Latest / Deprogrammed Music Podcast / Neil Diamond

Transcript

Neil Diamond · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

0:33
It's Deprogrammed, the podcast where we try to get you into an
0:37
artist. That's right, we've done all the
0:38
work for you and all you have to do is push play and listen.
0:42
That's right the work, the the work of listening, the work of
0:46
parsing the work of compiling lists has been done by us and
0:51
we're going we're getting together today to present you
0:54
with a top 10 starter kit list. My name is Justin and I tried to
0:59
do better at that. I am band curious and I like to
1:02
talk to my friends about artists that they like and today you
1:06
know, can we go how how simple can we go we can go sweet
1:10
Caroline we can go we can go we will today be forever in blue
1:15
jeans. There's many ways to go, but the
1:18
best way to say it is today we're talking about Neil Diamond
1:22
in in the order. This may not have gone the way
1:25
it it went, but on the order, on the sheet, Chris went first.
1:29
And I think it was just because he told me that you guys wanted
1:32
to do this. This may have been after our,
1:34
our last episode. So talk to me about Neil Diamond
1:38
and and the impossible task of of of Neil Diamond on this
1:43
program, Chris. So yeah, Neil Diamond has always
1:48
been in my life. Again, it's one of those
1:51
musicians my dad introduced me to, My dad introduced me.
1:54
There's so much great music. This is one of them.
1:57
And yeah, let's do it a bunch growing up.
2:00
Listened to it a bunch when I was younger, a young man, his.
2:05
I've always loved Neil Diamond. Just an amazing songwriter.
2:12
Way too much to do everything. I mean, you could do a
2:14
championship edition. He's got like over 300 songs
2:19
since then. Yeah, but he's just always been
2:22
a part of my life. He's an amazing songwriter, very
2:26
talented and unique singer and voice.
2:30
Yeah. And I mean, and there's more to
2:33
it too. I'm very curious to to get your
2:36
take on this, Marlene, because it's interesting.
2:40
Neil Diamond doesn't strike me like a lot of the bands and and
2:43
artists that we've we've all done together make sense for a
2:46
husband, wife duo to come on the show to do.
2:49
Not that it's inconceivable that a husband and wife could both
2:53
like Neil Diamond, but it it is weird isn't the word I want to
2:58
look I'm looking for, but it is. I don't know what the word I'm
3:02
looking for it. It didn't strike me as a parent,
3:06
even though it is kind of adjacent to some of the things
3:09
we've done so far. So what is it about Neil Diamond
3:13
for you, Marlene? You, you know, I also grew up
3:16
listening to Neil Diamond. You know, we were kids in the
3:18
70s. He was quite big in the 70s.
3:21
I remember when Reverend Blue Jeans was released and it was
3:25
huge. So I guess, yeah, you know,
3:30
yeah, I would. Neil Diamond was just in the
3:33
70s. He was everywhere, so you know.
3:40
I just, I would guess that that would be the difference here,
3:45
right? Like, you know, because that
3:49
doesn't exist in the 90s. Like of course Neil Diamond
3:52
exists in the 90s. Like, you know, that's not, it's
3:55
not that it's just we didn't live it.
3:58
So like, it would be different being there and being part of it
4:04
versus even, you know, probably in the late 8.
4:07
Like I was, AI was a real young, young lad in the late 80s and I
4:13
was coming into my own as a teenager in the 90s.
4:17
Like Neil Diamond would pass right over me.
4:21
Oh yeah, right. Like, of course there was songs
4:24
I knew, but like, he would pass right over me.
4:27
Unless, unless he lived it, You're not.
4:29
It's not something on your radar.
4:33
Yeah, I would agree with that unless you've lived it.
4:36
Although my 20 how old is Douglas?
4:42
2223 year old nephew loves Neil Diamond.
4:48
That's interesting. Yeah, but of course his parents
4:51
introduced him to Neil Diamond. Right.
4:53
Yeah, there you go. Right.
4:55
And I mean, part of that too is like, kids are kids these days.
4:59
And, you know, maybe this is more, I mean, just proof one of
5:03
your children has been on this program.
5:05
They're, they're very open to like everything nowadays.
5:10
And so I mean, it, that doesn't shock me as much as.
5:17
Yeah, I don't know where I was going with that.
5:19
I I don't think it shocks me at all other than if your parents
5:24
introduce it to you and kids these days, like I said, are
5:30
just open to it. So let's talk about the
5:34
impossible task here, Chris. You managed to wrestle together
5:39
95 songs. We didn't take, I don't think
5:41
very many full albums. It's a lot of pick and choose,
5:44
kind of like how we did Sparks. It still lands up 95 songs.
5:49
So this was still a monstrous task.
5:51
Talk to me about how you compiled that for like what you
5:55
chose, like how you chose that initial list, and then talk to
5:59
me about the arduous task of getting down to 20.
6:03
So I went through the 1st playlist I put together.
6:07
I did all of his studio records. I forget how many records there
6:14
were, but it was like over over 300 songs.
6:18
A ridiculous amount of hours. Impossible.
6:22
So I decided we'll go with the singles and B sides.
6:26
So I went to, you know, to wiki, found the list of all the
6:30
singles and the B sides and just threw them in the playlist.
6:34
And there's one or two other ones in there that weren't
6:38
released as singles that but are like kind of essential Neil
6:43
Diamonds that I threw on there for shits and giggles.
6:47
So making the list wasn't bad. There's a lot.
6:50
There's so much more Neil Diamond out there.
6:53
That's that is really good. That was not on this list.
6:59
And then, yeah, that's how I put the list together and then cut
7:03
it down. Are we at that part talking
7:06
about how we put the list? Together, yeah.
7:07
How did you get to 20 man so. 20 was rough.
7:10
It was so hard. I hadn't listened to Neil
7:12
regularly for quite a while and had forgotten how much I just
7:19
fucking love Neil Diamond. So many good songs and it's so
7:24
hard to cut. There's there's at least 15
7:28
songs that I'm like, they belong on my top 20.
7:32
But I I didn't keep for one reason or another.
7:35
There's some on my 20 that probably don't belong here to,
7:39
but I kept for reasons. So, yeah, it was hard.
7:44
And even today, I, I made changes today, you know, we've
7:49
been ready to record for a week or two and I'm, I'm still like,
7:54
yeah, no, you know what? Today I like the song better
7:56
than the song. It was tough.
7:59
It was tough. It, it feels like that's kind of
8:01
the, the going thing for, for this panel.
8:03
Marlene, I, you know, I, I, I haven't spoke to you about it,
8:07
but I, I heard through the Grapevine, as it were, that you
8:11
were having a hard go with this too.
8:13
I was. It was a lot harder than I
8:15
expected because, like Chris, I haven't listened to Neil Diamond
8:18
regularly in a couple of decades probably.
8:23
And yeah, you just, every song is so much nostalgia.
8:31
It's hard to separate that and choose the ones that are
8:38
actually just good aside from the, the nostalgia, you know?
