Latest / Deprogrammed Music Podcast / Bon Iver
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- 0:32It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into an
- 0:37artist. That's right, we've done all the
- 0:38work. All you have to do is press play
- 0:40and listen. And look, I like to be
- 0:44straightforward. This is attempt to and you know,
- 0:47maybe we can get into all the reasons of why it's take to why
- 0:50it's attempt to at a later point.
- 0:52Usually I'm not good at this part anyway.
- 0:55So like, I guess it's kind of good that we're here.
- 0:58I think last time I said something about Hey, Ma or, or
- 1:02maybe I said we're going to do it for Emma.
- 1:03That's still the case. I guess maybe I should explain
- 1:06what the podcast is. I haven't done that yet.
- 1:08My name is Justin. This is deprogrammed.
- 1:11This is a podcast where I am band curious and I like to get
- 1:14people together to talk about why it is they like these
- 1:18musicians and artists. And today, like I said, it is it
- 1:22is for Emma. It is.
- 1:23We're going to say, hey Ma, we are going to be talking about
- 1:26Bona Ver today. And Luke, last time you said
- 1:30some really sweet words. You said really nice things.
- 1:33Now you have to remember them all and say them again into a
- 1:35microphone. Talk to me about Boney Bear.
- 1:38It's funny, I'm not sure that what I said last time is like
- 1:41entirely accurate once I went back and reconsidered.
- 1:46But what, what I said and the reason that I was so keen to do
- 1:50this is because Boney Bear has maybe accidentally become like
- 1:55one of my absolute most important artists for my life.
- 1:59When the first album came out, I, it was, it was so in my
- 2:04wheelhouse, like sad white guy, you know, alone in the woods,
- 2:08kind of strumming acoustic guitar shit that I almost
- 2:12resented it, but I loved it. But I was, I was kind of like,
- 2:15this is this is like this, this fits me too well.
- 2:19And then it got mixed up with like a relationship I was in at
- 2:22the time. So I I kept, I kept the bona ver
- 2:27kind of at arm's length. And then the second album came
- 2:30out and I was like, OK, this is one of the greatest albums I've
- 2:33ever heard, but whatever. And you know, I'm still, I'm
- 2:37still sort of keeping my distance in a way emotionally.
- 2:42And then at some point during I guess the third album, I was
- 2:46sort of like, no, this is exactly what I want from music.
- 2:49Like literally, I, I, I just like it's we'll, we'll get into
- 2:55all the, all the sort of like aesthetic reasons why I fucking
- 2:58love it so much. But it has become Justin Vernon,
- 3:03and his whole project has really become in an incredibly
- 3:08important part of my life. And last time before the robots
- 3:14came to take us away, Brandon, I made mention that this is again,
- 3:22you know, me making judgments based on the times you've been
- 3:26on the show. This is outside of what you're
- 3:28normally here to talk about. But then the robots took you
- 3:32away. So talk to me about Bonaver and
- 3:35and why why this is 1 you wanted to jump on.
- 3:39Yes, yes, it was all my fault. Technical issues, The Internet
- 3:45series of tubes. Al Gore, you know, the whole
- 3:49thing. It was my fault anyway.
- 3:53Yeah, and I contain multitudes. I don't just listen to Pearl Jam
- 3:59and Smashing Pumpkins and Metal I I listen to weird stuff too.
- 4:04This isn't really weird, though. It's probably maybe some.
- 4:08No, it's not the most poppy stuff that I listen to.
- 4:11I mean, we got K pop demon Hodgers out there, so that slaps
- 4:17that six sevens. I don't know what the kids say
- 4:19these days, but yeah, I, I first heard of Boney Bear because I'm
- 4:26an NPR nerd. And so at South by Southwest in
- 4:302008, I've been right around when his album was coming out or
- 4:35right before or something like that, before he got his record
- 4:39contract with Jack. Jack, you are.
- 4:44I heard about them. I heard about them on on NPR,
- 4:47All Songs Considered or something like that.
- 4:49And they played this whole South by Southwest concert and I was
- 4:55just like, oh man, this is guitary and sort of pressing and
- 5:04just very, very desolate sounding.
- 5:07And that's kind of how my headspace was, I think at that
- 5:12time. This was a little bit before I
- 5:15met my wife. So that's probably why it
- 5:22connected with me. And just as his other albums
- 5:26came out and sort of his style sort of established as just a
- 5:34musician and not necessarily like a folk guy or something,
- 5:38he, it was just, oh wow, kind of like brought me along for the
- 5:42ride and expanded my, my horizons a little bit.
- 5:46I I think that he's very sort of Prince like in that way of, of
- 5:52just, you know, playing a bunch of different instruments and
- 5:54also just sort of like playing music and not necessarily
- 5:59playing a style. Yeah, man, you guys have all
- 6:06these like awesome stories with, with connecting with this artist
- 6:11and I have all right, so I remember seeing Bone Ivor a
- 6:22million times, seeing the name and never no Bone Ivor.
- 6:33I remember seeing it God knows how many times and not, not
- 6:37clicking, not thinking about what that is.
- 6:39I was like, what the fuck is this Bon Bone Ivor?
- 6:42What is this? And I just, I wrote it off for
- 6:47God knows how long. And then God, this is so stupid.
- 6:51One time on Smartlist, Bateman was making fun of our net and he
- 6:59said something. Oh, you're going to go listen to
- 7:01your Bone. Ivor and Arnett just tore him to
- 7:06shreds. And he mean he goes, he goes,
- 7:08you mean bone of air. And he's just going on and on.
- 7:11And I was like, oh shit, I'm stupid.
- 7:15Arnett tell you how to pronounce it.
- 7:16Yeah, yeah. So Arnett, Arnett put me on the
- 7:19right path. And then I mean, God, who any A
- 7:27lot of people were probably introduced to this gentleman
- 7:29through Taylor Swift. And Exile is one of the most
- 7:34beautiful songs I've ever heard, period, end of story.
- 7:37And his half in that, of course, is huge, a huge reason for that.
- 7:44And I was like, this is that this is that guy.
- 7:51And so like, I've just been intrigued by this artist ever
- 7:56since I learned how to say the name correctly.
- 7:59And then the math clicked that it was this guy on this Taylor
- 8:03Swift song that I love. So it's it's been a good couple
- 8:06years of me going, man, I'd like to cover him on the show.
