The Josh Innes Show - My Strange Apple Music Year In Review

Episode Date: December 6, 2024

Everyone has been talking about their Spotify year in review. Well, I don't use Spotify for my tunes. I use Apple. I've got my year in review. This leads to a full breakdown of the song "Shannon" by Henry Gross. You've heard the song. How many of you know the extremely fucked up origin of the song? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Friday, hello. I will be off to the St. Clair Square Mall here in a little bit to get in the lab, as it were, and come up with the ultimate prop bets for the NFL weekend for you. I don't have them yet. And what I've learned is I'm at my best when I'm sitting outside of the shuttered Sears store in a comfortable chair, going to work and listening to John Lopez's meat smoking podcast. That's where I came up with my best weekend ever as it relates to prop bets. So that's where I'm off to here in just a little bit. But first, we must talk and just talk about what's going on in the world. First of all, so I'm going to start here.

So we did the Spotify wrapped the other day, which really isn't a fair thing for me because I don't really use Spotify, but I did let you know the data for the podcast. Like, hey, the growth, blah, blah, blah on Spotify. Well, I now have a more accurate depiction of what my listening trends are like because I am an Apple music person. So I'm going to go through this. I haven't looked at this yet, but I was just watching some other podcast on YouTube and they were doing their Apple Music version of Wrapped. It's the replay your year in music. So you can go month by month on this or you can play a highlight reel. Let's see here. Now here now here are the oh wow so let me go through some

of this here i'm gonna go month through month and then i'm going to give you who were my uh the most listened to artist of the year okay but i'm gonna start in january and i'm intrigued by this because like i think they give you a breakdown of the types of music you were listening to every month like so like what happened in like july when my dog died are they gonna like label this like sad dog died music because i'm gonna tell you the truth when my dog died real talk i started scrolling through looking for any song about a dude whose dog died and i drove around and i just sobbed for hours and hours. So in July of this year, it could very well be like the month of dog dying music. I don't know. All right. So, but they give you each month. There's a whole bunch of different things, but let's start in January. You didn't listen enough

this month. Okay. Nothing in January, nothing in February. Now March. Here's why I think I didn't listen to a ton of those months because really my listening really peaks in the summerish months when we sit outside, drink bush lights, and play Yahtzee. Let's see. This month's milestones that were in March.

Your top songs, one playlist updated weekly, open in Apple Music. Hold on. Let me see if I can figure this out. Artists played. I had 100 artists played in march of this year let's see here milestones for this year there's a lot of shit that goes into this um i've played over 7500 minutes of songs. I've played 1,000 songs, 500. How do I even know 500 artists? But I've played 500 artists. That's in progress. I hit 5,000 listening minutes in September. I hit 250 artists in July. That means since July, I've listened to 250 different artists and 500 different songs just since July. Let me see here.

Let me go to April. I didn't listen a lot in April. May, you listened for 387 minutes in May, and your top artist was Van Halen. And your top song was I'm Not In Love by 10CC. And your top album was Songs You Know By Heart, which is the Jimmy Buffett greatest hits album. Okay, let's see, June. This must be where things ramp up because June we're probably getting

into more Yacht Rock time now. June, your top artist was Luke Combs. Yes, because in June is when the Luke Combs album came out and I listened to it in its entirety and sat in the car. I was driving to a remote when I was still employed. I was driving out for Flag Day. We were doing a remote. Subsequently, it was remote where some old man came up and tried to kick my ass.

But I listened to the entire Luke Combs album, and it was spectacular. I cried the whole damn time. But I listened to it. 1,209 minutes in June. The top artist was Luke Combs, 92 minutes. But my top song was I Go Back by Kenny Chesney, which I find to be hard to believe, but that may have been the month we went to see Kenny Chesney. So that might've made sense. Top album was Luke Combs Fathers and Sons in June you listen for 41 minutes okay July the top artist was Steely Dan listened for 73 minutes see now we're getting into the heart of like yacht rock season this is when we sit outside we play We play, we call it Yachtsy. Y-A-C-H-T-Z-E-E, Yachtsy. We listen to Yacht Rock and we play.

