U Talkin’ U2 To Me? - U Talkin' U2 To Me? - Songs of Surrender

Episode Date: August 1, 2023

Adam Scott Aukerman ask "U Talkin’ U2 To Me?" for the first time in over five years as they reunite to discuss U2’s fifteenth studio album Songs of Surrender. They break down their favorite songs, talk about seeing Bonobos' one-man show, and give their thoughts on Bonobos & Thedge's music documentary A Sort of Homecoming with David Letterman. 

🎵 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. I held that pretty long, considering I went to the doctor yesterday for my checkup and did the breathing machine thing and literally almost passed out.

And didn't your doctor talk right into that thing didn't you go to the doctor in the first place because of your the struggle to breathe yeah um i was i've been hanging around you too much oh speaking of you too welcome back to the show. First episode in a while, in five years, I believe. Five years. Five years, the David Bowie special. Do the math really quick. 365 times five.

Do it super quick, super quick. Come on. 1,600 and something. There you go. That's how many days it's been. Really? Yeah, since the last time we did a U2 episode. Holy shit, I had no idea.

Five years. My name is Scott Aukerman. I am the host of Comedy Bang Bang, the podcast. I can talk about that. Can't talk about any other Comedy Bang. Well, I can talk about the book, but can't talk about any other iteration of Comedy Bang Bang. No other format.

We're in the middle of the sag wga dual strike and uh my co-host he's been my co-host now for it's been almost a decade we've been doing the show 10 years slave 10 years yeah we have 10 years super Super quick. Do the math. 365 times 10. I would say 3,650. There you go. That's exactly right. That is the amount of days it's been since we started this podcast. Well, no.

I mean, it's almost 10 years. Almost, but who cares? But yeah, somewhere around there. Maybe 35. Shut the fuck up. Shut your fucking mouth right now. I will. My co-host, you know him from a lot of things, but we can't talk about them.

And it's not like he's ever done anything that wasn't SAG approved, that he didn't say, excuse me, masters, may I do this? And they said, yes, like a good little boy. My theater work, we can mention me. What is your theater work? Well, Romeo and Juliet. The Immortal Bard, of course. Where did you do that?

In Berkeley. Oh, really? California. Did you go to college there? No, I did a play there. You just ran on stage? During Romeo and Juliet, I ran on stage. You're like the weird neighbor?

Hey, what's going on in this house? I was a streaker. I ran across the stage. Adam Scott is my co-host. Hello, Adam. Scott, how are you? I'm great. It's good to see you. It's great hanging out with you.

You too, man. You too, of course. We hung out a little bit in New York while you were there doing whatever it is you do and uh we'll talk about that a little bit later that was fun that was a lot of fun but we'll talk about that later but uh you're now back in la due to the strikes and we were like let's get together and why not because it's been i believe five months since the band that this is this show is about has dropped a record they dropped a few different things yeah around the same so we gotta get back in there and talk and they're about to do something major in a couple of months

so it's time to uh to check in time to recone. And so we're doing an episode. We're talking about the, essentially everything that came out around their new, I guess it's a new record. Yeah. Yeah. But Songs of Surrender is what we're here to talk about. When did it come out? Was it February? I don't know.

I think it was February. Did I say five months ago? Yeah, I think it was February. Okay. I can months ago? Yeah, I think it was February. Okay. I can look at, in fact, I should have this information right in front of me. I bet we can find it. How much do you want to bet? I'll bet you $1,000 we can find out.

I'll take that bet. Okay. I can't find it. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay, here you go. it. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay, here you go.

Your money is so loud. Yeah, it's very heavy. You only carry gold now, is that right? Yeah. Yes. Just big gold. Wait, there's one more in here. What a pain in the ass back in prospector days to pay for everything in gold. The worst.

Like on Deadwood, they're all carrying around sacks of just gold flakes. Sometimes it'll be flakes like, oh, a penny candy? Here, here's a gold flake. 26 cents, I think. Do I get any change back with that um change is also not a thing you get anymore have you noticed yeah like at what point was did it happen that suddenly no one ever gives like first of all coins are a thing of the past no one ever gives coins but now it's like everything is20 because no one wants to give change.

And if anything, if you end up getting coins, if there's a situation where you get coins back, it's like, how dare you? Yeah. Why would you sully my pockets with this garbage? Like, what am I supposed to do with this? Exactly. It's just a handful of diseases. with this. Exactly. It's just a handful of diseases. And by the way,

we haven't done an episode in five years, but the pandemic happened since then, and you're an avid anti-vaxxer. Yeah, 100%. And you wanted to mention that, and you're campaigning out there for RFK Jr. right now? I'm out there just hitting the streets.

Knocking on doors, just the old-fashioned, you know. Knocking on streets, hitting on doors. Roll up your shirt sleeves, get out there and spread the word of RFK Jr. Can't wait for November 2024, our next president, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., thank you. The whole F thing Kennedy Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., thank you. The whole F thing. Yeah.

Okay, yeah, JFK, you had an F in the middle of your... Okay, great. Now everyone has to? Well, everyone on that side of the tracks really feels like they have to. And does it stand for the same thing? I don't even know what the F is for. What the F? You don't know what it stands for?

What the F? That's what it stands for. It stands for what the F? Yeah. That's crazy that you don't even know what the f what the f you don't know what it stands for f that's what it stands for it stands for what the f yeah you that's crazy that you don't know that robert what the f you obviously don't know his entire platform i don't know uh well i mean i look forward to you educating me after the world that's well you know what hopefully we can squeeze it in on the show i could let everyone know what's going on okay great yeah i may turn off the recording during this what uh no i didn't say anything um and adam i mean look what have you been up to my man i've i've barely seen you i know in the past what uh we did an episode in december for other show. That's right. The Red Hot Chili Peppers show.

Was that December? That was December. December, yeah. How crazy is that that that was nine months ago? So crazy. Super quick. Do the math. How many hours has it been? Hours?

Yeah. Oh, shit. Nine months. How many hours in nine months? Okay. Well, three quarters to 365. That's exactly right. Oh. That's how long it's

would be 325 24 times 25 is 250 okay anyway yeah that's exactly right incredible it's crazy that it's been that amount of time incredible okay i but um you've been out there in new york shaking your tail the uh the big apple is that what they're calling it well that's what i've been out there so long that that's what the locals uh call new york city i had sorry that just that just rolls off the tongue i think about it i heard the black eyed peas got so big they were calling it the new apple d app is that what happened that's true that started happening with black eyed peas and since the black eyed peas are still like so huge and everyone's still talking about them all the time, we decided that we needed to kind of forge this new identity for New York City. Wow.

I mean, it's great branding. Thanks. I think. Why are you? Did you have something to do with this? I was on the board. I mean, it's not a big deal. Really?

Yeah, yeah. What does that entail? It's a lot of meetings, a lot of Zooms. I don't know if you've done this yet, the Zooms. You probably have. You've probably had a Zoom or two. Describe it for me. What exactly are you talking about?

You sit down. Oh, I'm already there. Yeah. Am I on a Zoom right now? Hey, listen, we're sitting down, but this isn't a Zoom. It feels like a Zoom. Yeah, I know. I know it does, but this is a face-. It feels like a Zoom. Yeah, I know.

I know it does. But this is a face-to-face conversation. Really? Yeah, it's different. But not really. That's the wondrous progress of technology is that we can sit down, have a conversation through technology, through our computers. And it feels like you may as well be face-to-face. What's the greatest invention of all time? Wait a minute. Is this anface. What's the greatest invention of all time? Wait a minute.

Is this an episode of What's the Greatest Invention of All Time? I believe it is. Hey, everyone. Welcome to What's the Greatest Invention of All Time. My name's Scott. And this is Scott. And we're just talking about, look, this is pretty much our first episode. Yeah. I mean, not pretty much our first episode. Yeah.

I mean, not pretty much. It 100% is. I mean, 99.9% is. Okay, fine. But it is. We had a rehearsal. We had three rehearsals. Three weeks of rehearsals.

That's what I mean by three rehearsals. Three weeks of rehearsals. They each lasted a week. Yeah. But when you say rehearsal, each one is one week. Yeah. So, I mean, yeah. So week. Yeah. But when you say rehearsal, each one is one week. Yeah. So, I mean, yeah. So 99.9.

But yeah, this is the podcast where we're trying to determine what the best invention of all time is. That's right. A lot of people would say the wheel because that's what everything comes down to. Wheel of time, maybe. What do you mean by that? Just time as a construct is an incredible invention. Wait, the flat circle known as time? Yeah.

That we all adhere to. Wait, is there a choice? Yeah, well, I mean, you can either go by the flat circle known as time or you can go by the alternate. I didn't realize, though, that we could choose not to abide by time. One hundred percent. Oh, I don't want to do it then. Great. Me neither.

Okay, great. We're just frozen in this moment right now. That's right. Forever. We will not age and this episode will not end. Okay. I'm good with that as long as I don't age. Great.

This is now officially the only podcast we do. It is called The Greatest Invention. Is that what it is? What is The Greatest Invention? What is The Greatest Invention

of all time? And it will now carry on forever. Forever. And it will never be released because we can't press stop to upload it. Nope.

It'll eventually have to just be a live podcast that people find. People come find us. And our families will have to come find us because this is what we'll be what we'll be doing they'll be growing older yep we will stay the same age we'll watch them age and die continue participating in this wonderful guest okay so i think this podcast is the greatest invention of all time it is yeah congratulations we found wait does that mean it's over? No.

No. No. No. Huh. Wow. Interesting. It's a pretty heavy up. Yeah. I don't know quite how to feel about that.

I want to say I'm sorry to you, and I'm sorry to you, and I'm sorry to you, and I'm sorry to the audience, and to my fans, and, again, to you. Thank you so much. And by the way,

did you... We haven't done this yet. Did you want to say anything other than I'm sorry to your fans sure I wanted to if I could um let me check yeah go ahead

thanks I wanted to say hello to my friends, my family, my fans, and I would like to say an extra special hello, Scott, to you. to you. Thank you very much, Adam. I appreciate that. I think your friends appreciate it. I think your family appreciates it. But I know even more than that, the fans love it.