8:43
Oh yeah. Which because there are so many
8:45
good songs too. I mean, like Chris said, he's an
8:49
amazing, amazing songwriter. And I, I don't know, just it was
8:54
very hard. And I also was making changes
8:57
this afternoon. And there was a lot of stuff
9:01
that I hadn't even heard, but you know, his later stuff that
9:04
he put out in the 90s into the 2000s.
9:08
Like there's a couple records, this one that was came out in
9:11
2008, Home Before Dark. I don't think I ever even
9:14
listened to anything off of that record.
9:16
And and it has great. Songs on it there's.
9:19
There's great songs on there, so I had to add those to the ones
9:22
that, you know, have a hold of my heart and and choose from
9:25
those two. Yeah, it was a struggle.
9:28
I'll say that this was much harder than I would have
9:34
imagined. Like when you think of of Neil
9:37
Diamond, like I don't for for people my age.
9:43
It was he's almost not quite a joke, but it's it's like lounge
9:48
singer, you know, like so it it it it kind of gets downgraded.
9:54
You know what I mean? Like you think of Vegas and to
9:58
be fair, like that's part of the shtick too, right?
10:00
Like he he would definitely do, you know, stints in Vegas.
10:05
But like I it, it was, it's much better than Sweet Caroline.
10:13
Like it, it is so much better than than what you think.
10:19
And that's not to say sweet Caroline's bad.
10:21
That's not to say it's not going to get anywhere in this
10:23
conversation. We'll come to that, you know, as
10:25
we go on. But like, it is to say that the
10:29
exhaustion of Sweet Caroline and the joke that it's kind of the
10:33
meme that it's kind of become is not all that Neil Diamond is.
10:39
Now, I'll also say like some of these songs I was familiar with
10:44
from my acquaintance with the Mike and Bob Show here in
10:48
Norfolk, they used to be all over Neil Diamond and 70s kids.
10:54
So it makes sense they loved him and they would forever be
10:59
quoting and playing Neil Diamond songs during their show.
11:03
So like there would be these like different nostalgia because
11:06
you're you guys, your nostalgia is like tied to your, you know,
11:11
your childhood and growing up and stuff.
11:13
And mine is tied to my like 20s and and partying with the Mike
11:18
and Bob show. Like it.
11:20
It's interesting to because that is 22,005, 2006, something like
11:27
that, where I'm getting introduced to these other Neil
11:30
Diamond songs that I didn't know.
11:33
So it made this list. There became there became these
11:39
songs like where it's like, yeah, that, yeah, that, yeah,
11:42
that for sure. But then these other ones that
11:45
I'd never heard before was like, well, shit, like this is really
11:50
good. You guys have mentioned a couple
11:53
times what a tremendous songwriter.
11:56
And like, that needs to be said because that is at the
12:02
forefront. Like he's not.
12:05
These aren't lyrics. Like the lyrics are at the
12:07
forefront. And I mean, I wish I had just a
12:11
little bit more time so like I could bring that to the table.
12:14
Like to talk about like as far as like which lyrics I like the
12:17
most, but like that's that Neil is the story here.
12:23
Like the music is good, right? Like there's, there's lots of
12:27
good musical accompaniment, but like it's all about him and it's
12:31
all about how he's performing and what he's singing and it's,
12:37
I don't know, man, like it, it was surprisingly harder than I
12:42
thought it was going to be. I think I had like 49 or
12:44
something like that on 1st pass. And I was like, oh, great.
12:48
And you know, as you're going through them, like it's like,
12:51
well, yeah, this is in, this is in.
12:53
And then so my, my real second pass, I think I had only gotten
12:57
rid of nine songs. So I was still at like 40.
13:00
I was like, oh God, like, I guess I got a fine tooth comb
13:03
these. And you know, then that's when
13:05
you start losing things for, you know, reasons.
13:09
And we'll see how that plays out in this in the actual gameplay.
13:16
But you know, that all that said, it's already 95 songs.
13:21
It's I it feels like there's home runs out there, Chris, but
13:27
how many do you think there are? Like, how many do you think
13:30
we're going to get through unanimously?
13:32
Yeah. That's that's a tough question
13:36
because, you know, all of our tastes are different.
13:40
How hard do we lead towards nostalgia?
13:44
IA lot of my list I kept for I did do some album
13:48
representation. So there's some on my list that
13:52
may not necessarily have been someone else's, I don't know,
13:55
but there's so many just like, yeah, this is this is this is
14:00
got to be on there. This one's got to be on there.
14:02
There's so many hits that are just like, everyone should know
14:06
these songs. So I don't know.
14:08
I'm going to go. I'm going to go. 6.
14:14
I thought 7 maybe, but again, there's there's there's at least
14:20
a dozen where I'm like, we all should have this song, but as we
14:24
know that never works. 12345 I mean you know, to be fair I got
14:30
6 answers on threads so maybe. I did look at.
14:35
Friends, it's probably a good idea.
14:41
It's just Instagram, but without pictures.
14:46
Yeah, Marlene, like so Chris is taking 6 off the board, which I
14:51
think with 95 songs is pretty optimistic.
14:53
Are you as optimistic? I am not that optimistic, no.
14:57
I was thinking free for it the most.
15:03
So I guess I'm going to go with three.
15:07
I, I think there's, you know, I think there's a lot of things
15:11
that Chris and I will have in common, but I think that you're
15:14
going to be the, the wild card. I'll be the spoiler.
15:18
Yep. Great, can't wait to let
15:22
everybody down. No.
15:27
I want to air on the side of, of positivity and I want to air on
15:30
the side that because it, you know, there's the six that that
15:34
showed up, I'm looking at like 2 songs that somehow didn't come
15:38
up that feels like they should be on there.
15:42
I, it's crazy that I honestly don't think 8 is out of the
15:47
question. I don't think I'm going to go
15:52
with eight, but it it I'm looking at 8 that feel like they
15:58
could be right, but it all just kind of depends.
16:03
Shoot, I'm going to go with my first instinct though.
16:06
I'm going to take 5 off the board. 5 is a nice little middle
16:10
number and I'm going to go with that.
16:13
Is it price is right rules? Nope, you got to hit it right
16:17
on. No, no, you got to nail it.
16:18
And what if none of us nail it? Yeah, we just work our way all
16:22
the way to 10, so OK already. I mean, the good news is if we
16:26
overshoot and then we only got to figure out, you know, 2-3,
16:32
maybe even 1. So, OK, all right, we are going
16:35
to let me get my keyboard here, take a quick pause, and when we
16:38
come back, we want to play the game.
16:40
It's deprogrammed. And with that, the name of the
16:49
game is deprogrammed. The three of us have combed
16:53
through a very select a very select number 95 to be exact, of
16:59
Neil Diamond songs that we have each plucked 20 songs out of and
17:03
we are now going to mash together in an attempt to create
17:05
a top 10 starter kit for you. In case you have never done the
17:10
the semi deep dive on Neil Diamond, this is probably going
17:14
to come out as the greatest hits.
17:15
That's a OK, because even the greatest everyone should know
17:19
who Neil Diamond is. Seriously.
