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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkey · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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Welcome to Viber cuts, beats and vibes.
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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, writing favorites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hey everybody, I'm Riley.
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And I'm Todd, and welcome to this week's episode of of Barber
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Cuts. We are talking possibly have not
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actually confirmed this may be our longest album title yet.
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Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not by the Arctic
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Monkeys. We do.
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We you. You did.
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I was just saying we have the Ziggy Stardust.
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Oh yeah, that one may be pretty good too.
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I think that was maybe Walker. Yeah.
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Close running though. Yeah, very, very close running.
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We have to do a little bit of a count later, but 2006 is our
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album year. We have finally found an album.
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This may be the second one that Riley is older than the album.
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Yes, this. This not happened that much.
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By two years, but. Yeah, by two years, but yet you
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are older. So let's get into it.
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Riley, what are your least favorite 2?
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My least favorite 2/1 was from the Ritz to the Rebel and
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another one was Dancing Shoes. I feel like they both had the
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same vibe. I don't know how to explain
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exactly why I don't like these songs, but I like the other ones
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without it being confusing 'cause I think the things I
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don't like about these songs are things that I like about the
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other songs. I think these ones might have
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been a little too. I don't know how to Arctic
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Monkeys kind of has a very like has a vibe to it.
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That's a very particular 1. And I think these two were just
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the only ones that I felt were a little off on it.
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Dancing shoes felt a little too much on like the pop or like
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dancing, not dancing like musical theater almost side of
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things. And from the Ritz to the Rubble
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might have had a little bit of that in there too.
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So I guess I, I enjoyed them. They just stuck out like a
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little bit to me. Yeah, that makes sense.
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So my my 2/1 was begin maybe a song that is the longest title
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ever. You probably couldn't see for
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the lights, but you were staring straight at me is the song title
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name. And then I also also writs to
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the rubble was one of my least favorite.
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You know, this is a heavy on the punk undertones post punk, you
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know, and I'm not a punk fan and these two were a little bit more
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on the stronger punk side. You know, there were also others
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that were added punk to it the whole album except for two or
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three kind of did. But like you for for some
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reason, some of them didn't bother me near as much as as
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these two did. But and and and maybe and and
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even these two, they weren't as punk as, say, the Sexbilt Stalls
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album that we listened to. And maybe that's because some of
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the other musical genres, rock stuff is coming through.
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But those, those are my least favorite too.
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What about most favorite or favorite too?
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Most favorite, So my probably one of my most favorite is one
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of the ones we mentioned, as you mentioned that I would assume is
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one of the ones you were thinking of is not as punk.
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It's a little bit more of the more like it's almost like beach
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rock to me. Like that guitar is very beach
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and it's like a very like upbeat song compared to some of the
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other ones that are a little bit more angry, which is very funny
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considering that this song is like about someone switching up
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on you. And like, I love the way he says
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cuddles in the kitchen. Remember cuddles in the kitchen?
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But like talking about how someone kind of has these two
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sides that will just switch like a gun going off and one is angry
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and argumentative and upset. Kind of like being stuck in
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almost like an abusive relationship where you're stuck
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because of the nice side, but not because of the argumentative
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side. Yeah.
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So. On a day like today, when you're
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all argumentative and you've got the face on.
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Yeah, it's so good. Grumpy face and you know, this
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is and we'll touch on this late later.
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I didn't realize because this was one of one of my favorites
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too, so I'll talk about it a little bit.
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Marty is a British, I guess, slang term for, you know, a
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grumpy argumentative type of person, you know, And and I I
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didn't realize my ears and my English brain, Southern brain
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was translating Marty bomb to already like, I'm, you know, I'm
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I'm Marty bum to I'm already bum.
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And it was just funny English accent to me.
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And then when I went and looked at it, I was like, oh, that's
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not at all what that is. So, yeah, but that that's his
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accent is one of the things that makes this makes this album fun
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and in various places. But I I did like that different
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sound, that Beachy thing. And again, happy, happy music to
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a a funny, kind of lyrically different type of thing.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure. My other favorite song also,
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this one almost that almost reminds me of.
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OK, here we go, ska, that specific kind of bum, bum, bum
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that they got going on. But this one does feel more like
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classic indie rock more so than punk to me.
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And just the continuous beat that's very obvious and in your
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face. And then kick me out, kick me
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out. They do that lovely thing where
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the instruments go quiet and you have like this little like crowd
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moment that I don't always love. Like sometimes it really can
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mess up a song. But I I thought they did it very
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well. I thought they did it for the
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right amount of time. It wasn't like super short and
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right back in and it wasn't super long and drawn out and it
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went back to that familiar beat that was there before.
