Latest / Deprogrammed Music Podcast / Botch
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- 0:33It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
- 0:37band. That's right.
- 0:38We've done all the work for you. All you have to do is press play
- 0:41and listen. You could my name is Justin and
- 0:44you could say I'm band curious. I like to discover new bands and
- 0:48what a better place to do it than this podcast if if you are
- 0:51like me. But I like to bring in my
- 0:53friends to talk about bands that they love and they try to get me
- 0:56into it. And in doing so, we come out
- 0:59with A10 top 10 starter kit list for you to listen to so you can
- 1:03get into the band today. You could say that I don't know,
- 1:07we're going to do Japan. You could say we're going to
- 1:10Spain, you'd say we're going to France, Nicaragua, however you
- 1:15want to do it, any of those countries.
- 1:18Or you could just say we're talking about botch.
- 1:20And the way this is listed, I, I have to.
- 1:25So John, you're first, which I assume means it was probably on
- 1:28a big list at a point that that you submitted.
- 1:33Yeah. So talk, talk to me about.
- 1:36Botch is a band I've wanted to do for a long time.
- 1:38OK, so we're finally getting him off the list.
- 1:41So talk to me about Botch. Yeah, Botch is one of those
- 1:46bands that, again, like, transcended their genre a little
- 1:51bit. Like they're they're ostensibly
- 1:53a hardcore band, but they take elements of like metal, punk and
- 1:57indie rock and all different kinds of things to kind of like,
- 2:01like they're very technical. They kind of meld it all
- 2:03together to make this, like, unique sound that like no one
- 2:07else had. And like, you know, we did Cave
- 2:09In last year and like kind of a similar thing, but Cave In took
- 2:14it in a very different direction.
- 2:15Like they went a more commercial direction, a more like rock
- 2:18oriented thing. But botch was like for a while
- 2:22they were like the heaviest thing going.
- 2:24And like when those records came out, I was like, man, there's
- 2:27nothing else that sounds like this.
- 2:28So you haven't wanted to do them for a long time?
- 2:31So funnily enough, I, I, I see conversations going on in, in
- 2:38the deprogram channels occasionally that I, I can't
- 2:41chime in on. And I think Brian, you had
- 2:45signed up for initially, like on the sign up sheet or something.
- 2:48And I remember seeing you kind of talking about, about botch.
- 2:54So I'm, I'm curious as to where I, I feel like I read that this
- 2:59was like just a band that you kind of have discovered and you
- 3:02were like, Oh, well, this was an excuse to get in on.
- 3:07Yeah. So I was going through the list.
- 3:10I think John had mentioned it, you know, he, I, I think he
- 3:13listed like in the chat, like that's right, like 15 bands have
- 3:17been kicking around for a long time and he really wanted to get
- 3:19to. So usually when, when people do
- 3:22that, like I'll go through real quick and just, you know, give
- 3:26like a quick listen to all the bands.
- 3:29And I'm not usually like the biggest like punk fan.
- 3:32So I was like, ah, you know what, you know, you know, and I
- 3:36know like a lot of John's bands are.
- 3:38So I started listening through and I don't even remember which
- 3:41song or two, like I picked from this band to like, listen to.
- 3:44And I was like, OK, this is a little more hardcore.
- 3:47Like, like, I do like, a lot more like hardcore punk.
- 3:50And I listen to basically any kind of metal.
- 3:53So I was like, yeah, you know, I'll put it on there.
- 3:57And then I think it was even like, still like, you know,
- 4:00months and months later, still hadn't happened.
- 4:02And then, yeah, so this was kind.
- 4:04And then I kind of like forgot about it.
- 4:06So this was kind of like, this was almost purely like a
- 4:09discovery for me, besides like the two songs I listened to
- 4:14before I agreed to hop on with him.
- 4:19So referencing that list, I I think it ended up on another
- 4:23list that John put in in the chat.
- 4:27And then Andrew was like, yeah, and this is how bad?
- 4:30I won't go into full details, but you guys need to know, you
- 4:34need to know this part of the story of how bad Andrew wanted
- 4:38to come talk about botch today, feeling a bit under the weather
- 4:42because of life circumstances and was bowing out.
- 4:46And when we said, well, we probably can't reschedule, he
- 4:50was like, you know what? I really want to be here, screw
- 4:54it, I'm staying up. So Andrew, clearly this one is
- 4:58is a big one for you. Talk to me about botch.
- 5:02So yeah, Botch is a band that I I know I've mentioned in my past
- 5:09episodes, like kind of how there's these formative moments
- 5:17in like my musical discovery and my musical journey and around I
- 5:25would have been around 1718 years old when I discovered like
- 5:31I was I was already in the kind of heavy stuff at the time, more
- 5:35on the more like, you know, new metal, like system of a down and
- 5:40Tool and deaf tones, that kind of stuff.
- 5:42And then, you know, I, we finally get Internet and Nova
- 5:47Scotia and I get Limewire and I start discovering all these
- 5:58underground bands just from like them, like on a website or
- 6:04something being compared to, you know, just moved down or
- 6:08whatever. And that's kind of how I
- 6:12discovered this scene, like not the scene, but this genre of
- 6:19metal or punk, like the, the metallic hardcore, I think is
- 6:23what they kind of refer to it as instead of saying metal core,
- 6:28cause metal core is kind of a slur.
- 6:29If you're, if you could like listen to underground music or
- 6:33play underground music. So this stuff I always seem
- 6:37referred to as metallic hardcore, like botch, for
- 6:40instance, cave in converge donor escape plan between the buried
- 6:45and me's early stuff like that kind of thing.
- 6:48So botch just kind of came to me through my discovery of a lot of
- 6:53that other stuff. And botch is one that
- 6:59immediately grabbed me. Whereas I think I had mentioned
- 7:03in The Cave in episode, like cave in didn't get me right
- 7:06away. Like it took it took took me a
- 7:08while to warm up to them, but botch, like I heard the songs
- 7:13that I downloaded off want Limewire.