- 8:12We got to get to it. And then here you are, Luke, You
- 8:15put him up on the board. So we finally start putting it
- 8:18together. It's not like a ton of songs,
- 8:22but as you guys have both kind of said, like this guy doesn't
- 8:25doesn't live in one wheelhouse. So when you're looking to put
- 8:29together your list for this one, what is it that you're looking
- 8:32to pull out and bring to the table?
- 8:36I I went back and forth. So I'm enough of a dork.
- 8:42I've got a several artists that I like enough that I've ranked
- 8:46every song that they've ever made.
- 8:50And so and so I was like, this will be, this will be easy.
- 8:54I'll just take my top 20 from my ranked Bony Vera list.
- 8:59And then I started going through it and I was like, no, this
- 9:01won't do, this won't do. So I really, I went back and
- 9:05forth a lot and I eventually just had to because, you know,
- 9:12you made reference to Taylor Swift.
- 9:13I think the Bony Vera eras are so important and distinct and
- 9:19sort of like a build on one another that I just went, all
- 9:22right, I'm going to take 4 songs from each era, essentially kind
- 9:26of four songs from each of the five albums.
- 9:29And I gave myself that like limitation.
- 9:34And so that's what I was able to.
- 9:35I don't know if that's like a spoiler for our lists, but I had
- 9:39to, I had to put some kind of structure to it.
- 9:42Otherwise I would have never trimmed the list down to 20.
- 9:45So Brandon, as you're, you're looking to do this as well, like
- 9:49is this something that's difficult to put together
- 9:53because you, you, you said it's not exactly just talk to, I
- 9:59guess just talk to me about what your, what your mindset was
- 10:02going for, for this, for this list specifically.
- 10:06For this specific one, I sort of my, my, my plan.
- 10:13No, my, my theory, no, my, my, my, what the hell is the word
- 10:18I'm looking for? My, my plan, strategy, whatever
- 10:23strategy. Oh God damn it.
- 10:25Yes, my strategy, my strategy for this.
- 10:29My, my, my energy drink isn't kicking.
- 10:31It isn't kicking out a week's worth a long shift.
- 10:35So anyway, my, my strategy for this episode was going for the
- 10:42stuff that I think is the most not necessarily plain, but sort
- 10:52of stuff that I think is a a good representation of what the
- 10:57song is trying to accomplish. Like what this sound is that's
- 11:02also going to appeal, I think to an average person that that's
- 11:10coming into the bona ver cold and doesn't really know anything
- 11:14or maybe just knows, you know, Taylor Swift or something like
- 11:18that. And so that's that's sort of how
- 11:23I went about it because I know there's some stuff on some of
- 11:25the albums that's just really out there, just jazzy and just
- 11:31electronic and kind of weird sounded.
- 11:34I'm like, oh hell yes, wait a minute, wait a minute.
- 11:37Maybe I'll put my foot off the gas a little bit on this one and
- 11:41and go for something a little bit more holes, Yes.
- 11:49Well, it's funny, Brandon, because I I thought the same
- 11:52thing and then as I was like going through my list recently,
- 11:55I thought I picked like really accessible, like the accessible
- 11:58Bona Vera songs and I listened to some of the songs.
- 12:00I was like, this is weird as shit.
- 12:05Like I yeah, like he's not inaccessible, but but yeah,
- 12:11like, it does get a little weird.
- 12:15It especially gets a little weird for an artist who has a
- 12:18reputation is like it. It can be a little cringy to say
- 12:22that Bonaver means so much to me.
- 12:25I mean, for God's sakes, Brandon first learned about him through
- 12:28MPRI. Think I bought the self-titled
- 12:31second album at Starbucks. And then Justin learned about
- 12:36him through Taylor Swift. So like, this is not like like a
- 12:39really cool artist, but I think he makes really cool music.
- 12:43Yeah, Yeah, that's a great point.
- 12:46I so, you know, as as mentioned, you know, I I had exile on the
- 12:55mind coming into this. And then like as we were
- 12:59starting, Brandon said something to the effect of he's kind of a
- 13:03winter artist, or at least he starts that way.
- 13:06So like I had that on the brain going in.
- 13:12And I think I may have said this on the national episode as well.
- 13:17If I didn't, I'm repeating myself.
- 13:20But especially on those songs, I had that that line from 33 as I
- 13:27pull my collar up and face the cold on my own.
- 13:30Like that comes to mind a lot in those first couple records.
- 13:35And I was listening to the playlist on a walk and, you
- 13:39know, like it all, all that is kind of going through my mind.
- 13:44It's like, yeah, OK, I get it. I, I get what this guy's doing.
- 13:47And then 22 a million comes up and I was like, wait, this guy
- 13:51does weird shit to you? What, Like, like suddenly it's a
- 13:55complete tonal shift where it's clearly still him, but it's it's
- 14:03taking chances. I didn't see in a million years
- 14:06between what he had put out that I'd listened to so far and
- 14:10again, being the guy I heard on the Taylor Swift song.
- 14:14So it's like, OK, this is going to be different.
- 14:18And then the next record I'm like, OK, like this kind of
- 14:21lives sort of near there. OK.
- 14:24And then the last record I start listening to and it's like this
- 14:29beautiful combination of the both like, and I was like, fuck,
- 14:37like the choices I had to make from that were just absolutely
- 14:44heartbreaking. Because there's going to be
- 14:47songs that are going to be said today, then I'll be like, yeah,
- 14:51I get that, but I don't have it like, there it was, yeah.
- 14:58It's going to be that annoying thing where like, someone will
- 15:00say a song and I'll go. It's one of my favorite songs of
- 15:02all time. I didn't put it on my list, you
- 15:04know. Yeah, it's just it, it is.
- 15:10This is was a much more difficult list than I expected.
- 15:15When, when my thought is Taylor, the exile guy, Taylor Swift guy,
- 15:23like I thought it was going to be just picking from a bunch of
- 15:26winter songs and going, OK, here's 20 winter songs.
- 15:31Very good. And by the way, like he's really
- 15:34fucking good at that. Like his winter songs, like the
- 15:38pull my collar up, face the cold, that that shit is fucking
- 15:42great. But like, the fact that he's
- 15:47willing to take these these chances on, like he would
- 15:52probably be huge if he just stayed in that one pocket.
