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Earworm Wednesday? Well At Least This One More Time · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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  band. That's right, we've done all the
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  work for you. All you have to do is press play
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  and listen. My name is Justin and you could
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  say that I'm band curious because I am indeed curious
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  about bands. I like to gather my friends and
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  talk to them about why they love a band and coming together.
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  We will create a top 10 starter kit list for you to get into
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  said artist. And now that's usually how I
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  open every show. I decided I should probably do
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  that for the dailies as well, because maybe you just stumbled
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  on this list or on this episode randomly.
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  If so, that's what happens here on Deprogrammed.
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  Normally today we're actually going to be doing Earworm
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  Wednesday because I did it a couple weeks ago and somebody
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  actually enjoyed it. So I was like, all right, I
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  guess I can do that again. What song entered my brain this
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  week? And it's high time I show some
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  love to The Aquabats because the Shark Fighter has been in my
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  brain for a good week and a half.
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  Somebody randomly said vibe of the day, Shark Fighter.
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  I'm telling you exactly where it came from.
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  Usually it comes out of nowhere. Somebody said the Shark Fighter
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  by Aquabats is the vibe today. And I was like, you know what?
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  They're right. The Aquabats, in case you
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  weren't aware, rule hard it. They're seriously one of the
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  best bands I've ever seen live. I'm not saying that lately it is
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  easily. Look, I've seen the Pumpkins,
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  I've seen local H. Those are my top two favorite
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  bands, so they're always going to be at the top.
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  Weird Al is going to be in the top five.
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  Aquabats are right there in that conversation.
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  Not kidding. I mean, part of it is I got to
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  see them for free, I'm not going to lie.
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  But the biggest thing is it's just a party.
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  And the Shark Fighter is where you really realize that you are
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  in a party atmosphere. Because when that riff that I
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  just played you hits the inflatable sharks come out and
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  they just throw them about and suddenly you're at a beach party
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  hanging out with friends, listening to a ska band.
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  It is just so much fun. And I mean, of course the lyrics
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  like are about fighting sharks, man.
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  Like, I don't think I can get too deep on this.
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  It it really is kind of self-explanatory here.
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  I'm going to play a little bit more for you
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  because that's where they are, man.
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  And here I want to turn up the chorus when they get there, But
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  it is exactly what it says it is, and it's as direct as
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  possible. And then there's this.
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  Good luck getting that out of your brain today.
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  You're very, very welcome. I also wanted to bring up so The
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  Aquabats, man, I'm I'm going to link that.
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  I bet you there's a video and if there is, there will be a video
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  in the links you should definitely check out.
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  I've been doing a lot of digging lately because Joe, after I did
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  the last one, sent me two songs specifically by the band
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  stateside. We're going to talk about one of
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  them today because 1 I believe it's called All In Shoot, I
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  don't have the text in front of me, but this one, the the second
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  one he sent me really struck A chord with me.
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  It's called heads up big guy. It's off the record where you
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  found me and I'm going to turn it up here a little bit.
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  So the second you heard me say Joe, you probably knew what the
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  music was going to sound like. I did too.
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  But this song really kind of cross patternized like this.
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  This is like the cross section of Joe and Justin.
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  Usually Joe is on one end of the emo punk type thing and I'm on
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  the other end. I feel like this song
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  specifically is a nice little cross section.
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  Looks like it came out last year as well.
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  And I mean, again, if, if this tells you anything, 10 songs, 32
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  minutes broke it on that album. I, I guarantee you there's,
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  there's other jams on here that you get into.
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  But I mean, yeah, it, it's standard fare, yes.
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  But when the standard fare is good, then what does it matter?
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  I I, I'm pointing out this song specifically because it like I
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  said it, it kind of craw. It crossed the bounds of this is
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  just a Joe song versus this is also Joe and Justin.
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  So boy, oh boy, ear worms galore this week, because I'm going to
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  tag us here with this last one. I was going to save it for next
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  week, but I can't get it out of my head.
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  I brought it to the boys and undercutters.
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  This is how we're closing. I'm I joined another music
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  league in and I think you should leave server.
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  And the question for the week was songs that remind you of the
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  2000s. And I was going through bands.
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  Paramore was definitely high on my list.
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  Modest Mouse was definitely high on my list.
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  I eventually get to Weezer and I'm thinking Green album and you
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  know, it's Island in the sun. It's hash pipe that's photograph
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  like these. There's all these singles and I
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  go to look at the album. Most people probably don't know
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  this. I I picked it because it's
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  Weezer and it really gives you an outlook into my brain in 2001
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  where I was. And to me, this song
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  specifically screams 2000s Weezer, where they're
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  desperately trying to get back what they gained on Blue Album.
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  It's don't let go. It's track one off of the Green
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  Album here. Let's give you a little bit of
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  that. Deliciously catchy and simple.
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  And that's what I love about it is they're not.
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  Yes, it is an attempt to write something saccharine.
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  It is definitely something attempting to, like I said,
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  regain their Blue Album form and commercial success versus what
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  happened with Pinkerton. But again, if you're good at it,
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  then it's good. And while Green Album is mostly
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  a forgettable record in the scope of things, I mean it's one
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  of the better post Pinkerton efforts by Weezer, but it's it
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  goes to show that this there is songs amongst that and Don't Let
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  Go simple fun, easy, fun, fun, fun, fun and Beachy, which I
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  think is important. It's the thing that they lost
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  out on when they went to Pinkerton is the the Beach boy
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  again. Like I don't know man, like you
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  could say that they're still Beach Boy cousins even with
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  Pinkerton. However, it's a lot more direct
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  on on green album. So don't let go Weezer green
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  album. Check that out.
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  Today is Wednesday. That means an episode releases
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  tomorrow. It is our Counting Crows episode
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  and we will see you tomorrow. Bye.