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(What's the Story) Morning Glory? · 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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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 this is Todd, and welcome to this episode of Barber Cuts.
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We're talking about Oasis and 1995 album What's the Story?
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Morning Glory. So let's get right into it.
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Riley least favorite songs? All right, I, I have to say I'm
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sorry to the people. Wonderwall is the worst song on
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this album. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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I know it's the most popular. That's mostly because it was
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made fun of. It's it's just not a great song.
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I think I I do have to also acknowledge the fact that I do
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think part of the reason I don't like it is because I find it so
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annoying from all of the like memes made about it.
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Yeah, I can see them. So that one does kind of rub me
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in the wrong way. And but just just to put some
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context into it, like it has over 2.7 billion streams, the
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84th most stream song on Spotify as of when we're recording this.
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And it was the first song from the 1990s to reach 1 billion
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streams. And it did that in October of
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2020. So, you know, there's a lot of
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people that go listen to that song.
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Yes, but I think it's to make fun of it.
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I don't know well, because so you know the whole thing with
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Wonderwall. So right, yes, where it it's
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like the song that every guy who thinks he can.
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Like play guitar. Play guitar and play Wonderwall.
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Let's play Wonderwall. Yes, like the first song to
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learn on the guitar. So it became like this annoying.
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Yeah, yeah. And I get that.
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And, you know, I think the things that I read and I was,
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and when I read, I was like, you know what?
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That makes so much sense. And, and they were like, it's
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such a simple and relatable song that from the first time you
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listen to it, it just sounds familiar, Like I've heard this
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before and you know how it's going to go.
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And so maybe like, that's part of what it is.
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It wasn't one of my least favorites, but I I understand it
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where you're coming from. Yeah, My other least favorite
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got hard. I I didn't really have another
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like one that stood out to me. I would say the one that I kind
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of gravitated to was probably another big one for this album
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was Morning Glory, the title song.
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I just like, OK, I really like this album and I really like
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Oasis, right. However, sometimes their oh,
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their frogginess can really overpower the song and with
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what's the story morning glory with all those OS in it.
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Like it really comes out like that.
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I don't know if you, I don't know how to word that other than
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Froggy that like just you can feel like their vocal cords are
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tight, like it just kind of hurts and they do that a lot.
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That's just how they sing. But usually you can kind of like
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OK it in morning glory. It's everywhere.
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Yeah, yeah. But I still liked that song and
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like loads more than Wonderwall. So I guess that, but not really
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at the same time. So, you know, 11 of one of my
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songs was roll with it. You know, that was the song that
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actually, I don't think it was the first single, but it was the
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one that was right before the album and yeah, and, and
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launched this media frenzy with Blur, who you've heard us
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mentioned before, Song 2. Woo.
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Hoo and the brat battle of Britpop.
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So is this media frenzy of the two bands that were going after
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each other or more of a media hype than really the bands?
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You know it it wasn't bad, but to me it got lost where it sat
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in the album order. You know, Hello was first I
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thought that was a really good opening song and then roll with
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it. And then it was followed by two
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of the band's biggest hits, Wonderwall, Don't Look Back in
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Anger. Both of them have over a billion
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streams like so it just kind of got lost in there with knowing
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what was going. Nothing really against the song.
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It just got lost more than anything.
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My other song I put it on here but and and in my notes, like I
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feel bad about this one because I could see how this one could
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be one of your favourites because lyrically I may put it
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as one of the best songs on the album, but musically it didn't
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do much for me. Got lost and it's cast no
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shadow. OK.
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That was like, you're safe. It's.
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Not that was like third on a close level, yeah.
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So like I, I, I knew going into it, like lyrically I, I want to
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give it it's, it's just due and, and, and make sure like this is
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this is this is musically for me, it got lost.
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But lyrically, you know, it's a tribute to Richard Ashcroft from
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the verb acknowledging the genius that he had in writing
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music was also the struggles he had with insecurity.
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So you see in there it's about about hollow or a person that
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feels really hollow and invisible because there's a
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lyric that says as he faced the sun, he cast no shadow.
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And so all that to say, the lyrics I'm sure resonate with
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everybody because at various points in our lives, we've had
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struggles, but many I know struggle with this daily.
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So this may be a song that hits home for him.
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And those feelings can be validated by a song like this.
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So I don't want to diminish the song and the lyrics of it.
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But for me, musically, it didn't do as much as what I wanted it
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to do to match those lyrics. So I when I saw the lyrics, I
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was like this. This one could be an argument,
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but or a disagreement, I should say.
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But all right, it well, if it wasn't one of your favorites,
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did you want to add anything to it lyrically from that?