- 15:55And I mean, you know, obviously he's not small fucking fucking
- 16:02idiots on Smartlist. They're talking about him.
- 16:04We're talking about him now. He's on a Taylor Swift record.
- 16:06Like he's not, he's not no one. But it, I don't know, man.
- 16:11Like this was very confusing but fucking wonderful.
- 16:16He also like another like interesting or important part of
- 16:21his story is like his friends if if that's a dumb way to put it.
- 16:25But like he's worked with so many people at this point and he
- 16:28has so many side projects that are legitimately really good.
- 16:33I mean fucking Geno. Choir.
- 16:37Yeah, Volcano Choir is great, Big Big Red Machine is great.
- 16:40And Kanye West on like one of the landmark hip hop albums of
- 16:45all time was like, hey, I'm going to not only bring you in
- 16:49to the recording, but I'm going to like sample and reinterpolate
- 16:53one of your songs. You know, like, so I, I, I, I
- 16:59get the sense from his musical evolution that I don't know if
- 17:04he's pushing against the narrative that he was this, this
- 17:07loner in the woods who made for Emma, but it just seemed like he
- 17:13wanted to keep working with people and bringing more people
- 17:18into his orbit. And I, I just think that's
- 17:20great. I like almost from a
- 17:23philosophical perspective. From a creative perspective, I'm
- 17:26just like, yes, that's the kind of artist I want to support and
- 17:31the kind of artist I'm going to vibe with.
- 17:33I wanted to say like, you know, here before I forget it.
- 17:39Strangely, he reminded me a lot of who someone else we did on
- 17:42the show recently, Paul Simon. Like, you know, I couldn't tell
- 17:46you if necessarily this the songwriting, you know, but like
- 17:51the worldliness, the curiosity about different, different music
- 17:56is what what the comparison was for me.
- 17:59Like, it feels like he didn't want to be just like he can do
- 18:03this one thing, like, but like, let's let's use that as a
- 18:08baseline for for all this other stuff.
- 18:09And it felt like he got pretty worldly in some of those middle
- 18:13records. And it's just, yeah, it was just
- 18:16weird that I kept coming back to Paul Simon.
- 18:19And I don't think that is something I would have guessed a
- 18:24couple months ago. I love that you said that
- 18:26because Paul Simon is literally my favorite artist of all time.
- 18:30And I had the thought recently, probably like thinking about
- 18:34recording this podcast, I was like, would it be stupid to
- 18:37compare the second Bonaver record to Graceland?
- 18:41Just the way that like, it exploded his sound, but it was
- 18:45still obviously him. No, I get that totally.
- 18:51Like, it may may not have the same, like, weight as far as
- 18:56culturally, but I think compared comparatively, yeah, I get that.
- 19:04I get that a lot. I mean, we could wax poetic
- 19:08about this all day, but I feel like we got to start getting
- 19:11some numbers here so we can start, you know, creating the
- 19:15pain, as it were. Everything we've said so far
- 19:19seems to point to a bloodbath. Right, Luke?
- 19:21Like how many do you think we get through here unanimously?
- 19:25I. I think they're like, I'm going
- 19:33to say 3. I really think we're only going
- 19:35to get 3. OK.
- 19:37It's low, but like I get that as well.
- 19:41Wouldn't Brandon, we're are we, are we making Much Ado about
- 19:46nothing? Is there more out there than we
- 19:47think? I think that the way that Luke
- 19:53described his process for it, that that's informing my guests
- 19:58right now because I also ended up with four from each album.
- 20:03And it wasn't really my intention to do that, but it was
- 20:08just sort of happened. And except for the last one,
- 20:11which was really hard to to make the cuts on that one.
- 20:16But I think that there's enough of his songs that like our gut
- 20:23punches. Instead of just like sneaking up
- 20:26behind you that I think that that we're going to agree a
- 20:31little bit more than than you might think, Justin.
- 20:34So I'm going to say 6. I like that.
- 20:38Take the swing. I like it.
- 20:40I hope Brandon's right. That's more fun.
- 20:42Yeah, yeah. I, you know, I hope so that.
- 20:46So that leaves the question, the number I always like to take
- 20:50right in the middle is available.
- 20:52There's a good space between you 2 or I can do the thing I did on
- 20:57Hootie and go above what both of you all you all have picked and
- 21:02then still outperform it. Legendary. 10 You know,
- 21:12sometimes I like to look at my list and see if there's one that
- 21:14I would like fight for if it doesn't get in.
- 21:18And that kind of informs like how hard I want to play on the
- 21:23on the on the final say, I think there is yeah, I'm going to go 5
- 21:32because I think there is a song. I would I would for sure fight
- 21:35for. All right, let's hope we let's
- 21:40let's hope and cross our fingers that we that well, I don't know,
- 21:44man, more people should know this guy is the end of the
- 21:46story, right? Like that's the reality of it.
- 21:49So the more songs we name, the more chance that we that
- 21:52somebody gets into him. So we're going to take a quick
- 21:54pause. And on the other side of this,
- 21:56we are going to play the game, this program, Jack.
- 22:05And with that, the name of the game is deprogrammed.
- 22:08The three of us have come through the Bone of Air
- 22:11discography and plucked out 20 songs that we're now going to
- 22:13mash together in an attempt to create a top 10 starter kit for
- 22:16you. In case you have never given
- 22:19Bonaver the time of day. And I'm going to go well outside
- 22:24of my normal playing pattern and, and normal strategy.
- 22:29I sometimes like with, with artists like this especially, I
- 22:33like to go to the point where I really knew I was, I was in more
- 22:37trouble than I thought I was with this guy specifically.
- 22:41I was like, OK, I see what's going on here, you know?
- 22:45And then I get to this song and I was like, well, shit, this is
- 22:48going to be a lot harder than I thought.
- 22:51How about things behind things behind things?
- 22:56I've got it. I don't have it.
- 22:58OK, I'll take that too. Yeah, I it goes into that.
- 23:03I think it's technically the second track on that record.
- 23:08No, maybe I don't know. But that starts playing and I'm
- 23:12like, oh shit. Again.