- 7:15The first two were Saint Matthew Returns to the womb and dead for
- 7:23a minute. And it was like 5 seconds into
- 7:27Saint Matthew returns to the womb hearing that riff.
- 7:31And it was just like that. It changed me, you know, like it
- 7:37changed the way that I looked at heavy music instead of thinking
- 7:42it of heavy music as just like this like simple, like
- 7:52aggressive type thing. It was Bach was.
- 7:59They were still aggressive and heavy, but it was sophisticated
- 8:06in the musicality of it. Yeah.
- 8:10And it really, I don't know, Botch just always really spoke
- 8:14to right from right from the first time I heard them, which
- 8:18it was that it would have been after they had broken up because
- 8:21I think they broke up in 2002, but it was just after.
- 8:26So yeah, I've, I've had more than 20 years of listening to
- 8:30this band and I still absolutely love them to this day.
- 8:35That always the way you find a band and they're gone.
- 8:40Yeah. So the good news here is like
- 8:43John, well, first let me state this is, you know, like I need
- 8:47to say it. This is a band I'd never heard
- 8:49of before. I think.
- 8:51I think my friend Josh maybe had bandied around this name before
- 8:55listening to them. They sound like a band my my old
- 8:58drummer Evan may have been into at a point, but nothing really
- 9:05kind of like sent those bells of, yeah, I remember this coming
- 9:10on my radar. So this is like a completely off
- 9:12the radar band for me. So that said, like there's not a
- 9:16lot here, John. It's it's 43 songs when you're
- 9:21looking at it like, what are you looking to bring to the table
- 9:24again? This is something you've been
- 9:25wanting to talk about for a while.
- 9:26Is there there stuff that came to you like immediately?
- 9:30Yeah, like, and you know, when I first started to work on my
- 9:34list, I was like, OK, so like I the stuff I know, like American
- 9:38Nervoso, we are the Romans 2 full lengths.
- 9:41I have a bunch of stuff from that.
- 9:42There's the the singles collection and like it's, you
- 9:45know, I had some of that stuff on in different things.
- 9:49So I knew some of that stuff. I was like, this will be pretty
- 9:51easy. Like I'll be able to go through
- 9:52and like I said, 40 something songs get to pick, you know,
- 9:56every other one. Basically this, this won't, this
- 9:58won't be, won't be a problem, but it was much harder than I
- 10:01thought. Like I, I had to really, you
- 10:05know, stress about, you know, numbers 1819 and 20.
- 10:08Like there's some songs that are going to get mentioned that I'm
- 10:11not going to have and I'm going to be, I'm going to be upset
- 10:14about it. But All in all, I mean, like,
- 10:17and like usually like we got to talk about covers too, Like
- 10:21Botch has two amazing covers. And normally that would be a
- 10:25spot for me to go, OK, that's something I can cut.
- 10:28But it didn't necessarily work out that way on this one.
- 10:30So I had to make room for more stuff than I usually have to
- 10:33make room for. And it ended up being a lot
- 10:36harder than I thought it was going to be.
- 10:38So Brian, being that that this was a discovery other than, you
- 10:42know, those few songs that you kind of, you know, checked out
- 10:46to do the sign up, what was this list building like?
- 10:50Was it, you know, did you just build from the ground up and and
- 10:54go there or how did it go for you?
- 10:58I did a full listen and see that's what's so I said, you
- 11:02know, I do listen to every type of metal.
- 11:05Like I I usually put this under like noise metal kind of like
- 11:10them and like Dillinger and so like like which I do like, but
- 11:14I'm not always in the mood for it.
- 11:16Like I have to be in the mood for it to listen to it.
- 11:19So if I'm not in the mood for it, I'll listen to this list and
- 11:22be like, Nah, Nah, Nah. So I, so I had to, you know,
- 11:26make sure that I was in the right frame of mind to actually
- 11:29like listen to it and enjoy it and stuff like that.
- 11:33It was, it was a a lot tougher than I thought it was going to
- 11:37be, but getting, getting get getting down to that final 20
- 11:46was, was actually tough. I I, I mostly just went for the
- 11:50ones that like, you know, I like the most, you know, had, you
- 11:56know, had a lot of those elements, like Andrew said,
- 11:59where, you know, where you mix in like, like the art along with
- 12:07like the noise and stuff. And, you know, like a lot of
- 12:12like the kind of like tongue in cheek humor that they seem to
- 12:18have, you know, so it was, it was, it was tough for me, but I,
- 12:25I think I have a good list here. So being a fan for them as long
- 12:33as you've been Andrew, is this was this something that you kind
- 12:36of you kind of threw together fast or were you having, you
- 12:40know, list envy or was this difficult?
- 12:49No, it wasn't super difficult. Not like Matt's like Matt's was
- 12:55the hardest time I've had easily by far.
- 12:59This one was relatively easy for me to get down to like the mid
- 13:0420s almost right away. It did take some time getting
- 13:12220, but yeah, no, it wasn't wasn't too crazy difficult.
- 13:20What I did this go round is I was playing shit.
- 13:26What's the name of that card game I downloaded for free?
- 13:28I don't know, Bilatro, I was playing bilatro and I just
- 13:33listened to the whole list and look, I'll be honest, this type
- 13:37of metal is normally not my jam. Like normally just not something
- 13:43I'd I'd be into. But there are moments in this
- 13:47discog where that froze me. Like, I just stopped playing and
- 13:51was like, aw, OK, this is what I'm after.
- 13:57I think, you know, if I had to pin it down, it's probably like,
- 14:01Andrew Bryan, you guys were were talking about those, those artsy
- 14:04moments kind of finding their way in.
- 14:07And I was, you know, when they do what they do well, oh, you
- 14:12can really lock in on this band. And then there's moments where
- 14:15you're just kind of like, OK, yeah.
- 14:17I tried not to overthink it and try to really lean into those
- 14:21moments that made me stop and go, whoa.
