like YouTube could actually make a better list of this than we can. Because when I look how which part of the

songs are actually listened to by people you know you can do that on youtube yeah or what part of the videos most watched first five seconds huge like spike in numbers yeah and then this big drop off and then for whatever reason it like it picks up again at the 48 second mark i promised to our listeners that i didn't i didn't cheat and do this. Nobody could, nobody could figure that shit out. You'd have to like, you'd have to know the songs that you wanted to look at, but I feel like that information's out there.

YouTube should just, or Spotify even like you could create this list for us. Yeah. All right. You want my number one here, Dan? Yeah, sure.

Okay. We'll see if it actually plays. This is a song. The songs that I chose are songs that I think actually are pretty popular songs. And I think the intro is really part of the reason why. Here's the first one. Oh, wait one second. Let me make sure my phone is turned all the way up.

All right, here you go. Do you know that song uh i might it sounds kind of familiar what is it that is i would do anything for love by meatloaf and it just starts with this like frenetic crazy big piano yeah and then you get like the bass notes at the five second mark on the piano it almost sounds like two pianos are playing at once um piano by the way is magic to me uh and you start to get like the bass notes of it and it's like you know that song is like it starts really panicked and then it's like right after the like six or seven second mark it like it goes it slows way down yeah and it's just done done done done and i would do it's like it's and the beginning though is like more indicative of like where the

song ends up i don't know fucking 12 minutes from now because it's a very long song yeah but it it starts off so hot with piano that i'm like yeah yeah, I love this. I mean, I'm a, I'm a piano freak, my own self. So that, so just hearing piano the same way that like you hearing horns gets you very excited for,

for something. Piano was just like, because I'm biased. We have, my brother's a phenomenal piano player. We've had a piano in our house growing up. So it's just in my blood that when I hear piano in a song, I'm like,

ah, yes, real music. Good. None of that, none of that guitar shit. Guitarists are only in it for the glory, but this is real music. Well, I agree with you, Ben. All right.

Give me your second one. Oh, Soren, it's interesting that starting with piano is. Here we go. Lunch Money Chromos. I feel it coming. I'll just. Lunch Money I feel it coming. I feel it coming. I just think it's just a great lesson in how

just simple one note repeated on a piano can get people amped. Like imagine if you were sitting in a crowd and you knew a band was about to start and everyone just starts doing that clapping bop bop bop bop they know any minute now you're gonna come in yeah yeah you're amped you're you're amped i do like that when the bass drops on the on the piano when the bass drops on the piano um just like when you i'm trying to like even i'm like

trying to pull this all the way back to like the very basics of the way that my ear works and like why this shit works on me. And just the idea that you, we listen to music, there's just certain vibrations in the air that are more pleasing than others to you. Like that, that's all music is. And that we call like, we all pretty much agree on what those vibrations are. They're like, yeah, those are better vibrations than the other ones and the fact that like we like that kind of like a higher vibration

that's followed by like a very deep one and we like we want to know the full spectrum and like when we're when we're given the full spectrum we're like oh there's gonna be a lot in between here yeah i think it's such a funny primitive thing that we get excited about this is good let me listen to some more of this song hang on it's really good quality that's cool that's good to know as obsessed as I am with the band that I had with my two older brothers

when I was in high school and college I don't often go back and listen to the recordings, believe it or not. Uh, so I'm glad they hold up. Yeah. All right. And you guys,

you were, uh, you're like a certified hit, right? Like you guys, people knew lunch money criminals and they'd come see the shows or was it just your friends? It was more than just our friends,

but it was a lot of our friends. Okay. It was mostly our friends, but certainly, I mean, like we won some pretty big battle of the band contests and got some college radio play. It's funny that now, I mean, so I played in a sanctioned school band in high school that was where I played bass guitar. It was not like a marching or like you'd ordinarily think of a school band it was like we would come in with the instruments that we wanted to play we would all bring in songs that we liked we would choose which songs we were going to play

and at the end of the semester we would do a performance and i still think back on that as like every time i hear a song i'm like this would have been a good song for us to play in front of the school i still like have the daydream about the fantasy of like playing a new fucking song i found that i think is rad and that we could have done a really good job on because we got like a fiddle player and a trumpet player i still have really dumb like there are a couple of of songs that we we played a lot and we're in our rotation as a band that we just never like recorded to any professional degree the way that we did the five songs on our one ep and i want as like a 2024 project to just like get us together and record it doesn't need to be the best quality in the world but like let's get some of these songs on digital just so we have them

forever just just for ourselves or like show kids one day this this is our songs but there's also a part of me part of the back of my brain that is like and i don't know maybe whoever books the bands for i seth myers will hear it and they'll be like who are these guys they're brothers let's get them in here fucking hits it all over again and then we all have to like uproot our fucking lives i guess that's that's the other part of this dream is like we get a hit and then suddenly everything's different and worse for our families yeah it's way worse um all right well my number two does has some lyrics in it already, which is it might be my only song that has lyrics this early. But I just love the way that this song kicks off.