So Steely Dan, 73 minutes. But my top song was Lonesome Loser by the Little River Band. And still the top album, even in July, was Luke Combs' Fathers and Sons. August was down to 991 minutes, but the top artist was the little river band but the top album in August was the rise and fall of a midwest princess chapel ron we're in our chapel ron era in August baby uh September the top artist was Hank Williams Jr.

and the top song was Louisiana Saturday night which means we got into some football season. I'm playing that one. I'm hammered. And the top album was the Fleetwood Mac album, The Dance Live, which means I was listening to Silver Spring. I don't know why. I was seeing Silver Spring on different reels and shit. So I would listen to that. October, Don't Tell Me What Love Can Do from Van Halen was the top song and the top album was Balance which means we'd probably what what month was the Sammy show that was in August so that doesn't really apply there all right so let me go back to some of the other stuff in here so that was just month to month let me see the different categories oh and you can go back from year to year in this stuff too.

All right, let's see here. This is your replay. Here's the artist that defined your listening year. Van Halen at 198 minutes. Steely Dan, 191 minutes. Little River Band, 159 minutes. Toby Keith, 155 minutes and Luke Bryan 144 minutes

I tell you like it's just it goes by month to month obviously because in the summer we're listening to a lot of Van Halen we're listening to a lot of Yacht Rock and then what happens is I'll have those nights where I get hammered on a Sunday night and I stay up later than Jilly and I sit my ass out in the back and I just

listen to old country music. My top song, now again, it's only 11 plays, so I don't know if this means anything or not. And this could just be that happened to be the songs that pop up on my Yahtzee playlist, my Yacht Rock Yahtzee playlist. But the number one song out of 854 songs played was I'm Not In Love by 10CC, which played 11 times. Sharing the Night Together, Dr. Hook, 11 times. IGY, Donald Fagan, nine times. Hearts by Marty Balin, nine plays.

And Hey 19 by Steely Dan, eight plays, which I feel like I probably listened to those songs a whole lot more than that, but maybe I just don't listen to the music nearly as much as I think I listened to music because we only really do it on like a Saturday night or a Sunday afternoon during the summer. I usually listen to podcasts. Like I'm not a big music listener in the car. I listened to different podcasts. Like if Apple had my podcast that I listened to, it'd be like, oh boy, here's Josh listening

to more Eric Bischoff podcasts. Let's see here. Top albums. My top album of the year was fathers and sons, Luke Combs, followed by Jimmy Buffett songs, you know, by heart the Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Chapel Roan. God, that's a good album. Balance, Van Halen, which is an

underappreciated album, and The Bangles' Greatest Hits. I don't know why The Bangles' Greatest Hits would be on there, but okay. Your top genres were pop rock, soft rock, adult contemporary, contemporary country, and rock. Let's see.

Okay, let me see. Let me play your highlight reel. Okay, highlight reel. Here we go. Here's the highlight reel. So that's IGY. You listened to 6,000 minutes of music, which is probably very light. Your longest listening streak was 5 days cool

you had 325 artists out of the 325 artists one stood out and that was Van Halen, mostly Van Hagar I don't appreciate that you put the David Lee Roth Van Halen picture up. I am a Van Hagar guy, you saxo shit. Let's see. Luke Combs was the monthly top artist June.

Okay, we went through all that. You listen to more artists in June than any other month this year. It's a banger, man. I'm not in love. This says, this was your anthem. Yep, that's my anthem. I'm not in love by 10cc. Thank you, Apple Music Replay.

