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Elephant - The White Stripes · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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Welcome to Barbara Cuts, Beats and bars.
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We're a father daughter music podcast that slices into some of
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the greatest albums, one cut at a time.
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With no industry ties or formal training, just a shared love of
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music, we explore albums across genres, writing favorites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hey everyone, I'm Riley.
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And I'm Todd, and welcome to this week's Barber Cuts, where
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we talk about the dark. No, what are we talking about
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this week? Cut.
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Yeah, the script goes wrong. I got in your head.
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The lunatic is in your head, you might say.
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This is true. We are talking about elephants
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by The White Stripes this week so we have now switched.
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We are talking about least favorites to open us up.
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So what do you think, Riley? Least favorites?
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I'm gonna guess that our least favorites were the same, but
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they may not be. I don't know.
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I also just think that these would be most people's least
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favorites, but I could be totally off.
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The first one is Little Acorns. That one, though, you like the
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beat. That was that was not one of
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mine. And I was like, hey, you know, I
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was like, I thought an ad started.
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So I like stopped what I was doing In Sync repair time in the
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house and like, wait, an ad started.
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I don't there shouldn't be ads like, Oh no, this is a song.
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Then figured out it was about squirrels.
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It's like, I wonder if this is going to be Riley's favorite
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just because it's about squirrels.
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I know I was so rooting for it. In case anyone listening is
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wondering, squirrels are my favorite animal.
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Like I love squirrels so I was so rooting for it.
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I love the message, I love the lyrics.
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I don't love the song. Yeah, it it was a bit to get to
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it, but like the music side of it was not bad, but half of it
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seemed to be the guy I talked about it so.
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Yeah, the music side came too late, too little too late.
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And it just it. Didn't fit, but not one of my
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least favorites. It didn't really fit with the
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rest of the album, in my opinion.
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That was more of it. It was so awkward and so kind of
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just thrown in there that it really confused me.
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My, it's this one is probably my least favorite.
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That one was probably my second least favorite.
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It's true that we love one another.
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That was mine too. Yep, I it's OK respectfully.
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It was grating to me. Like to listen to I like I I
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could not do it. Yeah.
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It's just annoying. It was an annoying song and to
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end the album with it was like, huh?
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Yeah, I agree. It just wasn't it just wasn't
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one of my like it just it just didn't mesh for so, but that's
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alright. My my, but I get you.
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My my other one was in the cold, cold night and it it again, it
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was that it. And the reason it wasn't was
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because for me, it it had a very interesting sound, almost like a
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twenties, 30s slow, sultry vibe to it, but it just blended into
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the background for me. And so it didn't you know, it
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didn't do anything other than and and ironically, the
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weirdness of little acorns kept that one out and the plainness
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of cold, cold night actually probably is what got it into my
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least favorite for me, surprisingly.
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But but again, in the cold, cold night, like it as it played more
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and more. I still listen to it like it the
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last one that it's true that we love one like I would skip that
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one and move on. Especially it's also got the
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like minute long, 2 minute long empty space pause at the end.
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That was just weird too. But anyway, yeah, alright, so
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let's quickly shift over to favorite songs.
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What's your what's your favorite song?
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So I would say, sorry, can I, can I tell them what happened?
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This is this is pertinent to my mental.
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You don't have to edit out these breaks 'cause this is just my
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life right now. I had, I, I got bit by a kitten
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in the woods and I, I've had to get the rabies shots and go
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through that process and all of the vaccines and antibiotics and
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everything are making me mentally not there.
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I'm OK though. I'm 100% OK, just Spacey.
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Anyway, my favorite one of them was the air near my fingers.
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I liked the flow that was there. It really reminded me of a song
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called Two Against 1, I believe. Yeah.
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Danger Mouse, funnily enough. But it's like the way he raps is
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very. It's not rap, it's talk singing.
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But it has like a nice flow and like a little and like, it just
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has a nice little flow to it. Yeah.
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And I like that. My favorite one was There's no
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home for you here anymore. I can't remember the full name
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of the song. That's on me.
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Yeah, you got. It there's no home for you here.
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There's no home for you here this one.
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I will say I liked the beat of this one and that's why I became
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my favorite. So a little taboo for Miss
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Lyrical over here, but I really just liked how it sounded.
