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Saskwatch · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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band. That's right.
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We've done all the work for you. All you have to do is press play
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and listen. And my name is Justin.
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You could call me band curious. I I like to invite my friend
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friends in to talk about bands that they love and tell me why
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they love them. And in doing so, I try to learn
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why they love them as well by listening to them.
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And in that process, we will come out with a top 10 starter
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kit for you to check out this band.
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And sometimes it could go like as just as easy as this is,
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sometimes I just don't want to try.
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On the intro Today we're talking about Sasquatch, and this is
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another one. Whenever it's the Aussie boys,
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you know that Josh probably jumped in and said hey Justin,
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we'd be keen to do Band X. And that's exactly how this one
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went I believe. Josh, I think you came in and
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said hey, we'd like to do Sasquatch, what's up?
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So talk to me about Sasquatch and and why you brought them to
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the dance today. With Sasquatch, there were bands
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Gemma and I used to do youth radio in Australia and they used
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to have this playlist on on there called Sweet 16, which was
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basically half Australian, half American songs like every week.
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And at the end of the year, I decided to make like a playlist
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of my best songs from their playlist throughout the year.
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And and Sasquatch was a band that popped up a few times and,
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and one of their songs, which I'll say later, I ended up
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probably being my favorite Australian song of that year.
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So the the only unfortunate thing for for Jamie and myself
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is that we sort of caught them what I think was their peak in
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their career. Like, you know, with manual over
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Override, right? But they they finished up after
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that album. So we sort of became fans just
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as they were finishing up, which to me didn't make sense because
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I thought that album was their best.
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So yeah. So, you know, it's a band that I
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haven't explored in a while but I've have enjoyed in the past.
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So when, when Josh puts these up, Jamie, I, I assume you 2
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must have a conversation about this before, before it comes
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into the chat? Or is it literally you're
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finding out as I find out, but clearly you were into Sasquatch
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So. So tell me more.
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Yeah, I think this one was one that I had driven for Josh.
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I was like, dude, we've got to do this band like it.
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They are as, like Josh said, a really good band.
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Their last album was, yeah, the peak.
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And it was unfortunate in the sense that they ended on a high
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and then we can't even see them live anymore.
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But it was also fortunate. And again, this, I think I I've
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heard their songs, but I really got into them more when we saw
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them live, which turned out to be, I think one of the last
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times we could do it. And the ensemble they have on
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stage and the sound that they make, it's, it's just so large
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and encompassing and it's, and the voice of the head singer is
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just amazing to and, you know, enticing to listen to it.
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So it's really, and it's weird because it's like more of a
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groovy kind of sound overall, but there's still some like
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really weird experimental facts in there and whatnot that make
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it a really enjoyable listen. So and then I think after that
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there was a period where I probably was just listening to
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them on my own. I don't know if Josh had
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listened to them much, but I went through a couple of their
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albums and was like, oh, they've actually got some other songs.
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But it was clear that Mental Override was definitely their
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peak, and we're lucky that we were able or that they continued
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as a band up until manual override was done.
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So we were at least blessed with one final hurrah, I suppose.
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This is clearly a band as, as is usually the case with you boys,
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I never heard of them. And so I didn't know what to
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expect other than, you know, I kind of had a vague idea.
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You know, there's usually some sort of through line with with
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bands that that you guys bring to the table and it's it's
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present in this one. But it took me a lot longer to
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get to that through line because the first record I didn't, I was
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taken aback. I was like, oh shit, like this
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is different. They kind of morph.
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I don't know how to how to like in America we would refer to it
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as like indie rock. They morph more towards the
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indie rock sound. And like again, like this is
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another band where each record they just got better and I
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didn't. Not every band does that.
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First of all, you guys, it seems to happen every time I do a band
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with you guys. But like for having such a great
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start and I thought that was going to be the sound that first
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record. I thought that was going to be
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like the driving point. I thought that's what we were
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going to get and that what a great start.
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There's no way they're going to top that.
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And then for them to tweak as they go and find a way to get
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better. I was like, well, shit like this
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Is it you you mentioned Jamie Groovy.
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There's a lot of horns. It's it reminds me a lot of like
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Doo wop It yeah. It's just, it's just a really
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fun band to kind of listen to and easy, easy to kind of relax
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to Even so it's it's not a lot of music.
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Like, it's 42 songs, Josh, but is this something where because
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you get almost, you get almost half of the discography?
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Does that make it easier in this instance where like your cuts
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aren't as brutal? Look, my initial cut was 29.
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And yeah, I did find it hard to cut songs down.
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Like while I felt, you know, there were particular stand
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outs, I did find it difficult to cut songs down.
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And in the end it was pretty, I was going to say discriminate.
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I'm not sure if that's the right word, but I really just like was
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quite. I just got rid of songs without
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any real good reasoning because I found it difficult cutting it
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down to 20 because I feel like there was a sort of similar
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level of quality of like 5 or 6 songs around the edge of of 20.
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So yeah, I did find it difficult cutting it down.
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Yeah, I don't know if you had this the same thing, Jamie, but
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I think I think my numbers may have been exactly like what what
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Josh was saying. I didn't have a ton come through
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on on my first pass, but like it was brutal getting down.
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How was your your go at this one, Jamie?
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Yeah, I my cut. Well, my first pass gave me 26.
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And I think what was very hard when I was and I was kind of
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more brutal with it, was listening through the albums,
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you know, starting from the start and going to the end
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because I knew the end would have a lot in there.