Well, I hope so. The fans of this podcast. We can't talk about your fans of your other stuff. Nope. I'm on strike. Yep. From the fans? Is that part of what we're doing? We don't get to go picket fans. Do not like our stuff. You're in a line around them carrying picket signs.

They're like, I'm just trying to get to work. But again, you've been shaking your tail out there in New York City. Big apple. And first of all, what's your address out there? In New York? Yeah, New York. It's beep. Oh, so you're on beep yeah have you been have you been over to that part of town i yeah i mean that's on the beep side right

oh yeah yeah sort of down kind of by beep beep and over like just adjacent to beep yeah and it's right down on beep right right right i once one time get there, I took the beep and I beeped over to this beep's big ass beep. Yeah. And I beeped the living beep out of it. Yeah. It's kitty corner to beep. Yeah. It's also beep corner to beep.

Yeah. But it's in between 26th and 25th over on. Beep. Beep. That's where I live. Very cool. Yeah. So what about you, Scott?

You've been out here in La La Land? Been out here. Probably weird. And since, did we? No, we put out an episode. We put out the Chili Peppers since I had that baby. Yeah. Who you just.

I just spent some time with Emmy. Just spent some time with her, yeah. Delightful, beautiful baby. She's great, and we didn't even have to have sex to have her. So that was the best part of it. The worst part of having a baby. That is hard work. It is.

It gets the heart rate up, I'll tell you that much. You avoided it. Yep. Oh, my God. hard work it is and you get the heart rate up i'll tell you that you avoided it yep because they because i i believe i told you in new york they um went farm to table with my sperm that's right oh that's that's amazing well they did a fantastic job they did great i mean it all came out a plus baby yep i mean they really took care of it i was worried they were going to drop it and it was going to be some like there's something about mary's situation where i was going to walk out of the hospital and with like my hair you know sticking up straight or something because of your sperm yeah they were going to accidentally drop it in my hair it would burst on the floor

and just go in your face and your hair i was a little worried about that to be honest and i kept checking the mirror as i left and i I was like, is my hair normal? Or what is going on here? But it had a happy ending. They put it all in the correct place. Right. And did the right things with it. Yep.

And look what you got. Science, as Thomas Dolby said. Amazing what they can do these days. No, but really, she is a beautiful a beautiful lovely clearly highly intelligent baby yeah why do you say that well because she did three math problems when you guys had went into the kitchen super quick they were the were i have that big blackboard on the yeah chalk yeah uh it was it's sort of the goodwill hunting math problem right was she and and she was mopping the floor right in front of it oh good and you guys turned your back she solved it and she you had that equation up there

oh my god everyone you said everyone in the neighborhood's been trying to solve oh yeah we have an open door they just come in they try to solve it and everyone has scarves and turtlenecks which is like guys pick one right scarf or a turtleneck it's like come on it's like a belt and suspenders but also stellan uh scars guard came by yeah and he couldn't solve it either not even he could solve it and i was like your name is so close to stellar i assumed you could solve this um but when you turned your back emmy got up there he had a scarves guard too scarves guard yeah guarding his scarf it was like a security guard that he had hired that's right so no one would stellen scars guard scarf guard scarves guard because he has several he wears several

scarves yeah but um so so she solved that. Wow, that's great. I had wondered who had solved it. It was really hard. Wow. And she did a great job. I guess I have to tutor her now? Because basically I put that- I think maybe she needs to tutor you.

Just kidding. You better be kidding. I'm joking. Sorry. That was a total joke. No, I was joshing. You know my history of being tutored. I know. And I just thought it was a really funny goof.

I wasn't thinking. I'm sorry. You know what? I forgive you. Thanks. But I never forget. Of course. What were we just talking about? Your brilliant child. Scarves being guarded something happened

after that where what were we talking about farts no it was something about you maybe she should do something to me i can't remember what it was but oh tutor fuck you man you know my history about tutoring but you were trying to find the conversation like re relocate but i never forget you i know all right what were we just talking about well not tutoring oh god damn it fuck you dude you know my history i know you well of course i do you know what it's cool it's cool i forget but i never forget i understand what were we just talking about um okay we were talking about your daughter emmy good that's safe ground talking about you too earlier but i think you're thinking what we're talking about more recently more recently than that just a few seconds ago a chalkboard maybe is that what it was it's not ringing a bell to me

a math problem math problem. Math problem, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, math problem. And like, needing to, you know, solve it, but sometimes if you can't solve it, you get a tutor. God damn it! What? What's wrong? Nothing. Well,

welcome back. I'm glad that you two fans are not breathlessly awaiting these episodes any longer i think i think they are i think this is a day for them to rejoice forever not a lot of you too i mean there was a lot of you two content out here five months ago but now it's slim pickens in a way so they must no yeah this is actually great it's kind of a celebration of something that happened five months ago exactly you know you know it's a lot like how a birthday is a celebration of something 12 months ago that's a lot like that because we all as you know celebrate our birthdays one year late yes every year and this is a five month birthday of you to all of this stuff that we 2023 output yes exactly um and um

adam you uh what's your t-shirt by the way oh it's a first aid kit that's right i saw a picture of you you it seems to me like you've been going to a lot of shows lately i've seen you backstage at certain well i went to first aid kit Have I been to other shows? Did you? To be honest, I felt kind of jealous on that one. First Aid Kit? Yeah, I was like, why didn't Adam give a brother a call? Well, listen, bro, I had a ticket for me, and I had a ticket for

my lady, okay? Wait, did I go to another show? I have no idea. Okay. I've been to a bunch. First Aid Kit was terrific. They were good, yeah. Great. I liked them a lot. Have you seen them live?

No, I don't have any friends who will offer me tickets. That's too bad. They're always giving them to their ladies. That's too bad. They were great. What shows have you been to? I went to They Might Be Giants, who, by the way, is on, if you are a fan of this show, check out my other show, CBB

FM over at CBB World. Oh, cool. They came on? The Mighty Giants came on, yeah. You were on the first episode of that. Oh, yeah, that's right. They came on and did a two and a half hour episode. Really? Said it was the longest, most in-depth interview they've given in 20 years. That's cool. Did they play a bunch of songs? They didn't play anything.

No, we just, I mean, they brought songs over. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, and we listened to songs they brought that's awesome um that was great so i saw them in sparks oh they played together yes at the they opened for spark yes yes how was sparks they're great yeah wonderful um second time seeing them in uh a couple years and i saw neil young who was oh yeah at the greek yeah who was fine oh he kept wandering around saying what's your favorite planet really yes did people say neptune or was it all about earth i let's say to be quite honest a lot of people shouted out uranus really yes well you're kind of asking for it i know dude i know he wants everyone to say earth so he can then go well we gotta take

care of it yeah but bro you're in hollywood man we're all gonna say you're the land of uranus we're just a mile away from the comedy store man right jeffrey ross is probably in the audience sure fire laugh do you think we're gonna pass it up it's like saying like hey i need a location you know we're all shouting out Dildo Factory. That's right. That'd be great to see him do improv. So people shouted out Uranus. Yeah, a lot of Uranus.

And then did he just wait for someone to say Earth and then he talked about it? To be honest, he said it three times in three different parts of the show. So I don't know if he ever got the satisfactory answer until he finally, maybe someone said Earth, and he said, yeah, well, here's the song. We got to take care of it. Okay. And did he play like after the Gold Rush and cool song, old stuff?

Well, it was his Rarities tour, solo tour. So it was just him on stage just him on stage well occasionally a dude would come on and play organ but to be honest i don't know if they knew each other if neil young even knew this guy was gonna come up but some dude just some rando i met someone in a denny's once who was like he just sat down at our table i was with my friend and he like was like he just sat down at our table i was with my friend and he like wandered in sat down at our table he had a photo album and he was like hey i uh i'm a guy who like my thing is is i i can get in anywhere like i gate crash everywhere yeah and that was his thing he had photos of him just like backstage with every musician with his arm around them and he's

like i'm never invited and i just like find my way back and i get in there just like me sitting at this table i'm never invited but somehow we have to do an episode but then he told me that he went to some private house of blues paul mccartney show and he was standing backstage and they assumed he was a musician so they were all doing a jam and they waved him over to a keyboard and he just started plunking away at the keyboard whoa is this like in the 90s when you would be at denny's with your friends or was it recently uh this was the uh i mean the temperature was in the 90s yeah that's that's what I meant. If that's what you mean. Yeah. No, I meant him sitting at your table at Denny's uninvited. Yeah, I feel like it must have been in the 90s or the early 2000s

when I had more time and patience to talk to someone like that. Right, where you wouldn't just immediately get up and leave. Oh, bro, I'm on my phone. So you're thinking it may have been this man on stage with Neil Young playing. Yes, it might have been him just plunking away. But yeah, he played a couple of well-known songs but but it was mostly rare it was mostly rarities yeah all right yeah were you glad that you made the trip up to the greek theater i'll tell you i had tickets for two nights and ended up just going to imagine um i've seen i mean some of the best shows i've ever seen were neil young so i'm not slagging neil yeah no no i just i i was not in the mood for it another

three days later yeah um saw the national and soccer mommy that was great i bet that was good yeah and uh the the songs from the nationals new record just came alive on oh yeah that's a good album that's a really good album yeah um i'm going to see taylor swift when that's right show rolls through town which era are you i don't know my daughter is going to is she is in charge of what era i will be representing so you are going to dress up i actually don't know if she cares if I'm even there. Honestly, she will. Yeah, so she'll be dressing in an era of some sort, and I'll be tagging along. I love this. Yeah. What's your favorite Taylor Swift song?

Several. She's great. What about you? I love it when she sings that. Happy Birthday is always a good, dependable, terrific song. She's great. What about you? I love it when she sings that. Happy Birthday is always a good, dependable, terrific song. It's great. You'll be, like, having a party. She's invited.

Everyone starts singing Happy Birthday, and it's like, oh, holy shit, here's Taylor Swift. I mean, she'll definitely sing Happy Birthday, right? Yeah. Yeah. She always does. She always does, yeah. It's her biggest hit. Yeah. Like, once a year's her biggest hit. Yeah.

