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Duran Duran · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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band. That's right.
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We've done all the hard work for you.
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All you have to do is press play and listen.
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And you could say that I am band curious.
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My name is Justin and I like to talk to my friends about bands
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that they like and they will tell me all the reasons I
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should, the songs that I should. And in doing so, we're going to
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come out with a list to present to you so you can get into this
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band as well. And today, well, you know, we
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could go with the the good old Rio.
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But I guess really we're boys on POD today we're talking about
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Duran Duran. And I think that this one came
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to be in the in the Discord server in the finding panelist
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chat. I think I've you listed first,
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Brian, so you must have brought it up in the chat.
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So talk to me about Duran Duran. I, I brought up in the chat, I
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was, I was trying to find something to do with Gavin
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because we've both been doing shows for a while and we haven't
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done any together besides R.E.M. the the championship.
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And so I was trying to hit him on a couple things.
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But we're, we're, we're not really like on the same.
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We're not really like sync, like syncopatic over the word, you
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know, you know, I'm, you know, I'm a like an alternative metal
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and rap guy. And he's not, but we did, but he
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said he's in the new wave. And so when I was, when I was a
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little, you know, when I was a little kid.
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Well, Nah, I still only 12 years older than me.
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That hasn't changed. My aunt's only like 12 years
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older than me. She's to babysit us a lot.
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I, she's about the same age as, as, as Gavin.
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She's 55 or 56. And yeah, she, you know, like
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this is like what she listened to when she was like in high
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school. She was 1617.
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So I couldn't exactly like, pinpoint like any like, you
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know, Duran Duran song at that, at that point when I was like,
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you know, 5 or 6 years old. But, you know, it was just
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something that's always in the background.
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So, yeah, then I found out that, you know, you know, Gavin had
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been meaning to put it up for a while and then, you know, Chris,
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Chris jumped in, too. He's also of that era.
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You know, I've done a bunch with Chris with all different genres.
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Yeah, we've been all over the board.
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Yeah, we've been through it because we did twisted together.
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We're like, we're like bonded for life.
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We're never letting that one down, I don't think.
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So, yeah, so, and then, you know, I, I do like a couple of
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the radio songs and like, I wanted to get, I wanted an
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excuse to listen to it. I, I, I do have some some other
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information, but I'll, I'll get to that when I get to how I
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built my all. Right.
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So it was already eluded that you, Gavin, wanted to put them
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on the board and just never got around to it.
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So here's your excuse. Talk to me about Duran Duran.
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Yeah, thank you Justin for having me on the show again.
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Like really fun. And thanks to the other guys for
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after R.E.M I wasn't sure if anybody wanted to do any show.
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With me, I almost, I almost quit everything.
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How dare you say radio song while you're talking about this
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stuff. Anyone can listen to remote
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understand that reference. So yeah, R.E.M., it's like, I
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mean, I'm R.E.M. Duran Duran is an important
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thing for me when I was a kid for sure.
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And I still like, love all the stuff that got me young and in
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the heart. So I have a lot of love for
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Duran Duran. I saw them in April 1984.
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In at the. At the Oakland Coliseum for
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seven in the Ragged Tiger for the third album.
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When they were like, it was like Beatlemania, you know, I was, I
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was 14 years old and went with all my friends from junior high
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who were all the new wave kids. And back then, like the kids
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that were kind of weird and into different stuff you would listen
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to like hardcore, like the Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols and all
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the new wave bands. There was no, you know, it was
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all just like weird music that you would get persecuted for.
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It wasn't really like you had to get that specific about camps
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inside the avant-garde, you know, And Duran Duran just sort
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of like immediately set up shop in your imagination when you
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were a kid. They were mythical, like right
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out of the gate. They had really accessible
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songs. But if you excavated like the
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next layer of soil or whatever, they had like a depth that
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rewarded your investigations. They were, they were sexual, you
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know, but not in like a traditionally masculine way,
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which was really attractive to the more like poetic or like
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androgynous kids like my friends, you know, they were
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fucking beautiful. They were European, they had
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great style, great hair when all of those things were totally
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impossible to figure out how to do, how to achieve, you know,
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like they just look like odds. It's like, how do you get a
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haircut like that? And how do you find clothes like
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that? Or, you know, they were
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impossibly cool. Like you couldn't get, you
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couldn't get there. You know, Simon Le Bond was like
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living the life that every kid wanted to live.
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He wrote and he wrote great lyrics.
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In the beginning, his lyrics were really, really smart and
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strange. They were like, they were all
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like secret longings and dangerous predicaments.
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And he was nostalgic but looking like to the future at same time,
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which is really cool. Their videos were super exotic.
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They're in like, Sri Lanka fucking riding elephants, you
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know, They're like in the temple ruins and they're on a yacht,
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like all in pastel suits and shit.
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And like, so much of the other music that I liked back then was
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really dark. And they were offering like a
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world of like, travel and erotic pursuit and intrigue.
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And when I got older, it wasn't until I got older that I
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realized what fucking great musicians they are.
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You know what I mean? I know back John Taylor's bass
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playing is like extraordinary. He's like functioning on some
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other mathematical level, you know, and, and I also learned
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that like, they were just kids, you know, like when they were
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making the videos to the Rio album where they're like running
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through the jungle and shit, they were all still living with
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their parents. You know, they'd never even seen
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Europe. They'd never run out of England,
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you know. And so that's like incredible,
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like the illusion that they were able to spin.
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It's this group of kids, but they had like this grand life
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and these like, and these like James Bond experiences and
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stuff. It was just all fantasy for
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them. You know, I just think they're
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like, they were incredible. I yeah, I got there's a, there's
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a lot to take from that, but we'll, we'll move it along
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because Chris, you pretty much hopped right in on this and then
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kind of took point on on putting the list together.
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And and you were, you kind of kept alluding to like just how
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much you were into them at at one point in your life.
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I've, I always loved Duran Duran, you know, listening to
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Top 40 radio growing up in the 80s and also when videos started
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coming, I didn't have MTV, but we watched Friday night videos
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like religiously in the 80s, early 80s.
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And I'll tell you what you're talking about, like sexual video
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and whatnot. When that hungry like the Wolf
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video came out, I, I was what, 11 or 12 years old And I'm sure
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I'm not alone in that awoke something the face of that woman
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through the the jungle and whatnot.
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And holy shit, yeah. I can't add really much of
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anything. Gavin was excellent in, in, in
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explaining how amazing Duran Duran is back in the 80s.
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I'm glad we did just the earlier stuff.
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I'm not as familiar with their later stuff.
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So I think this list worked out really well.
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And I it, it was a, it was a tough, it was a tough lesson,
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harder than I thought it was going to be because I remember
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listening to them. I haven't listened to them in a
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while other than a song here or there.
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So I was like, Oh well, you know, I'll pick out a few
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bangers and then everything else I'll just pick out.
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And man, it was really hard. I know I'm early in the what was
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it like to get out your list? But it was really hard to get
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get down to 20, especially since we added two songs like fucking
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yesterday. Yeah, last, because I've got
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singles. So a couple interesting points
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to like what Gavin was saying, like like just thinking about
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travel was a word you used. And I didn't even really kind of
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put that together until like you said it like that is a feeling I
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get when listening to Duran Duran.
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Like I, I think about travel. I mean, sure, one song is called
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Rio, but like, you know, I guess maybe that elicits the city, but
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like thinking about, I don't know, just something about the,
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the the way the music is makes me think worldly.
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And you know, I was never, I would never, I wouldn't call
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myself a Duran Duran fan. Like I, I was kind of, I believe
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my parents listened to them, but they weren't like they're more,
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they were more in excess, more YouTube, more R.E.M.
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Than Duran Duran and Duran Duran was like something that just
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played occasionally and you know that I was aware of the radio
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songs and they just kind of existed in my head for, you
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know, so much of my life. And when I started doing this,
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like I just realized kind of to again, to Gavin's point, like
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what good musicians they are, like sure, like some of the
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songs were, you know, are going to like live in my head forever
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just because they're fun and catchy or whatever.
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But like just some of some of the musicianship is just much
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more than maybe you would expect for what it is.
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And then rewarding was the other word that that Gavin used.
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There was layers. Like I was telling you guys just
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before we went on, I was listening to the list.
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I didn't get far into it. And I got to a song that when I
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listened to it on 1st pass and when I subsequently ended up
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cutting the song, there was a layer that I didn't hear in the
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car that I heard now in my cans. I was like, well, shit like
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that. That completely changes the song
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for me. And, you know, we'll, we'll talk
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about that like as we get come across it.
