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58. OreSkaBand (w/ Ska Punk International)
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Anata mo watashi mo POCKY! Checkered Past is digging in on the international Dark Ages Ska hit, OreSkaBand! To help, they welcome their Skassociate Producer and label magnate, Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International! Chris talks a bit about sports before going through whats new with the label and what people can expect from SPI Fest 2. Then, Rob, Celine, Joey and Chris dig in on OreSkaBand from their bubblegum teen beginnings to their arena rock superstardom to their highly experimental, yet still accessible, modern period. It's all capped off with a game of Word The Salads!
CP/SC will be performing LIVE at SPI Fest 2 in Connecticut May 17-18! Tix at www.spifest.org
Hosts: Celine, Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Cutman
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International
NEW MERCH: www.checkeredpast.ca/merch
Patreon: www.patreon.com/checkeredpast
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Transcript
Introduction to Checker Past Podcast
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on this episode we have another hot number for ya as we carry on this wonderful world with a colorful band of bohemians or a ska podcast covering or a ska band on checkered past the ska cast
00:00:34
Speaker
What up, Checkerheads? Welcome to Checker Past, the SCODcast with Selin and Rob, the show where my boy sets fire lollipop. And hey me without you, don't watch Rat, watch Kiss. Explore the history and impact of a different band each episode. Hope to bring in new fans
Meet the Hosts: Rob and Selin
00:00:49
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along the way. Not after that. I'm Rob, and this is my sister and co-host, Selin.
00:00:55
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That was good and I understood it. Yeah, thank you. I didn't even have to ask this time. That's like the first time baby ever. Like there's been like me, I can count on one hand. I'm going to have to ask. And here's our co-host with the most host, Engineer Joey.
Band Names and Humor
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What? Yeah. So Boy Says Fire, familiar with this band. Me Without You, we're familiar with this band. Yes. They are both bands where the words are all smooshed together. Oh, okay. Like the band we're discussing today. Right. Okay. It is a little annoying.
00:01:24
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Hello, goodbye. Wasn't that another one? I don't know. There's a lot of them. Smooshed together bad names. Yeah, where there's no spaces in between the words. Yeah. I do like the all caps, though. That's fun. Is it? In this case, it is. K-M-F-D-M. Well, that's initials. It stands for something. I-C-H-L-E-R-S. You know? What? Eichlers. Yeah. I got it. No F-X. That's true. Actually, those are all Kaplan. Yeah.
00:01:56
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Brancid should we pick it up where we left off sure you have one I kind of have one too, okay?
Sports Talk and Humor
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We'll both have one
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All right, this isn't very much, but I just realized that we never talk about sports on this podcast. And I went to a- Why start today? I went to a sporting event on Friday. Okay. I went to see the Edmonton Oilers. They play- The Oily Boilies. The Oily Boilies. They play ice hockey, as I've heard some people call it.
00:02:30
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It is important with all those famous field hockey teams and road hockey and wrote You know what played a lot of road hockey growing up playing a lot of that shimmy playing a lot of that shiny You know what I don't know I don't follow sports The only thing I follow with sports is how old they are I'm obsessed with finding out how old players are because they're little don't know how old the sport
00:02:54
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No, no, yeah a little tiny babies all the players are like started in 1972 You think that's pretty recent I watched I watched Ken Burns baseball it's much much older
00:03:12
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It's much, much older. I watch all 17 hours of Ken Burns video. Let's get through sports talk fast. So yeah, I pay attention to how young they are because it's funny because they're all like 18, 19 and they can't drink in the US. But they're millionaires. Right. And they're famously bad at managing their money. Yeah. And that is funny to me. But also, you know what? It's fun to watch.
Selin's Unlucky Experiences
00:03:39
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that's what I kind of determined I went there and this is the second time this year I went to watch a hockey game and I was like I can't find myself the time to keep up with what's going on like which player does what and what team is doing because they play like 20,000 games every like it's a lot it feels like it's a lot of times a week
00:03:57
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I feel like it's a lot of facts that I have to keep together and I feel like I'd have to exit. When there's little drama like I like on Reddit when I'll get just a little like somebody hit one of the guys in with like a hockey.
00:04:12
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stick and like, or no, he did something to him and like, if he was fucking with him and then the guy just fucking like hit him in the back of the legs with the hockey stick. And I was like, okay, if this is hockey, I like that. I like little like petty rivalries and like hitting each other. I'm going to point out that the game that you're talking about is famously well understood by people with traumatic brain injuries. So I feel like if you wanted to follow it, you like could put it in the time and figure it out.
