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[Remix] Funeral - Arcade Fire · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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Hey everybody, this is Todd. And just a quick note before
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this episode, Riley and I are out vacationing and so we wanted
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to do a podcast reissue, as it were.
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And so we're going back to Season 1, Episode 4, Arcade Fire
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and their album Funeral. And this was one of our bigger
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surprises from Season 1. One of the reasons that we enjoy
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doing this podcast and and sharing music with everybody.
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So I hope you enjoy this reissue of an episode and then come back
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next time and we'll pick back up with.
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Lauryn Hill. And the MIS education of Lauryn
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Hill. Until next time, we'll see you
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around. Welcome to Barbara Cuts, Beats
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and barbs. We're a father to daughter music
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podcast that slices into some of the greatest albums, one cut at
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a time. With no industry ties or formal
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training, just a shared love of music, we explore albums across
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genres, rating favorites and skips while digging into what
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makes each one iconic. I bring the beats.
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And I bring the bars and together we deliver real talk
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and fresh takes from both sides of the sound.
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Hey everyone, I'm Riley. Hey and I'm Todd and welcome to
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Barber Cuts. This week we are talking about
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Arcade Fire and their album Funeral from 2004.
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So which way are we starting this week?
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Do we want to keep going with our least favorites 1st to get
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the bad news out of the way? At least 4 this one I want to OK
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'cause very spoiler. Very few bad things on this
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album for me, which the more you know me, the more this does not
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surprise you. No.
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This is my music taste. I told yeah, I told Mommy.
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I was like, I can't wait to talk to Riley about this album.
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So I'll, I'll kick off the least favorite.
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So this was difficult. And so like my least favorite
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2/1 was Haiti. And then I'm like, I, I, I even
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wrote down, I get it. I know it's a song about her
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parents playing Haiti and escaping A ruthless dictator,
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but I didn't realize that until after it.
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But as I listened, it's just one that always just kind of melted
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away for me. And if you've listened to the
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album, I think that makes sense because there were and you and I
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talk about there were no surprises in this song.
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It was, it started it song. It's a beautiful song.
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I'm out. I like the song, but it just
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kind of melted away. And the second one for me,
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neighborhood #4 it's pretty much the same way.
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I, it's like I liked it, but again, it just, it just kind of
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melted away for me. So what about you?
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So my least favorite switch were also difficult 'cause I wouldn't
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say they were even ones that I dislike, I still enjoyed them
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listening to them. Same.
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We're probably Ani sans Lumiere, the French one can't pronounce.
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It even though that's Spanish. That's really embarrassing.
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But we also have those two random listeners from Argentina
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and. And Guatemala, but you didn't
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even pick up on it. Nope.
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Anyway, we, we, we. Anyway, I don't know, I just
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didn't enjoy it that much. Same with in the back Seat.
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Both of those just kind of fell away from me, kind of like you
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were talking about. I'm also probably unfairly going
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to be partial towards male singers when there's a band that
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has male and female singers, and those were two songs that kind
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of highlighted the female singer.
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I know Haiti does too a little bit, but these two were some
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that, like it went back and forth between male and female
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and that just didn't work so well for me.
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Yeah, I'll, I'll say this. In the in the moon on San
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Lumiere, which means a year without lights at, you know, at
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2 minutes and 45 seconds when the guitar kicks in and the
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tempo picks up all the way to the end.
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I was like, OK, that's a nice touch musically, but otherwise
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it I'm like you it it is very peaceful and melodic.
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But other than that last ending part and truth be told that that
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ending surprise of when that tempo change is probably why it
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didn't. That's why I always like, Oh, I
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like that part. And so it didn't end up as
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always favorite for me. Which makes sense.
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Yeah, so now the the in the back seat though, like I, it did have
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quite a few changes. And do you know what that song's
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about? Did you see that in your
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research? I I read like the main themes
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that a lot of their songs fall on and I can't remember if that
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one I have. So that one is that's that's
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about her losing her mom at an early age and then how she's
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never had to be in control. So she's always been in the back
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seat, but now she's got to do a lot of these things.
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So you know, it, it was, you know, I, I, I, you know, it, it
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had some things that I liked, you know, with, with guitar, you
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know, goes away and being replaced by some strings, you
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know, and then in the middle of the song, like it gets real
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heavy for like 10 seconds and then goes away and then it comes
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back. So it it had some nice surprises
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musically in it, which just again kept it out of my least
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favorites. I mean, it's quite the roller
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coaster of music which makes. Sense as a reef is a roller
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coaster. So that's all pretty much the
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negative comments you'll hear from me.