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No, I'll talk about it a little later.
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OK OK so favorite 2 songs Rally? What's your favorite 2?
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My favorite two were in fact back-to-back a run if you will.
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So we'll start. And.
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Roll with it. Those are my 2.
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No, we'll start with the first one.
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So as you mentioned, popular song on this album.
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It's just a good song. I don't know, like I think I
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think something that I want to talk about with specifically
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Oasis on these two songs. This was the first one and just.
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Let it play 'cause this is one of mine too.
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We can let it go in the background.
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This their cadence is so unique. Like you have to give them
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credit for that. The way they sing their words,
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the way they do their beat, the way they follow it all works.
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Not normal, like if that makes sense, Like I've there's
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something so engaging about the way they time their words in a
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way that I I don't normally notice that, but it's very
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apparent with Oasis. So this song was like the most
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apparent where it comes that, but my favorite was the chorus
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with the we'll let it play. It's coming up.
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Yeah, so it's such a. Good little like the bum, bum,
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bum, bum, bum, bum. It's so good.
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It's so good. And, and the other thing that I
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found funny about it is that and, and you can turn it down
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because it's popping up and down for whatever reason when I talk.
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And I think that may come through.
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But the, it's, it's ironic though, because, you know,
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lyrically it's very good about don't wear back in anger.
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Ironically, the band ultimately broke up because the two
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brothers couldn't stand each other.
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So I like, that's pretty funny. And and I think they wrecked
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back. Together.
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Yeah, they got back together and wrecked they went.
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On a tour. Yeah, but but that was still
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funny, you know? And, and I also saw that some
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people mentioned that the Sally of the song may be a nod to a
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song called Sally Cinnamon, which is from the Stone Roses.
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So we've done an episode on Stone Roses album.
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That song's not on it, but go listen to the Stone Roses and,
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and Gallagher, Noel Gallagher is the songwriter.
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Liam Gallagher is the singer, but Noel credited that Sally
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cinnamon song for really defining him.
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And he said after he heard the song for the first time, quote,
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I knew what my destiny was. So a lot of people think that
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that song may have been the Sally.
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Some people say it was just some another another person.
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So, you know, and the other thing that that I found
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interesting was he said he initially meant it as a song of
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defiance, but it's really taken on a life of its own after the
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terrorist attacks in Manchester in 2017.
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Ariana Grande concert. You can see footage of people
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singing that song, you know, just as they come together.
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And, and I thought that was really neat.
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And, and he thought that was really neat too, that, that the
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song is, you know, he's, I think I saw a quote from him
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somewhere, and I'm paraphrasing, but the the song, that song has
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become bigger than him, which he recognizes that and that's
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pretty cool. Yeah.
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That is cool. I did.
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I did definitely take it more as like the defiant with the
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especially with the lyric thing, like she knows it's too late as
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we're walking on by. Like it's almost like a it's
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behind me. I'm good now you can deal with
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whatever you need to deal with. It's too late for you.
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I read it as that, but I can see how people do take it like
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that's AI will say that is a beautiful song to use against
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some like a a tragedy like that of the don't look back in anger,
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like we're still here. We're good.
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We can get through this. And, and really though, the last
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couple of lines as well, like if, if you just take it at the
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surface level of like that's a good motto to have because I, I
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don't have them in front of me, but I think the, the last two
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lines are like, don't look back in anger.
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Plays a little music and then says at least not today.
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And so if you can have that mindset every day, like you're
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not going to look back in anger. And that's a, that's something
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good. You know, this was 30 years ago.
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So that's a a very good message for us still today in 2026.
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So no. It is all right so.
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Next up, next favorite would be Hey Now.
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Yes it would yes, it would another just genius, genius
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genius genius cadence like unlike anything it the cadence
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get stuck in my head. I did not even know that was
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like possible until this song. It's such a good, like it's so
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engaging and it's poppy. It's not exactly like happy or
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sad, like it's just, but it's just poppy and it kind of gets
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you going and like it's so easy for the again, the cadets to get
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stuck in your head, which is so weird and so unique.
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But the bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
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Like that's the cadence. That's not like that's so I'm
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just, I really do love this song and just the switch ups and
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changing. I just really like this song.
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I just really like the song. There's not really much else
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dramatic for me to say about all this song.
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This song did not show me what my destiny was, but it sure
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showed me a good time. Yeah, I like that one too.
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Sorry. What about you?
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We talked about one of. Yours.
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I already mentioned one of them, Don't look back in anger.
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The other one is the last song of the album and can you hear
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that? Yeah.
