Smosh Mouth - S2: #65 - The 5 Albums That Changed Our Lives

Episode Date: May 27, 2020

From Panic! At The Disco to Fleetwood Mac, Ian, Damien, and Shayne are ranking some of their favorite albums and artists that helped define their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I tried to copy my brother in every sort of way when I was young, just because I thought everything he did was cool. And he would listen to a ton of no effects. The band The Offspring, they were just like angry suburban kid teenager music. That was for me just the moment of like, yeah, I'm mad at my suburban life too. Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. When you learn about the making of it, it is freaking insane. Everyone's just sleeping with each other and they're all writing these shit talking songs about each other and they all become writing These shit talking Songs about each other

And they all become Crazy famous for it And then have to sing it For 40 years What was that one Band you wanted to be A listen to Fergie

It's not Fergie Never Fergie Fergie the woman That peed herself on stage If you're gonna make Fun of a woman At least make fun of her For her terrible music

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of this in antarctica i think someone just kind of lost their paraphrased you paraphrased the first thing you said and you were like, there you go. Like, what's the evidence? Low energy particles, neutrinos, can pass completely through the earth. You know what neutrinos do, dude? Yes, everybody knows about neutrinos.

They use cleaning products to catch them in bunkers underneath the ground. They're my favorite kind of pizza roll. Please continue. But higher energy objects are stopped by the reassuringly solid matter of the Earth. That means that high energy particles can only be detected coming down from outer space. Yes. To detect a heavier particle, a tau neutrino coming up out of Earth,

would imply that these particles are actually traveling backwards in time. Oh, well, that's okay. The unfortunate thing is like titles for scientific articles are so clickbaity. Whenever they're posted on Twitter, it's just like new earth discovered. And you're like, whoa. And like, you know,

that's probably not quite the situation, but you click on it anyway. But the problem is it does get so in depth and they try to dumb it down, but it's such high concept stuff. You can't even quite get the gist of what they're trying to say well like the first articles that come out say they might have found evidence of a parallel universe but then you scroll further down on twitter where the the clickbait gets worse and they're like nasa found a parallel universe and we're

basically there. Right. And then Joe Rogan sees that one and is like, did you hear about this? That like basically Earth is no longer Earth? It's crazy, dude. It's crazy. All because of the Clintons? Yeah, you got him there being like, yeah, so basically some guy

found that Sasquatch they're still alive. Jamie, can you pull that? Jamie, where was that video that we saw? Where was that? And he just sparks up again. He just lights up. He's an interesting guy to listen to,

but it's amazing how we've all sort of bought into just like, this dude's just like having like high college student conversation of like, what if us isn't really us? And then people are like, yes, millions of views. I figured out his formula. He just yes ands whoever's on his show. That's all he does. That's all he does.

So if he has like a physicist there, it's really cool. But then he'll have like some surfer stoner who's like aliens are real. And he'll be like, yeah, man, that's crazy, Jude. Yeah. It's crazy.

It's crazy stuff. Obviously this won't be a new news, but he just signed a hundred million dollar deal with Spotify. Oh my God. So Spotify is getting old Joe Rogan exclusive. You just, you never really know how people's careers are going to go. I remember when he was the host of Fear Factor.

He was another host on TV and now it's weird. Then to UFC and then I started seeing him do stand-up and I was like, oh, that's actually how I mostly discovered him. I was like, oh, this dude's stand-up is actually kind of funny. Don't agree with everything he says, but I actually dig this stand-up. Then it was like,

yeah, surprise, he has a podcast. I mean, he was doing podcasting before most people did. He was one of the first, right? Yeah, he was one of like, I think he came in like, I don't know, the first or second wave of like podcasting before it became what it is today where everyone has a podcast. He kind of saw the power of being able

to just broadcast your thoughts out to people without any sort of censor. And obviously nowadays we've seen what happens when you have that kind of power. Well, maybe that's why he's been so untouchable in a way, is because he's been establishing who he is from the very beginning of podcasts. So no one's surprised enough to be like, I can't believe he thinks that. It's like, you know he thinks that. set up for a decade yeah and that's why we should use our power to espouse our beliefs of the top five albums or artists that influenced us segue eat fresh

oh my god all right well go yeah so i had I'll just take this for a second and then hand it right back. Don't worry about it. You can keep it. No, I'd rather, I'd really rather not. So yeah, we were pitching around podcast ideas for this week. And I think we all have a lot of fun doing the top five stuff. We can't make that the whole podcast all the time, but I was like, what else can we do? So my thought was top five artists and albums that shaped us.

It's not necessarily favorite. It could be if you want it to be. But in my mind, it's more like this is an album that I associate with this time in my life. And I love it for this. So that's sort of what I'm thinking. So we're just going to run that down. Obviously, we have to be a little bit careful about, you know, what we sing and all that stuff. So, yeah, maybe have that old music streaming app up next to you

while we talk about it and just get a little pinch, a little taste. So who wants to start us off at number five? Wait, sorry, I can do it better. Number five. No, wait, no, that's not right. Number five. I can get us started if you want. Yeah.

Do it, Damien. Little fun fact about me. I don't listen to music that much. I have a few specific things that I like to listen to, but I will get attached to one song and listen to it on repeat until I hate it. And that's just how I'm wired. I appreciate music. I like it, but I'm never like, oh, the new album from this person is here.

Can't wait. So that said, when I was a youngster, I'm going back to like, the new album from this person is here. Can't wait. So that said, when I was a youngster, I'm going back to like seven, maybe eight years old. There were two CDs that I listened to while playing video games, while on car trips, just front to back whole CD. And those two are the self-titled albums from Eiffel 65. Oh, wow. And the Backstreet Boys. Wow. Wow.