It's a solid banger, though. I don't know what to tell you. Oh, yeah. let's see this one stayed in rotation yep this album did fathers and sons i swear i cried to this fucking album i got issues bro i cried to this fucking album non-stop non-stop when i would listen this was one of my well you know the thing... Let me pause this for a second. The other thing this doesn't take into consideration is the number of nights. Like, on a Sunday night,

I'd be just totally rip shit, and I'd be sitting out on the couch watching YouTube videos and crying. So, I'm telling you, I got issues. Let's see. Top genre was... The one you go back to again and again. Well, it's yacht rock.

Call it what it is. It's yacht rock, goddammit. It and again. Well, it's yacht rock. Call it what it is. It's yacht rock, goddammit. It's not pop rock. It's yacht rock. And let's see here. Yep, there you go. So that's my year in review. This also can take you back years and years.

Like, how far back does this go? Well, 2022. What was I listening to in 2022? Now I'm genuinely curious. Let me play a couple of commercials here. I don't know if any of you give a shit about this, but for whatever reason, I'm intrigued by the music people listen to, and I don't know why.

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compared to like 7000 this, so clearly a lot more. My top artist? Van Halen. So nothing's changed there. But also it's important to know that that's more Van Hagar again. Show some respect to Van Hagar. I'm not as big on Van Halen Van Halen as I am on Sammy Hagar Van Halen and everybody knows that let's see you played 319 songs but one was your anthem how about this

no one knows this song that's a song called you're invited but your friend can't come it's a solo Vince Neil song that I used as my alarm when I would get up in the morning for work. It's called You're Invited But Your Friend Can't Come. It was in a movie called Encino Man with Pauly Shore and Brendan Fraser. Top album. How about this? Your top album of, again, this is 2022, mind you. Your top album of 2022 was Raised on Radio, which is a Journey album, kind of a forgotten Journey album that's very good. It's all because of you. I keep holding on. It's one of my favorite songs. It's called I'll Be

Alright Without You from Raised on Radio. There was one genre you came back to again and again in 2022. Pop rock, which is, again, yacht rock type shit. This is a Barry Manilow song called, what was that song called? Read Em and Weep. So in 2022, your top artist was Van Halen. Your top album was raised on radio bonus track version by journey and your top song was you're invited but your friend can't come that was in 2022 shit i guess i can look at 2023 as well let's see 2023 you're in review see if it's

changed at all now that month that year i had 3 651 minutes of listening so again the fact that i've listened to 7 000 minutes of music or whatever it is this year i mean i've tripled it in the last three years out of 293 artists one artist stood out, and it was Neil Diamond in 2023. By the way, I went to see the Neil Diamond musical, Jilly and I did. It's called A Beautiful Noise, a couple weeks ago at the fabulous Fox Theater in St. Louis, and it fucked. So if you want to see a good, fun musical, go see it.

If it's coming to your town. You played 700 songs, but one was your anthem. Girls, girls, girls. And I'll tell you why that was the case. So I tell you about betting all the time and how much I enjoy soccer betting, right? Well, in 2023, that was the apex of my soccer betting. And one of my favorite bets to take was like every soccer game to have one goal or something like that on like a big MLS night where there'd be a ton of games. I bought the actual package, the MLS package on Apple TV. And I would make bets for like every team to score a goal or something like that. Or I'd take, you know, different parlays and shit. I was into it for every team to score a goal or something like that. Or I'd take different parlays and shit.

I was into it for a little bit. So the anthem was Girls, Girls, Girls, in which Jilly and I would drunkenly sit on the couch and yell, Goals, goals, goals. And so every time we needed a big goal, and I'm like, I need to get a goddamn goal here, I would crank up the Vince Neil and Motley Crue, and we would just go, Goals, goals, goals, because we're true degenerates. And this was last year.

Let's see. From 26 albums, this one stayed in rotation. The Neil Diamond 50th Anniversary Collection, baby. Forever in blue jeans. Money talks. God, Neil fucks. That was a big Neil year. There was one genre you came back to again and again.

