Latest / Deprogrammed Music Podcast / The Hold Steady
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- 0:32It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
- 0:37band. That's right.
- 0:37We've done all the hard work for you.
- 0:39All you have to do is push play and listen.
- 0:41And my name is Justin. I'm your humble host.
- 0:44You could call me band Curious because I like to talk to my
- 0:49friends about bands that they love and together we are going
- 0:52to cut make a list for you to listen to this band and get into
- 0:56them. And you could say that it is a
- 0:58positive jam today. We're we're we're coming in hot
- 1:02because we're talking about the hold steady and we were talking
- 1:05just before we went on this. This one has been on hold hold.
- 1:11This one we've been trying to get on the table for literal
- 1:14years. John, I believe whenever you and
- 1:18Chris started doing episodes together years ago, this one
- 1:22kind of got put up there. How's it feel to finally kind of
- 1:27knock this one off and talk about this band?
- 1:30Well, I'm going to default to to Chris first 'cause I had to give
- 1:33him credit cause when I listen to the propaganda episode at the
- 1:38end, he shouted out the whole study.
- 1:40This is 20/17/2018. He's like, anybody want to do
- 1:43the whole study? Let's do it.
- 1:45That was seven years ago. Yeah.
- 1:47So I'm gonna, I'm gonna defer to Chris and let him go first,
- 1:49since he was technically first. Well, it's been such a long
- 1:52time. Yes, I've bathed twice and now I
- 1:58come raring to go. No, I've bathed way more than
- 2:00that. Like it's in the teens at least.
- 2:04But no, I'm I'm excited to do it.
- 2:06So like I will say this since I posted that, like how intensely
- 2:12I listen to the whole steady has kind of fallen off a little bit.
- 2:17I had to rediscover their newer work because I had listened to
- 2:22that's pretty cool. And then I went back and
- 2:23listened to it again. So a lot of my list, well, you
- 2:27know, I'm going to, I'm going to let the list speak for itself.
- 2:29But I I would I would go to war for my list.
- 2:33So talk to me about this band. Like, what is it?
- 2:35You know, as John said, you mentioned it on that episode,
- 2:38however long ago. What is it about them that kind
- 2:40of draws you to them? Well, and you know something, I
- 2:44think if you listen to any of the episodes I've been on, and
- 2:48I'm not suggesting anybody do that, but I am all right.
- 2:54So Justin needs money, but I mean, I need money too.
- 2:59Not I think about it. But if you if you look at the
- 3:01bands I've been on, it's been like Jawbreaker Jets to Brazil,
- 3:04weaker than Propaganda and the whole steady.
- 3:08And I think there is kind of a common thread there is that
- 3:10there are these deeply literate, narrative driven lyrics.
- 3:19It's but it's sometimes it's very intense and focused and
- 3:23sometimes it's very flowery and they're finding really
- 3:27interesting ways to describe things.
- 3:29But all of those bands have that common thread with me.
- 3:32And the whole study is really one of the only ones that has
- 3:36kind of the unique take on it of having a guy that looks like he
- 3:42was in Revenge of the Nerds shout the lyrics at you.
- 3:46So I'm here for that. But they're a special band just
- 3:50because of the feelings that they can evoke.
- 3:52They run a concert hall better than any band I have ever seen
- 3:57in my life. I have never seen better crowd
- 3:59control than the Hold Steady has live.
- 4:02And I, you know, you hear them on record, you're like, oh,
- 4:05cool, they're going to be close here.
- 4:06I'm going to go check them out live.
- 4:08You go and see them live after that and you don't look at that
- 4:13band the same way ever again. Like, so I'm interested to see
- 4:18your list, Justin, like, because I know you haven't seen them.
- 4:22Like, I imagine John, you've probably seen him, right?
- 4:268 times I think. Yep.
- 4:28Yeah. So I mean you probably are
- 4:30getting a little bit of what I'm saying.
- 4:33OK, that's well, that's going to make this interesting.
- 4:36So, so we swing back to you then John and and again we're we're
- 4:40finally getting this one off the table.
- 4:42Like what it what it? What is the whole study to you?
- 4:47So I'm, you know, I've been on been on the show a lot.
- 4:51Thank you, Justin. I'm, I'm not usually prone to
- 4:55hyperbole, but the more I think about it, like the whole study
- 5:00is the best American rock band going right now, like bar none,
- 5:04like it used to be Pearl Jam, like their live show, but they
- 5:08just lost their drummer. They're getting older.
- 5:10Those guys are in their 60s now. The hold steady is, is the best
- 5:15live band in America right now. And they, they, it's like an
- 5:22event when you go see them, like there's confetti that there's
- 5:25sing alongs, but they have like, they, these coordinated things
- 5:28that the audience does. Like they've, they've gotten to
- 5:32a point like live where again, like they are getting older now.
- 5:35They're getting in their late 40s, early 50s.
- 5:37They do these like weekenders where they'll go to like a
- 5:41destination. They'll play 3 shows like
- 5:43Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
- 5:46They'll do like AQ and a sound check.
- 5:49They'll do an unplugged event. Like they make it like an
- 5:52experience for people and it really rewards.
- 5:55It's one of those bands that really rewards you're a fandom.
- 5:58Like the more you dig into it, the better it gets.
- 6:02And like not a lot of bands have that.
- 6:03A lot of bands are very surface level.
- 6:06You get what you get. But the whole study, like, like
- 6:09Chris mentioned a little bit, there's like this narrative that
- 6:12goes through the records and these characters that pop up and
- 6:14the locations like Minneapolis, New York City, Ybor Cities will
- 6:18get to like, you get the feeling of like that you're, you get put
- 6:23in like a, a real place. When you listen to this, you get
- 6:26a, get a sense of like, these are real people and you're,
- 6:30you'd like people, you know. And for me, it, it goes back to
- 6:33like, you know, being in your 20s and like that feeling of
- 6:37kind of like not knowing what you're going to do and just kind
- 6:40of like that you're just you're an adult, but you're not really
- 6:43like they capture that feeling on those first couple of records
- 6:46really, really well. And the whole study too, is part
- 6:52of my favorite genre of music, which is used to be punk because
- 6:57like, there's they're a bar band.
- 6:59Like there's there's Springsteen, there's Thin Lizzy,
- 7:02there's Billy Joel. Like in essence, they're a bar
- 7:06band, but you can tell like they used to be into punk and like
- 7:11those are the coolest bands. I think we talked about that a
- 7:14couple episodes before Justin. Like those are the bands that
- 7:17you you get rewarded because like they have that, that sense
- 7:22of like they they put in their dues, like they paid their dues.
- 7:25The ghost to V and Makai is always on their shoulder, so
- 7:28they're they're gonna, they're gonna do it the right way.
- 7:31And evil jello. Biafra.
- 7:33Exactly, exactly and and Craig Finn like you know, there's
- 7:37references to 7 seconds youth of today.