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But yeah, like rewarding is not a word you would think to kind
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of put next to Duran Duran and I, I think it's very apartment,
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especially once you start, you know, as Gavin said,
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investigating, start really kind of listening, you know, actually
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listening past, past what you know, the surface level fun this
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is. So let's talk about building a
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list for this, Brian. Yeah, we didn't have too much
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chatter going in and we, I think we turn this one around in like
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2 weeks. So was this something that was
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that was easy for you this this go around, Brian?
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It turned out to be easier than I thought.
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So I was gonna so I, I mentioned before, I listened to literally
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every genre of music. I've done almost every genre on
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here. I, I said I, you know, I was in
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the rap, I was in the rock, I was in the metal pop, you know,
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R&B, do you? There's only mostly 2 genres
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that I don't really like. 1 is like death metal.
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I, I like every type of heavy metal except for death metal.
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And the other is new wave. So I don't know if it's because
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I, I, I don't know what it is. So when I was, you know, when I
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was in, you know, a kid in the 80s, I listened to like, pop,
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but not like this pop. I listened to, like, Bobby
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Brown, you know, like that was my thing.
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Like anything like New Jack swing.
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Yeah. You know, genre was that was my
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jam. You know, I was into, you know,
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you know, calling me bad and TLC and Bobby Brown and Janet
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Jackson. Like I was more in that world.
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And then, you know, like the grunge movement hit me when I
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was like 92. I was like 12 years old and I
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got sucked into a world of, you know, self loathing music.
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So anything from the 80s that was like this sounded like just
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corny, happy music to me, you know what I mean?
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Like, like, because it could be because of when?
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Because because, because grunge hit me at the right age.
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It like soured me towards anything that was happy, you
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know what I mean? Yeah, you get that, Justin, like
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anything that was happy or it just was something corny.
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And so it took me a really long time to like get myself to
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listen to like New Wave and I I actually I really, really,
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really enjoyed this. This was like, you know, this
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did this really, definitely like opened me up to like, like, you
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know, new stuff. So what I really, so I, I knew
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most of the radio songs. There were a couple songs on
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here that sounded really familiar.
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I had no idea where Duran Duran, like it was Just Dance songs,
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like like dance songs you would hear like just playing in the
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background somewhere. And the, the more I got into it,
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I'm like, there's a lot of dance music on here.
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There's a lot of 80s sounding dance music, which I used to
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listen to when I was a kid. You know, some songs like I, you
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know, like, I know it's not like new Jack swing, but you do have
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some of those beats. You have some of that like like
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the like the drum machine. Like there's, there's elements
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that I found that like, you know, like I really, really
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enjoyed. So I made my list.
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This could be totally different than how you guys did it.
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I made my list based on what would, what made me like new
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wave or, or this band. So any song that has funk that
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has that like New Jack kind of sound to it, anything that like
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has more of a rocket beat to it. Like that's what I went with
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because I thought, OK, what if there's, you know, there's got
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to be, you know, more, you know, 45 year olds out there who don't
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like this type of music. This is what you should listen
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to and this will get you into the band.
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So I, I basically just did like bare bones what we're doing
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here. But I'm coming at it probably a
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different angle than the two guys who grew up with it.
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Yeah, I think that's fair to say.
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But I mean, we'll let them speak for themselves.
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Gavin, how did it go this go around?
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Well, that was really interesting hearing Brian just
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talk and kind of cool. Like, you know, I, yeah, I think
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that in all the bands we cover and I talk about this, Justin, I
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think that there's like the like a record for everyone.
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That's why I always pride for album representation because I
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don't like crashing some record that it was some kids like entry
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into the band, you know? But yeah, Brian and I are going
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to be polar opposites. Today.
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It's going to be great. So from, from kids, I guess from
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kids who got into Duran Duran initially or kids in England who
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got into them when they were really like in the clubs as like
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a, a weird, like, you know, post punk band.
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Those first two albums are like magical.
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Everything comes together on those two records.
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Every song is like a novel, every sound is interesting.
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They're mixing genres like so fluidly, like disco, goth
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anthems, a Blade Runner future into some sound that's like new
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pop, totally new. Then it hit that third record,
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Severed in the Ragged Tiger. And.
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It kind of, for me, starts to take a dip where, you know,
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they've been on tour for years. They were exhausted.
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They were all fighting. Too much cocaine, too much
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production. The songs start to get
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difficult, too much going on with no editor.
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Nobody's telling them, like, you need to cut, you know, the eight
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different, you know, guitar, you know, tracks on this.
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You know, the pressure of being the biggest band in the world
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when you're all in your early 20s.
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Nick Rhodes was a teenager when they made the first record, you
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know, after severing the Ragged Tiger, it gets really dicey for
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me. And that's probably where Brian
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Pye picks up more, which is cool.
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I totally respect that. The drummer, Rodger Taylor, he
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leaves in 85 after severing the Ragged Tiger, and Andy Taylor,
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the guitar player, leaves the next year, both before we even
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get to Notorious. And the absence of Rodger,
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particularly the drummer, becomes a huge problem.
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Like I have a friend who I've known my whole life who's like a
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total Duran maniac. His name's Trey.
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And he was explaining to me the other day when we were talking
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about this, like what the absence of, of their drummer
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meant when he left. So I went back and listened to
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the drums, you know, all those early on, the 1st 3 records,
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they're fucked. You know, it's just a Dick.
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It's night and day. Once he leaves, it's a totally
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different deal and they become something else, which is huge.
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Everything pushed up to 11, you know, bombastic club music.
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But for me, much more obvious, less mystery, less romance, you
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know, less interesting. But in both the music and the
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lyrics, there are a few good songs I found, but not many.
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And. But there are a bunch of people
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that like all the records that we didn't cover, you know.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Until maybe this is Part 1 or something, I should say that we.
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Championship Edition. Yeah, we, we.
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So we covered. I don't know about that, but I
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think Part 1 and Part 2 works. Yeah, I think so, yeah.
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We covered 81 through 95. We cut the Liberty Album because
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it's kind of a widely panned record by all the fans.
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Although I went back and just listened to it, I don't know
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that we needed to cut it. It doesn't sound much different
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to me than Natori is a big thing.
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I I don't really see why that one stands out as a record that
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like needs to be cut. We took three songs from the the
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cover. Album.
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Yep. Yep, we took the B side to the
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first single, the B side to planet Earth on late bar and
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then on late and in two late additions.
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I I forgot to rally, I forgot to even mention, you know, the wild
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boys in A View to a Kill from the Bond soundtrack, which were
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both non album singles in this time period, you know.
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Yeah. So my, my so sorry.
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It was easy for me. It was hard not to just take
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completely the 1st 2 records. I really, if everything is shot,
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I listen to everything all the way through.
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This was a pretty easy 1 for me. So again, we've got, so we've
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got 11 opposite, another opposite.
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You're going to have another opposite here, Chris, because
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you've said your list was super hard.
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It was, it was. I forgot, and again.
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So I haven't listened to them regularly in probably 20 years
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at least. And as I started listening, I
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forgot how much I loved. Especially like Gavin said,
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those earlier records are so fucking good.
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I did find some tracks on the later records that I enjoyed
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because they're so different from the early stuff and similar
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to some other things, which I'll talk about when we get to this,
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those tracks that I picked. But yeah, it was it was hard to
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cut it down to 20 because there's a lot of great music on
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these records. And one of the things I loved
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about Duran is they were because I was a weird kid and I like a
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lot of different stuff. You know, they were on the
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radio, they were Top 40, but they were different than so much
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on the pop music of the 80s. Another, that's why I love like
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Texans midnight runners, you know, vastly different sound
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than all the other stuff that was in the Top 40, like, you
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know, Genesis and, you know, the Bengals and stuff like that.
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So I I like that stuff too, but I always steered towards the
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stuff that that caught my ear as being elevated and different
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than everything else that you're hearing, which is one of the
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reasons I really, really wanted to do it.
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So yeah, it was tough getting down to 20.
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I just while we were recording the opening, I made another
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chance because I remembered the song.
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I'm like, oh, I have to include this song because of this
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weasel, which again, I'll get to, but I'll bring it up and
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probably nobody else has. It wasn't torture, but it wasn't
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like a breeze. I my, my explanation would be
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eerily similar to Gavin's, you know, minus, minus the
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relationship to the band. I really, really locked in on
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the 1st 2 records. Like really, really locked in.
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And by that third record I was like OK, all right.
