You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - 9 Shameful Albums in Our Collection - #6

Episode Date: September 3, 2018

Today, Peter and Adam listen to some albums they might not be too proud to share. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I'm Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast. Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. That's right. What do we got today? Well, let me just mention season two week two. Season two, week two, brought to you by Open Studio.

That's right. You'll hear it. Check on my shirt. Man, loving this shirt. I want one. How do I get it? That's the cassette shirt. You can get it.

I don't have a cassette player. How can I do it? There's no cassette involved. It's just what we call it. It's at you'll hearit.com. And it's just a, if you're listening to this podcast and not watching it, It's just a t-shirt that says you'll hear it in giant letters in the front. It's a bold statement.

I'm wearing it on my gig tonight as a gauntlet throw it down to the rest of the van. I mean, even just today this morning, you've been kind of cocky. I think it's the t-shirt, man. I know. It's saying what I try to say with my body language every day. And I just want to note you have two things up on me right now. You've got an ice coffee and you'll hear it cassette t-shirt. I've got an open studio shirt.

I do have an open studio. I have that every day. That's good. Okay. What are we talking about today? Today we're talking about nine shameful albums we have in our collection. I feel embarrassed. So, you know, we put together this list.

And for me, I'm just saying, I like everything on this list. I'm not ashamed. I think they're just these, you could almost call these like nine unexpected albums in Peter and Adams collection. You know, everybody has music they listen to that you wouldn't think they would, you know, even musicians, professional musicians. Yeah, but these all have a, I'm looking over the list again. There's an element of shame, especially number one. A deep element of show. Because we're talking about maybe tomorrow we might,

we had such a nice, shameful list going. We're thinking about morphing this into more unexpected things tomorrow. But that's coming soon. Hip tracks. Hip tracks that you wouldn't expect. All right. Well, you're kicking off this list with our nine shameful albums in our collection. What are you starting with?

Well, talking about throwing down the gauntlet. I'm about to mic drop for shame right here. And this is, oh. What? I hear the supple sounds of Kenneth Gorlick. from Seattle to Washington Starbucks investor

That's right Sopranosaxophonist What Nothing but Kenny G Songbird That's how we do it A lot of

This is actually Is that in your Is that in your collection? It's not only my collection It's in my family's collection My wife Uh huh And

The wonderful Kelly Martin The wonderful Lovely Kelly Sledge Martin We are celebrating Our 20th anniversary today Congrats man That's right That's right

Happy anniversary They didn't think we'd make it, but we did. What? And interesting, just a quick story about this album. She was, was slash is a Kenny G. fan. Yeah. Yet our marriage has survived that. And I knew it.

When we were dating, when she was getting ready, many years ago, Springfield, Illinois, I was at her apartment, about to go out, and I kind of took a little sneak peek looking at her cassette. Talking about cassettes, we were looking at actual cassettes. Oh, man. Not T-shirts. And I was looking through her cassettes and saw this, this beauty right here is song That one right there staring up at me.

I almost ran out, but I love her so much, I stuck around. I'm glad I did. So shame has turned into love. Soundtrack of a marriage. My parents were Kenny G. fans when I was growing up. Nice. And somehow I still became a jazz musician. That's right.

No, we give him crap, but, you know. Man, he's actually a great player, great guy. Yeah, he's super nice. You meet him and you want to hate him, but you can't. Actually, he is super nice. We opened for him. Aaron Bodie's band opened for him once here in St. Louis at a big arena. and we played our opening set

and there was some time between our set and his set and of course his fans were just there to see him hold a note for four hours and how long he does it but between the sets when we were selling CDs he actually came down to the CD booth and helped Aaron sell CDs and she sold a ton of CDs like didn't have to do that no one else would do that that's so cool super cool right anyway

nice what you got is your first shame my first shameful and I love this actually I'm not ashamed but it is some nice 80s pop music performed in the 90s live by Genesis. Oh, come on. This is an album called Live, Oh, The Way We Walk. It's from 1992. Genesis, who I think are some of the greatest pop craftsmen of all time.

That guitar style, man. Dude. I think it's a great album, actually. And they can really play, you know? Shame on you for putting this in a shameful list. The keyboard player here, Mike, I'm going to forget his name, but from Mike in the mechanics. It's really good.

Yeah, yeah. Really good player. Anyway, this is throwing it all the way. I'll skip ahead a little bit. It's a long live intro. Mike Rutherford. Mike Rutherford. Right.

Yeah, yeah. Bill Collins, I just read something interesting about him. He's got like a whole life transformation recently. Yeah, with a new family married and kind of had some rehab situation. Nice. Rehab number nine or whatever. Didn't make it 20 years for him. That's right.

That's good. No. I mean, okay, so I feel like now I've got to bring it back. Oh, and I'm going to. I'm going to bring it back to a little more shame because that's kind of hip the Genesis thing. And that for number three, I'm going to go with Maroon 5. And particularly this track Sunday morning. What?

It just feels so good. Come on, man. Come on, Levine. Bring it in. This feels good, right? It does feel good. It's a guilty play. This was like.

Eat some French fries, have some juju, juju, Juju fruits. This was Maroon 5 pre the voice, right? Yeah, yeah. It's just happy Southern California pop, you know. More jazz-ish than what they've become. Yeah, I mean, don't let the cheesy acoustic piano cool, you know. Yeah, that's right.

But I mean, you know, Levine, he's not the most gifted vocalist. I mean, with the natural talent. But he gets a little soul in there, you know, by accident probably. But it's played around our house a lot, even on Sunday mornings. All right, so for my number two, this might be a little shameful. So I usually take my kids to school in the morning on my way here into the Yule here at studios. And we listen to music, we listen to a lot of jazz. But sometimes, and more recently especially, we've been listening to a lot of house music.