- 7:39Don't before like all these all these punk references and
- 7:43booster do exactly you the list goes on and on and on.
- 7:47And so that stuff is in there. And if you, if you know, you
- 7:51don't have to know it, but it adds an extra layer of, oh, like
- 7:56these guys, these guys are in it.
- 7:57They, they, they know what they, they pay their dues and they've,
- 8:01they're, they're doing it the right way.
- 8:03So I want to address a couple. First of all, every time this
- 8:07happens, I like to point it out. I love when we get to this point
- 8:13in the show, like where we're just kind of being introductory.
- 8:16You guys are talking about why you love the band.
- 8:18I love when my view on the band already changed.
- 8:22Like Chris said, if I saw them, my view on the band would
- 8:26change. But like just hearing you guys
- 8:28talk about them is already changing the way I think about
- 8:30the band. I love that because now I've got
- 8:34this extra layer to kind of go going forward.
- 8:37I mean, it's going to make later on, you know, the list building
- 8:40that'll that'll be hell, but we'll get to that.
- 8:44So you mentioned John, you mentioned that they're the best
- 8:48rock band going in America. And I don't doubt that because
- 8:55when you, when you think about, I can compare this to like a a
- 8:59couple shows like The Flaming Lips and The Aquabats are two
- 9:03bands that I enjoyed, you know, like they're fine.
- 9:09But when I went to go see them live, I came away different.
- 9:13I had a totally different respect for those bands.
- 9:17And this band gives off that energy.
- 9:20Like they give off this energy that I bet if I went to that,
- 9:24because it's like these big tight rock numbers where it's
- 9:27like, yeah, I bet you this is a a good loud show where they put
- 9:33out a lot of energy. And judging by the sound of it,
- 9:36there's more to it than even just that.
- 9:39So like, yeah, man, I, I didn't know shit going in.
- 9:45So like getting to this point, I'm already getting more excited
- 9:49to get to these next layers of, of this conversation.
- 9:52So let's do it. So Chris, this is, this is hard.
- 9:56This is a hard discography to kind of dissect.
- 9:59We, we kind of joked around with each other going into this.
- 10:02So like, what is your thought process putting together A20 for
- 10:05a band that has just a a very steady discography?
- 10:12So, you know, I had mentioned in the in the group chat the other
- 10:17day that I had just gotten done raw dogging my list.
- 10:21So I did, you know, a week or two ago I listened to the most
- 10:26recent record that they put out because I listened to it, you
- 10:29know, once or twice. But, you know, it wasn't really
- 10:31on a rotation. I think I was kind of getting
- 10:34obsessed with some other stuff at the time.
- 10:37But I went back and I listened to and I was like, OK, that's,
- 10:40that's pretty good. And then I thought about like
- 10:42all the other records that I heard from him and I was like,
- 10:44all right. So went on a discography list,
- 10:47looked at all the song names. Because I, this is the kind of
- 10:51band you just kind of have that relationship with the song
- 10:54titles where you can just kind of call them out.
- 10:57You know, it's, it's never really, you know, track #7 on
- 11:02Stay Positive. It's, it's, you know, the song
- 11:06Stay Positive, right? You know, you just, you have
- 11:11that. So looked at it, went through
- 11:15it, picked them out 1 to 20, did not even go over #20 because I
- 11:22was so sure with the ones that I picked.
- 11:25And I looked at the rest of the list afterwards and I was, I
- 11:28think I'm fucking right. Like, I'm interested to see what
- 11:34you guys have to say. But yeah, it's it really was the
- 11:40relationship I had with this band.
- 11:42I didn't need to go, you know, listen to Separation Sunday or
- 11:45Almost Killed me again. Like I'd, I have all of those
- 11:49albums. So when I was going through it
- 11:52was like, absolutely, absolutely.
- 11:55And I got to the last one and I was like, OK, that's 20, no more
- 12:02edits. And then looked at it.
- 12:04I can have regrets. I just wasn't going to have
- 12:05edits. And I don't, I don't think I
- 12:07really had anything that moved me.
- 12:09So John, I mean, like there's something to this.
- 12:12Like this feels like that kind of band where you, you, you
- 12:15can't go back and listen or you're going to, you're going
- 12:19to, you're going to do brain damage.
- 12:22You know, I I did just make one last.
- 12:25I did just make one last minute change.
- 12:26So take that as it as it as you will.
- 12:30But yeah, putting together a list like we they have so many
- 12:33records, we weren't able to include all of them every song,
- 12:37but kind of cherry picked kind of some highlights off of the
- 12:41later ones. But yeah, I mean, they're they
- 12:45had kind of like a they started off hot.
- 12:48First few records are very, very good.
- 12:50Then there was a, you know, Franz left the band, they lost
- 12:52her keyboard player, maybe some people would say a little bit of
- 12:56a dip in quality. But then they Franz came back,
- 12:58they got it back, songwritings back.
- 13:01So they're they're on another good roll right now.
- 13:03That last record that came out is is very good.
- 13:06And yeah, for me putting together, I think one of the
- 13:08first things I said was like, yeah, I'm finding out very
- 13:11quickly I have more than 20 favorite whole steady songs.
- 13:13Like there's definitely ones that that I love that I didn't
- 13:17have room for. But to me, yeah, I'm like Chris,
- 13:20I'm like looking at my list, like, Oh yeah, that's that's the
- 13:22best 20 for sure. Like we're we're done here.
- 13:25It's interesting because I feel like, I mean, as is always the
- 13:29case between between just not being familiar with the work
- 13:34and, you know, not having that live version of them to kind of
- 13:40refer to. I think I'm going to be the
- 13:43outlier here. I, I feel good about my list
- 13:46because, you know, I kind of waited against some of the
- 13:49answers I got Spoilers. Peter was supposed to be here,
- 13:53couldn't make it tonight. He sent me his list.
- 13:56I matched pretty well with his list.
- 13:58So like, I feel good about my list.
- 14:00Like what I came up with. The question is like, how does
- 14:04it bounce against you? But like it was fucking rough.
- 14:09Like be I mean be happy that you guys, you know, have that, you
- 14:15know, have that just the knowledge to not have to
- 14:18painstakingly kind of go through this, because there there's no
- 14:23dead weight with this band. There's, there's, there's very
- 14:26few songs that you're going to listen to go Nah, like that's
- 14:29not, you know, that's not in this discussion anywhere.
- 14:32It's, it's a lot of, yeah, I can make a case for this.
- 14:35I can make a case for this. I can make a case for this.
- 14:38And I, I want to say I had somewhere around mid 40s on my
- 14:43first pass. I was like, OK, well, that's not
- 14:45that bad. And I'm like trying to cut
- 14:48songs. And I, I realized I went all
- 14:50through all 44 without making a single cut.
- 14:55I was like, oh, I was, yeah, that's right.
- 14:57I was supposed to cut songs. So I kind of, I kind of just did
- 15:00it at reckless abandoned. Like I there was a handful that,
- 15:05you know, kind of felt like felt like home runs.