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Like it took a lot of willpower not to just put every single
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manual override song into my cut and give the other ones a
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chance. So yeah.
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And their top quality is top quality.
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And not that to say that other stuff isn't, but it did take a
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bit more effort to narrow down what would be the last few.
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And I think overall, like if I look at my 20, I go, yeah, this
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is probably a good cream of the crop for them overall.
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And there are other songs, similar kind of quality and just
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a bit different. Not my taste at the end of the
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day, but yeah, it was it was a bit.
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It was more difficult to try and figure out what my tops were.
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I think the and then the tops and bottoms, the middle was
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really easy. The tops and bottoms were the
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hardest to figure out, I think. I, I ultimately ended up pretty
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rounded out like as, as far as albums go, which again, when I
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first listened to that first record, I thought that that was
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going to be it. Like I was going to be like, I'm
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just putting this first record through and then we'll go from
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there. And it ended up being a lot
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harder to, to make those cuts to, to, to even everything out.
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And again, I, I didn't do it on purpose.
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I just, I was, as I was writing down my list, I'm, I'm looking
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at it on Spotify and I'm like, oh shit.
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I think it's like, you know, 5454, something like that.
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And it's like, well, that's, it's about as even as you can
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get. So yeah.
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But so it's interesting because it to hear us talk about this,
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there's only 42 songs. It seems like the math would
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would work out to where we should be able to get a lot
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through. But it seems like there's also
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not a not a lot of easy outs, which could mean a lot of ones
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and twos. Josh, based on everything we've
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said, what do you think? How, how many do you think we
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get through unanimously? Like, hearing some of this
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positive chat about Manual Override makes me think that
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there'll be a couple of songs in there that we all like.
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And then for mine, at least after the first album, there's
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certainly a song that I think we'll go through.
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So we go 5. I mean, it seems like the safe
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bet. Seems like with 42 we should be
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able to do at least that you'd think.
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What do you think? The middle has been taken from
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you. Yeah, which is what I was going
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to go with, I think. But 42 songs, there's an even
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split along all of them. Out of 20, we'll go positive and
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go 6. There can't be that much
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variation. So we have to go more positive,
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surely all. Right.
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You know, I want to say that too.
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Like I said, it's I think I'm 545 or actually maybe 5445 now
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that I'm looking at it, man, 5 and 6 off the table.
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Do I out positive you boys, or do I do I bet the under I'm
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going to out positive. I'm going to I'm going to go 2
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past Jamie. I'm going to go 8 partially
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because I don't want to win. I don't want, I don't want that
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weight, but if I'm going to win, then it needs to be because we
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did really well. So that's that's the way I
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always view it. All right, so we're going to.
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What's that? Nice.
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Yeah, right. All right.
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So with that, we're going to take a quick break.
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And on the other side of it, we will play the game Mr.
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Programmed. And with that, the name of the
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game is deprogrammed. The three of us have come
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through the Sasquatch discography and plucked up 20
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songs that were now going to mash together in an attempt to
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create a top 10 starter kit for you, in case you have never
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listened to Sasquatch. So now I'm I'm of two minds on
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where to start. I think I got to start at the
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start. Not like the start, the start,
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but the moment I kind of locked in on OK this is something
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different and I already kind of did a pun on it how I don't want
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to try. Yeah.
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Yeah, I've got that on my list too.
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All right, all right. You're Dustin.
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I feel like I that was the first Sasquatch sound like song I
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heard, because I swear I've heard that on an ad.
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Like, not that that's a great place to hear a song, but I
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don't know. I don't know whether it's
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because it's got this timeless quality, but it just seems like
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I've always known this song. I'm I'm so glad you brought that
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word up Timeless that like this first record especially is super
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duper timeless. And that's why I kind of locked
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in on like there's just something about this band.
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And I mean, again, I in my opinion, they got better, but
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like, which is fucking insane to think, but like it, it's
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timeless. It it does feel like a song that
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I knew. And I guarantee you, I guarantee
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you I had never heard it before before that.
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So I love that. I think it must be the piano
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along with the the horns for sure.
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Yeah, it's just a, it's a, it's a familiar sound and it's it's,
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it scratches an itch I didn't know I had.
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So, you know, it's kind of great, all right.
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Don't like, sorry just about, I feel like, you know, if we're
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talking about that sort of, you know, Back to the Future sort of
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vibe. I do find, like, some of their
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best moments on this first album are like, akin to something like
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The Supremes. Yeah.
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Like with how the songs are set up and like that sort of
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electric sort of piano sound that's going on in, in some of
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these songs. But yeah.
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And like, as a rule, I wouldn't say I'm not a fan of horn like
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sections in songs, but it's not usually something I I enjoy as
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much. So.
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But in this song, it's sort of, it's great how it like sort of
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performs the hooks and the chorus.
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It's like you could do a little guitar on there, but it probably
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suits the music better having the horns doing that part.
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Man, like there's a song like right, I'll have to think, I'll
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have to dig it up in the after the fact.
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There's like a song on the edge of my head that it reminds me of
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and I'll dig it up and we can talk about it in after the fact
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if that's something that interests you.
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Fine folks. A dollar a month.
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patreon.com/oh. Hi, Justin.
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All right, don't want to try in. Josh, where do you want to go?
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While we're on a first album sort of train here, I'll go with
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your love. Yeah, Yep.
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Not in my short list, in my long list, unfortunately.
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All right. We'll take that too.
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That's a great one. I mean, that's going to be a lot
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of that. It was a great one.