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And then I does it go notorious next I think.
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Yeah. And I think you, you nailed it
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with interesting, like the, the lack of interest on, on big
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thing and notorious really hit me and it kind of took me out of
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like the driving force of what I was what I, you know, what was
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getting me through this playlist And, you know, didn't make it a
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chore, but it, it didn't, I didn't not like it, but it was,
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it definitely felt like less whimsical, less, less about
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travel, less about, you know, less interesting, like just less
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intriguing to the ear. It, it, it didn't invite me in
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in the same way. And I don't think I, I tracked
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that purposefully, but I, I think it, it bound out when you
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look at my list, like that's what happened.
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And, you know, like, I had a decent amount from everything,
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'cause, you know, I'm, I'm, I was trying to represent
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everything. And as I'm going back through,
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like, you know, just those two records just didn't, just didn't
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do it for me as far as what's going to make me want to really
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come back to this band at a later point.
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And then, you know, we had those those two late add add insurance
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and you know, who knows, maybe one of those was a shoo in the
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second we brought it up, who knows?
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Maybe reasons? We'll get into that.
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So I don't know Rio is one of those records.
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I'm sorry to go ahead. There's there's everyone's got
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like a dozen to 20 records where it's like this is a perfect
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record from track 1 to the and Rio is one of those records
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that's it's damn near perfect every, every strike.
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It's such a good record. I forgot how good that entire
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record was until I went through this quit.
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That's right. Yeah, I think I've got like 6
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from that. So all right, I look, I mean,
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you know, judging by the way we're talking, it seems like
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it's possible that there's like those those home runs and that's
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it. And we're all kind of, you know,
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dancing, dancing elsewhere. What do you think, Brian?
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Like for the final say, how many do you think we get through?
27:15
I still think there's plenty of home runs.
27:17
I didn't. I didn't write down.
27:19
I didn't write down which album goes to which song.
27:21
So I have my wrist here, but I'm not positive that like which
27:26
ones are on which album because I didn't write that down.
27:29
So though I'm actually not sure what my album representation is
27:35
here, except for like obvious ones.
27:38
I I think there's still enough home runs.
27:41
Like I I, I I love my list. Like I, I, I would say we have
27:47
20 come on like, but I'm going to, I'm just going to go in the,
27:51
I'm just going to say 5. Five.
27:53
OK, yeah, nice, nice. And in the middle, What do you
27:56
think, Gavin? Yeah, even even if we are on
28:01
opposite ends, I think that there's a lot of crossover in
28:04
the middle. I think we'll get 7.
28:06
I like it. It's fun.
28:08
I like it. I was, I was actually thinking
28:11
about 7:00 because I mean, there's there's easily 7 or 8
28:15
records songs that are like, how can you not?
28:18
How can you not? I don't want to go 8 because
28:21
that's insanity. Yes.
28:25
So I'm going to go 6. All right, split the difference
28:28
there. All right.
28:29
Well, I mean, if 8 is going to be insanity, I might as well be
28:32
the insane one. I'll go eat.
28:36
I mean, you never know, right? Like.
28:38
You never know. You never know.
28:40
I I do want to add that the radio songs that I had heard
28:48
prior, I loved this go round like kind of to like that
28:54
everything we've been talking about, like, like how rewarding
28:59
it is and how much more layered it is.
29:02
Like I never paid. I always just kind of paid
29:05
attention to the catchiness and hearing them This time I'm like,
29:09
oh, this is like a way better song than just how catchy it is.
29:13
So I I. Feel like there's there's
29:16
there's 10 singles on here where it's like, yeah, we all should.
29:20
Have played this, yeah, yeah. And I mean, coming out with a
29:22
best of is not a bad thing for this if that's what ends up
29:26
happening especially. Because.
29:28
Like I said, there's, I think there's a couple of radio songs
29:31
on here besides, like the, like, the, you know, 4, like obvious
29:34
ones that like everyone knows are Duran Duran.
29:37
Like there were a couple songs on here that sounded so familiar
29:39
to me. And like I said, I just, I had
29:41
no idea, like, who even sang just on the, like, you know,
29:45
background 80s music, you know? Yeah.
29:47
Yeah, I swear to God, if you keep saying radio song, I swear
29:52
to God, I swear to God I'm going to.
29:54
Read that, I listened. I listened to that yesterday and
29:58
then I I'm. Too good fucking song.
30:01
I listened to it on my way to play softball on Monday night
30:04
just to get myself pumped up because I'm like, it's I listen
30:09
to that and one of these songs we'll get to.
30:12
This all right so we're going to take a quick pause and when we
30:14
come back back we go and play the game Jack it's the
30:17
programmed. And with that, the name of the
30:27
game is deprogrammed. The four of us have come through
30:29
a selection of the Duran Duran discography and plucked out 20
30:33
songs that are now going to mash together in an attempt to create
30:35
a top ten sort of kit for you, in case you have never given
30:39
Duran Duran the time of day. And you know, I've been mulling,
30:43
yeah, I know I've been mulling this one over.
30:45
And I'm not going to do the thing this time, but I am going
30:48
to do something that's sort of like the thing.
30:51
One of the songs that that I came across, I'd already known
30:55
it, but like, it's just much more interesting than I ever
31:00
gave it credit for. It's already come up several
31:02
times. The video for it.
31:04
Hungry Like the Wolf? Yeah, yeah, I got it.
31:09
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, you got to
31:13
start obvious, sure, but also you got to start obvious.
31:18
Yeah. That's a fantastic song.
31:21
I just love the guitars and like I didn't again, like there's
31:27
like AI don't even know what it is going on underneath it.
31:32
I was like, what? I never heard that before.
31:36
And you know, and then you know, on top, on top of all of that,
31:40
it has that catchiness that I I have remembered and known this
31:43
song my whole life. So like it has that immediacy of
31:48
the catchiness that you can come back to later in life and be
31:52
like, oh, wait, this is just this is just a good song past
31:55
that. So all right, boom, one down
32:01
hungry, like the wolf is in. And Brian, where do you want to
32:03
go? Yeah, I watch.
32:08
I hit an early album. Like I said, I didn't.
32:10
I didn't write the albums down. So I'm gonna go with one that I
32:13
know is an early album because I believe it's the first album,
32:18
first track Girls on Film. Yeah, man.
32:21
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
32:25
That's crazy. Yeah, I think that song is like,
32:33
you know, it's 1981 and they're kind of like, I mean, if you've
32:36
seen the video and everything, the video is really great.
32:39
If you haven't seen it, there's a there's like AR rated version
32:45
too of the of that video. It's weird how that video kind
32:50
of predicts like the 80s, like the like the excess and the
32:57
glamour and the model, the supermodels, but but but like
33:01
the hollowness of it and like the exploitation of it and
33:05
feeling empty and being exploited.
33:09
Like all that's in there. They're predicting the 80s that
33:12
they are creating, like Duran Duran, one of the principal
33:16
architects of the 80s. They're going to create that
33:19
whole thing. And they're already talking
33:22
about the hangover at the end of the party for people.
33:25
You know what I mean? It's a it's an incredible song.
33:28
Yeah. Love it All right, No pressure.
33:32
Gavin 2 for two. Oh yeah, I'm going to take a
33:35
deep cut. Or I guess it's with.
33:37
Actually it was, I think it was a single.
33:39
Do you guys have careless memories off the first album?
33:42
Oh. Word.
33:44
Yes, I did. Yes.
33:46
That's all. Got just fucking cut.
33:50
Oh no. 3. Yeah, we'll take that 3.
33:54
That was one. I was looking at 2 drop for
33:57
something else, so I'm glad I didn't.
34:00
Nice. But we'll take that three.
34:01
That's good. All right, Chris.
34:06
All right, well, let's see if we can get one in the bin.
34:08
And this is the song that I I cut that song to bring back
34:12
because I remembered the first time I heard this song, I
34:15
thought it was sparks. It sounds so much like sparks.
34:21
All she wants is. No.
34:27
Big. Thing.
34:28
No, I don't. I figured it's going to go in
34:30
the bin. It sounds so much like Sparks.
34:34
Yeah, when it came out, I was such a big Sparks.
34:38
That's that song. Still I am now.
34:41
But back then also, and when this song started, I'm like, is
34:45
this a fucking Sparks single? Like, no, it's Duran Duran.
34:51
All right. All right, that's cool.
34:53
I'm I'm, I'm happy to be in the bin.
34:56
I'm sorry that I've ruined a a unanimous support.
