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Sparklehorse · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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It's the program, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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band and we are going to be sparkling today as we try to get
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you into Sparkle Horse. Yes, Sparkle Horse is our band.
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We've done all the work for you. All you have to do is push, play
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and listen. It's really that simple folks.
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And Adam, you put Sparkle Horse on the board, I believe.
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If not, then whoever actually did kind of disappeared off the
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face of the planet, maybe, I don't know, but your name is
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first. So, Adam, talk to me about
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Sparklehorse and why you wanted to do an episode on them.
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Yeah, thank. Thanks Justin.
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Yeah, I think I did put them down.
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So I am back pre Internet days I guess or pre streaming days
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anyway getting into new music. I used to just read Rolling
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Stone reviews and I remember there was a great review of one
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of the Sparkle Horse albums Good Morning Spider, which is
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possibly still my favorite album.
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And I went and bought the CD off the back of a of a of a review
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and just fell in love with with Sparkle Horse and and the music
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I think. I think Marcus was was an
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incredible songwriter. And I feel, I feel quite
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strongly that it would be good to showcase his music more and
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make sure it doesn't disappear because he truly was an amazing
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songwriter. So that takes me to you Emily.
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Firstly, welcome back. Secondly, Sparklehorse, what?
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What makes what jumps out of off the page about Sparklehorse for
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you? Yeah, it's not a.
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Band or a style, I guess, that I tend to gravitate towards.
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But there is something about it and like the variety that they
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have that I've always really liked.
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It's it's sort of like a college soundtrack for me.
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I got into them maybe freshman year of college and just kept
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growing and loving them more and more.
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Yeah, yeah. It's funny you mentioned like
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that. The different sounds the
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different. Because it is hard to pin them
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down to like one thing that they do.
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But I think what I found, you know, before we Because yet
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again, folks, this is a band I never dove into.
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Imagine that. But the thing I kept coming back
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to is they are like this nice halfway point between the most
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extreme Radiohead and Flaming Lips.
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Like, it's this nice marriage, like a halfway point between the
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two of them that that they got really comfortable in.
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And then there's times where they do stuff like that that
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felt like Sex bomb from Scott Pilgrim.
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So, like, and we'll get into that.
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But yeah, like, I I found it hard to pin down via a sound
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what they do. So that takes me to this, Adam.
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Like, what were you looking for as you're building your list for
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this? How did you put your 20
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together? Yeah, it was very hard because
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I've been listening to a lot of these songs for so long,
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particularly the first two albums.
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I already had very strong views on those albums at which songs I
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gravitate to the latest stuff I hadn't heard as much.
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So it it took me, I think, ended up with a list of almost 40
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songs and then I got it down to 24.
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It wasn't too hard to get there. And then I sat on 24 for a few
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weeks, to be honest. And when I did do it, I remember
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I was in a pretty shitty mood after cutting those last four.
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It'll that'll do. Anyway, I got there at the end.
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That'll do it to you. Emily, did you have any kind of
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gamesmanship going into this or or did how?
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How did you approach your list? So I normally listen to them
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when they show up on shuffle. These days a whole album can
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sort of bum me out from them. So this was the first time I'd
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listened all the way through to these albums in quite a while
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and. The album that I thought was my
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favorite, I ended up with originally the fewest sort of
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definite choices. But my idea the first time
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through was, you know, I did triple stars for the ones that
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had to be on the list. And I had maybe five or six of
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those and crossed out ones that I was like, that's not going to
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make it. But in terms of the ones that
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got crossed out, I think I crossed out like 4.
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So that left me with a lot of. You know, in the middle songs or
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really good songs that just weren't at the top of my list.
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So I ended up, I think with like 17 on my first who have just
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what, what do I really, really want?
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And then I told you guys like that made it harder to try to
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get those last few through. So I actually made a change, I
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don't know, 15 minutes ago. We'll see.
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I may regret that. I mean.
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As always, I was listening to the playlist just before you
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know you guys joined in and you know it always happens.
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There's always a song, you know sometimes I pull the trigger on
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it and go yeah, let's let's find something to pull.
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But like with this band I found myself going, OK, sure, I like
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this song but which one does it replace became the the the big
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thing that I I I found impossible to go.
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OK if I want to include this, something else has to go.
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It already was pretty painstaking to get here because
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there, you know there isn't a, there's there's a central
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pleasing like this is kind of what I went towards thing, but
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for the most part there isn't just a sound that I could go
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yeah, that's that's what they do.