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You know, and it's a bit it's different than most of the rest
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of the album. Got the dreamy wave psychedelic
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beginning and as we go building, building up to that first chorus
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where he starts singing is is nice.
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And you know, I'm I've seen him talk about this.
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There's the easy got a reverb echo going on there as well, you
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know, and and I've seen him talk about the song and say that it's
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that to him. He doesn't really remember what
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the lyrics are about that they're probably more
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nonsensical than anything, you know, But it I do like how it
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builds. There is a little bitty, a Fast
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forward real quick here, little bitty guitar solo there.
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That's that's nice, you know, but the the part that really
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sold it for me is, you know, it's a on the album, It's a long
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song. They had a radio edit, but they
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from 4:35, which is where this is to about 557.
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So almost a minute and a half of the song.
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Very well done guitar solo. There's two guitars they're
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going back and forth. So it's not a single guitar
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really showing off. It's a conversation really
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between two guitars that it's hard to pull and and see which
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one is doing what It the I can't remember his name, but the the
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guest guitarist that that came on, I think it's a a hero for
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them. So it was neat for them to be
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able to perform with that person.
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And then, you know, this is the build up and the climax.
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And then after this it it trails back down and and gets back to
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that. And so now it's slowing down and
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the simple guitar riff that how it started to how it just ends.
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It's just a nice song to end for me to really end the album on.
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So yeah, I. Thought it was a great.
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Our my favorite 2 Don't live back in anger.
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And. Champagne Supernova.
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With you talking about the guitar solos, I do want to
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acknowledge that this this is kind of a this album is kind of
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a big deal for us in that there were two instrumental songs and
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they didn't end up on either of our least favorite list.
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Usually that's like our go to. It's like, yeah, it's an
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instrumental. How's it going to compare to the
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songs of lyrics like Wop Wop? This is true they.
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Were really good, yeah. And I've got a note about one of
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them later, so stay tuned. But I just, I just want to
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acknowledge that's that's a big deal for for us, especially me,
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I. Agree.
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Yeah, True. True.
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Shows you how bad Wonderwall is. Oh, all right, so you know, 22
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point what I say, 2.7 billion people can't be wrong.
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Earth streams can't be wrong. If they're making fun of it, it
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changes things. Though this is true, all right,
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so album notes, why should people go and listen to this
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album, Riley? 'Cause it's a 'cause it's a good
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one. No, I mean, come on, Oasis, like
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everyone's heard Oasis, everyone's heard Wonderwall.
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Like that's this band is not. I would say this band is an
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interesting then and then it maintains being like a household
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name, but not in like your normal way where they're like
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legends more in the way that they're kind of like goofy, like
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it's just like ha ha Oasis. It's just kind of the way it
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goes, I think, especially. They they get a lot of bad rap
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for Wonderwall. Yeah.
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Because. A lot of those other.
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Songs and and some of their other songs are really good.
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Well, you know, I, I do have to say that one is another case of
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the song is beyond them now, but in a bad way.
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I'm sure they were not thinking whenever they wrote it.
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Like this will be a song that every guy will torture a girl
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with at some point in their lives and force them to listen
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to. But like, I, I don't think
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that's their fault. I do think that they play into a
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lot of the jokes on themselves, though.
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And like I, I think they have, and that's what they're kind of
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known for is being like a goofy, like to ban that at times takes
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themselves way too seriously and that's funny and at times does
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not take themselves seriously at all.
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And that's funny. I mean, the reunion tour they
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like they went out and said. Like their tickets were some of
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the most expensive tickets, like really bad.
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Like people were upset about it and they were like, we're not
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coming back for nothing. Like we're only coming back for
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this price. Like we need the money.
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Like they, they made like jokes like that where people couldn't
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quite tell if they were jokes either.
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So they do stuff like that where it's just kind of like a we
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don't really know how to take this band.
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So it becomes like a very known band.
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I think also, unfortunately, they can be a little bit made
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fun of or considered goofy, which I would say a lot of their
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lyrics are very impressive and do have something to say.
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But when you're comparing it to like, OK, when did this album
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come out? 9595, You just came or you're
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still in the midst from like the fallout, I guess, of the grunge
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movement where their whole thing is like devastating lyrics that
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are meant to be very introspective and very deep and
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like thoughtful and thinking back on yourself.
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And then like you're coming off of that.
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That's what people are used to and Blur in my opinion they
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don't like, I mean you can listen a song too, lyrics aren't
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always their thing. They don't really care.
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Also listen like story of a charmless man.
