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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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Welcome to Viber Cuts, Beats and fives.
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We're a father to daughter music podcast that slices into some of
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the greatest albums, one cut at a time.
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With no industry ties or formal training, just a shared love of
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music, we explore albums across genres, writing favourites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hey everybody, I'm Riley.
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And I'm Todd, and welcome to this week's episode of Barbara
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Cuts. We are going back to 1967 Aretha
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Franklin. I never loved a man the way I
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love you. So here we are, Miss Franklin.
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Let's get into it. Riley, what are your least
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favorites on this soul classic? My least favorite.
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This is another one of those where it seems kind of wrong to
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say least favorite, but here. We I know well that was that was
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the thing. But I narrowed it down to two
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all. Right, what you got?
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That was a funny way of reading that.
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One of them was Doctor Feel Good.
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OK. It just wasn't my favorite.
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Nothing special to really say about either of these, but on a
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stacked album it just wasn't one of my favourites.
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Also I feel like this one the like a lot of her songs, and we
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can talk about this more later, were pretty independent for the
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times like feminist and like Anti.
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Like there was songs about sadness and loneliness, but like
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there were also songs of strength and like not needing to
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rely on anyone else. Like it was a balance of that.
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And this one just kind of felt out of place.
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It seems like more of just a generic, I don't I don't need
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anyone 'cause I got my man and it just is out of place compared
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to some of the other ones to me that had a like bigger emotion
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to it. But then the other least
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favorite was do right woman, do right man.
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This one I liked the message of. I thought it was, I mean it,
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clever. Just like if you expect me to do
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it, you do it too. Roll like rolls, reverse.
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You can't expect something of me unless you get it from you,
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unless I get it from you. And I liked it.
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But again, this one to me was a little bit less.
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I don't know how to word it. It's a little slower, like the
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other ones had, a little bit more like that I could bop my
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head to, whereas this one was powerful like in her voice, but
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it just didn't capture me the same way.
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Like her songs can be so capturing and this one just
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didn't capture me. Yeah, so immediately.
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Yeah, and and again, kind of gone back to what are.
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Excuse me, what are your least favourites on this soul classic?
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Like, you know, like, like Marvin Gaye, like when you get
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to this level of like one of the one of an album that that most
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people consider one of the best soul albums or, or one of the
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greatest album, like, yeah, who am I to say a song's not good or
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even a least favorite, you know? But in in this particular one
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where you start the album with respect, almost everything then
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gets measured to that, unfortunately.
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So, you know, I get it. My, my, my two were just like
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one of them was don't let me lose this dream and good times
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was the other one. Again, nothing against them like
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the good times has got a great guitar lick that goes through
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it, but they both they both felt like just a normal kind of I
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don't want to say run-of-the-mill, but nil because
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they were still so good, but your normal soul classic song,
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especially when you're coming off at the start of the album of
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respect. So those those were those were
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my 2 if, if again, if I've if I've got a name name too for me.
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So favorites. Oh, oh, oh, I'll get it out of
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the way. You can't.
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I mean, come on now, it has to be.
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I can't go against the grain because like it's one of those
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that I think no matter what genre of music you like, you
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like this song like it's impossible.
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Like I, I genuinely haven't met someone who has been like, I
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don't like that song like you just kind of do.
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And I her her voice on it is good.
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But also the I love the history of the song where it was
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originally like a man singing it to his wife.
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It was a Redding. Otis Redding.
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Otis Redding. And Aretha Franklin turned it
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around and was like, Nope. And it became like an empowering
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song to a lot of women when originally it was kind of more
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impressive, oppressive. But even Otis Redding was like,
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it's her song now. Like at one point, he even
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admitted that he's like, it's not my song anymore.
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And everyone credits to her because you have to like, you
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hear this version and there's no other version you can compare it
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to. It's a perfect song.
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Yeah. It's such a perfect song.
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None whatsoever, you know, and, and the difference is because
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this is one of mine too, so we can just kind of talk about it.
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She she added in that spelling, the RESPEC team, the icon, one
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of the iconic parts of the song. So it's like, OK, not only did
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she turn it so well, she added in the part that everybody knows
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and everybody quotes and I'm like, OK.