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So I think what did I say 37, it was pretty close to 48 like you
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said, Adam, I think on my first pass.
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Not a lot of easy outs. And then I think, I think my
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second cut round of cuts, I was being like super harsh just
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because you kind of have to. I was like, all right, well,
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I've got this, I can get rid of this.
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And then you know there there was a handful that that I was
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just like there was like 5 or 6 that I was like, OK, these are
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definitely in. So then it just becomes, how do
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I round out the last 14? And you know, I don't want to
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say it was a miserable experience, but cutting songs
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when you are just learning about a band and you really like it
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sucks. So that's that's what I wrestled
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with a lot. That to me sounds like we don't
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have a lot here. It's 59 songs, so not a lot of
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places to hide, but it also sounds like.
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It's possible that we're all kind of elsewhere.
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So what do you think, Adam, for the final say, How many do you
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think we're going to get through unanimous?
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I think it, I think Sparkle Horse is a really strong
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discography and I think we've all sort of talking to that.
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So we could easily miss each other quite a bit.
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I I have a particular style of their songs that I gravitate to,
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which I've got a horrible feeling is going to be the
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opposite of you Justin, but I don't know.
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But we'll find out. I'm not gonna say too much more
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than that. I'm gonna go with, but I think
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there are some stand out tracks, so I'm gonna go with, I'm gonna
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go with five. Okay, right down the middle.
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It's a smart play. What do you think, Emily?
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This isn't your first rodeo. I know, but I'm so bad at
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Rodeos, so there aren't that many songs.
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I feel like, like Adam said, some of them are standouts.
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I'm going to say 6. Okay.
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All right. I like the positivity.
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I like it. So again, I'm left with am I the
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Dick and do I go low or do I go the next step of positivity, 5
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or 6 always. That definitely seems right.
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Okay. I'm going to go four.
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I don't like it. It feels too low.
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I don't like it, but I'm going to go with four 7.
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Seven would just be crazy. It would be madness, though.
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The world would open, open up and swallow us whole.
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So say that and we'll get like 9 but.
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You know what? You know what that would be best
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case scenario. So I mean, again, there's not a
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lot of places for us to hide. So it just kind of, you know,
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there might be a couple like sentimental favorites that you
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know didn't hit. Somebody the same way.
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So we'll see, but we're going to take a quick pause and when we
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come back we will play the game. It's deprogrammed, kickstart
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your road to fitness with the hard work, and with that the
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name of the game is deprogrammed.
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The three of us have combed through the Sparkle Horse
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discography and plucked out 20 songs that we are now going to
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mash together in an attempt to create a top 10 starter kit for
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you. In case you have never given
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Sparkle Horse the time of day, and I hope this one hits, but I
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also don't care if it does because I kind of rediscovered
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it today when I was relisting to my list and it kind of, it kind
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of vaulted to the top of my list.
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And it's it's all kind of in the name and it kind of kind of
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summarizes my time with the Sparkle Horse in a really great
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way. And kind of the feelings you can
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get from this band Sad and Beautiful World.
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Yeah, I have it. I don't have it.
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OK, it's a 2. It's a 2.
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I'll take it too. I feel like I didn't take too
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big of a swing. That's good.
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That's good. All right.
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It's a great song. But yeah.
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All right, Adam, you are up. OK, I'm gonna go off the debut
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album I Wish I'm. I'm just gonna call Viva Dixie
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cuz it's too long, too long a night.
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And I think it's one of the first songs that Mark wrote when
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he when he formed Sparkle Horse. Someday I will treat you good.
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Yes. OK, no, but that's one of those
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ones. Like I was listening to it cuz
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it comes just before sad and Beautiful world and I was
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listening to it just before you guys came on.
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You know, a little bit before you guys came on, I was like,
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uh, oh, I think I made a mistake.
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And that's one of those ones I was trying to find, you know,
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find a place for on the list. I was like, I.
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Don't. It's such a great pop tune,
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isn't it? It's.
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Yeah. All right.
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It's got two, though. It's got two.
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All right, Emily. I will say ghost of a smile.
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Good morning, spider. Yes.
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Yes. Hey, there we go.
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There we go. I need to get this up.
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Please tell me you are. Of course not.
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Ghost of his smile. Come on.
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I knew I was in for something else by the time I got here
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because I thought I had them sussed out.
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Yeah. And then?
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It's one of those, like, secret bummer songs.
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Yeah, Like, it's incredibly sad, but so catchy.