- 15:09I don't know if they're going to be obviously we'll see, but they
- 15:12felt like they they could be home runs.
- 15:14So I was like, I'm going to keep these ones and then we'll just
- 15:16build around it. Yeah, you know, we'll see
- 15:21because, boy, this, this could be like the list part of this
- 15:28could be pretty hairy there, Chris.
- 15:30Like based on everything we've kind of said for the final say,
- 15:33how much, how many do you think we get through unanimously?
- 15:37I don't know. So here's here's one thing I'll
- 15:39say about the hold study is that when it comes to putting a list
- 15:44together like this, you realize how personalized of the band to
- 15:49hold study can be. So, I mean, you have extremely
- 15:53literate lyrics, but this is like my wheelhouse.
- 15:57And a lot of the references that he's making are the same things
- 15:59that I listened to when I was, you know, coming up.
- 16:02So, you know, they talk about, you know, whose kurdu got huge.
- 16:05And I was like, fuck yeah, they did.
- 16:08So like, there's there's a lot of individual nostalgia moments
- 16:13kind of peppered in a lot of their songs for people who grew
- 16:17up in the music scene from about five years before I came into it
- 16:22up, you know, till probably now mid 2000s ish.
- 16:28But yeah, that's fucking hard. Yeah, there's there, there's a
- 16:35lot of stuff. It's how many do I think we get
- 16:37through unanimously? I'm going to go 8.
- 16:40Fuck yeah. I love that positivity.
- 16:43Yeah, I love that. I mean, stick to your guns
- 16:46because I mean, sometimes, sometimes the the, the heavy
- 16:53hitters just just find their way.
- 16:55Chris is going high. John, what do you think?
- 16:58That was going to be my number. I was going to say 8.
- 17:02I think if if it was just Chris and I, I think we probably have
- 17:0515. But you know, being that you're
- 17:09the wild card, I'm tempted to go 9, but I'm going to go 7.
- 17:14OK, all right. Well, shit.
- 17:17I love that. I love that because I.
- 17:20What's your guess? Well, because I'm worried that
- 17:23I'm like, too wild card here. I mean, again, all I can do is
- 17:29weigh against some of the answers I got and in Peter's
- 17:32list, and if I do that 1234, only five of my 20 did not get
- 17:41mentioned by somebody else. That seems like good odds.
- 17:49So the question becomes do I stay pessimist as it's as it
- 17:52feels and go under you guys or do I take the risk and go with
- 17:57that? I'm going to go with 9.
- 17:58I'm going to do it. It's there.
- 18:01I feel good about it. I feel good about it.
- 18:03There's there's a good couple of answers that I got answered a
- 18:06lot so. We'll see.
- 18:07Hey, Justin. Yeah.
- 18:09Let me let me ask you a question.
- 18:10Sure. This is like because of the way
- 18:13you just answered, I want to know how your day has been.
- 18:19We can talk about this in depth later, but my day has been
- 18:22pretty good. You know we can talk.
- 18:23OK, OK, we can talk. About that's.
- 18:25Yeah, that's interesting. That's you're, you're riding
- 18:28that positivity wave. I like it.
- 18:30You're not trying to OK in your own way.
- 18:32I like. It Yeah, well, and I'll also say
- 18:34this, John knows this. I don't really want to win
- 18:36anyway, so I don't I don't want the final say.
- 18:39I don't. I don't like that pressure.
- 18:41So, yeah, you know, I mean, The thing is, if we get 9 and I do
- 18:46win, cool, that means we got nine that that's awesome.
- 18:50And it's it's a little easier than than if we get 6 and
- 18:56there's a whole discussion that we got to go through.
- 18:58So all right, we're going to take a quick pause and when we
- 19:02come back on the other side, we are going to play the game.
- 19:04That's the program, Jack. And with that, the name of the
- 19:18game is deprogrammed. The three of us have come
- 19:20through a selection of the Holdsteady's discography and
- 19:24plucked out 20 songs that are now going to match together in
- 19:26an attempt to create a top 10 starter kit for you.
- 19:29In case you are like me and had never heard of the Hold State
- 19:34and this is one of the few that did not get answered, but I feel
- 19:40like this song does what I like from a band.
- 19:45It tells me exactly what they do.
- 19:47I like going to this as my answer, my first answer.
- 19:52Even if you guys don't have it, this was a great tone setter for
- 19:56me to understand what I was getting into.
- 19:59I'm going to go with Positive Jam.
- 20:05That sounds like a big no. No.
- 20:09OK. All right.
- 20:11Well, you have. You've got to start it with a
- 20:13positive jam. Yes, I do have it.
- 20:14Hey, all right, all right. I'll take the for the record,
- 20:18Peter did have it like that might come into play later.
- 20:22All right, so we'll take that 2. All right, Chris, where you want
- 20:27to go? I am going to go with track #1
- 20:34off of Boys and Girls in America and go with Stuck Between
- 20:37stations. Yes, Sir.
- 20:40Yes. Hey, that felt like one of the
- 20:43home runs. Glad that it was.
- 20:45Yeah, I always, I always picture like I have this thing where
- 20:48when I listen to a song, I try to picture it being played and
- 20:51what the environment's like, like what the song feels like to
- 20:54me. And it feels like a fucking
- 20:56arena for a hair metal band. For some reason.
- 21:00It's I think it's just the opening riff.
- 21:02Like it sounds like arena rock. Like I would love to have seen
- 21:06that shit at the Coliseum in like 94.
- 21:10At this band, like I, I kind of alluded to this like they're
- 21:17such a tight, tight rock outfit. Like the band is just fucking
- 21:23good. Like I, I feel like it, I feel
- 21:27like I can't say it in in good enough words.
- 21:30Like, I can't describe like because they may not be
- 21:35reinventing the wheel, but like what they're doing is just, it's
- 21:39big, it's loud, and it's just fucking good.
- 21:42I mean, they're, they're like the E Street Band in 1984.
- 21:45They're that good, yeah. It's fucking like I.
- 21:48It's unfair. Yeah.
- 21:50Yeah, you know, you know, I I could see where somebody might
- 21:54be off put by, you know, the lyricist, but like, to me,
- 21:58that's what makes it unique. And it kind of got Harkins back
- 22:02to like all those things you were talking about, John.
- 22:03Like it it Harkins back to a Springsteen.
- 22:05Yeah, he's not singing like Springsteen, but he's telling
- 22:08stories much like Springsteen does.
- 22:10So like it's it's just this great, like new take on on like
- 22:18a classic. Really.
- 22:19Like. Fuck.
- 22:20Yeah, Sorry, I just I had to say that.
- 22:24Like big and loud rock band. It's it's that's right in my
- 22:29wheelhouse. You mentioned that earlier,
- 22:31Chris, So all right, stuck between stations.