And this is also, by the way, another one that I think most people will know. One, two, three. One, two, three. So there you go. Do you know that song i do and it's five seconds is simultaneously not a lot of time and a tremendous amount of time like i can't i don't have a timer going when you're playing that song i played seven seconds of it when he's the only when you get to like the actual like bass coming in i think that's six seconds yeah but it i mean i guess the artists don't know in advance that we're gonna only hold up their first five seconds but when i hear how much space is in

that i'm like oh buddy are you sure you want to take a pause there uh for people who don't know that's wilson pickett that's land of a Thousand Dances. And the rest of the song doesn't really hold with those same two. Those two that one, two, three. One, two, three. The song doesn't play with those notes in that same order ever again.

It's just him doing a fun thing at the beginning. And then we're just going to hear about a bunch of fucking dance names. And so I wish the rest of the song was like that i love the the difference between the first one two three and the second one and of course the blasting horns that blow up the walls in the room you're nuts about these horns man did you can't get enough did you ever play a a horn in in? No, never. No? Did you?

Oh, wait, wait, you're my clarinet boy. Yeah, I'm your clarinet boy. You're my woodwind. Both of my brothers played trumpet and I was clarinet saxophone. Oh, sax. But I just feel like if you were at all interested in music and it sounds like you were, then I assumed you would have had like normal school band where you get to pick instruments. We did.

And this is very gendered, but I would have assumed you picked trumpet because trumpets are for boys. Trumpets are the boys. And clarinet is for artists. What if I told you right now that I was a flautist? Like that I was just amazing at it? That would be so impressive. It would be a huge surprise impressive it would be a huge surprise oh um i was not i picked snare drum which is another boy drum i mean another boy

instrument correct and it was you don't get a whole drum kit you get to either play the big bass drum or you get to play the snare right you you pick percussion and then you you you each get a little part of it and then as time goes on the band teacher just decides like and this one gets a full kit this one you mastered you were so good at snare let's put your whole body into it now yeah you're really nailing that snare we did occasionally get a cymbal too um yeah which was real fun when you're in middle school because it's so disruptive yeah of course but okay give me your give me your number three my number three um it's at last by etta james oh boy it's only strings you never get to the rest of the song.

I don't even, I don't need more than maybe a second of that song to be like transported. Swept away. Yeah. That song always gets me, has always gotten me. I've written it directly into a half dozen screenplays that I've tinkered with throughout my life as just like, this is a song that needs to be in the movie, in this scene. Whatever scene I've decided is an important scene needs to be scored by this song in this way. Because it's just the right vibe to, to use an overused word. It's every in,

in any story where you have a character who wants something and finally fucking gets it. That song is the anthem for sure. Yeah. Because that's what everybody's waiting for. Everybody's watching the movie. Hopefully they're hoping, they're hoping that that person gets what they want.

So do you think that it is the strings themselves or do you think that you know what's coming it's possible i know what's coming that's what that's another part of this assignment that was difficult yeah is just like you know you can't pick songs that were personally important to you even though but because you're just gonna like hear something and it's gonna gonna change your heart or change your mood. Yeah. And I try to pick songs in a vacuum and I don't know if I pulled it off with this one. I think,

I think I might just know this song so well, but as soon as I hear note one, I'm, ah, Soren. It is really pretty. Do you really all over? It is really pretty.

I mean, it's like a full symphony symphony of strings all together like it doesn't matter that that's super slow and you don't really it's still the wind up you know you don't know what it's going to be what the pitch is and so like you're just it's still fun to and to hear by itself i agree with you and i also can't decide if it's because obviously this is a very popular song i also do know what's coming and I love it. I love, I went to one of the first weddings I went to was a couple who had been together for like ever for, for so long. And they were the first ones of all of us to get married and they played at last. And I was like,

yes, this is a perfect song for them for this wedding. And I'm very happy. Yeah. You need to hear that song in a wedding. I was actually, this is me being an asshole, but the first wedding Shay and I attended as a couple together, I was waiting for At Last to play at some point. And I was also waiting for the thing that happens in weddings where they say, now we want only the couples to come out on the dance floor. It's a horrible thing that they do at weddings. It's very alienating. I've always hated it, except this time I was ready. I was ready. And this wedding didn't do it. They just didn't do this, this horrible tradition that you finally wanted. Because they probably wisely knew that it's alienating. And I was like, God damn it.