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All right, Jamie. I'll probably, I'm going to go
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out of the first album because I'm sure we'll get back there
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anyway and go with a song that isn't off manual override.
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And that would surprise me because I thought my manual
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override song would be my top song.
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Turns out my top song came from the previous album.
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Spitting Image is this track. Yeah.
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Oh no, I don't have it. You guys both do so.
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I think I with spitting image, it's just the the kind of like
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the way it kind of feels very stripped back at the start of
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the track with her vocals. And then this I I'm a sucker for
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a song that just builds and builds and builds, especially
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when the drums kicking later on it.
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That's what makes this track outstanding for me.
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All right. I'll take the 2.
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I'll do it. I'll be the first one to throw
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out a manual override track just to see if I can find you guys.
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How about December nights? #2.
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Hey. It's it's funny with this song,
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like, you know, you have that big distorted guitar that sort
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of ashes it in, but then it like segues into like a flute LED
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hoop like hook and it like works somehow.
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It's not, not something you think of in your head as, yeah,
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I'm going to put a flute after this distorted guitar hook here.
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But yeah, it's some sort of really cool sort of whipsy cool
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sort of quality to it, you know, And it's got that that beautiful
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sort of piano in the outro. Like it's a really nice song.
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They're really good at track ones because especially in this
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instance to your point where they they kind of like they're
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showing their hand of by the way, we we're doing something
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different now, but it's also familiar.
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Very cool. Yeah, very into that.
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All right. And great vocals, like it's
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going to be common throughout all the my descriptions, but her
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vocals, the catchy's vocals are just insane.
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It really does become like, out of all the collective sound that
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they create with all the instruments, her voice is
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probably one of the most valuable assets of the band all.
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Right. So December 9th is in Josh,
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where you want to go? This album, I was talking a
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while ago how one of their songs from this album was my favorite
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of that year, and that was when I'm probably saying it wrong.
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Renoir. I can't even pronounce it.
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I got it. I've got it.
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Beautiful for the just. For the record, I would have
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said Renoir as well. I would have assumed.
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Oh just I can't even speak my first language mate.
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I'm used to it by now, but. I'm pretty sure this is French,
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so you're fine. Yeah, yeah.
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But like. Word.
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Yeah, but just the fact that I can't even speak English is what
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I'm getting at. So speaking anything from a
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foreign language is a, is a, is a battle.
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But yeah, but but look like, I love that album.
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But for me, like, this song's the stand out of it.
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You know, it's got a really cool retro vibe.
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You know, the tickling pianos and harpsichord always makes
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things feel nostalgic for me. But I just find like this song's
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just really structured well. And I love how it sort of
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transitions between different sections like.
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There's this really like cool chord change into the the bridge
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that like for me, I like, I always love hearing that.
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And oddly enough, I feel like the bridge is the strongest part
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of the song, which is not, not something I always say.
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But yeah, now I've always enjoyed this song and I'm happy
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that all you guys voted it in. There we go.
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Just like that. Boom boom, boom.
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Jamie, where you want to go? So I'm going to go to their
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second album in another track that I wasn't expecting anything
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from this album to be so high. But then when I did listen and
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delve into it more, I was like, this is it.
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And that's Born to break your heart.
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Yeah. I don't have that now.
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Oh. Really.
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Yeah, sorry. And that's.
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OK, it's not the first time you've disappointed me.
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Won't be the last thing. Today that's true.
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But I think what I really like about here for this track, just
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how groovy it is and the kind of trumpet sounds that peak
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throughout, is just it's fun to listen to.
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What's cool these guys as well, mate, is that like while they've
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definitely got like a signature sort of sound, like, and they
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they grew throughout their career, like it's still like
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groovy, but it's in a different sort of way to their first
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record. And like something that's cool
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to see throughout their four albums is like how they like how
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they progress as a band and, and their sound.
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And it's sort of it it happens in a way that like not jarring,
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like it seems to happen gradually throughout their four
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albums. And yeah, so it's a good story.
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Yeah. Sorry I couldn't have pushed it
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through. I'll stay on that record with
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you, Jamie, though off of Nosedive, how about hands?
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In my long list mate. Oh.
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Same for me buddy. Oh, to the bin it goes.
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Aye. All right.
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I had a feeling it was coming eventually.
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All right, into the bin. Where you want to go, Josh?
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What's funny about hands like like most of their songs, I'm
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like, it's infectious and Boppy gives you my shortlist, but then
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I'm like, well, we'll got repeated that description like
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57 times. So and.
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We're going to continue to repeat it because we're
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original, but. Yeah, right.
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Yes, I like probably leave that for something else.
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I think I'll go with a song called Then There's You.
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Yeah, I. Guess I've got it.
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There we go, There we go. I, I'm just, this is what like
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one of the songs that makes me feel sad that this was their
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last album. Because for me this is like a
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clear like sort of change in sound, but they sort of hit it.
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Production's really good. It's kind of like coming out in
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2017. So I suppose at the time timid,
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like it's kind of after Currents by Tame Impala, but that's sort
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of like psychedelic sort of feel.
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But like, again, you put a different like, you know, layer
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of paint on this and you could see this album sort of sorry,
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this song sort of being one of their early albums, just with
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different instrumentation. But I feel like this song really
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works for that sort of like that feeling that they have.
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Like it's different with like The Sims or more of Alliance and
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Simpson. It's weird, like almost almost
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seen as like a psychedelic dance song, but like not at all in the
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way you'd expect. Kind of like a slap groove.