- 14:25I liked that a lot. And I don't typically do that
- 14:30with a band. I, you know, I try to like,
- 14:32represent different sounds. I try to, you know, represent
- 14:36different albums. I but no, I mean, I leaned
- 14:38heavily into whoa with this one. And to John's point, yeah, man,
- 14:43there are a couple really cool covers in in this playlist.
- 14:48And I'm not going to lie or, or try to say that I don't have one
- 14:53because I may or may not have one.
- 14:56Just saying that that's again, how you know that a band can can
- 15:03do something. Because if you can take a cover
- 15:06and make it exactly your own, you know, you're on to
- 15:09something. So we'll talk about that as we
- 15:11get there. 43 songs, John. I mean it.
- 15:14The math suggests that we should, we should mop this one
- 15:18up. This should be easy, but do you
- 15:21think it it it works out that way?
- 15:26So you kind of hit on my you, you've been paying attention.
- 15:30My strategy now is just to do analytics and just base it on
- 15:33math. And yeah, the math like works
- 15:37out. I'm pretty optimistic just based
- 15:40on how many songs, but poor people like it's, it's throws a
- 15:46little bit of a wrench into it. So I'm not, I'm not going to go
- 15:49super high like in the 8 or 9 range, but I'm going to say 6.
- 15:53I like 6 feels right we think, Brian.
- 16:02I don't know. See, I was gonna actually, I was
- 16:03actually going to go low because although you only have 43 songs,
- 16:12like I'm trying to think of how many I I believe are home runs.
- 16:16Like, I don't know. I also don't want a final say
- 16:22because I feel like anytime I do a discovery, no, I like, I do
- 16:26like like anytime I feel like I'd like I'm doing like a
- 16:28discovery. And if I win final, say, I feel
- 16:33like the other panel members who are like lifelong fans were
- 16:35going to be pissed. So I'm gonna go low just for
- 16:39that. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say 3.
- 16:41Welcome to my world, friend. All right.
- 16:45So I mean, there's a lot of stuff open here.
- 16:47Andrew, you know, John is leaning positive with six and
- 16:51Brian's going the low route with three.
- 16:56I'm gonna, I'm gonna go bold because I think especially based
- 17:02on comments about liking, you know, the, the left field parts
- 17:11in their music, I'm going to be optimistic.
- 17:15I'm going to say 9. Wow, I love that.
- 17:23See, Brian's already taken my bit.
- 17:25So where do I go with that? You know, I'll, I'm just going
- 17:32to go split right down the middle with five.
- 17:35It's like the first time in a long time it's been there.
- 17:37So I'm going to I'll take the five.
- 17:39All right, we're going to take a quick break.
- 17:42And on the other side of it, we're going to play the game.
- 17:44It's the program. And with that, the name of the
- 17:53game is deprogrammed. The four of us have combed
- 17:55through the Botch discography and plucked out 20 songs that
- 17:59were now going to mash together in an attempt to create a top 10
- 18:01starter kit for you. In case you have never given
- 18:04Botch at the time of day. And I'm going different this
- 18:07time. I'm going to go with one of
- 18:09those moments that I talked about earlier.
- 18:11Like I feel like the first time I went whoa, whoa.
- 18:16And I had to stop for a second and really kind of take in what
- 18:20this band was doing. And funnily enough, it's it's a
- 18:24a song that's already come up in conversation.
- 18:27And it's also a song I was listening to right before we
- 18:29went on. And it gave me that same
- 18:32feeling. So I was like, well, that's my
- 18:34lead off. I'm going to go with Dead for a
- 18:36minute. Yep.
- 18:43Yep. Yep.
- 18:45Hey, yeah, that one felt home runny when you know, the the
- 18:50second time I heard it or the I guess the third time I heard it
- 18:55when I was listening to it today, that one really just
- 19:01really did a number on me. I was like, oh, some some really
- 19:08great guitar tones come on computer, keep up with me.
- 19:12Boom, One for one. We'll take that, John.
- 19:17All right, this is, uh, the title of this is something I've
- 19:19been saying to you for a long time, Justin.
- 19:21I'm glad someone put a song to it.
- 19:23How about I want to be a sex symbol on my own terms?
- 19:29I have it. I don't but.
- 19:33Yeah, I have it. All right.
- 19:35Hey, very nice take that three. You might come in happy or might
- 19:41come in handy later. I don't know why I missed that
- 19:46one. Maybe I just didn't see the song
- 19:49title. All right, Brian.
- 19:53OK, All right. So I think I know where I'm
- 19:58going to go. I want to say this was.
- 20:01This was not spoiled for me. I didn't post my vote in the in
- 20:07the last music league until literally 5 minutes ago and I
- 20:12already had this song written down before I noticed that
- 20:15Andrew put it up. Transitions from person to
- 20:19object. Oh yeah, yeah, I got it.
- 20:24No. Oh.
- 20:28That's an interesting 3. We'll take it, though.
- 20:32We'll take the three. All right, boom and boom 3.
- 20:40All right, Andrew. All right, let's go.
- 20:49First song, first album. Hot and great Heat Engine and
- 20:56yeah. Yeah, I got it.
- 21:01Definitely, yeah. So that song, when the first
- 21:08time I heard that song and when I hear that as they're playing,
- 21:13I hear Dave Knudsen be tuning his E string down an octave mid
- 21:21song and playing that one note riff throat.
- 21:25Like for the part they say that the song's about getting buried
- 21:31by like a volcanic eruption, I guess, or a landslide or
- 21:34something. I think it was.
- 21:36And and when he screams and it buries us by the hundreds and
- 21:42the guitars all tuned down and it's just that one note.
- 21:46Like you can hear that E string slapping off of the the pickups.
- 21:53It's so detuned. Like, yeah, just unreal.