17:21
He he really is a tremendous songwriter and I've got a a
17:26
great deal more respect for him. So the question becomes, do I do
17:33
one of the hits? There's a bit that I can do
17:36
right here off the top. There's the one song that you
17:39
know we're going to have to talk about sometime here.
17:43
Which one do I do, I wonder? Do.
17:47
The bit. You want me to do the bit, I'll
17:49
do the bit. Do.
17:50
The bit. Do the bit.
17:51
So there is a bit that that came up on the Bell and Dub show and
18:00
it it came about from several different GIFs over the years
18:05
that had this song title in it. I loved the song, but it just
18:10
happened to also have a great, great bit involved with it.
18:14
So how about do it? Shit, no, that's such a good
18:23
song. But no, I didn't even think that
18:26
never occurred to me. Oh my God, I can't believe that
18:29
didn't occur to me, to Bella Dove's connection to do it.
18:33
Do it. I also do not have do it.
18:35
Yeah, right. I took the swing with with the
18:37
bit. I, I, you know.
18:40
That's what I can't believe. It didn't pop into my head.
18:43
That's what I get for going with the bit off the top.
18:46
OK, that's all right. That's all right.
18:49
Where do you want to go, Chris? All right, since we're being
18:53
funny, I'll do the one that I don't think anyone's going to
18:56
have. But I kept it because it's it.
19:01
It's got to be a parody song. It's got to be.
19:05
And that's fucking hilarious. But he plays it so seriously.
19:10
But it's also kind of funny. The pot smokers song.
19:12
Oh. Dude, I can't believe somebody
19:15
picked that. I love this song.
19:18
I fucking love this song. It's all happy.
19:21
And then they go into these serious stories that are so
19:25
ridiculous they cannot be true. I'm like, this has got to be
19:29
some kind of parity, you know, the the fear of pot back in, I
19:34
forget when it came out sometime in the 60s about the guy like
19:38
injected. Yeah.
19:40
Pot and acid into his spine and shit.
19:46
It's so good and I knew no one was going to have it and I kept
19:50
going. You know what, I should take
19:51
this off my list because nobody's going to have it.
19:54
But I just, I really love this song.
19:58
But you know, I I considered it. I'm not going to act like it was
20:01
a Nah never because it is a nice thing to show that like it isn't
20:08
all love songs and bend down women.
20:12
And it's there's kind of a joke in there too.
20:15
Like it's, it's cool to see like a different side of them.
20:21
Yeah. But I I have I have of course
20:23
did not take it so. Yeah, nor did I. 1968 is what
20:28
it's been about, all right? And yeah, it's just, oh God,
20:31
there's so those little vignettes in there are so good.
20:37
All right, Marlene. My turn.
20:39
OK, I'm going to go with this. Is the song that the first song
20:45
off of the radio that I learned the words to?
20:50
My grandmother knew this. It was one of her favorite
20:52
songs. So she taught me the words and
20:56
we would sing along to the radio together and it's song sung
20:59
blue. Yeah.
21:03
Yeah, I got it. OK, no that is an answer I got
21:07
though I don't, I don't have that one.
21:10
That one you know, does nothing to say this, but it definitely
21:13
was on my first pass. I got to bring up the search
21:18
function cause song song. That's just one of those
21:25
classic. Yep.
21:27
The old diamond. There's I'm looking at a lot of
21:32
these songs that. I was, yeah.
21:34
I was probably 5 when I learned the words to this song.
21:37
Oh, wow. Yeah.
21:41
Wow of. Course, when did it come out
21:46
this? Maybe I was 8, I don't know.
21:49
I mean, even still. Yeah.
21:53
All right, all right, let's let's do a temperature, a room
22:01
temperature here with this one. How about crackling Rosie?
22:07
Got it. Uh oh, Uh oh.
22:21
Is that a no from you then, Chris?
22:25
Chris, Did we lose Chris? You know, apparently I got muted
22:34
for some reason. No correct.
22:37
I I have it. It was.
22:39
It was when I went back and forth on Keaton, but in the end
22:43
it's such a great, great deal, Diamond song and again, one of
22:46
those classics that I ended up having to keep it.
22:51
I think this is one that I came to realize was like a hit or or
23:00
at least a radio song, and it's one that we got a lot of a lot
23:04
of answers for. But I loved it before any of
23:10
that. I was like, oh, this is great.
23:11
And I feel like it really showcases what I'm looking for
23:15
when I was when I was coming through my list.
23:18
He's front and center. Yep.
23:22
All right, Cracklin, Rosie, we got one.
23:25
Boom. Dig that?
23:28
All right, Chris. Let's do one.
23:33
We went and saw the Broadway show based on his life,
23:40
Beautiful Noise and I and I, I knew that a lot of his songs
23:44
were written like about his life and stuff, but not like I didn't
23:48
realize how many of his songs like came from his experiences,
23:52
his life experience. It was it's a great show if you
23:55
get a chance to see it. If you like Neil Diamond, it's
23:58
an amazing show. But this is 1, you know, based
24:01
on childhood and what? Brooklyn Rhodes.
24:08
Nope. No.
24:11
Oh wow. Wow.
24:15
And as a shy, introverted kid, that that song, that song talks
24:20
to me so. Yeah, this, this has a potential
24:25
of messy. It's just, it's just a lot takes
24:29
6. Yeah, it's, it's a lot and it's
24:31
not. There isn't.
24:33
There was no easy outs, you know.
24:37
So when whenever that's the case, you know, anybody could
24:39
come with anything. All right, Marlene all.
24:46
Right, I don't know, how about honey dripping times?
24:56
No. Nah, I didn't expect, I don't
24:59
expect anybody else to have this one, but it just reminded me of
25:04
something else and I don't know what it was.
25:06
I never could pin it down, but it's just a fun song.
25:10
That's a great. Point, though, I, I love that
25:13
point. I I think you said something
25:15
deeper than you meant to say. There's a lot of that with Neil
25:21
because he's such a great songwriter and storyteller.
25:25
Like I feel like a lot of times you feel like, you know, like it
25:29
puts you somewhere and it, you feel like you know the song.
25:34
For me, I would guess probably at least 70 to 80.
25:39
These songs I wasn't familiar with, but I there was a
25:43
familiarity to them and I know for a fact I hadn't heard them.
25:48
And I think that's just a familiarity with him and a
25:52
familiarity with his storytelling, like him being
25:56
able to remind me of something that I shouldn't be able to be
26:01
reminded of. I don't know if I'm making
26:03
sense. So I got you.
26:08
More or less, yeah. I, it felt like I, I had a great
26:13
point. And then like as I'm trying to
26:15
form the words in my face, I'm like, I can't, I can't put this
26:19
into words, right? So, all right, this got no love.
26:27
I couldn't believe nobody brought this up.
26:30
This feels like it could be a good barometer, too.
26:32
How about you don't bring me flowers?
26:34
I. Don't have that one.
26:38
Oh. No, I'll take that too, though
26:40
the way it's going, I'll. I I brought that back today.
26:44
I considered it, but at the end of the day, it was just another
26:56
end of the love affair song that, you know, I just it it
27:03
was, yeah. There's a lot more.
27:07
Yeah, he had a lot of those because he went through a lot of
27:11
that. Yeah.