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I love the the piano as well or the keyboard tune.
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I kind of describe it as pretty dreamy yet eerie like.
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Yeah, yeah. Like a yeah, I get that.
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And this one, you know, I hate to go oh, this could have made
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it in the states, but it it does feel like that could have hit
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here. And I don't know if they ever
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broke here. I mean, they clearly didn't
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break like big here if they did. But like it, I guess to your
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point, it it it makes it, it does make me kind of sad that
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they're not going anymore because it feels like it feels
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like where they were going. They could have broke here and
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they could have, they could have, you know, what is it?
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What does it mean to break in the States anyway?
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But like, I'm just comparing it to my little edge of the world
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so all. Right.
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Like it's true. That's the that's the goal of
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every band. Because like good Australian
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bands that don't quite make it overseas, there's only so much
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you get to a certain level as a good Australian band.
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You can't actually tour around the country that much because
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there's only so many people here.
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You might do the main cities and and have to wait a long time
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before your like next album. Like oddly enough, in Australia
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you play more gigs being a smaller band.
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You get to that sort of level in between being really big and
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just like a local band and you actually can't tour that much.
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And I'm sure it'd be tiring because like, obviously they
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won't be making as much money out of it to support themselves.
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So yeah, it is a peak. They didn't make it.
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I guess, yeah, there's a, there's a level.
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There's a band that I actually saw two nights ago where they're
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pretty big. I don't know if they've broken
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internationally. I know they're touring in
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Europe, so possibly, but they've, they in their latest
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album tour, they were, you know, doing all the major cities and
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going to not stadium ones, but more like your large venues
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before you go to a stadium, which is kind of the limit of,
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of what I prefer to go to see personally.
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But then they continued on and two months later they started
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doing the regional towns and centres and just you'll get a
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kick out of this. They one of the towns that they
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hit as part of that was Frankston.
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So, and that's where I saw them. But yeah, that's kind of what
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you can do where you're big and, you know, you can draw numbers,
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but you can still do like the regional towns and keep a tour
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going like that. So before you get to that next
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level where you have to be in a stadium, you have to be, you
26:41
know, drawing a large crowd. And just like that, we're up to,
26:48
we're at 4. Where you want to go, Jimmy?
26:55
OK, I'll leave manual override for now and go to back to their
27:03
second album, which what as I listened in the background has
27:08
just kicked on and I guess this is probably a good place to go.
27:11
I love divine. Damn it, no.
27:17
Well I'm not immune to the bin either.
27:22
I think the reason why I chose this truck specifically.
27:25
To me it sounds very 80s and was the most rock they got so I
27:30
rated it highly for that. But I guess not everyone's the
27:33
same. OK.
27:34
I'm not taking it personally or anything.
27:36
I think it's one of their top 10 on Spotify.
27:39
Like I went to kind of bat because this is a band that I
27:42
didn't get any answers when I asked threads.
27:46
No, nobody answered anything. So like I couldn't really get a
27:50
pulse on on what people think of them.
27:52
So I compared it to the top 10 on on Spotify and that I'm I'm
27:59
almost positive that was one of the songs that was on there so.
28:02
Probably, yeah. All right back.
28:06
Around it is. It's a number six.
28:08
Yeah, All right, back around to me.
28:11
I'll go on. We haven't gone to.
28:14
Sorry I let it come between us yet.
28:17
So how about I try? Everyone's giving up.
28:25
I've got that one. Hey.
28:28
I'm giving up I. Think I will stick with two.
28:34
Yeah, we'll take it too. That's all right.
28:37
I like it. It's groovy, kind of
28:39
melancholic, bit of a slow one, but fun.
28:42
Yeah, All right. Take that too and we'll move on,
28:47
Josh. Yeah, I'll go suddenly off that
28:51
album as well. Go down the stairs, Yes.
28:58
Down the stairs again, long list, not short list.
29:04
What's it's weird with that song?
29:07
Like, yeah, obviously I really enjoy it.
29:10
But if we comparison, this sort of reminds me of like a kind of
29:13
like a Paul Kelly road trip sort of song, but just with a female
29:18
vocalist in a horn section. Like, I don't know, it just
29:21
seems like something you'd listen to going on a long drive,
29:23
like a positive sort of road trip song.
29:27
They all have that kind of quality, really.
29:30
Like I get what you're saying. Like that one feels more like,
29:36
for lack of a better term, localized.
29:38
Like like there's a place in mind like you can you can
29:41
envision the where, but there is something drive about drivable
29:46
about just this band, just in general, I feel.
29:50
Yeah. All right, So I want to get to 2
29:55
Jamie, where you want to go? I think I'll I'll go back to
30:05
manual override. We've haven't touched on it in a
30:07
while and I'm going to go to finger painting.
30:10
No. That two no's.
30:16
Yes. No to the Yes to the Yeah.
30:20
I'm choosing the song. No to the two no's.
30:24
Yeah, I thought like, I knew that that was a track that you
30:27
thought highly of. So I was like, it's odd that it
30:29
only got me if that was. I've never told you that.
30:34
I'm pretty sure you have. You might have been cooked and
30:37
out of it, but I'm sure. You told me?
30:40
No, I've never told you about that one.
30:44
I love I love this one because it's lyrically very fun to
30:46
listen to. Yeah, that's just another one
30:51
where I wish I had a reason to tell you why I didn't have it.
30:54
Actually, you know what I'm going to, I'm going to play that
30:56
into my my next choice from Nosedive.
