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Lorde · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into an
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artist. That's right, we've done all the
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work for you. All you have to do is press play
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and listen and you can call me Bam curious, my name is Justin
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and I like to gather my friends up to talk about why they like
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an artist. And in doing so, we will come up
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with a top 10 starter kit for you to listen to so you can get
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in to said artist. And you could say that today is
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going to be a supercut of Lorde because indeed, we've done all
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the Supercuts. We're talking about Lorde today,
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and I don't recall like the hows I, I do believe that this was
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like a list that you had put up, Anderson.
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You included Lord on on one of your early lists.
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So talk to me about Lord and why you feel like it's time to talk
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about her today. Oh man, First off I want to
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thank everybody who's done a panel since COVID for leaving
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this one for me. That was good of you even though
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you never met me, I don't care. Thank you.
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Outside of the 90s, my favorite music is 20 Tens alt and this
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girl is pretty much a staple of 20 teens alt pop.
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So I really, really did want to do this one.
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Honestly, I cannot name a better double Grammy, double Grammy
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winning New Zealand person of Irish and Croatian descent that
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was born in 1996. So if anyone has a better one,
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well, do that panel too. That's fine.
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So yeah, yeah, I love this girl, so I'm ready.
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Let's do it. I mean, sometimes it's that
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simple. I feel like you jumped on pretty
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quick on on this one, Brian. Talk to me about what made you
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jump on board with Lord That Rhymed.
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You know, yeah, Lord is definitely one of the, you know,
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I've, I've, I've done a couple like pop pop people.
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She's just one of them that I've been into.
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I was really into like the first two albums and then like I, I
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really didn't get time to listen to like the other albums.
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I just, I don't know, I've had like so much stuff.
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I wanted to get to, you know, how it gets.
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But yeah, I mean, I feel like when she first came out, like
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she was like, you know, it was, it was it was pretty like
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popular on everything. And then she kind of like her,
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her music stayed the same. Like, like the music nerds, like
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the TikTok nerds, like, like the Anthony Fantanos of the world.
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There's, you know, still Reave about her and everything, but
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like, I feel like with like the rise of Taylor and Billy, like
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Lord kind of took a back seat. Almost.
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And didn't don't really seem fair, honestly.
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But yeah, just so you know, kind of get back out there that, you
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know, Lord is out there and he's still making great music.
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I mean, she made a new record that we covered this year.
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So great points. I feel like now is the right
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time again. Here's the interesting thing is
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I, I, I think you're 1000% right.
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She kind of took a back seat to like, I think we mentioned on
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the Billy episode that she walked so Billy could run.
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And I feel like she opened a door.
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But I was talking to my wife about this just, you know, 30-40
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minutes ago about how she only has the four records.
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And I feel like that's part of what happened here is that she
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doesn't have this huge output, which is both interesting
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because she was easily like the IT girl when she broke.
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Like, it was like, part of the reason I didn't partake was
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because a lot of the media around her was, oh, she's, you
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know, going to be Kurt Cobain for this generation.
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And, you know, I don't, I don't know how I feel about that now
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after ingesting the entire discography.
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But like for a guy like me of, of, you know, a man of a
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certain, a white dude of a certain age, that didn't do it
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any favors, especially when the breakthrough song is Royals.
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And we'll, we'll get into like songs and what not here in a
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moment. But I, I do feel like somehow
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she gets kind of washed away by the tailors because Taylor's
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output has been like massive since 2019.
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Like just, I think she's done like 6 records since then.
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So it's like, you know, in the rise of Billy Lord's just kind
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of been plugging away this entire time.
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But like, also not like this isn't a huge output.
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So like, it's we have to talk about her because this is for
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excellent records. And so to that point, Anderson,
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like, yeah, I feel like you were like, well on board with her,
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you know, before we even got here.
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So talk to me about it's not a huge discography.
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How do you how do you frame what you want to bring to the table
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for her? First off, I love that you
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mentioned Cobain because she is one of the people Nirvana picked
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to sing and play some Cobain at the Hall of Fame induction in
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2014. That's great.
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Along with like, Kim Gordon and Joan Jett.
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So that's good company. Yeah.
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Framing this up, trying to make a list, this was difficult.
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There are 30 right answers and we're picking 20, you know?
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So I ended up, I went for balance.
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I one of my last cuts was because she didn't put it on the
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album and went in doubt. Trust the artist.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So I mean, yeah, I kept it pretty even across.
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So, Brian, is is there a method to the madness when it comes to
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Lord? Like when you're putting 20
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together for this one? Is is there a way?
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Like Anderson just said, there's 30 right answers here.
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Yeah, this was, this was a tough one.
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And there's gonna be a lot, you know, I'm like, like, you know,
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it, it, it was really tough because yeah, she only, she's,
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you know, her first album came out in 2013 or 2011.
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And so they put out four records in that time.
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But the, the one thing is like, she's consistent, like
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consistent, consistent. Like, you know, usually when I,
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you know, when I do these, I can, I can listen and I'll be
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like, you know, I'll get like a minute into a song of like, ah,
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this isn't going to hit, you know, hit my groove or whatever.
