U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME? - Collabs Into Now

Episode Date: August 8, 2018

Adam Scott Aukerman are back together this week to discuss all of R.E.M.’s collaborations. They also talk about Scott being trapped in a parking lot for hours as The Cure played in concert, the cursing situation at their households, and Prince. Plus, an important update in another episode of “U Talkin’ U2 To Me?”. This episode is brought to you by Leesa (www.leesa.com/rem).

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Adam's been playing, been miming every single part from drums to bass guitar to electric guitar. I think it just about ends right there. Yeah. Uh-huh. electric guitar I think it just about ends right there yeah uh huh I was just thinking like when those guys

we never came up with like a like the the the lovable lads from Liverpool type nickname

I don't even yeah I don't even know where they're from though we're talking of course about the band um Horyup Horyup

uh where are they from again this seems like the kind of thing that we would have covered on this show We're talking, of course, about the band Horium. Where are they from again? This seems like the kind of thing that we would have covered on this show by now. Are they from different places? Laguna. The lovable lads from Laguna. Lovable lads from Laguna. I wonder when they were recording that song, is it... what's that song called on Dead Letter Office?

That one that we were just listening to? Our theme song. I would have to look it up. The one we just claimed as our own and present as our theme song. Well, I mean, they're not using it. Nope. They put it out on Dead Letter Office. It's just sitting there.

But I wonder if when they were, because it sounds like the kind of song you're just recording when you're fucking around waiting for Michael Stuck to show up. When you're young, dumb, and full of cum. Oh, my God. What if they're like, we have too much cum. Let's record a song. Let's record this song. But, yeah, I mean, do you think.

They're recording that. They're in their 20s. Mm-hmm. In 1985, 86. The 1920s. in 1985, 86. Do you think they thought, hey, someday this song is going to be the theme song to a podcast about us? I think so.

Yeah. I mean, come on. And why not? When you record a song, it's just laying around. Let some other people have it. The moment you put it out there, it belongs to everyone. Exactly. That's what they say.

Welcome to the show. This is a very special episode because this is something that we're calling Collabs Into Now. What we're going to be discussing is all of Ari Hariam's collaborations. Collabs. Collabs into now. We're going to be talking about, I don't even know what they are. This is the only episode that I have given over total control of the music we're going to play to my co-host, my good friend over here, the guy who scratches his face occasionally, as he just did,

rubs his fingers in his eyes, trying to get conjunctivitis. You know him from krampus and uh seven and a match seven and a match you know him from seven and a match and of course torque please welcome adam scott have you ever have you ever had pink eye i have yeah yeah it's pretty cool several times over my life probably good four times maybe since i was a little boy because you do you rub poop in your eyes all the time oh yeah it's the best thing for it it's like i see it's a good way to get rid of pink eyes is just to rub feces in your eyes. I see it coming out one end. I'm like, what if it was on the other end?

Yeah, I got it at Coachella once. Ugh. Because it's just constant dirt in your eyes and dust and everything. It's like it's dirt that gives you pink eye. Yeah, but then I was rubbing it. I don't know. Sounds like a portable toilet. Something splashed up

in your eye Coachella Jesus Coachella you ever been to Coachella? couple times yeah who'd you see there? saw Radiohead once

yeah I was there I saw Prince yeah I was not there I saw Beastie Boys I was there that was when I feel like I've been a few times then

if I saw because those are all headliners those were all headliners that were on different days Beastie Boys. I was there. I feel like I've been a few times then if I saw it because those are all headliners. Those are all headliners that were on different days. Beastie Boys was the time where I was with the lovely Cool Up and the Blue Man Group started. Yeah. The lights went down. She said, oh, I have to go to the bathroom. Yeah. She left.

Could not find me when she returned. Of course not. Of course not because it's a giant thing. Could not find me when she returned. Of course not. Because it's a giant thing. Could not find me. And instead of thinking, oh, I'll wait for the Blue Man Group to end, the lights will come up and I'll be able to find him, started just bawling and tears coming, thinking that she'd lost me forever and she was stuck in Coachella.

Oh, man. And the other part is we had mutual friends who had a who had a booth who were selling some stuff we could have just met there or the problem is we didn't make a plan of like

you gotta make a plan if you can't find me I'll meet you at that thing but she just like started crying so the Blue Man Group live show was the soundtrack

to her despair so anytime anytime that'll come on in the house she'll be like turn it off so wait sorry

why would that come on in the house I she'll be like, turn it off. Wait, sorry. Why would that come on in the house? I have the record. And so for a period of time, for about a year later, occasionally it would come up on a random shuffle. There's a Blue Man Group album?

Yes, they made an album. Moby was on it and some other people. No thanks. Just gonna say no thanks to that. You've said no thanks to it your entire life. Why do you need to rub it in? Like poo in your eyes to the Blue Man Group.

Now that I know it's an option, I'm just going to say no thanks. I was there. We were at the same show. I remember watching Blue Man Group and then cruising on over. Cruising on over to the Beastie Boys. But what happened to me was the lights go up. Everyone starts filing out. I'm like, oh, okay, I'll find Kulop now.

I was not, I was nonplussed about it. I wasn't like searching everywhere for it because I was like, the lights will come up. So I start walking, walking back

and there she is just with tears streaming down her face and she goes, we're leaving now. Oh no. And I was like, but the Beastie Boys are,

we're leaving now. So got, gathered our things, went back in the car and then sat in the parking lot for an hour and a half waiting to get out as you used to in Coachella. I don't know if that's still the case. But if the Beastie Boys were performing, weren't most people watching the Beastie Boys? I know, but still people like trying to get out. So all we could hear was the Beastie Boys like from far away going. Enter Galactic. Enter Galactic.

I don't know why that made me cough. Well, just so you, what you missed was. What they do. The Beastie Boys playing and a lot of people cheering and enjoying themselves. But then after that. That sounds great. After that. That sounds like exactly what I wanted to see.

The trip out of the parking lot was probably even more fun than the trip you had. What's the longest you've ever sat there in a parking lot trying to get out of a concert? I'm sure it was Coachella. I mean, it had to be. Or it was Coachella. I mean, it had to be. The worst for me, excuse me again, was what they call the Glen Helen or the Blockbuster. There was a K-Rock 80s show, I believe, that Duran Duran played and a bunch of people.

And I went there with my good friend Dave Quackenbush, lead singer of the Vandals. And then The Cure came on. And I've seen several Cure shows. Some have been amazing and some are really dodgy where they're playing like long 10 minute versions of album tracks that you're just like, it's just those slow Cure songs

that are just a slog to get through. And I love them, but I've seen some bad shows and so we were like, let's get the fuck out of here. So you could see it was turning into one of those shows. Yeah, I think like the very first song they played was like Wish or something like really slow. And we said, let's get out of here before the traffic.

We go out there and we were trapped in the car for three and a half hours. Why? Because they, I don't know what the parking lot was like there or something. They wouldn't allow, you know, there was only like one lane for everyone. Three and a half hours. So we could hear the entire two-hour cure set from very far away. Were they stacked and people? It wasn't stacked.

No, it was just like purely trying to get out of the parking lot. They only had like one lane of cars at the Blockbuster up in Glen Helen. I saw REM there. REM. Back to REM. You know...

But we did hear, I was like, man, we should have just watched The Cure. The people who stayed for The Cure I read online recently had a five-hour wait to get out. What? Yeah.

Just the worst. You think they would have come up with ways? And it had been around for a while. There must have been some. I don't think so. I think they just were like,

for safety's sake, we're only letting people out of this one lane exit. You could have watched The Godfather. I could have. In your car. Part two.

Yeah. One of the best films. Wait a minute. Is this I Love Films? Yeah. your car part two yeah one of the best films wait a minute is this i love films yeah hey everyone welcome to i love films this is scott and this is scott and we're talking about places to watch the godfather first of all the godfather here's this might be a little controversial the godfather part two that's not controversial that be a little controversial. The Godfather Part 2. That's not controversial.

That's a great film. Yeah, but this is the controversial thing. So just let me fucking finish. Wait, wait. Sorry. You don't need to fucking bite my head off. Is this an episode of You Don't Need to Fucking Bite My Head Off? I guess so.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to You Don't Need to Fucking Bite My Head Off. This is Scott. And this is Scott. so hey everyone welcome to you don't need to fucking bite my head off this is Scott and this is Scott and you don't need to fucking bite my head off

dude hey hey Scott what you don't need to fucking bite my head off I'm sorry nah

bah nah hmm you don't need to bite my head off you don't need to bite my head off you don't need to bite my fucking head off alright see you next time

bye sorry sorry about that no problem wait you should be apologizing to me cause I said you don't need to

fucking bite my head off yeah but then we came back from listening to that other show and you said i'm sorry so i said no problem i'm not the one who should be sorry though you're the one who should be sorry to me according to who well i mean look who cares about who started it we both have a fucking problem with each other so i said sorry so now you say sorry we had a little bit of beef there a little bit sorry. We had a little bit of beef there.