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That's a common theme with Spiral Horse though, isn't it?
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I mean, that's different sorts of sad and different sorts of
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catchy, but almost the whole discography is pretty
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melancholy. I think you made a comment
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before Emily. It's tough to listen to the
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whole whole album. You gotta be in the right mood.
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But yeah, it's such a good song. Yeah, I was like reading up, you
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know, I knew about Mark Linkas and I knew about his death.
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But I was reading some articles before and I told my husband I
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was like, I can't do this right now.
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I'm gonna gonna take a few days off, was there's there's a lot
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in that story. All.
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Right, one down. Yeah, there is.
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All right. I'm going to go the other
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direction. I we we talked about this is my
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one note, sex bomb. This is that same record and
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again you get to this record and you know, oh there's there's
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there's a different gear here, pig.
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Pig was the one I added 15 minutes ago.
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So. Sweet.
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I've got pig. Yes.
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Yes, Yep. I was.
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I was worried as. And.
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Yeah. Go ahead.
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I was just going to say I want to be a pig, I want to fuck a
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car. What a great line.
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I was worried because like as I was listening to it, I was like,
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this is definitely different. But like, I kept getting sex but
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mom vibes throughout the discog. And this one is the one I can
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pinpoint. This is why this definitely
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sounds would sound. If it's not on Scott Pilgrim,
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it's would sound right, Right. You know, right in line.
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All right Adam. Well, I will just disclose,
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yeah, Good Morning Spider is still my favorite album.
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It's such it's sort of means a lot to me.
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I got into the album probably when I wasn't in the best
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headspace, but it did help me out quite a lot.
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And one of the my favorite songs on there is Pain Birds.
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I'm really sorry. Same.
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Dang it, I was hoping Emily was going to be able to save you cuz
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this is another one of those songs.
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As I was listening, I was like, uh oh I need to find a place for
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it. And I couldn't.
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That one was right on the bubble for me.
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Cuz obviously. It comes.
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It's that's OK. It comes right after pig.
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So like I was listening to pig and I had that uh oh moment of
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it does did I go too far. And then I'm listening to pain
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birds. I'm like pain birds is more in
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line with like, a lot of. What I What I gravitated
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towards? No.
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All right, Emily, I feel bad whenever.
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That's OK. It's a bit of pain, but that's
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all right. I can almost say the same thing
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about every song, so don't worry.
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All right. So I got Ghost of His Smiles.
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So I'm going to do Ghost in the Sky, my next one.
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I don't have that one. No, it was in my first pass, but
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yeah, no, sorry. Alright, goes in the sky.
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This is another one of those things where this is another one
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of those bands where I don't have answers for why, which I'm
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never a fan of, but. Sometimes there just isn't
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answers. There it is.
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Oh God damn it. Here's something I I failed to
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mention like I I didn't realize until like I was literally I was
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physically writing out my list. Other than that last record,
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everything has even, like even distribution.
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The last one has a little less and not because I didn't like it
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as much. Just I figured people could find
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that on their own is is what I ended up.
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All right, we're back around to me, right?
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All right. I always like to to say, you
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know when I, when I locked into a band and when I knew or when I
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knew I was in trouble. And this is the moment for me
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and it's pretty early on. It's literally the second song I
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heard, Weird Sisters. That was a no for you as well,
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Emily. I've got it.
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Okay 2. All right, two.
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It's that part at the end where it gets a little bit harder.
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Yeah, that's what does it for me, yeah.
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I I think that is exactly what happened because as I'm
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listening to it I'm like okay, cool, cool.
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I dig this because it's different from home.
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Like homecoming queen set up a different something different
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for me. I did.
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I didn't see weird sisters coming.
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And so as I'm listening to weird sisters, I'm like okay, dig,
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dig, dig. And then it's it picks up a
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little and you're like oh oh okay.
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So it's even different, more different than I thought so.
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I feel like that whole first album, he's like, here are the
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different things I can do. There you are all.
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All right, Adam. Hi.
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Yeah, it's a okay. So I'm gonna stay.
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Sorry. I'm gonna go back to the first
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album as well. I'll start that album.
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And one thing that is very has really stood out to me listening
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to this whole discography is just how many animal references
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there are. I was gonna go through all the
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songs and try and make a list of them all, but and a lot of
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analogies to animals. There's so many.
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And one of my favorite tunes is cows.
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Yep, I've got it. OK good.
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I can't cuz I was. Gonna that's one that like.
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I didn't think of as as one of my favorites.
