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Disintegration - The Cure · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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Welcome to Barber Cuts, Feeds and Bars.
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We're a father to daughter music podcast that slices into some of
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the greatest albums, one cut at a time.
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With no industry ties or formal training, just a shared love of
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music, we explore albums across genres, rating favorites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hi, I'm Riley.
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And I'm Todd, and welcome to this week's episode of Barbara
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Cuts, where we talk about disintegration by the cure.
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So let's hop straight into those least favorites.
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I'll let you start. All right, by least favorites.
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I thought it was pretty hard to pick a least favorite.
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Not necessarily because like I loved the album.
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Not to give away my opinions too early, they just all sounded
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pretty similar so it was hard to differentiate.
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Any of them is like different than the others.
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But my least favorites were Last Dance, which I said was good,
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just not as good as the others. Like again, just like at the
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baseline, this one was just slightly lower.
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It's like OK lyrics OK B, but it was overall just OK compared to
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some of the others. And then my least favorite was
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Closed Down and I said that it was more musically and musical
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esque, which is fine to me when it's a musical.
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I like musicals, but this album is not a musical.
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Again, doesn't mean I hate it, it just wasn't as good as other
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songs were. So my least favorite two really
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were prayers for rain and then the same deep water as you, the
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the and, and it's funny because the, the the same deep water as
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you is over 9 minutes long, but it, a lot of them just seem very
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repetitive. And you know, I, I actually did
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not mind. And again, try not to give away
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for the ratings at the back like I didn't, I didn't necessarily
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mind the 1st 6 songs. I know your least favorite came
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from those, but I didn't, I didn't mind the 1st 6 songs.
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But then I I guess somewhere in six to seven, it's like, oh,
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I've had enough. And the rest of the album just
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wasn't really a fan of it. And those were the first two of
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the, you know, or after, I guess I've had that shift.
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Those were the 1st 2:00 somewhere in fascination St.
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which is the 7th song. I guess my mind shifted and I
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had had enough of the gloominess and so just didn't like 8 and 9.
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I, I am in the same opinion of as you that it, you know, every
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song. And I guess again, I also want
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to give a little bit of of credit because this is again,
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this isn't a genre I'm familiar with.
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And other than the most popular ones that have played on the
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radio when I would have been listening to the radio, I'm, you
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know, I don't listen to much Cure.
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So this is, this is going to sound disrespectful, but it's
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really not. They all sounded a lot alike.
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So it was, it was hard, hard to pick that, you know, and I get
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that when you go into genres you're unfamiliar with, they are
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going to tend to sound a lot alike.
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So. I will also say for anybody
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who's tweeting into this first episode and loves The Cure, we
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both said the same thing about ACDC and Metallica for parts of
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him like. So it's nothing against the band
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when we say stuff like that at all because both of us like or
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liked relatively ACDC and Metallica.
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We just get tired of it sometimes.
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Although, spoiler alert, we hadn't actually recorded those
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for public consumption yet. But we have talked.
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About. Sure, I forgot about that.
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So don't go looking for those two bands in in the queue yet.
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Some someday they'll someday they'll be there.
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So but so I guess from there we'll move on to favorites.
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What were your favourites? So I couldn't narrow it down to
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three or to two. I had three almost 4 almost
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again. They all sound so similar that
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if I liked one I was like oh I gotta like this one too.
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My one of my favourites was Untitled the last Song, which I
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think has been one of the first times that the last song was my
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favorite. Usually the last songs kind of
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disappoint me. This one I really liked.
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Maybe other than Pink Floyd. I think so far that's been the
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only one where the last one was like, this is good.
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Yeah, Untitled, I don't know. It was just more my type of
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music for the Cure. Like it delved into that type of
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things. And I really liked, I really
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liked the lyrics of untitled, just the parts where he just
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repeats, like never quite said what I wanted to say to you.
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I never quite managed the words to explain to you, never quite
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knew how to make them believable.
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And now the time is gone. I, I really like that sentiment.
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I feel like a lot of people share that sentiment and like
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never feeling like they said the right words to someone until it
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was too late to say them. Yeah.