- 23:15Usually you get to that last record and you assume, OK,
- 23:18there's going to be a little bit of a fall off and you know,
- 23:21maybe, you know, maybe this will be the one that has the easy
- 23:25cuts. No, Sable Fable did not have the
- 23:29easy cuts so. And that's aside from just like
- 23:33some drone sound. That's the opener for that
- 23:36album. So I'm, I'm, I'm like you,
- 23:38Justin. I I love an opener.
- 23:41I love well, again, like, you know, tell me, tell me what's
- 23:44going on. And in this case, tell me what
- 23:48what's changed? And immediately you're telling
- 23:52me what's changed. You've set set the tone and I
- 23:55and I immediately knew that this album was going to be trouble
- 23:59from this song. So all right, things behind
- 24:03things takes a 2. It gets to remain alive.
- 24:06And we're going to move over to you, Luke.
- 24:10All right, I don't even know where to begin.
- 24:13I, I think I'm just going to nominate like favorites so that
- 24:18like let the heartbreak happen immediately.
- 24:22The, the song that you know, the way that you said you knew you
- 24:27were in trouble. The the song that made me
- 24:30realize like this guy's an all timer for me is off 20 to
- 24:341,000,000 and it's 33 God. I got it.
- 24:39OK, I don't, but we'll take that too.
- 24:43Take it too. Take it too.
- 24:45It's one of the things that I think is so cool about his music
- 24:50is it strikes me as almost like arena folk.
- 24:54Like the sounds are so big and epic on this and he's using like
- 24:59vocal samples and things like that.
- 25:02That 33 God like almost, you know, made an atheist like me be
- 25:07like, oh, I'm I I see what I yeah, take those quotes away
- 25:11from God in the title. I get you that.
- 25:16That's such a great way, arena folk.
- 25:19Yeah, I immediately locked in to what you were saying like that
- 25:24is a great description. And that, yeah, that's, they're
- 25:28my favorite songs of his. All right, we'll take that too.
- 25:32And Brandon? I'm going to go for an opener
- 25:38and see Blood Bank, yes. I got it.
- 25:42Oh, I've got it too. Yes, there we go.
- 25:47There we go. To be fair, I did not get a ton
- 25:52of answers from the Internet about this, but this is one that
- 25:59I got, I think twice. Yeah, twice.
- 26:02So, I mean, look, that did not inform my decision.
- 26:06I had already had it on my my list, but it kind of lives.
- 26:11Oh, funnily enough, I hadn't seen this image.
- 26:14There's an image of a car covered with snow for this.
- 26:20Who knew? Probably you guys, not me.
- 26:26Sometimes I should look at the things.
- 26:27But yeah, blood bank. Boom.
- 26:29Let me find it on this list and then we will move on.
- 26:35But it does kind of it does have that that cold thing that he
- 26:39does so well. All right, blood bank in.
- 26:46All right, let me put another one out that came through on the
- 26:56wire just to see. How about re stacks?
- 27:03I got it. Wow, look at us.
- 27:06Hey, hey, all right, boom and boom and let me find that here
- 27:21Yeah, this one was 641 is not something I usually want to
- 27:26bring to the table, but like it's fitting especially for this
- 27:33guy, right? Like it it doesn't feel like
- 27:37641, like it doesn't feel fast, but it doesn't feel like 6
- 27:41minutes and 41 seconds. I'm with you.
- 27:44I'm every time I listen to song I'm surprised by the runtime
- 27:47all. Right.
- 27:49Boom boom boom. And Luke?
- 27:54OK, so picking picking a song off the second album, I I could
- 28:03have had pretty much every track on there, but there is one that
- 28:07kind of feels like a standout and that's Holocene.
- 28:11I got it. I got it, yeah.
- 28:15See, we've already hit my 3. Yeah, see.
- 28:18I thought you said 4. Oh yeah, I said.
- 28:21I definitely said four. No, I said 3.
- 28:23Oh. See, you could have taken that.
- 28:26I mean I wrote down 3 but no, we could have changed it.
- 28:32But one of the things I, one of the reasons I said 3 is because
- 28:34I, I do feel like they're, you know, like just using this album
- 28:38as an example, I could see you all being like, no, that one's
- 28:41good. But and having some other song
- 28:45that I would agree, like yes, that one's also incredible.
- 28:47So. But Holocene does feel almost
- 28:51like maybe the most Bony bear, Bony bear song.
- 28:54Yeah. I love that.
- 28:56Yeah. All right.
- 28:59Boom, Brandon. I'm going to go for something on
- 29:07I, I. How about Rabbi?
- 29:13No. Not for me either.
- 29:16OK. I feel like I couldn't.
- 29:18I couldn't be hitting all dingers.
- 29:21I feel like that one's going to be hard, like those two in the
- 29:26middle of there are going to be hard for us to find, I think.
- 29:29Yeah. Because different years,
- 29:32different days, you know? Absolutely all.
- 29:36Right, I'll I'll stay there with you and see if we can't find
- 29:41one. Well, I already I already used
- 29:44this once. So how about hey Ma?
- 29:50I do have Hey ma all. Right.
- 29:56We'll take a two there. Take a 2.
- 30:01Boom and boom. Is is is the Bonnie Bear version
- 30:04better than the Camron version? It's a good question.
- 30:10I like how laid back it is. I'll say that that's what that's
- 30:15what brought me to the dance. All right, Luke.
- 30:24OK, let's go with. I'm going to stick with I, I
- 30:31since we're sort of in that run right now and I'm going to
- 30:34nominate Faith. Yeah, I got that.
- 30:38I don't have that one. We'll take another two, take
- 30:43another two there. Boom and boom 3 is not looking
- 30:48bad. There's still like plenty of
- 30:50gameplay. But yeah, all right, Brandon.
- 30:57OK, let's let's go back to to 22 million then.
- 31:01How about £29 signed Stratford Apartments?
- 31:07Yeah, I got it. I do not have it.
- 31:13See, that's and I know, yeah, everyone always like does this.
- 31:16That was my last cut. There's going to be a lot of
- 31:24that, a lot of those oh so close to my lists especially.
- 31:27I think like I said, with 22 a million in I, I, I feel like
- 31:32there's going to be a lot. Of them, I might regret that.
- 31:34I almost thought about lying right when you said 29.
- 31:37I almost, I almost went yeah. And then just cut out another
- 31:40one, you know, because I love that song.