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Yeah, about this album. Yeah, and, and, and just so we
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know, like best I can tell overall, I, I, I don't know if
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it's why it's called funeral Man.
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It'd be happenstance if it wasn't, but there were like 3 or
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4 deaths as they were recording this, like close deaths of
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people in their family. Yeah.
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And so you can definitely tell that come through in these
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songs. Yeah, a lot of the songs are
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about either death or time and childhood and growing up.
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Like most of the songs have those themes in them.
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Yeah, which it's a pretty recurring theme across the band.
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Those tend to be pretty heavy themes, but especially in this
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album. But moving on to favorites if
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you have anything else to add. I do not hit it with the
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favorites. So my second favorite was
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neighborhood #1 tunnels. First song, I knew it was gonna
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be a banger when the song came on.
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Are you kidding? I don't know.
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It's just a beautiful, beautiful song.
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I think this one is pretty heavy about growing up.
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Like, I don't know, a lot of their songs are very
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reminiscent, almost like very few of their songs seem to be
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exploring emotions that they're currently feeling.
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And a lot of them are like more exploring like it's talking
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about leaving their bedrooms from their parents bedrooms to
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like tunnel their way to their friends and stuff like that.
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So it's like almost very reminiscent young mindset and
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just like it's just a beautiful song.
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I I don't know if it's sorry, I'm trying to cover my thoughts.
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I don't know if it's about like growing up or like that loss of
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innocence, because it doesn't really seem like that either.
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But I liked, I liked the lyrics where it was we let our hair
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grow long and forget all we used to know.
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Then our skin gets thicker from living out in the snow.
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I just thought that was a really beautiful way to word growing
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up, because that's what they're talking about.
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Supposedly it's like all these neighborhood songs are from a
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time when they were in I guess Canada and like the neighborhood
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was legit snowed under. Yeah.
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So you can, you can see that in some of these angst or like, no
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matter what, I'm going to build a tunnel and get out and see
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you. Yeah, but it's.
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And it starts like the opening line.
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And if the snow buries my neighborhood, yeah, like, yeah,
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that doesn't sound very good. But I just, I don't know, I, it
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was such this beautiful song about reminiscing 'cause it's
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talking about like we tried to name our babies, but we forgot
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all of those names. But we still remember our
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bedrooms and our parents bedrooms.
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And like, as a college student who doesn't live at home, like
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that breaks me a little bit, you know, 'cause it's like, I've
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tried to explain this feeling and or Mama Barber is gonna cry
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listening to this episode now. But it's like this fear that no
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matter where I go or how long I live there, it won't be my home
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and it won't be my bedroom. Because like, that's my home.
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That's my bedroom. That's what I remember, always
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remember y'all's bedroom and my bedroom and Wesley's and like my
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brother and all of that. So it's like this beautiful
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reminiscing that you can't help but reminisce on whenever you're
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listening to it, yeah. You know, and this is one that
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you know, I'm sure we've had some, but this was one that I
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remember making note of it because it it must not have
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happened too terribly much. Where the music is light, airy,
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mysterious, but still a happy beat.
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But yet the lyrics are not happy.
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And so there's a juxtaposition of those.
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You know, we talked about this with moving on up in Primal
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Scream lyrics and beat music. It all matched.
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It's happy, this one. You may feel happy, but those
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lyrics are not happy underneath. So it's.
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A nice juxtaposition sometimes in music and songs that you get
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and it can go reverse as well. It's it's one that so it's one
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that you can listen to without feeling super heavy unless you
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listen to it closely 'cause there are a few songs and the
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first one that's coming to mind is Kendrick Lamar, the Dear
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Avett. Or like the one where he wrote
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it to Drake's son and people that are like fan of Kendricks.
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Like that song is considered one of the best songs or rap songs
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like ever. And everyone that listens to it
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will say like I never want to listen to that song again
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because of like exactly. It's meant to make you feel like
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chills and like Oh no, this is 1 where I can listen to it again.
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But if I listen to lyrics I'll get emotional more so than I
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will feel happy. And that wasn't even my favorite
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song. Favorite song was kind of Love.
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Nothing. I have no notes for a song.
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Genuinely like it was one of my favorite songs.
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I listen to it the most like that.
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I've listened to any song off of any of these lists.
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I there's something about it that was so familiar.
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I felt like I had heard this song before.