31:00
Give me a reason. Sorry mate.
31:05
I do have that one though. Hey, there we go.
31:10
I'll take that too. Better than getting binned.
31:12
And we're like out of NTP now too, so boom, boom, boom.
31:19
All right, Josh. We go for some called.
31:25
You don't have to wait. Yeah, I got it again.
31:33
Yeah. Hold on, just wait a second.
31:35
I've got to have a look see if it's in my list.
31:41
You shouldn't have. To like familiar, but I don't
31:45
think it's in my list. Right.
31:48
Well, look, it's not anything different for Sasquatch because
31:51
they've just gotten so good at writing this type of song.
31:53
But you know, definitely in a 20.
31:57
Yeah, all. Right, another 2.
32:00
Yeah, yeah. All right, Jamie.
32:10
Let's go with a 100 years. Yeah.
32:20
OK, I can't, I can't make that unanimous, but it gets it gets
32:26
that's. All right, Yeah, I I think my
32:29
favorite part about that song, and I don't know, Josh is
32:33
similar, but I love the part at the end where they go skits like
32:37
it's like all slow and at the very end it just goes skits, a
32:39
bunch of different sounds not coming in.
32:43
Well, this is like one of the only like Sasquatch songs that I
32:47
feel like. I know it's kind of unsettling,
32:50
especially the star when it's just heard vocals in the scene,
32:53
you know? I don't know if it's like, yeah,
32:55
only just coding or anything like that, but it just, I don't
32:58
know, it feels a bit eerie. For sure.
33:04
Let me try a sorry, let it come between a song.
33:10
How about I'll be fine. Yeah.
33:16
No. Man, we are like dancing right
33:19
around that number 5. Jamie, you need to go talk to
33:22
someone then. If you won't be fine, Sir.
33:27
I'll be fine, no? We're we're going to get 5 and
33:31
then it's going to land on Josh again as I elude myself again
33:36
from that hitting the the final say the number, Yeah, the final
33:41
say yeah. What's what's cool about that
33:44
song is like kind of like unlike anything they'd done to that
33:48
point, you know, in terms of more of the focus being on like
33:51
sort of the crunchy guitar sounds like.
33:54
And that's the sort of welcome addition that I found in the
33:57
last two albums that they did have songs where, you know,
34:00
there's some cool guitar textures that weren't like clean
34:03
or anything that just sort of actually pushed for the song
34:06
all. Right, I'll be fine.
34:10
Gets a 2. Josh, where you want to go?
34:14
Well, number one is kind of from that album called In Your Arms.
34:21
Yes. This sounds familiar, but it's
34:29
not on my list. Wow, another two.
34:36
Man, this, these cuts are going to be brutal.
34:40
We got a lot. All right, Jane.
34:51
I I'm going to go to this third album.
34:57
Time to let you go. No.
35:04
No. But a lot of pun worthy songs.
35:10
It is not time to let you go. Could be, but it isn't time to
35:15
let you go into the bin. Good.
35:19
Oh, brutal. A little rude of me, I'm sorry
35:25
we. Need more of that, especially if
35:28
it's not at my expense. Let's see, I'll go back to the
35:38
first record. How about two hearts?
35:40
Yes. Nah, but that is a good song
35:47
all. Right, another two.
35:51
This is gonna be something, fellas.
35:54
All right, Josh. Do you ask?
35:58
Probably. They at least sold.
35:59
Like I already had two for the first record.
36:01
Spoiler alert, but that was probably the one outside of my 2
36:05
that I enjoyed. OK, well, I think like, I was
36:15
waffling on about the different sort of grittier sound before,
36:18
but a song I think is kind of like a great mix of the last
36:23
albums called Gemini. Yeah.
36:25
Yes. Hey, there it is.
36:29
Yeah, it's just a greater focus on the the drums are always
36:33
interesting, but I feel like there's more of a focus on the
36:36
drums. They're really funky.
36:38
The guitar rhythms kind of, again, get the risk of repeating
36:43
myself, sort of grittier sound and a sort of crunchy rhythm.
36:48
But then it's got this like really cool piano that sounds
36:51
like it's being played in the next room that sort of repeats,
36:54
which by itself it would sound like an annoying alarm for a
36:57
phone. But in the song, it's like a
37:00
really interesting, sort of like repeating motif in the
37:04
background that like is catchy. 100% And I think what I love
37:09
also about this track is how it transitions from the previous
37:13
track Finger painting. I I I love a good album mix and
37:17
this is a good album mix song. Just like that, your worst
37:25
nightmare has come true. At this point, Josh is sitting
37:29
on that five nicely. I think I'm down to like 4.
37:34
So where you where you want to go, Jamie?
37:41
I'm going to stay on manual override and go with North
37:44
Terrace. No.
37:47
Yeah. Man North Terrace gets a 2.
37:54
Come on, you're lucky there, Gemma was.
37:58
That 20. But no, that's that's, that's a
38:04
nice song. It was kind of like low key and
38:06
subtle and I find it interesting in those sort of tracks when
38:10
like obviously every instrument is in its right place.
38:13
Like I like the little spidery sort of guitar lines that are in
38:17
the song. You know, the sort of harmonies
38:20
are subtle as well. It's it's it's a it's a cool
38:22
load, laid back sort of track. I can see what what Justin
38:25
didn't have it because not something that you know, stands
38:28
up and punches you in the face, but it's a good album track.
38:35
Let's see, 123456 left 1-2. Yeah, All right.