- 21:56Unreal. Again, you, you, you know, I
- 21:59mean, first of all, I picked it because whenever you do the
- 22:02thing, like I'm, I'm a, I'm always a huge fan of doing the
- 22:05thing. But like also this is like those
- 22:11moments where like, so I picked it initially on my first list
- 22:16because they do the thing. When I came back around it, it
- 22:19stayed on my list because, again, it's another one of those
- 22:22whoa moments where it's like, oh, fuck yeah, this is what this
- 22:25band does. So all right.
- 22:30Oh, shit. Back around to me.
- 22:34Well, this is the song I have listed at three.
- 22:36My first two are gone already. So how about Japan?
- 22:39Oh. Yeah.
- 22:43No, I no, I don't have that one. No all.
- 22:48Right. I really like.
- 22:50Yeah, I did not see that one as a 2.
- 22:53I I thought that one was a was a home run for sure.
- 22:58That's the second one I've thought was a home run that did
- 23:00not get a home run. I'll also say that when I asked
- 23:04the Internet it's the only like actual song I got, I got one
- 23:09person said all of them, which I was also shocked about, but
- 23:13Japan was the only like person who answered with just a song so
- 23:19that. Risk.
- 23:23It is like the best, like straightforward riff in my for
- 23:30for me. As far for Bach, as far as Bach
- 23:33goes, I think Japan, that riff throughout that song is my
- 23:37favorite riff of theirs. That that isn't like a weird
- 23:41riff. It's just a great heavy 4/4
- 23:45riff. Yeah, into it, yeah.
- 23:48What was with the, what was with the countries with the Ms. like?
- 23:52Was that just like, just like a humor like like another thing?
- 23:57What were the what label were they on?
- 23:59Was it Hydra head or was it another label when they were?
- 24:02Yeah, Hydra head, yeah. What I read in an interview is
- 24:06like they had their own names for all of their songs and then
- 24:11the label. I think because of the time, you
- 24:16know, like the bands, all the, you know, quote UN quote metal
- 24:19core bands doing like songs with like these long weird names and
- 24:23stuff. They said that Plydre Heads or
- 24:27their label or whatever said they wanted them to have
- 24:32different names for their songs because they had really simple
- 24:35names like transitions from persona to object.
- 24:38I think they said was just called Circus because they said
- 24:43it sounded like a circus because of all the weird tapping and
- 24:45hammering and the the crazy like effects and stuff.
- 24:50Yeah. So I think that may have not had
- 24:54had anything to do with the band, just them trying to be
- 24:57like silly or or. Current.
- 25:00Probably. Some kind of inside joke?
- 25:02Probably. Yeah, yeah.
- 25:06Yeah, I can't imagine it was too serious cause like Aaron Turner
- 25:09from ISIS owns Hydrahead and I can't see him being like, you
- 25:14know, like a corporate doucher making them pains or something.
- 25:21All right, like Japan gets 2 John where you want to go?
- 25:27All right, let's go to the singles.
- 25:29How about God versus science? Hell yeah.
- 25:34That feels bad to not have. Yeah, I was going to say that
- 25:39one next. I was going to say, anytime I
- 25:40see God versus science, I'm going to take it.
- 25:45All right, let's get to 3 though.
- 25:48It's really putting putting that nine on ice, though, Andrew.
- 25:52Yeah, yeah, it's not looking good.
- 25:55I mean all these threes. You better get a couple more.
- 25:57Yeah, all these threes are pretty good.
- 25:59All right, Brian, all. Right.
- 26:02All right, I was going to take that one because I love the
- 26:05title, mostly God versus science.
- 26:07This one I originally took too, because I love the title and
- 26:12because I love this person. See see Thomas Howell as the
- 26:16Soul man. Yeah, I got it.
- 26:19All right. Yeah, I got it.
- 26:24Yep. There we go, just like that,
- 26:27sitting. I never understood that joke
- 26:30until recently. I was listening to a podcast
- 26:37called It's like a football podcast called Heed the Call,
- 26:41and they were talking about, like, the most, like, out of
- 26:45pocket, like questionable moments in, like, entertainment
- 26:51history. And that's actually a thing.
- 26:55See, Thomas Howe, like, did an entire movie in blackface called
- 26:58The Soul. Yeah.
- 27:00Yeah. Yeah, he was also an outsider,
- 27:04so that's why he gets to vote. Plus he was an awesome serial
- 27:07killer for a couple episodes on Criminal Minds, so he gets to
- 27:09vote for that too. Jinkies, Mactavish.
- 27:15All right. See, Thomas Howell is in Andrew.
- 27:25OK, I'm going to stay on We Are the Romans and go with one that
- 27:30I already kind of mentioned a little earlier.
- 27:33Saint Matthew returns to the womb.
- 27:36Yeah, I got it. I got it.
- 27:40No. Oh.
- 27:42My God. Just out of curiosity, John, are
- 27:48these those ones you were talking about that you're not
- 27:52going to be? Yeah.
- 27:53Yeah, I don't have a good reason.
- 27:56Yeah, I just had to make room for other stuff.
- 28:00Yeah, yeah. I mean, at least we've got
- 28:03three's good. Yeah.
- 28:05I mean, at least we got some favorites on on these threes
- 28:08that seem like they'll be easy to get.
- 28:10Get in. All right, All right, I'll.
- 28:15I'll do it. I'll do the next one.
- 28:16I'll do the cover. I couldn't get away from this
- 28:21this because when I saw the title, I was like, no way.
- 28:24They're not doing that. And then it starts as like, OK.
- 28:30And then it keeps going. I'm like, fucking OK.
- 28:34Yeah, People should know about this.
- 28:36If I'm the only one, I'm the only one.
- 28:38If I'm not, Oh, Fortuna. Yes.
- 28:46No, I don't have it. Oh, I do that's that song is
- 28:51amazing, right. And like like to sing in Latin
- 28:56and like the way the drums are and like the way they it gets
- 29:00like dramatic and theatrical like Oh my God, it's
- 29:03unbelievable. Yes.
- 29:05Yeah, dude, like I, I had the same thought as you did.