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And then as I was listening all the way through, I was like, oh,
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this is great. I think I had that same
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realization on that listen through.
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I mean again, like I could say the same thing about that first
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record. It just opens up, doesn't it,
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Emily? Sorry, we clearly.
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Takes 2 minutes for the lyrics to kick in, I think, and it's
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got the harmonica in it and it's just over and over, says Pretty
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Girl milking a cow. What more do you want it in the
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song? He's right.
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You want imagery? He's right.
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Got it? He's right.
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All right, Emily. We haven't done anything from
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its wonderful life yet. I'm going to go just Gold Day.
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Yes. Yes.
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There we go. Yes, all right.
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Gold. Ah, so good.
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I love it. Love this song.
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Here's something else I'm I failed to mention that I I
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loved. There is this, like with his
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vocals especially. It's almost like he's right up
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in the mic. Like I can envision him it.
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It doesn't. I don't.
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It doesn't evoke like a typical vocal room.
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And I bring this up now because like I I heard it in this, but I
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I noticed it a great deal and sad and beautiful world where
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it's like he's almost right on the mic or something.
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And typically the audio file in me would like be against that.
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But something about the way this music goes with that I was very
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forgiving of it and even appreciated it.
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It's like a little more vulnerable that.
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Way exactly. That's it.
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That's the word I was looking for it.
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It does. It makes it makes it more
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vulnerable. I love it.
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Okay. I still don't know where to go.
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I'm still trying to figure you guys out.
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Just keep singing that. That's good.
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Let me stay somewhere in the middle here.
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How about sunshine? I love it, but I did not choose.
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It. I love it.
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I'm sorry, was that yours? That was a yes.
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I do have it, yes. It's a yes and excited yes.
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Yes, yeah. You kind of went out there a
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little bit. Yeah, I just realized that
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there's several. Functions.
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Sorry about that. That's okay.
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No worries. I just wanted to confirm with
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you. Wait, where's the one?
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There it is. JWG.
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All right, Adam. Off.
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Good morning, Spider. Mm HM okay, I'm going to.
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Go off It's a Wonderful Life as well and lots of collaborations
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on this album. And couple with PJ and I'd like
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to pick Piano Fire. Yes.
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Yes. Yes, 1000 times, yes. 1000
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times, yes. Look, I think I said when this
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came up when I was listening on my first pass.
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You guys didn't tell me that there was going to be PJ Harvey.
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Yeah, I love me some PJ Harvey. And that's not why I picked it.
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Because actually, technically speaking, normally that would
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take a song down a notch for me, like for for this show's
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purposes. But to me, it's an undeniable
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Sparkle Horse song and she just. She just adds a nice layer to a
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sparkle horse song, which, you know, is what a collabo should
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do. But yeah, dude, the second, the
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second, I was like, Oh no, PJ Harvey, this is gonna be the
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hard to cut anyway, so. That song's truly amazing.
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So good. All right, Emily.
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You know. Mark was a real artist artist, I
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think. Yeah, we watched.
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We watched the documentary on Vimeo last night and just, you
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know, everybody had something to say about how good he was it,
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you know, taking suggestions but having a clear vision.
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And yeah, I think Piano Fire is a good example of that.
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All right, Emily, you're up. How about off dreamt for light
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years? Let's do some sweet day.
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Yeah, I got it. Yes.
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Wow, I think that puts us at 5 already.
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Yeah, yeah, we've all got it. That's great.
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So again, I don't want to, I don't want to demean that last
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record because I I liked it a lot.
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I just the way I viewed that last record is if if we can get
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people to like Sparkle Horse, they will love the last one.
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So I think I only ended up with like 2 from that record.
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I don't. I love it as well, but I don't
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think it's strong. It's not as strong as the other
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albums in my opinion. Yeah, I I think that one's like,
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I don't know, accessible is probably not the right word, but
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that's one that just sort of like it's fine.
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The the first, like, you don't really have to like get it as
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much, which is why I thought it was my favorite going into this.
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And then I ended up, I think I actually ended up with five off
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each album. But it's.
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You know, some of the others you have to listen to a few times to
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to really get into it, and that one is good the first time
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without getting great like the others.
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Well said. All right.
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Oh, boy. Back to me.
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I think we've done all the ones that I feel really, really
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strong about so far. So I'll go right back into the
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middle. How about sick of goodbyes?
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I've got it. Sorry.
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I didn't hear that. Oh, sick of goodbyes.
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No, but only because it's a cover.