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I I read somewhere where Robert Smith who's the lead singer as
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called that one of his favorite Cure songs.
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So I'm just in with the band essentially.
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But I mean, I also really liked the lyrics.
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The hopelessly fighting the devil futility, feeling the
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monster climb deeper inside of me, feeling him gnawing my heart
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away hungrily. I'll never lose this pain and
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never dream of you again. Like it's just this like, I
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don't know, just a beautiful way of wording wording it like a
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very like you. You feel that deeper than just
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like, oh, I feel like I'm losing you like that.
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This feels so much deeper, like I'll never lose this pain of
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like not having you and I'll never get to dream of you again.
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Beautiful song. Yeah, and, and then I made the
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same, I made the same comment. Like to me, that was a that was
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a good ending song. Yeah.
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Musically it it, it sounded a lot like the rest of the album.
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But the lyrics and and I even had in there like never, never
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quite managed the words to explain to you.
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And now the time is gone. It's like I've been trying to
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say something for 11 songs I've been trying to get across, but I
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haven't quite managed to do it. And now my time on this album,
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you know, even if it's just an album.
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And now my time is gone. Like that was a really, you
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know, again, I how we interpret them, what bands even mean, who
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knows? But that was that was really
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neat to see that. So now the my next two favorite
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songs were Prayers for Rain and Same Deep Water as You.
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That's. Great.
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So I tried to hold it in when you told me and just nodded it
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along. I loved these songs.
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These Untitled was my first and then these two songs I kind of
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put so. Is this so?
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Is this the first time that we've recorded where we we had
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this happen? Just so where we had both happen
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switch where? We where we don't, we don't try
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like you know, so. We've had we've had like one or
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two of like Miley's favorites was one of your favorites or
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like you just didn't care. This is the first time that both
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of your least favorites were Think my talk too.
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Yeah, so so so tell me why I'm wrong.
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So for Prince, for Reign specifically, I don't think I'm
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going to do that. But Prince for Reign
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specifically, I really liked the way, liked the timing of his
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voice and like the inflections of his voice and kind of how
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they matched the beats 'cause like it wasn't just like a
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normal, like you stifle me. It was you stifle me.
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Like it was like, I don't know how to word it correctly.
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It was like Shakespeare how he has like the weird inflections
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of voices like this one kind of matched that.
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And I thought that was like interesting to listen to.
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And then the lyrics again, I I liked the ways he worded certain
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things, like infectious sense of hopelessness, like I, I like the
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way that's worded. And the other part I liked was
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and nowhere glows but drearily and tired.
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The hours all spent on pulling time again, like that's the
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most, I think, perfect way to describe hopelessness like
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lyrically, just like everything dim, not necessarily gone, but
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dim. So you don't see the point of
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the light anymore and you feel like everything you're doing is
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just killing time. Nothing is for a purpose.
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It's just to work until you die essentially.
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And so this whole song being about like hopelessness and
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prayers for rain and like deteriorating those that like
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little bar is like exactly sums it up better than like I could.
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And it's I always say the reason I like lyrics is because they
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put to words these feelings that are so hard to explain.
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And like as an artist, I try to put like visuals to it, but I
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love words. And so lyrics, I always find it
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so incredible when people can put to mind like, oh, that's
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exactly what I'm feeling. Same with poems and books and
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stuff like that. And so this one just did exactly
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that where it's like, Oh, that is hopelessness.
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That's like a beautiful way to describe hopelessness in a song
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about hopelessness. So I just really appreciated
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that same deep water as you was very similar.
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I I liked how it sounded. I liked the the beat.
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It's a dark song as most of the cure is, but the the lyric that
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really most of these lyrics I really liked.
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They were little uncomfy just because of how dark they are.
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But my favorite was like the last little bit where it says
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but I don't see and I don't feel but tightly hold up silently my
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hands before my fading eyes and in my eyes, your smile, the very
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last thing before I go. And I don't know, that's that's
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beautiful. Like just saying like it's
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almost the if I die today, I'll die happy.