- 22:34And for the record, that would have been a unanimous either
- 22:39way. We would have we would have
- 22:41gotten that one all the way through.
- 22:43So we got 1 John I'm. Going to start keeping track of
- 22:47the unanimous ones too all. Right, he always announces this
- 22:52next one. Live with This is a song about a
- 22:54girl and a horse. It's Chips Ahoy.
- 22:58Yeah, I got it. Yeah, I got it.
- 23:03And for the record, yet again, that is another one that we
- 23:06would have gotten all the way through.
- 23:08Let me get that queued up. Boys and Girls in America was a
- 23:15rough one for me. Whenever we.
- 23:17I I it's a perfect album. I feel like it's unfuck
- 23:20withable. I feel like we, we started
- 23:24putting together an episode for these guys like literally all
- 23:28those years ago. So I was like, I started
- 23:31listening to a record and it was that one and I feel like I got 4
- 23:36songs in and I had all four on my list.
- 23:37I was like so. Yeah, yeah, I got into them is
- 23:44probably 2007. I was like helping out at a
- 23:46record store, helping this guy sell some records.
- 23:49And I saw Boys and Girls in America there, the Opie and I
- 23:52had like heard kind of the buzz around them, but I didn't really
- 23:55know anything. So I just picked it up.
- 23:57It was probably 12 bucks or something.
- 23:59I was like, I'll take this. And I was blown away
- 24:01immediately. Like they were one of my
- 24:03favorite bands from that moment on.
- 24:06I wonder how rare it is to come across the A Hold Steady record
- 24:10nowadays. I'll have to ask.
- 24:13I'll have to ask my local shop. All right, two threes and A2.
- 24:18Not bad. This was still not the most
- 24:25answered that I got, but I'll go here because I feel like this
- 24:29also gets referenced a couple times.
- 24:32It is also the name of the site that you sent me, John that that
- 24:37lists all the reference. Your little hood rat friend.
- 24:42Yep. Yes.
- 24:45Hey, I am glad these homers are working out.
- 24:49All three of these last couple were the ones that felt like
- 24:53sure things. Yeah.
- 24:56So I'm I'm very glad for that. Yeah, we got 3.
- 25:01Units, this is one of the ones where they they throw confetti
- 25:04when like the bus wouldn't stop. There's just too many kids like
- 25:07they when they play it live, the confetti comes out and it's a
- 25:09big moment. That looks amazing and I feel so
- 25:13bad for the people that work. What's the name of the park,
- 25:18Penetration park, something like that that that he's talked about
- 25:22that like I just love the way he said he like going down to
- 25:25penetration park. Like it's like, oh.
- 25:28Yeah, he's he's percussive. Yeah.
- 25:32So that's. The hard That's the hardcore
- 25:35vocalist in him. And yeah, oh, absolutely.
- 25:38Yeah. Again, for the record, that one
- 25:40would have been unanimous no matter what.
- 25:42Peter had it as well. So, all right, Chris.
- 25:48I am going to try to keep the unanimous stuff going because to
- 25:55me this is, it's, it's very obvious.
- 25:58First song off, Stay positive, constructive summer.
- 26:01Yeah. Raise a toast to Saint Joe's
- 26:06drummer. Damn right.
- 26:07Yes. Oh, that, that's another one.
- 26:09Like I'm going to keep Arvin on this, but they did that live
- 26:12like, like get him up, get him up.
- 26:14Like it's I get chills, like thinking about.
- 26:17It's amazing. Yeah.
- 26:18Well, one of my favorites. They're, they're still out
- 26:21there, right? They're still touring.
- 26:24Oh yeah, all. Right, so I.
- 26:26Yeah, Justin, this is going to be, we were going to go see
- 26:28shellac. We got to go see the whole
- 26:29study. Like next time they come
- 26:31anywhere in between us, we're going.
- 26:33I mean. Yeah, now we can't see shellac.
- 26:36If they don't. Yeah, I know.
- 26:37If they come, if they don't come here, they come to Atlanta road
- 26:42trip Chris like. To Atlanta.
- 26:46Hey, they they did. They did three nights here
- 26:48earlier this year. It was amazing.
- 26:50Well. Just saying.
- 26:51I think they play Richmond sometimes.
- 26:53OK, I mean anywhere, anywhere in between point A, point B points
- 26:57in between, I'm there. Give me, you know, if if you
- 27:01stay up on that, I'll try to keep my eye on it as well.
- 27:03But Oh yeah, I should probably constructive summer.
- 27:08Yeah, again, another one that would have been unanimous with
- 27:11Peter. So boom, just like that.
- 27:14Four without even breaking a sweat yet.
- 27:18All right, John. All right, this is one that they
- 27:23usually close with and they'll usually stretch it out to like 8
- 27:26or 10 minutes. And he'll do a like a little
- 27:30spiel at the end where he talks about, you know, there's there's
- 27:35like this. He does the same thing and like
- 27:37people know and they scream along with like, you know,
- 27:39there's so much joy in what we do up here.
- 27:42And then he leads the crowd and like this, you know, we are all
- 27:45the whole steady and like, it's this big moment at the end of
- 27:47the show and the song is killer parties.
- 27:52Hell yeah. I love that.
- 27:55I love that you guys both had it because I will.
- 27:58I will if we have room for it. I will be a soft pusher pushover
- 28:01on that because I know it made my first pass.
- 28:06I want to say it was one of my last cuts and well, again, like
- 28:11overthinking the room, like there's there's five or six that
- 28:17nobody else had. And I mean, one of them was
- 28:20positive jam. So I found John on that.
- 28:22But you know, we'll see. I'm willing to bet I might not
- 28:28find anybody on any of my other ones that I didn't have.
- 28:31So, but we'll take that too. Still very, very early.
- 28:38Should I try another one of the ones that feel like a Homer or
- 28:42should I try one of those ones that I feel like I might miss?
- 28:48Let's get in the weeds. You want to get in the weeds.
- 28:51Yeah. All right, I'm going to do this
- 28:57one. Nobody else, Nobody else
- 29:00mentioned it. Peter didn't have it.
- 29:03And I was listening to it before and I was like, are we sure that
- 29:08nobody else has this? OK, so let's let's find out if
- 29:12I'm just that wrong. How about multitude of
- 29:13casualties? No, but that's a banger.
- 29:22Yeah, I can't save you, but I love it.
- 29:24All right, all right, so I mean again over I think I overthought
- 29:28the room. I loved it, but like, you know,
- 29:31I felt. Great fucking song.
- 29:32Absolutely. But see, and that's the fucking
- 29:34problem, right? That's the whole the whole thing
- 29:38of it. Like so is killer parties.
- 29:41I fucking loved that one. So like, all right, all right,
- 29:45into the bin it goes. And Chris?
- 29:52All right, I am going to move to I'm going to move to thrashing
- 30:08through the passion and go with Denver haircut.
- 30:11Yeah, I got it. No, we'll.