38:46
I think maybe we do one more round and then dump out.
38:52
Let's see where we're at after that.
38:53
I already did that one. How about off of Nosedive?
38:57
Is it true? Oh, it's not.
39:02
No it isn't. Oh, it's it's very untrue.
39:06
OK, all right, boom. Into the bin I go, Josh.
39:12
The song titles that just LED themselves to to rude responses
39:16
like nothing personal. It's just can't help but say.
39:20
Yeah. I mean, it is a question so.
39:23
Well, this next song, the title alone, you know I won't be sad
39:28
if it's out just because of the the pot opportunity but left me
39:32
to die. Well, well, looks like looks.
39:39
Like, yeah. Sorry.
39:40
No. Yeah, sorry.
39:44
I think that's what's happening is you're being left so sorry,
39:50
man. Can't get you to the to the
39:53
hospital. All right, in the bin you go,
40:00
Jamie. Well, I'm also going to continue
40:04
with choosing a song based on Oh, not only based on the title,
40:08
but because I actually like it. Bite my tongue.
40:12
No, yeah, hey, take that too. What Jamie's doing right now,
40:21
he's had a guffle. Yeah, right.
40:26
Yeah, that's, but that's, look, that's another song with that
40:29
sort of like Bouncing Supreme, kind of like, I don't know if
40:34
it's like a Rhodes piano, but that sort of electric piano
40:37
sound in it. But like, what I sort of thought
40:40
was the cool part of this track is it's got this like sort of
40:43
busy bass line but kind of doing its own lead thing without
40:49
necessarily being like, hey, man, I'm Paul McCartney.
40:53
Got to listen to what I'm playing, you prick.
40:54
Like it's just, it's sort of play interesting parts of the
40:57
background, but like it's not in your face.
41:02
Yeah, I love how the horns go with the chorus, you know, where
41:07
every single time, you know, she says, bite my tongue.
41:10
And then the horns go at every single word.
41:13
It's I'm, I don't know, I'm a sucker for the simple things, I
41:16
suppose. Yeah, I mean.
41:19
Be cool, be cool if you could just walk around and then like a
41:22
horn section would just repeat the melody of whatever sentence
41:26
you're saying to people. Like I feel like it would give
41:28
it a real sort of sense of power, whatever you're saying,
41:30
but also be so annoying after 10 minutes that you, Oh yeah, you
41:34
know, probably can be an assault on the the horn section.
41:36
Get the fuck. Out of here.
41:39
All right, I'm going to dump out.
41:41
I know for a fact already that Josh doesn't have these first
41:45
two, but I'll see if I can land with Jamie on one of them.
41:49
How about leave it all behind? I don't have that one all.
41:55
Right, smooth sailing. That was in my short long list,
42:03
but not my short list. All right, moving to Nosedive.
42:08
How about now that we're alone? No.
42:13
You are alone on that one. Very alone.
42:16
Feeling very, very alone. All right, moving to the next
42:20
one. How about your drug?
42:24
No, but I do like that song. I think I overthought the room a
42:27
little. And then last but not least,
42:31
Shrinking Violet. I've got that.
42:35
I'm sorry, I do love the energy, but because I had like 400,000
42:39
manual override songs, that was one that sort of just let slip
42:42
off there. There we go.
42:45
All right, so Jamie called it. Josh has the final say again.
42:52
So hold on, let me let me shift this up and we will get a Josh's
42:57
dump out tracks and see if we can make this, I mean this
43:01
already thick and difficult conversation more thick and more
43:05
difficult. All right.
43:08
What do you got, Josh? Oh, your name?
43:14
No. Blind.
43:16
No. And Fortress.
43:21
No, but all great tracks. And just for fun, Jamie.
43:29
My finals were heaven. Seemed so far away.
43:34
Renaissance Man and kids. Yeah, Kids is very good I was
43:40
listening to. That now I'm just trying to
43:43
picture them, you know, playing the MGMT.
43:46
Yeah, do that song with the horn section.
43:50
Actually, that's not the most unlikely thing.
43:53
Yeah, but it would seem weird at the same time.
43:57
All right, let me run this down and see what we got here in our
44:02
unanimous already five. It was already mentioned Josh is
44:05
going to win again. We all really agree on manual
44:08
override. We've got don't want to try
44:11
December nights, Renoir, Then there's you and Gemini already
44:15
through. We've got a long list of twos.
44:19
I'm going to run these down 15 that we need to get down to four
44:25
before Josh's final say. So let's see.
44:29
We've got your love spinning image born to break your heart.
44:33
Everyone's giving up down the stairs, finger painting.
44:36
Give me a reason. You don't have to wait 100
44:39
years. I'll be fine in your arms. 2
44:42
hearts North terrace. Bite my tongue in shrinking
44:44
Violet as I read those down. Josh, is there one that you're
44:49
like, man, I can't believe we didn't get that one?
44:54
Maybe not can't believe, but I feel like, you know, this song
44:57
needs to be in the playlist. And that's down the stairs all.
45:02
Right. What do you think, Jamie?
45:04
Any you were the hold out there. Down the stairs was my 22.
45:11
OK, so it's in my top. It's not.
45:13
It's just not in my top 20. So I wouldn't say that I'm
45:18
surprised it's not in there for that reason.
45:23
Are you all right? I want to be clear.
45:25
Are you saying that you're OK with it going through or are you
45:30
giving reasoning for it not to go through?
45:36
Out of all the songs that I didn't pick, this is the closest
45:39
to being picked so. OK.