Like once a year, she sings it. Yep. I feel like I have been to another concert, and I can't remember what it was. So I'm just going to... Sisters of Mercy, I went to that. Oh, and Love and Rockets. You've been to a shitload of concerts.

Well, yeah, it's the one thing I can do. Yeah, I guess. There isn't a whole hell of a lot else to do the one thing i can do yeah i guess there isn't whole hell of a lot else to do other than picket yeah no picketing basically 8 a.m to 8 p.m whenever the sun's up i usually do it by the sun so every day every day and then i set my picket sign down and walk into the nearest concert wherever you see whatever's fine whatever yeah that's great and it's a bummer that universal amphitheater is no longer there because that that was the pipeline just put your picket sign down what's what is it potterland is there now is that where the amphitheater was yeah i remember going to the mtv awards at the universal amphitheater

i wrote on it once it was it at the universal amphitheater yeah wow if you're asking did i sneak onto the jurassic park ride oh yeah you did it you did it that was a pretty big venue yeah it was giant yeah i saw so many shows there's a lot of shows these days at the hollywood palladium have you noticed this i know it's not my favorite no me neither that's where first aid kit played did they really they did why didn't you call me about this wait i saw a show soon after first aid kit and i can't remember is it on your instagram what it was i don't think so hmm is it in your calendar perhaps how would you search for this i don don't know. Would you just search fun? Fun activities is what I would search. Yeah, go to your fun activities calendar.

Well, that's wonderful that you went to something that you don't know. It's not on my Instagram. Oh, I saw Billy Joel in New York. Oh, that's right. I was jealous about that, too. And then I saw Bruce Springsteen in New York. Oh. Yeah, so I've been to a few rad shows. Yeah.

Wonderful. How was the Springsteen show? Terrific. Great. Who did you take? My lady, of course, Naomi Scott. It was super fun. I'm sensing a

theme here. I know. But it was in New York City, so you wouldn't have been. And then we went to that one show that we're going to talk about later. Yeah, yeah. I would have flown out for that. For Springsteen? No. But the show we saw together.

We'll talk about it later. But there were some musical performances. Yes, yes. Musical. Musical best. about it but there were some musical performances yes yes musical musical best well uh adam to finish that sip this is the first time you've ever drank water it was really refreshing it seemed like to you it was incredible what do you usually drink uh i just drink life you know drink it up remember the board game life i sure

do didn't have a lot to do with i mean it was as boring as life it was super boring it was all about mortgages right it was as boring as life is when there's two strikes happening hey but uh uh fans of this show you must be happy there are strikes because things like this can happen. Because Adam is now back in L.A. and he's going to shows and not calling his good buddy. But we are going to have to take a break, Adam. What? I'm sorry. Okay.

What? I'm sorry. Okay. But when we come back, we're going to be talking about that band that we talk about. He Too. He Too. And we're going to be talking about their album. We're going to be talking about their documentary.

We're going to be talking about a show that Adam and I saw. And we're going to be going, not going through the whole record, but we're going to talk about our top ten songs on the record. And we're going to see if there's any overlap between them. Very exciting. When we come back, we're going to be doing all of that. All right here on You Talkin' U2 to Me. It's a cold outside You get so hot in the air You're boys and girls to us welcome back that's a good song the dulcet tones of the coconuts doing backups from kid creole and

the coconuts you like them adam endic? Endicott? There are other songs? I don't know. Well, maybe you should fucking figure it out before you're too old to even remember anything that ever happened to you. I guess.

Just because you mean like how I couldn't remember any of the concerts I've been to in the last few months? That, of course, was Red Light from Q2's album, War. And Adam, we have to

before we get into everything that they put out recently, we sort of have to we should go through band members yeah i think i mean it's been five years i barely remember i know we talked to him a couple of times two or three times didn't we who who are you talking about um the the band you too do we talk what do you mean talk to them like talk like with our mouths or i don't think it was a psychic conversation okay um yeah i think we did i think we talked to them i think i remember like if there was an old bald guy in a wheelchair old bald guy in a wheelchair and i could hear his voice in my mind okay was there a guy correct me if i'm

wrong but there was a guy who had i want to say razors or claws that came out of the top of his hand like like razor blades like razor blades that came out the top of his hand and he would take swipes at people oh that guy yeah yeah yeah he caught me in the uh in the arm at one point oh he did that hurt no it hurt but then um this other she was younger her name was cat or kitty or something like that she like borrowed his healing factor and then gave it to me i've already hit the ceiling on my x-men knowledge you don't know who anna paquin is is that who she played she played that yes in the um in the brian singer of course yes god those movies were huge yeah and you're in the Brian Singer. Of course. Yes. God, those movies were huge. Yeah.

And you're in the documentary coming out about Brian Singer, aren't you? About your experiences with him. Well, we both are. We did that interview together. That's how we met. Yep. So who are we talking about?

We're talking about... Q2. Q2. Oh, yeah. We need to go through and just talk about because we mentioned to set the table yeah for the listener of like who are we talking about when we talk about these people that's right you know it's always good always healthy yeah to make sure everyone's on the same page exactly because if you're not on the same page. We're on different pages. Exactly. And that's no fun. So on lead singers, you have, and occasionally he strums a big old git fiddle.

Sure. Or just holds it. He holds it. Yeah, he's maybe not particularly adept at it, but he certainly poses with it. He's pretty good. i've seen him play you way better than me but that's a sliding scale that's the that's the scale we use for judging all guitarists yes better than adam turns out almost everyone is amazing compared to adam 100 um but yeah his of course we're talking about

Bonobos yeah and by the way I do need a copy of that picture that he drew of course we've been talking about this now for eight years yes and it's not happened yet although you did give me this wonderful picture of

the two of us and Huey Lewis that I have. Or Jimmy Kimmel that I have over there. Have not framed it yet. But yes, I will get a copy of that. It's in, yes, I will get a copy of that. Your butt hole. My butt. And then, of course, on the six string.

That's right. And he has a few effects, pedals. Always wearing a hat. He has said, by the way, I don't know if you saw the YouTube message boards recently. He said if anyone can catch him not wearing a hat, he'll give them his share of all of YouTube's publishing. Wow.

And here's the other thing he's like to be honest i don't wear a hat that much it's just weirdly every time anyone has ever seen me in the last 20 years i've been wearing a hat but he's like maybe one day a week i'll wear a hat and it just happens to be when everyone sees me. What? So he's like, it's not going to be that hard if you can see me out there in the world. And if you catch him, you get all of his publishing. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to get a ticket to Dublin tonight

and just go look for him. He said it would be easy and just no one tries because no one cares enough, he said. I do. That's why he came out and he was like, I'm and just no one tries because no one cares enough he said i do that's why he came out he was like i'm sad no one cares no one cares i'll give them all of my money it was a weird thing i mean i thought it was bizarre but i'm not the one to judge you know super weird so what's his name i think of course we're talking about fedge fedge I think, of course, we're talking about Fedge. Fedge.

Wonderful guy. Terrific guitarist. Wonderful man. Yep. And then over there on the down low. The bass. Slapping the bass. Slapping his bass around.

The jazz man. The jazz man himself. The spiritual heart of the band. Yes. Of course, we're talking about Adam Clay 2000. Yes. The man who took us on a tour of the U2 stages. That's right.

And had spent a lot of time with us to the point where I was kind of like, don't we have other stuff to other stuff to do you have to get ready for the arena show you have in like 45 minutes and then of course uh on the sticks and it was just the three of us with a tape recorder i mean literally that's all it was very nice man yeah um and then uh uh on the sticks that he beats against these other things, of course, you have Larry Mullen, senior son. Yep. Who gave us T-shirts on that fateful day five years ago at this point. On our last episode, he gave us those T-shirts. That was five years ago. Five years ago.

I still have that shirt. Do you have yours? Yeah, yeah. I just cleaned out. Five years ago. Five years ago. I still have that shirt. Do you have yours?

Yeah, yeah. I just cleaned out. I just pruned a bunch of T-shirts out of my wear or whatever. And that one stayed, my friend. Because it sparks joy. That one and a couple of Harris T-shirts stayed for me. That's right. And my what are you looking at, dumb bitch T-shirt. What's that?

It's just a T-shirt. That's what it says? Yeah. Jesus Christ. looking at dumb bitch what's that it's just a t-shirt so that's what it says yeah jesus christ don't wear that one out no probably not a great idea um yeah but so those are the four are there any more um one sec let me just check real quick that's it hello uh yeah um who's this uh i called you okay we sound exactly the same yeah oh wait i thought i was calling adam yeah that's our adam called me that that's it did he merge calls yep yeah we're all merged we're on the same call okay

okay bye where are you leaving i'm not leaving let's get to know each other i was kidding hi hi hi who are you my name is adam Wait, Adam? Yeah. Adam who? Adam. Adam Adam? Adam Adams. Adam Adams. That's my name. Okay, hi. How are you?

Hey, what's your name? Rochester? Rochester. Rochester? Rochester. What's your last name? Rochester. Rochester Rochester?

No, Rochester. Fuck you. Fuck you! Eat shit. Is that the dial tone? I think so. Okay. I mean, I'm not in charge of sound.

Nope. That's just the sound that the phone made. Okay. Those are the four members. Those are the four. There's no more. That's it. Okay, great.

And they... So here, I guess... great um and they so here i guess you know if you've ever listened to a band before yeah they put out these collections of songs it's not sheet music i've heard of it yeah it's that's how that's how music used to be disseminated with sheet music and you would you would find hopefully a neighbor or an uncle would play piano like they would have mozart music or music by beethoven or or ragtime george michael scott yeah george michael for instance did you see that wham documentary it was pretty good yeah the morning it came out yeah i saw it the night it came out i was, I'm watching that. But they put out these things called

albums. And sometimes they even send them directly to your phone. That's a joke, of course. Very, very funny. And they put out a new collection of songs called Songs of Surrender.

Do you think after Songs of In songs of experience and now songs of surrender do you think they'll stop naming their albums no songs of whatever i think they finally they were like you know what 50 years after we started the band we finally figured it out just like songs of uh adjective adjective sounds of songs of agitation i think i think it's it's great because like a lot of times i'll be in a store and i'll pick something up and i'll be like i don't know even what this is and i look on it and it doesn't have any and it's like do i not know something that everyone else knows what is this but i look at this and i go song oh it's a bunch of songs yeah i know it's like, do I not know something that everyone else knows? What is this? But I look at this and I go, oh, it's a bunch of songs. Yeah, I know. It's actually super handy.