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Yeah, it's her song. Yeah, it's her song.
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It's an incredible song. And, you know, as I was sitting
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there, it's like, you know, Otis Redding's got this song in from
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65 and he's like, hey, you know, I want some, I want some respect
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when I come home and, you know, whatever.
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And, and OK, Aretha turns around and says, I, I want some respect
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too. And so we've actually learned a
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valuable life lesson here. Respect is mutual and mutually
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earned. Which she.
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Also talks about and do right woman, do right man.
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Just say I get respect because I'm the man.
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You can't get it because you say I'm the one.
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Like it is a mutual thing. So yes.
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And find out what it means to me.
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To yeah, so you know, there there we go.
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So what a what a what a great song.
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One of you know, like respect or you you say RESPECT like you
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spelt like that's that's one. Again, no matter what genre you
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are a fan of, you know this song.
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You know this version of the song.
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Well, I remember. You may not love it, but like,
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you know that that portion of the lyric, like it's, it's that
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iconic. Well, that's I remember when
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Aretha Franklin passed away, I was like, oh, I don't know who
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that is. And y'all were like, yeah, you
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do. And like, even when I was
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younger, I still knew that. Like, to me, this is one of
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those, I don't know if anyone else experiences this, but
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sometimes there are songs that like, even when you hear it for
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the first time, you're like, oh, I know this song.
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Deep in my bones. I know the song.
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And respect to me is one of those like, I feel like I never
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heard it for the first time. It just was there, Yeah.
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It's just that level of iconic. To me, yeah, yeah.
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Because so many people say it, so many people do it.
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Like a lot of times even walking around it, somebody will say
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mention the word respect and inevitably somebody around will
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probably go RESPECT. Like it just, it just is what it
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is. And.
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Just transcends. That's, that's, that's you, you
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and I agree. You can't listen to this album
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and have it start that way and go, yeah, that's that's not a
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that's a nasty song to start a album with.
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I mean, you know, so in, in a, in a way it's unfortunate for
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all the other songs because I'm like, yeah, we starting off and
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then and then the others, you unfairly say, OK, was it as good
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as respect? And, and you know, they're,
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they're each good in their own rights.
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Yeah. But hard not to go.
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Yeah, OK, maybe not as good as that one.
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OK. So it's unfortunate.
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All right. What's your what's your other?
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What's your other favorite? Well, we keep talking about how
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great the first song was. My other favorite song is the
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second song. Oh her immediately John in my
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own tears vocally is like I was driving a loan in my car and
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like went like to myself because of how insane this song is.
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It has the perfect little amount of like that almost jazz vibe in
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the background, like the just, and it's just incredible, an
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incredible song. And so then I fell into the, I
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compared every song to the 1st 2 songs.
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Everything was just like, Oh my gosh, those are incredible
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songs. And all of them measured in
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different ways. But to go from such a high
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energy song like respect to really kind of stripping it down
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and hearing the the like respect, you get the power in
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her voice, but you get it in a very different way.
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I think Drown in My Tears. You get the power of like
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emotion in her voice and she has these beautiful runs, this
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vibrato that's so it just draws you in it.
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It feels, I mean, it just kind of feels like a big hug for your
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ears. It's just a wonderful feeling to
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listen to this song. I I can't explain it either way.
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It's just such a joy to be able to listen to a voice like this.
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Like genuinely so drown in my own tears became my other
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favorite and it just keeps. I just wanted to sit there and
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listen to her voice the entire time.
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It's such a good voice but respect and drown in my own
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tears. What a start to this album,
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truly. No, no doubt.
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So you know, one of mine was respect already talked about
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that. My other one or I was down to 2.
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So I'm going to name both of them because one of them was a
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change is going to come. So we talked about respect.
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You talked about drowning on tears.
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A change is going to come. I'm going to play a little bit
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of it is man, what a what a way to end an album.
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And I just want to play at least the the beginning of it because
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you got this again, showcasing her voice.
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And then I was. Mercy, I mean chills.
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And but that's that's not the one that I went with because I
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really like that one. But it's a cover.
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And so I was like, OK, I'm going to do this other one, which
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again, I probably couldn't plan it if we tried.
