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Explosions in the Sky · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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It's the program, the podcast where we I try to get you into a
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band. That's right.
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We do all the work for you. All you have to do is sit back
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and listen and today look up in the sky.
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It's an explosion. Ooh, that does not sound right,
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but it is Explosions in the Sky Day today.
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Christina, you put them up on the board and I feel like this
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was like a quick thing, but we'll get to that.
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Tell me why you wanted to talk about Explosions in the Sky
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today. Was it me?
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I feel like I wouldn't have done this to us.
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Explosion in the sky is actually as much as we're gonna say that
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this was difficult, today is a very beautiful band.
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I. I've loved them for a very, very
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long time. I saw them live in 2016, I
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think, and it was transcendent. I mean, this band is one of
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those bands that you don't really see coming, you know?
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And I feel like more people should listen to them.
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But when you tell them there are no words, they're like, so this
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band is completely instrumental and I think that's what.
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Kind of surprises me about how long they've been around, but I
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don't know. I think that it'd be a fun way
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to bring people into this band and like to do a fully
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instrumental band on this show. Would in my mind then probably
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sounded fun in your mind then, and so you put it out on the
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deprogram channel on Discord, and almost immediately Joe was.
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Like, yes. Yeah, I'm in.
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So, Joe, Explosions in the Sky tell me.
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Yeah, So I was introduced to Explosions in the Sky around
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2017. I was dating somebody at the
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time and she introduced me to them.
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And much like the name, it was an explosion in my mind because
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I was just so blown away, honestly, of this band.
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Like Christina said, no lyrics, just instrumental.
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And I feel that this was, honestly, I don't necessarily
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want to say a turning point, but for me to realize how much I
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love music and how much music touches my soul, if you will,
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right? Because this band just literally
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I'll use, I'll use the term eargasm.
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Like, man, this band is just so damn good for not.
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Having any lyrics and if you've ever listened to the show, you
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know the the the man. Joe is such an emo kid and I
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love. I love a good lyric that just
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stabs you in the heart, right? Pulls on your heartstrings.
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But this band somehow does that without saying anything.
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So yeah, it was one of those things where I I saw it up on
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the border. However it happened, I don't, I
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don't remember. Maybe it was a conversation that
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we had and after the fact. The last time Christine and I
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did a show and we talked about it, whatever.
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In any case, I was like, yeah, we have to, we have to talk
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about this band because people, you need to know about
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Explosions in the Sky. But I will say you have to.
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Well, maybe you don't have to. Actually, I will say you have to
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love music to really love this band.
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Like you have to have an an affliction, if you will.
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I don't know to to love, to love music.
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But even I guess even if you kind of sort of like music,
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you'll probably like this band from from my point of view.
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So yes, it is for for me, Explosions in the Sky was this
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band that somewhere between Limewire and Spotify popped up
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on my radar. It was one of these, like, weird
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down. That's a real big gap.
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Well, I just mean like there were that like whenever Limewire
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died down there was like something else that like that
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popped up and like was leading me to new music.
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And I I, I for the life of me can't remember the service and.
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Was it fair share maybe? Pandora maybe?
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No, it it wasn't. It wasn't anything that's still
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around it. It definitely like, it faded
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within months. And you know, I found like four
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or five different bands on it and Explosions in the Sky was
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one of them. And you know, kind of to, to
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Joe's point, this was something that I had never, you know,
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would have assumed I'd I got in. I'd get into it's mathy.
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It's. Which is surprising because like
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my my affection for math rock at this point is is like I I love
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math rock now. But like there's there's no
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words it it doesn't seem like it should be a band that I would
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love. Now my ears for you know when we
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do this show now like they're turn they're completely opened
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not only just because the experience of the show but there
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is a band around here called Long Division that does this as
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well. And I saw them and when
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Explosions in the Sky made it back to me at some point I was
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like oh OK like yes I can like an instrumental band that that
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does rock. I I think we need to start
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talking about how we did this, because I the thing the thing
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I've been worried or wondering about since I pushed Play on the
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Playlist is I honestly don't know how the fuck we do this.
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Christina, talk to me about how you put your list together,
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because I'm curious what your thought process was.
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Like Joe said already is that he's a a big e-mail kid who
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wants a lyric to really stem in the heart.
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I am that way as well. I I am a lyric person.
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Everybody has listened to my episodes, knows that.
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And so I thought for myself, like doing this list would be a
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fun challenge. And I, you know, now in
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hindsight, don't believe that that was the case.
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And it's it's because there's no way to play the the quote UN
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quote game with this band. There's just no way, like you
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can sort of be like, oh, I know that Tina likes baselines or I I
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know that. Justin loves a really cool
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guitar riff or whatever, right? But like, there's a lot of that
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kind of everywhere. And so every song.
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And what's super difficult about this list too, before I kind of
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talk about my process, is that there are not a lot of songs,
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but they're all very long. So we agreed to do 20, right?
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Yeah. OK, good.
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There's only like 42 or something like that.
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Yeah, 43, I think it was 47, but like.
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Yeah, it's. Not, yeah, it is in the 40s.
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Mine, yeah. But this the playlist is over 5
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hours long, so that was really tough.
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But the way I went about this, I kind of went into like a really
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weird like. Overtired space, where I just
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listened to it from a space where I could not possibly think
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about anything else. And I was like laying there like
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in and out of sleep with my phone in my hand, just
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screenshotting my phone with one hand.