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Oh, OK. I did not know.
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I mean. It's a cracker song.
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But I think he wrote it for Cracker, didn't he?
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I think it's cracker. Is it?
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Did I get it backwards? Did he?
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I thought it was a Mark Linkis song for Cracker, but I might
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like listen. I very well might be wrong.
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I'm going to look at the song credits real quick.
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It's fine cuz this will be, let's see, written by David
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Lowry. Mark Linkis produced by Mark
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Linkis David Lowry. I could be I could be wrong, I
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could be wrong too. So, but anyway, I didn't choose
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it. It's still got it too, but that
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will, you know, something like that could weigh.
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Weigh in on the second round, so all.
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Right okay I'm wrong. Adam, you're up.
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Okay, sorry, I'm having a little bit of problem with the
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connection, but it's all done. Sorry.
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What about off the debut Rainmaker?
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Yes. That's the one I cut for pig.
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That's Okay. It's got two, though.
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Okay. This is where I you can really
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hear how. Sorry, we were trying to leave
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you room for you're saying. Yeah, that's Okay.
29:42
I just. It's a great tune.
29:43
Yeah. I mean some.
29:46
I also like it. Yes, sometimes it'd be that way.
29:50
All right, Emily. How about King of Nails?
30:00
Yeah, I got it. No, I don't all.
30:12
Right, it's got it too. This this next round's gonna be
30:15
wild. All right, back to me.
30:23
All right, let me, let me do a song.
30:25
Check here 123456789. Okay.
30:30
We'll do a couple more rounds here.
30:35
HM All right, how about we do off of It's a Wonderful Life.
30:42
It's a wonderful life. I do not have it.
30:47
No. Oh.
30:48
No, I don't either. I do love it though, but yeah.
30:54
I finally missed one. It was bound to happen again,
31:08
showcasing very different sounds.
31:16
All right, Adam. Actually, I'm gonna stay on it.
31:26
It's a Wonderful Life. That album I fell in love with.
31:30
Hard on This State listens. And another I'm Gonna go the
31:38
other PJ Harvey song I Pennies. That one's like a little bit too
31:45
much of A bummer for me. I had to cut that one.
31:49
Is that OK? I'm sorry.
31:52
Yeah, I don't have it either. I'm.
31:53
Sorry, that's OK. But I do feel like we're at that
31:57
point. It's got a bit of a I know that
32:07
it's a bit of a Nick Cave vibe to this song.
32:10
It just reminded me of Nick Cave.
32:11
So yeah. Anyway, all.
32:14
Right, Emily. About.
32:20
The song that mentions Texaco, Maria's little elbows.
32:27
All of that line. So.
32:29
Much. OK, good.
32:32
I I have it. Two this, this, two.
32:40
This second round is going to be brutal, yo.
32:45
It's going to be brutal. All right, back to me.
32:57
I'll come back up to the top here.
32:59
How about hammering the cramps? Got it.
33:06
No, it was in my first pass, but yeah, no.
33:11
Just making it worse. Just making it worse.
33:15
All right, Adam. OK, I'm gonna go back to my
33:21
favorite album. Good morning, Spider.
33:25
Chaos of the Galaxy. Happy man.
33:28
Yes, and I never thought I would put that on my list until I,
33:32
like, forced myself to listen to that first part and it's so good
33:37
I did not realize how good it was.
33:38
I used to always skip the 1st 90 seconds.
33:43
I can't make it unanimous, but. We can put a 2 by it so we can
33:48
cry later when certain songs don't make it.
33:52
So I have read to read about this.
33:56
This is actually 2 songs that Mark merged together and to be
34:01
honest I wish he didn't. I think I wish it was just happy
34:04
man because I think the happy man part of it if it was just a
34:09
straight out song. Would be probably one of his
34:12
best songs. It's just that's just strong
34:14
hook in this song, Such a strong melody but he decided to
34:20
sabotage it cuz it sounds like a radio tuning in and out and it
34:24
is a bit distracting. Emily isn't it?
34:26
But then, like, if you give it a chance, I feel like that makes
34:30
it better. Without that, I don't know that
34:34
I would have. I really liked the happy man
34:36
part, but it's that. Yeah, the radio tuning thing.
34:39
And I was like, all right, that's not something most people
34:42
would do. Yeah, that's right.
34:45
Yeah. It's bold, isn't it?
34:47
Yeah. All right, Emily.
34:55
I feel like I've trashed Talk This album, even though I
34:57
really, really love it. So don't take my son.