I really wanted that. And I was hoping they would play it last, but they didn't. And then it just so happened the next day, as we're hungover from this wedding at a Starbucks, at last came on the Starbucks radio and I forced her to dance with me in the Starbucks. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. I don't know if you remember.

Is it good? It is. No, I think it's great. I think that's adorable. I think don't know if you remember good it is no i think it's great i think that's adorable i think dancing in a fast food or i qualify as fast food a fast food restaurant is very cute um and it'll be a memory that you'll cherish someday because it's it seems like it's from a rom-com now uh i what was I going to say? Something about your fucking song. I've forgotten what it was.

Oh, I know what it was. I love the song. I don't know if you remember at my wedding. So the song did play at my wedding. I don't think that that was the song where you got all the couples up on the floor. I think that one was That's How Strong My Love Is by, I want to say Otis Redding. Is that right? Okay.

And I don't know if you remember it was even more alienating at my wedding because they get everybody up there and then within five seconds he's like if you're married stay on the dance floor like everybody else fuck off and then they he would go if you've been married five years keep dancing if you've been or like i think it's the opposite it would be like if you've been married less than five years please exit the dance floor if you've been married less than 10 years and you just keep going up and you just watched all these couples shed off the floor. And then what you're left with are these people who you watch them dancing and it becomes clear, like they know they can wait.

And like, they're just looking at each other and they're very happy in that moment. And like, you just get these old couples who are like, he has so far to go before he gets to us that it just doesn't matter. Like they're not listening to him and it's beautiful. It's so cute. And I really loved it. We have these family friends, the Marshes who they just kept dancing and he'd be like, have you been married like 30 years? Have you been married 40 years? And they just kept going. And I was like, oh yeah, you haven't married a long time. Yeah. that's great and then the dj covers the mic with his hand and just leans to the cup was like listen i gotta clear

out this fucking dance floor so why don't you just tell me what the number is so we can get there 110 i don't believe that we're gonna replace the dance floor with twister but we can't do it until you leave um the song that i have next dan is actually in the same ballpark where i cannot i've lost all objectivity with this song i cannot tell if i genuinely like this intro or i just get so excited by the intro because i know what's coming yeah that's all you got and it's perfect it's exactly five seconds and i'm just like that oh that is reminding me that when i first came up with the prompt for this episode

i thought of that song loved it thought it was perfect and have since forgotten about adding it to my list it's it's absolutely the right call for this uh i think even if you didn't know where the song went that is like you know that that it's a jock jam party anthem you know that it needs to play at a sports arena for sure oh my god for anyone who's an alien doesn't know what that is that's house of pain that's the song jump around um yeah i i mean how many times have you been at somewhere and that song comes on you're just like fuck yeah your whole mood changes you all you get ready to just start jumping for no reason like you want to just like you want to leave the floor yeah i don't even remember if it's a really good song i haven't

really listened to the whole song in a long time but it's it's definitely a song that gets me to start rapping and then like three seconds in realize i guess i really only know the beginning of this huh i came to get down i came to get down um yeah it's it's such a fun and i i don't know i i remember back in the day i'm realizing now the comedy of me starting this rap and when i abandoned it pack it up pack it in let me begin i came to win battle me that's a sin and for proof of that get up stand up hold your hands up like a shotgun like shotgun um i didn't play that at my wedding i should have done that oh such a fun song and i should play that at fucking brunch i should just have uh my smart speaker programmed to play it at 5 15 every night or something like that just around when i my energy is sagging and i've

got to just power through that last hour of work to just, I don't know if it's the same. Get down. I think it's the same as you like trying to like scratch your own back or whatever, where it's, it's just not the same as when it's a surprise when that you hear that and it's a surprise. Like that's true. That's why I was so excited to give it to you just now. Cause I was like, he doesn't know what this song is.

And when he hears it, it's going to happen. All right. Give me your number it, it's going to happen. All right. Give me your number four. I have a number four. You're not going to like my number five. So I'll give you my number four, which is the reason I did this whole podcast. Not even just this episode, but the reason that we started this podcast 19 years ago or whatever.