Pop rock. Shocker. So last year, 2023, Neil Diamond top artist. Top album was 50th Anniversary Collection, Neil Diamond diamond and the top song was girls girls girls by motley crue so that was 2023 i do anything else on here anything else intriguing oh these are your playlists that stood out okay so this is from no that was last year let me go to

2024 here we go playlists okay it goes further down okay so you had eight total playlists in 2024 here's my playlist all of which i think i created um maybe not hold on there's neil diamond essentials 90s country essentials hank williams jr essentials yacht rock essentials which i listened to for 605 minutes and an untitled playlist that's 310 minutes let's see remember last year your top rk we did that replay the soundtrack of your year open an apple music what does the soundtrack of my year sound like see what pops up. So this is your favorite tracks of the year all in one playlist. Well, shit. Thanks, Apple Music. You know what I like. Let's just hit shuffle and see what song comes up. Let's see. Now, I think the actual list of these goes in order of the songs I played the most. Oh, you want to get sad? Okay, okay.

So I wish I could break this down by month. Like I know you can in some ways on here, but there's also a lot of songs on here that I played that were just sad, like again, dog died songs. So for instance, like a couple days after, like in the days after luther died i would just get in the car and okay this is embarrassing but like i would just google songs about dogs right now some of them you know you know but others you may not know so i'm like what other songs are there about people whose dog died because now i'm sad and i just need to sit in

my car drive to our old parks and cry in the parking lot, you know? And one of them is a song called Shannon by Henry Gross. Now, the song, I forever thought this was a song about a dude whose lady left him. Well, as it turns out, it's actually a song about a dog who ran away. And if you listen to the lyrics of this song, especially when you're like in the mental state of oh my dog just died this is the most fucked up song ever i mean i'm sure i'm gonna see if you guys can hear this i'm playing it off of my phone i told you this is a very janky

rudimentary setup but this song is called shannon by henry gross and like everybody's probably heard it like Shannon is gone I heard like if you grew up like in my age and you're like it's midnight and it's like two in the morning to midnight range and you're laying in bed and like it's nothing but infomercials and there's the girls gone wild infomercial and then there's like the soft rock jams like hey i'm such and such from air supply and here's you know the greatest time life collection of the greatest love songs of all time and then you'll hear all the songs well then there was also like these 70s singers and songwriters ones like these time life collections and it'd be like who could forget these amazing songs and you'd hear like chevy van and like time in a bottle you know it'd

be like you'd be laying there it's two in the morning you're 10 years old and if i could save time in a bottle the first thing that i'd like to do and then like who could forget all of these songs what often took me by the hand i'm gonna love love her in my Chevy van and that's all right with me. And usually right after the Chevy van song, you'd hear Shannon. Shannon is gone, I heard. I just thought that was a song about some dude's chick named Shannon

that rolled the fuck out of Dodge. No, sir. It's about a fucking dog. And the most fucked up thing about this song is it's about a dog that fucking, oh, hold on, let me just play it. Let's about a fucking dog. And the most fucked up thing about this song is it's about a dog that fucking, Oh, hold on. Let me just play it. Let's see. Um, but this is one of the go-tos I was playing on my yacht rock collection. It doubled as a yacht rock and a shit. I'm sad that my dog is dead song. Uh, let me see here. Shannon by Henry Gross. Here we go. See if you guys can hear this.

Sorry that it sounds so janky. I'm just a poor bastard in his underwear laying in his bed doing a podcast. Deal with it. Okay, another day's at hand. Mama's tired again. Why? I thought it was because his old lady left him.

Can't even begin to tell her so he's probably like I don't want to tell her that me and my old lady broke up would break her heart, you know? Again, the build up is just that he and his lady broke up,

and he doesn't want to tell his mom. And then he's going to get to, like, Shannon is gone. You're like, yeah, your lady broke up. Okay, whatever. Shannon is gone, I heard. She's drifted off to sea. And you're like, wait a fucking minute. So this dude's lady was in a boating accident? You still don't really register that it's a song about a dog dying. She always loved to swim.