A little bit. Where's the beef? A little bit of beef, the Adam Scott's penis story. Okay. Anyway, what about Godfather? Great movie. Godfather Part 2. Yeah, I think, I agree.

That's not controversial. The sequel. And I think it might be even better than the original. And I know, I know, better than the original. And I know. I know. I know. No. I know.

But watch it again with that in mind. Watch it again. By that logic, Godfather Part 3 is better than Godfather Part 2. Yeah, it is. It's really good. It's great. We love films. See you next time.

Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Good job. It got a little tense. A little contentious. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think those guys like each other.

They've been doing the show for so long together. I think there's like some... They've been doing it too long. Too long. Too long? Yeah. A little bit of beef. They need to take a break, read some Pauline Kael. Take a break! Take a – we're on a break.

We're on a – who was that? Is that my David Schwimmer? We're on a break. We're on a break. Hey, everyone. We're on a break. That makes you cough. Excuse me.

We're on a break. Hey, give me that dongle, if you will. If you know what I'm saying. No problem. Toss it over to me. Why? Toss it. Why?

Toss it at my feet. I'm not falling for this shit. At your feet? Yeah, toss it to me. I'm afraid to toss this because I don't want it to break. Yes, give me the dongle. Toss it. Holy shit.

Toss it. Here, take it. Oh my God. I know what you're trying to fucking pull. Scott, you brought a gun? I brought a gun to this recording. Jesus. There's something that we have to, we have to, uh, we have to cover.

If that's okay. Yeah. This is from, this is following up a uh, a dangling thread from a previous episode of You Talking, You Too to Me. Oh, okay. Maybe we should do, maybe this is this is probably of You Talking U2 to Me. Maybe we should do, maybe this is probably You Talking U2 to Me. Yeah, it's an episode of that. Alright.

From boy to breaking wave, every last one of them that is, this is you talking U2 to me, the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things U2. This is good rock and roll music. We are back. My man Adam over here.

Hey, everybody. This is Scott. And remember when we went to go see the band here too? Yeah, at MSG. A little MSG action. And this is a previous episode. Remember our good friend Bonobos? We were at a party and he came up to us and said,

Did you hear it? Yeah. And we were like, What? What are you talking about, dude? Back off. Yeah. Back off. Yeah. Back off.

Leave us be. Let us live our lives, bonobos. We're just trying to enjoy a party. We're trying to party, bonobos. We are trying to party. You're harshing our vibe, bonobos. You are harshing our mellow so fucking bad. Fucking bad right now. And he was like, no, no, no. I are harshing our mellow so fucking bad. Fucking bad right now.

And he was like, no, no, no. I gave you a shout out from the stage. Yeah. And we were like, no, you didn't. You're a liar. But turns out, and we asked sharp-eared listeners to go try to find video or audio of this, and they found it. Are you serious?

I sent this to you, you i guess you never listened to it you just you sent me the entire concert yeah but it was queued up to the point oh okay well i didn't know that i didn't press it i was like i don't need to see the concert again this soon after seeing it well here it goes i think i've queued it up to a round when it happens um and uh it was a little hard to hear in some of the videos but this is pristine high-res audio of the entire concert and we have found uh when we believe it actually happens here we go Adam and Chuck. Did you hear it?

Yeah. What did you say? Adam and Scott. Wait, let's hear that again. All right. Ready? Ready? Whoa. During the anthemic, love is bigger than anything In its way

Adam and Scott Wow he really did He really did What a guy huh And it's on video too so you could see him doing it No this is just the audio But I think someone might have captured Like a far away video of it

But yeah that's it That's amazing Pretty What do you think? Pretty amazing. He's not full of shit. Is this an episode of Bonobos Isn't Full of Shit? Yeah. You ain't full of shit. Shit.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to Bonobos Isn't Full of Shit. This is Scott. And this is Scott. And we're just talking about people who are full of shit, and I can tell you one guy who is not full of shit. Yeah, me too. Bonobos.com. That's who I was gonna say. I thought for sure this

dude was full of fucking shit. Well, I was thinking about people who are full of shit. Sure. Can we name a few? Yeah. Who you got? Abraham Lincoln. Oh my god, that dude. It's like, come on, bro. Yeah. Like, yeah, we get it. You wanna go see a play. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Who's stopping you? on, bro. Yeah. Like, yeah, we get it. You want to go see a play. Yeah, go ahead.

Go ahead. Who's stopping you? Well, one guy. Yeah, one guy. Another guy who was full of shit. Well, no, he wasn't able to stop him from seeing the play. Just he stopped him from seeing some of the play. Did we ever hear how much of the play he actually got to see?

Yeah. Did he see the whole thing? No. It was the monologue. I played John Wilkes Booth in Drunk History, so I know a lot about it. So when did he jump on stage and do it? Or did he do it from the back of the dome? I can't recall.

He was in the play. You're the expert in this field. Then he came up behind him in the balcony and blew his brains out. Like during intermission? No, it was during the play. And after he shot him, he jumped off the balcony, down on the stage, broke his ankle. Broke his ankle, said six temper tyrannous.

Yeah, said something racist and then hobbled off stage. And the chase was on. The chase was on. And that's where it gets really good. It's a chase that lasted like a while. Yeah, how long did the chase last? 14 years. Really? Yeah. He was really good. It's a chase that lasted like a while. Yeah, how long did the chase last? 14 years. Really? Yeah. He was

just hobbling along on a broken ankle. In a one mile radius area around the theater for 14 years. That's a little bit of history. Yeah. But that dude? Not full of shit. No, but Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln full of shit. Who else we got? Who else? Mother Teresa.

Oh my god, full of BS. Yeah, just ugh. F'n BS out of her. Abraham Lincoln full of shit, yeah. Who else we got? Who else? Mother Teresa. Oh, my God. Full of BS. Yeah, just, ugh. F and BS out of her. Just come on. Come on. Like, dial it down a little bit. Gandhi. Oh, my God.

Shut up. Shut up, Gandhi. Shut up. Be quiet. Be quiet, Gandhi. Be quiet, Gandhi. Be quiet, Gandhi! Be quiet, Gandhi!

This is something that Michael Cernovich is going to take and claim that we're like racists, pedophiles. Look, telling Gandhi to be quiet is not racist. He's like, you're a pedophile. I mean, I guess. I guess he could do it for anyone. Look, but you know who's not full of shit? Who? Bonobos. Bonobos.

Bonobos. The dude backs up what he fronts. Man. You know what I mean? That guy. That guy. He did it. He's not a liar. He's not a filthy liar.

Nope. Nope. All right. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye. You ain't fucking shit.

Shit. And so that concludes our YouTube business. Oh, no. There's one little bit of youtube business that i i did want to mention someone sent this to me on twitter uh let's see sent twitter on twitter yes you two tour on twitter uh gave a link to a link to our show said quite a lot of pop talk in this exciting podcast with Bono, Edge, and Adam. Link in our news. And this person sent me the screenshot of that with the tweet replying to it right below saying, those two hosts make this podcast practically unlistenable.

Who said that? That's someone called Entertain Diaz oh thanks is that someone named diaz who's like entertain me entertain diaz what if it's cameron diaz and she's super into you too and can't stand us but that was sent to me by bad underscore replicant who just says c plus um so thanks to them and that that concludes our business from a few weeks back of U2. Yeah. So until next time,

we hope that you have found what you're looking for. Bye. Good app. Yeah. Some good shit. Some good fucking shit.

Sli- Solid. Do you let your kids curse, by the way? More and more. It's not as big a deal. More and more? Like every sentence? Yeah.

No, it's because now our son's 11, so it's not that big of a deal. Do they start with damn and then work? I remember when I learned the word damn and we would go like, we would say like, damn, that's good. Or give me the damn ball and stuff like that. Damn, hell. When I was like nine or something. Crap.

Oh. He loves crap because he can say it and we don't care. Oh, when they were really little, we used to have like once a day, they could just let out all the bad words. Oh, that's fun. Would you tape it? We may have at one point, but they thought like all bathroom. It was like poo-poo and pee-pee at that point. Oh, that's fun. Would you tape it? We may have at one point, but they thought like all bathroom, it was like poo-poo and

pee-pee at that point. Right, right. So all bathroom stuff was bad words, and so they thought that plunger was a really bad word. So them saying plunger. Plunger! Plunger! And so we just never told them it wasn't. What if it like escalated dramatically

from one week to the next week or something where it was like, it started, I was like, pee-pee, poo-poo, plunger. And then it was like. C-word. Where'd you hear that? What? Daddy said it. That's fun. I think cursing kids should be able to curse.