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And like whichever song just like hit me at a certain part.
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I couldn't tell if a song was continuing into itself or.
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Had started a new one, but I would do a screenshot every
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time. I just like got transported,
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right? Like I was just laying there,
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closing my eyes, photo of my hand and screenshotting things
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as they like Smacked me in the soul.
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So like I had some that were duplicates because it was the
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same song and you couldn't tell if it was a new song or not.
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But that's how I did my list. And then when I got done with
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that, I didn't quite have 20. I had, I think, 17.
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So then I went back and like, parsed through a few things and
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I was like, ohh, I remember, like, glancing at my phone in my
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car when I was listening to this one, listen to it again or yeah,
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it was a process, definitely something I was not prepared
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for. I was like, I don't know how to
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do this. I started listening to it and I
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was like, no, I've got to be, like focused on this.
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Otherwise I'm gonna. There's a good sink.
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I I knew I would sit there and think way, way, way too hard
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about it if I tried to go at it analytically.
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So I went completely on gut feeling.
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That's, I think, the only way to do it.
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But Joe, here's here's your chance to prove us wrong.
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How did you go about putting your 20 together for this?
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No, I mean, really, I think you definitely hit it.
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Hit it on the head like you just have to go with your gut.
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Because literally every single one.
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Of these songs could be a top 10 on any list because as we
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mentioned whatever 8 minutes ago, you know, there's no
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lyrics. It's all instrumental.
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So. And you and I'm going to kind of
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go back on what I said earlier. I think you do actually have to,
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you have to love music in some form to listen to Explosions in
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the Sky, because I think otherwise you're going to get
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bored because yeah, these songs are 8 to 11 minutes long, you
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know, and. So I know the idea of this show
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right is to get you to listen to this band if you've never
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listened to them. I'm just saying, honestly, you
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have to love music if you're going to get into this list,
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honestly. Otherwise, you're probably going
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to have a sour taste in your mouth, unfortunately, but even.
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Opening your mind and and loving music even just a little bit.
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Whatever your favorite genre is, if you can take that into
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listening to this band and giving it a shot, I think you'll
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be surprised too. But to the point to the
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question, it wasn't difficult for me in the sense, because I
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already had about 11 songs on my liked list anyway, so I already
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kind of started off ahead, if you will.
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The hardest part was actually filling in the last nine, what I
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wanted to put in there and kind of like Tina there, I, you know,
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I started kind of really thinking about it too much.
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And so I skipped over, skipped over.
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I was like, wait a second, just just listen and feel and
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whatever, whatever that is, if it's a because all the songs
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kind of essentially build, grow, crescendo and then trail off and
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maybe they come back again. So it wasn't necessarily trying
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to pick on like I'm just going to find the one that does that
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because they all kind of do that.
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It was just, yeah, if a part of a song really hit me, then boom,
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it made the list. So, So yeah, essentially it was
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easy to make the list. The the difficult part was
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really just filling in the last nine, if that makes sense.
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It's. Overall, I'd say it was medium.
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It was medium across. It was medium around the board
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to to finalize the list. So yeah, I mean, I I I love this
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band and kind of go back to the person I was dating.
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She had told me stories about just laying outside, looking at
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the, looking at the stars and listening to this band just.
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Feeling it, you know essentially eyes closed or looking at the
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stars and just feeling this band.
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There was other mind altering things going on too, which is
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fine whatever. I won't talk about those.
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But she, you know, she talked about how awesome it was to
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listen to this band and then I I that's how I got into this.
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So yeah, it. Was remind me of that story.
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Remind me of that story for after the fact?
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I will. Yeah no problem got So for me
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the yeah the hardest part is not like listening but like
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immediately like once you once you're listening to track one
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you're like okay. I already don't know how to
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dissect this the you know we we talked about YouTube both being
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e-mail kids and it it it's funny that this band with no lyrics it
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still is wrought with emotions. So I can't I can't lead there
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either. So that's a dead end.
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I mean the really the only thing you can do is, you know, this is
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third time repeating. Go with your gut.
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Like you have to just go with your gut and hope that you two
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had that same gut feeling when you were listening.
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To it like exactly. You know there you're so I find
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found myself weighing out you know a couple things like you
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know accessibility versus what this band does.
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And I was like yeah, but you can't lead too hard on on
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accessibility because if you lean too hard on what's
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accessible in this discography, then you're leaving out what's
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truly great about the band. So like finding the balance
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between, you know, this is the best that Explosions in the Sky
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has the offer versus hey, here's a little something that will
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rope you in. I I don't know.
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But again, by Song Two, I hated the both of you, so you should.
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Know that I get that. I understand and then by the.
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It's not easy. It's like, I know, Sorry to cut
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you off. I know how I said it was kind of
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middle of the road for me. But honestly, it's not easy to
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just in your. Position Justin for sure.
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Obviously you do this every single week.
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You have a brand new band that you have to run through the
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whole discography, but it's not easy, especially with a type
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with Explosions in the Sky with no lyrics to even latch on to.
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Like. You have to just sit through the
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entire five hours and like, OK, I guess I'm going to pick this
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one. Yep.
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Well, and and as Christina pointed out, there's so many
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points where like a song will will quote, UN quote end.
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But you know, the way it flows. Like they are flawless between
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songs. Flawless.
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They really are. Like really, like the way I
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looked at it is these albums are art pieces and you know, they're
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not the first band to do, you know?
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Because again, weirdly, no lyrics.
