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Social Distortion · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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It's the program, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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band. 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. My name is Justin and you can
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call me band curious because I am indeed curious about bands.
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And what I like to do is gather some friends together and talk
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about some bands. And in doing so, we will come up
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with a top 10 surrogate list for you to get into said band.
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And you know, the madness of all, all of this and the madness
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of a six person panel. I mean, really it lends itself
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to this. It is the story of my life these
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days. The, the madness of trying to
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turn around a band like Social Distortion.
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And I it, I think like 2 weeks we, we turn this one around
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rather quickly. So I want to say this before we
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we get into our panelists, Peter had signed up for this episode.
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This isn't one we are working on with him.
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But I said that going forward, if if it was a Peter episode, I
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am going to mention it. So it is worth noting that this
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was a Peter episode and we miss you.
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We miss you dearly on this episode, Peter.
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But that said, Corey, you put Social D on the board and I, I
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feel like it was like we were having a discussion after like
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the miserable failure of WASP or something.
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You're you, you threw Social Distortion out there.
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And I couldn't believe nobody had said it yet and neither
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could you. And you're like, I'll put that
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one out there. So talk to me about Social D.
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Yeah, and then all of a sudden, everybody decided to just run a
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train on Social D So what's up, everybody?
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Yeah, dude. So as I began, like, my late in
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life journey into the world of punk rock, I was at my buddy
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Matt's house one night and he was just kind of like he had a
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rotation going. And the first song I ever heard
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from Social Distortion was Born to Lose.
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It just came on. And I had heard of them, you
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know, but I had never really heard them.
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So I heard that song, you know, I, I dug it and I kind of just
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started delving deeper into him. And I, I mean, they might, they
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might end up being in my, they might be in my top five.
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Dude, I love them. As I started to explore more, I
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mean, they kind of have, you've got the punk rock, you know,
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when they're right, Orange County, you've got the punk
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roots, you've got the Blues in there.
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You've got the kind of like the rockabilly vibe going on.
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There's a lot happening with them musically.
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And I mean, Mike Ness, I love just his back story, kind of the
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shit I like. I like people that have been
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through some stuff, you know, I like people that have failed And
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you know, that's we're all a work in progress.
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We've all been through it. I respect that.
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So he's been through his shit and he, you know, again, there
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was a, you know, and we'll get to that.
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There was a gap between albums, you know, early on when he was
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locked up. I love lyrically his work.
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I, I love his voice. I think he's very underrated.
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I just, I like everything that they do.
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I like the evolution of them as a band.
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I don't think they have a bad album.
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I mean, there's ones I like more than others, which I'm sure is
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the case with everybody. That's the case with any band,
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right? But there's nothing that I've
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heard from them. There's nothing that I'm like,
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yeah, no, get this the hell out of here.
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They're very deep. You know, they, I like their
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influences. You can tell they're influenced
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by, you know, Johnny Cash, The Clash, the Ramones.
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They've influenced bands like Rancid, The Offspring, so
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they've got a lot of reach. I just love everything they do,
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man. I think they're very, you know,
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they're a broad brush and I don't think they get enough
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credit for what it is they bring to the table it.
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Is interesting to think about, you know, because I don't think
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they're underappreciated. We're coming across this a lot
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lately. I don't think they're
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necessarily underappreciated but also at the same time they kind
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of are so it is kind of nice that we're here to give them the
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flowers. Gavin, you signed up next and
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you know, I've, I've gotten a run order here and it, it could
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all be like kind of at the same time because it kind of got
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thrown into the discord chat, I believe.
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So talk to me about social D. Hey, yeah, thanks for having me.
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I love these big panels. It's going to be super fun.
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I thought Corey crushed it. Like Corey, everything you said,
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I was just like nodding my head like, Yep, Yep, Yep.
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I grew up, I was into like punk rock.
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I I grew up in the Bay Area in California.
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And so Mommy's Little Monster, that first album was like, you
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know, back in the, in the 80s, you know, it was a big, that was
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a big album for me and my friends before they had anything
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else out and there was no Internet or anything.
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And so like Mike Ness was kind of a mythological figure.
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Like that room, the rumor, everything was rumored back
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then, you know, so it was like, oh, he's in prison, you know,
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like he killed somebody, like all this shit, you know, But
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like, it was like he was, we knew he, he had problems with
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drugs, you know, And I fucking loved that record.
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I loved those early singles. And then I saw a film called
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Another State of Mind that is a documentary on an early punk
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rock tour with Social Distortion and Youth Brigade.
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And they're kind of trailblazing and like the shit is not laid
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out for them. And it's like such a beautiful
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American film. Like even if you're not in a
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punk rock, just sort of a, a social studies like fucking
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extravaganza, you know, it's, it's fucking crazy.
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And he's so great in that movie. And that's when he's still like
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you can tell he's like drunk in a lot of the scenes and shit.
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And then, you know, I had my own problems and stuff and I I got
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whatever. It doesn't matter.
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So he I like his story too. Let me just put it like that,
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right? It's meaningful to me.
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I fucking like I, I was in a band and we covered the song
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Mommy's Little Monster in 87. I saw him, I saw them one time
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in San Francisco in the mid 90s and like dude, like they fucking
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rocked so hard that I started crying.
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Like it was like, I, I have rarely had that experience.
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It was like their heads were fucking down, their arms were
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all going wet was pouring off their nose.
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It was like watching like ockworkers like do something
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perfect, you know, and like somebody was in the air the
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entire show off the stage and it was just like fucking so great.
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And yeah, this is going to be fucking tough.
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They I had never heard the song, the records after Somewhere
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between Heaven and Hell. And there's so many killer
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songs. You know, it's like he's just a
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fucking meat and potato songwriter, you know, like
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nothing fancy. Like I'm going to get it done
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and like all all of this stuff have this like essential
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element. Cool.
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He's still cool, motherfucker, you know, And I just got so
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excited, dude, listening to this, like, I forget, you know,
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it's not. I don't throw on Social
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Distortion every day. And I was just like, what a
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fucking band, you know? Like, they were just so great.
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And so I'm stoked to be here, yeah.
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So Brian, I again, I, I don't recall the the conversation.
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It, it's hilarious that there's six of us here.
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I don't recall the conversation. I feel like there was a
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conversation in Discord. So I presume you jumped in and
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said, yeah, you would do it. Now, is this like a band?
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This is this a case of you just going, yeah, I want to get in on
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on this panel and figure out what's up with this band.
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Or is this a band that that you love?
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Tell me about Social D. Yeah, this was a band that I was
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putting up. I didn't realize that there was
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a panel for it already. I remember just saying in the
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chat, I'm like, hey, let's do Social Distortion.
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And then the other, the other two guys like jumped in.
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They're like, yeah, let's do Social Distortion.
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Then you're like, we have a panel and we got two people.
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We gotta, we'll, we'll figure it out though.
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Yeah, This is like almost a little bit.
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It it, it's, it's in my wheelhouse, but almost on the
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border of my wheelhouse. You know, I don't typically
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listen to a lot of punk music, you know, like I like punk every
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here and there, but it kind of gets like monotonous for me.
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So, but this is like, and I, I think I told you after we did
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the, the the other episode of Motels, I'm like, this is not
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like your typical like punk band.
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Like there's harmonicas, there's guitar solos.