It gets them amped up. It gets me amped up. Like they are ready for school. That's right. You know, they hop out of the minivan. Oh, man. Do they have glow sticks on? They eventually they're going to.

So this is, but you know, so because we've been listening to so much house music, I've been finding, I didn't, I don't really like house music, but I've found finding that there's some that I like more than others. And I've been going through Spotify playlist and have found one that I actually like quite a bit. This is called the Mint playlist. This is a track by Axwell. I don't know. Called Dancing Alone. And yeah, this is what I literally listened to on the way in as I was dropping them off. A little guilty pleasure, but it's super fun.

Axwell. Axwell. Is he Maxwell lost an M? But this really is in my Spotify playlist, like at the top. I feel like Axwell lives in like Oslo and he gets up at 10 p.m. every day. He goes to bed at 1 p.m. Come on, man, that's infectious. Can't see it, but Peter's dancing a little bit.

It's not good. I mean, we're in the pot game, man. What can I do here? Restricted. Wait, here's the hook. Here's the hook. Drop it. So house music now these days, everything is like this huge minute-long build.

I didn't realize that for this summer. This builds up for another like 45 seconds. Yeah, it's the big drop. Yeah, it's all about the BPM and the big drops. We have more to go. Yeah. It builds too long. That's good.

So that gets your kids amped up. That's good. All right. great okay so now that's one two three four two each we're on number five now and this is

this one is kind of another family one since we since you wanted to blame your kids I guess I could blame my kid yeah what what is this Ariana Grande

no Ariana Grande oh yeah OG hit OG hit for Ariana the way it's not bad man Little program pop, you know. That's how we do it. All right, I'm going to take you back.

All right, take you back. This is in my, this has been in every iPod I've ever owned. CD has been in my possession. This is the first cassette tape I ever bought. What do you know about this? Have you ever heard this before? Yes, this is a little GNR. It's a little GNR.

Guns and Roses, Paradise City, when I was 12. This was the biggest song in my life. Something about it. It's a good drum sound. That's a great drum sound. So simple. So simple, man. He just wants to go to the Paradise City,

but the grass is green, and the girls are pretty. That's right. What else you need? Axel Rose is a simple man. And it's like, it's rock, but it's kind of country, actually. Yeah, totally, totally.

Got some country undertones. Nice. All right, well, this I'm going to take it back, and this is one of those ones. You just hear a couple seconds of it. We know what's up. What? There's nothing shameful about this.

This is real. What? White Plains, New York, Brooklyn, what? Summer, 91. I love it because this is pretty much your life. Yeah. In song. Yeah, I hope not.

I wouldn't have survived. Big Papa. That's notorious B.I.G. That's a big pop-up. Man, again, maybe unexpected. Maybe not, though. If I just met you, I'd be like, that guy's got Biggie on his iPod for sure. OG.

O.G. So, I mean, but to me. me too that represents an era not to just be nostalgia because there's some and maybe tomorrow i'll even hit some of the more up-to-date hip-hop that i listen to but this is really to me just like you know wordsmith rhythm production yeah um actually the only thing i don't like about this track is puffy coming on at the end and kind of messing stuff up but i always laugh about that yeah because you know to me he i mean you can't you can't compete with biggie one of the greatest emcees of all time all right so for me i'm going nostalgia again and again from my childhood i love how we

We turned, like, shame into nostalgia. This is great. Because, I mean, like, to be honest, some of these. I was a serial killer as a child, but it was fun. For me, the Genesis, the G&R, and this next one, they wouldn't be on my list if I hadn't grown up, listened to him. There was a movie in the 80s called Rad. It was about, it was basically the karate kid on BMX bikes.

Yeah. And this was a scene at the prom where the main character and the love interest danced at prom on their BMX bikes to this song. Okay. This is real life. Send me an angel. And they're doing all these BMX tricks. That's the actual BMX synth patch.

The name of it is BMX on a DX7. It's like cartridge 7. Man, this has been a lot of movies. Man. It works so well. Woo. You get the head bob going. I love it, man.

1989. I love it. All right. Where you got? Last one. Number nine. My last one. Okay, this one.

So, I mean, these are like all, we got to, be clear here. This is all stuff that's actually on one of our laptops or phones. This is Majee Jordan, the one I want. And this is actually, I think it was from last year. This is kind of hip. Doesn't go a lot of places, but it's how much time we got? How long's the intro? It's a little, a little bit, a little bit. All we got to do is just get one more. Yep. So how you've been at him? Everything cool?

I've been pretty good, man. Here we go. Slack coming in. The slack was right on time. Actually, I heard this at the end of the show Ballers on HBO. It was like the, it was super well-placed. And I'm always like one of the things I love about, like, tech and stuff with the iPhone for music is you just say Siri, what is this song? You just hold it up. And then it comes up and it's in your collection.

I like this. This is actually a great song to go out on. Yeah. So, Eli, when you're editing this, just keep this song up. we can go out on this song. Oh, giving him instructions actually in the show. I like that.

So this was fun. This was great. Let's do this tomorrow, but with like tracks that we really, really love. Yeah, we'll do it like, we'll be like unexpected or something,

hip tracks that you don't know nothing about. I love that. We've turned season two into basically listening sessions. Yeah. It's great. Sessions. Sessions.

I like it. It's funny. The Sessions is funny because it's just as long as sessions. And more difficult to say. And more super awkward. So, man, if they, If people want to ask questions or tell us their favorite shameful tracks,

just try to catch us out on the road somewhere, you know. Where can they go? I don't know. What's up? I mean, between the hip-hop, I mean, the house music and this, I'm just chilling. Oh, you'll hear it.com. You'll hear it.com. You can always go to you'll hear it.com.

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