27:14
And yeah, I, I kept that one. Pretty sure spoilers.
27:18
That's the only one I kept. I won't say which one I cut for
27:24
this one, but yeah, he's got a lot of those Love is Gone songs.
27:31
Yeah. Yeah.
27:33
All right. Well, we'll take that too.
27:35
The way it's going, That's all right.
27:38
I initially got it because I like the one with Dolly Parton
27:42
the duet better. Yeah.
27:44
But but then I brought it back. Chris, where you want to go?
27:50
All right, I'm going to go with my favorite Brother Loves
27:54
Travelling salvation show. You know it, baby.
27:56
Oh, I'm yeah, I'm glad to hear that.
27:59
That one was a very, very late, tough, tough, tough cut for me.
28:05
Oh cut, brother love. Oh yeah.
28:08
Dude, I'm I can't. Talk to.
28:10
You ever again? That'll be an easy that's an
28:13
easy sell on the next, next round for me.
28:17
I loved it, but like it, I don't know, something about it felt
28:21
out of place. And because of where it showed
28:25
up in in the in the playlist, it was still like kind of somewhere
28:29
in the middle. I had so much left to go
28:32
afterwards, like I was kind of, you know, going towards one
28:37
thing. So like, I don't know man, if if
28:40
I probably would have had maybe one more listen, it probably
28:46
would have made my list, which is why I'm saying like I'll be
28:50
an easy sell on that one next round.
28:52
Great I forgot this. I thought about the live version
28:56
of it on the playlist because the live versions are definitely
29:00
better than the studio version. But he like he closed every
29:05
show. Every show was closed with
29:07
Brother and Child and Salvation Show.
29:09
Oh. Sorry, great.
29:13
That would have been knowledge that I should have, would have
29:18
probably would have put it on my list if I would have known them.
29:22
Yeah. Well, what can you do?
29:25
Yeah, Marlene, I don't know. Should we just go to Sweet
29:33
Caroline? I mean, it's got to come up
29:36
eventually, right? Yeah.
29:38
Might as well just get it over with, sweet Caroline.
29:41
Yeah, I got it. Yeah, it's one of these.
29:44
Yeah, You know, it's one of the songs I almost cut it and you
29:46
don't have to. It is his most famous song.
29:50
It is not. And it's a good song.
29:52
It's a great song. It's a fun song, Yeah, but.
29:56
It's a great song, it's fantastically written.
29:59
I wanted to cut it because of the whole Red Sox tradition of
30:03
playing it at in in Fenway 'cause I fucking hate the Red
30:07
Sox. But no, you can't cut that song.
30:11
I love that song. Yeah, I, I wanted to cut it.
30:14
I I was so close. I was so close.
30:18
I was too, but again, kind of the reason I considered it was
30:22
for reasons more than the song, like pop culture's got a hold of
30:26
it. And, you know, I was talking
30:29
about it earlier today on, on after the fact on the on the
30:34
show we did earlier today. And, you know, we were talking
30:38
about how in our 20s, like people at the bar used to like
30:43
sing it at the top of their lungs.
30:44
And it just kind of reminds you some of the bad times, you know,
30:48
but to that point, it also reminds me of some of the good
30:52
times. We were talking about the Mike
30:53
and Bob show. And we used to go to Crocodile
30:56
Rocks and it was a dueling piano bar.
30:59
And they would they would do this at some point in the night.
31:03
And we would, instead of doing the bop, bop bop, we would
31:08
replace that with suck my balls and, and you know, whatever.
31:14
Childish, sure, but we're all 20 year olds drunk in a bar.
31:17
And that is a really good memory.
31:22
I, you know, if this became a thing where we somehow get 11, I
31:29
would be very open to leaving off the list for all of those
31:32
reasons. But there's no way we can do
31:35
this conversation without Sweet Caroline coming up.
31:38
And it rightfully had more than one.
31:41
Like it shouldn't have gone in the bin.
31:43
Truth be told, it really is a unanimous song.
31:47
And so it's it's good that we all have it.
31:49
I just can understand the argument of not.
31:53
All right, the old. Yeah, The only reasons I had
31:55
against it was the whole Boston thing and the whole, you know,
31:59
it's just so popular. It's like, oh God, don't pick
32:02
the most popular song, but you know, there's a reason it's it's
32:05
a, there's a reason it's popular.
32:06
Yes, which is so. Good.
32:08
And it's so our buddy Frank used to sing it at at the Irish pub
32:15
we frequented. And I don't care where you go.
32:19
If you you're in a bar and you sing Sweet Caroline, everyone's
32:23
going. To go.
32:26
Everybody's going to. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to jump
32:30
on you with everything. What were you going to say?
32:33
I don't remember. Oh, no.
32:37
Oh, no. All right, I'll go with this
32:47
one. I'll go to the Jazz Singer.
32:48
How about that? How about America?
32:53
Oh yeah, no. No, I was going to cut Sweet
32:57
Caroline for America. I picked a different one from
33:01
The Jazz Singer and America. Much like Sweet Caroline, I feel
33:10
like it's overdone and that if this is a list of people to
33:15
become familiar with Neil Diamond, then it should be
33:19
things that they haven't heard before.
33:23
Fair enough. Yeah, so.
33:26
When it when it comes to that, I always pretend that if they
33:31
haven't heard a single Neil Diamond stuff.
33:36
That's also true. I mean you know, it's it's
33:40
either or really I I don't know man, I think I let maybe let the
33:46
nostalgia get the better of me with America.
33:50
I mean that's not to say it's not a great song.
33:53
It is, but like it's catchy, it's fun.
33:57
It's, it really reminds me of, I don't know, maybe like somewhere
34:04
between 11:50. I remember hearing that song all
34:06
the time and it just used to put a, a smile on my face.
34:11
And I say used to, it definitely did when it came up on the
34:14
playlist. So, you know, just something
34:16
very fun about it. I guess given the current
34:19
political times it doesn't play as well.
34:21
That's true as it as it used to. Yeah, I mean, we'll see.
34:28
It's it's got a 2. It gets to hang around for, you
34:31
know, another day, Chris. All right, let's see.
34:36
Let's go. Let's do something that would be
34:38
fun. You got to me.
34:44
Made my first pass but not my second.
34:47
Another that I thought about cutting a couple times, but and
34:50
I'd listen to it like, all right, let me listen to this
34:52
again. And that fucking of harmonica
34:54
kicks in and I'm like Nope, Nope, Nope.
34:56
Keeping this one. I can't save you unfortunately I
35:00
feel like. Oh no.
35:02
I feel like we're going to have a lot of bins.
35:03
I mean, it's just the nature of the beast.
35:06
It's the it's the math working out.
35:10
OK. All right, Marlene, how?
35:14
About, I don't know, Cherry Cherry.
35:23
Yeah, I got it. No, I don't.
35:26
Yeah. Great song.
35:27
It was hard, very hard to cut. Yeah, I think this was his first
35:33
hit. Might have been, might have been
35:38
this, might have been solitary man, I'm not sure.