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And it does feel like a song that, like, if I was in like a
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small club or something, people would be singing along with that
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and shouting that back. Like, it doesn't feel forced or
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fake, I guess. But yeah, I, I love the kind of
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idea that someone's just the fake tales of San Francisco.
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It's like such a funny, just way of learning things to me.
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Yeah. Also saying more point to a
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wedding disco without a bride or groom.
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Don't know what that means, but that's funny and I just can
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tell. There are and, and we'll, we'll
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probably repeat some of this in our Why should people listen to
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it section. But the portions of it were fun
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to try and pick up on the British slang and go, I'm sure
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that means something, but I don't know what it is, you know,
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So but that was that. That was another one.
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I I I enjoyed that one too. Yeah, I will say I did like the.
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I can't even, I don't know the full name of the song either.
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You probably couldn't see me through.
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Yeah, probably couldn't. I did like that one.
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That was my third favorite. I it was between that and Fake
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Tales of San Francisco. Yeah, so my I, there were, there
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were two, there was one that I really liked.
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There were two that I was debating over. 1 was Marty Bomb,
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the other one was Riot Van. And again, this is one that I
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thought I was expecting a massive take off.
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And it goes into that instead. And I'm like, OK, that's
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different, you know, and we talk a lot of times, like, I like the
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unexpected of something in my head that I'm thinking,
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especially given the rest of the album.
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And it's been, you know, it's like got that aggressive punk
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kind of undertones to it. So I was expecting it.
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They're about to hit that and Nope, they never do.
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But this one was fun again, Beachy island vibe a little bit
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there too, but a lot like Marty bum.
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The lyrics here are you know, you don't look old enough.
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And then he says I didn't nobody told me that I shouldn't.
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So it's about again, clubbers getting underage drinker getting
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caught by the police, having a rough go in the back of a police
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van. So it's it's a little bit
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humorous, but yet, you know, with the music there.
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So that was one of them that I also really liked and the.
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That one was another one where you would think with the lyrics
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like that, like Riot Fan and with Marty Bum being like kind
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of stuck in a angry relationship, those would be the
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two you would think would have a punk sound to it.
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An angry sound. No, he's more mad that someone's
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not on the dance floor. Like like you got, you got your
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priorities kind of skewed on what you're mad at, my man.
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But hey, we'll go with it. We'll.
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Go with it. The let's see the other.
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My other one was the last one. A certain romance.
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And so there we go, a drum intro.
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Guitars are about to come in and the intro is just really good.
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There's a minute 20 before lyrics kick in, and then coming
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up in a little bit, the guitar is going to go not as heavy and
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it's going to get more melodic and less distorted.
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So that's about to fit right here, which is a massive
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transition, you know, and. Which, that's just modern indie
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rock. This sounds modern indie rock
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just in 2005. Right.
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And so it's it's it's neat, you know, and so there's no chorus,
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so the so that makes the song a little bit different.
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And and so again, just differences that kind of and now
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again, a little back to something that's seemingly
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island Beachy. I don't I don't know.
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But the other thing that I liked about the song gets around the
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three minute and so going to massive shift here.
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Fast forward, there it is, that little bass line that's nice
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right in the middle of the song. Also modern indie.
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And, and then the lyrics go away and, and so this is the last.
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And so now for about a minute, boy, there's our heavy guitar
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that comes back in, you know, and, and the thing that's nice
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about it is the there's two guitars that are intertwining
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and, and you may hear it in the background as it as it, as the
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song winds down. But you know, to me, it's a it's
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a great like this is a we talked about in other episodes.
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Good ending songs. Yeah.
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This is a really good ending song musically.
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I really liked it, you know, and, and I tried to do some
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justice for for you. And on songs that I like, I look
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more at the lyrics. And the lyrics make sense here
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too, like, because you've had an album where you've talked to a
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whole lot about how at that time and, and I think when he wrote
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all this, he was a teenager. 1819 and youth are all about
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having fun. They're, you know, going to
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places or getting in trouble. And society gets angry at that.
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But then we do the same exact thing and we don't get angry
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when our own friends do it. So maybe we shouldn't either or
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so we shouldn't get angry at the youth for doing it.