35:01
Don't worry, I'll be in the bin. But it was such, it's gave me
35:05
such big Sparks vibe and I love Sparks so much.
35:08
I'm like, you know what? I have to bring this song back.
35:10
I have to bring it. Back.
35:17
There's a couple like that. Feels like, you know, I should
35:23
do next, but I'm going to take a swing here.
35:27
How about save a prayer? You do.
35:31
Oh yeah. Let's breakdown.
35:33
I don't have it. All right, I'll take that 3.
35:37
I love that song, so beautiful. Yeah.
35:40
You know, not to beat, you know, a dead horse or sound like a
35:45
broken record, but Rio, like I really could have taken that
35:49
whole record. It's.
35:50
A great record, yeah. Yeah.
35:55
All right, Brian. All right, I mean, I can just go
35:59
out there and do one that's going to be a one, but I really
36:03
liked it. This one I marked because it
36:08
this is like the the the one song.
36:11
Well, a couple of them did that that had that that beat that
36:14
reminded me of like, you know, like the 80s new Jack.
36:19
I just listened to I Don't Want Your Love.
36:23
Oh, really? Yeah, No, I didn't.
36:26
Have how to. That's a good song.
36:29
It is. And again, this is one of those
36:31
bands where I don't think there's any of these songs that
36:34
are bad. Yeah, there's none of these
36:36
songs that I listened to. I was like, Oh no, this songs,
36:41
they're all good. All right.
36:44
Summer gooder than others. Yeah.
36:48
All right, Gavin. So when I was a kid, there was
36:53
there was like a video album that was put out by Duran Duran.
36:58
I think it was put out in England.
37:01
And it and it had a couple like R rated versions of their
37:06
videos. And it was kind of like mythical
37:08
because, you know, you couldn't get it.
37:10
There was no Internet, right? Like you were little kids.
37:14
So it's like you really wanted to see it, you know, and people
37:18
were talking about it. And one of the other R rated
37:21
videos on it was a closing track to Rio called The Chauffeur,
37:30
which is I'm taking and that's a great song and a great video you
37:35
guys have heard. I don't.
37:38
I I, I don't. I'm sorry.
37:39
No, sorry, Gavin. I actually no problem.
37:42
Yeah, this that's one that came up a lot.
37:45
And, you know, a look, you know, broken record and all that, but
37:50
also, like, I wanted to go back and give it a chance, but who
37:53
wants to, you know, who wants to make more work for themselves
37:57
with this, not this silly show. So.
38:00
All right, Chris. All right, let's get another one
38:03
in the bin because it's it's one of the cover songs and this is
38:08
the other song that I played like if I got to get myself
38:11
pumped the fuck up or something. I play this song.
38:13
It's so fucking good. The original is amazing and
38:17
their version of it is amazing. White lines.
38:21
It's so fucking. I don't have it, no.
38:25
No. I don't have it, but they still
38:29
play it in concert. People go crazy.
38:31
Oh fucking God, that song. Oh my God, I'll.
38:36
Say. I figured it would be.
38:39
I only threw it in there so I could keep it on my list and
38:42
then throw it a little bit. I'll say this.
38:45
Yeah, like I, I gave a lot of consideration to the covers.
38:50
A lot more consideration than you would probably think,
38:53
considering everyone thinks they know me.
38:57
Right. How would I go?
39:06
I'm going to go to. How about the reflex?
39:11
Oh. Yeah, yeah.
39:14
Yeah. I didn't take the replx.
39:18
Yeah, that's that's one of those songs that I didn't know I knew,
39:22
like I heard it and I'm like, I freaking know this song and it's
39:26
funky as hell, which is why I took it.
39:29
Yeah, great song all. Right.
39:32
So I land a three there. That's all right.
39:34
I'll take a three. Yeah, you'll get me.
39:36
You'll get me on anything with like a funk to it.
39:39
I freaking love it. Yeah.
39:43
Brian. All right, I'll go to another
39:48
song that I didn't know what I didn't know that I knew.
39:53
Anyone out there that? Must have been a late 1 for me.
40:00
No, I don't have that. One, is there anyone out there?
40:04
Anyone. No.
40:06
Gav. No.
40:08
You know what? So I don't.
40:11
I cut. That was a late cut for me.
40:13
I love that song. It's a great song.
40:16
I must, I mean, I don't have it, but I must have.
40:20
First album, yeah, it's a third song.
40:23
I would have taken that whole record too.
40:25
That's a great just. That's another great, great.
40:29
Class record, Yeah. It's interesting, especially
40:32
finding out that they were kids when this happened.
40:35
Yeah. Yeah, I didn't realize.
40:37
That that they came out and knew exactly what they were like.
40:40
I'm always impressed when when that happens, when a band knows
40:44
exactly what they're going to be like right from the get.
40:48
All right, Gavin. So if you go to the they call it
41:00
the wedding album, it's called Duran Duran.
41:03
I think it's self-titled again. I.
41:05
Need you. That's when they get Warren
41:10
Cucarillo in the band, who was like a guitarist for Frank Zappa
41:17
and he, he, he founded Missing Persons.
41:20
Yep, that band with Terry Terry, Dale Baggio and Terry Buzzio.
41:25
And he helped, he may have written the he helped write 2
41:30
really great singles on that record.
41:32
That was kind of a comeback for Duran Duran in 93.
41:36
Yep. And I love them both and I'm
41:39
going to take one of them right now.
41:40
It's called Come Undone. Oh.
41:43
I got it, yes. I don't.
41:46
I'm sorry. That's all right.
41:48
Yeah. There's a lot of good, a lot of
41:51
good songs on that record. That's a really good record.
41:54
We got a three, yeah. We got.
41:56
I don't have that one. We'll take that three, though.
42:01
Yeah. All right, Chris.
42:04
All right, I'm I'm I have more songs that I'm sure are going to
42:07
go in the bin, but I'm going to steer away from that since I've
42:10
got two of them and go with I know Justin's got this one.
42:17
The Wild. Of course, wild boars.
42:20
Wild boars. It's the Bell and Dubs bit.
42:24
Just adding. Jenny made this podcast that's
42:27
amazing, Bell and Dubs and that was a bit.
42:30
It's so fucking funny and I I can't believe that I forgot
42:33
about that song until like yesterday.
42:37
You know, I hate it. I haven't.
42:39
I hated that song when it came out.
42:42
I wasn't going to take it. I was like, now I'm not even
42:45
going to go back to my list and try to knock something out.
42:47
And I was like, let me just do it.
42:50
Yeah. So fucking good, dude.
42:53
It's a great. I don't love the wild boys.
42:58
Wild boys like and it's much. It's like his.
43:04
His vocals are so great. Simon's vocals are so clear and
43:08
mournful that they have an acoustic like version that my
43:11
friend Trey just sent me. And it's like it's a really
43:14
beautiful kind of oh, and I also, I love, you know, William
43:20
Burroughs and like the wild boys, which.
43:22
Oh yeah, yeah. But which they are, they are
43:25
chipping their hat to that, you know, talking about that in that
43:28
song. That's a great song.
43:32
I also have, I mean, if we're if we're talking about bits, so I
43:37
ganked that bit from Greg Proops on his podcast The Smartest Man
43:41
in the World. Yeah.
43:43
So. He.
43:45
Used to just read news stories and it would be about wild boars
43:52
like, and yeah, there was a news, a news article came up
43:56
about wild boars and he, he started singing this song only
44:00
making it wild boars. So he'll be like all around me
44:06
wild boars. And, you know, it just always
44:08
stuck with me. And then, yeah, you know, how do
44:11
you not introduce that into into, you know, the Red Dead
44:15
version? He's.
44:16
He's fantastic. We got to see Whose Line Is It
44:20
live a few weeks ago and he was there.
44:24
He was just fantastic. All right, we'll take that three
44:29
for wild boys. Yeah, yeah.
44:32
Three, I don't. Think I got that on my list.
44:34
I I look. Hold on.
44:35
It was literally added the. Song I we just added it like
44:39
yesterday. Oh, I missed it.
44:40
OK, all right, I'm you know what?
44:42
I suck. I talking about something and I
44:46
missed it. So what?
44:48
What I do is when, when Justin or when anybody puts up the
44:52
playlist, I make a copy of it. I I write my playlist and then I
44:57
cut the songs like as I'm listening till I end up with 20.
45:01
So I wouldn't have even seen that it was added my dad.
45:04
Yeah, I just added that, Yes. So that means the view to a kill
45:07
will also not be unanimous. All right, so we're back around
45:13
to me though. Yeah.