- 29:09You know, I get, I get ribbed a lot for, you know, saying I'm
- 29:13never going to bring a cover, but it's not, it's just not
- 29:15true. It just has to be a really good
- 29:18one that showcases the band. This is one of the best.
- 29:22Yeah, this is like outstanding. Like this is.
- 29:25Yeah, that's botched doing. Oh, Fortuna, that's fucking
- 29:28great. So all right, I'll take that.
- 29:31I. Regret not putting it on my on
- 29:33my list now, it is a great cover.
- 29:36Well, you know, again, I can understand, you know, sometimes
- 29:39you're looking for whatever reason, right, you know, to to
- 29:42lose a song. So I get, you know, the cover is
- 29:46the reason it goes, but you know, I just I couldn't ignore
- 29:50it. So, all right, John all.
- 29:56Right, I'm going to do I'm going to do the other one.
- 29:58So when I saw a botch live, the only time I got to see them in
- 30:02Atlanta, they we talked to them after the show.
- 30:06They did, they did not play this this cover, even though they
- 30:09were in Georgia And we asked them.
- 30:12They were like, we were like, Hey, you know, why didn't you
- 30:15play, you know the song? And like we were living in
- 30:19Athens at the time. It was like, oh, you got to come
- 30:20to Athens and play the show and play the song.
- 30:24And singer was like, Hey, if you get if you get the singer of
- 30:29this band there, we will play it.
- 30:31And to my, you know, unending regret, we were not able to pull
- 30:37that off. But the cover still rules.
- 30:39It's rock lobster. God bless you.
- 30:43I don't I wanted to because it's equally as good.
- 30:48I, I fucking loved this as again, I was like, no way, no,
- 30:55they're not doing the rock lobster right.
- 30:57And then sure enough, I was like, Oh my fucking God, this
- 31:02rules. I, I don't have it, but I, I
- 31:08regret it, yeah. Yeah, I, I don't have it either.
- 31:11It was, I think it was like 21. And as far as the covers go, I
- 31:16think I I do prefer Rock Lobster to Oh Fortuna as well.
- 31:21You got to play some of it just, and I know we don't really do
- 31:24that anymore, but you got to pull that pull a little bit up
- 31:26and down. Yeah, because it went into the
- 31:27bin. It's the first one to go into
- 31:28the bin. So you guys should know that
- 31:33that these are really good covers or they wouldn't be
- 31:36brought up in conversation. Yeah.
- 31:39I'm going to turn up just a second.
- 31:43Seriously, listen to that. There you go.
- 31:46That's all we get because I'll get in trouble all right.
- 31:52Unfortunately. Rock lobster into the bin,
- 31:56Brian. All right.
- 32:02How about frequenting mass transit?
- 32:09No. No.
- 32:11I, I don't have it, but I I feel like there's a caveat to that
- 32:20song because there's two versions of it and the other one
- 32:27is on the one from We Are the Romans called Frequency Ass
- 32:31Bandit. I didn't pick up on that.
- 32:38Yeah, they're they are different.
- 32:41Like it's very slightly different, but they are kind of
- 32:46different song. All right, Brian's in the bin
- 32:52then. I'm in the bin all.
- 32:54Right, Andrew? Well, yeah, I'll just say it.
- 33:01Frequency. Ask Bandit.
- 33:02Yeah, I got it. I don't.
- 33:06Yeah, but I like that version better.
- 33:10I did not catch that they were similar, I just I had frequency
- 33:15ass bandit because it's fab. I think frequenting mass transit
- 33:21stayed more in 4-4 throughout the song and frequency.
- 33:25Ass Bandit throws in some weird weird yeah all.
- 33:33Right. All right, I'll go to the end of
- 33:43our list here. How about 1/22?
- 33:49Yeah, no, that was their reunion song that just came out a couple
- 33:53of years ago and I couldn't, couldn't find room for it.
- 33:58Oh no, I don't have it. I had a feeling it was like, I
- 34:02wasn't sure if, you know, it was that reunion, but I had a
- 34:05feeling it was something like towards the end or whatever.
- 34:09And I was like, oh man, it's cool that they could still do
- 34:12it. I didn't look at the years so.
- 34:14But I thought it was neat. All right, we'll take that 2.
- 34:19Still clinging on to life. Nope.
- 34:23Well, yeah, technically all right, John all.
- 34:29Right, let's go with with the weird man.
- 34:33I'm a sucker for a long song. How about man the ramparts?
- 34:37Oh fuck yeah, yes. Oh man, no Dang it, I think.
- 34:44We can all do some Gregorian chant together.
- 34:48That's that's something that I've tried to incorporate into
- 34:51one of my band's songs. Back to the conversation we were
- 34:54having earlier. Tried to, I tried to pitch it to
- 34:57them. Like we got to end the song with
- 35:01some kind of Gregorian chant as as an homage to the bot.
- 35:08That's fucking awesome. And I I think they have another
- 35:13version of this song as well called Ram the Man Parts.
- 35:19Is there like there's like a drum and bass remix or something
- 35:22too? Yeah, something like that.
- 35:23Yeah, yeah. Weirdos love it.
- 35:28All right man, the Ramparts gets 3 and now we're starting to edge
- 35:32out them twos. Probably Brian.
- 35:40Let's go with Framps, Framps. I got it.
- 35:47Yeah, I got it. Yeah.
- 35:49Yes. Oh.
- 35:51Thank God I'm happy because we're off that three now.
- 35:58Someone understands my pain. Someone understands for once.
- 36:03Although there were a lot of, there's a lot of threes here
- 36:06that I would dip in there easily, so it actually wouldn't
- 36:09be as hard as I thought. Yeah, I really enjoyed that
- 36:14anthology of dead ends record. Like as as a whole, like, I like
- 36:19that one a lot, yeah. All right.
- 36:23They went out at their best for sure, like at the height of
- 36:28their powers when they wrote that.
- 36:31All right, let me scroll. This framps up to the top and
- 36:37Andrew. I'm going to stay on Framps and
- 36:43it's as far as their discography goes.