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I know I probably haven't, but it was like a very familiar beat
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without sounding repetitive. The part where it's like that
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part is so familiar to me. I don't know why.
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The way like keyworded things and the song is just still
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beautiful like for you. My love keeps on growing still
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the same just like cancer. And yet you won't give me a
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straight answer like it it. And if you still want me, please
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forgive me. The kind of love has fallen for
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me. It's like this beautiful song of
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like I messed something up and I need to repair it and I just
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need more love and I can't and I'm losing it.
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And it's just like he articulate to all so well.
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And also the I carved your name across my eyelids.
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You pray for rain. I pray for blindness.
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Like these vivid imagery or this vivid imagery that he provides
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that's like almost like, oh, that doesn't sound like that
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sounds awful. Like it.
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It causes a reaction to hear like carving something on your
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eyelids, like that's a visceral reaction that you don't hear
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often when you think about love or breakups or like this
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affection. And I love it when people do
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talk about love in kind of like a weird funky way.
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And I just, I loved it. I also 'cause this is just what
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we are now. It's like some of it feels very
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religious specifically to me in this song, because we talk about
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that a lot. It feels, I don't know, the
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crown of love always makes me think of the crown of thorns
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because that's when I hear of the crown of and it's, it's
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almost, it feels like the song of like whenever Jesus cries
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out, like you forsake me. Like it's, it's almost this
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moment of like, if you want me, please take me back.
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Like I'm so obsessed and continuously obsessed with you
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and you're not taking me back. And like that moment of
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desperation of being separated and having no way back.
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Like obviously we know that's not where it ended, but and not
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getting this straight and like, it's just, that's always what I
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felt during it was like this desperation to return, which is
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exactly what I feel the song was trying to do.
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And it was just a beautiful message and beautiful song.
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It sounded pleasing too, so I can't complain.
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My second favorite it's and I've really got 2A and 2B, but I went
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with Wake up. I really like rebellion, you
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know, wake up. Just the opening guitar riff is
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like, OK, that that part draws me in, you know, And of course,
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just knowing my my like and grunge that is a very distorted,
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for lack of a better word, dirty way to stop start the song and
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said cleanliness like most of their area, like most of their
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other songs. And then you know it, it's a
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240. But he sings that line just a
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million little gods causing rainstorms, like such a great
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lyric. But then you also that raspy
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hint of imperfection is also there that I really like as
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well. And then toward the end of the
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song, like it's just like a brand new song and the the beat
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changes, the tempo changes. And every time I was listening
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to it, like it, it just catches me off guard.
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It's like, oh, I went, we went to another song.
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And then once I figured out that Haiti came after that, I was
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like, oh, no, like this is still the same song.
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So I, I really like that one. And so I didn't want to.
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Yeah, go ahead. That one, this one that I read
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was about like saying like get, get your act in gear.
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You have to get up, you have to wake up, you have to start
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acting. And I think it's really deep
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that they started it slower and then like changed it to a whole
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different song and like did all that 'cause it really feels like
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you're waking up and you're like, OK, I have to change.
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I had to be this now. And it's I think that's cool.
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And so my favorite. Would you be able to guess my
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favorite? It wasn't rebellion.
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Nope. I would say you're not going to
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guess it and we're not going to let the Pauls go too long
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because then. You have.
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To edit it it is it is audio here after all crown of love.
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So we agree the the reason I was excited for this one was because
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I'm like, if she doesn't pick Crown of Love as her favorite
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song, she is a lyric lover faker like that.
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I just knew it. But you know, this is one of
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those ones. And so from me, coming from the
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musicality side of it, there is no music when it first starts.
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And so like, that's a that's a brave and bold thing to do.
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And it just forces you to hear the lyrics and listen to it
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because they're so clear. And then like, Oh my word, you
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know, like, no, I don't normally listen to lyrics, granted, but
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it's not like I can't look at them and see them and do all
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that, you know? But it it's just the piano that
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starts and vocals. So it's hard not to hear the
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lyrics. His voice is, is pretty clear,
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you know, and they, you, you know, the song, I guess going
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into it, I did at least, was Crown of Love.
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And the first line is, they say it fades if you let it.
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I was like, uh oh, like you instantly know what he's talking
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about, you know, and, and you can even in that first line,
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like you can hear the sadness and heartbreak and his voice.
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And so for me, a lot of times, like the vocals become an
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instrument, you know, and just like with a guitar, you can have
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a clean voice, you can have a raspy distorted voice, but yet
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you can also have a sad voice and or happy voice.