So Backstreet Boys, obviously, top pop artists of the day. Wait, which album from Backstreet Boys? The self-titled, just the Backstreet Boys. Self-titled Backstreet Boys. That was like their first big hit. Their first one. Their first one, which I think is the best,

except for maybe Black and Blue. Before Backstreet Boys were back, all right. Yeah, that's millennium, my dude. We're talking pre-millennium. I think- That's got tearing up my heart, right? Yes, exactly. No, no, no, that's NSYNC. That's NSYNC. I'm sorry. You're killing me, Smalls. I think my parents had ordered from one of those things where it's like,

sign up for this music service and you get 14 free CDs right off the bat. And then each month, I think it was that kind of deal. So that's when I got to pick out my first batch of CDs. So that was in there. And then Eiffel 65. For those that don't know, Eiffel 65 is the one that does the Blue Daba Dee kind of song. But the rest of their music, bangers. All of them. They are

like electro dance music. Before that was a super popular thing. It was my introduction to techno. They had a song about PlayStation. They had a song about PlayStation. They had a song about hyperlinks and all that. It was very like computery. And I love this girl. She's made of silicone, this robot girl.

Like I made that up, but it was just so good. We're still gonna get sued by them. Oh good. Actually, that's our unreleased song. For them to sue us, they would have to emerge from whatever depths they crawled into after their second album no it's not called life of 65 it's called euro pop yeah they made

one more cd after that and then faded into obscurity so they were huge man i mean blue i remember that music video for blue and back in the day you were like this is awesome and now you look back you're like this is garbage it it it was look back and you're like, this is garbage. It was and is garbage, yes. But like the music still weirdly holds up. It's like atmospheric. There's a song about like aliens and like the kind of sounds they did in the background made you sort of feel like you were just hovering in space. Like I would doze off and listen to that as our family drove to our uh yearly like spring break trip um so i don't know i just have good memories it's funny that we talk about like how they had this big hit

and then faded into obscurity like it's a bad thing because like that that seems to always be our natural reactions to say like oh man they had this big hit and then they're just no one ever heard of them they're losers but they're like my friend brought up a point that I keep thinking about now. What's wrong with that? That's true. What's wrong with, with achieving some sort of success and then mediocrity? Or maybe it's a chosen mediocrity too. Like not everybody wants to be in the limelight forever. Fetty Wap, biggest thing a couple years ago and now fetty wop hasn't put out anything in forever i was just thinking about that yeah yeah holy maybe maybe the guy just grabbed the bag and went and lived a great life because that's what everyone because i feel

like that's what everyone says they're like oh man i'm gonna make uh five million dollars then i'm just gonna retire to the beach a lot people, they find that success intoxicating and whatever it is that they're chasing, whenever they reach that level, there's always another level that they can reach. Yeah. And they're never truly happy. So for the people that manage to say, no, I achieved what I wanted to achieve. And now I'm going to move on to a different part of my life. Yeah, that's right. Like that's, you got to respect that. I achieved what I wanted to achieve and now I'm going to move on to a different part of my life. Yeah.

Right. Like that's, you got to respect that. And it does sort of bring up how we view success too. Because it's like, you know, looking way back, you would never be like, what did he do after painting the Sistine Chapel? You know, it's like, it's okay to have a top thing. You're going to have, eventually you're going to have your top best thing. So that's me. Backstreet Boys, I have a 65. Backstreet Boys are still around shane number five ian were you wait were we all there when we

or no no no that was seeing backstreet boys in las vegas i was not there oh we were not invited shane oh yeah this is sarah's uh birthday party or whatever yes Yes. Oh, yes. Yeah. I was invited to that. We were not invited to that chain. Well, it was. But go on. Please do. Go on about this amazing trip. It was the best birthday party I've ever been to in my entire life. Actually, boys slapped, man.

I did not expect to see them live. It was dope. Was that the same? Because Grace Helbig was there, right? Yes. And I think she was recording these people that were like were they sleeping next to you guys maybe yeah i think some people it was like the big it was like a backstreet boys concert like a huge show with

backstreet boys and they these people next i'm guessing they probably got tickets comped by the hotel or whatever but they did not seem to care at all about where they were yeah no they did not seem to care at all about where they were. Yeah, no, they did not. And I have to admit, I'm more of an NSYNC fan myself. That's all right. I know you're a basic bitch. We turn into K-pop stans over these bands. That's fine. I know you're a freaking loser.

That's great. I'm going to try to destroy your career because I disagree with you, but sure. Also, just a heads up, I have been sleeping very poorly. I'm a cranky boy today, so I'm gonna try to destroy your career because I disagree with you but sure also just a heads up I have been sleeping very poorly I'm a cranky boy today so I'm sorry you're gonna get some crank Damien dark Damien this is just pissed off and sleepy crank yankers

Damien crankersore somebody say your number five before I lose my god damn mind Ian you go ahead because I'm actually still do you know your number five because I lose my goddamn mind. Ian, you go ahead because I'm actually still, Ian, do you know your number five? Because I don't. Yeah.

This was a band and an album that I feel like defined an entire generation. The year was, I believe, 2000? I know what this is. Do you have a guess? I think it's Good Charlotte. Good Charlotte. Good Charlotte had like one song. Yeah, but they released a black album and a white album.

Nah, think about a more successful. I don't know. Think about a band that took a genre that was coming into the fold, but then also added more to it. Nickelback. Go fuck yourself. But Nickelback did have some bangers. A genre that was dying?

All right, I'll just... No, it wasn't dying. It was coming into... Let me give you another hint. New metal was becoming a thing. Boys to men. New metal? Is this like Slipknot?

I don't know. The Foo Fighters. Linkin Park. Linkin Park? That's great. They came into the scene with Hybrid Theory. That's true. And blew shit up.

See, I was young enough that Lincoln Park, it felt like they were just always huge. By the time I was old enough to be listening to that type of music, everyone just already knew who they were, and it was already the biggest thing. Because I was listening to, I don't know, rap like hip-hop god you're cool when i was when i was a kid but then but then i feel like cool i feel like lincoln park is what like switched it for me like

i was listening to some like i was listening to rock of course i mean i was just listening to whatever was on the radio but like it was like lin Park where I was like, ooh, I'm a fan of this. Like, I really feel this music. Hybrid Theory was great. I remember people perform it for our elementary school talent show. Did they have like a record scratch thing too? Oh no, I'm talking elementary school children.