45:41
So you're OK with it? All right.
45:42
I just want to be clear. I just want to be.
45:45
I don't know what my reasoning was, to be honest.
45:48
I think because I was like, it's not.
45:49
I was the one who was left out there.
45:51
But yeah, don't mind me. Well, I'm going to mind you
45:58
because now I have to ask you, is, is there one that you're
46:02
kind of looking at like you feel like we got to have?
46:06
Spitting image 100%. I was the admin out there, so
46:12
let's go ahead and put that through.
46:14
That gets us up to 7. All right, now let's let's have
46:17
the discussion because there's a lot of manual over OverDrive
46:21
here. Are we are we at a point where
46:24
it's just take best available? Or are we trying our best to do
46:30
album representation with what's left?
46:35
I don't think it would hurt for people to listen to manual
46:38
override the most. Also, it's easy to argue about
46:45
we should have some representation as well because
46:48
why not? Have we got anything from
46:53
Nosedive? Nothing from Nosedive yet, so
46:57
let's see what's born to break your heart.
46:59
Give me a reason you don't have to.
47:02
We've got to have born to break your heart, I feel, I feel like
47:05
because that's my #3 it feels like it should go through.
47:09
I was the odd man out there if if you feel that strongly about
47:13
it. I know, Joshua, would you agree?
47:17
Why not? There you go boom, That brings
47:21
us up to 8. And so we'll leave Josh out on
47:25
on this this one because he's going to have the final say
47:28
anyway. Do we need another from Nosedive
47:35
just to kind of even things out because right well.
47:38
Shoot, we got one from Nosedive one.
47:40
My next Nosedive track was a Love Divine on my list.
47:46
And we only have one. And that's.
47:48
First record as well right now. From the first record, the
47:54
highest I had was 2 hearts. OK.
48:03
So I guess the question would be which do you do you think takes
48:07
priority? First record or nosedive?
48:14
First record is like the, like you said, starting out indie
48:18
band kind of not haven't really got that sound that they
48:23
developed later on yet. No Nosedive is where it really
48:28
starts to come together and then builds on from there.
48:35
So if we put maybe something that more closely aligns to what
48:39
they do later on with Nosedive compared to their first album,
48:43
because the first album, like you said, kind of you, you
48:47
listen to it and you thought that was their sound and then
48:50
you listened on and it was like, oh, that's kind of just the
48:53
foundation. Yeah, yeah, I.
48:55
Get it. So I think if we have more from
48:59
Nosedive or even sorry I let it come between us, that really
49:03
will give people a better expectation of what their sound
49:07
at least develops to, to manual override compared to the base
49:12
that they the foundation that they set themselves all.
49:14
Right. So then we have two from sorry,
49:19
I let it come between us currently and only one from
49:23
Nosedive. So the next question is, do we
49:28
even that out? We may talk to what we've got
49:33
four or five from manual override.
49:37
Right, we've got 4 from manual OverDrive currently.
49:39
Yeah, yeah. So I think if we put in another
49:48
nosedive one, I mean, I love the track, I love Divine.
49:52
A lot of people who listen to them like that song as well.
49:57
I think you were the odd one out for that one was.
50:01
It one. Was it one?
50:05
Oh, you're right. Sorry, my bad, my bad.
50:07
I'm sorry. I'm just going down my list and
50:09
I didn't even realize that was a red.
50:12
I wasn't looking at my marks. Yeah, so.
50:17
Now for a lack of concentration. The ones that are alive or give
50:23
me a reason and you don't have to wait, give.
50:25
Me a reason was my next one that had two then that went through.
50:29
Sorry all. Right, so let's do that.
50:31
No worries. I guess people will find I love
50:33
Divine once they listen to the popular tracks anyway, so it's
50:37
not the end of the world. All right, let's do that.
50:41
And then that brings us to if I'm correct, let me make sure my
50:44
math is right. Yes, nine.
50:47
That brings us to Josh's final say all.
50:51
The tough because all the ones that are pretty much wanted in
50:58
are there or the ones that are still twos.
51:09
Well, you know, this is this is what the the rules are.
51:13
There are no rules. I prefer it to be one that's
51:15
alive, but this is a great place to not do that because because
51:20
you got everything else in. So if there's one.
51:24
So like, yeah, I feel like I'll do what Gemo tried to do there.
51:30
There is a song of, again, it's off manual override, but the
51:33
song of Fortress, I know you guys didn't have it, but for me
51:36
it's like real sort of affecting song.
51:41
Like there's a really moving sort of orchestral score here.
51:45
And it's like, for me, it's kind of a point of difference I think
51:49
would add nicely to the other manual override songs.
51:51
And you know, none of you guys had it, so I'm not particularly
51:55
interested in what you have to say about it.
51:58
Stuck it in. There you go.
52:00
I do like that, like in the context of the album, it is a
52:06
good like slow down before we get the shrinking Violet.
52:11
I don't dislike the song. It's like everything of manual
52:16
override. I like I just didn't listen to
52:20
it and go yes, it stands out. So like, if I was putting it, if
52:24
I was choosing songs that I think could be a potential
52:27
single or something, this obviously wouldn't be one of
52:31
them because it's not defining their sound necessarily, but in
52:36
context of the album and in context of how much I like it, I
52:40
don't disagree with adding that in.
52:44
If if we had to add in a single I.
52:47
Feel, I feel like, you know, we're adding all these songs
52:52
into this melting pot, you know, for this playlist, and I feel
52:57
like it's like a different flavour here.