45:17
I'll put out a questionable 1 here.
45:19
I'm not sure about this one. Nobody answered this when I
45:22
asked threads, so this one. I feel like I'm going on a ledge
45:26
here, but maybe not. But how about my own way?
45:33
Yeah. I no, I don't.
45:36
Yeah. That's a.
45:37
Great song. I didn't take it only because I
45:39
couldn't take everything. I love that song.
45:41
Oh, for Rio, Yeah, yeah, no, that's a great.
45:45
That's a great song. I don't mind that too, boys,
45:48
though I don't think we're, I don't think we're hitting any of
45:51
our, our marks. All right, Chris or I'm sorry,
45:58
Brian. I'm going to just, I'm going to
46:02
try to go for a slam dunk title track Rio.
46:05
Yeah, I got it. Yeah, of course.
46:07
Yeah, There we go. All right.
46:09
Now we're back. Back on track a little and this
46:13
is another one that, you know, I, I kind of dismissed and I
46:17
almost left it off because I thought, Oh well, you know,
46:19
everyone knows it. And then I listened to it.
46:23
So it made my first pass and then when I listened to it, when
46:26
I was going to make cuts, I was like, but, but it's Rio.
46:30
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought about cutting it for
46:33
the same reasons. I'm like, no, I can't fucking
46:36
read it. But it's a heavyweight.
46:38
Yeah, it is. It is.
46:41
But again, it's like one of those one like I feel like
46:47
hungry, like the wolf does more what I was talking about about
46:51
the like there's more underneath it.
46:54
But like, I mean, I would not be surprised if when we get to the
46:58
number one, we're talking about Rio or hungry like the wolf as
47:02
as the. King.
47:02
Absolutely. Yeah.
47:05
Because they're just sneaky good.
47:10
All right, Gavin. Shout out to my friend Trey.
47:20
I'm going to take his favorite song Do you guys have friends of
47:23
mine off the first album? No, no I don't.
47:32
That's one of those ones that boom.
47:37
All right, Chris. All right, let's see if we can
47:44
get a unanimous hocker, Ragged Tiger.
47:47
How about, Oh, there's let's go with New Moon on Monday?
47:55
Yeah, I got it. What was that?
47:59
Yeah, I missed. It I missed it?
48:00
New moon on Monday. No, I love that song.
48:07
When you, you know. All right, I should.
48:09
Love that song. Yeah, yeah, that record was
48:14
what, like not a perfect record, but there's 3 or 4 songs on that
48:18
record for I I fucking love those songs.
48:21
Yeah, yeah. All right, we went on Monday.
48:26
And reckon y'all's list I I I tell you I generally love all 20
48:32
of myself. Now I feel like I just have bad
48:35
taste. No, no, no, no, no, no.
48:37
Don't do that. Don't do.
48:39
That that's not what it is. Nope.
48:42
That's not what it is. All right music is relative
48:46
music is opinions music is like what you like do not feel bad
48:52
for liking what you like never feel bad for liking to like
48:56
that's part of what this show is about it's.
48:59
Cool. All right, all right.
49:08
How about? Is there something I should
49:10
know? Fuck this.
49:13
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
49:19
Justin, you're throwing out. Is there something I should
49:21
know? Yes, yeah.
49:23
Yeah, I have it. Yeah, right.
49:25
Absolutely. I thought I was taking a risk on
49:27
that one. No.
49:29
That might be. Honestly I think that might be
49:32
the first Duran Duran song I ever heard and love that.
49:35
Big song in America when it came out that was a non album single
49:41
and then they re released the first album in America and put
49:44
it on the record. Were we unanimous on that one?
49:48
Yeah, yes. Yeah.
49:51
I don't love the the chorus, but please please tell me now stuff.
49:56
But I love purses. It's so good and the guitar's so
49:59
good in it. Yeah, yeah.
50:04
Yeah, that's why when we switched the records to the to
50:07
the UK release, I kept that song.
50:10
Yeah, that's right. It's so fucking good.
50:14
Yeah, All right. I did not.
50:16
I didn't see that one coming. I like that.
50:18
That's AII always love when a random.
50:21
Really. Yeah, because I thought that
50:23
was, I thought that was unanimous for the bullet,
50:25
honestly. Yeah.
50:28
So your your 5 is still in play here.
50:30
Brian, you're up. Yeah.
50:32
All right, all right. I'll go to an album that you
50:37
guys kind of said you didn't like, but whatever.
50:40
Track one. Title track Notorious.
50:44
Yeah, yeah, I kept it. I got it.
50:47
Oh good, I kept it. It's a good song off that
50:49
record, yeah, yeah. It was.
50:52
It was so. Fun.
50:53
Yeah, I, I'll give it that. It was, it was a very late cut.
50:57
I, I, I did not keep it, but it was, it was a later cut for me.
51:02
It definitely made my first pass.
51:05
Yeah. Boom boom, if for nothing else.
51:08
This is honey for them to say that too.
51:11
They were, they were kind of notorious, as you know, bad
51:15
boys, partiers, you know what I mean?
51:16
Like that song cracks me up. All right, Gavin.
51:26
Yeah, so when they were doing when they were like writing the
51:30
Rio album and and still touring and stuff, Don Taylor, the bass
51:36
player was fucking up and doing tons of drugs and like not
51:40
showing up for sound checks and practices and like he was on one
51:46
and Simon was worried about him and like couldn't get through to
51:50
him. So Simon wrote this poem to him,
51:56
put it under his door in his hotel room because he couldn't
51:58
find it. They he'd been gone.
52:01
And and it was the words to hold back the rain, the song on Rio
52:05
that would become the song on Rio.
52:08
And so yeah, that song always touches me because I've had a
52:12
lot of those issues too. And it's just sweet.
52:15
From like 1 friend to another and the words to that song are
52:19
really great. Did did you guys anybody take
52:21
hold back the rain I it? No, it was just super late.
52:26
God. I wish I would have known that
52:28
story. Great.
52:29
Song, but I did not keep it. Yeah, that story would have
52:32
influenced it. Like that's, yeah.
52:34
Those are the kind of things that I mean, there's no way I
52:37
could have known that, you know? But yeah, and again, I would
52:42
have kept the entire the entire album of Rio, not for well, I
52:47
got to have songs from other records too.
52:49
And yeah, that was one of the ones that was probably like 23
52:53
or 24 that that was a late cut all.
52:59
Right, Chris? All right, I'm going to see if
53:04
Justin played the game. I kept this song.
53:07
It's a good song, it's not one of their best and I only kept it
53:11
because it's got my wife's name and I thought, well, maybe Jesse
53:14
will pick it because he knows my wife's name.
53:16
It's too late, Marlene. You know what's funny?
53:21
Oh, you got one. I, I mean, probably like 2123.
53:28
I did play the game. Yeah.
53:30
I just ultimately, if I'm being honest, I think it may have made
53:33
my initial 20 and I bumped it off when we added those two
53:36
songs in yesterday. So did anybody else have it?
53:43
I did. I'm sorry.
53:43
Yeah, Brian, you did excellent. Yeah, so she do.
53:46
Oh, yeah. All right.
53:47
So it's two. Yeah.
53:49
My wife's name is Marlene. It's a good song, but it's also
53:52
my wife's name is it is in it. So I'm like, you know what, I'm
53:56
going to, I'm going to game play a little bit.
53:58
I'm going to keep this one song. I could have cut it.
54:01
I could have cut it for any of the other songs where it's like
54:04
they would have been unanimous. I got to play this fucking game.
54:07
So I kept I kept my wife, kept my wife's name on my list.
54:12
That's right. All right.
54:14
So we're back around to me. I've got like 9 left still.
54:17
So like, I mean, even though it feels unlikely, all of us are
54:22
still in play here. No, there's, there's more,
54:25
there's more. Unanimous from here.
54:27
Oh yeah. Yeah, I have 8:00 left.
54:35
All right, this one's already been cracked up, and so let's
54:38
let's try this one. How about ordinary world?
54:40
Oh. Yeah, yes.
54:43
Yes. Hey, there we go.
54:46
Yeah, yeah. That's the one I was going to
54:48
play next. So this is actually like, you
54:51
know, even going back to like the 90s where you know, like I,
54:55
I kind of like rediscovered who Duran Duran was because, you
54:58
know, they they had their thing. It's funny because I used to
55:01
call this my favorite Cure song. Is that like guitar?
55:07
That Spacey guitar is just so beautiful and so Cure esque
55:13
that. I'm like.
55:14
Yeah, no. Absolutely, I see that.