35:40
I think it was this. According to the musical, it was
35:44
this. Oh, we did get this as an answer
35:49
as a well or as well. By the way, somebody did say
35:52
Cherry Cherry so. It is upbeat fun.
36:00
Totally. Yep, look at that.
36:06
Record. Yeah, I'm looking at a song that
36:07
I want to bring back. I can't.
36:10
It's too late. Too late.
36:14
All right, I referenced this already in the show.
36:17
This is an answer that I got again.
36:20
Feels like a barometer test. How about forever and blue
36:23
jeans? You're going to say that I
36:25
didn't keep it? It's.
36:26
A great song. I I did keep it, but I am I kept
36:34
it more for the nostalgia. Like I said, I remember when
36:37
this was released and it was, it was such a big deal.
36:42
I don't know if he hadn't released anything, any singles
36:45
in a while in a couple years, but I just remember there was a
36:49
lot of hoopla around this song when it was released.
36:54
And I don't know it just I, I have a picture.
37:00
The first time I heard it, I was in the car with my mom.
37:04
We were at the post office and it came on the radio and you
37:10
know, my mom went in the post office.
37:12
And back then, you could leave your kids in the car.
37:15
Right. And you know, so I stayed in the
37:19
car to listen to the song. There you go, right?
37:25
Flarever and Blue Jeans gets the two.
37:27
It sounds like it was a week or two from Arlene, but it's a 2
37:32
nonetheless. Chris.
37:36
There were a couple of his very later releases that I wanted to
37:40
keep that are just really, really good.
37:43
Let's bring up one of those How about sunny disposition?
37:46
Nope. No.
37:50
I, I feel bad, I feel like it's going to be hard to find
37:53
anything on, especially on those, those later ones, even
37:56
though it's good. I, you know, he didn't, he
37:59
hasn't lost a step. But I, I feel like I'm not sure
38:07
that I, I have stuff from that, but I, I, I feel like there
38:11
isn't a unanimous that's going to come out of that.
38:14
Sure. All right, Marlene.
38:19
OK, I will do his later stuff too.
38:21
This one. Listening to this one really
38:23
reminded me of Harry Chapin and so I expected Chris to choose
38:27
it, but maybe he didn't. Something blue.
38:32
Oh, no, I had it very late. It didn't make my top 20, but it
38:38
that was one of my last cuts. That's great too.
38:41
Yeah. I don't have it here
38:43
unfortunately. Yep.
38:47
All right, well, I mean, I might as well keep the trend up, eh?
38:52
Let's see if we can find something there.
38:57
I think this is. I mean, it's written late in my
39:01
list. I can't remember which.
39:07
How about I haven't played this song in years?
39:14
Oh, that's another really good one that was hard to count.
39:18
Yes, it was hard to cut. It was, it was on my first pass
39:22
and I think it was still there after my second pass, but.
39:28
We've got a wild bin here like this Bin is like strong.
39:34
Yeah. Yeah.
39:36
All right, Chris all. Right, we got to bring this
39:38
back. How about Shiloh?
39:43
Yeah, yes. Hey.
39:45
There we go. And just like that, we're at.
39:49
That's again the introverted kid song speaking to me.
39:54
Yeah, that's a great song. Just like that, we're at
39:59
Marlene's 3. OK.
40:02
You can feel that pressure. Yeah, yeah.
40:06
Another one that's if there's going to be more unanimous, this
40:14
would probably be 1 is yesterday's songs.
40:18
Nope. No.
40:20
No, again, that was probably top 30, but I did not keep it.
40:27
That would have had to have been on.
40:28
There's too many hits. There's too many greatest hits.
40:30
That is true. There's that.
40:31
I had to and I and I didn't want all of my songs to be, well,
40:35
these are greatest hits. I wanted to try to pick some
40:38
stuff that, you know, not everyone's going to listen to
40:40
right away, but are worthy of, you know, like, hey, this is
40:45
Neil Diamond. It I did find it was hard to try
40:49
to find the balance between the hits and what would essentially
40:55
be a Neil Diamond deep cut, considering like they
40:59
technically wouldn't be deep cuts because a lot of these are
41:02
hits. It's it was a whole wild thing.
41:05
Yeah, All right, Justin, you didn't have yesterday's songs.
41:09
Either I know, unfortunately I cannot save you, no.
41:12
No, it's fine. Like I said, this is not because
41:19
there are so many great songs here.
41:22
None of them are really like, oh, that breaks my heart.
41:26
Yeah. Just, you know, Yeah.
41:29
Yeah. Anyway, yeah.
41:31
I feel like, you know, we'll probably have have them happen
41:35
sometime here soon, yeah. I'm trying to see if there's one
41:44
that I feel like has a shot here.
41:49
I feel like one of those definitely does, but I'll save
41:58
that. Let's try this one.
42:02
How about Holiday Inn Blues? Nope, no, that was def got too.
42:08
It's great song. Great, great song.
42:13
All right, in the bin it goes, Chris.
42:18
Right. Take another shot at a one that
42:23
I believe should be unanimous. I am, I said.
42:28
Yes. That's one that came up a bunch
42:35
on on threads and I'm wishing I would have kind of tried to make
42:41
time to go back and listen to it to see if I can find a space for
42:45
it. I just, I couldn't.
42:51
For the record we had now between the unanimous and the
42:57
twos, we have 10 songs. So worst case scenario at this
43:02
point, if everything bombs, then we just put all our twos in and
43:07
that's our list. So.
43:08
Right. It's worth noting that NTP is
43:11
officially out of play. All right, Marlene.
43:22
September morn. Nope.
43:30
Nope. Because you can tell from the
43:32
unanimous size. Nobody, huh?
43:35
No, that's great song. Very pretty.
43:39
Yeah. Didn't keep it.
43:41
I chose that over the hello again, not the hello again.
43:48
You don't bring me flowers. Understandable.
43:56
All right. Where do I go?
44:04
Where do I? How about signs question mark?
44:10
Nope. No good song, you know.
44:14
Ben, Chris. I'll do one of the newer ones
44:19
that's probably a A1. Pretty Amazing Grace.
44:23
Nope, no. Really like this song.
44:27
That was probably my least favorite song of all the new
44:29
ones. Really.
44:31
Yeah. Interesting.
44:35
Yeah. All right.
44:39
I'm not saying it wasn't a good song.
44:40
Right. Yeah.
44:44
Pardon me. Sorry about that.
44:45
Oh, oh, it's my turn. How about 1 by 1?
44:51
No, no all. Right, we are coming up on dump
44:59
out territory. You'll like where is it?
45:10
There it is. I didn't put this one through,
45:15
I'm not going to lie. This one, this one skated
45:19
through on an Austin Powers reference.
45:23
And I mean, I really like the song.
45:25
So I mean, that helps. But he ain't heavy.
45:28
He's my brother. He's.
45:29
My brother I had it. Hey.
45:31
I didn't keep it because who recorded it, Who made it big?
45:39
Somebody else recorded it. That did it better.
45:43
Oh. I think.
45:47
I wouldn't know. I, I actually put, just put this
45:51
back in this afternoon. Hey.
45:54
I want to say, say, what's his name?
45:58
James Taylor. No.