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They're doing concept records. It's not.
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It's really one piece and many different movements.
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You know, the tracks are the different movements, but like,
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you can't even break it down that way because each song has
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different movements as well. So it's there's a lot to it.
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And ultimately I was like, well, I can either stress out and you
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know, really, really try to play the game, which Christine
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already pointed out you really can't, or I can.
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I can just let go and go with what moves me today and that's
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what I ended up doing. So that brings us to the next
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level of this conversation, and I don't.
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I hate you. I don't know how this is going
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to go, but Christina, based on everything we've just said again
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47 songs, how many do you think we are going to get through
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unanimously for the final say? You know.
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With the small amount of songs, man, I'm gonna say too, because
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I'm not that enthusiastic about the pile we're about to build.
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Yes, it's yes, there's gonna be a lot of songs that are gonna
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hit the floor that we're all gonna cry about.
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Joe. Well, Tina took my number
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because. Yeah, I think it's gonna be real
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difficult with this band to actually match.
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So I guess I'm gonna. I'm gonna go on the positive
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side, though, and I'm gonna say 3.
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All right. Well, damn it.
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You're welcome as a OK as a reference point, WASP earlier
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this year is the first and only band to ever get a zero you.
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Might be #2. Rice had zero.
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You're right, I'm sorry. So thrice and wasp the only two
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to ever have zero is there common ground is the question.
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Yeah, exactly. I think there is.
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I think there is some. Well, I think we'll, yeah,
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there's common there's common ground for sure.
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So then do I do I go, oh this is the third zero or do I Cuz then
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it's like, well. Technically, you still get that
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correct if you. If you called 0, would you get
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that? You'd get it correct, right.
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That's what I'm saying. Like I get the final say, I
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guess, but like we still have to work through 9 songs to get
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there. Or do I go, you know, do I just
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go, do I prices right low or prices right high?
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Cuz there's no way. I mean, I'm sorry.
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I I want to believe that we could do 5, but I don't.
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I don't see that happening. You know what?
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I'm going to go out on my shield.
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I'm, I'm, I'm taking five. Yeah.
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All right. Somebody's somebody's got to
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take it that way. That somebody's got to go that
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And with that, the name of the game is deprogrammed.
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The three of us have come through the Explosions in the
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Sky discography and plucked out 20 songs that we're now going to
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mash together in an attempt to get a top 10 starter kit for
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you. In case you have never given
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Explosions In the Sky the time of day.
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Now I never. I I don't want to do my typical
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thing. And I I've I've been.
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If there's something that grabs me harder than my typical first
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play, that's where I lead and when I was listening through my
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list earlier today. I I grabbed this song hard.
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I hope at least one of you has it so we can get it in the combo
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at least, But you never know. Greet death, yes.
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Yes. Oh, thank God.
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Oh, look at. That.
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What? Whoa.
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I was not expecting that. Oh, I love it.
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Because yeah. Like that was my last add in.
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Oh. I think no second to last.
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I I had it. I had it on there for yeah.
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But yeah hell yeah. And I mean you know I can't I
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can't do the typical oh you know it takes a second to come in cuz
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yeah it does in some some of these is very much that way.
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But once some. Of them are 5 minutes before it
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gets into it. Yeah, but that moment, and
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you'll know it, You're like, oh, God.
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Christina mentioned being transported and this absolutely
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did that. Like, I it just, it took me out
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of this little room. I don't know where it took me.
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I didn't have enough time to, like, really think about, you
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know, where it took off. Come on.
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So good it just immediately chills right now folks I got my
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hairs are on end like it just takes you away I I guess is the
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best way and I thought. We were going to say that a lot,
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yeah. And but this was the moment.
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I'm like, OK, this there is, there is light at the end of the
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tunnel. There is, there is something
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that we can grab on to and point to and it's beautiful.
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It's wrought with emotion and it's big Okay.
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One for one. Yeah, that might be the one now.
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So we'll see. We'll see.
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All right, Christina. Remember Me as a time of day.
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I don't have that, nor do I and so.
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It I had a feeling. So it begins.
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And I won't have a ton to say about a lot of these because
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it's it's exactly like you just said with the last one is it's
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emotional and it's big and it I think the thing with all of
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explosions in the Sky is somehow some way to some corner of your
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soul. It feels important.
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Yes, yes, 100%. Well, again, like, again,
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hammering your point home, just like you won't have a lot to
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say, like why you're presenting a song.
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I don't have a lot to say for why I didn't, you know, like it.
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It just, it just didn't hit me at at, you know, at that point
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in time. All right, Joe.
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I'm going to go. So this is off of their the last
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album, The Wilderness and this one.
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Essentially just sounded. I don't know where it was like,
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wow, this is like a punk rock song sort of in the background.
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So that's why I picked it. Naturally, Colors in space.
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I got it. You do.
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Nice. All right, it's got two.
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Yeah. Again, like we just mentioned,
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like not necessarily gonna have a reason for picking or not
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picking, but when this one came on.
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There was something in the background.
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I was like, oh shit, this is kind of punk rock.
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I got to have this. So here's another recurring
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theme, a song melting into the next, like, flawlessly.
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And you know, there's times where you want to ignore it
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because this is what this band does.
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But when I came back around, I was like, but this is so
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beautiful, so flawless that I feel like I almost wanted to
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present it as one song but Yasmin the light.
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I do not. Which song did you want to pair
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that with? The song before it or the song
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after it? I wanted to pair it with Greek
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death, but I guess point taken, it really could.