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It's the third song of the album.
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It's. Every song is good, we just can
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keep comparing every song. The last one.
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So I never loved a man the way I love you.
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It's the namesake of the album. You know, you're a no good
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heartbreaker, a liar to cheat out.
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I don't know why. Like, oh, mercy, like you know,
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and I mean, you almost just don't have words, you know, So
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we get to this we get to this part.
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That's a really cool because there's every time she says the
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name of the song and here it is. It goes acapella every every
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time. And so one of the ones that I'm
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a playing air is the the last time that it does it, I think.
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And then we get to hear the range of her voice.
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So you've got that slow sultry or low sultry in that acapella
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range, which she's singing with her sisters.
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And then you get this powerful voice that just all of a sudden
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knocks you out of your out of your seat.
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And here it is. Let's see.
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And here's the acapella. And so now and some, this is the
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part here to where she gets up high and, you know,
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I mean, like, oh, mercy, she's just so good.
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Like you said, the run she does. Just you could sit here and
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listen to her voice because each song seems to showcase it in a
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different new way. Again, whether it be low,
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whether it be high, whether it be just a growling type of thing
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or something that's so clean. It is just what a what a what a
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listen. So why should people listen to
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this album? I guess let's do, let's do two
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things. One, you some of these albums
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that we've done, you may not have known who they were.
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You know, the first one that pops in head is, is Arcade Fire.
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OK, you may not have ever heard of Arcade Fire or The Smiths or
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some of these other albums that we've done that have been really
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good in their own right. But some of them, The Beatles,
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Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin is on that same level of name
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recognition. If for no other reason, it's
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Aretha Franklin like Queen of Soul, twice named by Rolling
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Stone, is the greatest singer of all time. 18 Grammys Grammy
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living legend, lifetime achievement, National Male of
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Arts, Presidential Medal of Free Medal of Freedom, first female
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artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, plus many
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others that I didn't write down. OK, you, you have to go listen
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to A and probably Grammarly, grammatically correct Aretha
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Franklin album. You have to Yeah.
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So yeah, let's get let's get that part out of the way.
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Yeah, I agree, put some respect on her name.
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Oh, I see what you did there, RESPETT.
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Thank you. Man makes the dad cry.
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So why? Why why?
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Why this one? Well, I mean, this one is like
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you, you call her the Queen of Soul.
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That's what people know her as. And this is really the one that
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cemented that for her. It's not her first album.
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She had quite a lot of albums, she was pumping out music, but
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this one really set in what her influence would be on the music
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industry. And it was the first one with
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the new record label or producers.
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It's the new the new label. Yes, and they let her be her and
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that was the smartest decision ever because I mean, she is
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incredible. I I think.
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For know when to get out of the way and let somebody do their
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thing. Yes.
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And and know that it's always that option with Aresa Franklin.
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Yes, yes. I think what is so special to me
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about this album is really how a lot of the songs can be.
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I, I was saying this a little bit earlier, a lot of the songs
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can be focused on like a man or like a love or being sad.
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And yet when listening to it, it never feels like a pining woman
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role that she's playing. It still feels very empowered or
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empowering and and there are songs that are just pure
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empowerment, like a change is going to come is is an anthem
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song, even if it's a cover, It's phenomenal.
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Respect is like a lot of these. Do you write do do you write
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woman? Do you write man are are more
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empowering. But even like drowning my own
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tears and I never loved a man. I don't read it as like this
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sad, helpless girl. I read it as like a.
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A woman demanding more from that relationship.
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I never loved a man. It's like, why are you hurting
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me like this? Like I don't deserve this.
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Like what the crap? I'm better than that.
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Like it. It's it always seems that no
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matter what she's feeling, she knows her worth.
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And I, I love that. I think that's beautiful.
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And I think it's even more beautiful given the time that it
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was to have that assuredness of yourself at a time when you were
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facing so much like just awful things happening in history.
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I think is incredible. And it's a beautiful thing to
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look at a beautiful role model for that purpose and for
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everything on. And also, I always said this, I
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it is such, and this may be being cheesy or my philosophy
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minor coming out, but like, what a joy it is to be able to listen
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to someone's voice like this. Like what a joy it is to be able
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to hear a voice of a generation, one of the best vocalist of all
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time, like the best female vocalist of all time, whatever,
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like incredible. It is a privilege to be able to
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listen to her voice and that she shared it.