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I don't remember if they came up when we did Uncle Tupelo just in
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the conversation, just because they do they have that punk
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country kind of thing that we got from that last Uncle Tupelo
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record. And it was like, I don't know
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something about it. It just, you know, you know,
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like I, I, I love alternate forms of country.
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Like I like like country rock and country punk and country
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rap. Like I like all that stuff as
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you know, as well as country itself to, you know, very
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limited. So this kind of like falls in my
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wheelhouse because it's, you know, 90s alternative mixed with
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country and mixed with, you know, rockabilly and mixed with
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pretty much anything. It it it's there.
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You know, it's kind of kind of when we did a Volbeat, like you
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can't, you can't like pinpoint, like what their genre actually
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is, you know, and, and Mike Ness is just, you know, he wears, he
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wears his influences on his sleeve.
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You know, like you listen, you're like, oh, this guy loves
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Johnny Cash. Like, you can just tell.
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Like, despite the obvious song, like this dude's obviously a
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big, you know, big fan of, of, of of Cash.
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He's a big fan of punk. They guys put it all together
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and came up with this, you know, awesome, awesome formula that
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works. So Brian points out that it's
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kind of like on the outskirts of of his wheelhouse, Anderson.
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It feels like it's kind of squarely in yours.
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Talk to me about it. Oh.
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First let me throw my phone on the ground.
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Always most Hi how y'all doing? I'm leaving that in.
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Glad to be here. Thank you for having me again.
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I discovered these guys with Guitar Hero.
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Oh, interesting. Let's go, Let's go.
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Yeah. Yeah, Story of my life on Guitar
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Hero 3. And if you've never taught a 7
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year old girl how to play that on the slowest setting ever,
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yeah, don't. Don't do it.
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Don't do it. It took 40 minutes to get
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through that one song. Yeah.
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And from there they were on Rock Band.
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I can't remember which one it was.
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It was either following Chain or That Was Your Mom.
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And then the other one was DLC got Mommy's Little Monster off
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of Metallica. And from there I got their
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greatest hits and I've been looking for an excuse to dive in
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and wow, that was definitely worth the dive.
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There's it's going to be tough. I don't think there's bad songs
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on here. That is interesting that I kind
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of I kind of put that on you because like it, it does feel
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like this would be a band squarely in your wheelhouse.
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So interesting that you found them through video game.
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I mean it takes all types, doesn't it?
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So again, talking about being in somebody's wheelhouse, this is
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kind of roughly around where I would expect to find you, John.
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I mean, it, I was kind of shocked that you weren't
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initially on on the this panel. So talk to me about Social D.
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Yeah, Social D is one that I have kind of always been aware
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of. Like I growing up listening to
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alternative radio in the early 90s, you would hear their songs
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getting played, the singles. And then when I got into punk
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rock, it was like, like Gavin said, like another state of
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mind. Like I remember being going on,
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I think it was one of our first tours and stopping somewhere and
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someone having like Avhs copy of it, like, oh, you got to watch
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this and being into it because oh, it's it's minor threat.
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And like I was a huge minor threat fan.
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And they have a a big part in that movie as well.
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Like they're on tour with them. But then you watch it and like
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Mike Nest steals the show. Like he's this magnetic,
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charismatic, big personality and like, the songs are great and
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like he's he's got this presence and you're like, Oh my God.
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Like I had no idea that this was that same band.
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So yeah, like listened going back end and hearing the first
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record, which is great. And then but I never like like a
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lot of you guys, I'd never gone back and listened to a lot of
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the the later records And but like everybody had that one
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friend who was like the greaser guy was like social D, my
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favorite band and like there was.
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Always that one guy. Whose Social D was their
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favorite band So. You would hear it.
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Around like you would go, you'd go to bars or whatever and it'd
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just be playing. But I'd never really like sat
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down and listened to a lot of these records front to back.
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And yeah, like like you guys were saying, I was super
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impressed with the songwriting, super impressed with the, the
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performances, the the melodies. Like they're just a they're just
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a kick ass rock'n'roll band. They are just a kick ass
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rock'n'roll band. Yeah like look, there isn't much
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I can add at this point. Like 5 other people have have
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really kind of combed over almost everything I would say
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especially John's kicker. There is, is that's the kicker.
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Like they are just a kick ass rock band.
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And yes it there's punk involved and yes there's outlaw country
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involved and yeah it's all those things but it's also like it's
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rock'n'roll man and. And they just rock.
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It's this is it's it's funny whenever we come across these
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because, you know, now I'm the third straight person here
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saying that I've never done the dive on them.
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And kind of similarly, similarly to John, like they've kind of
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always been in my life. Like I've always heard their
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singles. I've always liked the singles.
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I had that one friend. Mine was Tim Brandon and he was
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like constantly going on about social D and there was there was
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people around me who loved this band and would listen to them
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and you know, they weren't a band I dismissed, but you know,
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I didn't go screw these guys, despite the fact that they've
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got played like constantly on 96 X around here.
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Still didn't wear wean me on them.
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Like I was just like into these guys without like being fully
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into them and I never never did the dive.
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That's the excuse of this. So Corey, I know when we we put
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this up a couple weeks ago, you said, I think you said there's
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like 15 to 17 like you pretty much had on lock.
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When you start going through like the the other stuff, does
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it make your last couple kind of hard or do you end up shifting
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off some of those 15? Oh fuck yeah dude this was the
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hardest, hardest series of cuts I've ever made.
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This was. I said this about another band
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too. I can't remember who it was, but
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this was even harder than The Doors for me.
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It was an easy list to put together, but I brought so much
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to the table because it was there's nothing.
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There's nothing. I heard the 30 seconds in.
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I was like, yeah, no, get the hell out of here.
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I mean, I I knew most of it anyway, but there was nothing
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there that bothered me. Everything here is so good, so I
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this one was tough man. Even going in, being able to
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basically fill out half of the list, half of the I mean, I
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could bring half of the 20 to the table in 30 seconds if I
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wanted, just off the top of my head, but it was it was hard
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man. That's what she said.
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But yeah, I mean, because there's, there's so much here.
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And I mean, then you look at it and it's also where, you know,
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there's 8 albums here we're working with, you know, so then
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you get into, all right, what do I, you know, album
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representation versus? But this song right here, I, I
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fucking, I can't leave it off. And it was hard, man.
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It was hard. It's a it's a jigsaw really like
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you really you a puzzle like you really got to kind of, you know,
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pull in place and really think about it like is, is this
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something that was really hard for you, Gavin, or did you have
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like a mindset going in? No, see, exactly the same as
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what Corey said. Like I was cutting songs that I
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was like, hey, just discovered that I was so excited about.
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I was like, no, I mean, and there's a couple albums.
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I mean, John's made a, John made a comment in the discord and I'm
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assuming he kind of like there's a couple albums where you really
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could take like almost the whole album, you know?
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Absolutely. Is a fucking banger all the way
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through just like 1 after another boom, boom, right hook,
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left hook, right hook, you know, so it's like shit, you know,
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like, and I, I mean, I needed to represent the early stuff.
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I figured they'll they'll be, you know, like I'll I'll be
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bummed if people sleep on the punk shit.
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It's so great, you know, But like, yeah, so yeah, it was
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really fucking hard. It was really hard.
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So Brian, I, I, I assume that this one was a hard one for you,
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but you tell me how, how difficult was Social D for you?
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It was hard. It was the last.