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I really liked how it sounded. I thought it had a nice beat.
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I thought the way like the drums kind of match.
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The voices worked really well, if that makes any sense.
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Like the part where it's like very choppy.
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There's no home for you here and like there's no home for you
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here. Go Away.
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Like it's very choppy and it matches the drums.
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I thought that sounded really nice.
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It's a song about hating someone, which is really funny.
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That's just really funny to me. It's like being mad at someone
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enough to like, be like go away. So yeah, I would say that's my
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favorite, mostly because of the beat.
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So it must have been a good beat.
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Get beat. Yeah, and and I'll mention to it
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because I'll come back to this for my favorite song, but
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there's something in there called loud, soft, loud
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switching. So where they're soft or loud
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and then switch to a soft and then go back to loud, they do
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that back and forth. But I'll I'll circle back to
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that. But the so one of my favorites,
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I mean, yes, I am going to be a Homer and go with 7 Nation Army
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because I do really love that song.
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And so you know, the the title just coming from thinking of you
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and this may not have been him, but that's what he used to call
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Salvation Army. And so thinking back to words as
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you know, you and Wesley as kids and just messing up words and
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like, that's funny to me, you know, and but so common in
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sports. So I'm pulling a story from
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soccer just because I'm a soccer fan and soccer here in the US
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football for our non-us fans, which they're growing.
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Shout out to our people in Sweden.
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So we love you Sweden. So Club Rouge fans started
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singing the the riff song or the beginning riff that everybody
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knows in a match in the Champions League in 2003.
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So like as the album came out and they start singing anymore
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after one of their players score, they end up winning the
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game and became like an unofficial anthem for that Club
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Bruges team. And so Fast forward three years,
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a team from Rome to another Italian team came to play them
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and the Italian team then took it back with them.
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So Roma is the team and then the Italian fans then started
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chanting it in the 2006 World Cup, which was in Germany.
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Well, guess who won the 2006 World Cup?
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Italy. So now you've got all these fan
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Italian fans going through the streets of Rome.
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And, of course, think for the US, people like winning the
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World Cup huge only every four years.
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Parades are insane. Go find some of them on YouTube
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and watch some of them. But Italian fans are just
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strolling through the streets singing the riff of this.
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And, you know, so somebody called up and Jack White said
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there's a quote from him. I am honored that the Italians
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have adopted this song of their own.
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Nothing is more beautiful in music than when people embrace a
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medal, a melody, and allow it to enter the pantheon of folk
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music. I was like, that's, that's
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really cool. And that's what makes music
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neat, that people just take something and something so
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simple as what he did. But anyway, back to the music.
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It's by far the most popular. Almost 2 billion streams on
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Spotify. Opening riff, simple, great
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guitar solos great. And again, going back to the
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loud, soft, loud. It's it's also in my most
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popular or in my most favorite song, which I'll get to now is
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Ball and Biscuit. I love that.
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That was third from. Me, I really love that song.
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It's so bluesy. It starts off and then with with
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a guitar RIP and then the beat of the drums, you know, and you
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know, shout out to Meg White who gets like, you know, a lot of
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people are like, oh, she's simplistic in her drumming, but
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it makes so much sense and makes it so much better when that
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drums are so simplistic. And again, Ball and Biscuit has
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got the loud, soft, loud. And so, you know, this loud,
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soft, loud is something that Nirvana really popularized with.
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Never mind, but they really got it from the Pixies in mid 80s.
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Who? Who really?
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You know, of course it's been going on before them, but they
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really mainstreamed it and in late 80s.
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And so you've got their longest song.
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It's shade over 7 minutes, but three guitar solos, which is for
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somebody that likes the guitars and, and that it was just
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fantastic. So that was the loud part of it.
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So you know, 15350 and 5 minutes in the song each of them.
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Man, those guitars are absolutely insane, bluesy rock.
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And then ironically, this song 1 of readers poll and put forth by
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Rolling Stone in 2012 as the best Jack White song, Ball and
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Biscuit, and it was never released as a single.
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So even more impressive that that's the one that that one.
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Yeah. So those are our favorites.
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So I will also say. Yeah, go.
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Yeah, I love his use of saying folk music.
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Like for his description. Folk music I say is one of my
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favorite genres because of the common name of folk.