They just played the track while like three friends tried to pretend that they coordinated and be like, no, you gotta come over here. Oh. Don't know why. Well, that sounds terrible. Oh, it's awful. So yeah, the Linkin Park hybrid theory, it changed the world. Nice. So I don't, my list is very, it's tough. I'm similar to Damien. I'll listen to a song, a bunch until I get sick of it. But I have gone through phases where specific artists

are my clear favorite and I'm listening to them a lot. Now this list, I could move up and down all over the place. So I'm just going to be saying, these are all in the top five. I'm going to go ahead with this one at number five. Got to give it to Amy Winehouse. I mean, when I first started hearing her music, it was, and I mean, she became huge because her music it was and I mean she became huge

because there was simply nothing like it it was so that album back to black is unbelievable and her album prior before that is really good too but back to black was what obviously launched

it and like there was just every song on that album is a hit and it's still played a lot. Like that's just, and it's still timeless. Like it's, it, it works just as well now as it did back then. And it sucks. That's, you know, it sucks. We didn't get more music from her, uh, tragically, but, um, but that album was, was unbelievable. And I was, I'm still a huge fan. Amy Winehouse is a good example of an artist that like, sometimes you know that they're just not for you, but you can still just respect the hell out of them

and be like, this is really good. Like, I'm never ever gonna sit down and just be like, oh, I'm gonna listen to some Amy Winehouse today. But like, I know for a fact she was like a tour de force just in what she made. I wonder if I can get away with this, but I can't help but attempt it every time when she goes,

I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby. Like, I just always want to give it a shot. We'll have to cut that, whatever. Do we really, like, haven't copyright things eased up a little bit and they actually have to go in now? Yeah, Amy Winehouse, I never got to um really listen to

because i i again radio that's all i was listening to at the time and i never bought i never bought her album so i heard um rehab obviously yeah over and over and over and over and over again and and i was just kind of like whatever and then i watched the amy documentary and i was like heartbroken i still haven't seen it it's so good it's probably devastating you really understand like she she was like a true true artist oh yeah she was legendary but she was so tormented i just remember it's really tragic looking back like everyone knew that she was like everyone, like when the news came that she died,

I don't feel like anyone was like shocked. Like we were all watching, we were watching this person die. That's literally it. You would see tabloid photos of her and it was just like, oh, she looks closer to death now. Like it was so sad.

It was so sad to watch this. Everyone acknowledged like, oh, she looks closer to death now. Like it was so sad. It was so sad to watch this. Everyone acknowledged like, oh, she's one of the best with one album. She is one of the best artists ever. And we're acknowledging she's never gonna make another album. Yeah. That was like legit what I was going to say.

It was a very weird social shared experience to like know that this was happening and to like see it happening all at happening and to like, see it happening all at once and know that you're kind of powerless to do anything about it. Like, I do remember Shane, we had one friend when it happened, like who was floored and shocked and very much like, I can't believe it. And I was like, you know, looking back at my response, it was a little bit too callous, but like, and I don't think I said it exactly like this, but my thought was sort of like, well, yeah, like, of course this happened. Like her first song was about needing to go to rehab real bad and not doing it.

And like, we all saw this happen. So like, you can be sad, but don't be like shocked. It's, you know, but looking back, I was just early twenties and like, this is what I think. But like, yeah, you know, still, nobody could do anything. Like, it's hard enough when someone is in your own life and your own circle to handle things like that. She was so, she was just so, she obviously probably worked her ass off. But she was also just such a natural talent that I remember there's a video. It's devastating where she is clearly, clearly either just on drugs or is just so out of it she's on

stage singing but it's just gibberish yeah like she's not saying any words and she's still like you can just tell she's still just so good like you're like oh wow you are literally out of your mind right now we'll go watch the documentary it's really good yeah i will i just know it's gonna break my heart again but it provides a very good insight into like who she was as an artist and how she surrounded herself with people that didn't really have her best interests in mind so sad and the dangers of that when you have when there's so much money to be made and you're a fragile person right you Anyway, on to happier things. Number four. Number four.

Number four. So this one comes in for other personal reasons too. I remember when I was a youngin, if I ever had to go over to a house with my parents for like some kind of house party or whatever, and they're like, oh, they've got a kid too. Go play with them. And the kid was a little bit older

or my like friend had like a teenage brother or something like that. They would always have a very specific album that i wasn't allowed to listen to it's like you're not to listen to that music and so when i discovered it on my own as a teenager i really liked it it was like a rebellious phase where i'm like i'm finally old enough to listen to this and all that stuff and that is the band the offspring um oh yeah offspring was this like awesome um yeah would you even describe them as like grunge i guess they'd be like they were coming out of the grunge phase a little bit and were like very energetic um it's like pop punk i wouldn't say it's pop would you would you

say it's pop maybe punk pop punk it's like punky grungy whatever but yeah um they had two albums at that time that i really liked americana and smash and they were great they were just like angry suburban kid you know teenager music to americana yeah one and two and three and four and one yeah but it was like really fast like thrashy electric guitar um and i just loved it i don't know that was for me just the moment of like yes i have become a teenager no one can tell me what music not to listen to and yeah i'm mad at my suburban life too the every album that i'm listening today are like literally the only ones that i can listen to front to back and be like yeah this is a good album so smash and americana

are both great yeah my sister listened to a lot of offspring so then i in turn listened was it your older sister yes that is the exact same thing that happens so like i feel like we all have that shared experience the other one and this is not in my top five but the other one that influenced me a lot because my sister listened to it was uh rob zombie wow i really liked dragula and super beast those Those were awesome songs that I listened to when my age was still in single digits. And therefore, I should not have been listening to it. I don't think I've ever listened to Rob Zombie. It's cool, actually.

Yeah. I try to think of Rob Zombie, but I immediately think of Power Man 5000. It's just a lot of like... Yeah, exactly. Kind of like that? Yeah, exactly. And it's got really like that? Yeah exactly. And it's got really like chugging guitars.