I was allowed to curse as much as I wanted. You were when you were young? At my mom's house, as much as I wanted. At your mom? From a very young age. And encouraged or just like, hey, do whatever you want, who cares? More like do whatever you want, who cares, and it's hilarious when you do. Right.

So that has informed your personality. Yeah, probably. Your mom must be you do. Right. So that has informed your personality. Yeah, probably. Your mom must be so proud. Yeah. But not at your dad's house. I don't think he cared. Gave a shit? No, I don't.

I don't know. I just never really did as much. It was more of a funny thing. I don't know. Right. never really did as much. It was more of a funny thing. I don't know. Right. Maybe he didn't laugh as much. So you learned at a young age, though, that people would laugh when you cursed. Yeah.

Yeah, pretty much. He thought other stuff was funny. What else would you do that was funny? Me? Yeah. Why? Who are we talking about? What else would I do?

Not really. He thought other stuff was funny. What am I talking about? Like sitcoms? Yeah. I don't He thought other stuff was funny. What am I talking about? Like sitcoms? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. You don't want to talk about this.

A lot of painful memories. What else is this show other than talking about painful memories? Yeah. What were you listening to when? When I said fuck in front of my mom and her friends. And her friends. Whoa. We're talking about the band hariem here yeah and uh special special episode collabs into now um yeah and this is the first time that

that uh you've been in charge of of collecting now why was that well Well, because I don't have the extensive collection that you have of all of these collabos. Yeah. Right? You had, I mean, I sent you about eight songs or something. Yeah, you sent me some ones that are great that I hadn't even heard. That you slept on? Oh, cool. So we're going to be going through all of that this episode. We're going to be

I know that we originally said, hey, we're going to talk about all the collabos and we had started kind of early on with that one band uh that we played a couple couple other songs from i can't remember and then we just sort of let the collabos golden palominos golden palominos yeah yeah but then we sort of it just got to be too much and these episodes started getting too long. Yeah, so we thought, let's just do it. Let's devote an entire episode to these. And you have compiled them. You've collected them.

They're all sitting there on that. It's somewhat comprehensive. A lot of it is Michael Stipe. If I was to collect everything that Peter Buck has guested on, we'd be sitting here for like you know, 25 minutes. The excruciating. But I have a few.

Yeah, so anyway, when we get to that we'll talk about it. We're not talking about it now, right? We're not? I don't know, are we? Is it time? I don't know. What do you want to talk about? I don't know. What do you got to talk about? I don't know. What do you got? Are we doing this?

Do you have any questions for me? I have one more I have to find, actually. Oh, okay. So you want me to stall? Let's do it in the next thing. Yeah. Let's do it. Let's – you got to – we got to take a break before we do that,

and you got to find your shit. You want to take a break right now, Adam? Yeah. You want to take a break? Yeah. This is almost like you're a little kid right now say curse for me poopoo wait is that all you were saying around your mom because that's not that bad do you remember the first time you said the f word no do you the first time i guess i don't remember but it must have been i do remember uh even saying the word fart was bad in my house okay so tell me what the cursing situation was in the ackerman household was it not allowed to i've only i remember i've only really cursed

around my parents a couple of times. Once my mom and I were in a big, big fight when I was probably 17 or something, and I was, like, crying. I was just like, well, nail me to the fucking cross, Mom. And that was bad. But I didn't get punished for that because we were just in the middle of a big fight. And then I remember I heard my dad when I was, like, 22 say shit. And I was like, whoa, now he's comfortable saying shit around me 22 yeah we were like at lunch he's like uh that was just bullshit and i was like what that's never happened before wow but other than that just not

really allowed and i remember uh i remember my i when my sister was was a baby, my mom doing this thing where she was like substituting the first word of any – she would point at body parts on my sister and substituting – She would be like foot. Okay, okay. This is a bad example because it actually starts with F. But like say it's hand, right? Yeah. And she would substitute the first letter in it for anything. And so she was like, this is your

fanned. This is your felly. This is your, right? And then when she got to her, the part in her hair, she said, this is your fart. It made us laugh so hard. Yeah. And she realized she shouldn't have said that. And it was kind of a big deal it was a big deal but we laughed and laughed and laughed nowadays like who cares yeah but that i that is something that would make kids laugh for like a solid five minutes but i i don't even think my sister was was even like able to talk at that it just like made me and my mom laugh really really hard i remember i cursed in a show that I was in when I was 19 and my mom wanted to see it

and I was embarrassed and I was like, oh no, there's like cursing in the show and she was like, I don't care. And that was when I realized that my mom cared less about it

than my dad did. Uh-huh. And it was more of a big deal for my dad, which is weird because then he said shit. So it would be a thing for your dad, which is weird because then he said shit. So it would, it would be a thing for your dad to go see a play that had cursing in it. Like that would be an issue for him. I think so.

I mean, he, when I first got on Mr. Show, they, they did not like it. And because there was so much cursing and also there was religious stuff. And so they, they tried to watch it while and then they were just like i'm not watching the show anymore so not only is it like a personal beliefs but they have a problem with it occurring like the the fact they know it exists and that cursing is everywhere i think they know it exists no no i know but they they just have a problem with it happening around them. Well, I think that they didn't like me being involved in it. You know what I mean? So I think at the – I mean, on Comedy Bang Bang,

I think we were allowed three per episode of not the F word, but stuff like shit or asshole or whatever. And then after three, we would have to bleep. So every once in a while, there'd be an episode where there would be five. And we would have to make a tough choice of like, which are funny bleeped and which are funny or not bleeped, you know? Sometimes it's funny or bleeped. Yes.

So for the early ones, we would bleep them all the time. And we just thought that was really funny. Having like bleep, bleep, bleep. Yeah, yeah. But then later in the run, we were like, there's some jokes where it's just funnier with me saying you know yeah shithead yeah so and i don't think they gave a shit about that at all but but on mr show it was so coarse and so hardcore that i think they were just like this is not for me so what do they watch like what's their favorite show or movie?

Like what do they like to do for entertainment? Well, that's the thing is like I think that it's gotten to the point where I remember this. My mom liked The Sopranos, and I found that out and couldn't believe that she liked The Sopranos. But like I say, I think my mom cares less about it. Yeah. But my sister, because mom had been watching The Sopranos, had for her birthday gotten my mom the soundtrack of The Sopranos, the second soundtrack, the Peppers and Eggs one, which had two CDs. And we put it on during dinner. Is there like dialogue from the show? The hidden track that after a moment of silence after the last track is just dialogue from the show.

And it was on during dinner. It's just like James Gandolfini going, hey, fuck you and all this stuff. And we were like, we should probably turn that off. That's hilarious. But yeah, I remember I was watching like Steve Martin's second special at home once when I would get home maybe an hour before my mom. I would, I would get home maybe an hour before my mom, I would get home from school and have an hour. And I was watching Steve Martin special and he

said the F word in it. And I was like really nervous because I knew it was coming up or something. And, and, and then I remember I was listening to the dead milkman once in that hour before my mom got home and I would blast the music, right? And there's this Dead Milkman song, Life is Shit. And where they just like, are like, life is shit, life is shit. It was real sing-songy and I was just blasting it. And my mom got home and was so pissed off.

She's like, what do the neighbors think? Yeah. I was like, they don't give a shit. God, I remember finding songs that had curse words in them was like that song on the Repo Man soundtrack. Oh, I remember finding songs that had curse words in them. Like that song on the Repo Man soundtrack. Oh, which one? Pablo Picasso. Oh, yeah. He's never called an asshole. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just playing that for someone and watching them just sitting there and watching them when the word asshole happens. Isn't it crazy? I was thinking about this the other day because I was listening to Prince. I'm on a big Prince kick now where I have arranged all of his songs in alphabetical order. Wow.

And I'm listening to them in alphabetical order right now. The whole catalog? The whole catalog, yeah. Jesus. Even the shitty stuff? Well, that's the thing is like it makes you reevaluate the shitty stuff because you're no longer listening to a full 60 minutes of something that isn't quite working. You're listening to it in pieces around other stuff,

and it sort of recontextualizes everything. Where I've made some discoveries of some stuff of albums that I haven't really paid attention to, where I'm like, wow, this song is actually really great. Huh. So in any case, but I was listening to Erotic City and just thinking about how they they used to play that down here in la on kiss fm even the week where

it's basically he's saying we can fuck until the dawn yeah um and and i the first time i heard it on kiss fm i was like what the hell how are they able to play this on the radio yeah he's saying they're both saying we can fuck until the dawn just because they didn't understand what they were saying no it's because technically the lyrics are we can funk until the dawn oh but it's sound they're obviously saying fuck and so they were and so they played it for for like month, and it was a big hit. And they must have gotten so many complaints. I mean, come on. If I was a parent, too, I was just listening to pop radio with my kids or whatever in the car,

and suddenly, we can fuck until the dawn. It was like they must have gotten so many complaints that they did a special. But it was such a big hit, they had to play it. So they did a special remix of it, I remember, where it was like, do-do-do-do, and then they would cut out the part of, they would cut out that part of the lyrics entirely. It would just be like, making love till Cherry's gone, making love till Cherry's gone, making love till,

which is not even as good. I mean, it's not even helping the situation. Making love till Cherry's gone making love till like which is not even as good or i mean it's not even like helping the situation no making love till cherry's gone like basically basically saying like i'm gonna take your virginity take your virginity like until your virginity is gone which i think it happens just at the basic insertion yeah and it's there's just some connotations in there that aren't great they're not even connotations. It's basically just saying – so anyway, but – so then after that, I think they just stopped playing it on. But that – what we were talking about with the In-N-Out Urge stickers, like what a strange environment.