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Like when you do something good. Like that's almost what he's
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kind of saying is like, let me this whole song is kind of like,
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let me kiss you, kiss me goodbye and let me die so that I can be
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with you in some way. And like, the last thing I'll
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see is your smile before I go. And then it just kind of
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repeats. I will kiss you forever on
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nights like this. And we shall be together.
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And I think there are a lot of ways you could, like, interpret
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whether or not he's, like dying or sleeping or like whether
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she's dead already and that's why he wants to die or if he'll
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just never have her in this lifetime.
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So he wants to die. Like, there's a lot of different
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ways you can kind of take it. But I think no matter which way
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you take it, the sentiment is kind of a dark way of being
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nice, like a beautifully grim story like Romeo and Juliet.
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It kind of reminds me of that. So I just really liked the
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lyrics of those more than anything.
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The one, the one that got pushed out of like my top three really
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because of the lack of lyrics that I liked was Lullaby.
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I liked how creepy it sounded, but I could not take it
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seriously. Whenever it said like tonight
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you will be eaten by Spider Man or something like Spider Man
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will eat you. I couldn't take that seriously.
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Did you? Did you see why he wrote that
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one? No, I didn't I.
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Didn't and looking it up his and so lullaby is one of their more
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popular ones on the at least Spotify stream wise.
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It was written because he said his dad used to tell him
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lullabies at night when he was a kid and they would always end
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like that. Like something crazy bad
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happening. Like OK, you know, stereotyping
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here. Maybe the maybe the music makes
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a little sense now. But let the world know that Todd
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every night saying goodnight to me had to say don't have bad
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dreams and don't be sick every day in the morning because I
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thought that if you didn't, I would have a nightmare or I
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would wake up sick. So that would have gone over
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very poorly in our house sent. Sent her off to college with a
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recording of it so she could play it when she needed to.
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I have played it before many of you.
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So, yeah, well, when I saw that, I was like, wow, that's that's
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really that the lyrics make a whole lot more sense after
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hearing that story of why, of why he did that and why it's
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called lullaby with those those lyrics, like, OK.
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Yeah, I just couldn't take it seriously because Spider Man
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like imagining like this red and blue superhero.
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But before you move on to your favorites, did I change your
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mind? No, just again, you know, and
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and like you said, not that you really expect it to, but it's
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just the I, I, I did change my mind on one of them, but I'll
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get to that one in a second. So my favorites or one of mine
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for me was pictures of you. So again, one of one of their
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more popular ones on it, but you know, it's just a good song to
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remind you of others and loss and and what that looks like.
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You know, the wind chime started and and it seems like it's a
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nice little upbeat pop song, Got a nice little rhythm to it.
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The lyrics don't really start, I think, until about two minutes
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in. But, you know, we've talked
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about this in several other songs that we've liked.
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The lyrics hit heavy and they're juxtaposed on top of the music
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that's going on. So it's like, OK, am I happy
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with the music or am I sad as I start to listen to the lyrics,
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you know, and and again, supposedly this was written
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after a a house fire of his and all he could find were pictures
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of his pictures of his wife and, and she was OK.
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They're they're married. But that's all I could all that
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was left, you know, But when they do, but when they do kick
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in, like the first lyrics that you get, I've been looking so
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long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that
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they're real. I've been living so long with my
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picture of you that I almost believe that the pictures are
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all I can feel like. Wow.
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Like you've gone from feeling for a person and loving a person
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to now all I can actually feel any more are the legitimate
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physical pictures of the person that I've got.
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It's a neat way of wording something.
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Again, I think I feel like they had a lot of neat ways of
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wording something and that brought it to light.
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Because like my, my best example of that is like the only
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memories I have of Dewey, my grandfather is through pictures.
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And like, sometimes stuff you tell me, but like when I look at
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pictures, it's like the only time I have 'cause he passed
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away before I could remember him.