00:04:41
Speaker
So, sports is fun to watch live. That's all. That's really all I was trying to get at is that we didn't, we've never talked about sports. I have done a sport. I've watched a sport. You've done a sport. Um, when I do sports, it's like, like bowling. That's when I do sports. Billiards. Billiards. I love it. That's a fun talking boat. Yeah. I'm really in there. Um, I just want to talk about my curse being lifted. Okay.
00:05:06
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alright this will be a bit trauma dumping so i guess like content warning of death three times in three different scenarios okay so and there'll be other so anyways i just think it's been so first thing that happened was we got a car accident with rob we hit a deer right.
00:05:26
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And then I watched the deer die, and it was really sad. And then six days later, I'm laughing because it's terrible, our dad died. But then, like two or like 10 days after that, I saw like a goose kerfuffle and I pulled over and I have a friend who works with like wildlife rehabilitation. So I called her and so then there was a dead goose and then it was really sad. Like kerfuffle, she means car. I got a car that was not her car. A car-headed goose, a Canadian goose. Oh, yeah.
00:05:55
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and then so like they mate for life so its mate was really sad and it was like walking across this is so Canadian actually so it was like walking across like four lanes of traffic but yeah the mate will just keep coming back for it so what I had to do that Elsa let me know was like and then there's another car pulled over and they had fucking no idea what to do they're being kind of useless and they had so much fabric in the back of their car it took them so long to get me some cloth anyways I was trying so
00:06:20
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What you have to do is dispose of the goose as far away as you can, so the mate stops coming back for it to give the mate the best chance at life. But it was pretty fucking smushy and bloody, and it was pretty gnarly. I was pretty squeamish about it, but I had reusable bags, and then I tried to pick it up, and then it was like, blah, and then it was like, blah. Sorry. That does sound traumatic.
00:06:46
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So then finally I got some cloth and I like bundled up and I like tied it and then I drove to like a city garbage can and I disposed of the goose to give the baby a chance of life. I mean that is about as far away as you can get taking it to a dump. Yeah. So anyways, I, um, and then my friend who works for, this will be a happy endings, my friend.
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So I told my therapist that I decided that I'm about to die, which I understand is very main character energy, like the whole world is a final destiny, which is just made for me. And I understand that, but like, so I was like, okay, so the deer died, the dad died, the goose died, so I'm gonna die. My therapist did say just because it's a thought doesn't mean it's a fact, which is an incredibly good point.
00:07:27
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It's because I said it doesn't mean it's true. But so I was a part of weasel release into the wild that was poisoned and they nursed back to life at the wildlife rehabilitation center. So I got to see a very adorable little short tail weasel get released back into the wild. So my curse is lifted now and peace can be restored.
00:07:59
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You know what? Curse for existence. Sorry, I was just going to say real quick, we were talking with our guest earlier about watching the No Doubt Coachella thing. And Gwen was hamming it up. And Celine, you just did a real good. Not, not similar to what she was doing in some of the bridges.
00:08:16
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Honestly, honestly good shit.
00:08:29
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Well, we should tell you no further. We are absolutely thrilled to introduce our guest. He is our Scott associate producer and the head of the DIY Scott Empire, Scott Punk International. Chris Reeves is here. Hey, Chris. Hey, Empire. Wow. Cool. What do you have to say about hockey and curses?
Chris Joins: Sports Talk and UK Trip
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Well, first of all, congrats on lifting your curse. Thank you so much. Very cool. I'm so happy for you because- It feels really good.
00:08:56
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I was gonna die. You definitely were getting your ass kicked and so I'm glad to hear that is over.
00:09:03
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I'm very happy for you. I don't have much to say about hockey. I like it, but I don't follow it. But I do follow other sports, mostly basketball. I'm a huge fan. Specifically, I like the plays. There's a rhythm to it when it's played really well in different tiers. It's like a dance. Yeah, different tiers played in different ways, and I think that's very fascinating.
00:09:27
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What keeps me following is the drama for sure. The way teams talk trash, the players hate each other. There's like in interviews, they'll like do hilarious stuff. Like, oh, God. Yeah, like that. That makes me start to like sports. Like now I'm interested. That's less of a hockey thing. I feel like hockey doesn't have as much of the. They have more like football because they're too stupid, but they like they're all idiots.
00:09:56
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I've never met a name one smart hockey. Wayne Gretzky is probably the only smart. He's not. Was he a dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
00:10:23
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Yeah. I thought he was a good guy. No, he's a piece of shit. He's a piece of shit. Yeah, he's not a piece of shit. Yeah, he's not a piece of shit. Yeah, he's not a piece of shit. Okay, then it's dance. More like the not so great one. Yeah. I nailed it. Now we can end the podcast. Yeah.