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Like that is you just kind of feel this just overwhelming
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gratitude listening to this album of like, Oh my gosh, yeah,
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this is insane. And I get to hear it and I get
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to share a part in it. And that was for me, there was
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any time I listened to this album, I wanted to focus on it.
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I didn't want to just, like, have it on in the background.
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I really wanted to listen because I I think her voice
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demands attention. Like, you can't just have it on
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in the background. Like, it gives you chills.
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Every song on here gave me chills at some point.
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Like it is a demanding listen. Yeah, yeah, I I agree.
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And and and it is one of those things where it's got A and and
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again, you know, the the I didn't know some of them were
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were covers, but. And I say that as a as a
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compliment because they're Aretha's songs.
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You. Know.
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Because she is like, they're synonymous with that voice, you
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know? And, and we've talked about
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respect, Like why, why listen this album because of that song.
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Yeah. Like just start with that song.
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No, OK, Yep, you're going to, you're going to put them all up
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to that song. And and while they may not hit
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the level of that song, I'll grant you that they are pretty
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damn good. So like, you know, they're,
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they're not as far off as as, as what you may think they are.
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I mean we literally just showcased we were like it's hard
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to compare anything to respect. Then we followed up the 2
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immediately following songs who were like it's hard to follow
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those up. And I feel like both of us could
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keep doing that down and down. The album of just keep on going
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and saying hard to follow that one up.
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It's just. All right, so let's see what's
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what's next in this? Anything else on the album
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before we go move on? I don't think.
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So no, it's, it's, you know, I, I feel like almost that it seems
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like we're rushing through it in in my head, but yet I, I don't,
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how do I put this like other other albums that we've listened
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to, especially like like last week is Soundgarden and and
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super unknown. I think that album is great, but
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yet I feel like I'm trying to convince people to go listen to
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it, whereas in this one I'm I'm like, I can't convince.
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Like you shouldn't need convincing to listen.
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To this album. Like.
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It's. Aretha Franklin.
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And it's got the song Respect on it.
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Yeah. Next, let's move on.
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Like that should be all that anybody needs to it to take.
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Well, how long is it? Let me see.
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I'm on Spotify here. So on Spotify, at least it it
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says it's 14 songs, but 1213 and 14 are the radio versions of
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Respect. I never loved a man the way I
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love you and do right woman, do right man.
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So OK, you don't have to listen to those.
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So 12 songs less than 40 minutes, That's not much.
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No. And again, Aretha Franklin, it's
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got the song respect on it. I mean, seems like the easiest.
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Why should you listen to this album we've ever done?
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Yeah, that's I feel like we'll just keep going in circles.
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Saying so, I feel like I feel bad moving on, but yet like I I
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can't say too much more about it other than don't.
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Don't be silly. Don't be silly.
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Yeah, so. Don't, don't pass up.
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Yeah. Dumb.
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Don't pass it up. So best, best beaten bar.
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Here we are Riley. What's the what's the best
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lyric? So I know it's not this one is a
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cover of a song, but it felt wrong to choose a lyric not from
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a change is going to come. What a beautiful song.
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First of all, with her voice, you hear the emotion and like
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the passion, but it is an anthem song and it is a, a beautiful
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anthem song and really an anthem song for the civil rights
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movement and everything that was going on.
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And I, I'm so glad you played this.
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It's beautiful. Got chills the first time, got
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chills the second time like. Yes, you.
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I don't think I can listen to any of these songs without
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getting chills, but I loved the end to the song.
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Cutting to like her pure voice. Oh, just listen then I'll read
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them back because I can't do that.
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I can't talk over. And it fades out.
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But for to sum that up, it was sometimes I've had to cry all
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night long. Sometimes I had to give up right
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for what I knew was wrong. It's been an uphill journey.
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I'm sure it's been a long way coming.
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It's been real hard every step of the way.
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But I believe this evening my change has come.
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And that is just such a powerful part.
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And I, I think it's beautiful. A lot of times anthem songs
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don't really touch on the, the hardship of it.