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And so like my only like I only have pictures of him and that's
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all I know. You know, like I don't have like
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direct memories of the person. And that's a good, great way of
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wording it. It's like now this picture is
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you like that's all I know. It is and, and you know, the,
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the very next note and, and that shows that like we, we to, to
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people listening, like we, we've got a format that we follow with
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favorite songs. And hopefully I'll listened
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enough to pick up on this, but our, our role with each other,
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We don't, we don't talk about the, the songs before this
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moment or talk about anything. And the very next bullet point I
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had was it reminds me of my dad, you know, and, and the pictures
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I have of him and especially the few that we have of him with the
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kids, like with you and Wesley, because that's, you know, he's,
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he passed away in 2007. Yeah, 2007.
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And, you know, yes, there is some truth to the adage that
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that time heals all wounds and, and all that, you know, and, and
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memories and whatnot. But you know, it, there is some
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eerily unwanting, maybe truth to the song and, and, and there's
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some sadness of to that truth that after a while and so many
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years and so much life that keeps going on, you know, losing
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someone or losing something. And then all you have is the
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picture and that, that's that that's all you can feel.
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So you know that that one had a little, a little bit of a
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sentimentality to it. So my other one though, is one
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that I did change my mind on because I actually listened to
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it out of order, you know, or went back and listened to a
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couple and listened to it, listen to this one out of order
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and it was disintegration. And, you know, when I listened
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to it out of order and I didn't have the, the I'll, I'll call it
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the the gloom of eight songs beforehand, I'm like, OK, I can,
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I could see it with, with different eyes, you know, and,
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and I picked up on some things that I didn't pick up on,
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especially when I was looking at it with lyrics.
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So there's a breaking glass. Like it's at the very beginning,
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very subtle, but it's, but it's there.
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And then about four minutes, 10 seconds into the song, there's a
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lyric that says kind of back around.
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And breaking apart again, breaking apart like I'm made-up
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of glass again. I was like, I'm sure that was
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intentional, but if not, like that was really good.
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You know the, but the music at the start, like it's very
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driving drums and bass and then it seems to add in some synth
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synthesizers and piano that dinner.
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And so it's, it's kind of growing musically over the first
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minute and 1/2 or so. And then his vocals, and again
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I'll talk about it like lyrics and vocals are completely
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different. You know, vocals again, it's
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just an extra instrument and then the vocals can actually say
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something. But his vocals grow during the
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song. And so they start off slowly,
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but they continue to grow, which to me increases the anxiousness
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of the song. And so some, you know, there's a
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lyric in there. It's easier for me to get closer
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to heaven than to ever feel whole again.
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It's like, oh, that's a, that's a sad line.
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But it's like, I leave you with photographs, pictures of
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trickery. And then I'm like, oh, I wonder
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if he's talking about pictures of you.
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So it's like, you know, 'cause you've mentioned before where
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they have lyrics in one song that talk about another song or
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theirs. I was like, I wonder if that's
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what he's doing, you know, and stains on the carpet, stains of
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the memory. And it's, and so he's building
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up. And so this at, at about 5
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minutes, 45 seconds, I mean, he almost sounds as if he's in just
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utter anguish. And the title of the song
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Disintegration seems appropriate as there seems to be this
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desperation of building throughout the song, you know,
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and, and it, and it goes on again after that for like 2 more
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minutes. We, we talked before about like,
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that's not really my favorite thing, but for this one, it
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almost seems to work because the repetition fits the mood and
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adds to the angst and the anxiousness of the song.
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And so, you know, when it's all put together, I actually enjoyed
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that song. So that would be my my two
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favorite songs, Pictures of You and Disintegration.
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He mentioned that I love it when songs bring back lyrics.
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The best, the best, the best example of that, it makes me
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excited every time it happens is Cage the Elephant.
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It ain't No Rest for the Wicked. Obviously the lyric is Ain't No
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Rest for the Wicked and their other really popular song,
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Trouble by Cage the Elephant. They say at some point, like,
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you know what they say? Yeah, The Wicked get no rest
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that oh, I eat it up every time. That makes me so excited.
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Anytime it comes on. I just love it.
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I'm like, you know what they say?
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It's what you say. What are you talking?
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About, yeah. I love it.