Dracula is literally about the car that was driven by the Munsters in that like old family sitcom that is it was called

the Dragula because it's like drag racing so number four. Number four. Um alright I'm rearranging

like crazy here. I'm gonna give a shout out actually to really the first time i started to pay attention to music at all um which of course was being introduced by my brother who i i tried to copy my brother in every sort of way when i was young just because i thought everything he did was cool he would play he'd play final fantasy games and i would be like oh these are the coolest games only the cool people play. And he would listen to a ton of NoFX. And that's a- I don't know them.

NoFX, and just to shout out also to just punk rock and ska in general from the late 90s, early 2000s. And I'm also going to include Tenacious D in this as well. Just that era of like music. NoFX isn't really my style of music in general. I'm not a huge punk fan, but back then I wanted to be like my brother and he listened to a ton of it.

And so that was one of my first, the War on Errorism was the first album I ever bought. And it was crazy. It was a bunch of music just talking crap about the government and everything. And I didn't really know. You're like, yeah. I was so young. But they have a song about how the idiots, it's called The Idiots Are Taking Over.

And it's, I don't know, probably a lot of it's not okay. But I haven't listened to it in a long time. Well, they started in the 80s. So like, yeah, different time. Yeah, I think they even got in trouble like in the past few years for something they did at a live show. I can't remember. But I mean, like, yeah, it was it was intense for then. So I can only imagine if I really listen to it.

But I don't know, just getting in my brother's old Honda, old Honda Civic, just super, because I would go and hang out with my brother while he worked at a summer camp. And so I would go with him to work and getting in his car, it's in Arizona. So the car would be super, super hot. You get in and I mean, his, as soon as he turned the car on music was so loud it was just blasting punk music immediately i think that was an older sibling thing yeah man oh my god he would be it was so loud so brutally loud and this music like punk rock music blasting is a lot that's how you have to that's that's the level you have to play punk rock music yeah you have to play a full blast you don't even get to hear half the notes unless you got this thing cranked

up to 11 you gotta blow out the speaker so there's like you have to be bleeding out of your ears because otherwise quiet punk music not good no it might as well be chopin yeah and tenacious d it just i don't know it was it was i also listened to a ton of it back when i was in middle school i thought that shit was so funny the mcdonald the drive-through the drive-through bit i died when my my i was driving along my brother was driving that bit came on and i remember laughing so hard thinking it was the funniest thing i'd ever heard in my life. There you go. Nice. Number four. Number four. Okay.

So, so Linkin Park introduced music with screaming in it. They were the first ones. The very first people to ever scream on a track. But this was the band that cemented my fandom into the world of screamo music and that band is under oath oh yeah i don't think i know this band they were a christian screamo band had no idea they were christian until you get to like their 11th track and like it what was like screamo music. It's something like Jesus. And you're like, huh? Yeah.

Where did this come from? But Under Oath, their album, they're only chasing safety, which has like one of the most recognizable album covers of that like era. It's like that woman with like the oxygen mask on her face. That's the band that got me into that sort of scene. That's so interesting. So was your,

was your like hometown where you grew up with, were they particularly religious? No. That's so funny. I wouldn't say so. Cause I didn't know other people would know that. Cause I'm from Georgia in an area that was in general, very religious.

My family didn't really practice anything. So that was sort of made us an outlier a bit. And sorry to like hijack your topic, but I remember it would always be the thing that like slightly older by like one or two year teenagers would cite as what they've been listening to to sort of sound like super cool. And they'd also try to convince you

that it was just as cool as any other screamo band. So it'd be like, yeah, I've been listening to like a lot of Under Oath. It's Christian scream metal. It's been it's pretty cool. Like, I think you'd like it a lot. You know, it's just. Yeah, it was.

I just have so many conversations in my mind that went exactly that way. Yeah, we like the the live music scene in Sacramento was pretty good. We had a lot of venues, a lot of small venues. And several of those venues were churches. Like they were churches that had like an auditorium to the side. So there's a lot of these like screamo bands that would come through and they would have to, I think they even had like kind of sometimes censor. If they weren't like a Christian band that weren't already censored,

they would have to like censor themselves a little bit in order to be allowed to play there. Can you throw in a couple Jesuses in there? A couple praise gods. Yeah. It's the same thing with like System of a Down too because I wouldn't say they're necessarily Christian or I don't know but like

there are so many nods in there about like it's like Father something Father help me. Like that's not a real lyric but it's there are Father something, Father help me. Like, that's not a real lyric, but it's, there are always these moments of like, you know, I cry when angels deserve to die. Wouldn't that be in reference to Lucifer,

therefore pushing away Satanism? Like, I think there's a lot of winks in there of like, I don't know if they're a Christian band, but it seems like the Christian memory. Well, Creed, I didn't know that, I didn't know that Creed was a Christian band. Oh yeah, Creed is Christian. I had no idea.

So like, I think a lot of bands from that era actually were. Because Christian Rock was- Switchfoot? No, Switchfoot. Switchfoot, definitely. Yeah, a lot from that era, I think, probably was. But, yeah, so that's my number four. So, how about let's get to number three.

Number three. Oh, man, it's tricky. Number three was the weird slot for me. Because I'm actually remembering things as we're talking about stuff, too. So I'm going to do very two very dissimilar albums that once again,, oh, people apply them in this way. So the two artists slash albums are Weird Al Running With Scissors and Flogging Molly, all of their stuff. Weird Al Running With Scissors was, you know, some of the first parody music I'd ever heard. And I always loved comedy as a kid. So I was like, whoa, like you can do these two things together and he's allowed to record like this. It definitely sparked a bunch of inspiration for me. I ended up doing a lot of musical improv back home at that like improv studio I used to

work with. Shout out to Whole World Theater in Atlanta. You know, Weird Al definitely was a huge influence on me there. And then Flogging Molly, for anyone who doesn't know, is like very like Irish piratey, like punk rock. Now, like I just listen to Celtic music, you know, style music whenever I can, little jigs and reels or whatever.