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Because I had both before and after but not it.
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Gotcha. Which is a total spoiler for
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down the road. So I'll play that in my dump
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out. No, I no, yeah, I mean.
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That's wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I didn't have it. But that's.
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I think that's it's the second out or the third album.
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That's the second album, right? Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I think they that one again. They they do it really well
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throughout their entire dig discography.
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But I feel. Especially in that second
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record, how everything flowed so well.
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Like, yeah, just one long album. I think they did that.
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Probably the best on that second one from From My Ears.
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But yeah, that's just a random thing, all right, Christina.
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So my favorite record, because it hit me right at the right
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time, is the Earth is Not a cold dead place.
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That one feels very personal to me for some reason, so I'm gonna
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play first breath after a coma. Yes, yes, I don't.
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But again, twos, twos are just about as good as in, I think.
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Yeah. What a beautiful.
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Song. That song has made me cry many
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times. Honestly, I don't know what.
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It is. It is funny.
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Yeah, it's yeah, it's powerful. All right, Joe.
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Well, that was what I was gonna play.
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Wait. Wait.
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Wait. Wait.
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Wait. Wait.
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I'm sorry. Tell me you have it.
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Tell me you have it. I do.
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I was looking at the wrong album.
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Yeah. It's so good.
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It's so good. Just.
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If oh, I couldn't have asked for a better song, so.
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To make it through I you know, we talk about track ones a lot
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because I have a you know, we know, we know where I stand with
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track ones, but. Yes, yes, we do.
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Like with this band, they're critically important because as
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we mentioned, it's like the the album is like it.
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Huge is like it. You know what a Track 1 can be
27:43
subpar on a Smashing Pumpkins record, right?
27:46
And it'll still be a great Smashing Pumpkins record because
27:49
all these other elements, you know, Billy Cory and lyrics and
27:52
whatnot. But like, Pumpkins is probably a
27:55
bad example. But, you know, maybe Blink, you
27:57
know, Blink 182 can have a bad track one.
28:00
They don't, but they could, and you'd still have a good blink
28:04
record if Explosions in the Sky had a bad track one.
28:10
Everything is thrown off, like completely because they're all
28:13
kind of one song, so like. And you probably wouldn't,
28:17
wouldn't take the time to even try to listen to the rest of the
28:21
album, right? And so, you know, again, like
28:26
they're setting up the song that is this album and there we go.
28:34
No, it's so pretty. It's like a theory.
28:40
That's what I love about this record specifically is like when
28:45
you listen to it, you feel like you're floating in space, almost
28:49
like you have all these worries and all of these stresses and
28:53
and everything in your life that's really hurting your soul.
28:56
And this album feels like it's trying to sew it back together.
29:00
Beautiful. Make you believe that it's gonna
29:02
be OK again. And I love that about this
29:04
record. It's so pretty, you're.
29:07
Very well set. Yeah.
29:09
I can't stop that. All right.
29:12
Now it's actually your turn, Joe, Now that I corrected
29:15
myself. Well, like I said, that was
29:20
gonna be my play. I'm gonna stick on the same
29:24
album, though, and this song is. The theme for one of my favorite
29:30
TV series of all time, I. Was hoping I was hoping I was.
29:34
Hoping your hand is in mine. Yes, yes.
29:39
There it is. There was no way I was gonna let
29:43
this list slide without that song because yes, it is their
29:46
biggest song and it's the theme to Friday Night Lights, which is
29:49
the perfect song for that show, by the way.
29:51
For sure. But it is absolutely, absolutely
29:55
fucking stunning like the little like.
29:58
Drum rolls in it are just like so beautiful but like it's just
30:03
twinkly. But then it Oh my God, I love
30:05
it. I love it so.
30:06
Much I got, I got the Goose, I got the Gooseies.
30:07
Right now I get Gooseies all over.
30:10
It's so good. Yeah, I mean everything we've
30:12
said about the band, I mean just to relate it to even that show.
30:16
I mean talk about all the the the ups and downs and I don't
30:21
know, I don't, I don't have words.
30:23
But yeah, it's a perfect song for that, for that show.
30:27
And you know, we talked about, so this is the bookend to 1st
30:31
breath after coma. So we we talk about how
30:35
critically important an opening track is.
30:38
Well, equally as important. And again lots of bands can get
30:42
away with having a subpar closing track because the rest
30:46
of the album is just great. This band can't like, they can't
30:50
afford, and I don't want to use a term like Brave or anything,
30:55
but like there the art is like, the art is like fully on
31:01
display. And I don't know, sometimes I
31:07
feel like I'm putting too much into it, but like.
31:09
No, but like you said, there is this feeling of importance as
31:14
you're listening and that it just, it keeps recurring, so.
31:20
This is the drum part I was talking about.
31:23
Where it kicks in and you have those like rolling snare drums,
31:26
It's so pretty, all right. I'm so glad you all had that.
31:34
Me too. I was gonna be a little sad
31:36
about that one. Just like that, though, We're at
31:38
Joe's 3. I know, right?
31:40
That's crazy. I was so happy to be wrong.
31:43
Yeah, no, like always. But like, especially this band.
31:47
Because, you know, this could have been a We already did
31:50
better than WASP. We already did better than
31:52
thrice. We already did better than Jimmy
31:54
Eat World, folks, which is still mind blowing.
32:02
Oh God. Oh no.
32:07
All right, I'll do the thing that I normally do.