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And so that was a really neat juxtaposition that he does in
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the in the in the song there and and thought that was really neat
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because you go, he's going through this whole thing from
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his own point of view of nightlife and all this fun and
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trouble that he's getting into. And then at the end, you get
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this song of like, yeah, maybe we should cut them a little
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slack. Yeah, well, I think it's also,
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it's also a really great song to be at the end of it 'cause I
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think it really shows. Well, I guess this goes a little
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bit into why you should listen to the album.
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So you guys? People listen to this album.
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Well, extending on that, I think I think a lot of I think a lot
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of Arctic monkey fans would be a little caught off guard if they
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heard some of the songs on this particular album.
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And as someone who is an Arctic monkey fan and probably was a
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little taken aback by some of them, this one like is the most
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punk. I I pulled up like this is one
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of their songs as well, like very calm, very quiet.
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It's like a love song and then you get, hold on, let's see.
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So a lot more of like that last song, like the pop side of
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things. And then obviously a lot of
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people know this intro, which is way more rock heavy.
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And so I think it really shows a lot of range on their part.
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Yeah, that they're known for that and started here.
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Right. And I think that AM album is
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what blew them up in the US. This is the album that blew them
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up. In the UK, Oh my gosh, they
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massive Yeah yeah, they were considered like the they filled
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Oasis is whole in a lot of people's hearts.
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They they came in at like a very fortune time for that, for the
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sound with Oasis just getting big and then, you know, the
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cyclical nature of things. But I think I think if you if
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you want to claim that you like punk, but you actually don't
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listen to the first album of Arctic Monkeys and you might be
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able to say you like a little punk.
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They make it tasteful. They make it like they make a
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genre that is very unapproachable, way more
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approachable. And I will say the more you
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listen to it, the charm of it does grow on you.
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I agree at at first the the harsh Northerner sound lovingly
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is that's just a very harsh accent and most artists hide
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their accent a little bit or not intentionally hide it.
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It just goes away a little bit when they sing and that is not
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what happens. He exaggerates it if anything,
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like it's very in your face and it's very northern British and
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it's very authentic to who they are.
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Sheffield, I believe, is where he's from.
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Yeah, and that's. Just I don't know some of the
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smaller cities. I know that's probably where
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Sheffield Wednesday is soccer team, but that's about how I
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know cities. But it's just a very refreshing
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yeah sound to hear something so authentic.
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Yeah, and I I like, you know, as I said, he used a lot of the
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slang, like his accent, the what was the word for me?
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I'm going to say struggling, the struggle bus.
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And it was like struggle. And I'm like, you know, I had
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some of the words like I had to it.
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It took mental. Yeah, it took me a mental second
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to to process it, you know. And and and that's not to
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mention, like we mentioned Marty, where it's a slang term
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that it completely over my head until I happened to Google it
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and go, Oh, so that that does have a different meaning.
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And you know, and I and I think that's one of the things, you
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know, Alex Turner is the lead singer.
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He's got his accent, uses those slang terms.
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A lot of that is going to be lost on me in America, but I
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don't know, like I'm not as audience.
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He he wrote this for that particular, you know, British
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audience and probably even, you know, the neighborhood northern
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England Sheffield group and it just blew up because that's what
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he was doing and he and he connected so deeply because of
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that you know, and and he continued to do that be
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themselves. You know, Fake Tales of San
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Francisco is poking fun of people that are like.
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We sound America and we do this, but we've never actually been
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there, so we don't know what we're talking about.
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And he was like, I'm going to be authentic and and that comes
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through in this album. I think it does.
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I, I would say most of the time it sounds like he was making it
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for his friends and other people just happened to listen, which
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is a wonderful thing when you get to like hear that on an
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album. Also very impressive.
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So this was released 2006. The band formed in 2002 and
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started kind of performing some shows later on and sharing CDs
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and demos and doing things like the old fashioned way, which it
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is to note. They formed in 2001, recorded
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this in like 2005, 2006. They say that they got their
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first instruments in 2001 for Christmas.
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Are you? That's insane.
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Like to be this big and blow up that huge and having like maybe
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four years of guitar behind your belt, like still figuring it
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out, like that's crazy impressive.
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How much they figured out so quickly?
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Yeah, enough to be able to perform so quickly and get a
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wreck like a deal so quickly and share it and all of that.
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Yeah, I mean in their deal came out because of you know they
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they did their own merchandising, they did their
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own social media like Myspace for for those of my age that
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remember Myspace like all of that helped them take off and
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they became an overnight social media when it first.