It's You Fucked Yourself by Stephen Page. Oh, hello. It's got a naughty word in it what the fuck was that you're a piece of shit so this has a double bonus here it's such a fun audio sting that plays in my head every once in a while my own inner monologue of what the fuck was that you're a piece of shit it has a double bonus in that it's really good too yeah it's like that little like and so it's it's not only is it like because I had one on my list originally that was the song was just a guy

going bitches love me because they know that I can rock and I was like but it's just not enough like it's like missing that extra layer and this song is exactly the type of thing I was looking for this is perfect I see why this is all built around this keystone and it still continues on to be like

a fine good song but the first time that it randomly showed up on my Spotify algorithm what the fuck is this you're a piece of shit I was like I don't need anything else that's good that's what I needed to hear this is great did you just start laughing what the fuck was that

it's Stephen Page for anyone who doesn't know uh he was part of bare naked ladies for the longest time and there's some discrepancy into why he left that band uh it you it's either that he thought this is a five-piece band and it's a democracy and that's that's stifling for me as a as a creative person who wants to have my own thing and pursue my own career or it's possible that um his very public drug arrest that happened a few months before the breakup precipitated this this band known for playing very family-friendly songs and a theme song to big bang theory when their lead singer was arrested for freebasing cocaine they might have been like not i think creative differences probably yeah i'm sure that was it i'm sure he just wanted to

be in more control yeah he wanted to be allowed to freebase in peace i i certainly don't want to like feed into the narrative that that drugs and and uh asshole artist stereotypes are worth it. Steven Page's solo stuff is really good. This is like one example of a thing that's kind of funny, but he's good. I think everyone should check him out. Can you get, I don't know that I can get past the voice. The voice is Bare Naked Ladies, right?

I mean, real heads i've i've seen bnl without steven page and they still put on a great show and you don't there are a couple of like his belting tunes that you really miss but it's a it's a pretty rocking concert even without him you went and saw bern opened for a bare naked ladies hoodie oh brother it was there was a uh so back when i was living in la uh there's santa barbara california is like a beautiful part of california with uh like wine country and everything and i email blasted a whole bunch of people and i was like, guys, huge news. There is going to be a concert in Santa Barbara with Barenaked Ladies,

the Ben Folds Five reunion. Oh my God. And Guster, who the fuck is in? And like of this like 10 person email, eight out of 10 responded, I'll go to Santa Barbara with you for a weekend. And Michael Swayman, Abe Epperson was like,

BNL and Ben Foles, hell yeah. That's so nice that they built a concert around you specifically. I know. There was a year of, of Coachella, like in the early two thousands where, um,

a friend of mine was like, I, it's not a holiday and it's not your birthday or anything, but I just happened to notice that this day of Coachella seems really for you. And so I got us tickets and I was, I'd never felt more seen. And like you showed it to me and I was like, oh my God, this is everything.

It was, Dan, the Decembrists. Arcade fire. Decembrists. And the plane and the dirigible queens of the stone age regina specter lcd sound system all the same day oh uh somebody else oh they're red hot chili peppers but that was for him he was more of like a je for shanty purist yeah but I I was like looking at this lineup and I was like holy shit they did it they did it for me that seems like the kind of lineup that even like your enemies which is be like fuck he would love this I should I should get this in front of him somehow I don't want to invite him to make him happy but he he'd be really bummed if this

passed him by daniel here's my song number four great i think you'll also recognize it hell yeah one two one two three yeah oh yeah i know that's yeah one two three. And then that's all you get. That's five. That's excellent. That song is on most of my running playlists for sure. It's a great one. Bombs Over Baghdad. I couldn't remember if I chose. Sorry.

Yes. It's Bombs Over Baghdad or B.O.B. I don't remember if I put that on my 5K or my 2.2 mile list or 3.2 mile list. Yeah. I should clarify that that song's on like my playlist for when I'm doing a longer run. That's a good pick me up in the middle of a run. Exactly. Yeah.

That's it's. And also it's one of those ones where I hear like that beginning, I hear the whispering and I'm like, I'm so on board. I originally thought this was the song where I, when I asked you, are you sure you want to do five seconds? I wanted to play 10 seconds of this one so bad because you get the drop.