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Like picking, you know, You know my picking the ones that go to
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the top. My list was was a lot went to
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the top of my list and then making the cuts was the really
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hardest part. So what I decided to do was take
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a lesson I learned earlier in actually last year and 2025 was
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because the panel is so big, I played it like what if this was
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a Championship series, championship edition.
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So I made my cuts based on what I would do for a championship
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edition rather than a deprogrammed only because we had
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such a large panel and I don't know if it changed that much how
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I to cut things, you know, like a couple that like, you know, I
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don't know, like like I'm not going to say like I like I cut
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slam dunks because they weren't as good as some of the deep
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tracks, but like it it was, it was it was tough and even
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playing it like that it was it was still like absolutely
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brutal. But I think I got a a good list
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here. I love my list.
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I would love anybody's list of 20.
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You know, honestly, it is. It wouldn't matter to me.
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So I don't know. We'll see what happens.
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We will see what happens. Anderson, how did it go for you
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this go around? Did you have like a strategy?
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There were no cuts, there were only ads.
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Right, right. Yeah, I mean, what I do with
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this one, as I listen to, I just put the whole damn thing on
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random, and when I like the song, I moved it over and, you
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know, after two or three lessons I had 27.
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And when I plugged them back into the spreadsheet, I realized
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I was really balanced across all the albums, and there's seven of
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them. So instead of trying to figure
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out which seven were the ones to cut, I just took one off of each
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album. There you go.
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Yeah. Yeah, because, I mean, it's
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easier to pick which one doesn't fit out of four than which seven
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don't fit out of 27. Yep.
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So John, like I feel like this one, you're kind of you were
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kind of struggling. You're not usually.
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You don't usually tip your hand in the chat.
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Yeah, my, my reputation precedes me.
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No, I there were some albums that I definitely liked other
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than other more than others. We'll get to that, of course.
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But I mean, they, you start off so strong.
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I mean, and again, with having this many songs, it's going to
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be tough because like you go through and like, yeah, I was go
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through. I'm like, OK, the first record,
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I'm gonna have a lot of second record, OK, but but then you get
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to the self title like you guys are saying, and it's like, well,
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how can I, how am I not gonna have any of these songs?
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That's where you get yourself in trouble.
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Then you get to the next one and it's like, OK, well, that was
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their peak and now we're gonna, we were now we're gonna hit the
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backside. Like, Nope, not the same
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problem, like. Right, right.
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You get to the first side and you're like, OK, these are all
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great. Like, what am I gonna do?
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So then it was just a matter of of trying to balance that with
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with what came at the end. And then I don't think we
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mentioned it, but they they've got a new record that that just
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came out and we were able to that one of the singles was was
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out on Spotify when we were putting this together.
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So we're able to include one of their brand new songs as well.
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So wanted to give that one a little, give it a couple of
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listens just to make sure they still sound great.
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The hairs, the hairs a little grayer, but but they can, they
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can still, they can still bring it.
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I had a very similar experience with my first pass for sure.
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Like I want to say I was pulling out my hair by the time I got to
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self-titled I I was just like I don't know why I do this show
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like I it never gets easier. But I've started doing this
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lately and after my first pass, I want to say I had 40
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something. I was like, OK, well, this is
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going to suck. And so I was like, well, you
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know what, I'm going to ask the Internet and I'm going to, I'm
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going to start, I'm going to take the pulse and see where I'm
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at. And to my shock, 18, well, I
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mean, probably more than 1818 of the songs that people said me
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were already on my list. So, and I'm I'm sure it was
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actually more than that. But like, you know, some of them
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just, they answered after I started making cuts.
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So like, as something got mentioned, I'd bump it up my
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list and not cut anything, just bump it up my list.
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And people kept answering and I was like, well, I have this, I
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have this, I have this, I have this.
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And like I said, 18 of my 20 were songs that somebody
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mentioned, and a lot of them multiple times.
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So I was like, OK, that's as good a pulse as I'm going to get
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on this band. It, it, it seems like I was, I
24:10
was in line. And the reason I'm OK with this
24:13
is because we have a huge panel. Like I could have taken it.
24:16
I could have, you know, really racked my brain on my cuts and
24:21
come with a different list and still could have missed you guys
24:25
'cause like it, it feels like it's, it's got all the elements
24:27
for that kind of episode. So to that point, everything
24:32
that's been said so far, taking into account 6 people, you know
24:36
how many good songs that there are.
24:37
Corey, based on everything we've said so far, how many do you
24:41
think we get through unanimously for the final say?
24:44
Oh God, dude. It's funny because I was
24:46
thinking about this earlier today and I had a number jump
24:49
out to me and I I try to always go with my gut even though
24:53
sometimes it steers me wrong. There's six of us here.
24:58
There's so much that's fucking awesome.
25:01
I'm going with three. OK, Yeah, no, that's that's
25:05
fair. Some would say that's even
25:08
possibly high like. Dude and I, I had the same
25:11
thought, man, I had the same thought.
25:13
It's possible. So what do you think?
25:16
Gavin 3. Yeah, that's ambitious, Corey.
25:21
This is like a dude. I mean, there's so many good
25:26
songs and there's so many people that you know there's going to
25:30
be a spoiler for every song, you know what I mean?
25:32
Right, right. You know, I like to aim high,
25:35
dude. I like to some would say I like
25:38
to reach for the sky man. I'm feeling your enthusiasm.
25:42
I went, Justin. I was thinking that like, I
25:44
don't know if you guys have ever played spades, but I was wishing
25:47
that like there was a, a rule like in spades where you can go
25:51
nil, you could you could take a zero.
25:53
I don't think you're going to take any.
25:55
And you get extra like there's like extra bonuses if if if you
25:59
don't take any points, because that's fucking where we're at.
26:01
And then my second thought was just go fucking lucky 13.
26:04
It's fucking, you know, distortion.
26:08
But since I'm in the enviable position of get going second
26:13
here, I'm I'm going to I'm going to take two, which also feels
26:18
ambitious. Possibly, possibly.
26:22
What do you think, Brian? Three and two.
26:23
It's a six person panel. Keep that in mind.
26:26
Yeah, I was thinking, I was thinking two or three.
26:28
Like I said, I I think it's going to go like a like a
26:31
championship edition where, you know, you know, where, you know,
26:34
I learned that there's not going to be 5.
26:42
I mean, I don't want to say 1. I don't know.
26:44
I, I think we're getting more than one.
26:45
You know, I'm going to be a little ambitious.
26:47
I'm going to say 4, right? Now OK.
26:50
Yeah. Someone's going to get it.
26:51
There's six of us, so someone's going.
26:52
To get it, I was going to say somebody's got to go higher than
26:55
what we've already done so. Somebody has to, so 2-3 and four
27:00
are now off the board, Anderson. Yeah, we're going to be.
27:09
I feel like we're going to spend time in different corners of
27:12
this band, so I'm going to take the one that's sitting there.
27:17
All right, Yeah. How's that math look, John?
27:22
The math is not math thing but but I'll take the five all.
27:27
Right, nice. All right.
27:30
And then so that leaves me, I have to be optimistic like
27:35
there's there's no choice. I will take the six.
27:39
I do feel like because there's six of us, if I don't know what
27:43
what it should be, if one of us doesn't get it, I feel like
27:47
there should be something extra there, but I don't know.