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Started they they credit it, they credit it and a lot of
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other people credit them as well as being the first social media
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band, like the first band that really utilized social media and
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like became like that overnight sensation for a lot of people,
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which is very cool considering nowadays, like that's still how
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people get blown up. Like Noah Khan had a big
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following, but not stick season big until he released stick
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season on TikTok. And like all of this, like
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that's still how people get found today.
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So for someone to be like, so on the forefront of that and a lot
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of sound is very impressive. Yeah.
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And with like less than five years of musical experience
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under their belt. Yeah, like it it it, it is a
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rock album. It it does have some strong punk
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undertones, but it's got that, you know, you mentioned indie
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rock, alt rock, garage rock. It's got all of that melded in
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together. And it does have a sound to it.
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Because I know first couple that I listened to, I was like, oh,
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OK, this is not at all what I was expecting.
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Because again, I know the AM album and I'm like, OK, this is
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definitely different. But like you said, second,
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third, fourth time I listened through, I'm like, OK, I like
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it. Yeah, it's not.
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It's, it's not as bad as what I was initially expecting it to
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be. Yeah, there's a few more things
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really with it is one thing that I did appreciate about it is
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usually when punk is involved, I love people who like punk.
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However, they can be a little obnoxious and it can only be
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punk and they can't like anything or anyone or like it's
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just all punk. And I think it's really cool
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that the Arctic Monkeys, it was all similar sounding, but they
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did not stick to one specific sound or vibe or like anger or
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anything. Like it's almost very contrary
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that they would put punk sounds to saying someone would look
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good on a dance floor and encouraging them to like dance
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and do all of these things and be more like jovial.
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Whereas punk was usually more like, screw the man, Like let's
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have fun. Let's have fun in spite of this
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guy because of how much we hate them.
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Whereas this one was like, Nah, we're just having fun, but with
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punk. And that that was very
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refreshing. And maybe what makes it more
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approachable in my opinion, because that's one of the
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hardest things about punk is that it's, it's in your face,
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but it's also so angry. You just have to be so angry
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listening to it in your face. Aggressive, angry, and this had
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some of that, but yet you also have found yourself in the
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lyrics going that's funny. Yeah.
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I'm angry. Yeah, it had like.
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It it had that good mix to to really draw you into it so that
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you didn't, you know, and. Yeah, I think it's a film.
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Goes it did have good slow down songs and spots to let you
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recover from the natural speediness of of the music.
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But I, I just think it's very cool.
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It's not like necessarily credited, but in some of the
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songs we listened to that it did have like pop tones to it as
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well. That's also very anti like punk
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and rock sound is. They do not want anything to do
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with it, but they, they like leaned into it and just did what
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they wanted it to sound like. And along with like the humor in
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it is you don't realize until you hear a song with a lot of
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like jokes in it or like bits that it's very rare to find like
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a humorous song that isn't a comedy song.
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And it's, it's fun when you do. It feels more like you're
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listening with your friend and or like your friend is just
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trying to make you laugh. And it's very fun, I will say.
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It reminded me of the The Streets album that we did
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because again, he had, and so that's from our season 1.
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Go back and listen to that one he had.
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He didn't hide the accent. It was all local.
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Yeah, kind of, and, and had the the slaying and everything in
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it. So it reminds me, it reminded me
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a lot of that of things that I'm, I'm sure I'm missing.
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But again, I'm not the intended audience necessarily so.
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Yeah, I think it I could definitely.
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I think everything apparent. But just you know, from the two
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groups, but. I guess this credits how wide of
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a range Cage the Elephant as 'cause I think every album
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sounds like Cage the Elephant. But I, I will say specifically
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the last song in a lot of this sounded like Cage the Elephant's
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drones in the Valley, which essentially, if you've listened
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to us talk about, oh gosh, Pixies, you know that that just
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means if they sound like Katie Elephant, that just means they
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sound like Pixies. Specifically that first album
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with the loud, soft, loud. They did play on that a lot.
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And I always appreciate, appreciate a loud, soft, loud.
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I appreciate how much they commit to it at times with the
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loud, soft, loud, like sometimes it's a little bit more subdued
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and it's just like a little more yelling and a little quieter
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yelling. No, they would switch up on you
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sometimes in this album. Sometimes they would keep like
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acting like they were going to build and it didn't build.
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But on like the last song, it will do that a few times.
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And then same with the few of the ones that I listen that I
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listed. But I appreciated that.
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I think there's that obviously some draw on like punk and
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British punk and Oasis and all of that, but it's just it's,
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it's such a unique sound. Yeah, it is the you know, it it
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at the time it became the fastest selling debut album in
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British history. So that's saying something.