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Like I love blur. Don't get me wrong, I love that
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album. I can't remember what that album
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is called, the one with that's Blue that has story of charm
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span. But like their lyrics aren't
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anything special. But what they can really play
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into is that, especially on songs like song Too, they have a
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little bit more of that harsh sound like that punk music.
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And so they're they're like that bridge, whereas Oasis on this
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album really, really doesn't have that much.
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I would say funnily enough, the the big like musical call back.
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I see that's not what they define here is enroll with it
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with like almost a 50's rock and roll.
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Yeah, yeah. Like they have that there.
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Were definitely several times in there where I picked up some
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Beatles undertones of like, you know, and and that makes sense
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being a British popish band, like it's kind of hard to have a
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have a sound that got some foundational Beatles element to
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it. I, I guess we can say, well,
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that's an, I was going to say Oasis is more Beatles.
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And if we're keeping to the British thing, Blur is more Sex
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Pistols like in the comparison of like where you can kind of.
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But I will say on their other albums again, 'cause I'm a fan
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of Blur, if we're exposing myself here, they sound a lot
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more like Oasis than they do song too.
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And the majority of their songs, like, they're a lot more like
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this album then, yeah. And and that's why they what
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people know. Them for they.
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Were both in the charts with each other.
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So, you know, that that feud that was going, they both
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released a a song at the same time.
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So their their initial blurs initial single in that first
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week sold better than Oasis's first single.
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But yet, you know, Oasis ended up, you know, winning that long
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term battle. I think like this is one of the
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best UK selling albums of of all time.
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Yeah. And then Blur got them back by
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becoming gorillas. You know so and then.
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Ultimate Come back and screw you Oasis the.
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The album won the best British Album at the Brit Awards in 96.
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I guess Don't Look Back in Anger and some might say both.
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Hit #1 on the charts. Wonderwall hit #2 on the charts
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and spent 30 consecutive weeks. Roll with it.
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Hit #2 on the charts, Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall both
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reached number one on the alternative song chart.
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So like all those songs are, are good popular songs, you know,
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and, and again, you, you, you know, you going back to it.
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The the two brothers were the identity of the band and they
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they fueled the media attention with their feuds and, and spats
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and different things and, and all that.
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And I think at one point in time, one of them, one of them
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said something about the other and then the other one sued him
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and then he apologized and he dropped the lawsuit.
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So like, again, back to your point of just saying and doing
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things like they they fueled the media attention and whether or
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not that was real, you know, I don't it, it seemed to be real
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enough because, you know, they broke up and they did those
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things, but they got back together.
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But you know, but that that definitely helped them stay
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relevant. Yeah.
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I think also other than it just being sounding good, I think
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whether or not you can put a finger on what it is, they do
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something different than what was heard before, if that makes
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sense. Like there is something
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different. I think I credit it to the
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cadence and I keep bringing that up.
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But that's so like that you have to acknowledge like that's not
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normal. Yeah, I mean, I it's.
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The cadence or like the wording of it be what's like engaging
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over the music or the lyrics itself at parts.
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Yeah, it's definitely, but I don't know a.
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Lot of it is definitely catchy and gets stuck in your head.
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They're little, little. Eared Worms yeah.
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I think they just play around with like how they're saying
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things like and the music and I think this was just something
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new that people people had heard like British music and Brit rock
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and stuff like that. But like Blurred Oasis are like
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the heavy froggy punky type sound without being punk.
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Like they're a mix of like 10,000 different genres.
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If you try to pick one genre out of it, it becomes impossible.
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There's like everything known to man in this album that it's, it
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was just appealing. It was new, yeah.
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Even if it was a little bit to make fun of it.
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It was just new. So all right, any anything else?
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I don't think so all. Right.
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So good. Album.
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Yeah, so best, best beats and bars.
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So rally what's what's your best lyric?
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So we come back to cast no shadow.
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Bang, bang, bang. Bound with all the weight of all
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the words he tried to say, chained to all the places that
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he never wished to stay. And then it goes on to say he
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cast no shadow. Yeah, that's, that's the chorus
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to this song. Like, that's not even a side
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lyric. That's like just what's being
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portrayed in this song. And I'll, I'll say cast no
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Shadow didn't, it was very good. It didn't get in my top 2
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because it's essentially just the same thing said three times.
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Yeah. Very good thing said though,
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which is why it's getting credit here.
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Yeah, I. That's why I felt bad saying it
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was my least favorite. That but I, I will give credit,
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it's very good lyrics, but it's just repeated 3 times.
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So it loses. It's like when you have like a
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song like Don't Look Back in Anger, where it's like a whole
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song exploring different things. It's harder to put this one up.