27:49
We'll figure that out. All right, so we're going to
27:51
take a quick pause and on the other side, we are going to play
27:54
the game. We will be right back.
27:55
It's deprogrammed. And with that, the name of the
28:04
game is deprogrammed. The six of us have come through
28:08
the Social Distortion discography and plucked out 20
28:11
songs that are now going to mash together in an attempt to create
28:13
a top ten circuit for you in case you have never given Social
28:17
Distortion the time of day. Well, again, there's no real way
28:23
to do this. I can do the ones that that seem
28:27
like they should lead off, but I think I'm going to go the one
28:32
I'm going to go with the one that like shocked me that I
28:35
mean, obviously I liked it. I had it on my first pass but I
28:38
was shocked how many times came up.
28:41
How about off Mommy's little monster telling them?
28:47
I don't. I don't.
28:49
No. I love it now.
28:53
Oh yeah. Can anybody save me?
28:59
No. All right, telling them into the
29:03
bin. OK, it's going to be like that.
29:09
Absolutely dude all. Right, Corey?
29:13
So it's so as we're going through this, right?
29:16
Like I came into this having like, oh, this is my favorite
29:19
album by them, But I, I, I don't even know what my favorite album
29:23
is now because there's so much, there's so much there.
29:27
There's so many depth to each of them that I fuck, dude.
29:31
But I remember when I was at your house a couple weeks ago
29:33
when we recorded Avril Lavigne, I told you that I have a
29:37
favorite song by them and there was one that I'm, I would be
29:40
willing to fight for. Although now who knows how this
29:43
discussion goes, but I'm going to play my favorite song by them
29:46
right out of the gate off of White White White Heat, White
29:48
Trash down here with the rest of us.
29:52
Dude that was my last cunt. Damn it, no, I don't have it.
29:58
Oh no. Oh no.
30:01
That's like, all right. Well, fuck you guys.
30:06
I can't. No, that was my.
30:08
Start that. I had a feeling, man.
30:10
I had a feeling, but I had to play it.
30:12
That's a great song. That was a discovery for me.
30:15
I was like, what the fuck? That was a really one of those
30:18
hard cuts that we were just talking about.
30:20
Such a great song, man. I mean, you can say that about
30:24
just about any of these, but I that's, that's my favorite of
30:27
theirs, so. All right, it is going to be
30:31
like that going forward, just knows.
30:34
Everybody. All right, Gavin.
30:38
Going straight for the classic early single, I took 1945.
30:42
Yes, Sir. I don't, I don't all.
30:50
Right, our first two. So many of these were so many of
30:56
these made my first pass, man, Yeah.
31:00
I'm OK with A2 at this point because our list might be all
31:04
twos. All right, Brian.
31:12
Jeez, OK, I don't know. I'm I'm going to maybe go.
31:18
I don't know if this is I don't know what's going to be low
31:20
hanging fruit, but this is this is one of my favorite songs and
31:23
maybe hanging I was wrong. Got it.
31:30
Yeah, I got it. I got it, yes.
31:34
Nope. You know what we take a 5
31:39
though? We absolutely, we absolutely
31:42
take a 5, right? Now that might as well be
31:45
unanimous, right? Right, the way it's looking.
31:50
All right. We take that five and we press
31:53
on, Anderson. Another state of mind.
31:59
Yeah, I got. It.
32:00
Yeah, I got it. Definitely, yeah.
32:05
Oh, is that everybody all right? Yeah.
32:09
All right, Yeah. Look, so you're saying there's a
32:12
chance? They're saying it's a chance I
32:20
got to find it on the list so I can play it.
32:25
Another thing, what record is that?
32:28
Mommy's little mommy's little monster.
32:30
OK, I scrolled past it then. There it is.
32:38
There's track 2. Justin, come on, man.
32:42
In the movie you see him writing that song on his bed.
32:44
It's fucking rad. He's writing it to his
32:46
girlfriend that he misses because he's on tour.
32:51
I kind of got to watch that, I think.
32:56
All right, another state of mind is in.
33:01
Did I already mark it off here? No, I don't.
33:08
All right, John all. Right.
33:12
So normally when we do these, especially with the band, with
33:17
the big discography like this, covers are a place that you can
33:21
kind of skip over, right? Because like you don't need it.
33:24
There's plenty of other songs. It's it's not really going to be
33:28
a talking point, but socially as a cover that they made their own
33:35
like this. This is a socialist on now.
33:38
I went with the Ring of Fire. Oh man.
33:43
I I caught it. Yeah, I don't.
33:49
Yeah, that was my cut on that one all.
33:54
Right. I get it though.
33:55
You guys can be wrong that's. Fine.
33:57
I considered it, yeah. I mean, if you're going to have
34:00
a cover. Yeah, right.
34:02
Yeah. Yeah, it's great.
34:05
The back out of two was that. Oh, did someone else have it?
34:12
No, guess not. OK, no bin.
34:15
OK, almost everything in the bin.
34:17
All right, let me shift this. All right?
34:24
I honestly don't know where to go.
34:28
Right, dude? I mean, this is I got, I'm sure
34:34
I'm going to find one of you all here, right?
34:36
Like one of you is going to be on board with with this one.
34:40
How about ball and chain? Absolutely.
34:44
Yeah. No.
34:49
Yes. Yeah.
34:51
All right, Hey. I'm worried to take it.
34:54
It's fucking great. I I just couldn't do it.
34:57
I get it. We will take a 5 there fives are
35:00
real good and not Gavin, Brian Anderson, John.
35:11
All right, Corey all. Right, I, I, so I actually heard
35:17
the live version of this one first, which is fucking
35:22
fantastic. It's the title track of their
35:26
second album, Prison Bound. Yeah.
35:28
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was going to play that
35:32
one. No.
35:35
OK, I know, right. That's a 5 though.
35:42
So we're we're getting somewhere.
35:46
We're getting somewhere, Gavin. Yeah, Somewhere Between Heaven
35:53
and Hell is such a fucking great record, you know?
35:56
I think it's. Underrated just as like a hunk
35:59
record or rock record or whatever it's I don't know why.
36:02
Maybe it's overshadowed by the one that came before it or
36:04
something, but like. Agreed.
36:07
It's got so many fucking great songs on it.
36:09
I took 99 to life. I caught it, man.
36:12
Yeah, I don't. Have, yeah.
36:14
No. Yeah, no.
36:19
Bend all. Right Bend, Brian.
36:26
How about mass hysteria? Hell yeah.
36:33
Yeah. Yes.
36:36
That fucking cut but. Who was going to have Gavin and
36:38
John? Yeah.
36:39
This one's still rat. All right, so 3.
36:47
Three. All right.
36:47
You didn't have it, Justin. No, I didn't.
36:49
Nope. It just rips.
36:54
Oh, it does. There's just too much here.
36:57
Like I mean that. That's good, right?
36:59
That's. Going to go to the recurring
37:00
theme. There's just, there's just too
37:02
much. Oh yeah, there's no wrong
37:04
answers on this one either. It's.
37:05
Like whatever we come out with is is going to be good and is
37:10
also going to be wrong, so. Yeah, it's.
37:13
Going to be a nice cross section, all right, Anderson.
37:19
OK, how about bad luck? Yeah.
37:22
Yeah. Hell, hell yeah.
37:23
Yeah. Yes, hey.
37:28
Let's fucking go. There we go.
37:32
Anderson's got to both his socks like.