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Especially, like you said, coming off the hills of Oasis
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and and some of the other, you know, rock artists that have
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come out of of Britain. And it was the second fastest
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selling Independent Record debut album.
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A lot of caveats there in the US.
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So it did decent in the in the US as well.
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Also 11 quite a few different awards listed in several
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greatest of different lists as well.
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A few notable ones that won the 2007 Grammy for Best Alternative
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Music Album peaked at #24 on the US Billboard 200, but was #1 in
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the equivalent Billboard over in the UK.
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So obviously quite a bit bigger over in the UK, but still made
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its mark and in the US, but not near as much like it, like like
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we said a dead years later. Yeah.
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Well, that, that makes sense. But it is impressive that you
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have all of these awards for this album and we as listeners
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know that this is not their biggest album like AM and the I
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forget which album the 505 song is on.
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Or like technically bigger albums.
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Let's. See.
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So it's very neat. Yeah, I'm seeing which it's on
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favorite worst nightmare. OK.
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All right. So anything else to add to that?
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Are we ready to move on? I think I'm ready to move on.
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All right, then, let's hear it. Best beat bar.
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Best bar Riley. It's the best lyric.
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So unfortunately I'm not going to play it because it's just me
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saying Lyric, but unfortunately you stole.
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You stole my Thunder. You stole my Thunder because the
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best lyric in this whole album is I'm sorry, officers, they're
31:10
a certain age. You're supposed to be because
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nobody told me that is the best line in this album.
31:18
That is so funny. The so context It's riot bands.
31:22
The officer is saying have you been drinking sun?
31:24
You don't look old enough to me and to imagine someone's
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response is, is there an age I'm supposed to be because nobody
31:32
told me And then following it, which is also very funny, is and
31:37
up rolls the riot fan. It's just.
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So there you go. It's so funny the and that's
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such a nobody. Told me such a good line.
31:57
He sounds like he's kind of making fun of the guy.
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And, and then, you know, and he's talking about his friends
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are just winding up the and coppers.
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So that's a definitely a UK word.
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Yeah. These lads just wind the coppers
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up. They ask why don't they catch
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proper crooks instead of just, you know, in their eyes just
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messing with them while they're just out trying to have a good
32:24
time going to clubs and they're on their way home.
32:27
And like, it's, you know, and, and you can kind of see a young
32:33
kid doing that where they're, in their mind, they're causing no
32:37
harm. They're just out having fun.
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And surely the coppers have something better to do than to
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mess with them. Yeah, which we'll see.
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We'll see how many times I mentioned Nova Con and this
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thing. Strange crossover here, but Nova
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Con just released a song called Headed North on his new album.
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And it it starts saying they finally called the guys who blew
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up those two police cars, which is apparently something that
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happened in his town. And it's his like response to it
33:12
is it was a couple college kids who thought the town was dumbest
33:16
rocks. Like we wouldn't raise an
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eyebrow at the sudden lack of BS too few parking tickets written,
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too few high school parties stopped.
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And it's just these poor small town cops, man.
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They got nothing better to do. And then they get flamed for
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having nothing better to do. Like that's that's got to hurt
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on a few different on a few different levels.
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But I will also say so it doesn't steal my Thunder.
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I did also like a lyric from I bet you Look good on the dance
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floor, which is a very fun song in my opinion.
33:56
So it's very loud, very in your face.
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But I do think it's fun to listen to.
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But it's your shoulders are frozen cold as the night, but
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you're an explosion. Your dynamite.
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Your name is Rio. But I don't care for sand.
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Again, don't really know what it means.
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Yeah, but that's funny. Here.
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I'll pull that up here. That's it.
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You're not even playing the lyric.
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Like, like the way it says it, the way the people are in the
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background shouting. I don't really I don't really
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know what it means. I I know your colders are, you
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know, shoulders are frozen. I know a cold shoulder, but
34:44
you're an explosion. I don't really know what your
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name isn't Rio, but I don't care for the sand means other than
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like obviously like Rio beach he doesn't like, but I don't know
34:55
why. That's where I live.
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Rio de Janeiro And he doesn't like sand, but yeah, I don't.
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But I don't know why he threw that in there.
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I don't know how he came over that way.
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It that that's what it some of these lyrics feels like Beastie
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Boy type lyrics where they wrote it on an app like they would
35:14
just be saying jokes back and forth and which have like this
35:17
is how they said they wrote songs.