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They just focus on like the we got it done, we're going to get
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it done side of things. And to start out like an anthem,
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like an empowering song with I've had to cry, like I've had
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to struggle. I've been on my knees.
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I've had to give up right and do wrong even though I knew it was
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wrong, like not beautifying any of what was going on, but saying
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regardless of all of that, it's been hard.
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It sucked. I hate it.
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I know my change is coming. It's such a good song and you
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hear it in her voice. You hear that strength even in
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in it all and it's just incredible.
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And I feel like those lyrics have strength on their own, but
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I think they were given that much more strength by her
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rendition and her emotion in it. Yeah, I agree.
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And so just to just to let everybody know and and give
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props to the original songwriter, Sam Cooke.
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And again, you mentioned that it was an anthem for the civil
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rights movement. You know, he he wrote that song
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after he and his wife tried to check into a white only motel
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and we're turned away. And you know, a, a, a hopeful,
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you know, you get to the like a change is going to come.
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Like surely like that, that I believe, I believe a change like
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there's a there seems to be, you know, at at at least me saying,
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yes, I am. I am white.
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I get it. And we're years and years and
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years past from 1964 when this happened or when the song was
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released. You know, the hope that I see in
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the lyrics at least it is just insane in the original song.
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But then to to take all of that and put her voice on it, man,
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man, that's that's something else.
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So best beat. So, you know, a lot of times
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I'll go into this saying I'm going to cheat because a lot of
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times I say that somebody's voice can be an instrument and
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so her voice is the best beat like.
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Yeah, this one I'll give you. Her voice is an instrument.
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So no, no, no, no disrespect to the musicians because like, if
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it was just her voice, it wouldn't I, it wouldn't be as
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good. It's still be really good.
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But man, you know, you, you've we've we've played the opening
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of of a change of we'll see. What is it?
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A change is going to come and then let's see baby, baby, baby.
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Let's see. Let me get.
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Let's see how we go to the end of the song here.
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Oh my goodness. So that's her voice, right?
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OK. Yeah.
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That, that is really the best beat, light, best musical part.
31:20
It is her voice. OK, Yeah, that being said, I'll
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give you some music. I've already played it and it's
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the opening of the album title title song that I never loved a
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man the way I love you. And it's I'll play as soon as I
31:37
get describing it, but it's just that electric organ that has
31:41
this bluesy soul like man. And and then her voice comes in,
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which just adds to the ambiance that the music has already
31:57
started. So the the opening of I never
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loved a man the way I love you, I mean.
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And then her voice, and then her.
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Voice like you know you got that little what seems to me a simple
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little riff on that on that what I electric organ which is nice
32:31
and already get you in that like Oh yeah we're we're grooving Oh
32:38
my and then she starts singing and and it just adds adds to it
32:42
so. I think in this case, she is one
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of the biggest examples of like a voice.
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She used her voice like an instrument.
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Like, she used it so much more than a lot of vocalists do.
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So if you ever were going to make the argument that someone's
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voice should be classified as an instrument, Aretha Franklin's
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one of the people to go to. Yes, I I agree.
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And and because she is so good, so iconic, so distinguishable,
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man, it is, it is crazy. I don't even want to like, I
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think other artists that we've listened to have done it.
33:22
I even go like just to last week.
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Chris Cornell was good at that. Not not like Aretha, like Nope.
33:30
No, it's a different. Nope.
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Nope. Different ballpark.
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So, you know, I don't, I don't even want to have anybody think
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I'm putting them in the same category.
33:41
I do think other people do it. Well, I think the difference.
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Listen to this album and you're like, oh, that is definitely a
33:51
voice. One of the differences to me and
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like, like especially with like last week, because we kept
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saying Chris Cornell, vocalist of a generation, like one of the
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best vocalist of the generation, all of that stuff like he is
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incredible. But when you get to Aretha, it's
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like she's one of the best. She's the like in the contending
34:10
for best vocalist of all time, and I don't think she's getting
34:13
topped. Like that's like the different,
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it's a different ballpark of vocal and it's one that's like
34:20
an objective. Like it's like even if this
34:23
isn't your vibe, like you. You're like, oh.