You get like, you get to hear that drop. You also get to hear them all do the, huh. And, and I, oh man, it just makes the whole song. But the beginning, I also really love as well. Yeah. Outcast rules. Outcast is the best. My final song. You're not gonna like okay but this is another one like at last that they're similar in that uh maybe it's just my sense

memory at this point that is taking me into it uh and also they're similar in that i don't even need five seconds i need one second okay is that john williams yeah yeah i mean john was the king of this you alien is that the guy who is that the guy who did jaws he is the king of this he is the king of this it's i i without researching it i'll always wonder like what came first in any of this or like how it was communicated to john williams what exactly the opening needed to be because it is if your movie doesn't fucking rock after this you're toast yeah and also if the movie is great but this opening doesn't accomplish what it needs to accomplish you're toast but it's just perfect and it's like it's so loud it's so audacious it's so screamy and attention grabby for just the title of this movie and i'm trying to think about i want to put myself

in that position in the late 60s seeing this for the first time and not even knowing that it was going to be star wars not even knowing that it was going to change movies forever and the first thing you get it seems like in retrospect even they knew from second one of this movie that things are going to be different now and they couldn't have but it just there's so much confidence there and it's just you think about that screen a long time ago in a galaxy far far away and then that noise not even just like thinking of it as music but just like that wall of sound that happens that just hits you in the face it just it's it seems like somehow it knew in its bones like like, hey, pay attention.

Things are different now. I'm listening to it over and over again. And I didn't realize, I'm trying to identify what all these sounds are that I'm hearing. Because you're right. It's just a cacophony at first. It's huge. It's such a big sound. And there's like a-

It's French horns. No. John Williams owes $10 billion to his French horn players. There's also, it sounds like a phone ringing. Do youiams owes 10 billion dollars to his french horn players there's also what sounds like a phone ringing do you know what i'm talking about there's a sound it's like a in there like a little bell somebody just got a bell in the back and they're just like they're going ham with that bell yeah let me and i'm sure i'm i'm sure because because john williams is great i'm i'm sure that he's pulling from a bunch of different uh giants from classical music who who have have done similar things and like

that's he's looking at the masters when he knows what he needs to accomplish he's looking at what others have done in that but to me who doesn't know the masters and doesn't know classical music very well it seems like the first thing that's ever happened and it seemed like if i'm in that yeah if i'm in his orchestra and i get this music and i'm just looking at the the first measure and it's like you want me to play the highest note i have as loud as i can and you want me to do it with 300 other horn players all right man that seems nuts to me but what's that what's that bell doing that guy's going nuts on that bell over there the bell it's also such a small instrument i'd love to see this perform because it's such a small instrument i love that everybody else has got these big fuck off french horns and then there's one guy in the

back who's just like and me um that's a great yeah this is a this is the right choice daniel you're right i don't like star wars but i do like this yeah i'm okay star wars isn't bad it's not bad it's fine it's good it's it's uh some of it is good in fact i think that's great man i probably caught it at the wrong age is my guess yeah i do like all right you have john williams i do i just was thinking about john williams an awful lot i well we watched elf recently that's not john williams but that's another composer where like you listen to elf and you're like oh yeah this is specific to this is such good elf music yeah um okay sorry i don't i feel that way i don't elf music. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. I don't, I feel that way. I don't, I famously have never seen the Harry Potter films, but his music is just like, yeah, that's what you want your Harry Potter movies to sound like. Good job, John. You have no business knowing anything about this world,

but someone was like, hey, this is about a magic school of wizards and witches and elves and talking dogs or whatever and john williams was like yeah yeah i'm a hundred years old but i don't like that like that's your harry potter all right thank you i don't i don't uh i don't read music so i don't totally know how this works but like when you get to an orchestra and you've got somebody who's written all the music and they give you your sheet music and you're like looking at it surely you can see your own part in your head but you don't know what everybody else is going to play right like you'll just start it once and you're like oh shit that was awesome um that's a great question i don't know how like very seasoned orchestra players

know that or feel that i know that when i played in like band orchestra the the clarinets we would get our parts and we would learn it together as a group and then you practice it at home and then you rehearse together as a band and that's when you hear it for the first time yeah as a shitty middle school band um it's gotta be awesome when you're all really good if you're if you're a good enough player if you can look at like a full score and hear it in your head i yeah i mean i imagine someone can hear their own part, but I can't imagine they know what, like the bell, for instance, like you're not anticipating that that's coming

and you're just like, yep, right choice, John. Good job again. Right, and no one in the orchestra is looking at the sheet music of everyone's part. You're really just getting the context of your own. There's a channel that does the opposite of that on YouTube, I think, where they take famous drummers,

they play them a song that does not have a drum track and it's outside of their element. It's not like a genre they listen to. And several times it's a song the drummer has never heard. They did, I hate that I'm still bringing up Red Hot Chili Peppers, but they did Chad, what's his name from Red Hot Chili Peppers. They played him a 30 seconds to Mars song. And they're like, do you know the song? He's like, no, it's a, it's, it's emo shit. Right. And they're like, yeah, what's his name, from Red Hot Chili Peppers. They played him a 30 Seconds to Mars song. And they're like, do you know the song?