- 30:16Take that too. Fair.
- 30:18We'll take that too. Didn't have room for it.
- 30:21That one I did get an answer for and Peter did have.
- 30:25So we would have we would have that would have been a three if
- 30:28Peter were here. Again, just something to think
- 30:30about for later if we if we need the room or if we have the room,
- 30:36John. All right, Lord, to be 17
- 30:42forever. How about Stevie Dicks?
- 30:45Yes, Sir. I did not have that one.
- 30:48Oh. I know I still banger like.
- 30:53Got that one a couple times and Peter had that one as well.
- 30:57OK. All right back around to me,
- 31:00huh? All right, So this is this is
- 31:04the one I think I got second most.
- 31:07So let's see if I can kind of get us off of this too.
- 31:12How about sequestered in Memphis?
- 31:15Yes. Yes, that was the one I just
- 31:18added before we started. You know, sometimes, sometimes
- 31:23it pays off, right? Sometimes it pays off.
- 31:28That's another one that would have been unanimous with Peter.
- 31:33When if one of us brings up the one that you cut that for, let
- 31:37us know, and if not, tell us after, because now I'm curious.
- 31:40Yeah, yeah. It's this very, I mean again,
- 31:47like, I don't know, I mean, I because I, I feel I say this a
- 31:51lot on the show, but I, I can't, I can't emphasize it enough.
- 31:56This band like kind of is the whole the whole thing of there
- 32:02is there is there's no dead weight.
- 32:05There's no there is no bad song. Every song that gets brought up
- 32:07today, you should listen to it like they're kind of like the
- 32:11living embodiment of of of the statement on this show.
- 32:18Like like I had that late, like every.
- 32:22But no, it's not just that. It's like, oh, there's a song
- 32:24that, like, we're not going to get to talk about anymore.
- 32:26Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the.
- 32:32Song that no one's going to get to listen to at the end, right?
- 32:35Turn this into a. Campfire for the whole study.
- 32:38Yeah. All right, so sequester in
- 32:41Memphis gets us up to what, 5? We're at 5:00. 5 Unanimous.
- 32:44That's, yeah. And, you know, only one in the
- 32:47bin so far. I mean, I'm sure I will have a
- 32:49few more, but Chris. All right, next one.
- 32:56I feel like I may miss on this one, but I this is one that when
- 33:02I saw the name of it, like the chorus, immediately, you know,
- 33:05hit my brain and I was thinking about the way the guitar
- 33:08sounded. And I'm like ass deep and mixing
- 33:09right now. So like, just listening to the
- 33:12guitars, I was like, this is what fucking rock'n'roll should
- 33:15sound like. Like the way the guitars were
- 33:18blended, the way the bass was mixed in, the pop of the snare
- 33:20drum, Franz's piano and the chorus just had this killer
- 33:25fucking hook. But the song is hot, soft,
- 33:27light. Yeah, I got it.
- 33:31Yeah, of course. Oh shit.
- 33:32Yeah. All right.
- 33:34You know what is awesome about that?
- 33:37That is one of the ones that nobody else had, not even Peter.
- 33:40I thought that was going to be one of my binners.
- 33:43All. Right.
- 33:45Cool. I love that.
- 33:46That let me go queue that up. I, you know, again, I didn't see
- 33:51anybody else next to that when I kind of just assumed that I was
- 33:55going to be off on my own like that.
- 33:57I love that. I love that nobody else had it.
- 34:01You know, of all the people that saw the post and Peter that not
- 34:08only were you did you think no one else had it?
- 34:11But John said of course, like fuck yeah, like that makes.
- 34:17Sense I mean it gets overshadowed by the 1st 2 on
- 34:19boys and girls or such like popular kind of quote UN quote
- 34:22hit songs for them but that that third one is right there.
- 34:26And that's fucked up because it doesn't stop.
- 34:29No. That's the fucking whole, that's
- 34:32the fucking whole thing of the band is it doesn't stop.
- 34:35Like, oh. That those records are so well
- 34:38paced. Yeah, so well paced.
- 34:40It just doesn't stop in in all the best ways.
- 34:42Like it's it just keeps coming. And you, I know I'm being
- 34:49repetitive. You will enjoy this band.
- 34:50Like of course, keep listening. And of course, collect all these
- 34:54songs we're talking about. Of course, listen to the list,
- 34:57but if you like rock'n'roll, you will love this band.
- 34:59Like the rest of the rest of this is just because we like the
- 35:04band. So like we, we should have sold
- 35:07you by now like you should be in like this this.
- 35:12If you like rock, you should be in on this band already.
- 35:15That's all I'm saying. All right, Hot Soft Light brings
- 35:19us up to 6 already. Plenty in play here.
- 35:22John, where do you want to go? You got to stay positive.
- 35:27Yeah, yeah, I got it. Yeah, we might be blowing past
- 35:32nine. I'm just.
- 35:37Again, that one would would is an ultra unanimous cuz Peter had
- 35:41that one as well. Boom.
- 35:45They put out a children's book of that last year that I I got
- 35:49has the lyrics like a little like a kids book of it.
- 35:52I like that. Well, that's awesome.
- 35:54What age group? Yeah.
- 35:56Like young kids, probably four or five.
- 35:59Oh man, I'm going to get that and read that to the boys, but
- 36:01I'm going to read it like Craig Finn, so I'm going to shout at
- 36:04them all. They they can learn about the
- 36:07youth of the day in the early 7 seconds.
- 36:08Oh. Lord, I'm here for it.
- 36:16To me, that like kind of ties them to The Aquabats even more.
- 36:20So I got to see this band live. Yeah, but they don't wear like
- 36:23tights. Right.
- 36:24Well, listen. Man, like The Aquabats are.
- 36:27Super. They don't have a shtick, they
- 36:29came. From outer space.
- 36:30What do you want from them? They're superheroes.
- 36:32Klaus know me came from outer space.
- 36:34The Aquabats are fucking posers. Oh man.
- 36:41Oh God that bong RIP was a. Good.
- 36:42You're going to get, you're going to get letters now all.
- 36:45Right. Let's see.
- 36:46So stay positive puts us at 7. I mean I still have a good
- 36:50number that are double marked for good answers.
- 36:56And then I got 1 shoe that nobody else answered left.
- 37:02I'm only halfway through my list.
- 37:04I've still got 10 songs One. 2345678 I got 9 left so. 11.
- 37:15I know, right? Rocky waters ahead.
- 37:19I'll do this one that got a couple of answers.
- 37:22How about Hurricane Jay? I do not.
- 37:30I do. Hey, boom, take that too, just
- 37:35in case we need it. We're still sitting at John's
- 37:40seven with lots of gameplay to go.
- 37:47That was me. So, Chris?
- 37:51Let's see. OK, I know most whole Fetty,
- 38:05yeah, most whole Steady fans hate this record for some reason
- 38:10or it's their least favorite of them.