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I didn't have that at all this time.
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So I had to, I listened to like the, I said the 1st 2 records I
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knew pretty well. So I knew which ones I was going
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to pull off those first two records like immediately.
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And then the second, the 2nd 2 records I knew a couple songs,
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but not as well. So those I had to give up like a
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couple listens and then I just threw my hands in the air and
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pick 20 songs. Yeah, I'm kind of over people
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telling me to throw my hands in the air.
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But very similarly, guys like this, as somebody who's never
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done the deep dive, there were songs as I'm, as we're going
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through, like my wife often times will just kind of play
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like Taylor Swift radio essentially.
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And you know, Billy Eilish, she'll pop up on occasion,
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Hayley Williams solo stuff and the occasional Lord song will
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come up. And so like, you know, a handful
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of these, like I was like, Oh yeah.
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So I've never done the deep dive.
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I'd never actually listened to even pure heroin.
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And the, the moment I push play, I'm like, oh, shit.
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Like, I mean it, it's exactly what you think.
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But also not like it's so much, so much better than than what I
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thought it was going to be. And like, I'm, I'm so excited to
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see what our list comes out to because I, I, I'm just
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absolutely geeked on how many songs I just fell in love with
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on 1st listen. Like she has that ability.
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And I, I mentioned 4I you know, I hesitate to use the word
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perfect because, you know, that's all in the eye of the
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beholder. But like 4 excellent records,
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like 4 records that are just absolutely full of bangers and
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different versions of bangers, like straightforward pop
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bangers. And you know, dipping her toes
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into like George Michael, dipping her toes into like all
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sorts of like I've I've got feelings of image and heap at
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points. I got moments of Tori Amos at
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points, like all sorts of stuff pulled in into here and just put
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through this like awesome pop lens.
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So like, yeah, man. Like I think when we put it
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together, I said I'm just going to play a video video game for,
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you know, three hours and just listen to the whole thing.
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And I just easily did. And I feel like to Anderson's
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point, I think I had 30 something on my first pass.
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There's only like 44 songs. So like, yeah, these these cuts
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were brutal. I mean, there's there's a good
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handful of yeah, no brainer like that should be there.
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And like I said, there's there's a good handful of songs that I
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just loved on 1st listen that I was like, yeah, there's no way
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that's getting lost. There's one song that, you know,
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we'll talk about, I'm sure that I feel like could be up in the
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air, but we'll cross that bridge when I get there.
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It it feels like this discography is small enough that
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we could really hit some home runs here, Anderson.
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But like also it feels like there's enough here at play that
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it could be miserable. Like what do you think for the
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for the final say, how many do you think we're going to get
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through? Oh, we're not putting balls on
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the ground today. I think that is for sure.
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It's going to be a question of, yeah, how many we get all the
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way through and how many twos we get.
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This is we could easily have over 20 twos if we do this
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wrong. Yeah.
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So I'm going to do, I'm going to make it easy.
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I'm going 9. Yeah, I like that.
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I I mean it, it, it feels like that though, right, Brian?
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Like, it feels like it could easily be that, Like, it this
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feels like one that we could do a perfect 10.
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Yeah, it, it feels like that. But also it could be like, like,
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to Anderson's point, it could be 30 twos and, you know, nothing
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gets through. What do you think, Brian?
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Yeah, wow. That was that was that was a
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that was a big swing. I mean, you said they had there
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were 44 songs. We were doing 20 right.
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Yeah. OK, oof.
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I freaked out for a second there.
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We said only 44 songs. I didn't even think about it,
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whether we were doing 20 or 15. I mean, I mean, yeah, like our
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each of our lists is half of the discography, right?
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So I feel like there's only three of us Felt the chances are
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high. Yeah, I'm say 8.
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OK, Yeah. So now the question, do I take
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the bat out of my hands and take the 10?
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I honestly feel like that's not out of the realm.
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Or do I undercut you guys and go with 7 because I'm in the same
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ballpark? I, I feel like, I feel like it's
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possible that we get get the I'm going to go 7 just because
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there's no action to take If I get if, if I pick 10 and we get
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the perfect 10. So you.
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Can go to the 11. Yeah, I mean, if I if that's the
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thing, if you pick over 10 and we hit it, then you get the last
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cut. So all right, so 98 and seven, I
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mean we our hopes are high here. We're going to take a quick
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pause and see how close to that we get.
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It's the programmed. And with that, the name of the
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game is deprogrammed. The three of us have come
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through Lord's discography and plucked out 20 songs that we're
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now going to mash together in an attempt to create a top 10
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starter kit for you. In case you have never given
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Lord the time of day. And I already mentioned this.
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This was a song I'd heard. It was a song on the radio.
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It's a song that's popped up in my wife's playlists.
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I I always wrote this song off but when I push play on this
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playlist I was like oh fuck like it it.
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This song is way better than I ever gave it credit for.