And I was wrong. It's not adjectives. It's adverbs, right? I don't care. Okay. So, yes, they put out a collection of songs. They did. And they say, listen, these are songs.

And you should pay attention to them. Yeah. Because if you don't listen to them, no one will. And if I don't listen to them. What did we do this for then? Exactly. So fucking listen to them. They're songs.

And then we all are supposed to be like, oh, sorry. Sorry. I apologize. I apologize. And that's what we do like good little boys and girls doing what we're told that sounds like donald trump is that your trump oh no it should be though good little boys and girls um speaking of hitting their stride he's finally figured it out really figured it out wait are you switching over to him from rfk jr no i just admire him oh okay

um but um yeah so they put out this record songs of surrender and this is a little bit different than the other records they put out is that safe to say i think uh in essence they are taking a moment and taking a long moment and reassessing their back catalog in it and their legacy their legacy and and reinterpreting some of their best known songs and some of their least known songs that aren't quite as well known. But these are, we're being vague about it. These are new recordings of old songs. Yes.

And I don't know about you, but I felt like some of the songs are songs they wished were more well known. And they're like, hey, this really should listen to this. Well, it's like a new way of doing a best of. Because used to take they would put out a best of every 10 years or so. And that was back when they had like huge hits, too. And it was like, oh, OK, they need to keep updating their best ofs. This is a new way to do a best of and sneak some of those new songs in there. Yeah. Like from the past couple of from the past couple albums where people

don't really know them all that well and be like see these stand shoulder to shoulder with our old and some of them do i think but um so so essentially what happened with this album they bono was writing his memoir yeah uh which is called what is it called 40 i think it's called songs of surrender it is called songs or no i'm sorry uh you know what i forgive but i never forget i i know i listened to the audiobook of it and the audiobook is what they were recording some of these new versions of these songs for right and i think they kind of caught the bug if you will and yes and um and started recording more just look up bono but you're trying to talk so slow while you look this surrender it's just called surrender oh my lord are you okay i think they caught the...

You're meanwhile Googling furiously. That's what it sounds like when I try to do two things at once. You're barely good at one. I know. But yeah, so Bono was writing his book, which basically the concept of it was, it was 40 chapters, and each chapter was named after a u2 song um and then it went into different parts of his life so he's writing this and then they're they're

re-recording some of these older songs to to play behind uh in the audiobook and they go what you know what let's just listen let's put some of this out let's put let's make it count yeah and and they did say like the record company wasn't expecting an album or anything so they they they kind of had an agreement of like hey if this sucks we don't have to put it out right um and is that right yeah i read that but um but they they decided to put it out. And there are literally 40 songs on this record. It's a four CD set. I mean, you can get a one CD version and a two CD version. But the ones that Adam and I got were the full four CDs, 40 songs.

And each set of 10 songs were chosen by each member. Or each CD was basically like each member said, hey, here's 10 songs that were chosen by each member or each each cd was basically like each member said hey here's 10 songs that i want to do or each 10 songs represent that i don't know man yeah it's i couldn't tell if it was the these members chose them or if it's just these songs feel like this i think a lot of times it's just like, I gotta think of something to say in this interview. Oh shit, I got nothing to say. It's just a bunch

of music. But even the digital, the version on like Apple Music, for instance, is great, great instance. Is the first 10 songs, 1 through 10, and then it starts over after the 10th song it's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten and then another one through 10 it's not one

through 40 it's one through 10 four times okay albert einstein jesus fucking christ there's smoke coming out of my ears one two three four five six seven eight nine ten jesus christ dude i'm just saying that it's a weird way to present look we can agree that it's weird things are weird in this world oh god okay okay so so they put this out and it's a and you know i also okay so they first floated out a couple of tracks and the one thing that i sort of noticed was oh these are more like acoustic versions. Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's kind of like what everyone was doing back in 94, 95, 96, which was like putting out MTV Unplugged records or the Rolling Stones put out Stripped, you know?

Yeah, yeah. Of course, you two, when they were talking about it, were trying to get very heady about it. About like, well, we wanted to see if these songs could have power without the trappings of the band. That's how you know if it's a great song. If it survives breaking it down to its raw elements. Yeah, its most raw elements. And I listened to this in full last night for the first time. And some of it does, some of it doesn't. Some of it, it's interesting because they started as a post-punk band.

And a lot of that is sound, is the sound of the band, you know. More so than the songwriting in a way. And the power of the band is like so inherent in their early songs that when you strip some of that away, it's like, oh, I don't know if it's working, but some of it's beautiful as well. And a lot of it is just Bono and The Edge. The other guys aren't even really... It's hard to tell how involved they actually were. So they basically, Bono and the edge did their thing with them and then sent the files to larry was uh recuperating yeah and said you know what

the heaviest thing i could bang on is this old mealy apple with a worm in it and i'm afraid of killing the worm if i bang on it too hard and so so that's what he did that's what he did and then um adam they were basically just like hey add a bunch of stuff and we'll edit it later you know whatever you whatever you think works and then and then they both listen to the album later and we're like oh they use that oh they use that you know but this seems more like bono and uh bonobos and Fedge's project. Yeah. And you're right. I think some of it's great.

And then some of it, they mess with the original arrangement maybe too much and change the song completely. Right. And some of the songs don't sound good slowed down. Yeah. And some of them are too different. And why change something that was super great. Right, but then some of, I feel like some of the experiments paid off where it's like, oh wow, so this is a

totally new version that doesn't really share a lot with the old one and it's making me look at the song in a new way. Yeah, agreed. And Bonobos also rewrote a lot of the lyrics. Yeah. I think the most notable one was Walk On on which he originally wrote for someone

politically that he's no longer incredibly fond of so he rewrote it to be about hugh crane is that oh yeah that person that he wrote it for ended up ended up being in charge of the government and he's disappointed something happened yeah yeah um so he kind of and some of some of the songs i believe he's like you know what this was felt unfinished at the time so i just rewrote some of the lyrics to it um which if it's a super famous song it's maybe distracting a little odd sometimes but if it's a song that you're like oh yeah i sort of remember this one who knows uh yeah i i kind of appreciate that they're experimenting still in something that could have been just a super yeah so but some

they're not really known for like cash-ins they yeah the one thing i have to say is like they came out and they were like it's almost like the joshua tree tour where they were like we're not a band that looks behind yeah and they said that about this we're not i'm like that's exactly what you're listening to it yeah um but um but but they they don't tend to have fast this kind of stuff they tend to be like overthink things in a way so if anything it is overcooked in some spots yes um but you know that's kind of cool that they put that much they put a lot of and it is 40 song it's two hours 45 minutes long if you listen to the the long version which i don't know that you need to do wow you, you listened to the entire thing last night. Yes, yes. I honestly think that you could listen to the 16-track version and get a good representation.

Is there a shorter version? There's a one-disc version and a two-disc version. Oh, okay. All right. But so, now normally what we do on the show is we listen to every song and talk in real time about our opinions about it, but... We don't have that kind of time and we only have two and a half hours to do this episode we don't have two hours and 45 minutes but what we did was we each picked our 10 favorites out of the 40 songs that's exactly right

and i think what we should do is is trade off and say which one we picked and then it'll be exciting to see if we picked the same one ever and we'll see how many songs end up out of the 40 to have made our cut. So Adam, do you want to kick it off to see what's your first choice and we'll

play a little snippet of it and we'll talk about it. Yeah, mine aren't really in On this record? Any You picked old Van Morrison songs? and we'll play a little snippet of it, and we'll talk about it. Yeah, mine aren't really in any. On this record? You picked old Van Morrison songs? Yeah. It has to be U2? Not only U2, but songs from this record, I think.

Mine aren't in any particular order. Yeah, neither are mine. My first one is The Miracle of Joey Ramone. You know what? I picked that as well. You did. Now, I don't know if you picked it for this reason. I felt like this new kind of hook in the middle of it feels like what the song should have been.

It's interesting because I don't think it shares a lot of... Let's play it while we talk about it a little bit. But this is The Mir of joey ramone um it doesn't sound really anything like the old version it's very different and i like it me too um this is one of their more recent songs this is off the last record they did right songs of experience songs of innocence it was a yeah it's the first single when they came at the apple thing they did right songs of experience songs of innocence it was a yeah it's the first single when they came at the apple thing they did this song right right right um let's listen to it your voice was all i heard i was shaking from a storm in me Here comes that new chord.

You're so cynical I need a miracle To make some sense out of the world Viva, viva, la rama We will never be alone The greatest voice I ever heard Let's, uh... Now, it's roughly the same melody, right?

Let's hear the original, because to me it's so different that I got very excited by it. Because I wouldn't even say that's one of their songs that I know great, to the point where I'm sort of like, how's the old one go? So to hear something so different, it kind of felt like, ooh, a little juicy. I mean, it's on the third CD of this, I think. But it was just like, oh, a little bit of excitement. Let's hear the original version. Different key. I even wondered if that was the original chorus that they bailed.

That they bailed on? Yeah. Sometimes you hear demos of theirs for Beautiful Day. And they have a totally different chorus that they realize sucks. And they go, you know what? let's try a little harder on this. But let's hear a little Adam in the ass drumming. Roughly the same verse. Roughly the same verse, yeah. yeah oh that's what you said that's what he said oh

oh Here it comes. Okay. Yeah, this is all different. Yeah, this is all different. Yeah, it's very different. The other one's so much catchier. Yeah, it's interesting, but I like this one too. But I just, I do like them just saying like, fuck it, let's do something radically different with this yeah song

um so yeah i got excited by that i'm glad that you picked it too yeah i really like that that could have gone either way i think um okay your turn all right i'm gonna pick one and uh we'll see if we both picked it um i'm you know what uh i i'm gonna i was just talking about it uh walk on parentheses ukraine uh is i did not pick that you did not pick that okay let's hear a little bit of that this is from um all that you can't leave behind can't leave behind this doesn't do anything radically different It's kind of like Boilerplate

Acoustic version Such a great song And the one Laughs And does a dance On his own grave For a photograph This is not a curtain call. This is the greatest act of all. Oh, whoa Walk on, walk on

What you got, they can't steal it They can't even feel it Walk on, walk on Stay safe tonight So it's pretty much like, okay, what you would expect of an acoustic rendition of something, but I do think it's a great song. It's a great song. It's one of their better iterations of it on this record, where it just is nice and pretty and stirring.