Yeah, that was – that song was playing on the radio. Octopussy was a movie in the multiplexes, and the In-N-Out stickers were everywhere. What a world we were in. What a time to be alive. If you go watch The Bad News Bears, it's a PG movie, and those kids are saying racial words. The N-word is in the trailer. It's insane.

It's on iTunes. I don't know if that trailer is still on iTunes, but I remember showing the trailer to my kids. Whoa. Just to show them them saying that word? I don't know if that trailer is still on iTunes, but I remember showing the trailer to my kids. Whoa! Just to show them them saying that word? No, to be like, you want to watch this movie? Here's the trailer. It's crazy. It's insane.

Yeah. What a strange time it was back then. Yeah. And then suddenly, okay, so Erotic City was probably like 85 because it was around Purple Rain, which was 84. So probably like six months after that was a B-side. It was around 1985. Wait, Erotic City is on Purple Rain? It was a B-side from one of the Purple Rain singles.

But it became so popular that it became like a single in its own right. But cut to – so that's 85. Cut to like 91 through 2000. And the world's most popular songs have people saying motherfucker in them constantly and saying the N word constantly. It's like such a shift. So listening to all of Prince's stuff, he goes from being kind of naughty and the naughtiest he gets is in Darling Nikki saying masturbating with a magazine. Yeah. To like just constant songs where he's like, you know, you sexy motherfucker.

Yeah. You know, motherfuckers stand up. You know, it's like such a radical shift in such a short period of time. Yeah. shift in such a short period of time. Yeah. I never, like, Prince is like, all the big records I have and know well, but

as far as deep diving, I've never done it. Well, we should do a show about that. What do you say? A show that would never end because Sign of the Times is supposed to be his best record, right? I think Purple Rain is insurmountable. Purple Rain's like all hits,

like the entire record. Yeah, every single song is amazing. But it's only like nine songs or something. Not that that's not an achievement. I'm just saying like it's kind of a short,

it's like a record from 1984. It's like... Yeah, it's a 40-minute record. 39, yeah, yeah. But Sign of the Times is great. It's a double record. Yeah. But it's about,

I think that's about 90 minutes. Yeah. And that's a great, that's probably number a double record. Yeah. But it's about – I think that's about 90 minutes. Yeah. And that's a great – that's probably number two for me. Yeah. If you'd love – I don't know Sign of the Times at all. It's great. That's – a lot of people say Dirty Mind is maybe number two.

I think 1999 is so great and Sign of the Times is so great. Dirty Mind would be underneath that. I remember I got Sign of the Times back in like 89 or something because listening to REM talk about how great it is and why they say Sign of the Times in Exhuming McCarthy. Oh, they do. Yeah. So I got the record and just never – could never figure out where my into it. Are you not really into like R&B or soul stuff or funk type of stuff? It's not that. Like the Purple Rain top to bottom is a great record, and I love it because it's so catchy.

Like it's unbelievable. Sign of the Times is like really catchy though. It's got some great – I just never really dove in, and so I probably – is really catchy, though. It's got some great... I just never really dove in, and so I probably should. You gotta, bro. Bro! Let's do our Prince series

next. Oh my god. Can you imagine? No. It would be 35 episodes. It would never end. Yeah, I've always... Did you ever like rap music or anything like that? Yeah. You know, not as much as kind of – I think the generation following us really like – because when did – I mean when rap really penetrated like white suburbia. That was 85 with Run DMC with Aerosmith.

I remember I was in a Christian play called High Tops. I may have talked about this. And the older kid – I was 15 and the older kids would pick me up from my house to drive me there. And they loved two records. They loved Run DMC, Raisin' Hell. And they knew every word and they would rap along with it, which made me fall in love with this record because these kids were like cool and two years older than me. And they would do every single rap. And they loved David Lee Roth's Crazy

From the Heat. Or no, no, no, wait. Yeah. Was it Crazy From the Heat or was it Eat Em and Smile? I can't remember. But those two records, like every single car trip we ever took. Crazy from the Heat was the huge one. But that was an EP, I feel like. Oh, yeah, you're right. So I think I'm thinking. With like California Girl. Yeah, yeah, I think it was Eat Em and Smile.

So both of those records I just was like, this is cool. And listening to Run DMC, Raisin' Hell, followed by Beastie Boys, License to Ill, those two records made me like prime falling in love with rap music. You know, like from that – I was never in that group of people who were like, oh, yeah, put a C at the beginning of rap, you know, because it's not even music. Oh, me neither. I mean, I got so into licensed to ill and all the beastie boys records and um i just you know it was just like intermittent i would go in and out of hip-hop right i think i mean i got really into the west coast dr dr, Snoop stuff. See, when that was all exploding, I was deep into like R.E.M. and 10,000 Maniacs

and was not, I liked it on the radio and stuff, but I wasn't like diving in. Right, yeah. I remember I got the Death Row Greatest Hits CD and put it on and was just laughing throughout the entire thing at all the lyrics. Yeah. Well, that duct, the chronic is unbelievable. CD and put it on and was just laughing throughout the entire thing at all the lyrics. Well, that duct, the chronic is unbelievable.

And the first, the dog, not the dogfather, but the doggy style. Doggy style, yeah. I mean, it was funny at the time, certainly. I don't know how it holds up. Progressed here and there since then, I would say. Possibly. But maybe not. I don't know how it holds up. Progressed here and there since then, I would say.

Possibly. But maybe not. I don't know. It's weird to me that, and people probably think this about the songs we play on this record, but I feel like hip-hop music sounds dated much more quickly than rock music. It depends what it is, though, don't you think? Like Young MC sounds dated, yes. But even some hip-hop songs from three years ago, I'll go, oh, wow, that's a real kind of dated production style.

production style like like three years ago there every hip-hop song sort of had the um the thing that's in like iggy azalea's fancy where people are going oh hey yeah hey hey in the back a lot every song had that for like a good year and then no songs have it right now it's kind of the migos kind of thing where people are like doing ad libs over everything going yeah hip-hop yeah hey you know after every single line yeah they're definitely production styles now where it goes through like now six months of one thing six months i'm trying to do it to you yeah i'm doing some good ad libs for you but that'll that'll probably in a year from now, we'll be like, oh, that old sound. Yeah, but then there are people

who are doing their own thing that aren't really. But it just seems to me like you can listen to, and I know you listen to like 80s songs and the production is really echoey and tinny. Yeah. And you'll go, that sounds dated. But it seems like if you listen to Automatic for the People, that sounds as kind of classic or like you could put that out now

and people will go, that doesn't sound like an old record. Right. You know what I mean? That's why I find Green fascinating production-wise because it doesn't sound like necessarily an album from 1988, whereas Document has a bit more. Document, it has that one song

that sounds just like, who's that producer who produces Bad Brains and the Chili Peppers? It sounds exactly like. Not Rick Rubin. You mean Chili Peppers before. Yeah, like the early Chili Peppers yeah

and Bad Brains records where there's a lot of echo on the drums yeah there's which song is it on document that sounds like

yeah I think it's it's one of those songs where like it's like oh wow they really liked that yeah production style and were doing it in that

yeah Green sounds much more kind of contained. Like they had some... What do they do when they record drums? They put pillows and rugs all around? When you're recording drums in a home studio? No, you're thinking of when you're decorating your house. Oh, right.

Look, we need to take a break. Have you found your thing finally? Yeah, yeah. Okay, great. So we wasted enough time. We're going to take a break. Have you found your thing finally? Yeah, yeah. Okay, great. So we wasted enough time. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we are going to go straight into Collabs Into Now. This is Are You Talking R.E.M. Remy.

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What'd I hit? My face. You're a beautiful moneymaker. Is that how you make your money? Face? Yeah. Yeah, I make money with my face. Isn't it weird that so much of acting...

Isn't it weird? ...is, like, neck up, check up. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Like if you – when they do a close-up, it's always the face. You never just see feet of people. No, I'm always trying to get them to do a close-up of my thumb. You know, just do it over here.