37:35
Yeah, he picked the 2 units. Yeah, nothing but dingers.
37:40
I'm going to follow Anderson. I hit dingers.
37:46
Hitting dingers. Boom, take that, you Nana, my
37:59
John all. Right, I'm going to go with my
38:03
favorite Social Distortion song, Making Believe.
38:09
Oh fuck dude. That's a cool song.
38:14
That's a cover too. It's a cool.
38:15
That's a cool that is. I didn't take it let.
38:20
Me see if I can save you. I don't think so, but let me
38:23
make sure. Let me confirm my list.
38:31
No, no, unfortunately. Thanks for checking.
38:35
I yeah, I wanted to make sure. I wanted to make sure.
38:37
I didn't want to just say no. All right?
38:42
I mean, a lot have been, but that should be expected.
38:48
But we also have two through and three fives like that is
38:53
actually solid when you when you all things considered, that is
38:58
solid for two rounds. Yeah.
39:07
I honestly don't. No, I'll do it.
39:10
It's already come up in conversation.
39:12
How about Born to Lose? Yeah, yeah.
39:16
Hell yeah. Yeah.
39:19
Yep. Yes.
39:22
Hey, hell, right, I mean, look, the the amount of times I I have
39:33
basically written this song myself.
39:37
I think I currently have two songs that are basically born to
39:40
lose. You know, it's different words,
39:45
different guy, but you're always going to get me with a sentiment
39:49
like that, like it's just kind of how I get out of here.
39:53
Cat. Oh my God.
39:57
All right, 3 all the way through.
40:02
Kind of love that, Corey. All right, let me go with I'm
40:10
going to go with track one off Mommy's little monster, the
40:13
creeps. Fuck me, I love that.
40:16
Yes. Great song.
40:20
I don't have it, but I fucking love that.
40:25
I'll save you, I got it all. Right.
40:27
Hey, there we go. That's.
40:28
A three. I got it, I got it.
40:30
Yeah, 3. That's a three three.
40:33
Nice. I'll take it.
40:35
Yeah, a three is not a bin. Yeah, man, buckets over here.
40:43
All right. Oh my God, Cat, what is your
40:46
problem? All right, Gavin.
40:53
I took give me the sweet and low down off hard times and nursery
40:57
rhymes. No.
40:59
Oh, I don't, no. No.
41:03
Hey, I can't save you all. Right, Brian.
41:13
About. Geez.
41:19
How about sometimes I do? Got it.
41:26
No. No, I take that back.
41:28
That was one of my last cuts. I don't Shit, motherfucker.
41:33
Sometimes you don't. Sometimes.
41:35
Yeah, sometimes you don't. Sometimes you like to be a
41:37
fucking tease. My bad, dude.
41:38
Sorry. Yeah, I don't have it either.
41:41
Sorry, that's it. Great.
41:44
Great fucking song though. Yeah, Anderson didn't have it.
41:49
No, no I didn't. Binner binner, binner.
41:52
Unfortunately, Binner Binner. Binner.
41:55
Yeah, All right, Anderson. I'm going to take one that
42:07
surprised me a little bit. 2026 and they still have it.
42:11
Born to Kill. Yeah, I got it.
42:15
I don't, I don't, but I can't wait for that record to come
42:19
out. Yeah, they're touring, man.
42:22
Yeah, dude. I I'm glad one other person had
42:27
it. I, I don't expect it to make the
42:30
list, but it needed to be brought up for exactly what what
42:34
Anderson said. They still got it, man.
42:36
I, I'm looking forward to the record.
42:38
So all right, John. Got to do it first.
42:44
Single mainliner Fuck. Yeah.
42:48
No. I don't.
42:50
I wanted to, but I don't. I love that song, all right?
42:55
So Gavin and John, a tour? A tour?
43:00
Yeah. All right, let's shift that
43:02
around again. A straight edge buddy John with
43:05
Mainliner. Oh, you know, what's interesting
43:11
is we're actually out of NT as much that's gone into the bin,
43:15
we're out of NTP and we actually are going to have to cut
43:18
something. So yeah, all right, I'll go back
43:22
to mainliner too. How about Playpen?
43:25
Yeah. Nope.
43:28
Not. Not that one.
43:30
No, it's. Like a 2.
43:31
I love playing too. Fucking love that song.
43:34
Oh good. All right, Corey.
43:41
Let me go to somewhere between heaven and hell with cold
43:46
feelings. Oh, no, no, no, no.
43:53
Yes. Hey, screw.
43:55
You guys. Oh yeah, this conversation's
44:00
gonna be fun. Oh dude, hell yeah.
44:05
All right, Gavin. I took Hour of darkness off
44:10
Mommy's little monster. Oh.
44:14
No, no. Yeah, I know.
44:16
You're good for a couple of those every episode, aren't you,
44:19
Gavin? Oh yeah, I'm the big king on
44:22
this episode. All right, Brian.
44:28
How about lost child? Yes.
44:33
No. No.
44:35
No dude, that's like the other great song off Prison Bound I in
44:40
my opinion. Yeah, that's another two.
44:44
We'll take that. All right.
44:47
All right, Anderson. I'm going to take my other great
44:52
song off of Prison Bound. It really leaned into the power
44:57
country here. No pain, no gain.
45:02
No. No.
45:04
That's the only one off that record that I took.
45:06
Wow. No, I don't have it.
45:10
All right, it's a two though. All right, John all.
45:19
Right, it's time to RIP off the Band-Aid.
45:22
We got to do it. Story of my life, yes.
45:23
Sir. Yeah.
45:25
Hell yeah. Yeah.
45:26
Yeah, yeah. OK, all right.
45:31
I mean, I'm it's, it's one of those things where it's like I
45:35
couldn't I couldn't catch the vibe of whether that would be if
45:39
that was like a trick. I mean, it obviously it's a
45:42
great song, but is that like, is it being a known song?
45:50
Does that make it, you know, somebody tosses it because of
45:54
that, you know? Yeah.
45:56
Yeah, they're. Not that kind of band.
45:58
Yeah, I don't think so. That song makes me so happy
46:01
every time I hear. It's just fucking so great.
46:03
It is. Yeah, it is.
46:04
So I'm I'm glad that that none of us were trying to be too
46:08
cool. So that's like uanimously.
46:11
Yes, Sir. Yeah, great.
46:14
Four. We're actually, we're Ram man.
46:16
We're killing it. Yeah, we're doing really well.
46:18
Yeah, climbing up the charts. It's just we also have like a
46:21
ton of bin. Like a ton, yeah, a metric ton
46:25
of bin, but that was that. Was we're headed to my. 13 yeah,
46:29
that was bound to happen. Is just a ton of bin.
46:35
All right, So that one's off the table and I can breathe a sigh
46:40
of relief because that one's in. We've gone all around this
46:48
record. How about the title track?
46:50
Mommy's little Monster. Nope.
46:56
Whoa. Sorry I lost you for a second.
46:58
Say it again. Mommy's little monster.
47:01
Yes. All right.
47:03
So I grabbed a three there and I'll take that.
47:07
Instead of three or a four. It's a three Wait, did you have
47:10
it, Anderson? Yeah, I had it.
47:13
Oh, it's a four. Yeah, 4.
47:16
Yeah, all right, I'm with that. Now them twos are looking iffy.
47:25
Oh, this is going to be all right, Corey.