55:19
Yeah, man, like when Gavin said earlier, like like a return for
55:26
them, but it it it sounds different.
55:31
It sounds different. Like it's I think it's when when
55:34
I really break down, you know what happens here?
55:38
Why I'm tapping out at notorious and big thing.
55:41
It's what they delivered on what the the second self-titled the
55:48
the wedding record. Like they got a little bit more
55:51
interesting. They they start took some more
55:54
chances and not obvious. Right.
55:59
Yeah. So I think that's what kind of
56:01
brought me back in so. Yeah, I think it was.
56:04
It was. I mean, you know, there were a
56:06
couple, you know, bands from the 80s still, you know, trying to,
56:09
like, stay relevant once, once, like the 90s, like, you know,
56:13
exploded, you know, like, into like grunge and alternative and
56:16
like, this song broke through. This was played on MTV just as
56:21
much as like alive or, you know, plush.
56:25
Like it was played right along with all those songs and you
56:30
didn't miss a beat. Like it, it was, it was, it was,
56:33
it was really, really well done to like stay relevant or
56:39
recreate their relevance. Yeah.
56:41
Agree and and doing that without without completely caving to
56:46
trying to sound like the the rest of yeah they weren't.
56:51
Trying to. Sound right, Like when Mötley
56:55
Crüe, Yeah, Mötley Crüe put out a grunge record and, well, I
57:00
mean, it's a good grunge record, but it's Mötley Crüe.
57:04
And it's like, you know, don't I don't nobody wants a grunge
57:08
record from Mötley Crüe. Don't you know, make a Mötley
57:11
Crüe? I never got into the grunge at
57:14
all. None of them.
57:15
Well, you know, it was targeted at me and Brian to be.
57:20
Fair, yeah, targeted at like angry 13 year olds.
57:23
Yeah, yeah. So all right.
57:27
And just like, actually the grunge man, I'm sorry, Justin.
57:31
Go ahead, you were saying, going to say flannel.
57:33
The The grunge movement pissed me off because I grew up in the
57:36
mountains of upstate New York. I I wore flannel.
57:40
All the. Time.
57:42
And then in the 90s, I'm still wearing flannel and everyone's
57:45
like, oh, you like Nirvana? Like, no, I like being warm.
57:50
I wear flannel. Flannel just got more expensive.
57:55
Yeah, yeah, totally. All right.
58:00
So that was me. So, Brian all.
58:03
Right. Well, I was going to play too
58:05
late for Marlene and then I was going to play or, so I'm just
58:12
going to go somewhere. How about planet Earth?
58:15
Oh yeah. Oh, no, I'm sorry.
58:18
Love that. Oh yeah.
58:19
Great fucking song too. That was one of the songs that I
58:23
was going to try to make space for, like that I was listening
58:26
to right before we went on and like I heard a layer that I
58:30
didn't hear initially and I was like, that changes the song for
58:33
me. Yeah, that's her first single.
58:36
I love it so much. Such a good song.
58:39
It's an answer we. Got to get, we got to get one
58:42
more for because I, I, I don't know if I want this.
58:48
We might. We might you guys are going to
58:50
end up with like I don't want your love on this list.
58:55
I I we got planet earth a lot on on threads when I asked threads
59:03
so. Yeah, yeah, it's a great song.
59:06
Great song. All right, Gavin.
59:10
Well, I put the B side to planet Earth called the Late Bar, which
59:14
I really love. It's kind of a fan favorite for
59:17
old fans and Duran Duran. Do you guys have Late Bar?
59:20
I don't, I'm sorry. I do not.
59:22
I don't. Into the bin, yeah.
59:30
Into the bin I. Got that.
59:32
Might be a four. I'm getting killed.
59:34
I got a bunch of beers. I mean, I know, I know.
59:39
A view to a thrill won't be a four.
59:44
Shit, what do we got? How about you doing the snake?
59:49
Yes, yes. Oh yeah, I hate, I hate to be
59:54
the the audience out there. Yeah, I don't.
59:57
Oh, no, no. I thought you had it.
1:00:00
OK. Oh.
1:00:02
That's another one that that I got an answer for a lot and I
1:00:05
just didn't get a chance to kind of go back and that makes.
1:00:08
Space. That's one where I thought that
1:00:09
I thought that one would be a Ford.
1:00:14
We got a lot of threes here. I don't know.
1:00:17
I don't think we're going to get another 4 now.
1:00:19
I don't know. I don't know.
1:00:21
Yeah. All right, well, let's find out.
1:00:26
I think my best shot at it is this song.
1:00:29
Let's find out. How about new religion?
1:00:33
Yes. Yes.
1:00:36
No, it starts. It is a great song.
1:00:42
Yeah, but I did not, I did not keep it.
1:00:44
Yeah, yeah, all good. That's funny because I was
1:00:48
thinking that same thing just. And I was like, that's my only
1:00:51
chance for a unanimous right there.
1:00:54
Yeah, that one came up a lot and it's one of one of the ones that
1:00:58
I enjoyed, so yeah. I got a couple more off the
1:01:03
wedding album that might make another.
1:01:05
We'll say, we'll say. Yeah, same all.
1:01:07
Right, Brian. All right, I'll go.
1:01:10
I'll go to the wedding album then.
1:01:13
Also, I, I I have a lot of respect for for bands that have
1:01:18
two self-titled albums. Self-titled Yeah yeah.
1:01:25
How about? Too much information, Fuck.
1:01:28
Yeah. No, no.
1:01:34
That's a great song. That's a first passer, yeah.
1:01:38
Yeah. All right, Kevin.
1:01:44
Kevin I took the the closer on the first album, the
1:01:49
instrumental Tel Aviv. Yeah, I got it.
1:01:53
Really. Yeah, you kept an instrumental,
1:01:55
Justin. Yeah, I didn't think anybody
1:01:58
would have that. I don't have it I.
1:02:00
I only cut it because it's an instrument.
1:02:03
No, they there's. The only reason?
1:02:05
That's the only reason. There is a great version of it
1:02:10
with all lyrics and Simon doing vocals and they're so great and
1:02:15
I do not know what to cut out the vocals and lyrics.
1:02:19
It's still great as an instrumental, but there's
1:02:23
another really interesting version of that song, I.
1:02:26
Really love that song and I only cut it because there were no,
1:02:31
that's just only reason. Yeah, Yeah.
1:02:34
That's like what you were saying.
1:02:35
Even as that instrumental, it feels like a travel song, you
1:02:37
know it's exotic. That's exactly.
1:02:39
Strange. And you're.
1:02:40
In a weird landscape and like, so great.
1:02:44
It's exactly, exactly it. That's exactly why I kept it it.
1:02:48
It definitely fit. Fit the motif.
1:02:52
Yeah. All right, Chris.
1:02:54
Fuck, I only got 3 songs left and I know that the usual kill
1:02:59
is not unanimous so fuck. How about to the Shore?
1:03:05
I got it. Oh.
1:03:07
No. You mentioned that song to bring
1:03:10
that album in. Gavin, come on.
1:03:12
Love that song. They cut it, you know, they,
1:03:14
they cut it off the American record.
1:03:16
They did. They did.
1:03:18
I just took it. I love it.
1:03:20
I I just didn't have room for it yet.
1:03:24
Respect though. Respect.
1:03:25
That's a great pick. We'll take the 2, all right.
1:03:30
I think we're at dump out territory now.
1:03:33
Yeah, I only have 4. Left Yeah I I got 2 left.
1:03:37
I don't, I don't see us getting out of your five, but you know,
1:03:41
I've been surprised before. All right, I'll start here with
1:03:45
Hold Me Off Notorious. No is.
1:03:49
That all Nos. I do.
1:03:52
Oh, Brian did OK. Yeah, take that too proposition.
1:04:01
Yep, no, I'll. Take another two.
1:04:06
That's all right by me. Moving on to Big Thing.
1:04:12
Do you believe in shame? Oh yes, you have that one.
1:04:18
So I have. I have 3 songs left and that was
1:04:21
one of them. All right, I love that singer.
1:04:25
Right. The three.
1:04:28
I think it was a 2. OK, forgot about that song.
1:04:32
Yeah, that's a great song. And then how?
1:04:35
About Funky. From the wedding album Femme
1:04:40
Fatale. Yes.
1:04:44
No, no. Velvet Underground cover.
1:04:49
It's really great. I.
1:04:51
I take it up, yeah. All right.
1:04:55
And then last but not least, a view to a kill.
1:04:58
Oh nice. No.