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You know, one one other thing that I'd oh that I'll ask about
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the about the opening, 'cause you you had really liked the
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last song. To me, the opening song was a
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really good opening song for an out for this album too, called
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plain song. It really fit and set the tone
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and it and it had this again, this wind chime soft opening and
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then almost like a orchestra. You know, my notes.
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I called it an explosion of a note that just started and then,
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you know, again, it sets the gloomy tone of the entire album
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really in a in a fantastic way right at the beginning.
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I I would agree something I was going to say that could add to
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what your opinions are on this band.
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But when I was first listening through this album, the first
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thought that popped on my head on many, many, many of the songs
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with the synth, with kind of the beats and parts of the voice,
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but not as much was if Muse does not coin The Cure as an
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inspiration, they're lying. And I looked it up and Muse has
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directly coined like the Cure and Radiohead as two of their
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biggest inspirations. And I think with this album,
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it's really clear for me. I love Muse.
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Muse, probably one of my favorite bands.
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It's up there at least. And so that like added to it, I
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was like, God, I can easily recognize like a lot of things
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that Muse has taken away in a lot of their albums.
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But every time I listen to it, all I could hear was certain
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things from Muse that they like. People park.
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Yeah, so, and since you mentioned Muse, some some other
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artist, you know, 'cause another thing that we like to do is, is
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try and figure out why do, why experts and why people consider
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this to be one of the greater albums.
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So here's some other artists that have mentioned the Cure
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particular or this this album, 9 Inch Nails.
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So Trent Reznor even gave the speech inducting them into the
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So he's a huge fan, obviously
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one that I didn't see coming. Smashing Pumpkins as said they
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have were heavily influenced by the Cure.
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So some others, Deftones, churches, The Cranberries, Blink
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182, Jesus and Mary Chain. Adele covered Love Song on her
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album 21 and it was really good and 3:11.
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So going back to 90s, all those folks would definitely know 311.
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They covered Love Song as well for the film 51st Dates.
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No way. Yeah, and it's actually I.
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Like 3. 11 bad. Yeah.
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And love love song was really good too.
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I mean, that's that's their most popular one on here.
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And it is. It's probably their easiest one,
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Not very gloomy. I mean, the music I think sounds
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a little glimmy, but the words, if you look at the words, it's
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exactly what its title. It's a love song.
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And it was actually written, written for his wife.
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So it's a sweet little song. That's sweet, that's cool.
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I mean deaf sounds. I think they've just credited
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every artist as their inspiration.
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I feel like their name pops up every time.
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They could. We're just gonna, we're just
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gonna throw them all in here and see what comes out.
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Like so far I feel like every time we've had a lit a step tone
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to spin on that list somewhere. Yeah, yeah, right.
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And, and who was it on? Was it on the Sex Pistols, the
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Cure list of the Sex Pistols? Like they came out of this post
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punk punk scene and and adapted a little bit and I, and I guess
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instead of going the angry route that the Sex Pistols did in, in
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their angst against the world, the Cure went the gloomy, sad
27:44
route and their angst against the the world.
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And those two sounds are quite opposite one another.
27:54
Yeah, they are, but. It is a great album to listen to
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for the feels. Because it will, yeah,
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definitely make you so investigate all your feelings
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and, you know. It's not what you wanted to do.
28:13
Yeah, yeah, it's, it's, I mean, you know, not, not necessarily
28:18
what I want to do, but no, but I, you know, coming into the 80s
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and coming out of the punk sound like this was what they were
28:27
doing was fairly new, like, and, and they're getting radio time
28:32
with it as well. So, so that's, that's that's
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awfully, awfully impressive. And, and everything that I,
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everything that I gathered was it was just a reflection of what
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the lead singer was, was going through at the time, according
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to some of the articles that I read.
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Like, obviously he's a great vocalist and I agree, just in
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some of the lyrics, like he reminded me of what we were
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talking about from the singer from Arcade Fire, of being able
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to put words down and then not only choose the right words like
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you were talking about, but the way that he sings them.
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It's like, oh, I feel you're paint.