35:18
They would say jokes back and forth and anything that got a
35:21
laugh out of someone else, they would write it down.
35:23
Anything that didn't, they wouldn't.
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And some of these lyrics feel like they were like, oh, this
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would be funny. And that very well may be
35:31
because it it, it is a lot of them running around, clubbing,
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dancing, doing all this together.
35:38
And they say funny stuff and they're like, let's put that in
35:41
the, you know, let's put that in the song.
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And next thing you know, there it is.
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And. Because another one, a few of
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literally a few lines down dancing to electropop like a
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robot from 1984. Well, from 1984, Yeah, OK.
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Yep. That's funny.
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So, but Speaking of stealing Thunder, the my best beat comes
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from the opening 30 seconds of I bet you look good on the dance
36:12
floor. That's right.
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So we actually don't rehearse this and everybody's like, yeah,
36:19
we knew that. So so that obvious though
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guitar, there's some good drumming in there to open it.
36:28
There's fat fast pounding of a of a snare drum, at least what
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it sounds like. The guitar starts to soar and
36:35
build and all that is in the 1st 20 seconds.
36:39
Then the guitar starts to play more melodic sounds.
36:47
And so there in even in this first 30 seconds or so there
36:54
there seems to be 3 little parts.
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So I kind of want to say it before we get going.
36:58
There's there's an intro for with the guitar and drum for
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about the 1st 8 seconds. And then there's the guitar
37:10
starts to build for the next 10 seconds.
37:13
And that's when that heavy pop pop, pop pop pop of the snare
37:17
drum kicks in and then there's a little bitty solo and then the
37:22
lyrics start. And so all that's in the 1st 30
37:25
seconds. And so I make sure the volumes
37:28
up so we can hear it. Oh, not that one.
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There it is. So that drum is just crazy fast
37:44
and there's that fast build up with the snare drum going.
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Here's our here's the where the melody kind of kicks in and that
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little solo. And then then the lyrics start
38:03
and like, that's such a good little 30 seconds worth of three
38:10
distinct, really different sounds that come from it, you
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know? And, and again, fast,
38:18
aggressive, angry sounding song about somebody looking good on a
38:23
dance floor. It's just funny.
38:25
And ignoring them. Yeah, so like that, that there,
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there's lots of parts in here that are just funny and and I
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guess what were they, 1819 years old?
38:36
You can you can kind of see that that playfulness coming out
38:39
where they're like, this would be funny if we made a sound a
38:42
song about it. All right, so that brings us to
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our ratings. Riley, what are your ratings?
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So I would say objective, that's what I was going technical and I
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was like, that's not, I don't know, technicality objectively I
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would say, I would say like an 8 1/2.
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All right. I would say it's a very good
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album, but like it's, it's meant to be a little looser, I guess.
39:24
But there are just some parts that in my opinion are a little
39:32
too much wall of sound and it becomes a little overwhelming to
39:36
like listen to. And also, I don't know, I guess
39:41
I'm getting into a little bit of personal.
39:43
It's not meant for a wide audience, which has its charm
39:46
for it, but it also makes it hard for it to be like an
39:48
objective we good album because it's not they didn't want it to
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really be a wide audience. So there are things in it that
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your. Personal rating.
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My personal rating, I would say like a seven, OK, 6 1/2 or 7676.
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4. I'll go, I'll go 7.
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I really like this album. I really love the band.
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I really what they love the more music they produced.
40:15
It was very entertaining to hear where they started and it was
40:22
very surprising at times. But the more I listened to it, I
40:26
did like it, which is why it's higher.
40:28
But it took me a few times to listen to it for me to like
40:31
comprehend that I liked it and not just be kind of take it
40:35
aback. Yeah, mine are very similar,
40:39
half step lower actually for both of them.
40:42
Personal for me 6.5 objective 8 again, not really my style, but
40:49
it, it started off lower than that.
40:52
And the more I listen to it, the more I'm like, OK, I actually,
40:55
it's not as bad as what I thought it was.
40:57
So it, it grew and you know, one of the, one of the reasons that
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objectively that I, I give it a higher rating also is not just
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the music, but also around the album.
41:15
So like we've talked about, they bypassed the traditional marking
41:19
marketing plans, gave away free CDs, encourage people to post
41:24
them online and, and share it that way, which feel fueled this
41:29
sales frenzy. So even though they were giving
41:32
out free stuff, people then ran to buy the album, you know, and,
41:37
and again Myspace, we talked about the, the digital type of
41:42
communities and, and really the, the first wave of, of social
41:48
media, how that could work to their benefit and do better than
41:52
what corporate music could do for them.