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No, however he used it perfectly.
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Folk music is like such a weird genre because it literally just
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means music that defines a culture or is part of the
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culture or is part of the story of a place.
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Like that's the meaning of like a folk tale.
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It's like part of the culture. So like it's going to sound
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dumb, but like Memphis rap is part of Memphis folk music
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because it defines part of the culture there.
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But you would never call it folk music, right?
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Like not in today's climate and you would never call this folk
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music either. But for Italy, it's it's part of
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the folk, like it's part of the culture there.
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And that's why I love folk music.
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I love the what we call folk music now today.
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So like Lumineers, that type of folk pop.
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But I always say that I love folk music, like in the actual
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definition, because even if I don't love the genre, like I'm a
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lyric person, I'm a story person, I love when music
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defines part of the culture of a place because that's so cool.
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That's something so unique that music can do that.
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Like you can be enemies, but be like, oh, that sounds really
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cool. So I'm going to use that too,
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like in soccer and stuff like that, like, and that sharedness
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of it is so I keep saying cool. It's just impressive that music
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can do that. And so I love that he used folk
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music like that accurately. And it's neat, you know, I
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didn't mention it, but you, you're saying that people people
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take music and then assume it as their own and shift it and move
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it. You know, a lot of the clubs
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that that do this, they'll they'll take the riff and then
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they'll put their favorite players names to the words, but
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sing it to that riff. So again, incorporating that
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tune into their culture by using iconic names of people.
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And so it's it's still just neat what what music can do.
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Yeah, it's it's incredible. I do also wanna give a shout out
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to a song that I could not realistically put as my favorite
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song but was so funny to me. The girl you have no faith in
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medicine. Reading the lyrics.
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I'm. I'm going to shout out, I'm sure
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guys do this too, but I'm going to shout out some of the girls
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here. Just just the girls.
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OK, There's something. I'm a public health major.
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I believe in medicine. I believe in vaccines, hence the
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rabies vaccine. I believe in all of it, OK, If
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there's science behind it, if I have a headache, I still refuse
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to take ibuprofen. That's still the last thing that
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I think to do. Like, Mama Barber, you, everyone
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will tell me, like, don't forget Advil's your friend, Tylenol's
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your friend. And I'm like, yeah, I know.
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And then I don't take it until I'm, like, dying and someone
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offers it to me. And this, I think he just got
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annoyed enough at someone for doing this for this long.
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Like, I don't know what it is about like pain meds that you're
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like, Nah, I can go longer. I can.
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I don't need pain meds yet. I'm good.
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I'll try. I'll try something else, maybe
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that will work instead of the actual medicine.
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So reading not just made me chuckle or like hearing it and
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then reading it made me chuckle 'cause it was just funny.
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And then but, but was it also like, OK is did somebody dare
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you to figure out how to put acetaminophen as a lyric and use
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it in a song? I don't know, but he nailed it.
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Yeah, I mean, I, I'd, I'd love to say, OK, how many songs in
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the history of the world and who knows how many there are, how
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many of them have the weird acetaminophen as a weird There,
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There's there can't be that many.
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There can't be. Oh, I'm, I'm sure not, but I
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appreciate it. Yeah, I also have to say.
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And not just once, but like several times.
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It's just like you said, it just fits it.
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Just like hey, did he just say OCM elephant?
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And it's not a bad song either. No, it's got a little, again,
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one of those things that that we'll I'll talk about in a bit
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that makes this album potentially why people consider
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it so great is the song's got a little punk feel to it, as do a
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couple others. So again, they're able to put
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that in, which again is is impressive.
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I also. I, I, I, I didn't want to.
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I don't want to hijack your story if you weren't done with
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it as well. So listening to this album and
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reading a little bit more about them, I finally got to
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understand probably one of the best jokes that I did not
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understand previously on a show that I watch.
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So I watch a British game show called Taskmaster and I love it
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and it's essentially premise is not important, you can look it
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up if you want, very funny, I highly recommend it.
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But essentially this comedian gets in charge like the king of
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it all, gives the other taskmaster, like the people who
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are all also comedians, different ridiculous tasks to
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do. And they have to do it and
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compete on who does it best, right?