When I have like a big monologue. Welcome back to the show. This is – how are you talking, REM? Welcome back to the show. This is... How are you talking REM to me? And we're doing a special ep today of Collabs Into Now. All of REM's collabs. Nope.

All of REM's collab... Whoa. Squeeze me. Squeezy. Adam, what do we have today? Well, I put them in order of release. All right, Professor, we don't need to know your entire thought process. So we've already played these, but here's Boy Go featuring Michael Stipe from the Golden Palomino's record.

And this was a record like in what year? 85-ish, Finkel? I believe this is 85, yes. We played this at one point we probably did this is a pretty dodgy uh beat here oh this sounds like the theme song to like a white shadow or magnum pi it does it sounds like interstitial music and and you know like uh an early james spader movie right and we're talking early james spader pre-ultron it is crazy how kind of dated this sounds what we were just talking about about dated production style the 80s has the most... It's crazy the music that R.E.M.

was making in this period. Sounds fine. Yeah. They weren't doing any of this. So this is Boy Go. The more... Go to the chorus here. Oh, sure.

go to the chorus here? Oh, sure. Does Michael Seip sing on this? Is that what it is? Yeah, I think that might be him singing right there. That's him singing? Yeah. It is?

Uh-huh. Let me hear a little more. Oh, I guess, yeah, the way he said yard. What do you think? I like the melody. Let me see if I can pick it up. So is this the first time that anyone in Hariem had worked with another band on record? I don't think so, but I'm not completely sure.

I had never really heard this until you played it for me. Cool. So I guess that was the chorus that was just... Maybe? Okay, so this is another Golden Palomino song. This is called Clustering Train from that same album

that Michael Stipe also guests on. That sounds pretty good. Yeah, that's a very R.E.M. melody right there. See the circus once again Wrestling in the quiet Real booming, yeah. Drums.

This sounds a little like an Aerosmith type of thing. Yeah. This sounds a little like an Aerosmith type of thing. Yeah, dude looks like a lady, yeah, yeah. Did the Golden Palomino's not have like a lead singer? I don't really know anything about them. Me neither. Well, thanks for doing some research. With these songs that you're bringing in. I really thought you knew about them because you played these. I did when we recorded that.

I probably read about it in one of those books. I've not retained any of that knowledge. For whatever reason, I thought these were songs you totally knew back then. Oh, no. I bought it for the episode that we did. Wasn't Boy one of Dave Holmes' favorite songs. Oh, no. I bought it for the episode that we did. Wasn't Boy one of Dave Holmes' favorite songs? Oh, yeah. I think he mentioned that.

Is that this one? I think it's the song we played before. Dave Holmes, you're crazy for this one. So this next one is a Campfire song on 10,000 Maniacs' second record, their huge record, In My Tribe. This was a big deal. Was this 87-ish or so? 86, I believe.

And this was a big deal. This is a huge album, and then this kind of duet in this song was a big deal. And here it is. Pretty low. Do you remember this? Yeah. Did you get into them?

I did. I was so into them for a while. I remember buying her solo record and my friend making fun of me for it. I was like, what's wrong? He's just like, her voice is just like.

I remember Rolling Stone gave her first solo record like one and a half stars. Oof. And I wrote a letter. I was so pissed. Do you still have it? The letter? Yeah yeah what did you say how many letters have you written to rolling stone because this is the second time you're two or three and what was it just like you sir i remember one i one draft being starting with drafts. Yeah, I made a couple drafts.

One started with oh, it must be so nice to be like high up on a mountain looking down on everyone. You know, something like that. Then I ditched that. I don't remember.

I probably never even sent anything. I was just really pissed off. Because you loved it. Her first solo record. The one with Tiger Lily? Yeah, yeah. No, no. I was just really pissed off. Because you loved it. Her first solo record, the one with Tiger Lily? Yeah, yeah. No, no, it was called, was it Tiger Lily?

Is that what it was called? I can't remember, but I think it was. It was like orange. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that had some hits on it. Didn't that have kind of a, or whatever.

Yeah, it had some pretty big hits on it. And then, what was that other wonder? Wasn't there, is Stipe singing here? He, it had some pretty big hits on it. And then, what was that other wonder? Wasn't there... Is Stipe singing here? He... It comes up here

in a minute. Here it comes. He's on to stay in the city of life Something he wants to He's on to stay in the city of life He's feeling taunted That's it.

Pretty good. Yeah. Remember when everyone thought they were dating because they sang together a lot? And they toured together. I think 10,000 Maniacs opened for them on the pageantry tour. Maybe they did. We don't know. Yeah.

And then they did the inauguration. They sang To Serve With Love. Right. Yeah, for good old Tricky Bill. Slick Willie. Slick Willie. Slick Willie. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. That's dead on.

I love it. I love impressions. Of any strength. Love it. Okay, let me try another one. Who's this? Who? I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

Al Pacino. That's it. It's great. Love it. How about this one? You can't handle the truth. Say I did not have sexual relations with that woman. I did not have sexual relations with that girl.

Yeah. That's the Joker, the five easy pieces. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm blanking on his name. Jared Leto. Jared Leto, yes. This is the Indigo Girls called Kid Fears. Michael Stipe guests on this one as well.

Their first record in 1987. REM really championed the Indigo Girls and helped them sort of get their start. You don't say. Were you into this album when it came out? I was not. Man. I've never, I don't believe I've ever listened to an Indigo Girls song. Really?

This first album is incredible. Of all the years What would you give For your kid's day Similar to Campfire's song, he comes in a little later. Do you want me to scrub? Yeah, man. Let's scrub it up.

Usually I don't want no scrubs, but in this case, I'll make an exception. Are you on fire Let's scrub it up. Usually I don't want no scrubs, but in this case, I'll make an exception. Hey, if I was on fire, I wouldn't want you singing about it. I'd want you to call 911. Replace the race the stars above Replace the needless love Replace the anger with the tides Replace the ones, the ones, the ones that you love Pretty good. Yeah, it's not on fire. It's a great record.

I just, I turned the oven on a little too high. Yeah. It triggered the smoke alarm. I don't know how many times I have to tell you I am not on fire. And I think around late 80s, early 90s, getting Michael Stipe to guest on your record is a big boost. It's a coup. This next song on that same album, the first Indigo Girls record,

is the rest of R.E.M. backing them up on one song. Michael Stegman's not on this one. It's the other three guys. It's called Tried to Be True. Thank you. Well, did you try to be true? What separates me from you now? What separates me from you? Did you borrow the soul? It's Bill Barry, Mike Nilsen, and Peter Buck. Backing up the Indigo Girls. Yeah, you can tell. I like it.

It's cool, right? I don't know why I've never listened to the Indigo Girls. You should listen to that first album. The first one, yeah. The first song, Closer to Fine, is classic. I have friends that it's their favorite band of all time, and I still have no real knowledge of them. Too busy listening to every single Prince song ever released.

In alphabetical order. Yep. And I'm not ashamed. This is another Indigo Girls collaboration for a, I believe, a PETA benefit record around, like, 1990. The date on the iTunes version here is wrong. Yeah, it's whenever they put it on iTunes, probably. Sometimes they get that wrong. This is called I'll Give You My Skin.

Creepy. I remember I could never find this back in the 90s when I really wanted to get a copy of this. And now you got it and you don't give a shit. Kind of. for children You can sit in your high chairs and laugh I'll give you my best face I'll give you my freedom I'll give you my feet

and my hands I'm keeping my eyes Open, open open to the field Hold your dances there Take the crop Share the yield You can join us

together Doobie doobie doobie Doobie doob, doobie, doobie. Doobie, doobie, doobie. Swa. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. Not my fave. Everyone's got to put out a song like this once.

You know what I mean? I guess so. Does that mean we have to? I guess we do. What do you want to do? I don't know. Doobie, doobie, doobie. Wah, wah, wah. I'll play the trumpet because I played in elementary school.

Did you really? And junior high school. Do you think you could pick it up? No, I was terrible always. Yeah, but you could probably make it make sounds, right? Yeah, I could make it make sounds, sure. Well, a lot of people, they pick up a trumpet, they just blow on it. They don't even know how to do the like the thing.

I could maybe play a couple scales. Awesome. That's good enough for me. I'll lay some folks. You want to throw down some folks? Yeah, definitely.

So this next one is from 1992. This is from Kristen Hirsch's solo record Hips and Makers. This is the first single called Your Ghost.

This is just post automatic for the people so getting him to to be honest yeah so this is kristen hirsch from belly and the breeders oh she's belly as well right or am i thinking of someone else i think that's and the breeders that was that tanya donnelly i get those not the breeders kristen hirsch is throwing muses and then herself. This is Your Ghost. If I walk down this hallway tonight It's too quiet so I head through the dark

Also a great record, Hips and Makers. I have confirmation Tanya Donnelly is from the Breeders and Belly. Oh, she was in the Breeders. She was in the first. I get them confused. They were never in a thing together? Confirmation, Tanya Donnelly is from The Breeders and Belly. Oh, she was in The Breeders. She was in the first. The first. I get them confused. They were never in a thing together? They were.