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I'm going with tennis court. Yeah.
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Yeah, you got it. Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm a
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sucker for a track one album 1, you know, telling me what to
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expect. And you know, there's another
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hit that she has that, you know, we'll talk about.
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I'm sure it'll come up, but I feel like this is more of what
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you would, what you should expect from Lord as opposed to
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that other song. You know, we'll talk about it
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when we get there. But like, fuck, I love this song
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and it it just really it really sets a nice mood for for the
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whole 3 hours and I just I push play and I just sat back and
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just listen. So yeah, tennis court.
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Boom all. Right.
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Oh, she really does nail the beginning of albums, doesn't
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she? Oh, for sure.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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All right. Tennis court is in Anderson
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where you want to go. OK, I'm going to start off with
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a sign that when I heard it on the radio, I absolutely could
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not stand it. That was, you know, first time I
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heard it. I'm like, Nope, Lord's done.
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That was fun. She had one good album and it
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won me over. 2030 lessons later now I absolutely it's one of my
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favourites of hers. And this is the thing about Lord
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is her songs can be a nature trail because you don't know
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where you're going when you start.
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But once you hit that clearing and you see where that song is
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leading you to, the view can be just absolutely fucking amazing.
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I'm going green light. Yeah, I got it.
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Yeah, I'm with you. Like when I first heard it,
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which I hadn't heard it until this year before we started
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doing this, it's another one that kind of popped up.
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I assumed it was off the new. Hilariously, I thought it was
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off the new record because I hadn't heard it before.
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And I just heard that she came out with a new record.
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And like you, I was like, you know what?
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I'm not really into this. I don't dislike, didn't dislike
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it, but I was like, yeah, I don't know.
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And then when it came up for this again, we talked about
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track ones, like it opens melodrama.
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I was like, oh, and it just really, I, I also listened to it
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today on a walk and I was like, oh man, like I love this jam.
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So yeah, green light. I was playing it on on my walk
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today too. I I, I think I take the dog for
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like a like a three mile walk, like every afternoon.
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Yeah, I was listening to my list.
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Yeah, it's. Perfect time for it.
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I also want to mention I didn't get like a whole lot of answers
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for this for for her, surprisingly.
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But this song is one of the answers that I got.
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I did get somebody who just said I love Lord and then didn't give
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me any songs. So.
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OK, Yeah. All right.
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That might have been me. All right, Brian.
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Big pressure here, huh? A couple places I was thinking
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about going let me go. I think this is like a perfect
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pop song. And again, I'm going to, I'm
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going to bring up Taylor a little bit, but I, I, I don't
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understand all the same critics that think Melodrama is one of
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the best pop records of all time, but then also hate
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reputation because there's so many similarities.
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And this song kind of has this reputation sound and it's just
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like a perfect pop song. Super cut.
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Yeah, man, totally. I don't have that one.
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We'll. Take it to you there.
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Yeah, and Justin even used it for his talk up.
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Yeah, but I was surprised when you say wait, when you use it
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for your talk up. I was like, wow, I was surprised
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if you actually said it. Yeah, that's another answer that
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we got, you know, from from actually, funnily enough, Adam,
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who does a lot of panels. Adam said that.
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So yeah, yeah, I I get the similarities.
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Like when I was listening to melodrama the first time, I was
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like, is this where is this where Taylor got that?
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And was that subconsciously why I wrote off reputation before I
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kind of knew you know her. So I don't know.
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I mean, I've come around and it was a lot easier to accept
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melodrama this go around. But I love Supercut.
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It was 1. I had heard again it, it popped
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up a a couple times on my wife's playlist and I was like, oh man,
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I'm into this, this one. So all right, we take the two
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and we move on. So the question is, do I take a
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big swing here? Kind of feel out where you guys
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are on some of the other type of stuff.
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I think I might go with one of my ones that I just loved on on
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my first listen. Yeah.
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Oh, funnily enough, this was the other one that that got
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answered. How about liability?
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Yeah. Yes, Sir.
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Yeah, awesome. I Oh my God, when that came on
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and I I'm just sitting there and just immediately going what I
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love this song. Like I think this seriously has
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a good has a shot at being her number one.
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I don't know if it's going to be, but I'm saying like if this
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was in the conversation for her number one, I would not be.
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I would not argue against it. I even though like, I I feel
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like her pop sound is kind of like is kind of her jam.
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I just everything about this song is great.
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So yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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That whole I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll say that.
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You know, everyone was saying, yeah, it's only four albums.
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Listen to the entire discography for sure, especially Melodrama.
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I mean, you know, I'm going to keep bringing up Melodrama for
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thinking. I think it's a 10 out of 10.
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But I mean, they're all, they're all right there.
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She's so consistent. For sure, like I I don't use
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that word excellent lightly with these are excellent.
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Pop records like these are excellent and again, two hours
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51, it's well worth your time. So all right liability is.
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In keep mentioning melodrama because that's the reason why my
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list isn't balanced. Funnily enough, same.