- 38:11But I think Teeth Dreams is really good and I'm going to say
- 38:14Spinners. I don't have.
- 38:20It I do like that one, but I did not put it on the list.
- 38:25Right. Well, at least I'm not the only
- 38:27one in the bin. I mean, if we're going to, if
- 38:32we're going to get into it like that here, let me put this on
- 38:36there and jump. I'll go.
- 38:41I'll go with one off that record as well.
- 38:43This is one that again, I think it's really come into its own
- 38:48live. It's a long one, but it has a
- 38:51good payoff about Oaks. I did not have that.
- 38:54One but there unfortunately. I had.
- 38:57I also didn't know that it was coming into its own live.
- 39:00It's it's real good. What are they doing?
- 39:04They usually do it in an encore, like to start off an encore, and
- 39:08now that they've got the Steve and Tad playing guitar, they do
- 39:12like a that trade off guitar solos.
- 39:14It's awesome. Oh man, I fucking love that.
- 39:17I'm. I'm such a sucker for that.
- 39:19Especially on records when they hard pan it left to right.
- 39:21Yeah, not. It's a Thin Lizzy thing, like
- 39:23the dual guitars are those like, Yeah.
- 39:25Yeah. Wait, has there been a a Thin
- 39:29Lizzy one of these? Nope, not yet.
- 39:32I think so. Justin, you guys did that right?
- 39:34No, we did cheap trick. You haven't done Thin Lizzy.
- 39:38No, we have not. And can I sign up for it?
- 39:43Can't do that. I'll make sure it's on the list
- 39:45and then we'll go from there. All right, so back around to me.
- 39:51I'm going to go. And the one that has been
- 39:55answered the most still left on my list.
- 39:57How about the Weekenders? Yes.
- 40:02It's the sequel to Chips Ahoy but but no.
- 40:07Oh, we'll take that too. Though for the record, Peter
- 40:13would have been able to make that a three for us, so OK.
- 40:17All. Right, and we are well out of
- 40:19NTP, which for a band like this, John probably hates.
- 40:25We're doing good so far, see how it goes.
- 40:28All right, so Weekenders was me. Gets the two Chris.
- 40:34I'm going to say entitlement crew.
- 40:39I don't have it. Man, that's a that's a good
- 40:43pull, but no. Maybe we will hit eight.
- 40:48Wait, what do we win? You get to pick the last song
- 40:52without question. How fantastic.
- 40:56Yeah, Song 10 would be your would be yours entitlement crew.
- 41:03There you are. Are there you are and John?
- 41:11OK, let's see if we can get back to hitting A1.
- 41:14How about Hornets? Hornets.
- 41:16Fuck me. I did not I know.
- 41:21That was one of those ones. Bangers, though.
- 41:24I know, yeah. That's one of those ones that
- 41:27when I hit, when I took it off my list, I was like, I'm this
- 41:30one's going to come back and. Bite me.
- 41:32Nobody for Hornets. Hornets.
- 41:34Yeah, no college hockey fans in the crowd.
- 41:36Definitely got a lot of answers on on threads for that.
- 41:42A lot of people said Hornets, Hornets.
- 41:44And then like I said. Good job people.
- 41:47When I when I took it off my list, I was like, that's going
- 41:49to come back and bite me, I bet. So the Internet delivers again.
- 41:53Indeed it does. Always reliable.
- 41:58Always reliable. Never hurt nobody.
- 42:03Nope, never lies. Always tells the truth.
- 42:09Any day now. Any day now.
- 42:11Let me, I'll try another boys and girls track just to see How
- 42:16about you can make them like you?
- 42:21I don't, but I love the piano and that song so goddamn much.
- 42:25That was 22. Block.
- 42:27OK, all right. Peter would have been able to
- 42:30save me from the bin there. Yeah.
- 42:33OK, Chris. I'll stick with boys and girls
- 42:38with you and go with massive nights.
- 42:42Nope. Yes.
- 42:45A all right boys and girls massive nights gets a 2 and.
- 42:55Good. John.
- 42:58All right, I'll go to the to the later stuff.
- 43:01This also known as the Wu Song. How about unpleasant breakfast?
- 43:06No. Put that one in there.
- 43:09I did not put that one in there. OK.
- 43:13Find that unpleasant breakfast. I can try one of these later
- 43:21ones I think just to see surprisingly.
- 43:28Maybe somebody did answer this. How about sideways skull?
- 43:35Not me. No.
- 43:37OK, Bend, Chris. Let me go.
- 43:47I'm going to stay on boys and girls in America and go with
- 43:50citrus. No.
- 43:55No. For the record, Peter could have
- 43:59saved you from the bin there. No, be careful, I might make it
- 44:04#10 all. Right, John.
- 44:12All right, Father, can I tell your or your congregation how
- 44:15our resurrection really feels? No, that was such a hard cut.
- 44:20Though oh got that answer a lot and I don't I don't have it.
- 44:25Wow. I don't.
- 44:28We've hit a skid. Yeah we should have and I've
- 44:30done killer riff only like let's see 1234.
- 44:35I've only got 5 left so I'm thinking of. 4.
- 44:40OK. Where are you at, Chris?
- 44:44Kind of like 6. OK.
- 44:46So we'll call this the last round then, and then we'll dump
- 44:49out from there because we kind of run out of steam here.
- 44:53All right, man, I've got three of these have actually been
- 45:03answered by somebody. I'll go early.
- 45:05How about the swish? I do not have that one.
- 45:12No. OK, Peter.
- 45:14Peter could have saved me there, but unfortunately, he's not
- 45:17here. All right, Chris.
- 45:21I'm gonna go with slapped actress.
- 45:24Yes. No, I'll.
- 45:28Take that too, though. Make this conversation a bit
- 45:31harder, John. How about a like a more of a mid
- 45:40tempo when about first night off of boys and girls?
- 45:43Very good, but no. I did not have that one.
- 45:49Peter could have saved, can't. Find each other all of a sudden.
- 45:51Yeah, Peter could have saved you, but.
- 45:54Yeah. He had that one like. 2
- 45:56satellites orbiting. All right, so I only got 3 left.
- 46:01I'll run these down and see if I can find any of you guys on
- 46:05these. Let's see.
- 46:06We're having such a sad time together.
- 46:09How about the sweet part of the city?
- 46:13No, it's such a cool song though, I love.
- 46:15That intro, Yeah, yeah, no. Confusion in the marketplace?
- 46:21Nope. Nope.
- 46:23All right, and last but not least, family farm.
- 46:27No. No.
- 46:29Oh man. All right.
- 46:32What did that leave a set? Did we get over that 7?
- 46:37Not yet. But I still got 4.
- 46:39No, we hit 7, so John is going to win, right?
- 46:43We can get a. More into these this
- 46:45conversation here. What do you got left, Chris?
- 46:51Cattle and the creeping things, Yes, all right, banging camp.
- 46:58No. There stove in the toaster.