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And one of the task was like a team task and they had to
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interview this person and then write a song for them all within
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30 minutes and then perform it. And so obviously goofy songs,
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whatever. I never caught on until I read
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more about these people that one of the comedians, I think his
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name is Nish Kumar, go look this up, says he's Indian.
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His the other person there is white.
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It's a duo and and he says, hi, we are the diverse stripes.
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I'm Nish Kumar. This is my partner, husband
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slash brother don't ask questions and then sings the
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song. I never got that joke until I
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was reading about The White Stripes, how he was like, they
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just didn't want to deal with the drama of it being a
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relationship. So they're like, Nah, we're
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siblings. That's so funny, first of all.
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Second of all, that joke is so funny.
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And I never caught on until I was reading that.
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I was like this all makes sense now.
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And so if you go into it with somebody telling you, especially
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let's go back to our least favorite song of it's true that
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we love one another. And put that context into that
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song, especially if somebody comes into it saying, oh, I
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thought they were married. Why?
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Why is his wife saying, no, I hate him?
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Like here's another part like so it just adds into the whole
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shtick of what they what they did.
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Yeah, which they were. They're an anomaly to me 'cause
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like before, before their height of fame, they were just like,
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Nah, we're brother, sister, like to avoid any of the drama.
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Then it was found out that they were married at like the height
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of their fame, but at that point they'd already divorced.
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People just didn't catch on to that one until a little bit
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later. So they just now discovered that
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they're married. And then like you said in this
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song, he's like, Nah, She's like, Nah, I hate him.
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Another girl is saying that they love each other like this whole
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thing. And they're like, huh?
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And then they maintained being a duo together for years after
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being yes. And I can't remember and and you
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may you may know the timeline when they were recording this,
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Had they already gotten divorced?
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Yeah. Or or was it right after this?
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Or no, I think it was. Before or in they were.
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They were in the process, yeah. I can't remember the timeline
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exactly. But.
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Like they performed, they performed.
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And stayed together for years after being divorced, so it must
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have been amicable. Yeah, but the things they did
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for the music. Yeah, I guess, but.
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The you know, but so couple of things that I found interesting.
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You know, Elephant is The White Stripes fourth album.
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So a little relating it back to Memphis specifically because
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that's where I am. But also Tennessee, their third
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album is what really gained them their first commercial access.
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And it was recorded in 2001 in Memphis.
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And they're, yeah, they're the fourth album was over in in
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London. And then their fifth album was
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actually mixed at Ardent Studios in Memphis.
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So they came back to Memphis. And then their sixth album and
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their final album was actually recorded and mixed at Blackbird
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Studios in Nashville. So three of their six albums
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have Tennessee connections, two of which are Memphis
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connections, which I found interesting.
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Yeah, that is, that is really cool.
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And, and I'll see, I'm sure you probably came across this as
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well, where the liner notes mentioned this album is
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dedicated to and it's for and about the death of the
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Sweetheart. So if you didn't roll across
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that, did you pick any of that up?
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The death of the sweetheart and the lyrics, Thinking about and
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looking back at it. The death of That's a really
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funny way to word it. Yeah, it's like he he mentioned
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that he wanted people to think about how they relate to one
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another. So when he puts it in that way,
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I was like, OK, I can definitely hear that in some of the lyrics
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that that he wrote. Yeah, I think most all of the
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lyrics have some sort of reference of like this dichotomy
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or like this relationship between people.
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I mean, like even 7 nation Army is about fighting and stuff like
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that. Not actually, but you know what
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I mean. Yeah.
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And there's no home for you here.
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You've got her in your pocket, ball and biscuit.
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The hardest button to button was the one that made me think of
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the loss of the sweetheart. Yeah, well, that one's all
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about. Good song too.
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Yeah, but that one's all about growing up.
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Not really, but has stuff about growing up and like how a family
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relates to one another. So yeah, yeah, interesting.
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So again, if. Keeping track, the album itself
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nominated for album of the year at the 2004 Grammys and actually
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won best Alternative music album.
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And then that same year 7 Nation Army won Best Rock Song.
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Yeah, I mean. So won. 2 great two Grammys wins
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associated with this. With this album, you can't go to
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a. Sports game, really.