34:27
You're like, all right, man. You you get respect and and and
34:31
again, respect is another one of those that you've probably heard
34:34
it so many times that it doesn't have the same hit.
34:38
Maybe is. But then, like respect got done
34:43
and I I agree with you drowning. My own tears started and like
34:48
she and I went Oh Oh no, like what is happening here?
34:53
So good. Man, And then the next song
34:55
started to get that. And then she started singing.
34:58
I was like, Oh my goodness, like, is this going to happen in
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every song? Yes it does.
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It will. Maybe not at the beginning, but
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it definitely happens every single song.
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So be prepared for for that. So it's Aretha Franklin.
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Go listen to the album. All right, Our ratings, Riley.
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I mean. What are your ratings?
35:25
Come on, to quote you, it's Aretha Franklin.
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It's 10s, it's 10s because, and here's my thing, will I listen
35:32
to this album every day for the rest of my life 'cause that's
35:34
what I was saying with Arcade Fire.
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When I gave Arcade Fire A10, it was like, I genuinely will
35:38
listen to these songs all the time.
35:40
Like I love them. Will I do that with Aretha
35:42
Franklin? Probably not.
35:44
Is it still a like personally and objectively a perfect song?
35:49
Yes. And I will album, I will argue
35:54
that that is the reason I won't listen to it all the time
35:58
because I was just it. It demands more attention than I
36:01
can necessarily give it all the time.
36:03
I think it would be doing a disservice to this album to
36:06
listen to it while going on a walk or just driving around and
36:09
like not paying attention. You, you, you can't, which is
36:13
why I think it is a perfect album, both objectively and for
36:18
me. Like you just can't touch it.
36:21
Even if you may not listen to it all the time, even if you may
36:25
not even say it's one of your favourites, you just can't touch
36:28
it. Yeah, no, I agree.
36:30
This is again not my genre, not one that I would go to all the
36:35
time, but after listening to like man, this is this is good.
36:41
This is this is real good. Yes.
36:47
So there we are. Hence, yeah, I felt like I
36:50
should keep people denim, convince people, but I don't.
36:56
I mean. It's a Wraith of Franklin.
36:58
Like what? Here.
36:59
Yeah. I mean, I don't need wheat.
37:03
Let's let's you know, I mean, come on, come on, guys, You
37:10
don't need us saying it. You need that.
37:12
That's what you need. And we're trying to get you.
37:16
Give, give her a little, little little respect, you know.
37:19
Yes. So all right, so Next up is
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Songs of the weeks. O Riley, what is your song O the
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Week? OK I'm I'm doing this one but I
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do have another one. Of course you do.
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In honor of Dolly Parton and of Knoxville, we're hurting over
37:52
here in East Tennessee. I, I don't love country music
37:58
and so I've never listened to a lot of Dolly Parton music
38:02
specifically. And I'll, I'll say like, oh,
38:05
it's just not really my style. And then I hear this song come
38:09
on and I become a different person entirely.
38:14
What a fun, what a wonderful song, what a beautiful song.
38:20
I anytime the song comes on, I'm dancing.
38:25
I'm not just bopping my foot. I'm dancing to this song and it
38:30
it gets me every time. It's one of the songs that I
38:33
could be having the worst day of my life and I'm still chamming
38:35
out to this song. If it comes on, I may not be the
38:38
one to turn it on, but I'll keep it on.
38:43
It's a good song. So rest in peace, Dolly Parton.
38:47
Thank you for everything you've done, including nine to five.
38:51
Also, she has a wonderful cover for Rocky Top.
38:53
But I didn't. I thought that would be kind of
38:58
cheating. This is this is true.
39:02
So and. Just so just so everybody knows,
39:06
9 to 5 like that is an album on our list.
39:09
So we'll get into it and we'll we'll be sure to at that
39:14
particular point in time because again, talk about vocalist, talk
39:18
about a music catalog, like all those things.
39:24
Dolly needs to get some flowers and we'll save that for when we
39:27
have and talk about her. Yeah, because we got she'll have
39:31
plenty to talk about as well. For her to be saying that stuff
39:34
about the American lifestyle and like calling it out and
39:38
criticizing it when she was, that's like revolutionary and
39:40
people don't people just bought their head and they're like, oh,
39:43
fun song. And I'm like, she's calling out
39:45
like the American way in such a real way.