47:31
All right, I don't think we've gone to Sex, Love and
47:36
Rock'n'roll yet, so I want to. We talked about Mike Ness
47:39
lyrically, and he wrote this song for Dennis Denel, who's a
47:46
guitar player from day one. The band who died just before
47:49
this album. Great fucking lyrics.
47:52
Live before you die. Hell yeah.
47:54
Oh. I don't have it.
47:57
I know I. Don't have it?
48:00
Oh man that's a killer song. And Dennis fucking RIP dude.
48:03
Dennis was so good. Oh absolutely dude.
48:09
I'll take a two there though. It has a pulse.
48:12
It has a pulse, barely, but it does Gavin.
48:18
I took It Could Have been Me off the self-titled.
48:23
Oh dude. Yeah, all.
48:26
Right. No.
48:28
So is that Gavin Brian Anderson? Yeah, all.
48:32
Right, that's a three. All right, all.
48:36
Right, Brian. Geez.
48:40
All right, how about this one? How about, you know, kind of a
48:46
different vibe, you know, do they have a ballad?
48:49
I don't know, but footprints out my ceiling.
48:54
No. No.
48:57
Made my first pass but I cut it. Got it.
49:04
I kind of thought that would be a dinner.
49:05
But I want to put it out all right, Anderson.
49:13
I'll stay over there. How about highway One O 1?
49:16
Yes, Sir. No, no, no.
49:20
I. Wanted to make room.
49:22
For it, I'll take a two there, John.
49:31
All right, how about don't drag me down?
49:36
Bruce. I do I have it.
49:41
I don't, I do. I don't either all.
49:47
Right, we can take a three. There, Bruce did.
49:54
I already pass it all right. Yes, I did.
49:57
So Justin, Brian, John, it's like an interesting combination
50:03
on all these two like of of who has what?
50:07
Like there isn't like a sometimes like there's a lock in
50:10
where two people are are like they don't have everything.
50:14
All right, man, I'm actually getting down to the bottom of
50:18
it. 12345 I only got 6 left. So I feel like maybe we do a
50:25
couple like two more rounds here.
50:28
I got 6. How about when she begins?
50:39
No. I got it, yes.
50:44
Hey, all right. There it is, just not in the
50:50
bin. That's all I'm asking for.
50:54
All right, Justin and John, Ticket 2.
50:58
Wow. This list of twos that I'm
51:01
writing down is getting really long, yeah.
51:03
Yeah, dude. Yeah, I'm running out of room.
51:07
All right, Corey. White light, white heat, white
51:13
trash. When the angels sing.
51:15
Yes. Yeah.
51:17
No, no. I don't have it but it take out
51:24
one of my favorite lines in there 1/2 I know there's got to
51:29
be a heaven because I already did my time in hell.
51:33
Yeah, yeah. Great song, that's.
51:36
Good. All right.
51:38
We take a three there, Gavin. Oh, I took one cover because I
51:44
fucking love it so much. I took King of Fools off
51:47
somewhere between heaven and hell.
51:51
No. No.
51:54
Killed me to cut it, but I cut it.
51:56
I neutered it. Can't save it.
51:59
Can't save your friend. Yeah.
52:02
All right. Wow.
52:04
I know, right? It's just, it's just that.
52:06
It just is, Brian. I don't know where to go.
52:12
I'm just gonna go from the top of my list.
52:15
Now how about It's the law. Yeah, got it.
52:20
No. Good, right?
52:22
No. All right, it's law is a three
52:33
Brian and Corey. All right, Sorry I lost you.
52:38
I lost you guys again for a minute.
52:39
What was? It's the law.
52:40
It's. It's the law.
52:42
No, I did not have that one. OK.
52:44
Yeah, I figured you didn't have it.
52:45
You said that that you only had one track off that record.
52:48
Right. Who are the three people that
52:50
had it? Myself, Corey and Brian.
52:54
OK, thanks. Yep, and I only got I still got
52:58
3 left. OK, right.
53:01
Yeah, Anderson. I'm also starting to run out.
53:12
How about I won't run no more? No.
53:16
No. No.
53:18
No. Just the disappointment in all
53:22
of our voices. I won't run.
53:31
Wait, why is that one not coming up?
53:38
All right, John. Crown of Thorns, no.
53:46
No, no, Yeah. Hey, OK.
53:50
No. Another two.
53:57
Yep, another two, another 2. X.
54:07
What was I won't run no more on. Yeah.
54:11
Seventh album. OK, All right.
54:20
I must not have listened to that because it.
54:22
I'm not finding it, but it's not.
54:24
Coming up on my list. Yeah, no worries.
54:30
I mean, chances are it could have gone in the bin anyway.
54:33
All right, so we're back to me. Hey, what do I got 123?
54:41
I'll start at the top. How about she's a knockout?
54:45
No. Negative.
54:47
No, Nope. No.
54:49
Wow. All right, All right, Corey.
54:58
I know we're getting to the end of the rounds, but I had to
55:00
mention this song. I fucking love it off sex, love
55:03
and rock'n'roll nickels and Dimes.
55:05
No. No, no.
55:09
Yeah, I was pissing in the wind there, admittedly all.
55:15
Right, Gavin? I'm going to join you in the
55:20
bin. I I had to take the closer off
55:22
Mommy's little monster. I took moral threat.
55:25
Oh, great song, but I don't have it.
55:28
Same. Almost.
55:31
Almost took it. I've got it.
55:33
I'll save you. Hey, hey, my closer, my closer
55:37
buddy. All right, Gavin and John and
55:45
then Brian. OK, I think we're hit.
55:49
I think we're hit one. How about sick boys?
55:53
Yeah. Yes, new.
55:57
I did not, dude. Late cut, yeah.
56:00
I can. Love it.
56:01
Yep, Yep. That's a 2.
56:06
Yeah. All right, Anderson.
56:10
Oh, so no more unanimous or possible.
56:14
So what did we land on 4? 4 Bryan's.
56:18
Bryan's going to win. Oh, Jesus.
56:23
It's not Brian. OK, I'm going to take one more
56:32
shot at hard times and nursery rhymes and I'm still alive.
56:37
Very good, no? No negative, negative all.
56:44
Right, John. All right, I've only got 2 left,
56:49
so how about so far away? Got it.
56:56
Nice. No.
56:59
So Corey and John, all right. Is everybody else out or I mean,
57:10
how close is everybody? I have 4:00.
57:14
I have 4:00. Well.
57:19
OK, I got 6 left somehow. Nuts.
57:26
All right, I'll just I'll run my 2 here and we'll see if one he
57:32
has either of these. I had to.
57:35
It was 1 I knew, but it is a great song.
57:38
How about Reach for the Sky? Yep.
57:42
No. No.
57:45
No. And I'll take a two there, man.
57:48
That's all right. And then last but not least for
57:52
me, Machine Gun Blues. Oh, no, yeah.
57:57
I got. No, yeah, I don't have it, but
58:02
it hung around a long time. OK, I'll take a two there.
58:06
So that is me out, Gavin is out and Corey has like 5 left.
58:13
Wildly Yeah, dude, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing over
58:17
here. Yeah, I do now because you took
58:19
out Reach out the sky for me. So yeah, all.
58:22
Right, so. Shall I dump?
58:25
Yes. Yeah.
58:27
All right, off Mommy's little monster indulgence off.
58:32
All right, off prison, bound on my nerves.