41:56
And now so many other stars are doing that with, you know,
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Instagram, TikTok and, and whatever else they do, you know,
42:06
and, and then the other thing that I like was, again, we've
42:09
talked about it, that the lead singer Turner stayed true to
42:13
himself. And so like, I'm going to use my
42:17
accent, I'm going to talk about my little community and what
42:20
we're doing. And a lot of these from really
42:22
the the first person point of view, you know, I I all of that
42:27
are things that I I like to see in music of people staying true
42:33
to themselves, even if the pop world or whatever it is, maybe
42:38
telling them to do something different, but staying true to
42:40
themselves. So that's part of why that
42:44
objective 1 is, is is higher. So all right, song of the week.
42:50
Do do I need to go first? Because yours may be a whole
42:54
nother album, I'm guessing. No, it's not a whole nother
42:57
album. It one 2 songs have stood out
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3/4 for me, 6. So Noah Hahn's new album came
43:09
out. Surprise, surprise.
43:12
That's all I've been listening to.
43:13
Wop Wop. Really good album, in case
43:19
you're wondering. Difference in his first, pretty
43:21
different than his first, in my opinion.
43:23
A lot more sad. You're just going to be sad,
43:26
Yeah. Anyway, this one is one of my
43:31
favorite ones. It kind of does what Forever
43:35
does, which I talked about recently.
43:37
That starts off very slow and kind of melodic and then kind of
43:42
out of nowhere it. So it's the slow bit.
43:53
And now it's fun and you like you just bounce to it and it's
43:59
like, it's just so fun. And I just, I have loved
44:07
listening the song. It's been one of the more fun
44:09
ones to listen to crazy lyric whenever I'm saying this is one
44:14
of the happier songs on the album.
44:16
And the first lyric is your love is like an open flame.
44:19
I'm a running car. You're a closed garage.
44:21
You know what, you just got to look past it Sometimes I saw
44:24
someone. There was another one that's not
44:30
one of my favorite but goes with that.
44:35
And here it is. And someone said Noah Khan is a
44:45
happy Noah Khan can't be happy if you just don't listen to the
44:48
lyrics. And it was this one.
44:50
And everyone's dancing to it. And it's saying like it's
44:54
someone getting mad at him for saying like, glad you got track
44:57
clean. I know you think you're a big
44:59
shot, but at least I have a soul, even if I'm not doing as
45:03
good as you anyway. But my favorite song, and I've
45:08
listened to it so much that it's gotten to the point that my
45:11
sweet boyfriend who will let me listen to whatever has gotten to
45:13
the point where he says you've got to find something else.
45:17
And I have it it this song when we've talked about good songs
45:25
and you 2 with our mom, my mom and stuff like that is like it
45:30
consumes you a little bit. And this has been my song and it
45:35
has been anytime I listen to any other song, I'm like comparing
45:40
it to the song subconsciously. Everything has been compared to
45:43
the song and it none of them are as good in my opinion.
45:47
Like I am obsessed with this song.
45:50
I love the way he plays with his voice at the beginning.
45:54
I I love that it's the like picking that's throughout the
45:59
whole song it and it's just a beautiful song and I love the
46:09
lyrics as well. Surprise, but the whole premise
46:15
is like I'm an astronaut, you're the moon.
46:17
I stare at you, I sing to you, I circle you say like orbiter.
46:21
It's just someone being in the orbit of someone else.
46:24
And that's like, you would think like an obvious connection for
46:29
people to make. And I, I just don't hear it that
46:32
often in songs. So it was very cool to hear
46:36
someone sing about that, especially, I guess with like
46:43
astronauts in the moon, the reason they orbit is because
46:45
their mass is so much bigger than just like a small
46:49
astronaut. And so for like this huge artist
46:52
to kind of humble themself and be like, I'm the one circling
46:55
you like you're so much bigger than I am.
46:58
It's like a very cool thing to hear.
47:03
And then it kind of does have the wolf premise where it's like
47:07
even anxious pups need the moon. I howl for you, I sing for you.
47:11
It's just just so beautiful to hear someone be like, everything
47:13
I do, everything that's made me big is for you.
47:16
And I don't care. And so it has that like
47:19
relatable type of feel, but it is very cool.
47:23
The beginning is all about his experience, I think losing at
47:27
the Grammys and like having to process that or losing at these
47:33
award shows, which is not a very relatable thing, but you can.
47:36
But it feels relatable when he sings about it.