- 31:43Yeah, but then you got to do the work of finding which one you're
- 31:45cutting. Exactly.
- 31:47Yeah, nobody wants that. All right.
- 31:53How would I try one from the second record?
- 31:55How about I presume this is Minnesota, Wisconsin.
- 32:02I have it I. Don't have that one.
- 32:05All right, this second layer conversation is already looking
- 32:10like it's going to be brutal. Yeah, no kidding.
- 32:14All right, Luke. Let's go with Sable Fable.
- 32:23I have day one. No, I got it a.
- 32:31Lot of twos. Yes, yes, and you know what I
- 32:38didn't do today that I I I did last time Luke, at last time
- 32:42when, when you jumped on the call, I was re listening to my
- 32:45list. I did not do that tonight.
- 32:48I mean of course it was because I was listening to devil's
- 32:50hockey, but also like it. It makes this conversation a lot
- 32:54easier. Yeah, you don't need you don't
- 32:58need some song that had already been off the list jumping up
- 33:00and. Right.
- 33:01And then trying to find where it goes.
- 33:05All right, let's see. Was that was Luke right day one?
- 33:09Yep. All right, Brandon.
- 33:15How about Beth Rest? Yes.
- 33:21I do not have it, I know. So I'm so sorry so much of that.
- 33:28I think we we have cleared NTPI don't think anything's coming
- 33:33out of the bin. Yeah, we definitely have.
- 33:35And things are actually going to have to get cut at this point.
- 33:38So all right, back around to me. I'll try another Sable fable.
- 33:50How about everything is peaceful love?
- 33:55I've got it. I don't have this.
- 34:03I almost exactly how I thought this was going to go though.
- 34:07Almost precisely. I also for everything is
- 34:12peaceful love. I like that song, but I wish
- 34:15that short story, the song that precedes it and like kind of
- 34:18flows into it. I wish it was just one track,
- 34:21the whole thing. And it might be my favorite,
- 34:24like, song that he's ever made if he just hadn't, like, cut
- 34:28them. I know that sounds stupid.
- 34:30But no, it doesn't. Honestly, I think that's what
- 34:33happened here is I think that track got me to pay attention
- 34:37and then when everything is when it flowed into peaceful of I'm
- 34:39not sure that I even noticed until I went back and noticed.
- 34:44Oh, the they're separate, but you know.
- 34:47Yeah, like I still like that. Yeah, they're always going to be
- 34:49grouped in my mind. All right, so it gets a 2 and
- 34:53these cuts look more and more brutal by the second.
- 34:56All right, Luke. Let's go with we'll go back to
- 35:02for Emma and shit for Emma, yes. I don't have to have what maybe
- 35:15my strategy going into this was. What?
- 35:19I don't know, man. There's a there is a lot here.
- 35:22We were all just, I think, no, I'm being, if I'm being honest,
- 35:26this is, this is exactly what listening to this was like.
- 35:31Like it is, it is the day you listen to it.
- 35:36Like if I would have listened to it again today, I would have had
- 35:38a different list probably, you know, save for a handful.
- 35:42Exactly how I feel. All right, Brandon, OK, how
- 35:48about here, here's here's one of the ones I have on from How
- 35:56about the wolves one and two? So good, but no.
- 36:02Yeah, so good. But no.
- 36:04Oh. OK, well, I'll, I'll, I'll take
- 36:07a, I'll take a a complete failure rather than another,
- 36:11another two at this point. I mean they're.
- 36:14Such good. Like each time I feel like
- 36:18personally apologizing to you. Like Brandon, I'm sorry I let
- 36:20you down. Sorry, I did you wrong.
- 36:27All right, we're starting to get down to it here.
- 36:32See, that was one answer I got. All right, let me try another
- 36:35Sable Fable answer that I got on from the Internet.
- 36:39How about there's a rhythm? I do not have it.
- 36:44No, I don't have that one. Oh, into the bin he goes, I
- 36:48mean. That's tough.
- 36:51I mean, deep into the game, but into the bin.
- 36:53All right, Luke. OK, back to let's do 20 to
- 37:041,000,000. I have 22 over soon.
- 37:11No, no, I know not to keep repeating myself, but that
- 37:18record was is just like a you could pick anything and that.
- 37:24Yeah. All right, Brandon.
- 37:31OK, how about under score 45? Under score?
- 37:47I'm sorry, we're looking at all these ones that were like, yeah,
- 37:53I can, I can, I can cut this one.
- 37:55Like, sure, like nobody's gonna bring these, right?
- 38:02I had a hard time with the back half of both 22 a million and I
- 38:06I because this like like the entire back half kind of feels
- 38:10like an extended kind of like jazzy piece.
- 38:14And so picking one track out was tough.
- 38:16I spoiler. I kind of did a little bit on
- 38:19one of them, but like all of those, the the whole second-half
- 38:24of 22 a million is just beautiful.
- 38:28I wonder if that's what happened and I just again didn't clock it
- 38:33as it was I. Couldn't remember what was what,
- 38:34it was calling it all. Right, I'll, I'll trot out a 22
- 38:40million song here just just to see.
- 38:43How about 00000 million? No.
- 38:49That was a late cut for me. I should have saved it for the
- 38:52dump out. All right, Speaking of that,
- 38:56hold on, let me give a count here. 123-4567 left.
- 39:03So yeah, I think we got like a round or two depending,
- 39:06depending on how we do here, Luke.
- 39:12Well, I kind of have a sense now of where we're at on 22 million.
- 39:17So I'm going back to Boney Ver, Boney Ver and I'm going to say
- 39:22Perth. Oh fuck me no.
- 39:26Another late that for me. All right, Brandon.
- 39:32OK. This I think should be an easy
- 39:35one just to keep keep get our get our spirits back.
- 39:39How about space side? Yeah, I got it.
- 39:44Should be an easy one. Guess what?
- 39:51We'll take the two there, though at this point we, you know, even
- 39:54though it's already going to be difficult, we'll take the 2.
- 39:58I can't, Brandon, I'm sorry. That's.
- 40:03Right, all right, I think we'll call this one our last last
- 40:06round. So, so trot out your your best
- 40:08shots here. That's a 2.