28:30
But like, that is such a visual depiction of that feeling of
28:35
feeling so important, like feeling so weighed down by not
28:39
voicing your opinion, like being so held back by like just being
28:44
forced to be where you're at and that's not where you want to be.
28:47
Like that's such a good description of what it feels
28:52
like sometimes to feel unimportant or invisible, where
28:56
it's just like, I have so much to say.
28:59
I have so many places to be and I'm not going to be anywhere.
29:03
I'm not going to be able to avoid any of them.
29:05
I'm just here. And I just think it was such a
29:08
visual depiction of that that worked really well for me and
29:13
apparently for you too. Yeah, yeah.
29:15
I mean, I, you know, I don't often, as we know and recognize
29:20
pick up on lyrics, but this one I did because, and I think that
29:25
was partly because of the music, because the music wasn't, you
29:29
know, often times talk about like grunge or rock or some of
29:32
those where the music can get heavy and overpowering than the
29:38
lyrics. But this one, the lyrics came
29:40
through very crystal clear and, and you know, I could tell they
29:45
were good, but because the music was more subdued, more quiet,
29:49
more like I, I didn't pick up on it as much.
29:52
And so I just, you know, but again, I can recognize that the
29:56
the lyrics were strong in that one.
29:58
Yeah, I also think it's interesting coming from like a
30:02
big musician to hear that. Like, I think it, it shows a lot
30:07
'cause like his job so that he's writing this, his job is to get
30:11
all his words that he has to say off his chest.
30:14
That's his job. It's like literally their job is
30:17
to go to all of these different places and see the world and
30:20
perform for him. And yet you can still have that
30:22
feeling of like there, I'm never going to be able to say what I
30:26
want to. I'm never going to be able to be
30:27
where I want to be. And that's like a very human
30:32
thing to hear from a big band that.
30:35
Feeling of invisibility. Yeah, when you're that nobody.
30:40
Sees one. Of the biggest bands, yeah.
30:42
It's just it's a really cool thing to see.
30:45
Sad but cool thing to see, yeah? All right, so my my best beat is
30:55
interesting this week. My best beat is actually the
31:00
last three songs of the album. I'm not going to I'm not going
31:05
to play all of them. Obviously that's like 13
31:07
minutes, but I'm going to start with morning glory.
31:11
And and this one was close to one of my favorites, but it
31:14
wasn't. But it starts with this chaos,
31:17
this loud, sharp, almost a helicopter type of and it and it
31:31
starts off with this chaos. The the it's it's driving it
31:37
reminds me. Of Pink Floyd with.
31:39
The rock like this was one of the more heavy rock songs of, of
31:44
the album, you know, but I'm, I'm going to skip to the end,
31:51
you know, because according to Gallagher, this song was really
31:58
about coming out of the and so now you hear the guitar and the
32:03
song kicking in and the song was about coming out of a haze of
32:07
cocaine use. And so that part kind of makes
32:13
sense. And but you get around 10
32:19
seconds left, the switches back to kind of the opening chaotic
32:27
noise. And just now we switch to swamp
32:31
song. You can't tell because it rolls
32:33
straight into it. You probably know, but others
32:36
may not. Just want to bring that up.
32:39
Now you hear these peaceful waves, but yet that chaos comes
32:46
back muted in the background, as if it's trying to fight its way
32:53
through the waves. And this song is which?
32:57
I'm sorry, yeah. This song is only 39 seconds
33:00
long. If if you hear this and you
33:04
don't think swamp, you're wrong. Yeah, that's swamp and.
33:08
So now Champagne Supernova started with the waves.
33:12
This one was a popular 1. So you know the waves and you
33:16
may have asked when you heard this on the radio.
33:19
The waves are strange. Well, now you know why the waves
33:23
are there. And it's so this slow melodic
33:27
guitar and and so as I was listening to those and heard
33:32
them go all the way through, you know, I especially when I saw
33:39
what the lyrics were for, for Morning Glory, I was like, are,
33:45
is this some type of little mini narrative, you know, to end the
33:49
album? I'm not sure.
33:50
He he, he never said anything, but there sure seems to be this
33:54
arc of the intensity and excess that you hear in Morning Glory,
34:00
this disorienting transition of the swamp song to this
34:05
reflection and come down piece of champagne supernova.
34:09
And so as I was sitting there thinking about all, I was like,
34:12
that is such a really good ending for an album.
34:17
Those 3 songs put together. If if in fact that's what it is,
34:21
I don't know, but I kind of can can see it there.
34:26
And so I was like, I really like that.
34:28
So that's my my best beat. Go listen to those 3 songs, see
34:34
what you think. And if not, just listen to that
34:37
transition again without us talking over it for the last few
34:42
seconds of Morning Glory, the entirety of Swamp Song and then
34:47
the intro of of Champagne Supernova.