Like, okay, his lady drowned, I guess. She got in a rip current. I don't know why she'd want a shady tree, but okay. So she wants to find a tree like the one in our backyard. So I guess this lady really liked to sit under a tree. Like, and at this point, you're like, boy, mom really loved her, like, daughter-in-law or whatever. Like, you still don't know the fucking songs about a dog. And honestly, I don't know if it gets to a point where they even tell you the songs about a dog. But the song is about a missing dog.

And not only was the dog missing, the dog drifted off to sea while it was swimming. It is arguably the most depressing fucking song in history. But mom's not breaking down yet, but Shannon is gone. Yeah, you're crying because your goddamn dog drowned in the ocean. Again, you're thinking it's about a woman. It's about the guy's fucking dog and it's a true story. This must have been the worst experience ever. They never mentioned

it's a dog, I don't think. Well, they also don't acknowledge that the dog is dead. They think maybe she just, you know, swam hard. I guess that's a positive outlook. Maybe, you know, dog didn't drown. She finally found an island and it's cool now. So, yeah, I don't think they ever mentioned that it's a dog. I don't think so, but we hit it again right here. Shannon is gone, I heard. She's drifted off to sea.

So yeah, like for years and years, you listen to that song when you hear it on the Time Life collection and you're like, you know, I guess this guy lost his old lady and his old lady's name is Shannon and she rolled the fuck out. No, it's about a dog that got fucking lost in the goddamn ocean. Let me see if they'll show me this on here. Go back to my... Let me see if I can find my stuff here. Get my replay again. All right, replay. Like, are you going to show me my...

Anyway, I would like them to show me what I was listening to in July, for instance. Like, what I searched music-wise in July. Because I guarantee you, it was just nothing but sad, dog-dying music. Which is pretty depressing, but you know, you had to get the tears out. The tears had to flow, bruh. Oh wait, these are... Okay, so here we go. Here's different play playlist curated just for you here is the heavy rotation mix which features neil diamond and birdie higgins and alabama

and rupert holmes and dr hook and jay ferguson thanks um those are certainly songs I would listen to in hot rotation, like Jackie Blue by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Favorites mix. Boy, these are some favorites. Oh, yeah. Now, this is my kind of mix right here. These are no doubt. Why Can't This Be Love, Van Halen, Crazy Bitch, Buck Cherry,

Same Old Situation, Motley Crue. Everything's changed. Lone Star, what a weird mix. Here's the Get Up mix. What is this? Whether it's Monday morning or Friday night, get going with this personalized mix of upbeat music featuring Richard Marks. That's right, everybody.

Get your body moving to Don't Mean Nothing by Richard Marks. Let's go. There's the chill mix, which, oh, now this is more up my alley. Songs to help you relax and unwind. Updated every Sunday. So this has Dan Fogelberg, Longer, crying Don McLean. That's actually a good song. It's a cover of Roy Orbison.

It's actually really good. Can't Smile Without You, Barry Manilow. I saw him in concert a couple years ago. He was good. Oh yeah, these are solid bangers right here. You know me so well, phone. Find Your Mood. So there you go. That was my replay and share your year in music. Okay, now show me, like can you show me the exact songs like i looked up in july of this year let's see i guess you can't but uh like they literally could have said hey july is the month of sobbing over your dead dog and here's the music you listen to thank you uh all right hold on let's see here. Top songs of July. So we have a, how many songs?

Oh, there's only five. So it's still not going to quite get you there. But yeah, anyway, now you know. All right, and now you know if you didn't know what the song Shannon by Henry Gross is about. It's a depressing song about a guy whose dog drifted away in the ocean. You thought it was about a woman, didn't you, you schmucks? But you were wrong. All right, more to come.