46:00
Yeah. Now, this is not a James Taylor
46:06
song. 1/2. Originally the was done by The
46:13
Hollies. That was the other reason I cut
46:19
it, because he didn't write it. I didn't know that.
46:24
If I had known that, I wouldn't have put it in here.
46:27
I went with with artists like this.
46:30
I give some grace on that because that happened a lot in
46:36
like the 50s, sixties and probably early 70s.
46:40
Like, yeah, they're cranking out records.
46:42
They're just a lot of it is going to be written by somebody
46:47
else. Yeah.
46:48
So I mean. Neil Diamond, A lot of songs for
46:52
other bands so. Yeah, yeah.
46:56
All right. I'll take that too though.
46:59
And we officially have conversation on the under other
47:01
end of this. So, Chris?
47:07
Oh shit, OK, there's a couple of these that I really love that I
47:13
hope other people have done too soon.
47:16
Yeah, Nope. I got it.
47:18
I love that song so much, and I know it's like a we didn't start
47:24
the fire kind of thing. It's beginning, but yeah, I was
47:27
just naming a bunch of famous people, but great, great too,
47:31
all. Right, we'll take that too.
47:34
And Marlene? Holly Holy.
47:38
Oh yeah. I'm glad to hear that.
47:41
I mean this, this is that same situation where it kept coming
47:44
up and I'm wishing I could have made space just to just to give
47:50
it another listen and see what I missed and see if it was just
47:55
like just not enough room on my list.
47:57
Maybe I don't know but. There's never enough room on the
48:01
list, don't you? Know we are yes no I just love
48:05
the build of this song is amazing.
48:07
To quote your husband in one of the more recent episodes, Fuck
48:12
You Justin Wilson and Fuck D Program.
48:14
Yeah. Nice honey.
48:20
I say that a lot. You kiss your mom with that
48:22
mouth. Not not much.
48:29
All right, let's see what do we got here 123456 I think, I think
48:34
we can safely dump out here, you know all.
48:37
Right. And we'll come up with
48:38
something. Maybe I'll start right at the
48:40
top girl. You'll be a woman soon.
48:44
No, no, no, no. I.
48:47
Won't. I thought about keeping it.
48:51
I thought about keeping. You know what's?
48:53
You know what's funny is I played the game here because
48:59
Chris almost always keeps a problematic song.
49:02
You're right, you're right, and I've thought about it, but it's
49:06
just too creepy for me. It is.
49:08
Creepy it is. And now?
49:10
Now I had to. Say I don't want you to sing
49:12
creepy no, but not say I don't like it.
49:15
I I love that song. I really do.
49:17
But. Yeah, I played the game thinking
49:21
that Chris might have it because he almost always has the one
49:24
problematic song. Yeah, well, that was the pot
49:27
smokers song for me was. I mean, it goes rightfully into
49:33
the bin. Good song.
49:35
Very creepy. All right.
49:38
Sunday Sun. Nope.
49:42
OK, until it's time for you to go.
49:45
Nope. No.
49:49
Diamond Girls. Oh, that's a good song, no?
49:53
All right. And then last two here, Love on
49:55
the rocks. Nope.
49:58
No, that's the one I cut for you.
49:59
Don't bring me flowers. That's a great song.
50:03
I love, love on the rocks, but I brought back the other.
50:05
That one. Kind of shocks me that one.
50:07
Kind of shocks me that I was the only one there.
50:10
And last but not least, hello again.
50:14
Yes. No great song.
50:18
Take a 2 there and it should be noted that that Marlene's 3 is
50:25
going to hold out. So Marlene is going to win and
50:28
we'll get to that as as we go. But Chris, what do you got left?
50:34
I got solitary man. Nope.
50:40
Crunchy granola. Sweet.
50:43
Oh, I cut that for he ain't heavy.
50:44
He's my brother. Beautiful noise.
50:50
Nope. Suleiman.
50:54
Nope. Is 1 I thought would be a three.
50:59
Love that song and headed for the future.
51:02
Nope. I love the I love a song that,
51:06
like, break incorporates like pipes and anvils and shit like
51:12
that. Yeah, like that song?
51:17
What was the one before headed for the future?
51:21
Sulaimong, all right, Sulaimong. Love that song.
51:29
SO how do you spell it? I know it's in here.
51:32
That one hurts. That one hurts a little bit.
51:36
SOESO. SOOLAI.
51:40
There it is. I found it.
51:44
I found it all right. And then just for clerical
51:48
reasons, Marlene, what do you got left?
51:50
Oh, no, no. That's the one that I was
51:54
looking at the record and I was like, I really want to bring
51:56
that song back. That's funny because when I was
52:00
listening to the playlist before we went on, when that song came
52:03
up, I was like, I need to find space for this.
52:06
That bums me out. I'm the only.
52:10
One huh, I'm not sure when. I'm not sure when I cut it, but
52:12
I saw it and I was like, oh, why didn't I keep that?
52:15
I can't believe we both had that same thought and just didn't do
52:18
it. That's funny.
52:19
Yeah. OK, Gitchigumi.
52:22
I love that song, but no. Yeah, as if.
52:28
Nope, obviously I don't know why I'm saying no.
52:31
Obviously not, and you are the best part of me.
52:35
Well, thank you. I just said I was talking to
52:38
you. Right.
52:44
I almost kept that one too. That's a great song.
52:47
I feel like that must have been like a a pretty late cut for me
52:51
because I almost said yes when you said it.
52:55
And I'm like, wait, I'm out. That can't be, that can't be
53:00
real. I got to find Gichagumi.
53:06
I'm clearly spelling it wrong. GITCHYGIC.
53:11
HY. Yeah, that's a fun.
53:13
Duh. Or as as as I was typing it into
53:18
my list, the auto correct glitchy gloomy.
53:27
That gave me a chuckle, you know.
53:29
And then I fixed it. I'll say this, we've got a hell
53:32
of a bin here. Like, yeah, a lot.
53:36
I mean, it was bound to happen. I mean it, it's an unfortunate
53:40
thing, but it's 90 songs. I, I knew this was going to
53:44
unfortunately go this way there. There was just too much in play.
53:48
Then why did you guess? Five.
53:50
Well, you know, I don't really want to win, Marlene.
53:53
I don't really. Want that?
53:54
Pressure like of selecting the last song.
53:58
So all right. We did get 3 through though.
54:03
Crackling Rosie, Sweet Caroline Shallow.
54:05
That's a good start, I guess. It looks like Sweet Caroline is
54:08
not going to get the boot, which is fine.
54:11
It belongs here. You know, I was, I'm not going
54:14
to lie, hoping that we'd find a way to, like, work it out of the
54:18
list, but all three of us had it.
54:21
It is a great song. It deserves to be there.
54:23
So, well, let's start working through these twos.
54:28
What have we got here 14 1234567891011 that we need to
54:40
trim down to seven and then Marlene will get the final say
54:43
on on whatever we whatever is our last song.
54:46
So let me run these down song sung blue you don't bring me
54:50
flowers. Brother loves traveling
54:52
salvation show America cherry cherry forever in blue jeans.