34:51
So yeah. I I am happy that swamp songs
34:54
part one well, Part 2, but Part 1 is pretty much the same thing.
34:59
Got it. It's an acknowledgement.
35:01
I is it, I guess it's, it's like harmonica almost that it sounds
35:06
like the like to me, it sounds like a little bit of harmonica.
35:10
And to me that swamp. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
35:14
But. I, I, I do agree with you.
35:16
I, I didn't like, put my finger on that.
35:18
There are a lot of like random points in the song that are like
35:20
very disorienting. And then you're like, oh, we're
35:22
back. Yeah, we're, we're back.
35:26
So I I think that's a good way of wording it, yeah.
35:28
So ratings, Riley, what's, what's your ratings?
35:35
So objectively, I'm going to say like, I don't know, like a nine
35:43
out of 10, I think. I think when you have a song
35:45
that's so memeable, it can't be a 10 out of 10.
35:48
I but I mean, it's a really good album, I think was that?
35:53
Your object really well, was it. Nine, yeah.
35:55
Yeah, yeah. OK.
35:56
Alright, perfect. But I think like, but like both
36:00
of us said, there are some songs that felt like they didn't fit
36:03
where they were supposed to be. There's some parts that felt
36:06
like a little out of place, and there were some parts where I
36:11
was talking about just like the way they say things is nasally.
36:16
Nasally is the word I've been looking for this whole time.
36:19
And I get at the end, nasally, they get way too nasally.
36:23
And I'm like, you could have done that again.
36:25
And it just made it slightly more like acceptable.
36:29
Acceptable. Like from an objective
36:31
standpoint. Personally, I'm giving it a nine
36:36
and a half. I really liked this album.
36:40
Sue me, make fun of me. I don't care.
36:43
It wasn't a what? Like the the album that I hold
36:47
all things up to. It was not Arcade Fire in a
36:51
world of discovery. Like I didn't all of a sudden
36:53
have a song that anytime it comes on I scream like a crown
36:58
of love. In case you're wondering, I like
37:00
scream about how we have to listen to it.
37:03
Anytime I'm driving to someone, I have to shush them to listen
37:06
to the song. But it's still a really good
37:10
album and one that I really liked it.
37:12
It had the elements of the grunge and rock that I do like
37:17
side of things and musical side of that, while also being more
37:20
chill and having a little bit more of like that vibe too.
37:25
New bucket list item though. Listen to Oasis on a Beach.
37:30
I feel like that would hit Oasis on Beach.
37:35
I can see that that's what I want.
37:37
Especially the the beginning of Champagne supernova.
37:40
So it's like, yeah, which which waves are you here?
37:42
It has. An island vibe to it.
37:44
I don't know why it has an island vibe to it to me, but it
37:47
does. So now I want to listen to Oasis
37:50
on a beach there. You go. 9.5.
37:54
Excellent, so my close to you my objective rating was a 9.5 again
38:02
personal rating 8.5. I just thought it was a good
38:05
album and I can I can make it through, like you said,
38:10
Wonderwall, like it doesn't bother me as much as it does
38:13
you, just because I think that's a generational thing with the
38:18
memes and whatnot. But it was it was very good to
38:23
me. So song of the week rally.
38:27
Which song of the week all. Right, My song of the week was
38:32
gonna be something it was. I had so many different songs of
38:35
the week, 'cause now it's 2. Now it's like 2 weeks between
38:37
filming or sometimes more. So now it's like, oh, I have a
38:41
lot of songs that keep coming up.
38:43
I I'll say honorable mention the entirety of the new Harry Styles
38:47
album except for Aperture. Sorry, I played a little bit for
38:52
you. He was just in town.
38:53
So we played a little bit. Really good album, really strong
38:57
album. However, yesterday and the final
39:02
parts of trying to figure out what song of the week will be
39:05
you found your song of. The week.
39:07
Song came on and I realized that it couldn't be anything else.
39:15
Forever by Noah Con. I hadn't heard this song in a
39:21
while. It doesn't normally come up on
39:22
my playlist the way other Noah Con songs come on, but brother
39:29
did it destroy me when it came out.
39:31
It is such a good song. It was like the last edition to
39:35
finish up Stick season for him was this song and he released it
39:40
and like the first part of it is like this slow, sad, like really
39:46
somber type feeling to it. And it's beautiful.
39:53
It's beautiful. And then he throws in this a
39:59
little woo and you're like, oh, what What's happening now?
40:03
And all of a sudden it's a fun, happy song again.