32:09
Just because it's a track one, yes.
32:12
But it's also album one, Track one, and it sets the tone for
32:17
the band. And you immediately know, you
32:20
know, I didn't know I was in trouble yet, but I knew OKI know
32:24
what this band is. I know what they're going to do.
32:26
I know I don't necessarily know where they're going to take me,
32:31
but I know how they're going to take me.
32:33
A song for our fathers. There we go.
32:42
Yeah, I mean you. You said it.
32:43
I mean, yeah, track one song, one album one.
32:48
Sets the tone, sets the tone I could.
32:51
You know, we've done enough shows together.
32:53
I feel like we just all maybe know each other well enough at
32:58
this point, or we're all similar enough people.
33:03
My 5 doesn't look so crazy. I'd say that's that's big, big
33:07
facts. They're big facts.
33:08
I mean, I'm glad that I. Undershot and I was wrong again.
33:12
More so just thinking like, oh where how are we going to find
33:14
each other? And.
33:15
And I'm Explosions in the Sky. But I'm very happy to be wrong
33:18
at this point. OK.
33:23
All right, Christina. I'm going to go kind of later
33:29
down and pick so long, so lonesome.
33:37
Nope. I don't have that one.
33:41
We've got to start whittling it down, yeah.
33:44
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So alone we're gonna have some
33:54
misses and the fact that this is what the only the second one
33:58
into the bin. That's cool.
34:01
Mine don't put it that way. Yeah, don't do that.
34:08
No, we have failed. Nah, I'm not ever going to be
34:13
offended by this one. This one is, this is.
34:17
I mean, maybe I'm taking the time in the wrong place of the
34:20
show to say this, but please listen to this band.
34:24
Like don't, don't let us talk you out of it by saying it's
34:26
difficult to choose them. What that means is that this
34:29
band can really speak to whatever you're going through,
34:32
and I think if I would have been going through something
34:34
different when I listen to it. I would have picked different
34:37
songs. Yep.
34:39
And you get to Yeah, interpret it the way that it feels to you
34:42
without them telling you this is what this song is about.
34:45
And I think that's where I'm not offended if somebody doesn't
34:49
have the same song as me because I'm going through something
34:52
right now that, like, lots of other people don't experience.
34:55
And so I'm finding a lot of peace and solace in these songs
34:59
where somebody else might have just needed to feel surrounded,
35:02
right? Like it does not bother me at
35:05
all. So I'll say this.
35:08
This might be the first episode where I will not hear Justin,
35:12
no. Yeah, I don't think I hear that
35:16
on this one. That's.
35:17
No, that is a recurring theme for a Christina episode.
35:22
Or just a flat out Wrong. Yeah, wrong.
35:28
All right, I won't. I won't do it to you this time,
35:31
Joe. Well, I'm gonna stick on that
35:35
same. Album.
35:37
Because if there's anything more e-mail than that, all of a
35:40
sudden I miss everyone. The name of the the name of the
35:43
album. So I'm going to stick on that
35:45
same album and I'm going to go with that first track, the birth
35:48
and death of the day. Yes, yes.
35:51
There it is, yeah. That song is stunning.
35:58
That one too, man, That one. This one made me cry also.
36:03
I can tell you necessarily why but.
36:06
Yeah, it's. It was powerful to me.
36:09
But these songs are transformative and they they
36:14
take you at, you know, at the risk of being repetitive.
36:18
They take you places. And if you let them, to
36:23
Christina's point, they will take you wherever you want to
36:25
go. If if what you're feeling is is
36:29
kind of sad and you pop this in and you're listening and it can
36:34
take you take you to a sad place, it can take you to
36:39
honestly I because this is probably like the second or
36:42
third time you've said that, Joe, honestly, these songs are
36:46
so beautiful that it may just be the sheer beauty of them that is
36:51
making you cry. Yeah, that's who.
36:54
Yeah. Yeah, I was, I was just trying
36:56
to think of the try to put into words the thought I just had
36:59
like if I think maybe what sums up.
37:03
Explosions in the Sky the best. I think both of you have
37:06
mentioned it now. Like whatever you are feeling,
37:09
if you're feeling happy, if you're feeling sad, if you're
37:11
feeling lost, stuck, you could probably put on just about any
37:16
song of Explosions in the Sky. Maybe you get a good cry and you
37:21
feel better. Or maybe you just let it take
37:24
you away and you float away for a couple minutes and forget
37:27
about all your problems, and then you'll feel better because
37:29
of that too. I think is.
37:32
Probably the best way to say that, Okay, I don't know about
37:46
any of these. We didn't know about any of them
37:51
at the beginning. That's true.
37:52
Very true. Let's throw out a floater.
37:59
Let's find out Trembling Hands. No.
38:05
I do not have. OK.
38:07
That. All right, Christina.
38:25
The moon is down. Yep.
38:29
OK, good. Cuz no.
38:33
So good that yeah, I didn't want.
38:35
To. I don't wanna say it.
38:44
Yeah, I've. When you first played, when you
38:39
talked about the previous song, I was like, I I hope you still
38:43
play that one because I. I've decided I was like, you
38:46
know, I think I'm just gonna play it and see what happens.
38:51
And I'm glad that you had it. It's Blake.
38:53
Blake, Justin said. It's like the the progression of
38:58
those 3 songs in a row is so good.
39:04
It's so good. Please, just listen to that
39:07
record in order. Don't ever shuffle this band.