If I'm ever crafting like with leather, that's what I'll do. But it just sort of was like, you know, getting me out of pop and being into like, what about Irish folk? And what about comedy? And was it Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys that had that really famous one? The one that Dropkick Murphys.

Yeah, the one that departed. Dropkick Murphys. Shipping out to Boston. Yeah, really famous one. Dropkick Murphys. Dropkick Murphys, yeah. The one that they used in The Departed. Dropkick Murphys. Shipping out to Boston, yeah, is the one. I don't think I've ever listened to Flogging Molly. And I heard a lot about them back in the day because I remember there was shirts. Shirts were sold at Hot Topic and stuff. When you're talking about Dropkick Murphys,

Flogging Molly, I always combine them with like no effects and stuff because it seemed like the same people that I was growing up with, like the rocker kids, all listened to like those like three bands. Angry music was really in. Like music was angry

because rap was angry. Rock was angry. There was punk. You had Korn. Everything was really angry. Everything seems to go from angry to sad. That's the natural course for a genre so it's like what you're seeing now with like rap like rap during 50 cents era was

literally like you know what the karens of the day like you know we're like it's so violent i don't like it's so scary and now we have like these sad emo rappers basically and like they're going through that phase so this was the rock version of that. You went from angry to like angry, sad. And like, that's where I live right in that middle. Cause I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I was trying to listen to like the, the, the hot rap right now. You know how Spotify has like rap caviar. Oh yeah. It can often be really good. And there was like a song on there that was like literally the rappers talking about having PTSD. Yeah. Oh my gosh. A lot of it's really sad. And I'm like,

I'm like, this is so funny. Cause like the, the sort of like the hip hop that like I grew up on was like about being like as tough as possible. And like, I love it. Honestly,

it's, I don't have a problem with it. It's just, it's just funny. Like how it's changed. Yeah. It's interesting. I never would have thought that Screamo stuff and rap

would end up combining like it has Lil Peep and Juice WRLD and stuff. Triple X Temptation or whatever. Yeah, Juice WRLD was literally like, he's basically Screamo. It was almost, I mean, I'm not a music expert, but to my ears, I was like, oh, this really sounds similar to that. Yeah. Yeah. It's fascinating. They fill the same role for sure. I think it's, you know, calling out to the youth that want something more or are looking around their surroundings and feeling like it's bleak. That's where the angry style music comes from, I think.

But like after the anger has been a thing for a while and you still don't see something change, that's when it feels hopeless and you're singing about the sadness and the feelings and that's just sort of been my thought on it. Like I said, I don't listen to music much, so I don't know. All right, Shane, number three. All right, number three.

All right, I'm gonna go with a combo here and this is kind of a shout out to the music that I was really raised on. This combo, I'm gonna give it to my two faves is Stevie Wonder and Hall and Oates hey that's great because because I growing up my parents listened to mainly 70s and 80s like Motown R&B disco music a lot of that that's like tight that's what i would want to listen that's awesome yeah that's the stuff i they they listen to it and set they my parents still only like the the

80s ended and they were like you know what we're done we're done with new music we've found all the music we want we're gonna listen to earth wind and fire casey and the sunshine band so good uh hollow notes the pointer sisters they're just yes we're saying we're sticking with all these Earth, Wind & Fire, Casey and the Sunshine Band. So good. Hall & Oates, the Pointer Sisters. We're sticking with all these. We're good. You and I have bonded over that before, Shane, about how similar our lives are. I mean, we found out on a recent podcast

that we were both in Willy Wonka in a play at the same time, but also our moms love the Pointer Sisters. You guys could say this for your best friends podcast. But I'm bringing up the Pointer Sisters. It's music. It's music. It's music. Pointer Sisters. Our moms both like Pointer Sisters. You guys could say this for your best friends podcast. But I'm bringing up the Pointer Sisters. It's music. It's music. It's music. Pointer Sisters.

Our moms both like Pointer Sisters. That's all I want to say, Ethan. Yeah. My parents just, they love disco music. Like it's, and I'll be honest, I'll take a stand here that to me, I do think disco, like that era of music is overall the best. Like anything from that disco, like that era of music is overall the best.

Like anything from that genre, from that era, I like most of. I listen to a lot of music that has a lot of disco influence. Oh, yeah. I just like, I love a beat. I love a beat. I need a beat involved in most songs, especially that bass beat, you know, like there. I recently, the most, the newest genre of music that I've discovered recently that I love and can listen to almost any of it is city pop, which is 80s Japanese music. What? I want it. 70s and 80s Japanese music. And it's called city pop

because people would have stereos out on the streets and it would be playing this type of music. So they're called, oh, City Pop. But it's basically it sounds like American 70s pop music, but just in Japanese. That's awesome. That's all I've ever wanted in my life. It's kind of like I love fun, dude, because, you know, K-pop and all this stuff is becoming so popular now and it's it's great music. But I started listening to K-pop too, and I was like finding all these songs that I loved, and they were all from the 90s or early 2000s

because they literally sound like NSYNC. It's just Korean versions of NSYNC and all that stuff. So you get to listen to that same genre of music that we love, but just a bunch of new stuff. It's awesome. Well, that's cool. Yeah. All right. Hell yeah.

Well, moving us right along because I don't want to waste too much time before we get to our test test. Yeah, don't waste any time on Shane's turn. No way. No, never. Oh, is it my turn? Okay.

Number three. I'm nothing. This I put on here because, well, I'll just say it. It's the used self-titled album. Oh. Oh, I don't know them. It's their first.

Oh, wait, the used? The used? Yeah, I know them. Because if you I guarantee you put on the use and you will realize every single song is a mother flippin banger really they used I'll look it up I don't think I've listened to the used that much every song is a banger literally like whenanger. Literally, when this song came out, almost every song was playing on the radio. So I just got to give a shout out to The Used.