58:40
No, no. Off self-titled Let it Be Me No.
58:47
No. White light, white heat, White
58:50
trash. Dear lover.
58:54
Nope. Nope.
58:56
And off sex, love and rock'n'roll, don't take me for
58:59
granted. No, no.
59:02
No. All right, so now I'm out.
59:06
Corey's out. Gavin's out.
59:10
All right, Brian. I have bye bye baby.
59:17
Nope. No.
59:20
Got to know the rules. Nope.
59:24
Nope. And winners.
59:27
And losers. No.
59:32
No. All right, a slight chance at
59:38
making this a little Harry Anderson.
59:42
Very by chance, Ghost town Blues.
59:47
No. And down on the world again.
59:52
Nope. Great fucking song.
59:56
And I wasn't born to follow. No.
1:00:01
And the last one I went off script because the rules are
1:00:05
there are no rules and I took far behind off the greatest hits
1:00:08
far. No.
1:00:13
Behind and mark that as Anderson.
1:00:18
All right, just for fun, John, what do you got left?
1:00:21
Last but not least, a place in my heart.
1:00:23
Nice. Yeah.
1:00:27
Very good. We covered a lot of ground here.
1:00:33
Yeah, really? What, Didn't we play shit?
1:00:36
Jeez. This bin is insane. 57 songs
1:00:41
covered today between. All of us.
1:00:45
Wow. Damn.
1:00:47
That is almost a 20 each. Like weird.
1:00:50
There was a lot of separation here all right, but but we did
1:00:53
get 4 through unanimously. That means Brian is going to win
1:00:56
the final say here. The four that are already in
1:00:59
another state of mind, Bad luck, Born to lose Story of my life
1:01:03
are in I mean, I'm inclined to say we we take these fives
1:01:08
because they were just about, you know, just about unanimous.
1:01:12
We've got I was wrong prison bound and ball and chain.
1:01:16
Does anybody want to put up a fight against any of those 3?
1:01:20
Yeah. You do want to put up a fight
1:01:23
or. Yeah, the only one that I would
1:01:28
fight against as I was wrong. Like, I don't love that song as
1:01:32
much as everybody else. I really like the lyrics of it
1:01:35
because it's a cool recovery song, but like, I don't know.
1:01:39
I don't know. There's so many good fucking
1:01:42
reason or I don't know, but if everybody else is like loving
1:01:48
that song, then that's cool. Yeah, I think it goes in.
1:01:55
I mean, I had it, but I can be talked in into, you know,
1:02:00
another, another, another route. But I mean, I think the other
1:02:04
two for sure, if we're going to go to, I mean, fives are
1:02:07
basically unanimous in any other episode, you know?
1:02:10
Yeah. We only have one four.
1:02:11
It's not like we have a bunch of fours that are right behind.
1:02:14
Us right? Yeah, but then it gets a little
1:02:17
jammed up anyway. Yeah, I mean, ball and chain, I
1:02:21
should've. I mean, I just didn't have room
1:02:22
for it. That song, to me, is the turning
1:02:24
point of their career. It's like, absolutely.
1:02:27
Everything changed for them. It's a fucking great song.
1:02:30
You know, it's fucking great. And we don't have anything off
1:02:33
off prison bound, which we used to call LA prison bound.
1:02:36
But that's a great song that should go in.
1:02:39
I I I'm fine with I was wrong. It's just, I just, it wouldn't
1:02:42
ever make my list as like one of their greatest songs.
1:02:44
OK, so this is what I'm hearing and Brian and Anderson, you can
1:02:50
chime in on this. To me, it sounds like prison
1:02:52
bound and ball and chain are in. I was wrong as slotting down to
1:02:56
conversation. It has to fight it, fight its
1:02:58
way in. I was wrong as going to make
1:03:04
this list no matter what because if you guys don't take it, I'm
1:03:07
putting it in. Let's go I.
1:03:13
Just wanted to test and see if there were strong feelings about
1:03:15
it. Sounds like people really love
1:03:16
it so I'm cool with it. I'm cool with it.
1:03:19
What? Do you think Anderson?
1:03:24
I mean, if we got to drop one of the hits, it's probably that
1:03:27
one. But do we got to drop one of the
1:03:30
hits? You know.
1:03:34
I don't think so. All right, so, yeah, I mean,
1:03:39
they put up more of a fight. Like I know you've said you're
1:03:42
OK with it, Gavin, but have you heard enough?
1:03:47
Like was wasn't that response enough?
1:03:50
OK, so let's just. All right, let's take all three
1:03:52
then. That brings us up to seven.
1:03:56
So the Four is Mommy's little monster.
1:03:59
Oh yeah, that has to go in. Yeah, no, no doubt.
1:04:04
So Corey and Brian were out on that.
1:04:07
Any reservations on Mommy's little Monster going through?
1:04:11
Oh no, dude, that was, I mean, it made my first pass, so it
1:04:14
was, I mean, it got caught. I mean, I have no qualms with
1:04:16
that shit whatsoever. Yeah.
1:04:18
No, I'm. I'm fine with that.
1:04:21
That gets a So now we've only got 2 left, two spots left.
1:04:25
So here's the threes. Mass hysteria, the creeps.
1:04:29
It's the law when the angels sing.
1:04:32
It could have been me. Don't drag me down.
1:04:35
Corey. Is there one of those threes
1:04:36
that's really kind of jumping out at you?
1:04:39
It's when the angels sing for me personally, but I mean, I I love
1:04:42
them all, but if I had, if I had to take one through, it would be
1:04:46
that one. What do you think, Gavin?
1:04:49
Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean, I think we don't have
1:04:53
anything off that record. I I think it's AI think it's
1:04:56
like kind of the way that they went with these mature, like
1:04:58
kind of rock songs. I I think it's really great.
1:05:02
Like that's that would be my choice from the threes that are
1:05:05
left, even though fuck dude. I mean, mass hysteria is so
1:05:09
killer. Yeah, dude.
1:05:11
That that. Was going to be my so great.
1:05:14
Like, shit, I mean, we have so many songs in the bin because
1:05:19
it's such a they're, it's just there's so many good songs, you
1:05:22
know? I mean, I could pause at this.
1:05:25
We could we could do when the angels sing and mass hysteria
1:05:29
that brings us to 9 and then that gives Brian final say no
1:05:35
that. Would give us to 10.
1:05:36
Yeah, we already have 1234560. Yeah.
1:05:41
Yeah, shit. Because of the the four that
1:05:46
went in. Yeah, but I'm still thrown in.
1:05:49
Let's. Take off I was wrong.
1:05:51
Put those two in and he can take.
1:05:52
I was wrong like you said. I mean.
1:05:57
I would I would also take mass hysteria for my final plink if I
1:06:01
had. To nice.
1:06:03
I mean that, yeah, that sounds like we we have compromise.
1:06:07
Like it sounds like when the Angel sing goes in and then
1:06:10
Brian takes mass hysteria as final say.
1:06:13
Thick. I mean, I don't want to force
1:06:15
anybody's hand, but like I it seems like the the most
1:06:18
agreeable route. Yeah, I mean, dude, I cosigned
1:06:22
that personally. I mean, look, I I didn't have
1:06:24
anything on mainliner. I didn't bring it into the
1:06:26
conversation that didn't make my last 20, but that was strictly
1:06:30
because there's so much shit in those middle records that I just
1:06:35
didn't bring it through. It wasn't because of Get that
1:06:37
out of here. Not at all.