39:10
Just don't. Yeah.
39:10
No. Don't.
39:12
No. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:14
I think you. Yeah.
39:16
I was gonna say that I wasn't even.
39:18
I wasn't even trying to have any type necessarily of like, oh
39:23
have to have album representation for this band.
39:26
But it turns out that I just kind of did naturally and like
39:31
you said. You you have to play from track
39:35
one to. I mean they usually have 5 or 6
39:37
tracks on on the album, but you have to go one one to six.
39:41
Don't skip around for sure. Absolutely not.
39:44
Not because if you do, you might track two could open you up to
39:48
what you just heard in track one like.
39:52
So don't, right, Do not do that. And obviously, I mean I guess
39:57
not trying to jinx it either, obviously the our list is going
40:01
to end up potentially. Being from different albums, of
40:04
course we already have, but in the same sense if you go back
40:09
and listen to the albums in a row, like Mind Blown.
40:13
All right, Joe. All right.
40:19
I'm going to go this this concept album.
40:24
The Rescue was interesting to me, but there is something that
40:28
hit me for whatever reason. So I'm going to play Day 2.
40:33
Yes. No, All right.
40:38
I do. I do have some days.
40:40
Not that one. The I think that's probably in,
40:47
again, I say least favorite not because it's not good, but it
40:50
was just interesting for me. The rescue album.
40:54
I don't really have words to describe it, but it was
40:56
interesting for me. All right.
41:00
Let me follow suit then. I'll stay on that record.
41:03
Day 4. No, I don't have that one.
41:08
OK. What if we have all the days
41:13
except for ones that meet each other?
41:15
Oh yeah, that'd be that'd be great.
41:17
That'd be great all. Right, Christina.
41:22
Day 5. Yes, I didn't.
41:26
Have that one. Right.
41:29
Day five has two. All right, Joe.
41:39
Day 8. No.
41:41
No, all right. Justin, you got another day in
41:48
ya. Nope, unfortunately we've
41:50
covered. Them all.
41:51
No, we haven't. I have one more.
41:53
Well, for me I should say. I keep scrolling over this one
41:58
and I don't know why. So I'm going back with tired
42:01
eyes, tired minds, tired souls. We slept.
42:06
No, I don't have that one, but I did almost put that one in.
42:12
I did almost put that one in. I couldn't get away from that
42:15
name. It just it felt appropriate.
42:21
The and like the song too. There's so much background,
42:26
which is like eerie and chilling too, which is a good like
42:32
interesting way that the song starts too.
42:38
And I mean, yeah, just listen. Just listen to the band.
42:44
I all right, Christina. Six days at the bottom of the
42:49
ocean? Nope, I don't have that.
42:56
I am so close to saying you're wrong, you guys.
42:58
I'm so close. I'm so close to that I'm.
43:03
So close. That whole record is perfect.
43:07
It's so good. So good.
43:11
And you're not wrong on that. Obviously.
43:14
I'm with you on that all. Right, Joe.
43:22
I'm gonna go off of. Take care, take care, Take care.
43:27
Be comfortable, creature. Yes.
43:30
No, but two. All right.
43:36
I like that tune. That's a good one all.
43:40
Right, I really like the name of the track too for whatever
43:44
reason. Just to all.
43:47
Right. So let's see.
43:47
We've got 4 unanimous and we got five in the combo.
43:53
Still playing? Don't we have 5 unanimous?
43:58
1234 You're right. What did I miss?
44:04
Birth and death of the day. Birth and death of the day
44:07
You're handed mine first breath after a coma.
44:08
Great death and a song for our fathers.
44:11
Maybe I missed. Oh, that's the one I missed.
44:15
Mine. I got excited.
44:19
I was gonna say. I thought we had five.
44:20
I got excited and. But I mean that that said five
44:26
and five means no NTP, so at least it hey, we did it.
44:30
At least there won't be that. All right, so we're back around
44:33
to me. How about the catastrophe and
44:44
the cure? I don't have that one.
44:54
Some of these may have been me overthinking the room, but yeah,
45:03
you know what? I don't need to repeat myself
45:05
because that's all that's going to be at this point.
45:07
All right, Christina. Yeah, exactly.
45:11
Off the first album, Snow and Lights, I don't have that one.
45:24
Listen, this one just makes me think of like those winter days
45:28
where it's like late at night and it's snowing really soft and
45:33
everything is just silent. Yeah.
45:38
That's how I feel when I listen to this song.
45:41
I I definitely get that. I will say this, I know I don't
45:44
have it on my list, but this is literally the moment I knew I
45:47
was in trouble listening to this and I was like, oh God, I don't.
45:53
I don't know what we do. All right, Joe.
46:02
Yeah, I'm just gonna just go for it.
46:05
Let me back in. Nope.
46:13
I think I have 7 left fours. Nope.
46:17
Yeah, 1234 have 8:00. OK.
46:21
So maybe we do a couple more rounds and then, I mean,
46:25
honestly, yeah, I got 7, I got 7 also.
46:29
You know what, Maybe we just do one more because honestly like
46:33
at this point I feel like we don't have a lot more to say.
46:36
So I feel like, you know you hate to say eight song or seven
46:41
song dump out, but it's I we may have, we may have done the thing
46:47
already. So I'm with it.
46:50
So we'll do this one last round and then we'll go, we'll dump
46:53
out last known surroundings. Yes, yes.
47:00
Oh, there. We go hell yeah.