35:01
Yeah, I got it. OK.
35:06
No, I don't have. That.
35:08
That's another one. That's.
35:10
Nice. For a while and then like it
35:12
drops and it's so great. Okay 123456, I say.
35:26
Maybe we do one more round and then dump out, see if we can't
35:31
squeeze one more unanimous at us out of us.
35:36
Ah, how about Hey, Joe? Oh, I thought I had it, but
35:46
apparently I did. Not.
35:49
At one point I did. I was worried it was going to be
36:02
a cover. Not quite.
36:05
Not quite. Yes, and I could have that whole
36:09
album. I can have that.
36:12
Yes. All right, Adam.
36:22
I know I should move around a bit more, but I'm going to stay
36:25
on Good Morning Spider because he's my favorite hundreds of
36:29
sparrows. Yes.
36:34
It's the best use of use of the word feckened in any song.
36:38
Maybe the only use, but I do not have it.
36:42
But that song did win me an argument with a friend over the
36:45
pronunciation of the word feckened, so it's a special
36:49
place in my heart. Yeah.
36:52
Okay, Emily, I. Like that?
36:57
Yeah, right. It's awesome.
37:00
It's also it's also from a verse from the Bible I believe.
37:08
Okay. That's not a thing I would know.
37:11
Same, same. Okay.
37:15
Emily, you are up. I'll do.
37:17
It's not so hard. Nope, no wonder.
37:30
I forgot to put the apostrophe. Adam it's not so hard.
37:40
No, I don't have that. Sorry.
37:42
OK. All.
37:45
Right. Y'all are missing out.
37:54
Great, you're. Not wrong.
37:58
Great song. I do have another one off that
38:04
record. All right.
38:08
I do have another one off this record.
38:10
I thought it was only two. It's three.
38:13
I don't know how that works out. I mean, it must mean one of
38:16
these. I had only five.
38:19
Wait, we're dumping out? That's right.
38:21
OK, I'll start at the top Saturday.
38:34
It was in my first pass but didn't make it.
38:37
That means I was right. For I think that's one that's
38:39
when I got across about. Yeah.
38:42
I was right for for keeping it so long.
38:45
I also have Heart of Darkness. Love it but no.
38:52
Yes, I do. And I kept.
38:56
Kind of knocking this one out and it kept coming back into my
38:58
top 20. I absolutely love this song.
39:01
I kept trying to knock it out too, because it's a little on
39:04
the shorter side. I think it's like it clocks in
39:06
at a minute 50. And I kept trying to use that as
39:10
you know, Oh well, you know, it's some sort of interlude.
39:13
It's only a minute 50, but it just kept working its way back
39:16
in. Yeah.
39:19
All right, Sea of teeth. I cut that for something else,
39:26
but it's in one of my favorite movies of all time, and it's why
39:29
it's my favorite movie. What's it?
39:33
In It's In All The Real Girls, It has Zooey Deschanel, who I
39:37
hate, and Paul Schneider, who everybody hates cuz he was on
39:41
the first season of Parks and Rec.
39:44
But the movie's great. Oh my God, it's got Zooey
39:48
Deschanel, who I hate. Here are all of the people that
39:52
I dislike but. But no, it's it's like the
39:56
perfect sparkle horsey movie and there's there's a little sparkle
39:59
horsey song in it. So I assumed that was a no from
40:03
you as well, Adam for sea of teeth.
40:07
Yes, that's a nice, sorry. And my last.
40:10
One yes. I don't.
40:11
No, I don't. I don't have it.
40:13
OK. And my last one morning, Hollow.
40:19
No, sorry. No.
40:24
Alright, I didn't do so bad. Alright, so that means.
40:27
So, so different though, that one, yeah.
40:30
Yeah, so that means unanimous is are off the table that that
40:33
means five which means Adam will get our final say tonight.
40:39
Alright and did you want to dump out Adam see if you can find
40:43
make it a little harder for us. Yeah, OK.
40:48
Yeah. I'll just go from go from the
40:50
top. So tears on fresh fruit.
40:54
No, sorry. Most beautiful widow in town?
41:01
Oh, it's so sad. I can't do that one.
41:04
My notes here literally just say so sad in all kinds.
41:07
You can't do it. Yeah, yeah.
41:16
There are songs like that. I kept skipping Maria's little
41:18
elbows like that because I just couldn't keep listening to it.
41:21
It's just too sad. But I love it.
41:22
But I hear you just. Repeating the word loneliness.