1:05:01
I didn't take it. I took one.
1:05:03
Yeah, big song, big. You know, big song for them.
1:05:07
Yeah, yeah, they did 2 Bond songs, didn't they?
1:05:12
I think they just did one they kind.
1:05:15
Of do living, Didn't they do living daylights?
1:05:20
I don't know. I don't, I don't know, maybe.
1:05:24
I mean, we can get our crack research crew on it.
1:05:28
I'm going to look at it. I only got one song left.
1:05:30
I know what it is, so I can I can research.
1:05:32
Bobby got the robots all right, So stuff that I don't have.
1:05:37
So we didn't hit, we didn't hit another one.
1:05:39
That means Brian's going to hold on and win with five.
1:05:44
You can dump out here and make this discussion a little bit
1:05:47
more difficult, Brian. I only have two meet a
1:05:52
presidente. That's a good song.
1:05:55
I don't I didn't keep it, but that's a great song.
1:05:58
OK. Oh no, it was aha that did
1:06:00
Living Daylights. My bad.
1:06:03
And then I, I, I knew Justin wanted to take this for two
1:06:07
reasons. One, that's a cover, but it's a
1:06:09
fantastic cover. A fantastic and by a great band
1:06:15
known as Led Zeppelin. That cover of Thank you.
1:06:19
Yeah, that is a great cover. That's why I kept it.
1:06:23
I didn't keep it in my list, but that is a great.
1:06:28
Cover. I don't take covers.
1:06:29
But they they like made it their own.
1:06:31
So yeah, they come out of it. You want to know what's
1:06:35
hilarious though? Like that?
1:06:37
It made my first pass like, Oh, really?
1:06:39
Yeah. I mean, I ended up dumping it.
1:06:42
I I'm pretty sure I ended up dumping it because I knew it was
1:06:44
a cover. So all right, you have a chance
1:06:50
to. I mean, I think these twos are
1:06:53
dead in the water, but you can get a couple more in here,
1:06:55
Gavin. I only have one left.
1:07:00
All right. And it's another instrumental I
1:07:04
took Tiger Tiger off 7 in the ragged.
1:07:07
Tiger, I don't have it. That's a great song.
1:07:11
A great, great, great song. I almost took that one because
1:07:17
the Pumpkins did want did a song called Tiger Tiger, but it was
1:07:21
TYGER on the Seer record, and I'd be willing to bet that, you
1:07:27
know he drew some sort of inspiration from Duran Duran on
1:07:30
that. Yeah.
1:07:33
All right, Chris. And again, you want to talk
1:07:40
about good funk UMF. Oh, that was the.
1:07:44
Ultimate line. Talk, yeah.
1:07:46
Great little funky song. UMF, I didn't.
1:07:49
I didn't have it, but yeah, definitely.
1:07:53
All right, let me shift this over and see what we got here.
1:07:58
We we ended up with five. I mean it.
1:08:01
Oh yeah. Yeah, I mean, it ended up being
1:08:04
fine. It's just weird how we got
1:08:05
there. It was like a few out of the
1:08:09
park and then. We would have had seven or eight
1:08:12
if I, you know, wasn't fucking around so.
1:08:16
There were, there were, there were only three that that I
1:08:22
didn't have that you guys all had.
1:08:24
So there's like 3 threes that that weren't on my list so.
1:08:29
So the five. In the bin, man, 25% of my songs
1:08:33
went in the bin, yeah. Four.
1:08:36
Yeah, I got four in the bin. I thought I had more than one.
1:08:41
So the five that are already in Hungry Like the Wolf girls on
1:08:44
film Rio. Is there something I should know
1:08:46
in Ordinary World? We're off to a good start, so
1:08:49
yeah. Yeah.
1:08:50
We got 4 here that we need to to fill and then Brian will get
1:08:59
final say here. I think I have wild boys.
1:09:04
No, I got it. So I I definitely want to put
1:09:06
wild boys up first, not only just because the Greg Proops
1:09:10
thing, not only because the bell and dubs thing, but I think I
1:09:14
know you didn't get a chance to listen to it, Brian, but I do
1:09:17
think it is a really great song and it deserves to be on this
1:09:23
list. I.
1:09:24
Agree. I agree with.
1:09:25
You. I didn't.
1:09:26
You know. I don't know it.
1:09:30
All right, well. I will, I will trust all the
1:09:33
y'all's judgement. All right, so we'll move that
1:09:37
one over. And since Brian has final say,
1:09:41
we'll, we'll jump over to Gavin. Let me run down these threes for
1:09:45
you. Careless memories save a prayer.
1:09:47
The reflex come undone. New moon on Monday.
1:09:50
Notorious union of the snake and new religion.
1:09:55
Is there one that's jumping out of you, Gavin, that you feel
1:09:57
like at this point we kind of need to take it?
1:10:00
Yeah, 123456 out of the threes. I mean, there's a bunch of good
1:10:09
ones that you kind of need in there for my own like personal,
1:10:19
you know, story or whatever. I think you got to have save a
1:10:22
prayer in there even though that other song off.
1:10:25
Rio All right. I mean, unless, I mean, you were
1:10:32
the odd man out there, Brian, unless you really want to.
1:10:36
No, he's that that story really like that story really hits me.
1:10:41
Like I really that that I mean, you know, like I know other
1:10:44
bands that have have done that, you know, when they wrote a
1:10:47
song, like, you know, Progen has a song called Save You that
1:10:52
that, that, you know, Eddie wrote for their guitarist
1:10:55
because, you know, he had ongoing like alcohol addictions
1:10:59
And like, yeah, I know that that that like that, that that kind
1:11:03
of hits me. Yeah, take that then.
1:11:08
And Chris, same question to you. There are three that's jumping
1:11:11
out at you. Reflex was 3.
1:11:15
Yeah. Yeah, OK.
1:11:17
All right. We need something off Ragataga.
1:11:21
You need something off Ragataga. So we got Reflex, we got Union
1:11:25
of the State, we got a new moon on Monday, and I love all three
1:11:34
of those songs. I got to go with New Moon on
1:11:37
Monday. Yes, as top of those 3.
1:11:40
New Moon on Monday. Yeah.
1:11:43
Reflex is great. It was a big radio hit for him.
1:11:47
You did the snake. Same thing.
1:11:48
Big radio hit Newman on Monday, though.
1:11:51
I think it's the Best Song of those three.
1:11:52
And we got to have something off rackets.
1:11:55
We got it. I'm for it.
1:11:57
I had it. So again, I mean, this is we're
1:12:00
asking a lot of concessions of you, Brian, but I think at this
1:12:03
point you're OK with that. I mean, I don't want to speak
1:12:06
for you. Yeah, I mean, we're these are
1:12:09
all the threes that I didn't, that I didn't have.
1:12:12
All right, so does that take us up to 8?
1:12:15
Since I ruined your guys list. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:12:19
I did it with me, with my stupid bullshit so.
1:12:23
All right, so that brings us up to 8.
1:12:25
So now we've got one more spot before Brian's final say.
1:12:32
So this let's see what we've got it broken down into.
1:12:37
Do you want me to tell? You like where I'm leaning to
1:12:40
help you guys or? Yeah, yeah, sure.
1:12:45
Right now I'm leaning towards careless memories.
1:12:50
Sure. And, and it's funny because
1:12:52
Chris mentioned that he wants something like like the reflex
1:12:55
or, you know, the snake. I was actually looking at those
1:12:58
two too. But right now I'm I'm looking at
1:13:00
like careless memories or or actually pulling up too late for
1:13:06
Marlene because I really like that.
1:13:08
That's. A2.
1:13:10
That's a 2. Not because it's got my wife's
1:13:12
name in it. Yeah, that's not really in your
1:13:14
conversation, but I so just so you know.
1:13:17
Well, yeah, the final say is, is whatever you want to do though,
1:13:20
so. Yeah, that's not in your, it's
1:13:22
not in your current conversation of threes, right.
1:13:26
But you know, but yeah, curious memories.
1:13:28
As far as the threes, that's where I'm like looking hard.
1:13:31
So we can either force Brian to, you know, make a choice, or he's
1:13:38
offering up a three that he's leaning towards.
1:13:41
We can go ahead and take that as #9 and then just give him his
1:13:44
final say. What do you think, Kevin?
1:13:46
Is there something else jumping out of you other than careless
1:13:48
memories? Yeah, I love Careless Memories
1:13:52
and I like it better than the song I'm going to suggest.
1:13:58
Interesting. Or or like album representation
1:14:06
and sound representation cover what they were doing.