47:39
I don't know. This has been my song.
47:41
And then oh, oh, and then. So this song was already
47:47
released before the Artemis exploration occurred.
47:51
But I don't know if you know. I don't know if anyone here
47:54
knows, but the astronauts went and they circled them in
47:58
obviously. And one of the crew members
48:01
wife's had recently passed away. Her name was Carol or she had
48:05
passed away and they found a crater that was sometimes
48:09
visible and they named it Carol. They named the crater Carol.
48:14
And they had this sweet little thing about how why they named
48:16
her that. And it was like anytime we get
48:18
to see her, it's like she's looking down on us.
48:21
And someone made an edit of saying I'm an astronaut of the
48:27
actual astronaut, and you're the moon.
48:28
And it showed where Carol the crater was.
48:33
And it was like, and I circle you and it was showing pictures
48:35
of them. I who?
48:38
That's crazy. And that wasn't even planned.
48:42
Like, that's just an accident. Yeah, that's crazy.
48:46
Anyway, this island's very good. You're you're going to be sad.
48:50
Yeah. So OK, good luck, but listen to
48:54
orbiter at least. So my my song goes back to 94
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Mockingbirds by Grant Lee Buffalo.
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So I bet you are probably unfamiliar with this one, but
49:14
it's beautiful melody and lyrically it's a late addition
49:26
to the album that it was on. It was played during, you know,
49:31
the 90s. All radio devastation.
49:42
Last Finally We meet is the first line.
49:46
That's crazy. So right up your sad alley, It's
49:52
about when the team they were working on this album in LA and
49:57
a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck LA, destroyed the lead
50:05
singers trailer the bassist home.
50:07
So they camped out in the drummer's yard, and each morning
50:11
they said they woke up to the sound of Mockingbirds, which is
50:16
the name of the song Mocking. And so he hits this falsetto
50:26
that shows even more vulnerability, all the while
50:30
talking about something that's just devastating.
50:34
And so, you know, the first line, devast, devastation at
50:39
last will finally meet. Each new chorus starts with this
50:42
last one that just started. Devastation.
50:44
My door was left wide open. And later it mentions a terrible
50:53
realm. And then the line that follows
50:56
that is all my sails were ablaze.
50:59
I was chained to the helm as if you're sinking with the ship and
51:06
there's no way you can get out of it.
51:09
But the that chorus is just haunting, like getting chills
51:20
listening to it. And so this was played in all
51:25
all radio stations and in the mid 90s.
51:28
Grant Lee Buffalo Mockingbirds. This is the name of.
51:34
The song very good. Oh, there's another good part.
51:39
Drops a little bit into a even sadder key, so the last bit of
51:47
it gets musically sadder. So it's a pretty neat little
51:54
song, so. It was very good.
51:56
Grantley. Buffalo Mockingbirds.
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So what is our next album? Riley.
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We're continuing on with our. Let's do it.
52:09
Run. Our next album is Let It Bleed
52:14
by The Rolling Stones. Oh.
52:18
A little bit older. Yeah.
52:20
So let it bleed by The Rolling Stones.
52:24
I did. Are we in like the British row
52:30
of this poster? Yeah, I guess we kind of are,
52:34
huh? Because let's see, Rolling
52:36
Stones, Arctic Monkeys, U2, Who's before U2, Oasis Oasis.
52:46
Throwing stones and I I'm I'm pretty sure the one after this
52:50
one is also British. Going to test your musical
52:54
geography here, so we'll find out next week.
52:59
Which Noah Khan was just on The Rolling Stones cover.
53:02
Bang. Got another one in.
53:04
Jeez. All right, so Yep.
53:07
So next week, no two weeks. Let it bleed.
53:12
Rolling Stones 1969 I I like these because these are albums
53:17
that are older than I am, so that doesn't happen that much.
53:22
So pre listen to that. If you want to go back and
53:26
listen to the Arctic Monkeys first album, whatever people say
53:34
I am, that's what I'm not. I can't remember it without
53:37
reading it. So go back to and listen to that
53:39
one. Make Riley happy.
53:42
Go listen to the Noah Khan album Be sad.
53:46
Go listen to Mockingbirds by Grantley Buffalo.
53:49
Be sad. Be sad.
53:51
This is a sad time anyway. Also on socials Barber cuts pod
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54:10
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54:15
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54:21
This album yes, even though they were talking about dancing.
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So I guess that's it until next time I'm time.
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I'm Riley and this was another episode of Barbara Cuts.