And it's one of those big songs of theirs that I've always wanted to hear. A more stripped-down version. Yeah, yeah. But you did not pick it. I did not. Because there are 10 other that you like better. Yes. Okay, what is your next choice?

I really like Red Hill Mining Town. I picked that as well. All right. All right, so let's hear... This is sort of similar. Very similar to the version that they put out on the Joshua Tree reissue thatue that they did in the joshua tree tour that we saw yeah with horns in it which i think are really um the horns are really good From father to son Their blood runs thin

Both our faces frozen Stare against the wind The scene was split, the cold face cracked The lines were so long, you couldn't see to the back. We were making steel, they were made of stone. Now our labor day has come and gone. You kept me holding on In Red Hill Town As the lights go out I am

I'm hanging on You're all that's left to hold on to Yeah, I love that melody and something about the horns doing different notes than the band did when they put it out. It's really nice. And I mean, I could argue about the sort of like new beat that they do it to. The sort of beatboxy kind of thing. But I think that's a really nice version.

I think the version at the Joshua Tree Tour was the best one. That's a great one. Yeah. Okay, my turn. I picked a little song from Z-U-R-O-P-A, Stay Far Away So Close. Oh, yeah. Great. You also picked.

I did not. No. But I think it's a great selection. Okay, let's play it then. selection okay let's play it then this is stay far away so close from zuropa a new interpretation of it by the band you too green light 7-Eleven. You stop in for a pack of cigarettes. You don't smoke, don't even want to.

Hey now, check your change. By the way, I don't know that I necessarily co-sign the octave down Leonard Cohen of it all, but I think the middle part is what I like about it. I like it. Some of it does sound rough. Some of it's a little unfinished. There's some clams in here on the whole record, which is interesting to me that it's a little like going to see them live doing it yeah it's kind of cool let me get to the part that I really like here. Yeah, back when he started. Miami, New Orleans

London, Belfast and Berlin And if you listen, I can call And if you jump, you just might fall And if you shout, I'll only hear you If I could stay, then the night would kill you I wish he was doing it in this octave the entire time, and it would be a classic. But I like this part of it so much that...

But he goes back down to the octave below for the end. But he often saves that for the end, just to like... But I liked it enough to put it on my top ten. I really like this version of Invisible. I picked that as well. everyone that you've picked i know um invisible was the sort of one-off single they didn't even put it on a record that they and it was like as far as our podcast goes it was maybe the biggest deal for us when it came out because remember we had been waiting for it. Waiting for it. And then I don't think it...

It's a really good song, but it didn't scale the heights of the charts, so they were like, oh, I guess it's a failure. And then didn't put it on their records. But then they played it on every tour. Yeah, it was on the tour. I think it's great. And featured prominently in the Letterman special too.

Right. Right. I didn't even want the heart you broke It's yours to keep You just might need one I finally found my real name I won't be me when you see me again No, I won't be my father's son I'm more than you know I'm more than you see

I'm more than you let me be I'm more than you know A body and a soul Now you know about it in our soul. You don't see me, but you will. I am not invisible. Yeah, nice. I think this is one of their more successful stripping downs, I think. It's pretty straightforward but

really yeah it's it's like if you were to say hey what would an acoustic version of this song sound like you it would be this pretty much but it sounds great yes all right time for me to pick another one and um i picked something a little out of the ordinary i don't know okay if you're gonna like it but i picked dirty day oh that was a close. I don't know if you're going to like it, but I picked Dirty Day. Ooh, that was a close one for me. Close one for you. Okay. I did not pick it, but I really like it.

It's so different. Yeah. And it's not a well-known song. It's a great song. And it sounds pretty fleshed out. Yeah. And not just like half-assed. It sounds like they love this song.

Yeah. And love going back to it. So this is Dirty Day. Yeah, this is really cool i don't know you and you don't know the half of it and a starring role played the bad guy who walked off set They say be careful where you aim

Cause where you aim you just might hit You can hold on to something so tight You've already lost it Dragging me down that's not the way it used to be you can't even remember

what I'm trying to forget it was a dirty day Yeah, a dirty day Just sounds unlike anything else on the rest of the record. Sparse instrumentation that they don't use. You know, it doesn't sound like the original. I just think it's such a good reinterpretation of it.

It doesn't sound like the original, but they also didn't alter the melody no or the lyrics or anything yeah some of the lyric changing in it is like you said distracting but some of some of it also i just didn't think it was as good as the original so why change it but the part where he talked about i want this song to be an nft yeah that was like come on this is pride in the name of love right but yeah this is such a this sounds like no other no other song on the record yeah which is what i really loved about it yeah it's really good okay adam you gotta pick one my next one i think you gotta pick a couple in a row, because everyone I've picked, you've not picked. Okay.

Okay, I'll do a pairing here. One, I think it was maybe the biggest change from the original, which is I still haven't found what I'm looking for. Oh, okay. It's very different. I did not pick this one. Okay. Let's hear...

I still haven't found... This is one of their massive massive hits uh and let's hear their reinterpretation of this from the album the joshua tree this is a band called you too I have climbed the highest mountains I have run through the fields Only to be with you Only to be with you. Only to be with you. I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls. These city walls, only to be with you.

I still haven't found What I'm looking for I have kissed Honey lips Yeah, interesting. It's interesting. This album... You know, essentially they could have turned in

the equivalent of like a whole album of that Iron and Wine cover of the Postal Service song. Right. Where it's like you can listen to it in a coffee shop. Right. Pleasantly. Yes. And instead they tried something with all of it. Yes.

Does it work? I don't know. It's like. Some of it does. Some of it does. Some of it doesn't. I don't know that I would like listen to that on a pleasant pleasant drive or anything but that's not where they're going for they're they they're it's almost like this album is them trying to shake you and go no no pay attention to this what we did with this it's

interesting yeah it's very interesting um i'll do another one yeah uh electrical storm i really like it's one of my pick this favorite b-sides of theirs. Yeah, this was... Was it a single? I feel like it was a single. It was a single, you're right. From The Best Of? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it was.

Fucking idiot. Yeah, sorry. So stupid. I mean, by and large, it's real mellow. It's a very mellow record, sometimes sleepy, especially if you're listening to this full two hours and 45 minutes but you must have passed out i want to kill myself to lovers lie with low sheets on their bed and the day it is breaking breaking rainy days we'll go swimming now a rainy days swimming in the sound a rainy days we go swimming out All of the time I know that's not enough

But if the sky can't crack There must be some way back To love and only love Electrical star Electrical storm. Electrical storm. Baby, don't cry. Caroline. I mean, it's pretty straightforward.

I would say that's not my favorite song that they've ever written. It's kind of like, well, what about it? It's like electrical storms? Yeah. What about it? Electrical storms? Yeah, I heard you the first time. Baby, don't cry.

I'm not. Well, that's any song. I'm just fucking asking you what you're talking about. What song? Is that any song? But any song, it's like, hey, Jude. Yeah. Yeah.

What about it? So what? Why do you keep saying, hey, Jude? Exactly. exactly yeah so you get my point yeah i do i really do all right i'll pick one this is i think one of their better recent songs from the last record um i picked song for someone ah okay the album before the last one oh is that is that, it's from Innocence? Fucking idiot. Fuck you. Again, mellow.

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, pretty straightforward interpretation. Yeah, but a lovely song. Yeah, it's a good song. So you're tired of hearing it at this point? Yeah. No, no, no.

Let's get to the chorus. I'm not the one singing. You're not? That's not you? This is actually a bit different. Okay. What light? Why do you keep saying light?

Who cares? Yeah, we're all on Earth. Who cares? Yeah, we're all on Earth. Who cares? Yeah, we're all on Earth. We all know where we are. Fuck you. We're not on Mars. We're not on Uranus.

I just love the idea of Neil Young going, what's your favorite planet? What's your favorite planet? What's your favorite planet? Uranus. Fuck you, Uranus. It's like, dude is 80 years old and a musical legend. And he still has assholes in LA shouting out Uranus. He just wants to talk about saving the planet.

Let the guy talk. Let the guy do it. Okay, what's your next choice? My next one would be from their last album. It's called Get Out of Your Own Way. Interesting. I thought it was a very different version and maybe a little more playful, maybe better.

I picked my bottom three and this is on it but is it really maybe i hate this song though yeah i i don't like that i've never liked the title like get out of your own way like get out of my way fuck you like why do you keep saying it it feels like therapy speak to me but let's yeah but a lot of people could use that it is a more playful yeah beat i kind of felt like the big big version from their album never quite figured itself out yeah because it was trying to be walk-on yeah essentially like totally inspiring and this the subject matter doesn't yeah merit that i would say so i see where you're coming from yeah yeah i understand sorry i'm on the phone yeah no i get it no i see where you're coming from yeah sorry i'm talking to this total piece of shit next to me i gotta get back to it okay bye love you bye

so what about the song did he say oompa loompa i don't know who cares why is that in a song fuck off i i agree with what you're saying i i think i've just had a thing because i feel like the song is like kind of light and airy and them trying to make it into this big statement what's the one they did on the last record about and it kind of had a

really playful beat the one about like the the jester or something jeepster yeah the jeepster okay interesting choice from an interesting person okay or something. Jeepster. No. Yeah, the Jeepster. Okay, interesting choice from an interesting person. Okay, next up

I chose probably the most straight ahead just right down the middle version. Like just total softball for a dinger. Sure. Sunday Bloody Sunday. Oh yeah oh yeah sure i did not choose

that one this is just this is in fact they they did it live like this yes it is the most obvious version but i think it's very effective and it's always in the set in the place where we got to get the audience back yeah I can't believe the news today. I can't close my eyes. Make it your way. How long? How long must we sing this song? Like, I feel the whole album could have been this.