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Like I can almost, you know, I don't want to say that I do feel
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it, but it's almost as if I can feel what he's going through and
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the anguish. And.
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What's coming through his voice? Yeah, yeah, because he's just
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that good. But, you know, he he had
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problems coping with the fame and would take LSD to help with
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his depression. And so as you start to re bite,
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you can you can see again just the words that are coming out
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and it of the song and and and can appreciate it so much
29:50
better. And then even Robert Smith said
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he was heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix, who will make a
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future appearance with us, and also by the Sex Pistols and
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particularly that Anarchy and the UK song, he said.
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Love that song. I was thinking it was
30:09
interesting, like how big they got for them being kind of like
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the beginning of something like the first of the sound.
30:19
But I, I, I mean, I really liked it If you want to go into
30:24
ratings unless you have something else to.
30:26
Nothing other than if you haven't heard The Cure or this
30:31
album particularly like Get Ready, it is melancholy, it is
30:37
dark, as you mentioned, it is gloomy, depressing, but I think
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that was the intent. Yeah.
30:45
And hey, I mean. If if, if they hoped it to be a
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happy go lucky album, they failed miserably.
30:52
Like I'll just put that out on the record.
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I don't think that's what they were going for.
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So I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and say
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that they they, they probably hit spot on what they were going
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for and and I'll give them credit for that.
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I know I keep saying it, but if there ever was an album or a
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vibe to count almost 1000 Mosquitoes too.
31:16
Boy oh boy, is this the album. Yeah.
31:20
I can see that like. You just feel awkward.
31:23
It's so like creepy, like you're just staring at a Petri dish
31:27
with like 300 mosquitoes in it and you're like, well, this
31:30
feels like a nightmare in of itself.
31:32
And I like mosquitoes. So it's just, if ever there was
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an album, it was this one. But I can I.
31:38
Can see that. For my personal rating, I rated
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it a 7.5. It's pretty cool, I liked it.
31:47
I tend to like gloomier albums, which always takes people aback
31:53
about myself, but I tend to like gloomier albums.
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They tend to have better lyrics and this one kind of supported
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that theory in my mind. And yeah, I just, I liked how it
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sounded. I think it's not an album that I
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could listen to at any time the way some of the albums have
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been, like Arcade Fire, Pink Floyd.
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I feel like if those songs came on, I'd stop and listen.
32:19
If Disintegration came on and I wasn't feeling it, I wouldn't be
32:24
able to listen to it and enjoy it the same way.
32:26
But I still think that a lot of times I am in the mood for it,
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which is why it's still pretty high.
32:32
But my overall rating was an 8.5.
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I think the beats and yeah, my abject any sign was an 8.5.
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I think the lyrics were spot on most of the time.
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I think the beats are spot on. Like you said, it seems as if
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they met their goal with this album.
32:58
And I think like hearing reading some and then hearing you talk
33:03
more about like kind of where he's coming from with some of
33:05
the lyrics, like reinforces my idea that like he achieved what
33:09
he was looking for, whatever that was like in Lullaby.
33:13
I don't know what he was going for.
33:14
But hearing that, you know, makes me realize even more like,
33:18
OK, he he got out what he wanted to get out in that song and
33:20
pictures of you with his wife. And like, he just seemed to do
33:25
it very successfully, whatever he was doing.
33:28
And then the beat sounded nice. The voice with the beat sounded
33:30
nice. He knew when to be loud.
33:33
He knew when to whisper. And he knew what those different
33:36
things did to your emotions and your like, anxiety levels, I
33:41
guess. And he was very good at
33:44
manipulating all of those pieces.
33:46
However, lots of the pieces sounded very similar.
33:51
And that's just where it kind of fell off.
33:53
I mean, if you it's good because if you like one song, you like
33:57
the Cure, and if you don't, you don't like it kind of separates
34:00
the middle bulk pretty well. But at the same time, like
34:05
objectively, a lot of songs sounded pretty similar and a lot
34:09
of the musical riffs sounded very similar.