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Like I mean, it's I have a pretty solid balanced list, but
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Melodrama definitely has the most.
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Yeah, me too. So, OK, interesting.
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All right, Anderson. All right, well, I talked about
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how we're not hitting ground balls and now I'm going to bunt
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1 as well. Actually, if you listen to the
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after the fact he plugged for Sponge, you'll know that I lost
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my dog this year. So I'm going to go to solar
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Power and I'm going to pick a song that is a eulogy to her dog
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that she lost at the time, and that one is called Big Star.
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Yeah, I got it. Oh, I don't have that one.
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Holy shit that's the two. I love it.
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Well, I, I loved it too. I so we did.
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I can't remember if Big Star was, I think Big Star was last
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year the band. And that was my my initial
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thought when I when it when I saw it in the playlist and then
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like, I'm listening to it. I I didn't catch, you know, I
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didn't have enough time to go deep enough to find out what it
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was about. But I was like, oh, man.
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Like, I the fact that it's called Big Star and made me
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think of the band first is what put it on my radar.
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So yeah, man, Big Star. We'll take a two there.
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Boom. All right, Brian.
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Wow, I don't know. I'm going to go to an easy one.
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I can go to the easy one, but hopefully another easy one team.
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Yeah, man, I got it. Yep, I got team.
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Yeah. I mean, you know, that's.
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Another good single. Yeah, I mean, again, it was 1.
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I had heard and I'm not going to lie, like what's the one part
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that is kind of annoying? Believe not yet.
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I forget what it is. Yeah.
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Oh yeah, like the the setup coming in it goes is kind of
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annoying, but like get past that and get into the song and you're
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like, Oh yeah, cool. It's just a good jam.
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So All right, boom, just like that.
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What are we at 4 already? 4 We barely scratched the
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surface. Yeah, I know, right?
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It's only two times around. I still have three more from
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pure heroin I think will be automatics.
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All right, all right, all right. I'm going to go with one that I
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think this is the one that gave that gave me Tori Amos vibes.
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How about Rider in the Dark? I don't I I don't either.
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Whoa, rider. In the dark.
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Bin. Oh, Oh no.
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I am sorry man, I I could not take the whole album because the
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other three are too good. Yeah, no, for sure.
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I understand. Yeah.
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But like, I'm thinking, oh, like, this is another one that I
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just fell in love with, like, immediately and yeah.
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Oh, OK all right. In the bin it goes.
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Sometimes it'd be that way. Like I said, I.
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I I could have taken everything off of off of melodrama.
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It was. Yeah, all.
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Right, Anderson, where you want to go next?
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Oh God, we can go anywhere we want.
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Let's go to Virgin, the newest one, and the song that really
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jumped out at me on that one is Shapeshifter.
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Oh. Man.
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OK, we'll take the two there. I, I don't have that one.
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That one was like 2223. It was for sure on my first
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pass, I think. And I mean, I still ended up
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with four from, from the new record.
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But like, I think just the newness of it, even if it, it
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made it easier to cut things from it, even though, you know,
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I listen to them all like now I I think that makes sense.
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What I'm saying is knowing that it was new kind of made it
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easier to kind of cut things out from that one.
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So all right, there's a 2 and Brian.
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Very well, I missed you with, you know, we all missed you with
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writing in the dark. But how about, how about perfect
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places? Yes.
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Fuck yes. There we go.
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OK, OK. I was like, well, if he had to
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write it in the dark, he must have had perfect places.
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Hilariously so again, I you know, when when we were putting
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this together, you Anderson, you had asked, you know, does your
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wife like Lorde? Because I mean, this is pretty
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much in a wheelhouse. And as I was listening, you
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know, like, yeah, this fucking is.
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I'm surprised that this record hasn't been fed to her.
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And when I brought it up to her, she said that song perfect
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places I love. And this was after I had already
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done my first cut and perfect places was already on my list.
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So like, I mean that tell that says a lot to me about the song.
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Is it? It hit the the ear of my wife
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enough that she knew it before I didn't have to bring it up to
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her. She knew it like it got fed to
28:22
her and she liked it. And it was on my list basically
28:26
already. And then, yeah, just a great
28:30
jam. What else can you say?
28:34
I mean, it's it's just great. There we go.
28:40
All right. So perfect places.
28:47
We're back around to me. I think I'll try.
28:52
No, that that was you, wasn't it?
28:54
No, that was Brian that. Was me.
28:56
That was me. Hello.
28:57
He was a he was. Brian, you're smart.
29:02
I renew that. And humble.
29:05
We should get you an award. All right, so we're going to go,
29:11
I'm going to go with one off virgin as well, just to see if
29:15
we can't get something in here. Which one though?
29:24
I've got a couple here. I'll go with the one that that
29:29
kind of feels. How about David?
29:35
No. No, I don't have that one
29:38
either, dear. Lord, yeah.
29:41
I overthought the room. I will say that part of my, I
29:46
mean I loved it on 2nd and 3rd pass, but part of the reason it
29:50
made my first pass was because it was in her top 10 songs on
29:54
Spotify. Gotcha.