- 47:02No. And I hope this whole thing
- 47:05didn't frighten you. No.
- 47:09All right, let's see. Banging camp is one of those
- 47:13ones that I was listening to beforehand that was like oh
- 47:15fuck. Yeah, if I had gone back and
- 47:20listened like, I might have thrown it on there.
- 47:24Let's see what was after Ben camp.
- 47:27Stove in the toaster, he said. Yeah.
- 47:32And I hope this whole thing didn't frighten you.
- 47:35Like it I guess. For the record, both of those
- 47:39are not on my main list, so that's probably why I didn't
- 47:43have those. OK, I might have not have put
- 47:46them on the playlist. What was the one after Stove in
- 47:49the toaster? I hope this whole thing didn't
- 47:52frighten you. Puff of teeth, dreams all.
- 47:55Right. I hope this whole thing, this,
- 48:02I'm not typing that whole, I hope this whole that's all
- 48:06that's getting typed. All right.
- 48:08And just for clerical reasons, John, what do you got left?
- 48:13Certain songs and heavy covenant.
- 48:16I. Didn't have either of those.
- 48:20Certain songs was close for me and.
- 48:23Then the Chris, the one that I cut for sequester New Memphis,
- 48:26was ask her for Adderall. Oh yeah?
- 48:30Oh wait, I had that one too. That was a very late cut for me.
- 48:35Yeah, that was a very, very late.
- 48:36I almost added Cheyenne Sunrise too, yeah.
- 48:41That's a good one. All right, well, we did 7.
- 48:47Hold on, I'll run that down in a second.
- 48:49I just need to mark off certain songs.
- 48:52There we go. And the seven that we got in.
- 48:57I mean, this is a hell of a start.
- 48:58Already stuck between stations. Chips Chips Ahoy, your little
- 49:01hood rat friend, Constructive summer sequestered in Memphis.
- 49:04Hot Soft light and Stay positive are in.
- 49:08So we get to discuss 2, and then John gets to pick whatever song
- 49:1410 is. Let's let me shuffle this up and
- 49:16see what our twos are. There's a lot of them, and we
- 49:19only get 2, so we got to really roll the sleeves up.
- 49:26All right, let's see. Positive jam Killer parties,
- 49:29Denver Haircut. Stevie Nicks.
- 49:31Hurricane Jay, The Weekenders massive nights, slapped actress
- 49:36cattle and creeping things. I'll go to you first, Chris.
- 49:40Like, is there one when I read those twos that that you hear
- 49:43and you're like, man, like we can't go any further without
- 49:46having this song. Can you read that list one more?
- 49:49Time. I sure can.
- 49:51I'll start at the top here. Positive jam, Killer parties,
- 49:55Denver haircut, Stevie Nicks, Hurricane Jay, the Weekenders,
- 50:01massive nights, slapped actress cattle and creeping things.
- 50:07I would say killer parties. Yeah, that was one that I
- 50:13really. And I'm super malleable on
- 50:16positive jam. Yeah.
- 50:18What do you think, John? Do you think?
- 50:21Yeah, yeah, positive jam like it is kind of the mission
- 50:24statement, the first one. But my only hesitation with it,
- 50:29and this is not to say I don't, I wouldn't like ride for it, but
- 50:33it is a little itchy. Like it's not it.
- 50:37It does that like it's just kind of goes through the decades and
- 50:40like it's more of like a, more of like a, what's a word like a
- 50:49not a conceit, but it's like a, it feels like a separate thing
- 50:52than what they normally do maybe.
- 50:56Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I don't know.
- 50:58As I mentioned it it it did, strangely enough, set me up
- 51:02exactly for what to expect from the band.
- 51:05Yeah, yeah. But that and that, like that was
- 51:07the first song on the first record.
- 51:08That's that's what, that's what it did, yeah.
- 51:10But also they. Went on to do a lot more
- 51:12different things I. Wholly understand what you're
- 51:15saying. I mean, I feel like we can, we
- 51:19can do this list without it. I mean it.
- 51:22It doesn't feel to me like we have like a a song that we have
- 51:27to have. Is there a song that's kind of
- 51:28jumping out at you, John? I mean, I know you've got the
- 51:31final say as well, but. Yeah, oh, I mean Stevie Nicks is
- 51:37so good. Franz's part on that like
- 51:40amazing massive Nights and slapped actress are both like
- 51:44kind of these anthems like these big like heavy rock numbers and
- 51:49then like cattle and the creeping things off of anything
- 51:53off of separation Sunday is going to be like right there.
- 51:56That's like like the whole story that they we need to mention the
- 52:00characters like Gideon and Charlemagne and Holly, like
- 52:03that's like right in the middle of that stuff.
- 52:05Like that's a. That's a great one too.
- 52:10I'm partial to Stevie Nicks here, and part of that is
- 52:13something that we haven't talked about, and I don't know that
- 52:17necessarily matters, but his album representation.
- 52:22I thought you were going to say that you have a huge boner for
- 52:24Stevie Nicks. Let him finish.
- 52:30He might. We might get to it.
- 52:32He is going to finish. You cut me off, man.
- 52:37No, I'm just. I'm definitely partial to that
- 52:40song in particular. I don't know if it's enough for
- 52:44me to like put my foot down and go, yeah, I think that's the
- 52:46one. But I think that's the one I'm
- 52:50I'm partial to. As mentioned, Peter had that
- 52:54one. I definitely got that answer a
- 52:56couple times. I feel like that kind of weighs
- 52:57in on it a little bit. I don't know, like I feel like
- 53:02it rounds rounds us out pretty well.
- 53:04What do you think about putting Stevie Nicks in there, Chris?
- 53:09Bro, let's do it, OK? Easy enough.
- 53:13I thought he was going to be like, get the fuck out of here
- 53:15with that. All right, so that brings us up
- 53:20to 9, which means John, the floor is yours.
- 53:22Obviously, you know, I prefer it be a song that's live, but you
- 53:25know, you don't have to do that. Yeah, and you guys made it hard
- 53:30because like the two that I was like gonna definitely go for
- 53:33already in, I got to go with cattle and the creeping things.
- 53:38There you go. Fuck yeah.
- 53:41Boom boom boom, too far. Put that X and final say and
- 53:52then I will run this one down. The whole thing start to finish.
- 54:00It is stuck between stations. Chips Ahoy, your little hood rat
- 54:06friend, constructive summer sequestered in Memphis, hot lot,
- 54:10hot soft light. Stay positive killer party.
- 54:12Stevie Nicks cattle and the creeping things are in in man.
- 54:20If you listen to the this playlist and don't like this
- 54:23band, and I don't know, like you might want to get, you might
- 54:28want to get that checked out. Oh God, I'm sorry.
- 54:33Because I mean, everything we've said so far, like before you
- 54:38even hit play if you like rock music and then listen to this
- 54:44list and go, Nah, not for me, I'm sorry.
- 54:46But yeah, the you you need to figure that out or.