- 40:14You know what my best shot is? I guess the last one that I got
- 40:18is an answer, even though that hasn't traditionally done me
- 40:22very well tonight. How about skinny love?
- 40:27Yes. Nope, I know skinny love.
- 40:35Skinny love was on there and then when I I I basically like
- 40:38subbed blood bank for skinny love.
- 40:42Is it the the covers kind of over saturating it for you or?
- 40:48You know what? Maybe it is because the song has
- 40:52sort of fallen for me over time, and it might just be that I
- 40:55listened to it too much and now I don't have the same kind of
- 40:58relationship to it. But it felt like it felt like
- 41:04that and Blood Bank take up a similar space in in his story
- 41:08and like in the fandom. So I wanted to just choose one
- 41:11of the two. Understandable.
- 41:14All right, Luke. OK, this is hard y'all let's go
- 41:25with you know it's kind of like a an opener track, but I I opens
- 41:34with I me lowercase I capital M lowercase I.
- 41:43Very good, but no. No.
- 41:47All right. All right, Brandon.
- 41:53OK, how, how about let's, let's, let's bury the hatchet.
- 41:58I guess with with I, I I'm going to say, should I or shittiest
- 42:04day in American history? Nope, no, no, wait.
- 42:15All right, so we have a chance still there's there's a I've got
- 42:19a, a good four or five left that maybe we we hit a walk off here
- 42:25to get a couple more. But all right, I'm going to
- 42:28start at the top flume. Yes.
- 42:32Yes, I have Flume. I kept dancing around that one.
- 42:37Why did we keep dancing around that one?
- 42:41Amazing. It's it's it's.
- 42:42The obvious pick, I mean, come on.
- 42:44I mean, yeah, but I mean, we were floundering around here
- 42:47forever like we could have just we we're.
- 42:51We're just, we're just edging the audience.
- 42:53You know, there's there's nothing wrong with that.
- 42:56We're like, yeah, all. Right, boom boom.
- 43:02That brings us up to four at least.
- 43:04So I'm back on the hook because it's possible that we hit my 5.
- 43:08All right. Next is Wash, which maybe it's
- 43:11sort for Washington. I got it.
- 43:15I do not have it. All right, we'll take another
- 43:18two there. Was a brutal cut.
- 43:21No kidding. All right, next you manlike.
- 43:30No, no. No, Marion.
- 43:36No, no. All right, and last chance to
- 43:42put me on the heat, Walk home. No, no.
- 43:48All right, so we're going to land at 4:00, which means we are
- 43:51going to have to work out all the rest of it.
- 43:56But you can make it a little harder here, Luke.
- 44:02How so? Dumping out whatever you got
- 44:04left. Oh, jumping out.
- 44:06Sorry, Towers. No.
- 44:14Wow, it seems like I have a lot left.
- 44:15This is weird. 666 Weird upside down crucifix.
- 44:22No upside down T, lowercase T. Yeah, what is that thing?
- 44:328 circle. No.
- 44:39And then Nayeem off I, I. Yes.
- 44:45Take that too. That one was a close one for me.
- 44:49It was really. And then I'm still dumping,
- 44:53right? Because I still have.
- 44:54One more got left. Yep.
- 44:55OK then, if only I could wait from sable fable.
- 45:00That was a leak up for me. All right.
- 45:04And then for shits and gigs, Brandon, whatever you got left.
- 45:08I had Calgary short story and I'll be there.
- 45:18Let's see, I'll be there was an answer I got really late today
- 45:21on on Facebook and it almost made me go back and listen.
- 45:28But like I said, I don't want to do the work.
- 45:33I'll be there's so it's so great.
- 45:38I'm kind of shocked that awards season didn't get brought up.
- 45:43I mean, obviously none of us had it, so like, I don't feel bad
- 45:46for not grabbing it, but it was one I was listening to last week
- 45:51right before the call that I was like, well shit, do I need to
- 45:54make room for this? So apparently I was wrong.
- 45:59All right, so we got 4 here. Let me sort this sheet here.
- 46:04We can go down it. We're we're off to a good start.
- 46:06Even though we covered like the entire gamut here.
- 46:10We got blood bank re stacks Holocene and Flume are in and
- 46:16then how many twos are there here 14 that we need to trim
- 46:23down to 6. I want to start reading these
- 46:27down things behind things behind things 33 God Hey ma faith 29 LB
- 46:35sign Strafford apartments Minnesota Wisconsin day one Beth
- 46:41rest everything is peaceful love for Emma space side skinny love
- 46:47Wash may be short for Washington.
- 46:49Who knows? And Naeem, but as I read those
- 46:53down as the one that's kind of jumping out at you, Luke, that
- 46:56is like, man, we really should have had that one.
- 47:01I mean, a few, definitely a few of them are like, I feel guilt
- 47:06for not having 29 Stratford apartments because I love that
- 47:09song so much. And then I actually, I think we
- 47:12should just push in Beth Rest because I think that's an
- 47:16important song. And there's actually a version
- 47:20of it, like a very acoustic quiet version that was, I don't
- 47:26know, it's like it recorded at the Rare Book room.
- 47:28I don't even know what that is, but that's how I look it up is
- 47:31the rare Book Room version that is also beautiful and doesn't
- 47:35have any of that big 80s since stuff going on.
- 47:38So Beth Rest is the one that jumps out is like that should
- 47:41probably be in there. All right.
- 47:45He's proposing also taking Stratford Apartments.
- 47:48Brandon, I mean, you're on both of those, obviously.
- 47:52Are you good with grabbing both of those?
- 47:55Oh yeah. All right, let's do that.
- 47:57I always like to just make sure. All right, So is there one that
- 48:01we're taking both of those Beth Reston 29 Strafford apartments?
- 48:07Is there one that was jumping out at you, Brandon, that you
- 48:09feel like me and we should have had that one?
- 48:27Probably I'm trying to going back and forth like seeing if
- 48:37there were like some some hard cuts that I made that you guys
- 48:42were were all in on. I think maybe for Emma this is
- 48:49another starting debut album. 1 couldn't hurt.
- 48:59OK, let's grab that boom. And that brings us what to seven
- 49:05now? All right, so the next hard
- 49:09question before we do anything else, what do we think about
- 49:14album representation? Is this something that we we
- 49:17feel is important to have here? I kind of think it is unless it
- 49:25it'd be it'd be a fun little like whiplash for people to be
- 49:29like, OK, all right, I get it. Flume for Emma stacks blood bank
- 49:33and then all of a sudden we're just like, here's Naeem.