Uh-huh. And it would have been easier for them to do. And maybe more popular. More popular, but not... They probably would have been easier for them to do. And maybe more popular. More popular, but not. They probably would have been bored doing it. Yes.

But this is very well done. Yeah. Well, it's an indestructible song. This song, maybe it would have been weird if they changed it too much. Yeah. Like Monday or maybe tuesday yeah what if it was like wednesday bloody wednesday you're like no they're changing it way too much band meeting yeah okay uh what's your next choice my next one is miracle drug miracle drug insulin oh

yeah that i i know which one this is. This is very deep in the album. Third to last song. And I may have been nodding off. So let me see. For a period of time, this was maybe my favorite U2 song. We talked about that. And I've had a baby. By the way, you said I didn't understand the lyric because I hadn't had a baby.

Yeah. I just had one. I still think it sucks. I want a trip inside your head spend the day there that was the first thing i thought of when i had the baby you're like no welcome to the world emmy miracle drug sucks I feel you when you call. Do you feel anything at all? I want to see your thoughts take shape and walk right out. Freedom has a scent like the top of a newborn baby's head.

The songs are in your eyes. See them when you smile. The songs won't be denied. I've had enough. I'm not giving up on a miracle. A miracle job. All right. I like it.

Yeah. I could have picked it. I didn't. How many more do you have? I have two. Let's see here. One, two. Albert Einstein again.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Feedback, hamburgers, feedback. I have three. Three. uh i have two uh three three okay why don't you pick uh where the streets have no name i picked that too that's maybe that's this is my favorite it's pretty pretty great it it's okay so it's number two in the record and it's yeah it starts with one which is pretty you know again boilerplate of like what you would do if you were doing an acoustic record and it's yeah it starts with one which is pretty you know again boilerplate of like what you would do if you were doing an acoustic record and then this comes in i'm like oh they're actually like doing something doing something yeah yeah so this is this was the one that made me kind of sit up straight and pay attention to the record got a big boner when you

yeah huge you can hear it during the song you'll hear boy big for me as our listenership slowly doses off man watching the documentary which we'll talk about, just reminds you, when Fedge is playing this, it just reminds you of how incredible this piece of music is.

You know what I mean? And so then to hear this different version of it is... How Letterman is standing there watching him play. And he's just like, Jesus Christ. Yeah. Almost sounds like an Underworld song. Yeah. You mean the Kate Beckinsale movie?

Yeah. It sounds like Lycans are playing on the instruments. Yeah. Wait, I want to hear a little bit more. I know, are you running out of time? Is that why you're rushing it along? Just how fucking long can we do this? Is this like a nine-minute version of the song?

I just want to hear the feel of it a little more, because this is my favorite. It is cool. I mean, you picked it. Yeah, I know. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck you.

Let's hear the chorus. I mean, streets, who cares about streets? I mean, yeah, streets have names. I don't give a fuck. Second street, third street mates one two three four five six seven eight nine it's a different lyric yeah get through the fire if i go with you there's no other way through instead of it's all way through. Instead of it's all I can do. Anyway, I. It's awesome.

That's track two. And I was like, oh, shit. So there, it's not. Not everything is just like that John and acoustic going. Yeah. You know, or a piano or whatever. Which it easily could. And it's cool that they did do that a few times.

Yes. For some. Exactly. Okay. Pick another one. No, it's your turn okay i picked the last track i picked 40 oh cool yeah i did not pick that okay that was a great song god damn it i think war still war is such a great it's so fucking good

all the way through not a bad not a clam amongst them it's good rock and roll music yep How many more do you have? Two. That's the last one for me. This is your last one? You said you had two left? Yeah, where the streets have no name. Oh, shit.

Okay. Wow, so I'm really stepping up to the plate here at the end. Yeah. Which, look, if you're a professional baseball player, that's exactly where you want to be. I'm kind of the star of the podcast for the next two songs. Pretty psyched. But make sure you don't blow it,

because this is a big opportunity for you. God damn it. Now that's in my head. You might be able to spin off into your own podcast. Fuck. Where I just play two songs uh okay my next one is bad bad is a great i mean it's you hear the title bad and you're like oh this is gonna be awful yeah it's gonna be a bad song but it's actually a good song it's a good song. I like this one, too. I very easily could have picked it. But I didn't.

But you did. So let's hear it. Pretty straightforward. Pretty straightforward. This sounds almost exactly, you know, same beat. Almost the same key, I would think. I'm not sure. Even the effects, he has a little bit of the effects on.

Did they change the lyrics in this one? I'm not remembering. It's like, bad means good just like michael jackson said i mean this is just one of the best youtube songs to again If I could you know I would I maybe didn't pick it because it's just so

on the nose, but it is really good. You can't go wrong with any version of this. Yeah, it's great. What's your final choice? Choice is What do you think it is? Hopefully it's not one of my other bottom two ones.

But let me... Because I already chose one of your bottom three. I... If I had to guess, knowing a guy like you, with shitty taste... A mathematician? A mathematician. I... you with shitty taste a mathematician I'm a petition um I I'm just looking at all the

titles right now I'm gonna say I'm gonna say one I think you picked one I did not okay what is it all I want is you I almost said that oh I passed by that I, that would be too obvious. Eat shit. This is one of my favorite songs of theirs. Yeah. This, of course, closes out the Rattle and Hum record and the movie. And Reality Bites. Yeah.

With your, oh, we can't talk about it. We can't talk about how you know. I can't talk about Reality Bites even. You can't. This is we can't talk about how you can't talk about reality bites even this is a nice version too it sounds sort of like walk on the wild side shut up you say you want your story to remain untold All the promises we made From the crater to the grave All I want is you You say you'll give me

Yeah, it's a great, not radical, just a good low-key version of this. Okay, bottom three. Let me hear your other two, because I just put together together a bottom three i didn't know we were doing that sometimes you can't make it on your own okay and two heart speed is one i think those are just two two different and not working in a different i don't remember what they did with two heart speed as well you want to hear a little bit of two heart speed as one for an example of one that i'm like but we already did uh get out of your own way

no i said sometimes you can't make it on your own oh sometimes did they change that a lot too i think so yeah both of both of those i remember going like it's different but it's not successfully okay this is two hearts is Two Hearts. Oh, it's disco. That's why. It's weird, especially in the context of this album. It's a disco version and I just don't think it really works. And then Sometimes

You Can't Make It is let's hear a little bit of that just so I can remind myself why I was like ooh no thank you I mean promising right there I like those three notes I can do that

yep why didn't I like this sounds alright tough Sounds alright. Too slow. Yeah. It's like guys. Guys, speed it up. This is one of those ones where it's just like, guys, this is a good song, it's just too fucking slow.

It's real slow. Okay, what are your mine would be uh if god will send his angels yeah mostly because i just never liked that song right um peace on earth mostly because i just never liked that song yeah um then there was another one i did not i wait really wish they did Angel of Harlem. That would have been. Would have been interesting. Yeah.

Great on here. Maybe The Fly. Did that go sideways or was it okay? I thought it was interesting. Okay. Maybe it's not. Oh, Ordinary Love. Oh, yeah.

That's just not it. I just didn't like those songs. You don't like those songs. No, I never did. Well, you know what's interesting is we picked, between the two of us, 16 songs. And I thought it would be fun to look at the 16-track album that they whittled down to see how many they decided were the best. So they start with one, which I have no problem with their version of one. I think it's, again, obvious,'s it's well done but we neither of

us picked it they pick where the streets have no name so that's one we have in common they pick stories for boys which is interesting walk on which we have that in common they pick pride which i think you can't i i liked it but uh it's my favorite youtube song of all time but it was like i wasn't that it wasn't incredibly into that version of it. I wasn't incredibly into that version, but I think they just feel like we got to put this on. Yeah, yeah. City of Blinding Lights, neither of us picked. Ordinary Love, neither of us picked. Invisible, we picked.

Vertigo, neither of us picked. Still Haven't Found, we picked. They Picked the Fly, we didn't pick. If God Will Send His Angels, we didn't pick. Stay Far Away So Close, we picked. Sunday Bloody Sunday, we picked. I Will Follow, So Close we picked. Sunday Bloody Sunday we picked. I Will Follow we did not pick. And 40 we picked.

So out of their top 16, they only have eight in common. I think If God Will Send His Angels is a huge hit for them. The, what do you mean? Like it was back in the day. It was a big hit. Because they're always putting it on best of. Or maybe they just like it was back in the day it was a big hit so they all because they're always putting it on yeah best of or maybe they just like it anyway i personally if if if i were the listeners i would listen to our top 16 instead oh 100 bro yeah no i that was i'm glad we did that uh yeah i mean it's fine all right we're gonna take a break take a break

when we come back we were on a break we're on a break we're gonna talk about um their movie and the show that we saw and a few other housekeeping things um we will be right back with more hugh talking you too to me we'll be back i'm on the street. We're back. And speaking of the band U2. U-T-U. U2. Here to. Here to. They put out sort of a companion piece to this record was a.

Is it a movie? Do you call it a movie or is it a special? It feels more like a special to me. Yeah, like a documentary. Yeah, but a documentary is a movie. I guess so. It's like an hour long though. It felt like a TV special to me. Yeah, a TV special.

Yeah. But a streaming TV special. Because it streams. Yeah, I guess so. A lot like pee. By the way, I've peed twice since I've been here. You haven't peed at all. It's not a competition.

Do you want me to pee? It's not a competition, but I to be it's not a competition but i win i have turned yellow okay um so this is called a sort of homecoming and essentially it's the it's bono and bonobos and fedger in ireland and they asked david letterman to come down there and just like hang out with them while they do various things walk around Ireland and also they have a performance that they do that he hosts of stripped down versions of some of these same songs that we're listening to and Letterman has never been to Ireland or he just went once briefly or something like that and so um it's uh yeah what

did you think of it I liked it a lot I thought it was really good um I felt like it was equally about David Letterman as it was you too and the big performance that letterman hosts um again adam and larry aren't there aren't there they're not in the documentary at all they're not they're they're off uh apparently adam is in an indie film at the time and right larry essentially was just fucking around down the street no thanks i mean it's a lot like that show we saw where it was like adam and larry just left when pavarotti came that's right you know like i think they have no interest in doing this maybe that's right um but uh yeah so essentially letterman comes out and it's it's uh it's interesting because i i was, oh man, I would love to see a Letterman

sort of like the Conan travel documentaries that he did where he just goes and talks to people. And so I was like, oh, why does U2 have to be a part of that? But then I also want to see U2 hanging out in Ireland and doing this show. And I'm like, why does David Letterman have to be a part of that?