- 54:51You don't really like rock music?
- 54:52Which is fine, man, you know, which is fine.
- 54:55If you don't like rock, that's fine.
- 54:57You know, just don't come crying to me when you're asking for a
- 55:00new rock band when we just hand fed you the whole steady.
- 55:03All right, so I'm going to read this down, down one last time
- 55:07and then we'll crank up the heat a little.
- 55:09Stuck between stations. Chips Ahoy, your little hood
- 55:11fret hood rat friend. Constructive summer sequestered
- 55:14in Memphis. Memphis hot, soft light.
- 55:16I can read, I swear. Stay positive.
- 55:18Killer parties, Stevie Nicks, cattle and the creeping things.
- 55:21Chris, as I read that down, this feels like this is going to be a
- 55:24really hard answer. Of those 10, which one is the
- 55:28one? You know, we're supposed to
- 55:37convince people to fall in love with the Hold Steady, and there
- 55:42are a lot of songs that can accomplish that for somebody,
- 55:46but I think the one that casts the widest net is probably stuck
- 55:50between stations. Oh, all right.
- 55:53What do you think, John I? Was going to say stay positive.
- 56:00I could see that. I could see that.
- 56:03Yeah, I could see that too. I could also see your little
- 56:06hood rat friend. I like the message of stay
- 56:10positive. I think these are all great
- 56:15answers, but I think the message of stay positive, I'm going to
- 56:23do the thing that you guys won't be able to hear it.
- 56:25It never helps, but I'm going to play a little bit of it so I can
- 56:28hear it to myself. Such a yummy guitar tone.
- 56:39Hey John, do you think that he's really just off thinking about
- 56:42Stevie Nicks? Of course he's got, he's got
- 56:46Mosh bit Josh on the on the other line there.
- 56:49He has like a cut out from a magazine from like 1993 that he
- 56:55keeps in his wallet just of Stevie Nicks.
- 56:57What I bet, would I bother to? I can't call her a penetration
- 57:01park, can I? I can't say that.
- 57:09Look, I, I feel like to your point, Chris, I feel like any of
- 57:13these 10 is really going to get the job done.
- 57:17I think I like the idea. So again, you know, kind of
- 57:22extrapolating out, I think something like stay positive,
- 57:27that kind of message might resonate with the end of the
- 57:30year panel that which gives the whole steady a good chance at
- 57:35kind of getting in into the best of episode.
- 57:38So like using that as part of it, I think I think gives stay
- 57:43positive a little extra weight. I don't know how much you want
- 57:48to fight here, Chris, and how much you want to just stay
- 57:51positive, but. Man, I am too high to fight.
- 57:55I am, I am, I am coming at you with peace and love and stay
- 58:01positive is totally OK. Well, there we go.
- 58:04So we're going to lock in on Stay Positive.
- 58:05We're going to lock that in. I'm going to get that going
- 58:07underneath us. Read down our list.
- 58:09One last go and we'll wrap this puppy up.
- 58:12Stay Positive is our number one stuck between stations.
- 58:16Chips Ahoy, your little hood rat friend, constructive summer
- 58:19sequester in Memphis. Hot, soft, light, killer
- 58:22parties. Stevie Nicks cattle in the
- 58:24creeping things. Rounds out our 10.
- 58:27Let's let's stay positive, get a little moment in the sun, get
- 58:36back in touch. And it's a pretty good feeling.
- 58:39Yeah, it feels pretty good. Yeah, it feels pretty good.
- 58:41That's right. Perfect time for me to turn that
- 58:44up. It feels pretty good to to get
- 58:46this list done. Like I, I mean, again, you guys
- 58:50like we, we put this band on the board.
- 58:53However, the fuck long ago, seven years ago, probably it's
- 58:58it's done now. How did we do?
- 58:59Like, do you think we do you think we sold somebody on the
- 59:02whole study? If anybody listens to that
- 59:08Spotify list, yeah, we we're going to sell some people on the
- 59:11whole study like. Oh yeah, that might be their
- 59:13best 10 songs. Yeah, and anybody that clicks on
- 59:17that link is going to get something that they're going to
- 59:19fall in love with. There you go folks.
- 59:21It's it's easy. It is really easy to fall in
- 59:24love with this band and really just kind of fall into a groove
- 59:29with them. It it's it's interesting because
- 59:31like, you know, we'll talk about this more on the after the fact,
- 59:34but like a band like Mets and failure came up that earlier
- 59:39this year, like they have more of a I want to say immediate,
- 59:46like thing like that catapults them up to like a favorite, you
- 59:50know, of mine, Whereas this band has this warm, like it's it's
- 59:55warm familiarity to them that just makes you love them
- 59:59immediately. But like not in in that same
- 1:00:02way. I think what I would need for
- 1:00:03them to kind of get into that favorite thing is the thing
- 1:00:06we've been talking about this whole time.
- 1:00:07I think I need to go see them live.
- 1:00:09So that is going on the list. I want to go see the whole
- 1:00:13steady and I hope you. Woman would go with me.
- 1:00:16I mentioned after the fact patreon.com/oh hi Justin is the
- 1:00:20way you can hear the conversation we're about to have
- 1:00:22a dollar a month gets you in the door.
- 1:00:24It gets you that conversation. It gets you the deprogrammed
- 1:00:26before the rest of the world. It gets you the ever so
- 1:00:29occasional Oh hi Justin. I'd I'd say like really it gets
- 1:00:33you deprogrammed early. It gets you the after a fact
- 1:00:35conversations and anything after that is kind of just, it may
- 1:00:39happen and but it does also get you access to our Discord
- 1:00:44server. It gets you an automatic invite
- 1:00:45to the Discord server. At that $1.00 level, you can
- 1:00:48kick it up to 5. It gets you access into some,
- 1:00:53you know, special channels like braining like where we come up
- 1:00:56with some ideas for for things that might be good for patrons
- 1:00:59and, and things like that. If all that stuff sounds cool,
- 1:01:02but you don't have any extra cash.
- 1:01:05I understand man times is tight. You can join the discord by just
- 1:01:09asking me for a link in the Legion of stupid Discord.
- 1:01:12We hang out in there, we count, we are growing a tree.
- 1:01:15All these things are really happening.
- 1:01:17The Music League also, there's a deprogram channel where you can
- 1:01:21talk about the show, and there's a channel where we are looking
- 1:01:25for panelists. So if you wanted to come be on
- 1:01:27the show, talk about a band, tell us what band you want to
- 1:01:31talk about, and other people can chime in and be like, yeah, man,
- 1:01:34I'd like to talk about that band with you.
- 1:01:36But a lot of panels have come come about that way.
- 1:01:39Not this one. This one came about the old
- 1:01:41fashioned way, Justin dragging his feet.
- 1:01:44So we mentioned Patreon, we mentioned the Discord.
- 1:01:47We are a podcast. We are on all podcast platforms.
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