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But to like to be able to portray those emotions through
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it was just was just incredible. You know it like it's at 227,
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the line, the pains of love they keep blowing.
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The way that he wails on that and and just goes higher is
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again, just so heartbreaking. But it's funny because I took a
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different take on the lyrics. And so for me the IT was.
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Him losing the love. And so lots of people can relate
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to that. But people are, you know, they
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say it fades if you let it. Love was made to forget it.
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Those first two lines to me are people telling him move on and
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not anybody but his mom because it later talks about like, I'd
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snuffed it out before my mom walked in the bedroom.
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It's like the song pieces together and the, you know,
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it's, it's him begging for somebody to come back to him and
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that she's not necessarily giving him a clear answer.
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But I take the chorus as the clear answer.
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And so the chorus is, if you still want me, please forgive
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me. So this would be his love lost
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and this to him, if you still want me, please forgive me.
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The crown of love has fallen from me.
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If you still want me, please forgive me because the spark is
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not within me. He's getting his clear answer.
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He just doesn't want to hear it. And, and the, the sadness, you
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can hear that in his voice as it comes through, you know, and
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then at the end he's saying, you know, there's you're the only
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one, the only word that I can say.
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Just the, the pain of the song of, of having a love lost.
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And again, got no idea if if you know his his wife is the
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drummer. So got no idea.
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If this was about somebody else, you would think that it would be
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previous, But I absolutely love, love this song.
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It's beautifully done musically, beautifully done lyrically and
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vocally, just the way it sounds. And for me, this song and this
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album is the reason that I love doing this, because I know I
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never would have heard this song if we weren't doing this, and I
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would have. I would have missed out on this.
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And this is a great song. Yeah, I was.
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I was going to say this album has probably been my favorite
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that we've listened to so far and I would not have stumbled on
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it on my own. Probably, I probably a little
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bit more likely than you, however, 'cause I have bridges
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in it we'll talk about. But yeah, I would say my one of
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my favorite parts of the whole album was his ability to put his
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emotions into his voice. And it's, it's almost like a, a,
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I think it's called a vibrato where your voice shakes.
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But he does it in such a way that it, it's like an emotional
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and it like pulls you in and you can't help but feel like he's a
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friend crying to you or wailing to you or like opening up to
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you. And so there's this immediate
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bond that you make with him. And also like, I feel like crown
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of love. He talks about it in such a way
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that's beautiful and it's why I admire a musician so much.
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He talks about it so eloquently and beautifully, but it's
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something most people have experienced.
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It's like someone walking away and you being like, that's the
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person for me and I'm losing them.
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And like you, there's no actual spark there, but that's just
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what you know. And so you just want to keep it
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and keep it and keep it and like and so.
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And it's funny that what what he's being told and that it
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fades if you let it. Like that's all true.
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But in the moment of that heartbreak, that's not what you
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want to hear, you know? And and you but yet you you can
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see of as you've come out on the other side or as somebody has
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come out on the other side of that, you're like, yeah, all
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that's true. But yet I can hear the sadness
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in that moment of being able to say, OK, yeah, this this is a
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sad moment. So it's it's it's beautifully
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done and not one of their more popular songs on the album.
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Which is insane to me. It it's a it's a great song.
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I highly highly recommend 2 Thumbs Up.
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Yeah, it's. I think the great superpower of
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musicians is being able to put to words feelings.
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As someone who draws, I can put feelings in a painting, but that
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does not mean I can put words to that painting.
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True, true. So it's one of the great
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superpowers and you, a little dad, Barber Todd Lore.
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You write poetry sometimes, like when you are, well, when you're
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overwhelmed with emotion, it seems, and you don't know where
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to put it. You write some too, so.
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Or listen to angry music. Or listen to angry music,
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though. Well, you.
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Well, when I was born, you wrote a poem.
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You didn't listen to angry music.
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So it's usually when you're overwhelmed with good emotions,
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it seems from the poems that I've read.
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Yeah, which ironically enough, I'm not a punk fan, but yet Love
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will still still do some of their stuff.
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Rage Against the Machine. Not sure how that works, but it
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does. I think that's like the lore
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that you, on one of your first dates with Mama Barber, pulled
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up to the apartment, blasting Rage Against Machine.
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Well, I, I will neither confirm nor deny.
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So the, you know, one of the things that we also like to do
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is like, OK, why? Why would this album be listed
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as as one of the greatest of all time?