54:57
I am I said he ain't heavy. He's my brother.
55:00
Done too soon. Holly Holy and hello again.
55:05
Was was who else had songs on Blue?
55:08
Chris. You did, Chris.
55:12
No, I didn't have some. Some.
55:13
Oh, yes, I did. Or you did OK?
55:16
Yeah. All right.
55:18
So we can do this. Is the better way to do this
55:23
what belongs? Or is the better way to do this
55:26
what doesn't? They all belong, so we're going
55:29
to have to do it. What doesn't?
55:34
So is there something jumping out of you, Chris?
55:35
That's like, man, that it's really cool that it got this
55:38
far, but it really doesn't belong with these these other
55:42
songs. From the twos.
55:47
Yeah. I almost want to say you don't
55:54
bring me flowers, but I feel like we should keep at least
55:57
one. You know, breakup song because
56:05
there's such a big part, not a big part, but you know, they're
56:10
a big part of his life. I don't know, done too soon.
56:21
I hate to say let it go, but. I mean, you know, it's.
56:28
A great, great song, but they're all great songs.
56:32
Yeah. You know, I don't know.
56:35
I mean, it seems like that's probably probably the odd man
56:38
out, unfortunately. I mean, when you look at the the
56:42
other ones, they're all they're pretty much all bangers that
56:45
somebody has had brought up or you've got the one that he he
56:49
closes his show with. Like, can this song really stand
56:54
up to those? It right doesn't feel like
56:57
that's the case. All right.
57:01
Is there another one that's jumping out at you as it doesn't
57:04
belong, Marlene? Or is there one that you want to
57:06
put your foot down and say this has to go in at this point?
57:11
I'm going to say that actually he ain't heavy.
57:13
He's my brother. Probably doesn't belong.
57:16
Like I said, if I had known that he didn't write it, I wouldn't
57:18
have put it on my list. I would have put something else
57:25
there. All right, So what does that
57:28
give us 123-456-7899 that we need to get down to 7 so we can
57:42
either drop one more Chris and then give Marlene final say or
57:49
we can just start putting ones in.
57:51
Does it feel like we're at let's let's cut 1?
57:56
Out. Yeah, no, let's let's examine
57:59
what's best and see what we need to keep.
58:01
OK. We need to go ahead.
58:04
I was going to say like I'm looking at you.
58:06
You told you told me that he closes every show with brother
58:09
loves traveling salvation show. You guys both seem shocked that
58:12
I didn't have it. I already told you guys I'd be
58:15
an easy sell on it because I really liked it.
58:18
So I feel like that's our, you know, our easiest Gimme is going
58:22
ahead and take that. One, that's what I was gonna
58:24
bring up. Yeah, it keeps that.
58:26
All right, so let's do that. Me too.
58:30
That gives us 4. So is there another one you're
58:34
kind of looking at, Chris? From the twos that we need to
58:40
keep, I am, I said. Mm hmm.
58:46
OK, Yeah, I was the odd man out there.
58:49
And like I said, I wish I could have made more space to go and
58:53
listen to it. All right, so song sung.
59:03
Blue, you don't bring me flowers.
59:05
America Cherry, cherry forever. And blue jeans.
59:09
Holly. Holy hello again, Do we need
59:15
both of these jazz singer songs, Hello again and America or is
59:18
that neither or? No, I don't think we need.
59:22
I don't. Think we need both.
59:24
The question is which, because they're both amazing.
59:28
They are I even though Hello Again was on my list, I'm
59:35
actually inclined to go with America.
59:39
I I think that it's the better song.
59:42
Yeah. Off of that album.
59:44
They're coming to America. Yeah.
59:48
All right. So let's do that.
59:50
And I think that makes our decisions for us if we're
59:56
leaving, hello again out. And then we can get to, well,
1:00:01
hold on, let's see what that brings.
1:00:04
Yeah. So we can math the rest of this.
1:00:09
That gives us 6, right? Yes, 6IN.
1:00:16
And then there are 1234. No, we still have, we still have
1:00:25
two more decisions to make. On.
1:00:28
On out. Yeah, because there's still
1:00:30
12345 twos and only three of those are definitively in, and
1:00:40
then you get a pic of whatever you want.
1:00:42
Right. OK.
1:00:45
So. So we need to pick 2-3.
1:00:49
You said 3. Yeah, 3 need to go in or two
1:00:53
need to go out, whichever way you want to look at that.
1:00:57
What are they? What are they again?
1:00:58
Sure song sung Blue You don't bring me flowers.
1:01:02
Cherry Cherry Forever in blue jeans.
1:01:06
Skip, Skip and Holly Holy. OK, Holly Holy has to go in.
1:01:11
OK, I love the definitiveness in that.
1:01:17
Let's take. That I was odd out on Forever in
1:01:19
Blue Jeans and I love that song. I'm fine with that staying.
1:01:24
OK. So one more.
1:01:30
All right, so I'm looking at between you Don't Bring Me
1:01:35
Flowers and Cherry Cherry, and I'm looking at those as song
1:01:39
styles, essentially getting the heartbroken.
1:01:43
The the the affair is over with You Don't Bring Me Flowers
1:01:48
versus the fun pop fury of of Cherry cherry.
1:01:55
Which one do you think really helps our list here?
1:02:00
I mean, if you want to put together a list of that shows
1:02:04
everything he does, you need to keep.
1:02:08
You don't bring me flowers. You don't bring me flowers
1:02:10
because we don't have one of those.
1:02:14
Yeah, any, any objection there, Marlene?
1:02:19
No. Very reluctantly.
1:02:23
Well, because that leaves two songs.
1:02:26
That for my last choice then. Well, no, you you can pick
1:02:29
whatever. You.
1:02:30
I know, I know, but. You can pick a one.
1:02:34
You can pick one that wasn't even on the list if.
1:02:36
You I know, but the two that I would put in that it's it was
1:02:41
whichever, yeah. This is why Justin doesn't like
1:02:46
waiting. We have 9.
1:02:48
Yes, we have 9. So it's the last one is up to
1:02:50
me. So I'm in fairy Cherry or song
1:02:53
sung blue. Song Sung Blue for me is so,
1:02:56
like I said, it's so personal, but I don't know that it belongs
1:03:03
on the list over Cherry Cherry, even though you know.
1:03:08
There's other fun ones on there. Yeah, but.
1:03:13
You know. What's on there?
1:03:15
Cracklin, Rosie. Sweet Caroline, brother.
1:03:20
Love what else we got that is fun.
1:03:24
You're trying to talk me into song sung Blue, aren't you?
1:03:27
I am. It's your decision, babe.
1:03:31
Right, I was going to say like, if it's if it's any, you know,
1:03:35
relief, like you don't have to put any thought into it.
1:03:39
Like you can literally if if it's what you want to do, you
1:03:42
can literally just pick the song that you want like it?
1:03:45
But I really want, I really want both of those songs.
1:03:48
Oh. I see.
1:03:50
That's the problem. Yeah.
1:03:52
All right, I, I, I will go with song sung Blue.
1:03:56
All right, we will mark that as our final say boom.