- 49:40But yeah, like, because he does seem like this project does seem
- 49:45to be so based around different eras and things.
- 49:48I think it'd be nice to get the later albums at least one one
- 49:52track represented all. Right.
- 49:54So let's tackle our I, I selection first.
- 50:00So we've got hey, Ma, Faith and Naeem to choose from.
- 50:06Is it one that's kind of you're kind of leaning towards Luke?
- 50:11Oh well, selfishly faith because it's it might be my favorite
- 50:15song is and it it really does that arena folk thing so well.
- 50:22But hey, Ma also feels like the kind of representative track
- 50:28from that album, so. So I both of those, do you have
- 50:34an inclination either way Brandon or did you want to go to
- 50:38bet for Naim here? Yeah, I didn't.
- 50:44I I I didn't really listen to to the picks either, but but I had
- 50:51both of those, both of those were close to making it for me.
- 50:57As As for for I did, I did some other research, though, looking
- 51:04at like what people online like the the the top plays from Baudi
- 51:12Ver to see how we compared once we get to the end of our list.
- 51:16So you'll have to stay tuned for the after show.
- 51:22What? But I think, I think, Hey, Mama
- 51:28is one that people like. OK.
- 51:33So that might that. Might be up some and you know,
- 51:35this isn't saying this isn't saying faith is going in the bin
- 51:39because we still have two more picks after this.
- 51:42It's just saying let's take ham off first.
- 51:45So let's do that all right now, and I go ahead.
- 51:49Hamah almost didn't make my list, but for the same reason
- 51:52that Brandon said it, it feels like kind of the most popular
- 51:56track from that album, and it's such a good time listening to
- 51:59that song that I think it should be included here.
- 52:02We go, all right, so let's look at these Sable Fable tracks.
- 52:09Yeah, we. So we've got things behind
- 52:10things behind things day one. Everything is peaceful love and
- 52:17space side to choose from. And I feel like this is like,
- 52:24yeah, true splits. I think I had everything.
- 52:27I had everything but day one. It looks like Luke had things
- 52:32behind things day one and peaceful love and Brandon didn't
- 52:38have things behind things or peaceful love.
- 52:41I had everything else. So is there a way you guys are
- 52:46leaning on these tracks for? Me.
- 52:54Go for it, Brandon. Oh, I was going to.
- 52:55Say he's like, I think we could probably leave, even though it's
- 53:00an awesome song. As as as are, you know, all the
- 53:02ones we pick because what else would we would we pick them?
- 53:06Probably space side because I think that that sound is sort of
- 53:09represented with the earlier sort of albums and stuff.
- 53:16And while it's kind of, like, cool to hear him dip back into
- 53:19it on a later album, in the context of this sort of
- 53:22playlist, it's, you know, kind of like, OK, yeah, we, we know
- 53:26that he does this as a song. Yeah, I get that.
- 53:30So. Yeah, I was going to say the
- 53:31exact same thing all. Right.
- 53:33So we'll drop and. Maybe even maybe even things
- 53:36behind things for the same reason.
- 53:37That said it, it's a little more like early bonaver then, OK.
- 53:42The other options, No, I'm with that too.
- 53:43Yeah. I mean, whatever makes this part
- 53:45easier. All right.
- 53:49So really, we're looking at day one versus everything is
- 53:52peaceful love. I mean, again, we have enough
- 53:58room to take them both. Is this a one or the other
- 54:01situation? Yeah, maybe I this is nitpicky.
- 54:09The vibe of Hey Ma and everything is peaceful love feel
- 54:12similar in a way. And then this might this might
- 54:17be a reach. But one of the cool things about
- 54:19day one to me is that there are a couple of other artists like
- 54:25featured on it, which hints a little bit towards Justin
- 54:29Vernon's greater project of working with a lot of different
- 54:33artists. Like like Big Red Machines last
- 54:36album was basically a totally collaborative piece with like
- 54:42all kinds of different artists. And then day one has Dijon and
- 54:46Flock of Dimes, which is Jess Wagner from Y Oak.
- 54:52And so like, I, I think it'd be cool to hint at the fact that he
- 54:56is so collaborative with that track.
- 54:59I mean. Is that a reach?
- 55:01I don't think so. I, you know, we're again, we're
- 55:06trying to show what this guy does and if we don't want to, if
- 55:13we don't want to kind of push same vibe slash same sound type
- 55:18stuff like, which is what you said with peaceful love, then I
- 55:23mean, day one would be the natural choice.
- 55:25And you know, I just got to ask you, Brandon, you were in on
- 55:28that one. You weren't in on peaceful love.
- 55:30Is this a hard sell for you? No, I, I, I, I like the, the,
- 55:41the, the logic of it sort of being collaborative and sort of
- 55:47like a big, you know, sort of coming from being alone in the
- 55:53cabin that there were other people that were there to put up
- 55:56and everything like that. But like, and then to like the
- 56:01big huge sort of collaborative, just throwing in a bunch of
- 56:06people. Jamming out, man.
- 56:11All right, so we'll grab that as our 9th song.
- 56:15Now the big question. We've got one more spot.
- 56:19Everything is now represented. Is this just a Best Song goes in
- 56:27Let me run down What what we got left here.
- 56:29We got 33 God faith still hanging around Minnesota,
- 56:33Wisconsin. I guess technically everything
- 56:37is peaceful. Love is out and then skinny Love
- 56:42and Wash is one of those jumping out at you, Luke.
- 56:50Yeah, a lot of the tracks are jumping out at me, but in a
- 56:53weird way I maybe I'm too influenced by like Boney Bear
- 57:02fans. I think 20 to 1,000,000 for a
- 57:07lot of people, particularly Bonaver people is really
- 57:12important. And I'd almost like I would
- 57:14argue that we should just pick y'all pick whatever track you
- 57:17want off of 20 to 1,000,000 and that should be included because
- 57:22we have you like you know what I mean?
- 57:24Like we have one on there and we all went with a bunch of
- 57:28different tracks from it. But I think it's it's an
- 57:31important album for his evolution and I'd love to see
- 57:36another one in there, whichever one it is.