- 36:46It's a weird one. It's a long one.
- 36:52It's might be my favorite song by them.
- 36:56I'm going to go with Afghanistan.
- 36:59Oh. Yes.
- 37:02No, no. As you can tell, that's that awe
- 37:07that dejected feeling is AI. Definitely had that on my first
- 37:11pass sound. I'm just I'm just happy that I'm
- 37:17landing on these with like the Super fan that like that just
- 37:24gives me some validation. This is like when I did like
- 37:26Duran Duran, which I didn't really know it either, and I was
- 37:30like me and Adam were like hitting me and Adam, me and
- 37:33Gavin were just hitting and hitting.
- 37:34So now I'm. Happy.
- 37:36Yeah, I get that. All right.
- 37:41So now what? Are we back to Me.
- 37:44I forgot to move. C Thomas L All right, let me see
- 37:53here. 1234567891011 Yeah, we've got a good couple left here.
- 38:02How about EBB? No.
- 38:08No. I'll save you.
- 38:10I got. It.
- 38:11Yeah, All right, I'll take that. I'll take it too.
- 38:14It, you know, ultimately is probably in the bin, but we'll
- 38:19take it too. Although we're a couple, we're
- 38:24only two away from John 6. Possible that it could get
- 38:28saved. We're one away from my one or my
- 38:305. All right, John.
- 38:35I'm going to stick with the the anthology Songs about Closure.
- 38:39Yes, Sir. No.
- 38:43No, I don't have it. Interesting.
- 38:47OK. Another two, all right, Brian.
- 38:55About reject, Soft reject spoken softly.
- 39:00Yeah, I got it. No, I don't have it.
- 39:03No. Another two Boom boom and
- 39:11Andrew. I'm going to go with an absolute
- 39:16scorcher off the first album. John Woo, Oh.
- 39:21No, no. That's that's a cut I was upset
- 39:25about. I'll save you again.
- 39:28I got it. All right, all right, You guys
- 39:31remember, like, I don't know, maybe an hour, an hour and a
- 39:34half ago when I said I'm having list regret.
- 39:38Yeah, that was the song I was listening to.
- 39:40I was like, oh, Oh no, I missed one.
- 39:44Yeah, that one rips. Well, again, we're not that far
- 39:50away from all some people who can save it all right.
- 40:02How about hives? No, I don't have it.
- 40:11Yep. Yep, I got it too.
- 40:17Take a three there again. I mean, those twos are now just
- 40:24hoping to be saved because it looks like they're going to get
- 40:28pushed out. All right, John.
- 40:34Stupid me. Oh man.
- 40:37Now. I got it.
- 40:40I'll take it. We'll take the two there.
- 40:45I would have thought for sure that one would have you.
- 40:47Yeah, I would have thought for sure that would have landed on
- 40:49on my list. All right, Brian.
- 40:56Well, swimming the channel versus driving the tunnel.
- 41:01No. That's the only song on We Are
- 41:08the Romans that I do not have. Oh man.
- 41:12Yeah, no, I can't save you this time.
- 41:15Man. All right, Andrew.
- 41:19Only three? It's only three in the trash
- 41:21though. It's pretty good.
- 41:22Yeah, seriously. Yeah.
- 41:26I'll go with one of the what is it the B sides or the Anthology
- 41:32album? Whatever it is.
- 41:33Another funny name, one liquored up and laid.
- 41:38No. No.
- 41:42A late late cut button. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was
- 41:46the last handful. All right.
- 41:51I think we got a couple more rounds in this here.
- 41:55I only got. I only got.
- 41:56Let's see, I got 1. I got one left.
- 42:01Wow. Whoa, still got five?
- 42:05Yeah. I got 6, I got 6.
- 42:09Yeah. I mean, I have two that went in
- 42:10the bin, but I got unless I miscounted here.
- 42:15Hold on. No, I'm I'm looking at a lot of.
- 42:25Yeah, I wrote down on 20. I wrote down on 20.
- 42:27Mine. Yeah, I'm down to 1.
- 42:28All right, so we'll, this will be our last round then and we'll
- 42:31dump out after that. How about Mondrian was a liar?
- 42:42Yeah, I got it. No.
- 42:46I got it. Jump.
- 42:54All right, to our friends in the Great White North.
- 42:58Yes, Sir. Oh yeah, no, I wish I had that
- 43:04one. All right, Brian.
- 43:10So damn. No.
- 43:14No. No.
- 43:17All right, so I have. I have one more of those, but
- 43:19it's not that one. Yeah, same.
- 43:20Yeah. Same.
- 43:23All right, so. I'm out.
- 43:24Yeah, that means 4 is the best we're going to do.
- 43:27That means none of us are going to win, so we're going to have
- 43:31to work our way through the rest of our list.
- 43:35All right, Andrew. Oh, wait, no, no, I'm sorry.
- 43:38I have one more. I'm an idiot.
- 43:40OK. All right, I'll see if I can hit
- 43:48on that. That other one from the EP Viet
- 43:54ma'am. Yes, Sir.
- 43:58No all. Right, we'll take that 3.
- 44:06It's a lot. Making the conversation harder
- 44:08now. Yeah, really.
- 44:12All right. I think we still dump out even
- 44:14though Brian found an extra 1. Yeah, I'm down to 2.
- 44:20Yeah, I'm down to three. I think that's where I'm at. 2.
- 44:25Oh yeah. Because it didn't mark off VMM.
- 44:27All right, let me start at the top here.
- 44:29Dally's praying mantis. Yep.
- 44:34No. No all.
- 44:37Right, all right, we already got that one.
- 44:41I forgot to mark it off in spite of this.
- 44:47Yeah. That's my last one.
- 44:50I. Have the 2. 3 and my last one
- 44:58funnily enough. End of discussion.
- 45:03Nope. No.
- 45:06Oh, in the bin on my last one, I went 19 for 20.