29:56
So like, that's what. Yeah, yeah, that's what kept it
30:00
around. And then when I went back and
30:03
listened to us, like, oh, yeah, this belongs in my, my 20s.
30:05
Apparently I was wrong, because into the bin it goes.
30:11
All right, Anderson. Well, let's give Virgin one more
30:19
shot here. And when you're holding a
30:21
hammer, everything looks like a nail.
30:23
I. Love that one, but no no Ah, you
30:29
can join me in the bin. I was expecting, it's just not
30:36
here. Yeah, yeah, I again, I loved it.
30:40
I I think that's track one off that one, right?
30:43
Yeah, it's great. Yeah.
30:47
All right, Brian. All right, I'm going to go back
30:51
to pure heroin. How about ribs?
30:56
Yeah, I got it. If I could do 21.
31:02
Oh. Oh, I was all day long I was
31:06
looking for a spot for it and I could not make room.
31:09
Yeah, it happens. It's.
31:11
Tough. That's what I'm for sure, I
31:13
thought, yeah. No, you're right.
31:17
Yeah, yeah. We'll get there.
31:20
Yeah, we'll get there. I mean, we, we still, we're
31:24
still maybe about halfway through at this point.
31:35
All right. I mentioned George Michael
31:37
earlier and this song gave me freedom.
31:41
This song gave me faith. This song gave me several
31:45
different George Michael songs. How about solar power?
31:48
Yeah. Yes, Sir.
31:53
Yeah, George Michael. I was like, oh cool, he's got
31:56
solar power. Oh, it's so good.
32:02
And you know, I mean that in like all the best ways.
32:04
Like I do not mind when an artist puts on their their just
32:14
puts it on full display of Hey, I like George Michael, like cool
32:19
man, like as long as you can, you know, make the sound your
32:23
own. And her voice is unique enough
32:25
that that it is. And it it gives all those it
32:28
gives those songs, but it's very much a Lord song.
32:32
So solar power rules. I mean, I feel like even the
32:37
hook gives like freedom, freedom, like it's it's right
32:43
there and I'm into it. All right, boom, what's that?
32:47
Give us 6. Next.
32:51
Six. Yeah, we're we're climbing.
32:54
Moving right along, solar power is me and Anderson.
33:01
Yeah, solar power's got that line where I'm like, I'm kind of
33:04
like a prettier Jesus. And you could imagine George
33:06
Michael saying that, Yeah. You could for sure for sure.
33:12
OK, I'm going to go hit one of my favourites here off of
33:16
melodrama about homemade dynamite.
33:20
No. No, I don't.
33:24
Yeah, I mean, again, you know, sometimes there's just no
33:28
reasons. You just didn't have room.
33:32
Just didn't have room. All right, Brian, all.
33:38
Right. I'm going to go back to Virgin
33:40
because we don't have one through on there yet.
33:42
How about current affairs? No.
33:47
I don't have it either. Oh.
33:51
That was That was another really close one.
33:55
Honestly, I'm not sure where that dropped out.
33:58
And I think, you know, that go goes back to what I was saying
34:01
before is the newness of it. Like I'm not sure where a lot of
34:06
those dropped out. Like shapeshifter.
34:08
I know knew for sure because like I wanted to find space for
34:11
it, but I couldn't. It was like one of the last
34:15
ones. Some of the other ones.
34:17
I'm just not sure, you know, where they where they dropped
34:20
out at all. Right, I'm going to go.
34:31
I'm going to go back to solar power here.
34:32
How about secrets from a girl who's seen it all?
34:38
No. I don't either.
34:40
Oh. Bend.
34:43
Talk about callback time. That is my summertime voodoo
34:48
Lord. Bend, OK.
34:52
You just had to stick it to me one more time.
34:55
Yes, I did. Yes, I did.
34:59
All right, all right, Anderson. All right, let's let's try and
35:07
get another winner here. How about let's go all the way
35:11
back 400 blocks? Yes.
35:14
No. Oh, I.
35:17
Know, I know, I know. I still have a couple left from
35:22
that record too. I just just unfortunately isn't
35:24
one of them. Boom and boom, 400 lux.
35:31
I was listening to that one today when I was trying to
35:33
listen to the full list and I was like, do I want to do the
35:37
work? No, because what do you lose?
35:43
All right, Brian. All right, all right, let's get
35:48
let's get Justin out of the out of the bin here.
35:51
Let's let's get him right of the dark.
35:53
Let's get him his seven Royals. Yeah, I got it.
35:58
Yeah, Nope. Hey.
36:00
Come on. Listen, I understand.
36:05
I get it. I get it, yeah.
36:07
I, you know, this was the song I was talking about.
36:09
Like, I love this song. I think it's great.
36:12
And if there's room, I see this on the list.
36:17
But this feels like one of those moments where we have a chance
36:20
to not have it on the list, you know?
36:23
Yeah, like like the no brain, right?