47:04
Just when I thought that that there's nothing left to give.
47:11
But I will say this, I mean, you know, we we took final say out
47:16
of my hands, which is good. I didn't want that
47:18
responsibility. We also just made it hard for
47:22
ourselves, cuz now we have to cut something else.
47:31
All right, Christina. Glittering blackness.
47:40
Yes, I don't have that one all. Right Glittering Blackness gets
47:48
2. All right, Joe, losing the
47:54
light. No.
47:58
Nope. I thought I did all right, but
48:00
Nope. All right.
48:05
Losing the light for Joe. All right, And I'll dump out
48:11
right from the top here. Look into the air.
48:16
Yes, yes. Whoa.
48:23
Okay. Yes, that's awesome.
48:27
It's. Almost like we were all kind of
48:29
just dancing around it. I can't believe that I'm the
48:39
dump out no less. First dump out like I haven't
48:44
even gotten into the stuff. Wow.
48:48
Well it makes sense cuz your first play we hit also.
48:53
Alright, let's see. Next welcome, Ghosts.
48:59
Yes, I don't have that one. That would have been absolutely
49:04
bonkers. Yeah, I would have.
49:07
Alright, let's see. Welcome ghosts.
49:09
It's Justin and Christina. Next is postcard from 1952.
49:17
Yes, damn it. No, this is about to.
49:25
This is about to get really brutal.
49:29
The ecstatics. No, no, OK.
49:35
Had to lose you somewhere, The ecstatics.
49:41
And last but not least, logic of a dream.
49:45
No, no. OK.
49:47
Oh wait, yes, yes, I do have that all.
49:49
Right, that's got it too. I do have logic of a dream to
49:54
make it harder. Yep, very difficult.
49:58
All right, Christina. I have 3 left.
50:02
A poor man's memory. Yes, shit, I know.
50:09
This is gonna be so hard. Wilderness, No.
50:14
And day seven? No, I figured that.
50:19
Let's see. All right.
50:21
That's it for me all. Right joke.
50:25
Obviously it's just me here, but Magic Hours time stops and so
50:34
that's And then we didn't have this on the list, but man, I
50:38
love this song too. It's from Big Bend Woodpecker,
50:43
but we didn't put it on the have it on the list.
50:44
But I wanted to mention it. It's probably the shortest
50:47
Explosions in the Sky song that there is.
50:50
It's like 3 minutes, but it's just so beautiful and I wanted
50:55
to play it. I I kind of wait, wasted a pick
50:57
because I knew nobody else was going to have it since we didn't
50:59
put it on the list, but. I wanted to talk about, you know
51:01
what it, it may have sucked if we had, like, had to dig into
51:06
NTP or something like we were short, but there's no shortage.
51:10
So it it it's actually, you know, you got it in there.
51:15
So wow folks 7. What a game though.
51:21
Holy crap. A song for our fathers Look into
51:24
the air. Greet death first, breath after
51:27
coma, your hand and mine. The birth and death of the day
51:30
last Known surroundings are in And this condo.
51:34
Oh my God. 10 down. To that album representation is
51:38
wide. Yeah, it is.
51:40
It really is. 120 The conversation looks like shit.
51:46
Did we cover everything? We got 12345 records already
51:50
covered with 7 songs. I'd be fine.
51:57
I mean, this is me just trying to like weed things down as I'd
52:01
be fine getting rid of the rescue entirely.
52:04
OK, yeah, I mean, I would second that too.
52:08
Just cuz like I said it was. Again, it's not a bad album.
52:11
It was to me, different from all the other albums that they did,
52:16
which isn't a bad thing. But yeah, I couldn't even say
52:20
that it doesn't necessarily fit into, you know what I mean?
52:23
But it was it was different. Of all their concept records,
52:28
this one's the most concept Y like, I mean it's it's it's
52:33
within the the structure of of the song titles.
52:36
It's that one you should just listen to as an album.
52:40
I believe that about all of them for real.
52:42
But like that one specifically you kind of have to take in as
52:47
an album. So yeah, let's drop those two
52:50
out. Like you said, at least make it
52:53
a little easier. I mean, if we do care about
53:00
album representation, then we need to take one of these
53:02
wilderness songs, Logic of a Dream or Colors in Space.
53:10
I mean, I would me personally push for colors in space because
53:13
it gave me those punk rock vibes, but that's my take.
53:21
Yeah. But I'm also I had I had both so
53:21
I could go either. Same.
53:23
Yeah, I was the odd man out on that.
53:25
So you guys are gonna have to let's do our kind of like, tell
53:31
me which one you think is more accessible to the outside world?
53:35
Because I didn't have either of them.
53:37
Let's do the thing that never helps.
53:40
Oh, perfect. Yes, perfect.
53:44
Got already. So the name of the song
53:50
obviously colors in space. You do feel very much in space.
53:56
Let's get a little bit of the floating.
54:09
I feel like it's a few minutes in when they both hit, Yep, that
54:16
right there. There we go.
54:21
You have to be patient with this band, folks.
54:24
I know, I know. It sounds like we're talking
54:26
about it being difficult. Song choices are what's
54:28
difficult. Not the band.
54:38
This music like this instrumental, feels like it
54:40
could be like at the backdrop of a Shin song.
54:43
And then let's get a little bit of logic of a dream.
55:07
Yeah, that what's that called? Is that called reverb that's
55:12
kind of sound. Is that the same?
55:13
Is that my same is the right thing?