39:48
It's it's incredible. So I do have so much respect for
39:52
Dolly A. Sad.
39:53
A sad day for Tennessee UN's country music Dolly fan.
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For everyone. So she was a good person, so.
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She was. What's your other song?
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My other one is a song called Pull me out by Evan Honer.
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More my vibe. Evan honer and medium build.
40:13
I love this song because it's a happy song.
40:18
Semi happy song about long distance.
40:22
Hard to come by and I'm in the trenches.
40:26
But instead of focusing on the long distance the song is, it
40:32
focuses on when they'll see each other in the next time.
40:35
And like planning it and saying like, we only have 24 hours,
40:38
Like let's get all this stuff done.
40:40
And then at the very end of the song, it's like, oh, I can't
40:42
believe we got all this done. And one of the most like
40:45
sweetest little lyrics is like, we're so lucky to have this.
40:48
I'm not going to complain about it.
40:49
Like it's just talking about how happy and focusing on like this,
40:57
the happy parts of it, right? So, so, so for those of you all
41:03
that are listening, only you know, we do virtual.
41:10
So at this point, remember this part and this song and go watch
41:16
the video because you will get to see Riley's happy face.
41:20
Because as we're talking, it is what, 3-4 days till you know
41:30
what, what do we, what do we call him in this episode or in
41:33
this whole thing, you know? The other guy.
41:39
So Andrew's coming into town, and so, you know, by the time
41:43
this drops, he'll be either there already or about to be.
41:48
So Riley is smiling extra big as she thinks about this.
41:53
But I just love the song. I love the appreciate, I
41:56
appreciate the happy side of things.
42:01
And then I also loved at at the very end, it has like like just
42:12
the it's just a fun song about something that's not fun.
42:17
And I do appreciate that. And I do need to say this.
42:20
I did tell talk to Andrew about this recently, Evan Hohner.
42:24
I almost saw him in Chicago two years ago for like very cheap.
42:31
We almost went, 'cause I wanted to go see a concert while I was
42:34
visiting him and we didn't 'cause I was like, I don't know
42:37
him that well. And then he's become one of my
42:39
favorite artists since then, one that I like listened to a lot,
42:42
especially this song and like other songs and it, it was a
42:48
great case of crap. And I think he's gotten, he's
42:52
gotten bigger. He has about 3 million, almost 4
42:55
million monthly listeners. So he's gotten bigger, but but
43:00
yeah, pull me out by Evan Honer in medium build.
43:04
If you're in the trenches like I am, it'll make you feel a little
43:07
bit better about where you're at.
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All right, so my song of the week again, going back to our,
43:19
you know, because people listen to us, all three of us, our
43:26
Barber cuts Dolly tribute. And so I went a different
43:32
direction. I did not go 9:00 to 5:00.
43:35
I again, I'm not a country fan, so it makes sense while you're
43:40
not. And so I actually went back to
43:49
2002. It's originally on her Halos and
43:52
Horns album. She also put it on a rock star
43:57
album in 2023 where she had Lizzo join her playing the
44:03
flute. But my song combines Dolly with
44:11
one of my favorite songs of all time, Stairway to Heaven.
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Seen a couple videos out there where she does it live.
44:28
Puts a little bluegrass to it here at the beginning.
44:31
If you know, the original Stairway to Heaven, it's John
44:36
Paul Jones playing the recorder that we all played in elementary
44:41
school. She's got a violin in there.
44:45
And I think on the Rockstar album, it's Lizzo playing the
44:47
flute, which sounds way more like the the original 1.
44:53
But again, this, this is, you know, very good.
45:04
And so again, you know, you go to cover, you know what a lot of
45:11
people consider to be the greatest rock'n'roll song of all
45:14
time, Like, OK, I'll give it to you.
45:19
And then you pull it off like this is good.
45:26
You know, it it's, it's just enough of the original.
45:30
Plus her on some harmonies there some some of that bluegrass
45:36
feel, you know, and and if you're familiar with steroid
45:40
heaven, it it builds it slowly adds more and more and more to
45:44
it. And at the at the end is is
45:48
really where it starts kicking in.