36:27
Exactly. Like I, I, I, I think it belongs
36:31
in the conversation. I'm glad it's got a two.
36:34
I'm glad that it's going to be around.
36:36
But like, it feels like everybody probably heard that
36:41
and probably heard Weird AL's version.
36:45
And like I feel like if we can point people, I mean, we already
36:50
got tennis court and team, which I think are the superior singles
36:54
like and are more what she does anyway.
36:59
So like, I get it, man. I, I, I consider dropping it
37:04
off, but it, it felt like blasphemy.
37:06
So that's that's why I kept it. I, I I I built up a freaking
37:11
alley OOP right there. I denied denied by having the
37:19
tumble I. Mean still too.
37:21
It's it's still around, but like, I feel like, you know, I
37:24
mean, we'll see. Like how many we it really to me
37:28
it depends on how many we get through unanimously because if
37:31
we get if we get Anderson's nine Royals us out like.
37:36
Yeah, take that. Didn't we get Billy List without
37:41
bad guy as well? I don't recall.
37:44
I'd have to if that was this year, I'd have to.
37:46
I can look that up for the IT was this year.
37:49
Yeah. It was like, well, it came out
37:50
this year, I think like we recorded in December.
37:52
It came out like in January, OK. I feel like we did it without
37:56
bad guy and we're like, how did that just happen?
37:59
Yeah. Yeah, so I'll, I'll dig that up
38:02
and and we can figure that out. But yeah, all right, Royals is a
38:07
2. I'm starting to run out here,
38:12
123456. I've got 7 left.
38:16
So maybe we do like two more rounds.
38:19
Sure, this one's going to hurt, but maybe because it sounds kind
38:26
of different, maybe you guys have it.
38:28
This was another one that I fell in love with upon first listen.
38:32
How about stoned at the nail salon?
38:37
No. I don't have it.
38:41
No. Just the absolute binning of my
38:45
list here. Unreal.
38:47
There was a line in there that pissed me off so I didn't pick
38:50
it. Oh, really?
38:52
Yeah. I didn't catch it, OK.
38:56
Yeah, she says. All the music that you loved at
38:58
16 you grow out of. And for me that was 1994 and I
39:02
will never grow out of it. So that.
39:07
All right through that nail salon in the bin.
39:10
All right, Anderson. OK, let's take one more stab at
39:18
Virgin. How about what was that?
39:21
Yeah, man, I got it. I don't know, Brian.
39:27
Wild, wild. What the hell was that?
39:31
It does get a two though, so it gets to hang around.
39:36
We're going to have us a discussion here that it's it's
39:40
looking like it's going to be hairy unless we unless we just
39:46
miraculously just start hitting him out of the park.
39:49
All right, Brian. All right, I'm going to go with
39:55
one of the one of the singles that were added only because I
39:59
didn't recognize where the song came from at first, but as soon
40:03
as I heard it hit something. And then it made me think of
40:06
Jennifer Lawrence, who I'm in love with.
40:07
So yellow flicker beat from Hunger Games.
40:11
Very good, but no. And yes, I got it.
40:15
That sign is like a killer. It's such a banger.
40:20
Yeah. All right.
40:23
We'll take that too. All right.
40:25
So we'll call this one our last round and then we'll go out
40:30
because where are we 6? I still have like 3 songs.
40:34
I think you're going to be hits so.
40:38
All right, I guess I'll take another crack at Virgin, even
40:45
though we've got a couple twos here.
40:48
How about favorite daughter? I I don't and I really wanted to
40:56
keep that one. I don't know why we hate you so
40:59
much today, but I don't have any.
41:02
Oh. OK, my list just absolutely
41:08
bend. All right, All right, Anderson.
41:13
And my list is very full of surprises.
41:15
So I mean, I kind of feel you. OK, let's let's go around.
41:21
I'm going to Taka. You had mentioned that you love
41:26
this radio station and Albany that you listen to in the summer
41:29
and it gives you good ideas. I used to have something just
41:34
like that. It was a short live station in
41:37
Minneapolis and that's where I pretty much got into Lord.
41:42
And in between melodrama and solar power, they played the
41:47
hell out of this song. It's not actually 1 of hers but
41:51
she does all the singing and it's called magnets.
41:57
Yeah, I don't have it. I no, I didn't take it.
42:01
I wasn't expecting anything great there, but I won't.
42:04
I like it a lot. Oliver's I Really Didn't Take it
42:08
is because on the song she wasn't given the top billing
42:11
even though she sings the whole thing.
42:16
Yeah. You know what I mean?
42:18
Like I can't remember who the other artist was, but the other
42:20
artist was listed first. So it's not like you.
42:23
So it it was listed like it was his song, but with her
42:27
featuring, I don't know, you know what I mean?
42:30
I. Mean you look for Oh no, I know
42:32
exactly what you mean. Yeah, you look for whatever
42:34
reasons you can. Yeah.
42:35
So, all right, Brian. All right, I didn't mention
42:41
either of my two favorite songs off Metal Drama yet, and neither
42:44
have anybody else. So that's what it's that's
42:47
what's making me a little crazy here.