55:15
It's like that's the role. Like, you know what I'm talking
55:26
about though, right? Yeah, yeah.
55:27
It's like a sound on top of the song for sure.
55:31
Yeah, that background there, that's
55:47
like sounds like singing, but it's not like that's good too.
55:59
Just flip a coin. No, boy.
56:07
It's funny to say that the experimental band went really
56:09
experimental with the Wilderness, but that's that's
56:13
what I felt with the Wilderness. It's like they experimented on
56:17
top of the experimentation that they are.
56:22
Man, yeah. I do feel like that's a very
56:25
flip the coin. So I take it there's no, I mean,
56:30
there's room for both, but there probably isn't room for both,
56:32
right? Yeah.
56:36
Cuz we only have three spots, right?
56:38
Right. Yeah.
56:40
I don't. I don't think we can take both.
56:46
Can we we can shelve that right? Yeah, let's come back to it.
56:50
We can come back to it. Come back to.
56:51
It we'll come back to it, it'll be easier in 5 minutes for sure,
56:56
100% like, just wait and have the time pass a little bit.
56:58
Listen to an Explosion in the Sky song.
57:00
We'll come back to it. All right.
57:02
So is there something that's kind of jumping out at you,
57:04
Christina, that like you feel like would really be a very
57:08
welcome addition to our list? I know you didn't have it, but.
57:16
Joe and I had the comfortable creature, and that one really
57:21
lives as, as the kids say, rent free in my brain.
57:29
That one. That one hit me a certain way, I
57:31
think. Let's do it.
57:33
Let's pop that through. There we go.
57:35
If if you feel good about that, Joe, yeah, yeah, 100%.
57:38
I mean, like I said, even just the title of it just hits me
57:42
like, you know, the creature that I am, the creatures that we
57:47
are all in this world, you know? All right.
57:50
So same question to you, Joe. Is there something kind of
57:52
sitting there that you're like cool?
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Well, that really probably should.
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That would be a really welcome addition to to what we've done
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so far. I mean, I'd say probably welcome
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ghosts sticking out at me. I didn't have that one.
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I believe you 2 did. Indeed.
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And it is off the record, which might be if you want to call
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favorite record. All of a sudden I miss everyone.
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So like, I'm. I'm good with that one.
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All right. Welcome.
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Let's do that then. And now, only a few moments
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later, let's do the hard thing that we've already tried to do.
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Logic of a Dream versus Colors in Space.
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Hold on. Where do they?
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Appear on the record because that might help too.
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Nope. 1234 and like next to last.
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I feel like at this point maybe colors in spate.
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I don't know, man. Because logic of a dream.
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Like it really does feel like you're going through a dream
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state. But we got to think about like
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rounding out the list. I think colors and I think I
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might be leaning colors in space.
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Go for it. Yeah, I think, yeah, let's see
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that. Because there's no need to hand
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wring over something that that we all love.
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Yeah, we'll just make make the decision, pull the trigger.
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There we go. All right.
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So that's 10. We did it.
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We That was not too bad. Not really, no.
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Like, I thought it was going to be a lot more painful than that.
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But we got a song for our fathers.
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Look into the air. Greet death.
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First breath after coma your hand and mine the birth and
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death of the day. Last known surroundings.
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Be comfortable creature. Welcome ghosts and colors in
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space. And now?
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Wait, the heart. The hard part?
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The. Really, really hard part.
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Let's crank it up, Christina. This this is going to be the the
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hard part cuz I always try to pick from unanimous if I can and
1:00:04
there are so many which we did not think would happen.
1:00:09
I think for me I would pick first breath after coma.
1:00:19
What do you think, Joe? Yeah, that's what I was going to
1:00:22
say too. OK.
1:00:23
Oh my God. OK I had it narrowed down to
1:00:27
two. I had it down to first breath
1:00:29
after coma or Greek death. I I will say this for.
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Greet death. I feel like it locks somebody in
1:00:39
earlier, but I feel like setting the precedence of first breath
1:00:46
after Coma tells tells everything you need to know.
1:00:50
Like be patient and it will pay off.
1:00:56
Be patient. So I yeah, I think that probably
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is even though I I think technically I like greet death.
1:01:03
Greet death a slight bit better. I think first breath after coma
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does what we're after here all. And I I get that, cuz Great
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Death does pop into your face a lot quicker.
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A lot quicker. But yeah, I feel like everything
1:01:20
we just said. Yeah, we're setting somebody up
1:01:22
for failure. If we give them Great Death, I
1:01:24
think, I I think then they expect to get popped in the
1:01:29
mouth and then go through the waves.
1:01:31
And it's like, sure, there's times where that happens, but
1:01:34
don't. Don't expect that.
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Like, that's not what this is. So, all right, well, let me find
1:01:42
it on this list. There we go.
1:01:43
First breath after coma is our number one.
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Nice little breath after. Not quite a coma.
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But wow. A song for our fathers.
1:01:55
Look into the air. Greek death.
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Your hand and mine. The birth and death of the day.
1:02:00
Last known surroundings. Be comfortable, creature.
1:02:02
Welcome Ghosts and colors in space.
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Rounds out our ten and I could say let's let first breath after
1:02:09
coma get a little moment in the sun, but it's still early in the
1:02:12
song. But be patient.
1:02:15
Be patient, children. That like, heartbeat sound of
1:02:38
the percussion in the back, Yeah.
1:02:53
Swelling of the cymbals. I would.
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