- 57:38All right, so that would point to 33.
- 57:40God being the only one. That's the.
- 57:44Only one that had a 2. Yeah, the only one still around.
- 57:48You both had it. I didn't.
- 57:50If you're good with it, Brandon, we can put that one through
- 57:53that. One good.
- 57:56All right, boom, let's do it. Let's not overthink the room,
- 57:59eh? Beautiful.
- 58:01All right, so let me shift that out.
- 58:03I'll ring down this 10 and then we'll crank up the heat a little
- 58:05bit. Be funny if I if I did the math
- 58:08wrong and it was actually 11 and we had to go back and cut it.
- 58:12All right, so we've got blood bank restacks, Holocene flume 29
- 58:18hashtag Stratford apartments. Could be could be hashtag.
- 58:23Who knows? Beth rest for Emma.
- 58:25Hey, ma day one and a 33. God, I read those 10 down to
- 58:30you, Luke. And which one of them is the
- 58:33one? The one to me, I hinted at it
- 58:38earlier. I think it's Holocene.
- 58:40What? Do you think, Brandon?
- 58:43I I was actually just about to say that too, because when when
- 58:48we mentioned that, it's sort of like, like everybody was sort of
- 58:54like picked up like, Oh yeah, oh, it's like, Oh yeah, yeah,
- 58:56that, that. Yeah, yeah, you know, again, why
- 59:03fight it like. Yes, it's, it's late.
- 59:07It's been a long day. We'll just yeah.
- 59:10Justin so agreeable. He's like the devil's one.
- 59:12Let's let's just wrap this whatever you want.
- 59:15But I mean, like, not to be that guy, but I, I do feel like there
- 59:20something could be said about all these really.
- 59:22Like, I feel like he's rather prolific, especially, especially
- 59:28if you're me and you came in through the Taylor Swift gate
- 59:31like it is. So it is exactly what you think
- 59:35it is, but it also is so much more than what you think it is.
- 59:37And you know, for that, I, I really, I really enjoyed this
- 59:42journey with this gentleman. So we're going to go with
- 59:46Holocene. We're not going to fight it.
- 59:49Let's run it down one last go. Holocene is our number one blood
- 59:51bank. Restacks Flume 29 Stratford
- 59:56apartments. Beth rest for Emma.
- 59:57Hey, Ma, day 133. God, my brain isn't working
- 1:00:00correctly. But that doesn't mean we're not
- 1:00:02going to give Holocene a moment in the sun.
- 1:00:14Fucking hell. That's good.
- 1:00:17That's good, fellas. I also I don't know if I've ever
- 1:00:21related to a lyric more than at once.
- 1:00:23I knew I was not magnificent. Good Lord.
- 1:00:28That strikes a chord. Especially right now as I try to
- 1:00:32wrap this up because oh boy, am I not magnificent.
- 1:00:35Hey everybody, we have done it. We've turned you on to Bona
- 1:00:38Bear. Maybe you are like me and only
- 1:00:40know the one song. Here's your chance to go ahead
- 1:00:42and get into him. Maybe you've been calling him a
- 1:00:45Bone Ivor this whole time like me.
- 1:00:47Also duh. And like Jason Bateman.
- 1:00:50And like Bateman, like so look, we're not alone, but we should
- 1:00:55be right about it. And now we are.
- 1:00:56There you go. Here's a 10 song list for you to
- 1:00:59listen to and get into him. Is it is well worth it is worth
- 1:01:04noting. It is well worth the time it'll
- 1:01:05take you to listen to the entirety of his discography.
- 1:01:09It isn't a lot. I think it was like six out or
- 1:01:12five albums. It's 60 songs like it.
- 1:01:15It's not It will not take you too long to go through.
- 1:01:19It is worth picking through. It is worth just giving it the
- 1:01:22time to really kind of really pull in what this guy can do.
- 1:01:27But I think we we've set you up nicely with this playlist.
- 1:01:30Hey man, you want to argue about it?
- 1:01:31Wherever you're listening to this, stop writing it.
- 1:01:34Well, continue listening, continue listening.
- 1:01:38Don't stop listening, continue listening, but leave a comment
- 1:01:41saying hey, this is what I think you guys got wrong.
- 1:01:44It's cool. We can agree to disagree, but if
- 1:01:48you're going to do that, please leave a five star review.
- 1:01:51It would be super appreciated. I would appreciate that more
- 1:01:53than I could ever put into words.
- 1:01:56Sharing is caring, of course, if you want at times is tough.
- 1:02:00I get it if you've got that little bit extra
- 1:02:02patreon.com/show. Hi Justin.
- 1:02:04A dollar a month gets you in the door.
- 1:02:06It gets you deprogrammed before the rest of the world.
- 1:02:08It gives you the conversation we're about to have where
- 1:02:10Brandon's going to release how we did versus, you know, how
- 1:02:14many people have listened to these tracks.
- 1:02:16Just saying that's the after the fact conversation that's about
- 1:02:18to happen. You also get the ever so
- 1:02:21occasional oh, hi Justin. I'm working on trying to get it
- 1:02:25back into my schedule, but Devil's Hockey just started so
- 1:02:30maybe I'm a sports guy right now, you know?
- 1:02:32All that also gets you access to the Discord server, and if you
- 1:02:38kick up to the $5 level, it gets you access to certain channels
- 1:02:41in the Discord server as well. Don't want to do any of that,
- 1:02:44but want to join the Discord? That's cool.
- 1:02:46Just ask me for a link, we'll get you there.
- 1:02:49Come in, grow a tree, we count. There's deprogram panel channels
- 1:02:54where you can say, hey, I'd like to talk about this band and find
- 1:02:56people to talk about it, talk about them with you.
- 1:03:00There's also the Music League, all sorts of stuff happening in
- 1:03:03the Legion of stupid Discord. Come hang, it's a good time.
- 1:03:07I mentioned sharing is caring. We're on all podcast platforms,
- 1:03:10so share it from wherever. But honestly, the best way to
- 1:03:13share is by telling somebody that you listen to the show.
- 1:03:15Hey, I listen to deprogram and who should to and with that
- 1:03:19owner, Vera, learn them in loving people.
- 1:03:20We will see you next week. Goodbye.