So it felt like, especially for a short 90 minute thing. Did it feel like a weird mix to you no because i i i definitely thought that they all did a good job with it yeah i just kind of was like oh for such a short thing i wonder if if why do i have to split my focus yeah should it have been about one or the other right yeah or or i'd love to see two 90-minute things about these two separate things. But I don't disagree with that. I think that I was just watching it thinking, these are two of my favorite cultural.

Bonobos and Fedge. Yeah, Bonobos, Fedge, and Letterman. And seeing them all together for 70 minutes or whatever was great but you're right like i would watch two hours on each of them yeah right but it was interesting i i they i watched before i listened to the record yeah and they do this performance with a bunch of irish musicians including string sections and horn players and then also also Glenn Hansard, who's amazing. If you don't know who he is, he's an Academy Award winner for the movie Once,

for the song Falling Slowly. And he's a great Irish musician who worked with the Frames. And the Swell season was his band with Marketa Erglova, I believe is her name. They're back together together by the way oh they are put out putting out a new record i believe and um he's there he's a great irish musician and he's basically a fan who agrees to be there and letterman's really taken with him yeah and he's he's by the way doing the most irish things in the world where he's reciting

poems off the top of his head and you know stuff that it's like i know basically the pledge of allegiance right it's the only thing i know by heart right you know um maybe take me out to the ball game right uh oh you definitely know take me out to the ball test me sing take me out to the ball game take me out to the line ball game ball game ball game bug ball game uh but uh but but okay so here was my thing i really like those versions of the songs where i was kind of like can we just get a recording of this it was weird that they did that whole live performance with backup singers and all this stuff and then what did they do with all that that's what i was thinking too was like is this the record the album yeah and then i get the album it's like it's even more stripped down from that yeah it's bizarre maybe they'll put out of but like also is it a making of a tv special

that is the live concert because it's we just got little pieces here and there. Yeah, so can we see the whole concert? Please? Please, Ted Sarandos? Oh, no, it was on Disney+. But it was... Please, Bob Iger. It was strange. If I could ask one thing of you. Put out the whole concert.

That's the only thing the writers want, the writers and the actors, is just put out the whole U2 concert. But that version of Invisible was really cool. Yeah, yeah. it had some really great stuff and i was kind of like oh man glenn hanser just singing yeah yeah singing great harmonies it would be great to hear all of that um almost to the point where i was like couldn't they have gone into the studio all together and put this out as well but but um but yeah it was it was definitely cool to hear them sort of like talk about the old songs. Yeah.

Occasionally you see Bono slipping into like, he just wrote this whole memoir and he sort of, it happens to me on interviews too. Like they ask a question, you go like, I know the story that I can tell for this. You slip into the soundbite that's kind of well-worn. that I can tell for this. You slip into the soundbite that's kind of well-worn. But then it was nice to see them all in a bar having a few beers

and you see like a genuine, they all start singing together and Letterman's sort of off in the corner just enjoying himself. I loved when they were in like the pub and other Irish musicians

were singing songs. That was great. To the point where like it was so beautiful and then Bonobos and fedge came in and sang a song i was like the other guys were better they they really everybody sounded incredible and yeah it was it was very i mean it was very cool it makes you want to go to ireland yeah um and also i love that these guys are just walking around and this is what you hear

about them that they just kind of walk around ireland and no one pays any attention to them because they're always there. You know, they're just like, Oh yeah, it's my neighbor. Yeah. Um, sort of my neighbor who owns an estate up on top of the hill.

Um, but, uh, and I thought Letterman did a good, good job with it. And you know, that, that was an interesting emotional arc of it in a way of like him not knowing anything about Ireland in a way and kind of going there for the first time.

And there's a bit of a storyline where he swims the 40 foot. Which is prominently featured in Bad Sisters and the Sharon Horgan show. Yeah. Personally, what about Worst Sisters? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's season two is Worst Sisters. I guess, but it's like it feels like a missed opportunity. Yeah. No, I about Worst Sisters? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's season two is Worst Sisters. I guess, but it's like, it feels like a missed opportunity. Yeah.

No, I think you're right. We should let her know. I mean, she was on Bang Bang. I could have told her. You should have. But I chickened out. Yeah, it was cool. It was cool that, yeah, because it ends with him finally taking the plunge,

the plunge, um, and freezing to death. Yeah. And that was the end of Letterman. It made me, he was sort of like Captain America. He's frozen in ice now and just waiting for shield.

Yeah. In 2047, they'll dig him up. I was kind of hoping like I watching that made me think like it would be Letterman should make more of these specials where he just goes to weird, like kind of like the Conan thing you were talking about. Well, honestly, I, I personally don't. I love him as an interviewer and of course loved him when he did a show, but I almost don't need him talking to anyone like Jay-Z or anything like who gives a shit. Same.

I find him far more interesting than the people he's just just got like the the part where he just starts talking to someone in the airport you know and asking him for food going like oh i don't well you know i don't want to touch your chips oh now you've touched the chip i'm gonna eat like all that kind of stuff i would rather watch i showed my daughter recently in a letter late night thing from like 84 where they're going around new york because everyone's donut shop said the world's best donuts right yeah i remember and she's 14 and she thought it was incredible and has watched it so many times like stuff like that where he just goes and talks to anyone and i had heard that he basically like stopped doing them because it meant he would have to get to the office six

hours earlier and i get it and get in a van and drive out to Long Island or whatever. Yeah. So they would save it for sort of special occasions or whatever. Or he would make Paul Schaefer do a mall or something, you know. But those were incredible. They were so good. Or you remember the one where he went, like he used to do viewer mail. And for the fifth anniversary show, I think,

he went to this mall where the person worked and like answered her question in person and like hung out at her house and all that kind of stuff. Like I find that always stuff like that. That was so great. Him doing the drive through stuff was always amazing. So I would love to see just him do stuff because yeah, when it's like Conan or, or when they were in LA and there's a guy with a license plate, this is fat guy and the guy with a license plate that says, fat guy.

And a guy with a license plate that says, fat boy. And he got them to shake hands. Yeah, that stuff is so good. I came out of it going like, oh, I would love to see even something a little deeper about you two. And then would just love a 10-part series of Letter like going around to different countries and hanging out and stuff like that. Like almost like, uh,

the Metallica documentary that was so devastating, but about you too. Right. Like, because they've got to have all sorts of history and there's gotta be crazy. Have they put out a, a,

a, like a documentary when they made a record ever i mean because the one you sent me was that about uh maybe was what the sky fell down or something oh that was like a 10 year it was a retrospective 20 year anniversary where they went back and we listened to it yeah it's it's worth watching but yeah, I watched it, but it's interesting because you watch Get Back and it's so fascinating

seeing four of the world's greatest musicians and process. You know what I mean? And them writing songs in the room and them arguing about songs and not even like,

oh, I love the juicy drama yeah it's more of just like incredible watching the people who are the best of what they do watching them work yeah it's just fascinating and i feel like there could be something cool like i mean you know when we hung out with bonobos and he played us those five songs yeah and sang the lyrics in our ears and stuff like that. I don't think they ever put out any of them. Right. So it would be great to see. I feel like there's, there are two care.

They're so careful with their bother. The world's going to end in two years. That's right. Um, anyway. Yeah. So a cool thing. Yeah.

Um, good. I'm glad you watch it. Yeah. Um, we also have to talk about, uh, what we did in New York which is

the band's publicist Kathy was kind enough to because I was out there doing some book press for comedy bang bang book was kind enough to hook us up with tickets to see bonobos in his one man show yes sort of based on

his autobiography his series of characters he had a bunch of hats and he would put them all on and um yeah so so essentially what it was it reminded me a lot of Springsteen on Broadway in a way where Springsteen had written a book and then it was him sort of acting, not acting out, but like saying these parts of the book in his own voice while then playing the songs that were inspired by it. But it tonally felt very different in a way because the Springsteen one is very stripped down where it's just him on stage. That's right. Now, Bonobos is a different type of performer or different type of musician. I don't, I don't know that he could physically like play guitar that long or

whatever. He played guitar for some of the songs. He played a little bit, but you know what I mean? Like, I think it wouldn't sound as full like Letterman. Yeah. He's not like the powerful guitar player that Springsteen.

Yeah. Springsteen was, was playing piano for most of it and he's great at piano um so he had essentially two uh string players i believe yeah and then jackknife lee the producer was there djing yeah and doing like playing all the back the great great jack jack knife lee but he what he wasn't like you said he was he was just djing he wasn't right and kind of conducting a little bit yeah yeah um well so bonobos would do these sections from the book and then go into these sort of stripped down versions of the songs some of them sort of like this album where there's yeah like one of one of them in particular the where the streets have no name kind of reminded me of it a little bit but um

but yeah it was interesting and it was even more theatrical than the springsteen well first of all it was at the beacon which is so much bigger than where springsteen was doing the show that you could tell bonobos was sort of trying to fill the space a little bit more and kind of playing to the back yeah a little bit so it seemed very much bigger and more theatrical in a way yeah i think a more intimate like broadway house might fit it a little better yeah but place was like too spacious or something. No, but yeah, it was cool because I hadn't heard the book like you had. And so this was all stuff for the first time. And I found everything about the before they became a band fascinating.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. And some of these stories are framed a little differently in the stage show that we watch than they were in the book. And he sort of acts out these conversations he had with his father. that was amazing uh where where there was like a pub set yes with fake beers i don't know if you remember that at one point he like turns the beer over like which i i talked to someone else who'd seen it was like oh no he didn't do that in art so it truly was just the show we saw where he like turned the beer over to show it was fake it was like show business yeah i remember wondering if it was fake or not when he was in the beer over to show it was fake it was like show business yeah

i remember wondering if it was fake or not when he was in the yeah but he he's in this pub set and he's like kind of was he switching chairs or no a little bit he was going back going back and forth playing his dad and playing himself having like these conversations in pubs that they would have over the years yeah where he kept trying to impress his father with like his accomplishments and his father just never giving it up for anything and then he told once they got into the band and got popular then i felt like the stories got a little bit more like oh and then this famous person or this famous person. But the one I mentioned was the Pavarotti story, where essentially Pavarotti was trying to get U2 to play this big charity concert in Italy, right?