42:49
So I'm going to say one of them sober.
42:53
No. I got it.
42:56
OK. Boom and boom A2.
43:01
I think I only have like 4 left so let me shift this.
43:05
Up. We needed another two though.
43:06
It was very important. All right, it's in a. 6.
43:12
I will, yeah. We'll see if any of my dump outs
43:16
make it in to make put the pressure on me.
43:19
Although I wouldn't mind winning this one.
43:22
There's definitely songs that got binned that I would I would
43:25
not mind putting in. All right, I'll start at the
43:28
top. How about Glory and Gore?
43:32
No. Yep.
43:34
Hey, I'll take that. I'll take that.
43:39
All right, from solar power, how about mood ring?
43:48
No. Yep.
43:51
Hey wow, boom, I'm messing up. Here.
43:56
All right, we'll move to melodrama.
44:01
How about the Louvre? Yes.
44:06
That is one of my top 20 all time favorite songs, so of
44:10
course I have it. That was, yes.
44:14
That was my other favorite song of melodrama that I've been
44:17
waiting for someone to say. I was afraid to play it.
44:23
Me too. It's why I seemed sober in the
44:25
Louvre until the end. Hoping to not hit that pain of
44:32
yeah, getting your favorite song Bend.
44:35
Let me get that underneath again.
44:37
That's one of the ones I fell in love with on 1st listen.
44:40
I was just like, oh man, that's fucking good.
44:46
All right, I only have one left, which could get, I mean, if you
44:53
guys both have it, could give Brian his eight.
44:56
How about clear blue? No.
45:01
No. OK, well that means I'm going to
45:03
win at 7:00. Look at you.
45:07
I'm into that all. Right.
45:11
Let me do the thing he hates, yeah.
45:13
Let me let me shift this around and then we will clear out.
45:19
Anderson. All right.
45:21
What do you got left? I only have two left.
45:25
It is the path off of, Yep, solar power.
45:31
Very good. Yep.
45:32
Yeah. And the last one is Man of the
45:36
Year. Fucking really good as well.
45:39
Yep. All right, Man of the year gets
45:44
a 2, so you're pretty close to cleared out too, Brian, right?
45:49
Yeah, I have three. I have 3 left.
45:51
Wow. OK.
45:53
All right. I have Helen of Troy.
45:57
Yes. I can love that song.
46:00
And that was like a, that was like a what?
46:01
Like a like a like a bonus track or something?
46:04
Right, yeah, that was yeah. Wanna say like 2425.
46:08
It for sure made my first pass. So yeah, Helena, Troy, Oceanic
46:14
feeling. Yeah, 20 that one was.
46:18
Yeah, one of my last ones for sure too.
46:20
And if she could see me now? That was very good too.
46:24
Yeah. Oceanic.
46:27
Where are Oh yeah, there you are.
46:29
And if she could see me now was for sure on my first pass,
46:33
although I don't know what I'm saying when I say that because
46:37
weren't they all all right, let me shift this around and see
46:41
what we got. I think we ended up with 7,
46:44
which means I'm going to win yes for once, like it's it's cool
46:49
like I'm I'm OK with winning because I I know what song I
46:54
want. I think all right, seven in R
46:59
come on computer tennis court green light liability team
47:03
perfect places solar power in the Louvre.
47:06
I mean fuck, like if we just gave you those 7 without even
47:10
getting into these twos like you're you're on all right, the
47:14
right path. All right, so let's look at
47:17
these twos. How many do we got here?
47:21
13 that need to trim down to 2. No problem.
47:27
Yeah. All right, so we've got
47:29
supercut, big star shapes, shapeshifter ribs, 400 lux
47:34
Royals. What was that?
47:35
Yellow flicker, beat sober glory and gore mood ring the path and
47:39
man of the year. My, my initial instinct is
47:44
shapeshifter, but I mean, being that there's only two places, if
47:51
if there's one that you're leaning towards Anderson, my my
47:54
thought was that gives us something from Virgin.
47:57
We do have two others that had to use, but is there something
48:01
that that's sticking out to you? Yeah.
48:05
It's good. There's 13 signs that are
48:07
sticking out to me. If I had to pick just one out of
48:14
them I would want to go yellow flicker beat.
48:19
OK, OK, let's do that then. And then that's a bang.
48:26
One an interesting one too, because it's like like a non
48:29
album song, but I mean, it's it it fits in with everything else
48:35
that she does and it's it is a banger.
48:39
All right, that brings us up to 9.
48:42
Brian is the one that's sticking out to you.
48:47
I would say super cut, but we already have like 4 songs off
48:50
that album and I know there was like two or three that you were
48:54
looking after that from Melodrama.
48:57
So I man, I'm, I'm, I mean I'm, you know, I'm, I'm gonna say,
49:05
you know, Royals is out at this point.
49:12
Ribs I'm looking at, but then like I also want to get we don't
49:16
have anything off of Virgin. We only have one song off of
49:21
Solar Power and that's the title track.