- 45:14Unreal. Unreal.
- 45:18All right, so we still hit only four, so that doesn't change.
- 45:23So what do you got? Left one, John?
- 45:26Yep, third part in a tragedy. Oh, that was a real late cut.
- 45:32Now I don't have it. Then I'm 18 for 20.
- 45:36There you go. And Andrew?
- 45:43My last two are OMA and thank God for the worker bees.
- 45:50Oma is another one that I was listening to right before we
- 45:53went on that I was like, I wish I could find room for, but
- 45:57obviously I did not do the work. So, all right, I mean, I think,
- 46:04I think it's the math here, you know, because when you look at
- 46:07how many threes we have, the math just kind of wasn't math.
- 46:11And for us to get, you know, a bunch of unanimous.
- 46:14But we're off to a good start with four math.
- 46:17Yeah, math, math math. Hutton's great heat engine did
- 46:21for a minute see Thomas Howell as the soul man and Framps are
- 46:25already in. All right, so let's start
- 46:28looking at these threes. We've got transitions from
- 46:32persona to object. I want to be a sex symbol on my
- 46:35own terms. God versus science.
- 46:38Saint Matthew returns to the womb.
- 46:41O Fortuna frequency ass bandit man the ramparts hives Viet man
- 46:50to our friends in the great white North Mondrian was a liar
- 46:55in spite of this and yeah, in spite of this is the last one.
- 46:59All right, so John, is there ones that you know, I'm that I
- 47:01read off that you're like, man, that really should have been in.
- 47:06Yeah. Oh, Fortuna, obviously like
- 47:11that. It has to be in.
- 47:14I mean, I, you know, I hate going back.
- 47:17I hate to go to going to bat for a cover, but the fact that it
- 47:21found all three of us, you know, like, I also feel like it really
- 47:30puts the band on display taking a song like that and making a
- 47:34sound like a botched song. Andrew, you're the odd man out
- 47:38there. What do you think?
- 47:41Oh yeah, I'm all in. Absolutely.
- 47:43Boom. Were you going to say something,
- 47:45Brian? I'm sorry.
- 47:47No, I hit a accident. All right, so let's let's do a
- 47:53Fortuna. All right, Brian, you said
- 47:56there's a bunch of these threes that that you would go to bat
- 47:58for. Is there 1 specifically staying
- 48:02out to you? Well there's a couple, so one I
- 48:07want to throw my vote behind frequency ass bandits since I
- 48:13had frequency mass transit so I I'm fine turning that into a
- 48:17four. I also feel like I also feel
- 48:20like transitions from person to object should be there too, but.
- 48:25But. Let's start with the frequency
- 48:27bandit, OK? That's yeah, that gets us to six
- 48:33before moving on. Like how do you feel about
- 48:37Persona John? It would be my first choice, but
- 48:44I'm willing to willing to listen to arguments.
- 48:47So let's let's finish this round and then come back to it.
- 48:53Andrew, is there one that's jumping out at you?
- 48:58There's two that are jumping out at me and one of them is the one
- 49:01that we're going to come back to.
- 49:03All right. The other one would be Saint
- 49:08Matthew returns to the womb. All right.
- 49:11So yeah, I feel like you kind of already mentioned, John, that
- 49:15that's one that you were going to feel bad about not having.
- 49:20Do you, do you still feel that way or is it still?
- 49:24Well, again, I'm, I still think there's like I think we need
- 49:29something from the earlier like era, like the hardcore area,
- 49:36like I'm looking at like God versus science in spite of this,
- 49:43like one of those I think needs to be in before we get too far
- 49:48deep in this and don't have room for it all.
- 49:51Right. What do you think, Andrew?
- 49:53I'd I would not have any argument against God versus
- 49:58science being going. Yeah, that would be my choice
- 50:01probably too. I was the only I was the odd man
- 50:04out there. So as Curtis would say, and
- 50:06Curtis, we'd love to have you back on the show.
- 50:09Miss you buddy. Helmet, Helmet.
- 50:14We'll get around to it. Knock me over with a feather, as
- 50:19he would say. All right, so all right, now
- 50:22let's we've got God versus science.
- 50:24So now we should talk about is it a either or situation do you
- 50:28think Andrew with persona versus Saint Matthew?
- 50:34So I was thinking earlier today I was like, like, what if I got
- 50:42the, you know, the power to pick the one song, like what the
- 50:50essential box song? And it came down to three for
- 50:57me. One of them would have been
- 50:58Hutton's Great Heat engine, and then the other two were
- 51:01Transitions and Saint Matthew. I feel like Transitions.
- 51:08I I always liked the song and then when I saw them play it on
- 51:14their, their farewell show, like I, I saw the live version of it,
- 51:20it kind of like transcended like what it what it originally was
- 51:29on, on tape or on, you know, CD or whatever.
- 51:34Just how it just descends into just insane chaos and and noise
- 51:43after like such a cool like weird off kilter build up.
- 51:46I don't know. I, I feel like it's, it defines
- 51:50botch. It's like the most botch song by
- 51:54botch. Yeah, I didn't.
- 51:58I didn't have either one, but I would probably lean towards
- 52:01transitions over Saint Matthew. All right.
- 52:06I mean, that sounds like a concession.
- 52:08I mean, we can take transitions, right, and then proceed.
- 52:13Yeah. That's not, you know, saying
- 52:16Saint Matthew's out. That's just saying transitions
- 52:19is in. All right.
- 52:24So what does that take us up to? 8?
- 52:27Yeah, Yeah. So we still have two more spots
- 52:30here. By sounds of it, Andrew would
- 52:34really like it to be Saint Matthew or one of the two to be
- 52:40Saint Matthew. Is there something else kind of
- 52:41jumping out at you, John? Yeah, via Vietnam and the
- 52:48ramparts. I want to be a sex symbol.
- 52:51Think those would be good choices as well.
- 52:56So do we think that this could be a Saint Matthew plus one of
- 53:01those situations? I would pick two of those over
- 53:07Saint Matthew, but that's just me.