They were in Throwing Muses together. They were in Throwing Muses together. Got it. Another band I've never heard. Oh, yeah. They're good. Is it like this? No. This whole record is like acoustic-y.

It's good Alright Should I scrub to Oh yeah Here it is. Oh, here we go. The chorus here. Yep.

Core me! Core it up. I think last night you were driving circles around me. I think last night, you were driving circles around me. So how does this work, I wonder? Like, Michael's agreed to be on the album. Let me pick the most boring song possible.

Yeah. Or you think this is what he wants to do? I think this is a good song, actually. I know that it sounds spare and not super exciting, but it's... Did you buy this when it came out? Oh, yeah, I was deep into this. Went and saw her.

In concert or just on the street? I went and saw her shopping at Gelson's. The outro here is really cool. For me, a great song is all about the outro. Oh, yeah. What do they do in the last ten seconds? Here it is. This is the kind of song, though, to be fair,

that I can see laying there naked with someone and just popping it on, you know, at like 2 in the morning in 1993 and just like we're in a post-coital haze and just like really feeling it with each other, you know? Oh, yeah. Some vivid imagery with this song, Scott Ackerman. Oh, yeah. jogging circles this album came out at like a really like listening to this album now would probably be hard just because at the time it was like

I had this roommate who was like a good friend and he died in a car accident and our whole group of friends kind of all came to our apartment for the next we were young we were like right in 93 yeah early 93 we were like young and we all just stayed in this

apartment yeah and just like drank and smoked cigarettes for two months. Two months, just like every night. Not knowing what to do. And so this record was right around that time. And this song is about like someone's dead and you're having dreams about. So I think that that's why that song. Yeah, brings up a lot of emotions for you. This next one is one I had never heard before.

So this is going to bring up none of these memories that we were just talking about. Zero. So this one's safe. This one is safe. What if it starts off with specific lyrics about your dead friend? Hey, Adam. Do you miss him? This is called Clumsy by Stephanie...

Stephanie Klutzelak? Pomponyak? Pomponyak? Pomponyak! This is called Clumsy. This is like early 90s as well, and I had never heard of it. Wow. I'm clumsy.

Whoops. I dropped something. I tri clumsy. Whoops. I dropped something. I tripped on the stairs. Scraped my knee a bit. Poop my pants. That's not being clumsy. It's not? Pooping your pants is not like,

Whoops! I guess, well, in a way, I guess it's... That guy's real clumsy. He's constantly shitting his pants. If you poop your pants every time you stub your toe. Or drop something. Oh, smell that? Yeah, that klutz is at it again. Get to it, get to it.

What is happening? I don't know. Have you heard this yet? You haven't even heard it. No, I just bought it. No, no, I listened to these today. Yeah. That's right. That's right. Oh, Stefan Pomponiak.

Oh, it all makes sense now. What year is this? I think it's like 93, 94. Here, I'm going to skip a little bit. It kind of sounds a little downbeat, like it's late 90s to me. Oh, this is kind of cool. And every time I try to dance, I fall down Running through the clumsy things I've said tell me you're not

giving me the run around tell me I'm not clumsy like you said tell me that you're giving me the go ahead I'm stepping off a cliff Tell me that you're giving me the go ahead. I'm stepping off the cliff. Now I've got nothing left.

Okay. What do you think? I like it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it kind of reminds me of, I'm interested in what year it is because it kind of reminds me more of the 95 through 99 period of like massive attack. Yeah, me too, which is why I'm, I put them in order. In crony?

In crony. Huh. And you definitely know what chronological means. I do. I do, for sure. Okay, this is called The Way You Dream by One Giant Leap. Oh, yeah. One Giant Leap, which is, yeah.

Did I send this to you? I think maybe you did. I can't remember. But, yeah, I think I have this record. I have to listen to the silence. I have to experience it. Hey, does he know that he's talking? They left the tape running? That's the thing, this whole album, no one knew they were being recorded.

And look what came out. Skip a little bit. Yeah. Uh-oh. Yeah, this is real, like, chill wave. Yep. There we go this is very like chill 90s yes vibes i this this really reminds me like the virgin megastore yes would be playing for sure okay. Okay. This next one is a

Nina Cherry song. Oh, yes. The Buffalo Stance. This is her second record. And this is called Trout. The Sophomore Slump. Yeah, I was really into this record. Here we go. It's called Trout. Song about a fish.

I think this is a single as well. Good luck with that. Just learn how to play guitar. Isn't this a sample from someone? Oh, it might be. Yeah. You can find some time to be someone. Oh, it might be. Yeah. You can find some time to be someone Like a valentine for a lonely soul

Can you turn it up a little bit? You can treat me like a fool This is 93, I think. So these are not in chronological order. They're supposed to be. Your best not in chronological order. They're supposed to be. Your best guess at chronological order. Yes. On my computer, there were dates.

On my phone, there are not. That happens. Is it something that I said? Is it something that I did? This is the guitar riff from Steppenwolf's The Pusher. Ah, yes. Thank you to Engineer Ryan for that. Listen to the voice of experience Listen to the voice of experience Stop the beat Listen to the melody Round and round and round and round Yeah, I know what I got to feel

A feeling of love knocking at my door I believe this is a song about birth control. Really? And wanting kids to not know what it is. No, wanting people to stop using it. It's a pro-life song. Life begins at conception, yo. Okay, this next one, we're jumping ahead about a decade here to 2005, I believe.

Dashboard Confessional. Oh, little DBC. Was doing a... I guess MTV was doing a thing where they have a band come and play an entire album of their favorite artist or... Dashboard Confessional? That doesn't seem like a 95 thing to me.

No, 2000. 2005. 2005, got it. They came and played Automatic for the people. The entire thing? Yes. Oh, wow. And Michael Stipe came out and joined him for Drive. Whoa, let's hear it. They came and played Automatic for the people. The entire thing? Yes. Oh, wow. And Michael Stipe came out and joined him for Drive.

Whoa! Let's hear it. So here's that. Thank you. Hey kids, rock and roll Nobody tells you where to go, baby What if I ride? What if you walk? What if you rocked around the clock? Tip-top, tip-top What if you did? What if you did?

What if you walked? This sounds just like the normal one. Yeah, pretty much. And then he joins him for Hands Down, which is a Dashboard Confessional song. You want to hear that? Yeah, sure. I never really got into Dashboard Confessional.

They're like emo. Yeah. Very emotional. They're like emo. Yeah. Very emotional. It's all that guy. It's all his writing. Breathe in for love. Breathe in so deep. This air is blessed.

You share with me. This night is wild. So calm and dull. These hearts, they race from self-control. Your legs are smooth. So there's that. Yeah. Interesting.

Yeah. This next one is from 06. This is In the Sun. It's a benefit single for Gulf Relief after after hurricane this is with chris martin right of coldplay yes all right i picture you in the sun wondering what went wrong and falling down on your knees asking did you get this at the time? Were you into this? I bought it.

Yeah, I think I sent it to you, right? Yeah. But I never really... Got into it? Got into it, no. Me neither. And all you see And trying to find anything you can feel

Did they write it together, maybe? I don't know. Let's hear Chris Martin come in. Is he going to go... Oh! When you're... Yeah, it's pretty. Yeah, not bad.

I know I would apologize if I could see you. All right. That same year. Okay. One more and then we got to take a break. One more and we have to take a break, Adam. This next one is Broken Promise by Placebo. Ah, yes.

You sent me this one as well. I by Placebo. Ah, yes. You sent me this one as well. I like Placebo. They have a good song with David Bowie as well. I don't know what that was. You reacted like, oh, how interesting. Like, oh, how interesting.

A lot of mellow collabs. Yeah, I wonder why. It's like... I wonder what we're missing, collab-wise. I'm sure there are ones... Probably. I sent you that stay awake thing, which you've skipped over. Stay awake? From the Disney tribute.

Him and Natalie Merchant. You didn't send that to me. I did. You did? I did. Let me see. Let me find it. Not so mellow anymore, motherfucker.

Oh, I remember this. All right. Yeah, i remember this all right yeah i remember this oh also the mandy moore one i couldn't find on i have i have some do you have that on your phone yeah i do okay in fact i have the uh i have the stay awake thing with Natalie Mershon. Oh. If you want to. Yeah. When was that?

Like 88. Oh, let's play it. Yeah. Toss it. I will. You're pretending to toss it. Ah, I got it. God damn it.