I'm learning some stuff. Hell yeah. And then they were one of the people that did the secret track at the end. You know? Love that. Have you wait an extra long time. And I think it was audio audio of like some old english

uh hooker that they purchased to sing happy birthday to the singer oh and yeah that sounds that sounds that sounds about right for that era yeah yeah that sounds like something they would they would do yep oh my god but yep that my number three. Now let's go to number two. Numat Zvai. All right, this one is college years where a genre that I used to like and nobody else liked then became popular again

or maybe it was just I didn't know about it and it was popular the whole time. I don't know. That's how it goes. But what shame. I'm just laughing at you being like party rock anthem. Party rock anthem.

LMFAO took the world by storm. No. So I always loved electronic music. I always loved dance music, but there was never really a thing for me that I at least knew about beyond Eiffel 65. And things were popular like the Chemical Brothers or Basement Jacks or whatever,

but I didn't really care for those. It didn't really hit the same. One of the first ones I heard in college that I was just like oh my god this album is so beautifully orchestrated you listen to it front to back all the songs bleed into each other it's all one cohesive unit and you it's experiential there there's notes that you don't even realize you're hearing until you go back and listen again it's spectrum by zed um it's so good i like it's almost entirely instrumental and like i remember hearing it and like not being influenced by drugs and alcohol at all just by myself hearing it i like heard some of the orchestration and like at one point i didn't

expect uh the bass line went down as like the tenor parts went up and I like teared up and I was like oh my god like how are they instilling these emotions from just notes like no lyrics no nothing like it just hit me so hard love it so much Zedd continues to make awesome stuff he sort of moved on for he used to do everything in like a minor key and I think that's what set him different set him apart and he sort of moved on from that a bit but I still really enjoy what he puts out. Yeah, those types of artists, I don't know what you'd necessarily,

I don't know what they're necessarily called, just electronic, just- Electronic music. I think there's like 50 sub genres of dance electronic. There's all sorts of, because it's not dubstep, it's not whatever. It's like house, you consider it like house. Yeah, there's so many different names and I don't know-

Main stage or main floor, whatever. I have a lot of respect for it and And it's really dope when you find what, when, usually for me with that type of music, I'll eventually a single song will come on my radar that I'll just listen to over and over again. Cause it's, there's so much going on in those songs.

Like, yeah, there'll just be that one Calvin Harris song that you'll be like, Oh my God, this is insane. Yeah. And his album, uh,

waiting for, I forget the name, but like Calvin Harris' first album is also a banger. I have to add in a tie to this that I totally forgot about, but Shane, you introduced me to them and they're also electro. This is electro swing, Caravan Palace. Caravan Palace, top notch.

Combining electro and swing, nothing better. So Zedd and Caravan Palace were the anthem of my college years. That category, because Caravan Palace and there's also Parav Stellar are so interesting and so good. For those listening, go listen to Caravan Palace. That stuff is nuts. So good.

I had to give it a shot. They had a song trend on TikTok too, so you might've already heard that. It's, yeah. You know what it sounds, you know what Caravan Palace is? It sounds like steampunk. Yes.

It sounds like it's a world that only robots live in. Okay, now you're making me less interested. Oh, no. It's so cool. It's sort of like how Fallout the game takes like, all right, technology went to the 50s, and then we got stuck there, but everything's still kind of futuristic.

That's the song. Yeah, it's cool. It's so cool. I'm going to go with probably my most recent musical craze. The person that I just have. It's so cool. I'm gonna go with probably my most recent Musical craze the person I that I just have thought is just so dope Janelle Monae knew it Yeah, this is very recent this past couple years that I've started to really listen I listened to all of her albums and she her whole thing is that she's built this whole universe With her albums. She's telling a singular story with it all oh that's cool very complicated very crazy and very like like she's like an android right yeah it's it's basically it's a world where it's like she's trying to tell a story about how

androids are discriminated against and there's clearly a lot of real world comparisons it's very deep and very cool but also just her music is just so different. Like I can't find anything like it. And she's so talented because her voice is incredible, but she'll also rap and so much going on. I saw, I've seen a lot of people say like, compared to like Prince,

like she is a lot of influence. Sure. Man, you're doing well. If people are comparing you to Prince at all. Yeah. Like, of course, of course she gained inspiration from someone.

Of course, it's like there's no such thing as I've done something that nobody has done before. But listening to all of her music and listening to Prince, there's still a difference. And she's definitely like, I don't know. She is, if I had to say, if I thought anyone was the prince of our era, I would pick her just because she's bending it all. She's just, she's twisting like the image to something that nobody can really like put a label on. Yeah, I don't know.

I just dig her. I dig her style and her persona and everything. Just, I really like the stuff she makes. It to me is like, you know, I listen to a lot of music. I'm like, oh, this is great music. But stuff i'm like i'm like this is like art this is hell yeah cool so you've sold me i'm gonna listen to her right after this yeah yeah i've only heard a couple songs her album uh my my favorite of hers is uh not not her most recent one but the one before i think it's called the electric electric lady uh i'd have to i don't

remember the title of the album but it's dope it's dope i do have something here is number two but i was thinking a little bit more about it because i feel like i feel like i've just been doing a lot of throwbacks because i'm trying to think like oh what what like shaped me but one album that that that shaped my moving to los angeles and and my life in los Angeles, Tame Impala, baby. Oh, snap. Wow. Tame Impala, Currents, that album, Hot Dang. Yeah.

That's a tight album. They just came out with a new one, right? Yeah, they did. Yeah, their stuff is awesome. I had never heard Tame Impala. It's a guy. Is it just a single guy? Yeah, he tours with a band, but he writes all the music.

Oh, wow. He's legendary. I remember I had never heard or seen anything by Tame Impala until we were all in the office. This is way back. This is like in 2015, 2016. And someone put on The Less I know the better on the TV screen. And that's the first time I ever heard that song is through the music video.

I don't think I've ever heard it. I remember immediately just being like, like it's one of the best songs ever made. Like less I know the better is one of the best songs ever made. And it has like layers. Like it's not just the same song over and over again. Like it breaks down to that bass riff. Damien, you've definitely heard The Less I Know. You've definitely heard it.