1:06:39
So fuck dude, I'm fine with it. All right.
1:06:41
Any reservations on that, Anderson?
1:06:45
No, I'm good with it. Let's do it then I mean again,
1:06:48
not the force anybody's hand, but like that sounds like the
1:06:50
most agreeable route forward. All right, so can you make it
1:06:56
official? Brian, what is your final say
1:06:58
I'm. Going to pull something out of a
1:07:00
bin? No, it's going to be.
1:07:04
Mass hysteria, all right. I mean well within your rights
1:07:09
to do it, but I think you would have a bunch of people.
1:07:14
All right, all right, let me shift this around and read this
1:07:19
down and we will turn up the heat.
1:07:24
All right, 10 through. Boom, another state of mind, Bad
1:07:28
luck, born to lose, story of my life.
1:07:30
I was wrong. Prison bound ball and chain,
1:07:32
Mommy's little monster, Mass hysteria and when the angels
1:07:35
sing Corey. When I read down that list of
1:07:38
10, which one is the one? Let's fuck, man.
1:07:46
I mean, sentimentally, I go born to lose because that kind of
1:07:53
brought me here. But I mean, there's bad luck
1:07:58
too. I mean, I know that that was all
1:08:00
over MTV back in the day. I mean, but again, another state
1:08:04
of mind fucking rocks as well. I God damn man, I'm going to
1:08:09
just say Born to lose. OK.
1:08:10
What do you think, Gavin? Yeah, I don't know where to go
1:08:14
with this. It's like I'm thinking about the
1:08:16
end of the year. I'm thinking about appealing to
1:08:18
just kind of like a social. True.
1:08:21
Broad appeal, right? You know what I'm saying?
1:08:23
Like they can they can touch on people like you guys were saying
1:08:27
in the beginning from lots of different classic rock people
1:08:30
fucking like this band, punks like this band, like whatever,
1:08:35
like rockabilly people like this band.
1:08:38
Like so I don't like if I was going like I thought about Born
1:08:43
to Lose. If I was going broad appeal, I
1:08:45
might take like story of my life, but if I was like, fuck
1:08:49
it, let's just get fucking weird take like fucking mass hysteria
1:08:54
or something. You're getting greedy with that
1:08:57
mass hysteria, brother. I know.
1:09:05
Brian, what do you think? Which one is it?
1:09:09
I don't know, I usually like taking the ones that were
1:09:12
unanimous for the top, especially in a panel of 6,
1:09:15
because I'm like, if all six of us agreed on something, then
1:09:19
we're able to get the the like best of people to agree to it or
1:09:23
we're going to get. The those guys are at random.
1:09:26
Here. So like part of me is saying it
1:09:34
should be Born to lose, at least I think.
1:09:37
I think because Story of My Life is so popular and like everyone
1:09:41
knows it already. So if you heard Story of My Life
1:09:44
and you didn't say I need to listen to this whole band, but
1:09:47
one, there's something wrong with you.
1:09:48
But two, like, like, you know, maybe try to get him with
1:09:53
something else. So it would be like, I don't
1:09:56
know, I'm kind of with Born to. Lose.
1:09:59
OK. Where you at on this Anderson?
1:10:03
I got to be different. I'm looking at prison Bound.
1:10:08
Yeah, I think that's a mix between the first two albums and
1:10:12
the last five. That's a good one, too.
1:10:16
It it puts that, it puts that Johnny Cash feeling right out
1:10:19
there. So I feel like I'm going to
1:10:23
pitch it to John and he's going to call us all crazy because
1:10:26
it's this like this feels like that kind of band.
1:10:30
What do you what do you think, John?
1:10:33
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's another state of mind.
1:10:38
Yeah, I'm with that going. I you know, I don't part of me
1:10:45
wants to say let's go chalk story of my life, right?
1:10:48
Like I know it's chalk, but it's chalk for a reason.
1:10:51
It it's proven to be chalk because we all took it.
1:10:56
I can easily be sold on born to lose or another state of mind.
1:11:00
I mean, I'm not like, it literally probably could be any
1:11:05
of these 10 and I don't think we'd be wrong.
1:11:09
So another state of mind has been posited, Corey.
1:11:15
Is, is this like something that you really want to fight for or
1:11:19
is it really it could be any of these 10?
1:11:22
No, dude, nothing here would offend me whatsoever.
1:11:28
So I mean, I'm fine with it. I'd, I'd be fine with it, man.
1:11:31
There's nothing here that I mean, everything here is
1:11:33
awesome, man. So it's kind of pick your poison
1:11:36
all. Right.
1:11:38
What do you think, Gavin? Yeah, I'll take another state of
1:11:41
mind. That's a wild one, because it's
1:11:42
cool. I mean, so for your, you may
1:11:45
have people that are like Justin, like, Oh yeah, I like so
1:11:48
so, but they never heard that early shit, you know what I
1:11:50
mean? So it's kind of a new you're,
1:11:52
you're, you're showing them a new part of the band.
1:11:55
I'm with that. What do you think, Brian?
1:11:59
Yeah, it's definitely a new part of the band like that.
1:12:01
You know, obviously that album doesn't have the production that
1:12:06
the later records have. It's it's way more raw and it
1:12:11
sounds like he's it sounds like it was recorded like in a tiny
1:12:14
club. You know, it it it's it's not
1:12:18
clean and crisp like the other records.
1:12:21
So maybe, you know, you know, you know, maybe it does appeal
1:12:24
to a different, you know, group that, you know, might have
1:12:27
avoided Social Distortion because they were, you know,
1:12:31
thought to be like a commercial success or something, you know?
1:12:38
We think you know. I I.
1:12:42
You on board for another state of mind?
1:12:45
I mean, I think it comes down to what we're trying to present
1:12:49
them as. If if we're leaning into the
1:12:52
punk, that's absolutely the right answer.
1:12:54
If we're going to the rock side, probably not as much.
1:13:00
But it was my first pick so I'm fine with it.
1:13:05
All right. I always do like going with
1:13:07
something that was unanimous. So on a six person panel, the
1:13:11
fact that we were able to do that four times is always is
1:13:14
pretty impressive. So let's go with another state
1:13:18
of mind. Let's lock that in and I will
1:13:22
run this down one last go and we will get on out of here.
1:13:26
Another state of mind is going to be our number one bad luck
1:13:29
born to lose story in my life. I was wrong.
1:13:31
Prison bound ball and chain mommy's little monster mass
1:13:34
hysteria when the Angel sing round out our ten With that
1:13:39
let's see that another state of mind get a moment in the sun.
1:13:50
Boom, we have done it. We did all the work, hard work
1:13:53
for you for real this time. And also, look, man, if you like
1:14:01
this, like I get it, people are going to say that we're wrong,
1:14:06
but like when you really think about it, are we, you just heard
1:14:10
what, what, what, how this broke down.
1:14:13
I, I don't think there was a way we were coming out with a wrong
1:14:16
10. So you can disagree and that's
1:14:19
fine. Tell me which songs you would
1:14:21
pick but like, and I will say you're right, but I will not
1:14:25
concede that we're wrong because we're not.
1:14:27
But we also are. So it's, it's a wild
1:14:31
conversation happening here. But yeah, we've done it.
1:14:34
We've turned you into social defense.
1:14:35
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