Yes. This is like 1988 for a Disney tribute record that was really good that the replacements are on and Los Lobos. And this is nine minutes. Jesus. Let me find out exactly when they come on to it. And it's the song Stay Awake? They sing Little April Showers at 3.32, so I'm going to, I'm going to. And it's just the two of them, or is it like 10,000 Maniacs with Michael?

I think it's just the two of them. Is this them? It's them singing it, yeah, but this record is meant to be more of a soundscape. Like, it's all medleys, like a nine-minute medley of three different bands doing songs that bleed into one another. I think it's, do you know the guy who put it together? It's Hal Wilner. No, you know. Oh, I know Hal. You know Hal.

Hal's awesome. yeah so he he uh because didn't we see him backstage at a youtube show yeah yeah so it's you know it starts off with ken nordine who has this like really deep voice um who did these records in the 60s about colors or it'd be like, chartreuse. So it starts with him reciting High Diddly Dee and then it goes into Little April Shower. This is with the Roaches doing the backups. And then it goes into

Los Lobos, I Wanna Be Like You. Is Lou Reed on it anywhere? No, Bonnie Raitt, Was Not Was, Tom Waits, Suzanne Vega, Sid Straw,

Buster Poindexter, Ima Sumac, Aaron Neville, Garth Hudson, and not was, Tom Waits, Suzanne Vega, Sid Straw, Buster Poindexter, Ima Sumac, Aaron Neville, Garth Hudson, NRBQ, the typical eclectic people's. I know Hal was really close with Lou Reed. Yeah. Let me play one other thing I sent you that maybe you didn't get. Injured Bird with Vic Chestnut. Oh, that's great. Yeah, play that because I don't have that.

This is great. You arrived as I was leaving. Fuck. You were filled with that popular feeling. I could tell by the walk.

I have heard about the walk. walk you think to yourself like when you're in bed something clobbered me

in the head am I ready to leave you said I have exhausted this view

I have exhausted this view I was flatter than ambivalent I was flatter than ambivalent I was captive and I was spent I was wounded the other day Cool. I love that.

Why don't you have it? I don't know. I completely forgot about that. Your brain is broken or something. I know. What's the name of that? Injured Brains. I sent you the MP3.

I'll resend it to you if you want. No, I'm fine. Oh, you don't? No, because you have your Apple Music or whatever, so you don't ever listen to MP3s anymore. See, this is why I'm not going to go into this, but I got several people who wrote to me saying, like, that I was right about my iPod.

Really? And people were like, Adam doesn't get it. Well, I can always use MP3s. It's just this is easier. Yeah. We need to take a break. Was this on the End of Violence soundtrack? I think so, yeah.

That's probably why I have it. We're going to come right back with more collabs into now. We got several more exciting collabos, including some apparently that I emailed Adam that he turned his nose up at and didn't want to include. We will be right back with more. Are you talking to R.A.M. Remy? Doesn't get any better than this Welcome back to Collabs Into Now. Listening to several R.E.M. collaborations.

This is a song called Greenfields. Ryan, look up who this is. Once there were green fields Fields. Ryan, look up who this is. Once there were green fields kissed by the sun Once there were valleys What is this?

Trying to figure that out. It's a band called Faultline. Faultline, yes. They have a Chris Martin collaboration and the Flaming Lips on this record as well this is a real like 2001 2002

alright that was Faultline look up who does this it's Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano All right, that was Fault Line. Look up who does this. It's Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano. All right, let's hear Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano. Here we go. Who is it, Ryan? It says it's a New York Dolls song.

Oh, yes. Yes. This is the Reunited New York Doll dolls with Michael Stipe. Oh, for the, um, velvet gold mine soundtrack. Probably. I think it was on their, their, uh, record when they came back. And more love that lives in the soul of my heart. Don't want to be no artist. I'm a dance, singing work of art You lit my heart with fiery equation

And you showed me The fury of love, sex and affection That you hold me In danger But I ain't scared This is good. Blame what is this? I think they got back together, if I had to guess, around 2006. This is Someday It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, I think is the name of the record, Ryan. I feel like it was later than that that they got back together.

2006? Oh, fuck you, buddy. Well, by that, I meant the latter half of 2006. Oh, okay. You were right. Because you were inferring the... It was like January.

Like January 1. Yeah, New Year's Day, they put this out. They had two records, I believe, when they reunited. They had two records, I believe, when they reunited. Pretty good. He must have loved the New York Dolls. Yeah.

Along with Patti Smith and all that stuff. I have a couple others, I believe. Do I, do I, do I, do I, do I? Do I. Oh, play the Mandy Moore one. God only knows. I'm looking for, first of all, this is Broken Promise. I don't know who does this.

Unfortunately, on my email, it doesn't have who did that. It just has. Oh, I have that. That's placebo. Oh, okay. So we played that already. What is Glitter in their eyes? Glitter in their eyes.

Finally up-tempo. Yeah. Oh, this is Patti Smith. Oh, it is? Yeah. I have this one, too. The monkeys riding on their bikes Racing through the impossible night

Say you're feeling like a new tree A man will cut you from limb to limb pick your pockets with delight shake it in the right shake it in the light oh can't you see the glitter glitter in my eyes

oh can't you see the glitter glitter in my eyes I'm barely hearing. Or does he come in? He comes in. Well, come in already. Oh, I have God Only Knows now for whatever reason.

Tired of waiting, Patty. Um, all right. This is the last one that I have. This is God only knows. Uh, this is Mandy Moore from the saved soundtrack, which I guess Michael Stipe probably produced the movie saved.

Yeah. And this is a beach boys cover i may not always love you the ex-Mrs. Ryan Adams There are stars above you You never need to doubt it Currently on This Is Us That's right Talented verses Why are you so sure about it?

God only knows what I can do about it I never saw Saved Neither did I I heard it was funny Yeah Not sure why the mp3 is bad Like I don't think this was officially released or something. No, it's not on iTunes or anything.

Yeah. So I must have gotten it off of, like, LimeWire or something. God, I remember LimeWire. I have so much stuff still in my library. It sounds like shit. Yeah. Including this.

I wanted to say that I think, I always think it's cool when, and nice of an artist when they agree to be on someone's record because they – just someone of his stature. I remember with Elvis Costello or David Bowie, it would be the same thing where it's like basically if you're agreeing to be on someone – guesting on someone's record, it's like saying, hi, you're going to sell an extra 50,000 records. Yeah. Because of collectors who want to own every single thing that this artist does and just people who would look at the record and go, oh, David Bowie's on this? Oh, cool.

I'll try it out. It's like such a nice gift to people. Even if the songs, as we're finding with some of these, are not incredibly the most fruitful of collaborations it's like a it's a little bit of coin in their pocket yeah it's cool especially like with kristen hirsch for example like i brought i got a bunch of my friends to come with me to go to the roxy to see her play just alone with an acoustic guitar right how bored were they are they still your friends? Oh, man.

You're probably right. Okay, so this is the next one. This is a tribute album to Serge Gainsborough. Ah, Serge Gainsborough. And this is called Le Hotel. This is Michael Stipe's solo. This is cool. I like this one.

At number 56, 7, 8, 9, it doesn't matter. Have a well-known secret street If you knock on the door First once Then three more knocks You let inside Alone Sometimes even Not alone A maid without saying a word

Walks in front of you Alright, what do you think? I'm not a huge fan of spoken word. Yes, some things Serge Gainsborough can pull off. It's tough for other people to quite get there. Did you ever get into him at all? Not really. I like his daughter. Yeah, she's great.

This one's called Cheery by Dub Gabriel. Cheery or Sherry? Not really. I like his daughter. Yeah, she's great. This one's called Cheery by Dub Gabriel. Cheery or Sherry? Sherry. This is right around 2009, I think. Whoa, baby. I say we gotta go. That song needs a

comeback. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wild thing. You make my heart sing. Oh, baby. This is a suicide song. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you. So second suicide song that Michael Stipe sings.

And who's Dub Gabriel? I don't know Dub Gabriel. I like this. Yeah, it's cool. Looks like Dub Gabriel is just a DJ. A DJ. Is this one of those songs that constantly sounds like it's going to build to something and then never does? Let's hear if it ever does.

Okay. I want to hear hear if it ever does. Okay. I want to hear it until it finally goes Tidum bum ba dum! Nope. Think my favorite Lonely Island thing was the one with waiting for the The drop? Yeah, the drop.

I mean, that is unbelievably funny. Alright, this is... No, keep going. I want to hear if it ever gets there. This song's 40 minutes long. No, I'm just kidding. Probably doesn't, right? I don't know.

Do you want me to skip? Skip ahead a little bit. See if it's like... It still sounds like it's about to do it. Like they've switched over to the snare. I like this, though. This is good. Yeah, it's great, yeah. Oh, it's so close. Oh, I thought that would be it.

That violin is awfully high. I bet it can't go any higher. It's got to come right now. I know, the drums just go away. That's it. I like it. But that's a trick. Alright, this is an artist named Maria Taylor. And this song is called Cartoons and Forever Plans.