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And not hear the opening riff of Seven Nation Army like it it's
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everywhere. As someone who goes to Tennessee
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like it's it may not be a main song, but we hear it.
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So it's one of the first things people learn on like one of the
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brass instruments too. Yeah.
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I don't know why I know that so. You know if.
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You, if you, if you listen to it and that opening riff, you know,
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one of the things that that again, this is this is going to
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be me saying I got it completely wrong, but also realizing, yeah,
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I I don't, yeah, I took some piano lessons way, way, way,
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way, way long ago. So it's not that I don't know
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anything about music, but the opening riff is not on a bass
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guitar. It's so low.
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It sounds like it's a bass guitar.
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It's actually his guitar and he he's talked about how he's
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pedaled it down or turned it down an octave, you know.
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So it's like, oh, that's really neat.
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But fascinating. Just the things throughout this
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album, if, if you're a guitar fan, the things that Jack White
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did on the guitar on this album is worth listening through the
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album to hear. Yeah.
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It's phenomenal. Yeah, he's crazy.
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So. What what makes this album
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again, kind of been talking about that, but for me, I would
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I would almost say like, Hey, this album probably and and it
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was on its way, but this album probably established Jack White
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as one of the great guitarists of all time.
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The things that he did on that one and since then has continued
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to do with some of the other White Stripes albums and even
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some of the other group albums that he's that he's released
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things with and even some of his solo stuff now he's just an
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amazing guitarist, you know. And, and then even on this
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particular album, though, the way that they limited themselves
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in the creative approach and they're so they're trying to
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scale back, but yet produce this big robust sound.
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And so the the one of you know, for example, they the studio in
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London that they recorded at only had pre 1963 equipment is
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what I read. So to do some of this stuff with
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with those, I mean just crazy. And again, drums, guitar and
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vocals because it's just two of them and they produced a whole
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lot of sounds and incorporated a whole lot of different genres.
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You know, mentioned the punk like Black Math is the second
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song that had a little punk to it, Blues in there, pops and
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some, you know, some semblance of folk music, But you know,
27:42
it's it's just crazy everything that they did on this and from
27:48
what I've gathered, like that's what makes it and that's why
27:51
people continue to come back to this is this is a great, great
27:54
album. It any other songs from you?
27:56
No. No.
27:59
What would I rate? It So what what?
28:01
What would you think? I would write this one.
28:05
Yeah, so. This one's right up my alley, so
28:09
it I know it is, but I. Know you're 10?
28:15
Yes, yeah, my hey, that's AI just dawned on me.
28:19
What? I'll.
28:23
I'll, I'll have multiple 10s, you know, but but again, for,
28:28
for me, I guess A10 for me is where I don't skip a song.
28:34
Yeah, that's what I that's going to be.
28:35
That's going to be. My personal, you know thing, but
28:40
you know, this one I would skip a couple, but my personal rating
28:44
is a nine. Like I love this album and it
28:47
was way up there. There's only a couple like that
28:50
last one that I would skip, and if I'm right next to it, I would
28:55
skip in the cold, cold night. But again, I really like this.
28:59
It's just that driving distortion guitar that, you
29:07
know, truth be told, reminded me a lot of the grunginess of music
29:12
from really a decade before this album.
29:16
And so I'm personally A9 objectively an 8.5 for some of
29:23
the reasons that already talked about.
29:26
So what about you, I? Had those flipped, funnily
29:33
enough. So I had the objective rating as
29:36
a nine and the personal rating is an 8.5.
29:39
I like how it sounds to you. I'm not if you haven't picked up
29:44
on it. I'm not as into.
29:46
I love grunge and I love that because you've introduced me to
29:49
it. But the driving distortion and
29:52
everything is not my everyday sound.
29:55
I'm much more like we talked about last week, Arcade Fire and
29:59
the the all of those songs were a lot more my alley.
30:03
They were a bit softer. They were softer is maybe not
30:06
the right word, but you know, not as like grunge driving this
30:11
this driving sound. But it was really good.
30:15
I'm not going to deny that. And I still really enjoy it.
30:17
It's just not going to be like, I listen to it all the time.
30:21
But when I do listen, like there are definitely songs in my life
30:23
playlist. I would definitely play this
30:25
album again. And I definitely enjoyed it.
30:27
So that's why it's still so high.