41:26
And I've got, I've got Apple Bed.
41:30
I have Apple Bed. I know.
41:34
Oh, you do? Excellent.
41:35
I do. I do Apple Bed. 2.
41:39
OK, I wish I had a horse's head, a Tiger's heart and a apple bed.
41:43
I love it. That's the one I picked over sea
41:45
of teeth. Nice more yellow birds.
41:55
I don't. And my last one is off the
42:04
latest album Shade and Honey. Nope.
42:11
All right, Just for fun, Emily, you want to clear out what you
42:14
got? Yeah, I've got mountains off the
42:17
last album and then comfort me off.
42:20
It's Wonderful Life and I think that's it.
42:23
My note taking skills are lacking tonight.
42:26
I think that's all my 20. And then what was the one the
42:32
other one? Mountains.
42:33
And then? Comfort me, comfort me.
42:41
There it is. We covered a lot of Discog here.
42:45
Let's let's shake that out real quick so I can give you an
42:49
actual number. So out of 59, we covered 36.
42:58
That's not too bad. Considering.
43:03
Yeah, considering most of them are twos and threes.
43:07
All right, so we got 5, three unanimously.
43:09
We've got Pig, Ghost of his, Smile, Gold Day, Piano, Fire,
43:14
Some sweet day are all in automatically.
43:17
And again, 55 through means Adam will have our final say.
43:22
That means we have 4 songs that we got to talk about here.
43:26
And the twos are weird sisters. Rainmaker cow hammering the
43:34
cramps. Heart of darkness.
43:36
Someday I will treat you good. Sad and beautiful world.
43:40
Sick of goodbyes. Sunshine.
43:44
Chaos of the Galaxy. Happy man.
43:47
Maria's little elbows. Hundreds of sparrows.
43:51
God so many. Apple bed.
43:54
King of nails and don't take my sunshine away.
44:00
So I asked. Actually, you know what?
44:02
I'm going to put one out here first, because when I was
44:05
listening to the first pass and you guys had this, I was odd man
44:09
out. But I almost added this back to
44:11
my list. How do you guys feel about me
44:14
pushing? Someday I will treat you good
44:15
through. Works for me.
44:22
Happy with that, Yeah. We don't have anything from the
44:24
album at the moment. I don't think so.
44:26
Yeah, that'd be good. All right, cool.
44:28
So like I said, I, I, I I felt bad because I almost added it at
44:33
the last minute. So, all right, so I'll ask you,
44:36
Adam, is there, is there something that you're you're
44:38
seeing on this list that you feel like, man, I can't believe
44:41
that one didn't get through. Yeah, I mean, there's a personal
44:49
favorite in the twos that I I just think I have to kind of put
44:54
it forward and that's hundreds of stars.
44:58
I was the odd man out. I'm totally cool with adding
45:00
that to the list all. Right.
45:02
So let's do that. Boom.
45:06
All right, Easy peasy so far. We can keep it that way.
45:11
Emily, if if there's something you want to throw out there that
45:15
you feel like you wish would have gotten through.
45:20
I am OK if you guys want to fight me on this, but I do
45:23
really love. Don't take my sunshine away.
45:26
I'm not, you know, I had it, so I'm not gonna fight it.
45:29
What do you think, Adam? Yeah, it's okay.
45:35
I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna.
45:38
I'm not gonna fight it, but it's probably not not what I would.
45:44
I'd put through personally but. Yeah.
45:47
Well, what do we got? Let's see.
45:48
Happy to let one through. Yeah.
45:51
All right. So let's do that.
45:52
And what does that get us up to 8, So we still have.
45:57
One more to talk about now. I hate to make this play, but I
46:04
I I do feel like it's in the name and it did encompass my
46:11
feelings on the band. Again, I'm completely open to
46:17
hearing whatever else you guys say for song #9, but what do you
46:20
guys think of sad and Beautiful world?
46:25
Yeah, I think. I think it needs to be something
46:28
from that album for sure. I'm not married to that
46:34
particular song. It is a great song, but I think
46:39
at the very least we can narrow it down to Viva Dixie for the
46:44
next choice. All right, so let's see, what
46:47
does that give us? Six options for that weird
46:50
sisters rainmaker. Cow him so I would talk to.
47:06
To me, COW or Heart of Darkness would be my choices off of that
47:10
album. OK, well, let's ask this, Is
47:16
there something that you feel like has has done its time, has,
47:23
you know, had a great showing, but it's it's done.