45:51
So I'm going to skip past a lot of the a lot of the build I go.
46:00
She chills from that one, too. She might have.
46:02
A She might have a nice voice too.
46:07
So let me get to the end where it has kicked in.
46:21
And so now it in the other song you got the guitar solo.
46:26
This is the bluegrass version of that and it is nice.
46:31
I'm not going to discount the banjo, the whatever else is
46:37
playing there. It is nice.
46:39
It is good in its own right. And so this is, you know, again,
46:50
familiar with the song. You know what part this is?
46:52
It's at the very end where it's guitar and Robert Plant kind of
46:58
going back and forth, like she pulled this off.
47:02
Like, this is a fantastic cover. And again, like, yeah, I hear
47:09
the you, you hear the the country twang in there, but it's
47:15
good. It is.
47:16
But it works. It works, you know, So again.
47:24
And then at the very end, all the music goes away and it's
47:31
that like iconic last song. And she's buying a stairway to
47:36
Heaven. So very good.
47:42
Dolly on a cover of Stairway to Heaven.
47:47
Stairway to Heaven is that album That's a good ending is also on
47:54
our list. So there we go, our own Little
48:00
Barber Cuts tribute to Dolly. So that gets us to our next
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album, which is not originally scheduled as part of our poster.
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It's my birthday. It's a birthday album.
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It's my. Birthday.
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What is our birthday album or hour?
48:30
It's not hour birthday. Your.
48:32
Birthday your your birthday album.
48:35
My birthday album is In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by
48:40
Neutral Milk Hotel from 1998. 1990.
48:45
Eight if I can place one request.
48:49
Something about aeroplanes and milk and a hotel.
48:55
Not quite. Flying over the ocean, Did I get
48:59
that right? No all.
49:03
Right. What's your request?
49:04
My my I have two requests 1 is listen to it in order at least
49:11
once if not every time. It does tell a story.
49:15
It is concept album. It helps.
49:18
Also some of the songs go together so if you put it on
49:20
shuffle the start sounds very like jarring, but it's because
49:23
it flows in from the last song so it's less jarring.
49:27
So listen to it in order once or twice before shuffling anything
49:31
around to give it a shot. Is that to me or to listeners?
49:38
Because. To you.
49:39
I I mean for all of these I don't shuffle them.
49:42
I don't either. But really, to listeners, if
49:45
you're going to listen to it, listen to it in order.
49:48
You should do that with every album the first time you listen
49:50
to it and then go from there, 'cause there's a reason they
49:53
placed them that way, especially with older albums.
49:56
But listen to it in order at least once.
50:02
And then the other one is give it a shot.
50:07
Like, give it a shot. It's gonna shock you.
50:11
It may sound weird, it may not sound like your vibe.
50:14
I understand it can be a lot. Give it a shot.
50:18
Take it in, take a deep breath and really give it a shot.
50:23
That's all I ask. Give it its fair shot.
50:27
Like just go and hit play. Don't look at the album cover.
50:31
Don't like just hit. Don't turn it off after you hear
50:34
the first vocal. You just stick it out.
50:38
I think it's very worth it, obviously.
50:40
I think it's. A A pre.
50:44
Why should people listen to this album?
50:45
Because it's Riley's birthday and this could be your birthday
50:49
gift to hers to listen to. Let's see, what is it?
50:53
I'm looking at it now. 39 minutes and 54 seconds. 11
50:57
songs. That's not a big birthday
51:00
request. No.
51:02
So. And you might just love it like
51:05
I do so. Come on, listener fans.
51:09
Yeah. So in the aeroplane over the sea
51:16
and not airplane arrow aeroplane.
51:19
So if you do search it, do search for a arrow plane over
51:25
the sea neutral Milk hotel. So if you are searching to
51:30
listen before and kind of compare with our notes, that'll
51:35
help you find it easier and go find us on socials.
51:42
Barber Cuts pod is where we are and live.
51:46
We don't do much there but go follow us just in case we ever
51:49
do. You'll be alerted.
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That's all I got until next time I'm done.
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I'm Riley and this was another episode of Barber Cuts.