Probably, but you're saying that you didn't even hear it until you got into the office and someone put it on. Maybe I haven't. But this was five years ago, though. It's played on TikToks. It's played all over. You'll hear the beat and you'll be like, oh, I've heard this. But I still recommend going and finding the music video

and watching it. The music video is pretty sweet. I've got a bunch of tabs open here of stuff to watch. Tame Impala is my number two. I was gonna say another throwback to the Scream of Days. A Day to Remember, who was like a, it was like a, just a super generic, like a hardcore screamo band,

but like they had the sickest breakdowns. They did a metal cover to Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone. And it's actually like. Good. Pretty awesome. But that brings us to number one. Number one.

Are we doing, do we have time for honorable mentions? I think just do them quickly. Like we won't comment. We won't comment on them. Two quick honorable mentions are Rise Against, which goes well with your theming right now, Ian, and also Queen in general. I know I feel like a silly goose quoting a greatest hits album,

but their greatest hits album is perfect. And I used to listen to it all the way through in my car all the time. Sure, Queen's one of the greatest. Some honorable mentions are James Taylor, Tyler, the creator, Gwen Stefani slash No Doubt, Caravan Palace, obviously,

Florence and the Machine, Rolling Stones, and Weezer. I'm sure there's a million more because I listen to a lot of music, but those are the ones that come to mind. My honorable mention goes to Oscar winner, Three Six Mafia. Nice. I have to add one more honorable mention. I'm sorry.

Gesu no Kiwami Otome is like the only Japanese band whose name I know that I just love them. Oh, sorry. I actually do have to I just love them. Oh, sorry. I actually do have to give another honorable mention. Oh, he's got one. This one's probably, I'm going to be real honest. This one might be my most listened to genre of music. And that is video game soundtracks.

Yes. Yes. And anime openings. But yes. Video game soundtracks, man. I find some and I just keep listening to them. What's your top one? Probably Final Fantasy VII, probably.

VII or XII? VII. Okay, because I know you like XII. I do like XII, but VII's just got, there's just, dude, some of those battle music is just so good, especially when you're working out. Yes.

I used to do that as a kid all the time. Nobuo Uematsu was the composer, and he did seven and eight, and I always listened to those soundtracks. But the Undertale soundtrack, and especially if you find good remixes of Undertale music, super dope. Love it. Super dope. Now on to number one.

Numa Ainz. All right, so this goes back to those teenage years. It's what albums can i always listen to even put on nowadays and they still just slap um and they're definitely in a very similar genre they are my chemical romance three cheers for sweet revenge and panic at the disco a fever you can't sweat out wow panic at the disco panic at the disco a fever you can't sweat out every single song is a masterpiece. So good. So good. So different

from one another. And I don't even necessarily listen to the album all the way through. I'll listen to a song, think to myself, damn, that was good. Listen to it on repeat four or five times and then move on to the next song in the album. Like, ah, you just want to consume. It's the kind of album that I would just put on with my actual like Discman

CD player on the bus as a kid. Just all the way through over and over and over and over again. Wow. Nice. Hell yeah. My Chemical Romance is just legendary. They are. I remember there was that period of time where Black Parade was just number one and you were kind of like, it's going to be number one forever. Like it was just never falling.

Yeah. It's an anthem. Everybody needs an anthem. That E key, right? Shane, number one. All right. Okay. So that's a tie.

I can just do it between two albums that I think are just like ones I can listen to over and over. Sublime, self-titled album. Yeah. And obviously, I mean, it's hard not to say this could be the best album of all time. Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. I knew it. I knew you were going to say that. I've talked about, well, because Fleetwood Mac, I've, I know we did Two Truths and a

Lie and I, Fleetwood Mac was my favorite. The problem is my favorite band changes all the time. At one moment I'll be like, oh, it's Sublime. And then I'll be like, it's Fleetwood Mac, whatever. But that's why those two take, take one. What is it, Ian? Fleetwood Mac is so good. Oh, is that also your first? I have Fleetwood Mac's Rum. But that's why those two take one. What is it, Ian? Fleetwood Mac is so good. Oh, is that also your first?

I have Fleetwood Mac's Rumors as my number one. Yeah. What? Dude, dude, it's the best album. Okay. No way. Yeah. Again, every song is a banger.

But also when you learn about- The making of. When you learn about the making of it, it is freaking insane. I wrote it down a little bit because I just wanted to get it right. So there's five people in the band. Stevie Nicks just split with Lindsey Buckingham. And then there was Christine and John McVie. They were together.

Oh, they were divorcing. And then Mick Fleetwood, his marriage was shaky. And then he later on goes to have an affair with Stevie Nicks. But while they're recording this song, and by the way, there's multiple songwriters, Stevie Nicks and Lindsay both wrote songs for this album. And they both basically wrote breakup songs to each other. And they're both kind of like fuck yous to each other and like i grew up listening to not even understanding what it was about yeah but it's it's crazy because like go your own way is literally is literally him just kind of so here

here's the lyrics uh tell me why everything turned around packing up shacking up is all you want to do um basically saying i mean you can interpret that as being like oh you just want to sleep with people that's all you want to do there's probably so much because also don't break the chain is another one and i'm curious like that has to be doing something and then yeah and then and then she wrote a song about him and that was Dreams, which actually ended up being their only number one.

That's a power move to write a song that your ex has to sing. Yeah. Now here's your section where you say, I'm a cheating piece of crap. And then you go around and tour and sing that song every night. Couldn't do it.

Good God. Yeah. Thunder't do it. Good God. Yeah. Thunder only happens when it's raining. Players only love you when they're playing, which is a double entendre because it's calling him a player, but also a musical player only loving her when they're making music and not outside. God, it's so, dude, it goes down forever. All of those songs are still hits.

So many songs from that album are played constantly still, and it's been so long. It's so good. I copied this one quote from Stevie Nicks. She said, so then I wrote dreams, and because I'm the chiffony, I guess that's some kind of word, chick who believes in fairies and angels, and Lindsay is a hardcore guy.