53:00
That's not necessarily represented.
53:07
So yeah, that's why that stood out.
53:09
And yeah, that's why I'm sort of being a Dick.
53:12
No, not really. I appreciate the explanation,
53:15
but the the rule is you don't even have to have one.
53:17
Like that's the that's what this is for.
53:19
So you can take as long as it's a Sasquatch song, that's all.
53:23
That's the only rule, so. Yeah, I, I don't want to try,
53:28
you know, to break your hearts. There you go.
53:32
I'm just going to bite my tongue.
53:33
There you go. See.
53:34
Then there's me. So I'm going to run this down.
53:38
Don't want to try December night's Renoir.
53:40
Then there's you, Gemini. Down the stairs, Spitting image
53:43
Born to break your heart. Give me a reason.
53:45
And Fortress rounds out our 10. Now, Josh, of those 10, which
53:50
one's the one I. Think it should either be.
53:57
Then there's your Renoir. But honestly, you could pick any
54:02
of our an unanimous from that album and I feel like the
54:08
listener would be getting a good experience.
54:10
But yeah, those are MY2 preferences.
54:12
What? Do you think Jamie?
54:15
I would say that December night, I think should be the top.
54:20
Like I think my reasoning for this, and this is going off a
54:25
person who's listening to it on Spotify December nights, like I
54:31
know it's in their top 10 most popular, but it's not in their
54:34
top five most popular. So then there's you whiz.
54:38
December nights isn't necessarily so I and I think
54:41
that's pretty much their Best Song almost.
54:47
I would love to have it as the defining song for this the
54:52
programmed list. In fact, that's almost the Best
54:55
Song in your words. And not the Best Song means
54:57
surely. Then there's you.
55:00
No, then this view is not there. It's it would be Spitting Image,
55:03
which I think is their Best Song.
55:04
So it's their Best Song. That was unanimous from us.
55:08
I think, yeah, I think a good point that that Justin or an
55:12
interesting part I didn't think about before was saying like
55:15
this song had crossover like appeal, like this song like
55:20
could have broken the band if they probably weren't Australian
55:24
in in the States. And that was an interesting
55:27
perspective that I didn't think of.
55:31
That's that's why sort of I'd rather that one, even though I
55:35
like both songs, because it's a fantastic album.
55:40
I definitely think it's got to be one of the manual override
55:43
songs, though. OK, I think that's where I'm in
55:45
full agreement with you. You all.
55:48
I mean, obviously the four, the four that were unanimous I'm on
55:53
board with. It just have 4 songs.
55:59
I don't know, I'm like listening to clips, you guys, they won't
56:06
aren't coming through, you guys. See, here's where I'm torn.
56:14
I'm torn between December nights and then there's you.
56:18
I feel like December Nights is more unique, whereas I think
56:26
Then There's You has the more like cross appeal.
56:34
I don't know, this is so bad. I listen to.
56:39
I listen. To your choice mate helps yeah
56:41
the. Clips.
56:42
Never. We've put you in that position
56:45
that you hate. That I hate.
56:47
I absolutely despise this making a decision.
56:56
You know, I trust my listeners to like actually listen to the
57:01
songs we put out there. But then I'm thinking of like
57:06
when it gets to when it gets to like the end of the year
57:11
conversation. Unfortunately the these bands
57:13
always get overlooked by that panel.
57:17
Always. So like which one finds those
57:23
guys? I feel like it's more likely.
57:27
Than credit, man, I'll give them, I'll give them credit.
57:30
Like they had that Phoenix Foundation bright grey last year
57:34
and I was quite happy to hear that.
57:36
Yeah. Does that change your answer
57:41
though? Like if I put that information
57:43
out there, does that change an answer for either you?
57:47
Well, you're catering to your to your audience and, and you know
57:50
those guys better than us. And look, if there's a chance
57:53
that one song will likely get their attention over the other,
57:57
then definitely go for that. They're both good songs.
58:01
Yep, Which is a easy way of us saying we're not going to make
58:04
this decision. It's up to you, Justin.
58:10
I, I feel like technically December Knights does it, but I
58:14
there's, there's something bigger about then there's you
58:17
that that has that appeal. I think that that, you know, we,
58:23
we mentioned it a couple Times Now, like that crossover appeal
58:26
that maybe could have broken them here.
58:29
So I think I'm going to go with then there's you.
58:32
I think yeah, we're going to do that because I don't want to, I
58:36
don't want to keep thinking about this.
58:38
I, I think technically December nights probably does it better,
58:44
but I, I'm just going to keep talking myself in circles.
58:48
If I keep talking, I made a decision.
58:50
We're going. There's you.
58:53
Let me get that going underneath and I'll run run down this list
58:57
one last go. Then there's you.
59:00
Let me switch over. Then there's you as our number
59:06
one. Don't want to try December
59:07
Knights Renoir, Gemini down the stairs Spitting image born to
59:12
break your heart. Give me a reason.
59:13
And Fortress rounds out our 10. Let's let Then there's you get a
59:19
moment in the sun. There we go.
59:33
We have done it. We have turned you on to likely
59:37
a band you've never heard of. I, I, I feel like we did some
59:40
heavy lifting here for you. And if you have heard of them,
59:44
then how did we do on our list? Let me know.
59:46
You can just comment right here on Spotify if that's where
59:50
you're listening. I'm, I'm guessing I have no idea
59:53
where you're listening, but if that's where you're listening,
59:55
you can leave a comment and we can have like a little brief
59:57
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