And it was in the middle of a super hectic period, and Larry and Adam did not want to do it. Yeah. And Pavarotti just calls Bono one day and goes, I'm in Ireland! Yeah. And Ireland and like pops by the studio and uh Larry and Adam are like well we're leaving yeah and are not there to meet him and and Bonobos and Fudge are like we can't do it we can't do it we can't do it cut to they're doing it in front of everyone and and i told it was interesting because i was talking to michael bolton and he played that show too and i told him that story and he was like really it was like one of the biggest hugest most important concerts of all

time and but they were in the middle they were in the middle of an album and so they couldn't like go to italy and do this thing yeah yeah but it was very funny that... But he had sung on the Passengers album, so they owed him a favor. So they couldn't say no. But it was just very funny, the concept of Larry and Adam going like, oh, Pavarotti's coming? Later.

Bye! Yeah, it was really surreal being there in a relatively small play. I mean, we were talking about it was a little big for a one-man show, but... It was like he played the orpheum when he was here in l.a it was about as big as that but seeing bono in this small place on stage by himself telling stories and then singing u2 songs it was really surreal and pretty amazing it felt kind of like we're breathing rarefied air just getting to see this thing because he only did it a few nights in each city.

Yeah. That was really interesting and really cool. Yeah. And he sounded amazing. Yeah. So that was very cool. And they're going to do their shows out in Vegas, and maybe we'll catch one of those. Yeah.

I don't know. That's coming up early October, I think. Oh, like their album. That's probably why they did it. Yeah. I don't know. That's coming up early October, I think. Oh, like their album. That's probably why they did it. Whoa. That's really fun. But thanks to Kathy, their PR person, for hooking us up with that. That was great.

And then one thing I wanted to bring up, and this just happened the other day, is there's another band that we talk about sometimes. And I just realized realized i think this is is this an episode of are you talking rem me oh yeah i think so from chronic to collapse down and into now respectively that's right this is are you talking rem me the comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things rem this is good rock and roll uh music um little uh a little bit of news coming out of the rem camp yeah by the way this is scott oh and this is scott that's right yes news coming out of the rem camp which has been pretty quiet over the years

uh the uh there's this tv show we can't even talk about what the tv show is because we're on strike but um rem uh prominently featured prominently featured in in one of the most popular television shows out there right now with one of their songs i haven't seen it two of their songs two of their songs okay i just knew strange currencies but and half a world away oh really and then season one it was oh my heart Heart. Okay. Well, but The Strange Currencies is the big one. Yeah, that's the big one. Because I guess it's featured in a big, big scene. And they did a remix, I believe, of it. And it came out.

It's that remix from The Monster. Oh, it is that remix. Oh, okay. It's The Monster. But it's featured throughout the season. Oh, it is. Okay. I haven't seen it.

So it came out and has gotten people a little more interested in that song. Yeah. Because it's almost like a running up that hill situation. Yeah, yeah. But in honor of that, REM picked their own 40 favorite REM songs. And did you take... When I saw this out there i was like oh i bet i wonder how adam feels about it yes i did take a look and i am looking again right now well that's great

you knew we were doing this and you're you're just taking a look right now here here we okay i've got peter bucks right here they they by the way did the exact same thing that you two did where they each band member picked 10 songs so uh i'll tell you what michaels are michaels are world leader pretend is his number one yeah country feedback strange currencies the aforementioned strange currencies the lifting is his number one. Yeah. Country Feedback, Strange Currencies, the aforementioned Strange Currencies, The Lifting, I couldn't even tell you how that goes,

Electron Blue, Supernatural Super Serious, ooh, I like that one, Oh My Heart, We All Go Back to Where We Belong, Flowers of Guatemala, great song,

and Half a World Away. He picked the three songs that are featured in The Bear. Almost like. Yeah, he did. He he did that sly dog yeah um the one i'm most surprised is uh for is uh or about is uh or we all go to as far as one two three four five six seven is uh we all go back to where we belong which is the final song they ever released. Yes, that's right. It's on their best of.

Yeah. And it's not, I wouldn't say it's one of the classic R.E.M. songs of all time. No. But he loves it. It must hold a lot of meaning. The Lifting is the first song on Reveal. It's a really big epic.

It's a cool song. I really like it. Well, that's Michael Stipend. He picked those 10. And then Peter Dollar Bill, he picked Feeling Gravity's Pull, South Central Rain. You can't argue with that. Walk Unafraid, covered by First Aid Kit on your shirt. You're in the Air, Discoverer, All the Way to Reno, Try Not to Breathe, Undertow, Electrolyte,

and Finest Work Song. I would have thought he would have picked more Jangle Pop ones. I love Discoverer. Discoverer! You're in the Air was never one of my favorites,

I have to say. You're, I can, if I can sing it, then you love it. Seriously, five years after we did, I haven't listened to any of them. You remember You're in the air

you're in the air you're in the air yeah yeah yeah yeah i like it all the way to reno was i like that one yeah that was a single yeah but i would have thought that peter dollar bill would have picked more of their early try not to breathe i'm maybe my favorite song ever there's feeling gravity's pull is number one is super cool mike miller he picked wolves lower love that cool pilgrimage love it i believe love it it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine love it you are the everything love it orange crush he's picking in those are good songs man what's the frequency how the west was won where it got us pretty good yeah living well is the best revenge and every day is yours to win i don't remember every day is yours to that's on collapse into now it's a slower it's a cool song but he he i think

that he picked more of the ones that i would yeah those are good good songs uh and then you have bill strawberry he picks beach ball that's a weird choice weird one day sleeper yeah i like day sleep so he's choosing songs that he didn't play on yeah he's just a fan hey hey buddy Lee let Adam and I pick if you're just gonna have a fan pick stuff that's cool though that he's doing leaving New York he didn't play on that

nope these days that's a good I mean yeah he played on amazing we walk what's that from murmur oh yeah yeah I remember California hey guess what so do we yeah let oh yeah yeah obviously i remember california hey guess what so do we yeah let us do this yeah i remember california who fucking cares i don't sleep i dream rotary 10 voice of harold which i thought was very funny yeah that's hilarious and find the river um which is great yeah but um interesting to hear those guys. Voice of Harold. Voice of Harold is a hilarious pick. Yeah.

That's so cool. Must have just great memories associated with it. Weren't they like half drunk when they recorded that? Yeah, the lyrics are him reading off the back of a gospel album. Right. And then they segue into King of the Road, right? Yeah, yeah. And they're just hammered.

Yeah. Well, that was great. I mean, it's great hearing from those guys. Yeah. And that's been a great episode. We'll see you next time. Thanks. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Oh, yeah. That was really good. I haven't done one of those in like 17 years four and a half years yeah something like that has it been a few years since an rem episode yeah yeah we did a lot of talking heads and uh yep chill paps um but not an rem for a while you know um that's i, that's, I mean, that's pretty much wrapping up. Uh,

I think we covered it all right. Hopefully we'll go and we'll see the four, uh, lads from the Liverpool. We'll see them in Las Vegas. The lovable lads. We'll see them in Vegas at the, uh,

globe or the sphere or whatever. Hopefully I don't lose my shirt. Uh, I'd hate to sit there just conscious of my body the entire show. Oh, Hopefully I don't lose my shirt. I'd hate to sit there just conscious of my body the entire show. Oh, me too. Is everyone looking at my nip? Without a shirt. All right, I got to go.

Yeah, one thing, though, you know, the day before we recorded this, sad news out of Ireland, Sinead O o'connor passed away which is just terrible and uh you know of course they uh you two worked with them and uh did you say you had that song queued up oh no i didn't oh what's it called i can find it though i think it's called prisoner of your heart i have it okay um but uh you know they they they work together I don't think it's called Prisoner of Your Heart. But one funny thing that I read right before we started doing this, and I told Adam, was that she tweeted a few years back, about five years ago, that she hoped that Bono passed away before her

because she didn't want Bono to talk at her funeral because of how blah, blah, blah, you know, he would be about it. That's amazing. Which is very funny. But yeah, just sad. It's really sad. Sad stuff. She was one of the greats. And we were going to go out playing this song that they uh

did together what was it for it's for in the name of the father which i can't find um a uh you would think we'd do this before we're recording there's just so many incredible Sinead O'Connor songs. Oh, yeah. I mean, she was incredible. And the whole tearing up the picture of the Pope thing is like... Oh, here it is. You made me the thief of your heart. Yes, of your heart. Made me the thief of your heart. I think Bono and the Edge wrote it.

Oh, did they? I think I could be wrong. Anyway, we're going to play You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart, even if they have nothing to do with it. And by the way, the reason she was tearing up the picture of the Pope was because of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. And that has been proven. She was maligned for it.

Oh, yeah. I mean, she did it on SNL in the very next week. Joe Piscopo was like, I want to smack her in the mouth or something like that. And then Frank Sinatra said he was going to kick her ass or something like that. And she was right. She was entirely correct about that. And, you know, kind of. Well, you know what?

She had a great quote where she she was like, everyone says you ruined your career. And I say, no, my career is fine. I ruined the careers of the record executives who wanted to buy like fourth houses off of my future success. Yeah. You know, like I had the career that I wanted after that. This song was written by Bono Gavin Friday and Maurice Caesar. Who's Maurice Caesar? Did he invent the Caesar salad?

Yeah, it's that guy. Oh, great. Well, that's probably why you're crunching. That's why there's that lyric about croutons. All right, well, we're going to hear some of that as we go out. Adam, it's great to see you. You too, buddy. You too.

You too. You too. We'll see you next time. And until then, we hope that you have found what you're looking for. Bye. Bye. You made me come. And you made me.