I think this is around 2011. Again, my phone does not have dates. The first time you were in my sights And did you know That look that I threw at you And did you know My love will never die All right, how many more of these do we have? Just a few. Because we have 15 minutes left.

And did you know I like that, though. It's not a slow dirge. No. This one's called Everything's Coming Undone. It's from a Mark Mulcahy tribute record. Mulcahy. Who's Mark Mulcahy?

I should know who that is. This is Michael Stipe's solo. Oh, I remember this. Miracle Legion. He was the lead singer of Miracle Legion. This is good. I like this.

This next one was a weird one that came out, I think, 2013. It's he and Courtney Love singing a song called Rio Grande. And it says, in parentheses, with Jack Shit, which I don't know what that is. Jack Shit is the band that Pete Thomas, Elvis Costello's drummer, was the drummer of. Oh, really? I believe I saw them once at a tiki bar here in town somewhere, because Craig Anton invited me. Well, this song's awesome. The anchors wait and the sails, they are set.

Oh, oh, maids we are leaving We'll never forget And we're bound for the Rio, man So let's pack up your donkeys And get underway Oh, Rio The girls we are leaving Can take our half-pay And we're bound for the Rio, the girls we are leaving can take our half-pay,

and we're bound for the Rio Grand. There's Courtney Love. Okay, this is a Brian Wilson song from Brian Wilson's first solo album. It's awesome. Fisher Spooner put out a record this year that Michael Starr produced, and this is the first song off of that record. Fisher Spooner put out a record this year that Michael Stipe produced. And this is the first song off of that record. I guess I made a bad decision The record's really good.

I like this. Keep playing it. So this is the last of the Michael Stipe ones that I have. Right. There's probably others that we don't have. Yeah, I'm sure. One of the kind of most notorious collaborations. Shut up, I like this.

Not this. What did I do? What did I say I would do? Take it, take it all the way. What am I looking for? So he doesn't sing, oh, he just produced it. Yeah. It's great. It's really good.

I think he could make a great solo record. Why doesn't he? I don't know. So Hindu Love Gods, this record came out in 1987, right when R.E.M. Now a lot of people are saying, why aren't you talking about the Hindu Love Gods? Why aren't you talking about the Hindu Love Gods? Yes. People are like, you could do a whole episode on Hindu Love Gods. I guess we could, we could go through the album if you want. No, thank you. Okay. So let's do it right now because

this, the, the, their cover of Raspberry Beret. That's what I have. I love this cover. I've had this, uh, ever since it came out um but just this song i haven't heard the whole record so peter buck mike mills and bill berry had a drunken afternoon with warren zeevon and they just started recording they were just fucking around and then like a year or two later when rem blew up with document they released the album and the guys were like a little pissed off about it like oh so weren't like warren zeevon's people released the album and the guys were like a little pissed off about it. Oh, so like Warren Zevon's people released the album? I guess so. And the guys were like,

why are you releasing this? We were just fucking around. But they eventually mended fences and everything. Because it's really good, isn't it? I mean... Yeah, I mean, it's loose. It's loose, but it's... Yeah.

So here's Raspberry Beret. Turn it up, bro. That's as high as mine goes. Was this a single? That's when I saw her, oh I saw her Walk into the outdoor, outdoor For a raspberry puree The kind you find in a second-hand store Raspberry puree When it was warm she didn't wear much more

Raspberry puree Red was warm, she didn't wear much more. I, um, this was kind of before bands would cover current songs. Like, if a band ever covered a song, it would be a classic, like a Dylan song. Or Louie Louie or something. Yeah, you know. And then to hear someone cover something that had just been out for a couple of years. It's great. I would recommend the album. It's like Dead Letter Office type fun. Is the rest of that, is it covers or is it originals? It's great. I would recommend the album. It's like Dead Letter Office type

fun. Is it covers or is it originals? It's mostly covers. It's mostly covers, yeah. I gotta hear it. It's great. And knowing that they weren't expecting it to go anywhere is part of the fun. And I think they even made a video for maybe this and they had

like the guy's faces with cut out figures dancing around, and I think that kind of bugged them, too. But I know that before Warren Zevon passed away, they had long, mended fences. What if they went to his deathbed and just, like, flipped him off? That would be terrible.

So Peter Buck early on championed Uncle Tupelo and produced their, I think, second record. Uncle Tupelo, who of course was the No Depression country act that spawned Wilco and... Sunbolt. Sunbolt. This album's called March 16th through 20th, 1992. It's basically like recorded live, essentially, in the studio.

It's really great. So he's playing guitar on this? I don't know if he's playing anything. I know he produced it. Oh, he produced it. So that's the first song on the album called Grindstone. Cool. I like Uncle Tupelo.

Me too. Not as much as Wilco, I would say. So just this year, First Aid Kit put out their third record called Rebel Heart. First Aid Kit, whom I first got to know because they do a beautiful Fleet Foxes cover. Yeah. And then I just saw their Coachella set this year. Oh, how was it? Yeah, really good.

They do a great... They're Swedish, if I'm correct. They look to be in their 20s. Yeah. This is them covering Walk Unafraid. It was on the Wild soundtrack. Starring Reese Witherspoon, directed by John Marconi.

This should be on the covers episode. Are we going to do a covers episode? Yeah, turn this off. Done. Okay, this is Rebel Heart by First Aid Kit. Oh, Ruins is the name of the record. And Peter Buck plays all over this record. Pretty much every song, I believe.

Did they ask him to or he just... No, he just barged in and started playing. This is a great album. And I would look at... Have you watched the video of them playing Emmylou for Emmylou Harris? No. There's a song called Emmylou off their first record

that's unbelievably good. And it's about her? It's about her. They play it to her and she starts crying. It's a very emotional video that anyone who likes getting emotional should watch. No thanks. I'm a robot.

I care not for those types of things. No, thank you So this is a great record Such good harmonies This is a great band Unbelievable Great songwriters too And then

Here's Arthur Buck Which we've talked about before Yes we've talked about But have you listened to the whole record yet? Yeah It's awesome Awesome Peter Buck and Joseph Arthur this is the first single correct

uh it is okay and this just came out like a month and a half ago hold on let's hear a little bit more of this. Sure. Yeah, I like this. Yeah, this is good. I think the first time I heard it, I was a little confused because it's using traditional instruments, but then having these sound effect-y kind of things. Like, whop, whop, whop, whop. But I really like it the more I heard it, I was a little confused because it's using traditional instruments, but then having these sound effect-y kind of things in it. Like, wop, wop, wop, wop. Yeah. But I really like it the more I hear it.

Me too. This is Jesus Christ, the Big Star Song. Mike Mills is playing on it. Who's it by? This is the DBs and Friends playing. From their Christmas record? Yeah. Yep.

We should just save this for a Christmas episode. Turn it off. Turn it off Christmas episode. Turn it off. Turn it off. Okay. Turn it off. This is Soma by Smashing Pumpkins that Mike Mills plays piano on. I didn't know that. Yeah.

The studio version? Yeah. Crazy. It's a long song. Here we go. God, remember how huge this record was? Oh, yeah. My God.

Anyway, Mike Mills plays piano on that. Where? I don't hear it. Bing bong bong bong. Do do do do do. There we go. There it is. Oh, and I don't know if we've played this on the show before,

but this is Photograph REM with Natalie Merchant. Natalie Merchant. Almost on Automatic for the People. But was, I caught up with it on a Born to Choose compilation. Yes. Is that right? Yeah. I was so into this at the time, and I do like it, but I'm glad it's not on the record.

Right. It doesn't stand up the rest of those songs quite. Well, then that's it for now. Collapse into now. There might be some in the future, certainly, if they continue making music. Or if people yell at us on Twitter, we can... You forgot this! Well, that's fun. That's a lot of fun.

Yeah, this is a good song. But you're right, not quite as good. Although this chorus is really good. It's great. But you're right, I don't think quite as good as the classic song, Automatic. All right, well that's going to do it for us. Adam, you did a good job finding all the music. Oh my God, thank you. Good job. Keep it going because we're going to go out on it.

Anything you want to say to go out on it. Anything you want to say to anyone out there? No, but I'm going to go pick up my son and see Mission Impossible right now. Ooh, I'm going to see it tomorrow. I'm excited. Give us an update. Will do, bro. Yeah, when we come back. I want to hear what he thought of it. We'll see if the mission was possible or

not. Too scared for Harry Potter, but Mission Impossible is right in his wheelhouse. I love it. All right, well, that's going to be it for us. We'll see you next time. And until then, we hope that you have found what you're looking for. Bye. Bye. Music to a standard tune by some forgotten big brass. Hey, Queeros, it's me, Cami Esposito, and I'm here to tell you about my podcast, Queery.

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