1:14:11
Maybe we take Notorious. Notorious.
1:14:14
Yeah, that's where I was leaning.
1:14:17
That's the only song I took off that record.
1:14:19
Me too. And I only took it because
1:14:25
because we needed something off that record.
1:14:28
It's really not a great. I mean, the songs are fine.
1:14:32
They're fine, but compared to everything else, that record is
1:14:37
not great. Agreeable, right?
1:14:40
And Notorious is probably the Best Song off that.
1:14:44
Record. I agree.
1:14:44
Yeah. I, you know, I was the admin out
1:14:47
there. I was, it was late.
1:14:50
It was a late one for me. And I mean, of course I know it
1:14:54
from, you know, it got sampled by, you know, we don't, we don't
1:14:57
talk about Diddy anymore, but it was sampled by him for
1:15:01
Notorious. Really.
1:15:02
Yeah. Notorious that that part.
1:15:06
Like, yeah, I'm pretty sure. I can't imagine who else it
1:15:12
would be for. That's right.
1:15:14
That's ringing a bell. I mean, for the sake of album
1:15:19
representation, even though it does feel silly to to knowingly
1:15:23
say, you know, we like, we like songs better.
1:15:29
We think they're better. But I mean, to Gavin's point,
1:15:32
before, you never know, you know, this could be that song,
1:15:36
could be the one that opens the door for somebody for this band.
1:15:38
Yeah, like that record might be somebody's like, Oh my God, I
1:15:41
love this record. Right.
1:15:43
And we're all just like, fuck that record.
1:15:45
Yeah, yeah, I think I'm on board for let's grab notorious as our
1:15:51
#9 give us a little representation here.
1:15:55
Sure. And then leave it to Brian.
1:15:58
The floor is yours. I I I also think because we
1:16:03
don't have anything off big thing, I think I'm going to go
1:16:07
with too late, too late Marlene boom we.
1:16:11
Don't have anything off big thing really.
1:16:14
Yeah. Yeah, oh man.
1:16:17
I mean, yeah. It's a good song.
1:16:19
And I like that record. It's a good record.
1:16:23
All right, so boom, final say is too late, Marlene and type that
1:16:30
in and then we'll run this down one last go and then we'll crank
1:16:33
up the heat a little. All right, so we got hungry like
1:16:36
the wolf girls on film. Rio, is there something I should
1:16:39
know? Ordinary world, the wild boys
1:16:41
save a prayer. New moon on Monday.
1:16:43
Notorious too late. Marlene rounds out our ten.
1:16:47
I read those 10 to you, Brian, And which one jumps out is the
1:16:51
number one? Hungry like the wolf?
1:16:57
Yeah, I, I think, I think there's really only two answers
1:17:01
here, right, Gavin, I mean. Yeah, or possibly girls on.
1:17:05
Film, but yeah. Yeah.
1:17:06
Yeah. All right.
1:17:07
There's 3 answers. There's 3 answers, Yeah.
1:17:11
Yeah, I'm good with with Hungry Like the Wolf.
1:17:14
It's a it's a great song. Yeah, like I don't want to be
1:17:17
like too obvious here. Like, I don't know who's going
1:17:20
to be doing like best of 2025, whatever, but like.
1:17:24
Right I. Don't know if this is like, you
1:17:27
know, like the obvious choice and, you know, we could do
1:17:30
something absolutely insane and, you know, pick like save a
1:17:33
prayer that nobody knows. But yeah, it's it's, it's hungry
1:17:38
like. It's it's either unreal like the
1:17:41
Wolf Rio or Girls on Film. Yeah, of the two Rio tunes,
1:17:45
Hungry like the Wolf is better. It was amazing, but I think it
1:17:50
that one's better. Girls on Film is an amazing
1:17:52
tune. Amazing tune.
1:17:56
It was They're coming out the Gate song.
1:17:58
But I yeah, I think you got it though.
1:18:01
If we were all right, I think you got it.
1:18:04
I agree. Well, you know, let's not
1:18:06
belabor it then. Hungry like the wolf is, is our
1:18:09
number one. Let's get it queued up and I'll
1:18:11
read down this list one last go. That fucking video, Oh my God.
1:18:18
Hungry Like the Wolf is our number one girls on film.
1:18:22
Rio, is there something I should know?
1:18:23
Ordinary world. The wild boys save a prayer.
1:18:26
New moon on Monday. Notorious and too late.
1:18:28
Marlene rounds out our 10. And with that, let's let Hungry
1:18:31
Like the Wolf get a moment in the sun.
1:18:39
I hate that I can't give it a real moment because.
1:18:44
I can't hear it. Yeah, that too, but.
1:18:46
Play it on my own earbuds. Yeah, the Internet, Spotify
1:18:50
yells at me if, if I play the song for too long.
1:18:53
So even though we're talking over it, it, doesn't it, it
1:18:56
apparently does not matter that I'm all right.
1:18:58
So we have done it. We've turned you on to Duran
1:19:00
Duran. And don't, you know, don't take
1:19:04
what we were saying because it Gavin made a great point.
1:19:08
Just because we didn't necessarily like those two
1:19:11
records doesn't mean they won't be your way into the band.
1:19:17
I, you know, I feel like to really get what they're doing,
1:19:22
it's the 1st 2:00. But you never know, man.
1:19:26
Like everybody's tastes are different, bro.
1:19:29
So just take just take that into account.
1:19:33
Hey men, you maybe disagree with our list.
1:19:37
Maybe you knew Duran Duran coming in here and you you only
1:19:41
listened so you could yell at us.
1:19:43
There's a great place to do that.
1:19:44
Now you can go to Spotify. If that's where you're
1:19:46
listening, you can leave a comment and I can comment back.
1:19:49
Tell me which songs you would have picked.
1:19:51
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A 5 star review goes a long way. And showing us to other people
1:20:07
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that help. It would be awesome, man.
1:20:13
If you want to give monetarilypatreon.com/show Hi
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Justin is a great place to go to do that.
1:20:18
And I'll say this, by the time this comes out, a couple of the
1:20:24
R.E.M. Championship editions are out,
1:20:28
but they all got dumped to the Patreon first.
1:20:31
Like all 5 episodes came on the same day.
1:20:34
Just saying. You also get deprogrammed before
1:20:36
the rest of the world. You also get the conversation
1:20:38
that we're about to have after the fact is going to hit that
1:20:42
immediately. The occasional.
1:20:45
Oh hi Justin, It's getting rarer and rarer these days.
1:20:48
I'm trying to make time for it, you know?
1:20:50
Eventually maybe songs from my new band Undercutters will make
1:20:53
it there. If we ever actually like record
1:20:57
like good versions of the songs, maybe.
1:21:00
I don't know if that's something that anybody's interested in.
1:21:03
But anyway, a dollar a month gets you in the door.
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It also gets you access to our Discord server.
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It gets you an automatic invite, and it also opens the doors to
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So man, maybe you were interested in Discord server but
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don't want to give a dollar a month to do it.
1:21:22
Cool. I get it man, money's tight.
1:21:25
You can find us at legion of stupid, legion of stupid discord
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jump on in there. We're growing a tree, which is
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great. We're counting, which is fun.
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There's a bit channel, but please don't do bits in it.
1:21:37
There's there's also let's see the deprogram channel where we
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can. You can come in and talk about
1:21:45
the show, talk about music, whatever, but also there's a
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music league under that. And there's also the finding
1:21:52
panelists, which is how this episode came to be.
1:21:55
You can say, hey man, I'd love to talk about this band and
1:21:58
somebody else will jump on and say, yeah, man, that would be
1:22:01
cool. I'd love to do that as well.
1:22:02
And that's how it how it happens.
1:22:04
It's just that simple. So check that out.
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And with that, Duran Duran. Learn them and love them people.
1:22:26
We'll see you next week. Goodbye.
1:22:28
I'm sorry before you close out, Justin.
1:22:30
Oh, sure. You have to add.
1:22:32
You can now also rate and comment on IMDb.
1:22:37
Oh yeah, that's right, you can. The podcast is now on IMDb and
1:22:42
I'm happy to report I went in and I added Justin and myself.
1:22:47
I now am on IMDb as an actor. So thank you, Justin, for that
1:22:53
fucking amazing thing. How cool is that?
1:22:56
We are DB so we are on IDB. Yeah, IMDb.
1:23:01
Let's not forget that. And with that, Duran Duran.
1:23:05
Learn. Love people.
1:23:06
We'll see you next week. Goodbye.