34:11
And sometimes it worked like you said, but sometimes it just kind
34:14
of clashed so. And they've got, you know,
34:19
again, just for people that may not know the Cure love song is
34:24
their biggest one off this one. You know, they've got a big hit
34:30
and I may get them backwards which way they go.
34:32
But just like Heaven, I think is the album before this one, which
34:36
a lot of people may know. And then Friday I'm in Love is,
34:41
I think, the album right after this one, which are two of their
34:45
bigger ones that got lots of radio play as well that sound
34:49
more pop than they do. And just like Love Song, they
34:53
sound more pop really than they do.
34:55
Yeah, gloomy, gloomy. Friday I'm in love was on one of
34:58
like the random Snapchat filters.
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You know how sometimes I'll have music locked with them?
35:03
Friday I'm in love was on with them and I was like, huh, I know
35:06
you. Yeah.
35:08
This is weird. You know the cure.
35:10
This doesn't sound like what I'm listening to.
35:14
Yeah. So for me, not surprisingly,
35:17
it's not my musical cup of tea. But that being said, and I
35:24
mentioned earlier, like the first six songs were good.
35:28
I'm I'm not and never will be. I don't think the cures #1 fan.
35:33
They're they're doing just fine without me.
35:35
But those songs were good. The next three though, and
35:39
that's where your favorite came in.
35:42
Maybe it took you 6 songs to get into your fields appropriately.
35:47
And I'm like, by that time, like, no, no more for me.
35:51
So I ran, so I ran away mentally and, and you like, you know, dug
35:55
in and it really stayed that way for me throughout the rest of
35:59
the album. I I went back and and gave them,
36:02
you know, listens again without going through the whole album
36:09
just to see if I felt that way the same.
36:11
And, and like I said, it's the integration popped out to me,
36:15
but none of the others really did.
36:18
And so that one made it into a favorite list.
36:23
So there's my reasoning. My personal rating was a 5.5 so
36:29
low. Now again, it's it's not my cup
36:34
of tea, but objectively, like, OK, yeah, you've influenced a
36:39
lot of people, you've done something new, you've been
36:44
around. I mean, they're almost as old as
36:47
I am as a band. So like, that's impressive.
36:51
I I think, I think their first album was 79 and they were
36:55
around a a couple years under different names, but really same
37:00
band members before that. So like they're doing something
37:04
right and and you in order to stick around for that long, you
37:07
got to be pretty good. So you know, an 8.
37:11
So personal rating for me, 5.5 objective and eight, Yeah.
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What's your song SOTW? So my song of the week is
37:22
actually Rebellion Lies by Arcade Fire Which.
37:28
You, you you went back and repeated.
37:30
Which was not one of the favorites I listed.
37:33
It was one of your favorite, but it just keeps coming on and I
37:38
keep like kind of listening to it again and being like, oh, I
37:41
like that. But I do have to say part of
37:44
that. Is because.
37:47
Yes, and part of that is because Lord Huron just released a new
37:51
album and I've liked a bunch of those songs, but I've been
37:54
listening to the album a lot, but not like specific songs.
37:59
But I would, I will say, go listen to the new Lord Huron
38:04
album. I really like it.
38:06
I just haven't decided which one is my favorite off of it yet
38:09
because I keep listening to it. Yeah, I'll agree with you.
38:13
I listen to Lord Huron on the way home from seeing you this
38:17
past weekend. So it was.
38:19
It was after. I asked you to like 10 times.
38:21
Yeah, after you asked me to. But my song of the week is from
38:28
the 2000s. It's by Audioslave.
38:31
So you know this band, the song is what you are.
38:36
And so Audioslave is, for those of you that may not know, you
38:44
maybe heard us talk about Chris Cornell or Soundgarden.
38:47
So Chris Cornell was the lead singer there.
38:51
And best vocalist of all time. Hey, who?
38:55
Said that. Who said that?
38:58
So and then he actually joined the remaining members of Rage
39:05
Against the Machine when Zach de la Rocca left.