He's like, no. It's emo shit, right? And they're like, yeah, it's emo shit. And then he listens to it. And he's like, okay, I'm ready. And then they just play what they think the drum should be for it. And it's so fun. It's so good. That does sound good.

Anyway, check that out. Okay, here we go with my song number five. Hold on. Yeah, that was exactly five. Do you know that song? Once the, once that was teased, then I knew what it was. Yeah. I wish that we, even like an extra second

there would have helped yeah you want to get to the whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa um that is weapon of choice by fat boy slim if anyone hasn't watched the music video you should go do that it's really wonderful it's christopher walken dancing yeah um i it's not a song that i particularly care for it's not a song like i put on mixes or anything like that but i love that intro yeah it's a really good intro i i that is certainly a song i never listened to but but it certainly lives in my bones from watching that music video a thousand times a day when it came out it's it really wonderful. This was like before the memification of Chris Walken. He wasn't like as

larger than life as he is today. So just like the idea of him starring in a Fatboy Slim music video and doing magical dances throughout this hotel or bank or whatever it was. It's just like this is the most and he's not smiling. He's not making a joke of it.

He's just being a cool guy dancing, staring straight down the barrel of the camera. And he's like, this is the most hypnotic fucking music video I've ever seen. He starts sitting in a chair

looking like he's in Deer Hunter. Like he's like, he's so, he's in the scene and he's like depressed about something. There's like a whole story there. And then he just looks into camera and gets up and dances to the song and i don't

know that anyone at that point in time really was like was clocking the fact that he was a dancer that he knew how to how to move like that and so you see and you're like oh it's like discovering lightning in a bottle you're like oh look i'm the first person who knows that christopher walken can dance look um yeah so i wonder if that music video director was the first one who was like hey chris walken this is just a uh a hunch of mine are you like kind of weird is are you maybe like a weird guy who will say yes to weird things he's like yes i am that's my walk-in by the way i know everyone's got a walk-in this the song also has um a lot of like it's not lyrics but their voices there are a bunch of voices doing different shit at the beginning of that song that i don't understand and that's part of what is so compelling

to me about it is that i'm like what what's going on here what do we Look at all these neat noises we can make with our mouths. Soren, you would love acapella if you like making noises with mouths. I got it. You just love it. You know what, Dan? I've really turned a corner on acapella during this Christmas season

because so many of my favorite Christmas songs are acapella and they sound better acapella that I'm like, I think maybe I like acapella and they sound better acapella that i'm like i think maybe i like acapella christmas rolls around and the pentatonix just start printing money guys yeah they just know you know can i tell you the the one of the craziest things that i've ever heard in my entire fucking life that people are playing hallelujah as a as a christmas song no okay um my parents sent me uh a photo of the pnC Bank Art Center, which is a big outdoor music venue near my hometown.

And it was a picture of them going to see Pentatonix live in June. Oh, Jesus. No, that's not the right time. That's like going to see a Mannheim steamroller. What on earth? I don't even know what i want out of that concert because on the one hand it would be weird to hear christmas music but on the other they'd better play christmas music yeah i don't know any of their other shit

they did africa i think i hate that song um there's a christmas song that i listen to every year and i think i've tried to get you to listen to it and i had to do it gently. And then I think I did it twice and that was the problem and you never did. Sure. Um, but there's one, there's a band, there's a band, there's an acapella group called Home Free and they do a song called Snow Globe and I just adore it. It's so fun. I mean, I feel like I must have heard it just by accident by waking up and telling the smart speaker to make it Christmas. And then the Christmas music happens nonstop. So I'm sure it's in my brain somewhere, but I can't recall it right now.

No, do yourself a favor. Listen to it seven years from now when you've decided the time has passed where you're angry about a recommendation and you're going to love it. You've decided the time has passed where you're angry about a recommendation. And you're going to love it. Well, I can't wait, but I think that does wrap it up for this episode. That's it. Unless you've got anything else.

No. Kill it. Thank you so much for your song, Soren. Thank you. Listeners, if you think we missed a song with the best first five seconds, bad news. You are incorrect. We got them. We got all the ones.

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