30:29
But it's it's not going to be as high for me just because it's
30:33
not always what I'm going to be listening to.
30:36
But I'll listen to it more than the Bee Gees anyway.
30:42
But yeah, I mean, my objective rating part of it comes from I
30:46
knew the opening riff before I even knew White Stripes existed.
30:50
You know, like. Like.
30:55
Well, from like sports and from you and from like people
30:58
learning how to play guitar, like I'll be a bass guitar
31:02
'cause that they can play it on a bass guitar.
31:04
Like it's just such a noticeable and memorable riff that it's
31:10
hard to say like the album didn't have an impact.
31:14
And like, albeit there are some songs that are worth a skip or
31:20
not, you know, like that's my opinion, but they really
31:27
branched out artistically and I think that's what they wanted to
31:29
do. Obviously that's what everyone
31:32
wants to do when they make an album.
31:33
So that might have been a really dumb statement, but like, I
31:38
don't know. It's, it's just there is a
31:41
reason. So that's always my thing.
31:44
There's a reason and I know the reason and I can see the reason
31:47
even if I can't verbalize it right now because all my stuff.
31:51
Yeah. And then and then reading.
31:53
You know, a lot of times when we do read like we're reading what
31:57
experts of the music industry are saying about it.
32:00
And I did see a lot of people where you're talking about like
32:02
branching out. A lot of people mentioned for
32:06
this one that, and I'll play on that branching out.
32:10
They branched out by from what I've gathered, scaling back to
32:14
where, But yet you don't, you don't hear that when you listen
32:19
to it. Like they didn't scale back at
32:21
all. Like it's like, and even
32:23
sometimes like it's it's loud, it's fast.
32:25
Like what are you talking about scaling back?
32:27
And you know, for a, for a musician, I guess to come back
32:32
to say, OK, we're going to have two people and we're going to
32:34
focus on you play the drums. I might have played the guitar.
32:39
And we're going to make this like that's, that is, in a
32:44
sense, branching out to do something that a lot of
32:48
musicians aren't going to do or weren't doing with the sound
32:53
that they were producing. Put it that way.
32:55
Yeah, that's a. That's a.
32:56
Really neat thing to see happening every once in a while
32:58
now because especially we have so many more instruments now.
33:02
Like there's one instrument, I can't remember what it's called,
33:06
but it plays based on the amount of light in the room.
33:09
It'll play a pitch. And so no, it is called like
33:14
like it's called like the thingamabob or something like
33:16
that. But you like put it in a room
33:19
that you can dim the lights and you play it by dimming the
33:21
lights back and forth and it'll just play a note or a pitch and
33:26
stuff like that. And like, it can create this
33:28
beautiful sound or like this whole thing, but it reminds me
33:32
of like Kurt Cobain where he was like, I don't, I don't need to
33:35
play or learn how to play more than these three chords.
33:37
And like Dave Grohl, I think talked about how he wanted to
33:40
learn how to play all these instruments.
33:41
And Kurt Cobain was like, no, I don't want you to learn that.
33:43
You just need to play drums. Like you just need to play these
33:46
drums. Like Kurt Cobain did not believe
33:48
in learning new instruments. Like he he was like, no, I just
33:52
want the music that I need. I don't need the fancy stuff.
33:55
And there are musicians today. I think 1 is on.
34:01
The tip of my tongue. It's a pretty popular like folk
34:03
band. It's not The Lumineers, but it's
34:05
one of them. But they they also have talked
34:07
about like, all right, what can we produce with just the
34:10
instruments that we have and not all this fancy stuff that's
34:13
bogging down everything. Like they have their place, but
34:17
like, let's also remember the instruments have their place
34:20
like normal basic issues. And so I think that's really and
34:24
a lot of. Times you you, you may, you may
34:26
find some truth to this in and super creatives that that I've
34:31
interacted with. Oftentimes they say I can, I can
34:35
almost be my most creative when I have a lot of restrictions put
34:40
on me because it's, it's, and it's, and it's so weird for, for
34:45
people, you know, I, I can be creative, but I also know that
34:48
there are people that are way more creative than me.