1:04:01
And you just lived. Exactly why I never want to win.
1:04:05
Just so you know, Just so you know.
1:04:10
The I love to win because I picked something like that.
1:04:13
I love that everybody else hated and bring it back and piss
1:04:18
everybody off. Like all that song sucks.
1:04:19
I don't care. I won.
1:04:22
All right, so we got 10 cracklin.
1:04:24
Rose. But there are no sucky songs
1:04:25
here, honey, no. No, there's no.
1:04:28
We got Cracklin Rosie Sweet Caroline Shiloh brother loves
1:04:31
traveling salvation show I am I said America forever in blue
1:04:35
jeans holly holy you don't bring me flowers song sung blue.
1:04:40
Now I feel like this is the place where we have to go away
1:04:45
from the one right? Like it can't be that song.
1:04:49
It can't be Sweet, Caroline, right?
1:04:51
It absolutely is not. All right, so no.
1:04:54
What do you think it is though, Chris?
1:04:56
I think it's Brother loves travel and salvation show.
1:04:59
I like the swing, what do you think?
1:05:01
That's my number one song. Yeah.
1:05:03
What do you think? And again.
1:05:06
That is also my number one song. I'm I.
1:05:09
Love the trial and salvation show.
1:05:10
It's so fun and just the just. Look, I'm with it.
1:05:17
I'm I'm a soft sell on that and it can't be sweet Caroline it,
1:05:23
it made the list and that's all it needs.
1:05:25
It doesn't need anything else from us.
1:05:27
It belongs there and yeah, all. Right.
1:05:30
So let me get that queued up. I'll go down the list here one
1:05:33
last time and we'll wrap her on up.
1:05:38
Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show is going to be
1:05:40
our number one song. Crackling Rosie, Sweet Caroline,
1:05:43
Shiloh, I am, I said America forever in blue jeans.
1:05:47
Holly Holy you don't bring me flowers Song sung blue raps out
1:05:51
our list. And with that, let's let Brother
1:05:54
Love's Traveling Salvation Show get a moment in the sun.
1:06:07
It feels good. It feels good to to throw the
1:06:09
curveball there. I mean, again, I I do want to
1:06:13
point out like, I think I also think Sweet Caroline would do
1:06:17
terribly on the the end of the year list.
1:06:21
Like I I think yeah, yeah, I think this has a better chance.
1:06:25
I think it's the better song. I think it's a different
1:06:28
display. I want it again.
1:06:32
Sweet Caroline clearly belongs on this list, but I feel like
1:06:38
people need to know something else like that needs to not be
1:06:41
the song that they know so. Yeah.
1:06:44
All right. Brother loves travel and
1:06:46
Salvation Show needs to be the song that they have.
1:06:48
Yes, especially like now knowing that like he closes the shows
1:06:52
with that, like that's that means he really loves it and I
1:06:58
mean it also means that fans really love it.
1:07:02
So that tells me a lot about about the song.
1:07:04
So we've made the right choice here, I think.
1:07:07
Yeah, yeah, there's a ton of live shows on YouTube if you
1:07:12
want to hear him sing it. Yeah, just Fast forward to the
1:07:14
end. Also, what a showman.
1:07:16
We didn't even really get into that.
1:07:18
Like, Oh yeah, what a guy. Yeah.
1:07:20
So we've done it. We've turned you into Neil
1:07:23
Diamond fans. You're very welcome for that.
1:07:26
Yes, as you can tell, this was this was work like this was I
1:07:31
mean you look, you know, I don't want to make it seem like ah,
1:07:33
we're we're laboring away here in you know, in the factories or
1:07:37
anything, but it it wasn't easy. This wasn't an easy list to
1:07:43
make. You heard how many sides there
1:07:45
were. There was a lot of like it.
1:07:49
It was tough. So we did it.
1:07:51
We did the work for you and you all you had to do was sit there
1:07:54
and listen. So yay.
1:07:57
If you enjoyed the show, there's plenty of ways you can get
1:08:01
involved. If you're listening on Spotify,
1:08:03
you can leave a comment. You can say, hey, man, I can't
1:08:06
believe this song got in. You can yell at us about Sweet
1:08:09
Caroline being on the list. I get it.
1:08:10
You know, I understand. I hear the argument for it not
1:08:14
being there. It just it should be so I
1:08:17
understand that you can say suggest, hey, I can't believe
1:08:21
this song didn't come up, you know, whatever you want to do.
1:08:23
But if you're going to do that, please leave five stars.
1:08:25
I can actually respond to you now on Spotify, which is why I
1:08:27
keep pushing that so hard. There are comment threads on
1:08:31
Spotify now, so we can have a little conversations on Spotify
1:08:34
if that is where you're listening.
1:08:36
If you're listening on Apple podcast, same thing goes.
1:08:39
Please leave a review and five stars.
1:08:42
But all that stuff helps us get seen into the algorithm and that
1:08:47
is super helpful for us. Sharing, of course, is also
1:08:50
caring. If you'd like to go a step
1:08:53
further, a dollar a month gets you in the
1:08:54
patreonpatreon.com/oh. Hi Justin.
1:08:57
It will get you the conversation that we're about to have the
1:08:59
after the fact it gets you deprogrammed before the rest of
1:09:02
the world. It also would have gotten you
1:09:04
all 5 episodes of the R.E.M. Championship edition before the
1:09:08
rest of the world had you had been in just saying it's not too
1:09:13
late. Well, I think technically it is
1:09:14
too late now because this is coming out in July.
1:09:16
I think all those episodes are on the public feed.
1:09:18
So it just saying, you know, it also gets you into our discord
1:09:24
server into some of the private channels.
1:09:27
So it's if if it's that's worth the dollar to you, then hey man,
1:09:33
if you just want to join the discord but don't want to pay
1:09:36
the dollar to get through the Patreon, that's fine.
1:09:39
Legion stupid discord, Look it up.
1:09:41
We grow a tree in there. We are counting in there.
1:09:44
There is a deprogram channel in there where you can hop in and
1:09:48
chat about the show. There's also a music league
1:09:51
under that. And there's also a finding
1:09:54
panelists. So if you want to come on the
1:09:55
show and talk about an artist, hey, I'd love to come talk about
1:09:59
this person. You put it in there and maybe
1:10:02
somebody else will jump on and you know, that's how you sign
1:10:04
up. It's kind of that simple.
1:10:08
That that covers that. Chris, we are on IMDb now.
1:10:15
I I forgot to mention this on the episode we did earlier
1:10:17
today, but we are on IMDb now. So I think I don't know if you
1:10:22
can listen to the show, but like some of us are there, like there
1:10:26
are panelists there and all our episodes are there.
1:10:30
So we're on IMDb. It's that's no small thing.
1:10:32
It's cool. It's weird that we ended up
1:10:34
there, but we are so don't forget that.
1:10:38
And the absolute best way you can help this show is by telling
1:10:41
somebody that you listen to it. Please say, hey, I listen to be
1:10:45
programmed and you should too. It mean the world to me.
1:10:48
And with that, Neil Diamond. Learn them and love people.
1:10:52
You'll see you next week. Bye.