39:07
And so that is Audioslave. So you've got the vocals of
39:14
Chris Cornell, who is, yes, I one of the best vocal lists, and
39:22
then the guitar of Tom Morello, who is wow, he's a very good
39:28
guitar player. So I'm I'm not going to I'm not
39:32
going to point you to for those you know, if you're a fan of the
39:37
cure may not want to go listen to radio machine.
39:41
Unless you're unless. You're me.
39:45
Yeah. I mean, that may be as almost as
39:47
opposite as you can get, so I wouldn't push you there, but go
39:50
listen to some of the songs by Audioslave.
39:53
You'll get some good Tom Morello guitar in there.
39:56
So that's my song of the week. I think I can get you further
40:01
based from my playlist, actually.
40:05
Songs that came on in a row. I'll just do bands.
40:10
Pierce The Veil. Not one of their calmer songs,
40:13
one of their actually like screaming songs, one of the few
40:17
that I like. The next one, Vanilla Twilight
40:21
by Owl City. That may be further would be my
40:27
theory, but maybe not. And then this upcoming week is a
40:33
little special and a little different because it is Father
40:38
Todd's birthday week is coming up.
40:42
And what Father Todd, you're not a priest.
40:47
Father Todd is like a priest name.
40:49
He's not a priest. No.
40:51
What you get to do and what he gets to do.
40:54
As I just told people to go listen to Rage Against the
40:56
Machine, I think they figured that one out.
40:59
He gets to pick his favorite album of all time or album he
41:04
just really wants to listen to. But we phrased it his favorite
41:07
album. It can be from the list, it can
41:09
be off the list. It can be whatever he chooses to
41:11
be because he's the birthday boy.
41:12
And so he gets to pick what song he wants to or what album he
41:16
wants to listen to for the next week.
41:18
And yeah, so I'm going to let you announce the pick for this
41:24
week do. You do you want to guess?
41:27
What your favorite album of all time is?
41:29
I know what your favorite album thought.
41:30
About trying to throw a surprise.
41:31
And I was like, Nah, I'm not going to throw a surprise.
41:33
I'll just go with what I know. So my favorite album is Pearl
41:39
Jams 10. So that is what we will be
41:42
listening to over the next week, you know, and for me, last week
41:49
and the week before, I probably listened to songs from it each
41:52
week. So this week will be nothing new
41:55
for me. But this week I'll do, I will do
41:59
something that I probably haven't done in quite some time.
42:01
And that is listen to it in order all the way through.
42:04
You know, again, there you go going back, going back to
42:07
streaming and the differences of generational and, and how we
42:13
consume music. You know, again, you don't, you
42:19
can jump around and listen to music all kinds of Willy nilly.
42:24
But you know, back in the day when we walked uphill to school
42:29
both ways in the snow, you, you, you know, you couldn't do that.
42:34
So but so. Looking forward to it.
42:38
This is also exciting to. Me because this.
42:40
Is I think the first one that I get to listen to on vinyl that I
42:46
have on vinyl, Yeah. So.
42:49
I get to go back in. Time, yeah, as.
42:54
As I so that would have been the last time I listened to it all
42:58
the way through was when we came up and but we, we cleaned
43:02
something, cleaned your apartment and listened to it on
43:06
your record player all the way there.
43:08
Yeah. So very exciting stuff.
43:12
Another album that was. Very good, but not on our list
43:15
was Nirvana's MTV Unplugged. That's a really good album.
43:21
What can I? Say I have good taste in my
43:24
records. Yes, yes.
43:26
I wonder where you got that from?
43:27
So also I want to mention got Barber cuts pod on Instagram X
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43:43
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43:48
That's great too. Or leave a comment over at
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Spotify. And also we've got a playlist
43:57
that we're adding our favorites into and it's in the show notes.
44:01
So feel free to go give that a follow as well if you like some
44:04
of these. So has some spoilers for
44:07
unreleased episodes as well I think.
44:08
Yeah, there are some that we've already done in there.
44:11
So you can see what some of those are.
44:14
So just ignore those spoilers. So until.
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Next time, go listen. To Tim Grace Dalma all time.
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I'm Todd and I'm Riley, and this has been another.
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Episode of Barbara Katz.