It comes out differently. Lindsay is saying, go ahead and date other men and go live your crappy life, and I'm singing about rain washing you clean. We were coming at it from opposite angles, but we were really saying the same exact thing. Wow, that's so interesting. There's a meme of,

it's a photo of a guy eating a burger. He's at McDonald's. A guy just casually eating a burger while a brutal fight is happening in the McDonald's behind him. And it's the caption over the people fighting is Fleetwood Mac making rumors. And then the guy eating the burger just says,

me listening to rumors. Yeah, that's so good. What are the odds that you both have that at number one? That's insane. We've talked about Fleetwood, about rumors. That's so funny. What are the odds that you both have that at number one? That's insane. We have talked about Fleetwood. Maybe a little bit. I remember, because I remember you started singing a song about me sitting in the corner and you would use the ballad from The Chain.

Sitting in the corner. Like, it's just so good. Oh, yeah. Incredible. And the making of it. Damn. We haven't even mentioned Landslide, which i think is a different album but it is still still the fact that you have that album be so good and your most legendary song is on another album i mean come on i mean

i mean come on come on come on like everyone's just sleeping with each other and they're all writing these shit talking songs about each other and they all become crazy famous for it. One day. And they have to sing it for 40 years. Can you imagine when we're like 80 and there's like behind the scenes and just like, yeah, at that point, Ian and I had been sleeping together for about 15 years, and that's when we made Hot Dog Tinder for Hot Dogs.

The reason Tinder for Hot Dogs was so legendary is because we were all fucking and fighting behind yeah you couldn't understand the you see the double entendre of the hot dog being selected on tinder was for shane's relationship with tim the uh it was basically saying if literally anything came along even if it wasn't a person, I would swipe right on it instead of you, Tim. Exactly. Exactly. Well, guys, this has all been very illuminating,

but we can't end this list without a shoot dude. Oh, shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude. Shoot dude.

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Ooh, okay. Oh, snap. Well this one comes from Elizabeth. And she says, okay, here's the story. I was walking around the mall when somebody stepped on the heel of my shoe and a part of the sole of my shoe came loose. I could still walk around, but it was just very annoying.

I decided to walk into an arts and crafts store and buy some quick-drying super glue to fix it. I bought the glue, explained the situation, and they allowed me to sit down and fix my shoe in the store. Instead of taking off my shoe, though, I figured, why would I? So I just put a load of glue on the part of the sole that had come off and decided to stand up as to put pressure on the glue so it would dry correctly. What I didn't realize was that I had put too much glue on my

shoe and it dripped down the sides and ended up underneath the sole of my shoe. It took me a minute or so before I realized I had glued myself to the carpeted floor of a store. It took me a minute or so before I realized I glued myself to the carpeted floor of a store. At this point, the owner of the store started to look at me weirdly. So I did all I could. So I did all I could think to do. I tugged my foot off the carpet so forcefully it came loose and I ran out. I could actually see the footprint on the carpet. Running out by itself would have been embarrassing, but the whole ordeal ripped the sole of my shoe even further. Only the toe part of the sole was still attached, so they could clearly hear me running as every step I took made this ridiculous slapping sound. It honestly sounded like I was wearing

a pair of swimming fins. Also, if Damien reads this, I swear I didn't make this up. I am really that much of an idiot sometimes. Oh my God. I legit believe this one. I believe this one too. This is very believable.

Yeah. The truth is stranger than fiction as well. And this is also the most normal of any of the ones we've had recently. No, that's a definite, I mean, for me, it's gotta be a shoot dude.

That's a, that's a shoot dude. That's a, that's, that's for sure. A shoot dude. That's a, that's a bummer because the thing happened to you and it was not your fault.

I mean the, the, the, the heel thing at first, but then like the, the, the store was kind of kind to let you sit there and fix your shoe and then you kind of screw them over but not

intentionally and like i think anybody would have made the choice to just bolt um it's just oh i almost said a sticky situation but it is i guess you could say that's a shoe dude. Nice. She was not very crafty. Oh, that hurts me right to the very soul. But I guess that joke would have to be tongue in cheek. Guys, quit horsing around. Oh.

All right, guys, let's slow down. It's not a lace. tongue in cheek. Oh. All right, guys, let's slow down. It's not a lace. Guys, I think she was in a Louis Vuitton of trouble. If it attached her

to her skin and actually made her tear it off, then those would have been some real red bottoms. That's definitely soul crushing. I said that. I already said that earlier. I even said that red bottoms. That's definitely soul crushing. I said that joke like two seconds ago.

I already said that earlier. I even said that before you, Ian. I said it before you. I said it best. I do the fastest and the most and the loudest. My house has 100 bathrooms. I could do 1,000 sit-ups. Are you going to brag about how many bathrooms you have in the house?

I have 100 bathrooms. I could do 1,000 sit-ups. I have 100 bathrooms. My mom owns Nintendo, and she's the boss of Nintendo. So enough about that. Thank you guys so much for indulging me on your wonderful lists of music. I'm going to take a trip down music lane. What was that one band you wanted me to listen to?

Carnival? Caravan Palace. Carnival Rose? Fergie. Caravan Palace. Not Fergie. Never Fergie. Fergie? The woman Palace. Not Fergie, never Fergie. Fergie, the woman

that peed herself on stage? One of the many. Oh, come on. Ian, if you're gonna make fun of a woman, at least make fun of her for her terrible music. Okay.

Damn. So bad. Oh, I'm sorry. Am I dropping news for everybody? Maybe you haven't heard her songs, but she tells you herself very subtly in every song. news for everybody Maybe you haven't heard her songs

But she tells you herself very subtly in every song I haven't talked to Damien in ten years about Fergie and the last conversation I had with him ten years ago was about how much he hated Fergie I'm glad that opinion has not changed. It's just bad Well, maybe the two of you maybe the two of you guys can get together next time and talk about your hatred of fergie okay i would like that all right uh everyone this was ian shane and damien and that was our first that was our that was our top five music albums. Nailed it. Influence songs.

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