34:51
And so sometimes it's weird to hear people say that it's like,
34:55
but yet this, this album is an example of that where we're,
34:59
we're going to limit our stuff on, we're going to limit
35:01
ourselves on the equipment that we use, the instruments we use,
35:04
and we're just going to go in and hammer something out.
35:08
And it, you know, and out of that came quite possibly one of
35:15
the most iconic riffs in, you know, the beginning of seven
35:19
nation army. So it's just it's crazy.
35:22
Excellent job to the brother, sister duo, brother, sister,
35:27
husband, wife duo of the wife strife.
35:31
So any anything else to add before we get to our next bit of
35:37
our next album? I.
35:40
Don't think so. No.
35:41
OK. So next album, but before we do
35:45
that, like I think we're going to do something new.
35:48
OK. I don't know if you would have
35:49
you. Mentioned that right now.
35:51
Yeah, go ahead. OK, so we practiced this.
35:55
Beforehand, yeah, but we. Also said we'd get it wrong.
35:58
So no, we didn't. So this is not entirely my idea.
36:06
I have to credit our #1 fan shout out Kate Horn.
36:10
I'm not going to tell her I put that in there.
36:12
I'm going to see if she actually listens to the episodes, see if
36:14
she texts me first. No, I'm not, but she's one of my
36:19
best friends and every week she sends me a song of the week, one
36:25
that she's just currently obsessed with, that's on repeat.
36:29
And I feel like I know her a lot better after each one.
36:31
Even if it's sometimes the worst song I've ever listened to, it's
36:36
just a good way to like get to know someone and what they
36:39
listen to and what they like. So I thought that would be fun
36:42
for you all because we give all these personal ratings and you
36:46
have no idea what our personal music taste is.
36:49
We give you hints, but I think every once in a while it's fun
36:52
to see what we're learning more each week.
36:55
Yeah. To learn more about like kind of
36:58
where some of our personal takes come from.
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So I'll share her most recent song of the week that I got this
37:03
morning. It was Nelly by Doctor Dog,
37:08
which is also one of my personal favorites.
37:11
It's a really good song. It's just a really sweet song.
37:14
I don't know what else to say but my personal song of the
37:20
week. If anyone has Airbuds, you can
37:24
follow me there. But I I think Airbuds keeps
37:27
telling me that I played it like 10 times in the last three days.
37:31
I listen to it all the time. I don't know what.
37:33
It's my favorite thing when a song does this, but it's called
37:36
Light Me Up by Nikki Orr. He's the same dude who wrote the
37:41
song Sunroof. You know that song.
37:45
There's something so addicting about this song.
37:48
I love it. So give that a listen along with
37:52
the album for next week, unless you've had a song.
37:57
But I think you mentioned that yours was just though.
38:00
I actually. Do have a song.
38:03
And so I was I was I was told of this maybe 3 hours before we
38:08
recorded Hey, let's what's a song?
38:12
And, and ironically, and I'll go back to what we're talking on
38:16
this album, loud, soft, loud. So I was like, OK, that that's
38:20
Nirvana, that's Pixies. So I went back and listened to
38:23
the Pixies. So, and if you you may not know
38:28
this one, you know from them, but you know, that's that's
38:35
where I went. You would be shocked to hear me
38:37
say like, yes, I really started listening song again.
38:40
Again, here comes your man. It is not hard, it is easy.
38:46
It is just a fun little pop song, which I don't get a lot of
38:52
those, but yeah, really have listened to that song several
38:56
times over the past week or so. Interesting.
38:59
Here, Here Comes Your Man by the Pixies.
39:04
There you go, I'm. Learning more about you now too.
39:09
Well give those songs a listen along with the album of the
39:13
week. Next album that I'm really
39:17
excited for, it's Disintegration by the Cure, so give that a
39:29
listen, let us know what you think and also let us know if
39:32
you have any songs of the week so that we can give this a
39:35
listen 'cause we like listening to new music too, that's why
39:39
we're doing this. We keep forgetting the.
39:43
Dimension but there are out there so we got Barber cuts pod
39:47
on Instagram X Facebook join us there again talk to us in the
39:55
comments over at Spotify as well like Kate did and.
40:02
Wait if if she doesn't. Listen and never talks about it.
40:05
She's going to get in so much trouble so.
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So until next. Time I'm Todd and I'm Riley and.
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This has been another episode of Barbara Couples.