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Neither one of us said, you know, heard of Arcade Fire and I
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remember actually wake up from radio but never listen to the
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rest of the album. And one of the things that, as I
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looked at it and did research, reminded much.
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You know, as I read comments, I'm reminded of our debate about
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alive by Pearl Jam in that I'm a big fan of it.
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And you're like, no, that's not one of their best ones.
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Low on their out which? Is which is going to get me like
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crucified. But but it's understandable
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because that's an anthem. The people that grew up at when
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that song was playing, you know? And so you just had to be there.
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And many people in comments and stuff about this album were
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like, that's the same thing, that this was a fairly new sound
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in 2004 with the soaring sound, the different instruments, the
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different sounds, male and female, like you said, switching
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back and forth. Some of the songs, several of
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the songs had French lyrics in them.
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You know, it's big and bold and some places heartbreaking and
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withdrawn and others and it's always shifting and moving.
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So you never know what's going to come next.
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And so when it doesn't, the song seems normal.
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Which the two that I, you know, my least favorites, those those
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are just normal songs. But on an album that has got no
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normal songs, the normality of them stood out.
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But I really, and I think that's probably why a lot of people
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said this album stood out, was just that almost stadium
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anthemic sounding that came out of this album that was not
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around in 2000s to that point. So I can talk a little bit more
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on this just because for those obviously you don't know me,
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this genre is probably one of my favorite genres.
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So it technically falls under indie rock ish, indie rock, art
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rock. Sometimes it shifts.
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So like you said, indie rock. Arcade Fire is known for being
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one of the leads into indie rock as well as Bright Eyes.
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So Bright Eyes and Arcade Fire are often mentioned in the same
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breath as they were pretty much pioneers of indie rock which got
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it brought about in the early 2000s.
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Bright Eyes released their album I think the same year and Bright
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Eyes does the same. Like haunting voice, imperfect
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vocals. This these horrible lyrics, like
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great lyrics, but horrible like emotionally like they're just
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very emotional lyrics and they do the same like airy sounds
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like some are up, some are down, some are about love, like and
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you just never really know. Like they have one of the
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sweetest songs ever called First Day of My life, but also one of
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the most like depressing songs that's.
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That's funny you you mentioned that.
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I just went and looked up bright eyes and first day of my life on
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Spotify is their most popular 1 and I.
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Have it. I have it checked so I went and
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checked and it's something that I've shazammed so when I Shazam
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a song it it automatically creates goes into a playlist for
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me and. I was like.
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So somewhere along I've heard it and liked it enough to Shazam it
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and go, yeah. It's, it's basically saying that
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he like one of the lyrics is I never lived until I met you like
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this beautiful love song. And then there's another song
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that's about losing someone. And I think the main lyric is
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now I'm a single cell on a serpent's tongue and a
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statuesque. Like it's, it's this beautifully
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worded, like cryptic, but like you can piece it together.
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It's just beautiful. And they reminded me a lot of
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Bright Eyes when I first listened to the song.
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The like the vibrato that he uses, the specific type of
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vibrato is exactly what Broad Eyes uses a lot and made me
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think of it. And then the more I listen to
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it, the more I was like, I know this sound from somewhere and I
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like, I know it well. One of my favorite albums of all
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time that I've made you listen to and you did not like it very
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much is Neutral Milk Hotel in the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
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I liked it. You.
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Yeah, not as much as I did. That's true.
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That's. True, it's like it's top ten.
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It's it didn't quite make top five, but I think it's probably
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like 6 out of favorite islands of all time.
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Neutral Milk Hotel is probably the founder, if not one of the
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founders of indie rock. They were one of the first
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people to do music the way they did and their lyrics are very
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similar. And when I was talking about
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like the carving and eyelids, it's like this very visceral
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imagery. It's uncomfortable and neutral
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Milk Hotel, most of their lyrics are very uncomfortable and it's
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like almost a for me, I enjoy it, but for others, it's very
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this is not pleasant to listen to.
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It makes me uncomfortable and it's not enjoyable.
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So just for. Those that are listening the
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album, what what what was the album so people can go listen to
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it as well in the. In the Airplane over the sea
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yeah yeah. By Neutral Milk Hotel, beautiful
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album cover too. It looks very similar to this
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album cover, but they also just have like this beautiful
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vibrato, this beautiful, like they bring in trumpets and
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strings and like drums and all of this.