40:07
And it's like, when did this happen?
40:08
You just like destroyed me. And now it's like this sweet
40:12
little like, oh, funny memories between us.
40:14
It's like, no, you can't do that to me.
40:19
But just a beautiful song all throughout.
40:23
The lyrics are beautiful, so fun.
40:27
I really like this song. I'll say my favorite lyric in
40:31
this song that always stands out to me is the well, it's a happy
40:37
song if like I won't be alone for the rest of my life talking
40:42
about how he'll find this girl someday, like he won't be alone.
40:46
And the lyric that I love is I broke a bone that never healed
40:50
in my hand. So when I hold her close, I
40:52
might loosen my grip, but I won't ever let her go.
40:55
Which like listening to it at first was like, oh, that's just
40:57
a beautiful symbol. Like, oh, you might back away,
41:00
come closer at some points. Like there's an ebb and flow to
41:02
relationships, but you'll always be there.
41:04
And in his little interview about the song, he's like, no, I
41:06
actually did break a bone in my hand and never got it fixed.
41:08
So like that actually, if I hold my hand in a certain way too
41:11
long, it hurts. So I can't do that.
41:13
Like it was like such a like a real thing That was so funny.
41:19
But a serious 1 is the lyric when forever was a sentence
41:24
sentenced to death. You were running tear.
41:28
I was a drop of sweat and the edges of your soul I haven't
41:30
seen yet. Now I'm glad I get forever to
41:33
see where you end. It's like he was describing it
41:37
in his interview as well, but it was like growing like he was as
41:40
he was growing up. The idea of having to live so
41:43
much longer was like horrible to him.
41:45
He didn't want it. It was awful.
41:47
It was a sentence to death. Like, it was like the worst
41:49
thing he could imagine happening to him.
41:51
And like, I think a lot of people can relate to that.
41:54
If like when you're in a weird teenage high school phase where
41:57
it's like, yeah, so much is going to happen, but it's also
41:59
like, not going to happen for me.
42:01
Like it's, it's a hard feeling to have.
42:03
And then to have the moment where you, like, you meet
42:05
someone or you find something and you're like, I'm so excited
42:09
I get forever to spend with you or forever to do this and be
42:13
here. And all of that is such a cool
42:16
thing to like, write a song about, and it's such a good
42:20
message. Anyway, that's my favorite song.
42:23
I listened to it like 10 times yesterday.
42:25
Don't come for me. So my my song of the week is one
42:31
of these things is not like the other.
42:34
This will not fit in but to your song of the week to the album.
42:39
But there's a story behind it. So Riley and and that's why it's
42:43
the song of the week, because just a little insight.
42:47
So Riley mentioned I was in town last week and in Knoxville for a
42:53
conference and you may have, can't remember who I told the
42:55
story to, but I did tell it somebody.
42:57
So I was sitting out in the hallway talking to some people
43:02
and, you know, while the conference was going on and
43:06
there's about four or five of us there and there was a bench.
43:11
Somebody was standing and I was literally sitting on the floor.
43:14
We were doing something and somebody mentioned going to
43:19
Starbucks and so family see Riley's just in our family that
43:27
elicits a response. And so you have talked Riley's
43:31
laughing for if we get the video working this time, you'll see
43:34
this. So and, and Riley, I think
43:39
you've mentioned it on the podcast sometimes where we have
43:42
things in our family that sometimes we'll say out loud and
43:44
then it gets no response because it's a family thing.
43:49
That's exactly what happened here.
43:52
So somebody said they were going to Starbucks and and I said
43:56
don't need no Starbucks. Obviously.
43:59
Stared at me and I'm like well, they.
44:02
Obviously did not have a little girl in the height.
44:05
This is true of. A fandom.
44:07
So this is my song of the week that I will start playing for
44:12
you and many people will know it right from the beginning because
44:16
they did too. So everybody there was like, I
44:23
know that song. And they were like, what does
44:26
that mean? I was like, OK, well, let me let
44:29
me go to the lyrics so that I can play this for you.
44:37
Here we go. So don't need no Starbucks.
44:42
So you know, when that song came out, Riley loved the song.
44:46
So therefore the family love the song as well along.
44:52
So now any time somebody says Starbucks, I say most of the
44:56
time I'm able to keep it internally.
44:57
But this time I said it out loud and got strange looks.
45:02
So in the middle of a conference, an IT conference, no
45:06
doubt, where you know, we all are, we all got our nerd.
45:09
I'm going on, I'm having to play star of Starbucks.
45:13
I'm having to play Baby by Justin Bieber.