49:25
Yeah. So I think I'm going to look at
49:27
shapeshifter again and and make another make another case for
49:34
Shapeshifter. I think like like like my brain
49:41
is saying, well, ribs is awesome. 400 looks is awesome,
49:44
Supercut is awesome, but we're so loaded.
49:47
We're so top loaded right now. Yeah, I, I it's between
49:54
Shapeshifter and Man of the Year for me.
49:57
And between those two, I think it's I think it's Shapeshifter.
50:01
I mean, if it if it makes it any like Shapeshifter for sure was
50:04
one of my last cuts. And like I said, I think it was
50:07
only easy to lose because of the newness of the record, which is
50:12
stupid because again, I listened to all these at the same time.
50:16
But yeah, well, that actually makes my decision kind of hard
50:24
because my inclination is writer in the dark.
50:27
It gave me so much Tori Amos that I just was like, in love
50:34
with it, like immediately. Man, Solar Power only has the
50:46
one mood ring. Mood Ring is really good.
50:53
Big Star is really good. I think, I think I want to go
50:57
with Big Star. I think I want to go with Big
51:01
Star to even out a little bit. Yeah, that's that's what I'm
51:08
doing. I'm not thinking about it
51:10
anymore. Let's not overdo it.
51:13
This is a hell of a list. And we managed to do it without
51:18
without Royals, which is seems like crazy talk, but really is
51:23
not when you listen, when you listen to this list.
51:26
Hold on. Let me run it down for you guys
51:28
real quick and let me get then we'll get the next level going
51:33
here. All right, so we've got tennis
51:34
court, green light liability team, perfect places, solar
51:38
power, the Louvre, yellow flicker, beat shapeshifter and
51:42
big star rounds out are 10. I read those 10 to you,
51:47
Anderson. Which one is the one to you?
51:54
Well, I think there's only one choice.
51:57
And, you guessed it, Frank Stallone.
52:03
Note to self. Can I just like drop and leave
52:06
now? I I think I've done my work OK.
52:15
I want to stay something off of melodrama, I think.
52:21
I mean, yeah, I feel. Perfect.
52:24
And Brian, which one? Just just name 1.
52:28
Exactly exactly, we got 4 to choose from and I picked them
52:34
all and I love them all. The Louvre is one of my all time
52:39
favourites. Perfect places is probably the
52:48
best points to get Fredo to not veto something.
52:53
It's a pop song. He's not going to.
52:54
He's going to call it fake music.
52:59
Imagine if we picked Royals. That would take him 3 seconds.
53:01
He wouldn't Even so I want to. You know what, fuck it, I'm
53:11
going to say green light. That song won me over.
53:13
Oh hell yeah, I like that. Yeah, I'm, I'm fully on board.
53:18
Yeah, let's do it then. Let's not beat around the Bush.
53:22
It's all their acceptable answers.
53:24
I was looking at liability. I was for sure looking at
53:28
perfect places because the conversation my wife and I had
53:31
about that song beforehand, like it had found her so.
53:36
But I feel like the way Green Light won me back over when I
53:41
came back up to it and the fact that all three of us had it.
53:44
Yeah, it's a hit. But how many people have have
53:48
actually heard it that are listening to this podcast?
53:53
You know, I mean, you know, maybe you're a Lord fan and and
53:55
you're here because you did hear it and you do know it.
53:59
But chances are you're probably like us and or at least more
54:03
like me and hadn't heard it. So green light is going to be
54:08
our number one. Let me run this down one last
54:10
go. Green light tennis court
54:11
liability team perfect places solar power the Louvre yellow
54:15
flicker beat shapeshifter in big star is going to round out our
54:19
ten. With that, let's let green light
54:22
get a moment in the sun. Why did you stop playing?
54:28
Don't do. That but you're not in love no
54:31
more. Did it frighten you how we
54:32
kissed when we danced on the light of.
54:35
Floor. I would have caught it right at
54:36
the at the drop. Yeah, right at the.
54:41
But because it stopped for whatever reason, we missed the
54:44
drop. OK, I'm not trying to get
54:47
episodes pulled, so there you go.
54:50
Look, this has been said at least three times already.
54:54
It bears repeating. This isn't a weighty
54:57
discography. As far as time consumption, 2
55:01
hours 51 minutes. We kept saying 44 songs, but
55:04
it's actually 49, which is Oh no, five more.
55:09
It is 2 hours and 51 minutes. It is well worth your two hours
55:13
and 51 minutes. I played Bilatro while I was
55:16
listening to it. It's just good.
55:20
This is an excellent discography.
55:22
Start with our 10 and then then just do the dive.
55:26
If you even halfway like Lord, it is worth your time to to dive
55:31
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55:33
We've turned you into a Lord fan.
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Subscribing, rating, commenting also super important.
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But to me the best thing you can do is to tell somebody, hey, I
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listen to D programs and you should too.
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And with that, Lord learn and love our people.
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We'll see you next week. Bye.