- 53:08OK, what were you going to say? Andrew I would be fine with two
- 53:12of those over Saint Matthew because all three of those songs
- 53:16are great. I'd probably personally lean
- 53:19towards man the ramparts and I want to be a sex symbol as much
- 53:23as I do like Vietnam, I and I don't want to be that guy that
- 53:28like just, you know, sings the praises of We are the Romans and
- 53:33like what it did like for music in general.
- 53:38But yeah, I don't know those. Those two songs I think would
- 53:42absolutely fit. So this is an interesting thing,
- 53:47Brian. Like both you and I were new to
- 53:49this band and I didn't have either of those songs, but you
- 53:54had both of them. Like, are you?
- 53:57Yeah. Are you on on board with Sex
- 53:59Symbol and Man the Ramparts? Yeah, I mean, I had sex symbol
- 54:04man, the ramparts and Saint Thomas or Saint Matthew returns.
- 54:08So like I'm mad. I I honestly be fine with any of
- 54:12those two. So, you know, if we're going to
- 54:14the Ramparts, I think would be mine if I were to rank the three
- 54:20man, the ramparts would be my number one.
- 54:23So I'll put a definite, definite vote behind that.
- 54:28And then yeah, like I'd be, I would say my freaking Wi-Fi
- 54:34keeps going down to red. Like I'd be fine.
- 54:38Either one of the other ones. All right, so I mean, it's I
- 54:43feel like it's just by based on what I'm hearing is it should be
- 54:48sex symbol and man, the ramparts.
- 54:51If anybody disagrees, may they speak now.
- 54:53All right, let me shuffle that up.
- 54:58I'll read it down and then then I'll turn the heat up again like
- 55:00we need heat. Jeez, did that not shift?
- 55:04I think it did come on computer. All right, Hutton's great heat
- 55:08engine dead for a minute. See Thomas Howell is the soul
- 55:10man Framps. Oh, Fortuna frequency ass
- 55:14bandit, God versus science transitions from persona to
- 55:16object. I want to be a sex symbol on my
- 55:18own terms. And man, the ramparts.
- 55:20John, when I read down those 10 songs, which one do you think is
- 55:27the one? Yeah, I'm.
- 55:31I'm tempted to say oh, Fortuna, and I still might, but my my
- 55:39choice, I think, is C Thomas Howell as the Soul Man.
- 55:41OK. All right.
- 55:42I like that. What do you think, Brian?
- 55:48This is where, this is where I knew it would be tough.
- 55:53C Thomas Yes, also I I usually try to go with, you know, one of
- 56:02the one of the fours when we do these.
- 56:09And like, I kind of want to go with like kind of like the
- 56:13outlayer of like dead for a minute.
- 56:18But I also want to go with like, you know, like the hard hitters.
- 56:25Oh, I'll throw the hard hitters, but you know what I mean?
- 56:28Well, yeah, I'm just trying to think of something that'll stand
- 56:30out in the crowd and stuff. Yeah.
- 56:34That that, oh, I mean Thomas out.
- 56:35That song title would stick out. Yeah, that title definitely is
- 56:39what is what brought me to that song.
- 56:41Like I, I looked through the list and that was like one of
- 56:44the first songs I had played. I didn't play in order.
- 56:46I put I went to that song first. So they wanted what was up with
- 56:49it. So yeah, I I would go between
- 56:53that and like maybe dead for a minute, but yeah, either,
- 56:58either, either way. What?
- 57:00Do you think Andrew? Honestly, I would probably lean
- 57:09towards ramps, but I wouldn't. I wouldn't push too hard against
- 57:20like any of the ones that have been mentioned, like bed for a
- 57:24minute. It's great.
- 57:25See, Thomas Howell's great. Yeah, Like I say, I I probably
- 57:31wouldn't push back too hard, but that's that's where I would
- 57:35where I would go would be France.
- 57:38So interestingly, those were the three I was eyeballing.
- 57:43I I had dead for a minute ahead by a, you know, an eyelash,
- 57:49mostly for personal reasons of, you know, that was a song that
- 57:53kind of I locked in on France was the other one I was looking
- 57:58at. Just I again, we keep looking at
- 58:03the math here, right? And the math says those four
- 58:08were unanimous. They found all four of us,
- 58:11including two dudes who had never listened to the band worth
- 58:15noting. And if you look at our album
- 58:18representation, there's five from We Are the Romans, which
- 58:22kind of leads leads me towards C Thomas Howell as being our pick
- 58:26because that is the one that's the album we have the most
- 58:30representation from. And maybe we should go, hey, by
- 58:34the way, this is from that record.
- 58:39I don't know like. I like that.
- 58:40I like that thought process. That makes sense.
- 58:42Right, like. Yeah, it might, might have
- 58:44convinced me there. There we go.
- 58:47So, I don't know, sounds like we're in agreement.
- 58:49Then let's let's grab that. Let's not beat around the Bush.
- 58:54Hey fellas, see Thomas Howell as the soul man will be our number
- 58:58one and let me get it queued up. I'll run us down one last go and
- 59:03we'll get on out of here. I think that that movie has been
- 59:08erased from the the Internet. I don't think you can even watch
- 59:11that movie anymore. See Thomas Howell as the soul
- 59:16man. You can't watch it, but you can
- 59:18listen to it. Hutton's great heat engine dead
- 59:20for a minute. France O Fortuna frequency ass
- 59:23bandit God versus science transitions from persona to
- 59:25object. I want to be a sex symbol on my
- 59:27own terms. And a man of the Ramparts rounds
- 59:30out our 10. Let's let see Thomas Howell as
- 59:32the soul man. These people, these bands with
- 59:35their long ass titles. Let's give it a moment in the
- 59:38sun. There's always these, there's
- 59:49always these moments. And I kind of forgot that that
- 59:52this is another one of those songs that has those moments
- 59:55that just kind of goes, yeah, this is what this band does.
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