45:17
They. Obviously did not have a little
45:19
girl. Yeah, Ludacris is the is the is
45:23
the rapper, and so I'm blasting that from my little computer so
45:30
that everybody can hear it in the middle of a concert.
45:34
So yeah, I had that song on my like iPod mini, like the little
45:39
clip on thing. I had it on iTunes.
45:43
I bought the music video or y'all bought the music video for
45:47
me on iTunes. And so I would just sit there
45:49
watching the bowling music video and you know what?
45:56
I'll I'll say it. Still a good song.
45:59
I I still like if it comes on stands.
46:01
Up. I'm not changing the station.
46:03
I I agree, you know, So yeah, it's like I said, it doesn't fit
46:09
with the rest of the album, doesn't fit with your song of
46:12
the week, but yet here we are. And that's.
46:16
So funny it doesn't fit with any of your songs of the week ever.
46:19
No, no, it doesn't fit. That's.
46:22
Why I think it's so funny. So, you know, guilty, guilty
46:25
pleasure songs, this, this would be one of them.
46:27
Because I agree if this comes on, I'm not changing it.
46:30
And maybe that's some nostalgia in there as well, but you know,
46:35
all right, so we'll. Have to make sure it gets played
46:38
at the brother pods wedding. That's our one request.
46:42
There we go, There we go. Baby we'll.
46:44
See if we can hit the DJ up several times.
46:46
Hey man, I know you just played this but one more time but.
46:49
Like we need it. Follow it up with Wonderwall.
46:54
Wonderwall. There you go.
46:55
So, all right, so there's a song of the week, so go listen to
47:00
that one. And now may that be a family
47:03
thing and all of your families when somebody says Starbucks,
47:07
you are now required to don't need.
47:09
No Starbucks. Don't need no Starbucks.
47:11
And if you can, if you can learn the whole rap from Ludacris,
47:15
that would be awesome as well. I'm I.
47:18
Know the part where it's like you?
47:19
Used to be able to do it. You probably can't anymore.
47:21
Can I? Beat when I see her on the
47:22
street and yeah, so it's cool on the playground.
47:26
But but I really want. To see her on the weekend all.
47:29
Right, Riley, this brings us to our next album.
47:34
You mentioned last week we're hitting a a patch of good ones.
47:39
What is our? Generational Run.
47:42
Our next drawing is one that will make our family very happy,
47:47
specifically Mama Pod. This is about to be her favorite
47:51
week listening to music with you.
47:52
In the house this week is The Joshua Tree by U2, the album
47:58
that everyone was forced to listen to because it was just on
48:01
your iTunes. Yeah, was.
48:05
It best album or was it a different U2 album that wasn't?
48:07
That that wasn't that one, OK. I know it was U2 though.
48:10
Yeah, it was. It was I.
48:12
Was too young to really remember.
48:13
I just remember it's U2 anyway. Joshua Tree.
48:17
Yeah, Joshua was. Like.
48:19
Joshua Tree was like 90, 4 maybe, yeah.
48:24
I just remember the IT being AU two album.
48:26
It's a anyway. It's an older album U. 2 is. 87
48:32
So it's a. It's a.
48:33
It's well before iTunes. This is just confirming to me
48:37
that Mama Pod's ideal music is late 80s.
48:41
This. Is this is a good one?
48:44
I like this one too. She loves her 80s music, Yeah,
48:49
and. And it hit another generation
48:53
because I don't know when it was, but with or without you was
48:59
big moment in friends, the TV show.
49:02
So if you're a big fan of that, you, you know, the scene that
49:06
I'm talking about. But yeah, so that introduced,
49:09
you know, things like that. Introduce it to a brand new set
49:13
of fans and. Then the keeps.
49:15
Going so. Forced download to you too.
49:18
Yeah, that was a way. I was.
49:20
I was. I was way later.
49:22
I know, but it I knew the band name from that most people know
49:26
the band my age, know the band really through that through.
49:29
That and then then you go in and you start listening to some of
49:31
their stuff. You're like, oh, OK, they're
49:34
pretty good. All right, so you too, Joshua
49:40
Tree. Go give that a listen.
49:42
Also go find us on the Socials. Barba Barba Barber cuts in the
49:52
background there. Barber cuts pod X Instagram,
49:56
YouTube, we're all over the place.
49:59
The Beyoncé went in on YouTube having some difficulties trying
50:04
to figure out how to get things to record with sound, so we're
50:07
still working through that, but forgive us anyone has.
50:10
Advice. And so we are working through
50:13
those. But in the meantime, I'm Todd
50:16
and. I'm Riley and this was another
50:18
episode of Barber Cuts.