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And so I just think that that's probably why I'm so drawn to
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this album in particular is 'cause it's very reminiscent of
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some of my favorite music because Bright Eyes is one of my
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favorites. Neutral Mokotel is definitely
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one of my favorites. And so it's just another band
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that was like, this is my type of music right here.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you know, again, some of the
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people that you know, Florence and the Machine, Munford and
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Sons listed them as as influences or listed this album
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in particular as influences. And then one that that popped up
32:47
that I was like, ha, that I always love.
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The name of the band is Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
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So lots of people may know their biggest hit is home.
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I really like one of their other ones.
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Man on Fire is on my like playlist.
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So but again, all all bands that that point back to Funeral is
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influential or Arcade Arcade Fire is influential.
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So anything else before we get to the ratings?
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My one other thing that I think you would appreciate because
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it's it reminds me of Pearl Jam, something Pearl Jam does.
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So the name, yes, but the name Arcade Fire.
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Did you look how they came up with that name?
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No, I did not. OK so everyone I looked it up
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and a bunch of Reddit is like oh it's this idea of Arcadia.
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Arcadia is like this hallowed ground.
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It's like this euphoria and it's on fire.
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And like, that's what it means. It's this beautiful meaning.
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Well, the lead singer apparently talked about it once.
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And it was like, no, when I was in elementary school, there was
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a bully. He went around and told everyone
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that there was an arcade that caught on fire and killed a
34:08
bunch of kids. And I was scared of it and I
34:11
remembered it. But and all like the discourse
34:15
about it that I was reading a lot of the comments are saying
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it seems like he's saying that but not clueing in the other
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team members. Like if you ask the other band
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members what the name Arcade Fire is like, they don't really
34:27
have a clear answer the way he does.
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And it's exactly what Eddie Vedner did where their name was
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named after the basketball player or whatever.
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And then all of a sudden in one of the interviews, they were
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like, what's your band saying? He's like pro Jam.
34:43
They were like, what? And just all of a sudden their
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name was Pearl Jam. And he came up with this
34:48
elaborate reason for why they were named Pearl Jam, like, And
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he just kind of like made it up as he went.
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And it feels very similar to just be like, Oh no, there's a
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bully. He just talked about an arcade
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that burned down, killed a bunch of kids.
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Scared me. It's like, what?
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What? But also a shout out for them is
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they're still making music. They're still releasing music.
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They just released a new album this past year I think.
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So. May 9th is.
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When they released. Their last album.
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Yeah, so very recently. So ratings, here I am.
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I'll kick us off. My personal rating and objective
35:28
ratings are both 8.5 S for for me that is actually puts them
35:38
personally second on my list. What's first?
35:42
Well, I can't really tell you. It's it's one that we've already
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listened to, that we haven't recorded, that we will record
35:51
and release later. Fair enough.
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So what about you? What are your ratings?
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I would guess. My personal rating was a 10.
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I loved this album. I loved everything about it.
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Even the songs that I said I didn't like, I liked them.
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I had to pick 2. I loved this album.
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I loved this band. This is one that I like.
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After listening to the album a few times this week, I delved a
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lot deeper into the band as a whole.
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It's one of the first bands that like, I followed myself, like I
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went through and went through everything.
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So it was, it's been my favorite and it genuinely has been like a
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10, which is I'm not just saying that lightly.
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It was, in my opinion, for me, a perfect album.
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Now objectively A9, because I understand that like there are,
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there are always going to be things you can change
36:54
objectively about an album, even if those are the things that
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make you love it in my opinion. So objectively, I don't know if
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I sound like the teacher in high school that everyone hated.
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Objectively I don't know if any album is ever gonna get a 10,
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but personally I loved everything about this album.
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Very good. So any anything else or you
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wanna tell everybody what to go find on their streaming service
37:25
next? I'll say you can expect this on
37:29
a birthday list coming up. But then after that, for next
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week, we're going to get to record one that we have
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previously discussed, just not on Zoom or podcast, and it's
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going to be Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
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Yay. So.
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For people my. Age you may be able to instead
38:03
of going to your streaming service, break out your CD set
38:09
or vinyl copy, which I think Riley's got a vinyl copy.
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I don't have a dark side of the. Oh, you don't have this one?
38:17
OK. No, I want it but it's like 40
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bucks everywhere and I'm not. Willing to?
38:21
Oh yeah. Also on the birthday list.
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Yeah, so. But again, yeah, Dark Side of
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the Moon, Pink Floyd, and that's what we'll be listening to next
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week. So until then, I'm Todd.
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And I'm Riley, and this is Ben, this week's episode of Barbara.
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Tom, bye, bye.