47:27
Like it probably doesn't stand a chance here?
47:35
No, because they're all very good.
47:38
Yeah, it's such a strong, I mean, yeah, maybe, maybe weird
47:46
sisters, maybe. But I mean, it's still great,
47:48
but. Yeah, I could.
47:50
I could see weird sisters bowing out at this point.
47:53
I I loved it because it's when I locked in on the band, but I do
47:57
think they only get better from there, so.
48:02
That works for me to take that one out.
48:09
Is there one that's jumping out at you, Emily?
48:14
All of the remaining options I do.
48:17
I love COW. Like I said, that's one that I
48:20
didn't realize that I've loved as much as I do.
48:26
But really, any of those I'd be completely fine with.
48:33
All right, so. So what have we got left,
48:36
Justin? Can we just go through?
48:37
Sure, it's Rainmaker Cow hammering the cramps.
48:40
Heart of darkness, sad and beautiful world.
48:45
So it also sounds like sad and beautiful world, ain't it?
48:48
So let's take that out. But I.
48:53
Think. Don't eliminate it yet.
48:57
It's so good. Yeah, Don't.
49:01
Yeah, man, I I don't know, man. Let's let's make it it sound a
49:13
beautiful world or cow. Let's go there.
49:16
I'm happy to let Heart of Darkness go at this point.
49:18
It's fought of a good fight but and I think Rainmaker, we've
49:25
probably got that sound covered in other songs.
49:31
OK. So, given, given.
49:35
Do we think that or not? I agree, yeah.
49:38
Yeah, yeah. Given the choice between cow and
49:41
sad and beautiful world, which one would you go, Emily?
49:48
See, I'm going to make it harder because I think I'm going to say
49:50
cow, OK? No, I'm fine with that.
49:52
I at this point, I'm just glad that you guys didn't go know.
49:57
Justin, you're super wrong about sad, beautiful world.
50:00
So let's go cow. All right.
50:03
And then so that brings us up to 9, which brings us to Adam's
50:06
final say. So you can pick anything that's
50:10
alive. You can pick anything out of the
50:11
trash if you want. Of course, I prefer it be a song
50:14
that's still alive, but it doesn't have to be.
50:28
Look, there's so many great songs alive.
50:30
I don't need to go to the trash. Wow.
50:37
I think for some reason I keep staring at Apple Bed.
50:43
I I just love that those lyrics just got stuck in my head the
50:46
whole this whole time and I I just find it such an achingly
50:50
beautiful song. I mean they all, a lot of them
50:53
are. And so I think I'll choose Apple
50:56
Bed all. Right.
50:58
No explanation needed. That's the great thing about the
51:00
final say, final say and let's bring that to 10.
51:07
Emily, I am curious if what you I am curious as to what you
51:12
think of that selection. No, I think that's a great,
51:18
that's a great choice. All right, so let me run it down
51:23
here. We got pig ghost of his smile.
51:26
Gold day, piano fire some sweet day.
51:29
Someday. Someday I can read.
51:31
Someday I will treat you good. Hundreds of sparrows don't take
51:34
my sunshine away. Cow and apple bed.
51:38
Now the even harder part, Adam. Of those ten, which one is the
51:43
one? Yeah, I think, I think we could
51:53
probably pick say two or three to I think piano fires one.
52:01
It's just such a amazing song, but if we want one, But just
52:04
with Mark singing maybe ghost of his smile maybe, I don't know
52:13
what. Do you think, Emily?
52:17
I probably think, I think piano fire.
52:21
Yeah, going into this piano fire was my thought.
52:27
Even though it does have the extra vocals, but it's it's so
52:31
like quintessentially sparkle horse.
52:37
Yeah. And it's just so great.
52:39
I don't think anybody could listen to that and be like, Nah,
52:41
not interested in learning more so.
52:44
Good point. Look, you don't have to, you
52:46
don't have to sell me on on PJ Harvey.
52:49
So let's go with Piano Fire, all right?
52:54
What's got the best chance of a good showing in the in the
52:58
annual? Also true.
53:01
It's also true. Alright, so Piano fire is our
53:07
number one pig. Ghost of his smile.
53:09
Gold day some sweet day. Someday I will treat you good.
53:12
Hundreds of sparrows Don't take my sunshine away.
53:15
Cow and alphabet Round out our ten.
53:17
Let's let piano fire. Piano fire again.
53:20
I can speak. Get its moment in the sun.
53:36
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53:40
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53:41
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53:45
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