00:10:36
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Uh, but yeah, I, I also find that American sports have a lot more like, uh, like beefing. Like I find that happens a lot with American football and basketball and maybe not baseball as much going into it than we do. The only one we dump money into, but like, they're like, like it's.
00:10:55
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We don't have college level sports where people are getting interviewed for anything, you know, other than like college, like campus radio or whatever. Yeah. Like the, but it's not, it's not the same level and it doesn't have the same kind of money going into it. Right. That's fair. Even our football, I feel like is super tame.
00:11:15
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It's yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's only seven teams. It's like impossible. It's like football for little guys. Yeah. But they're not. They're like huge people. They're all Americans anyway. They are. Actually, one time I worked in Subway when I was like when I first moved to Edmonton and I was like really like young and like punk rock and like I hate sports and I'm not paying attention or whatever. And the Western Conference Finals were happening here in Edmonton and
00:11:39
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the subway that I worked at was like right by the arena or the stadium or whatever. And they played and they won. And these like gigantic American black dudes came into the subway, which is like not a thing that happens at Subway in Edmonton very often. And I was like, these guys
00:12:01
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have weird hats, I noticed. And I think football helmets. No, they all have they all have a brand new super stiff Western Conference champion hats with like the tags and stuff still on them. And it took me like a few minutes to like realize what was going on. I was like, OK, those guys are football players for Edmonton. That's why they're American dudes. And they just won that thing. And then they left a huge fucking mess for me. Hell yeah. I'm happy about it.
00:12:30
Speaker
Hell yeah, that's what happens when Americans come to Canada and they mess up our subways. Yeah, definitely. That's what we're known for. Fuck up your subway. Came for the syrup state to fuck up your subway. Yo, Chris, what's up? Okay, so we just got back from the UK like a week ago. We went to support the groupers over there, me and Mrs. SPI.
00:12:58
Speaker
We went a few days early to see Scotland, which is incredible. Oh, I want to go to Scotland. And because we, it's our 10 year wedding anniversary this year. And so congratulations. So we use our 10 years of dating this year. So we use this trip as an excuse to add a few days to do some fun stuff. Um, so we did that.
00:13:27
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before and kind of in the middle. But so we saw them at Manchester Punk Festival, which was fucking surreal. That's cool. So crazy. Insanely cool. That show looked absolutely fucking bonkers. Yeah, I don't even know how to fully put into words what that was like, because I've obviously seen them a lot.
00:13:55
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And they play in all songs I've heard before, except for one. They're playing this new thing that's on something for the future. It's a cover of, I put a spell on you. And I hadn't heard them play that live yet. But everything else I've obviously heard before. But there's this thing when you watch them play, because most of the people when they're playing a room don't know them usually.
00:14:23
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maybe half sometimes, maybe it's a small number, just depends on the space, but you can every single time watch them take over the room as the set goes on, you can just see it happen. Yeah, everyone's just like, who the fuck are these guys? Yeah, you can see it happen in real time, every time. Yeah. But in another country, it's insane to see that happen. Yeah. And it's insane that it was like,
00:14:51
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800 people at least, like a huge group of people. And there were people that knew them there, but not that many, right? I would guess 75 that knew them in that room.
00:15:08
Speaker
And less than one eighth. Yeah. And by the end, the entire room was going crazy. Yeah, of course. How could they not? And so what was crazy about it was that the way that I was describing that the like the room will kind of like get on their side as a second song usually takes about half the set around the time they play no bronto or something like that. Maybe the conga line.
00:15:34
Speaker
And I was going to say, yeah, jumping the line comes on and that's yeah. And they were in by the third song, like maybe not the whole room because I was up front in the pit, but at least the front half of the room already in by the start of the third song. And I like looked around like the cheers were noticeably louder after the second song. And as you know, their songs are really fast. So we're talking seriously real time, six minutes they were on board.
00:16:04
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Yeah. And the cheers were noticeably louder. And it just like hit me like, holy fuck, what is happening right now? That's cool, though. It was the end notice. Yeah, it was so so cool. So, yeah, like I'll remember that forever. That was incredible. And then we saw them again in London. We got me and this has to be I got to do stuff around London, which is insane. I've never been there before.
Ska Band Experience in Manchester
00:16:30
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She has what I haven't. It's cool to see them at the
00:16:34
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a new cross in staple of the scene, which is incredible. Very cool. And the thing that besides like seeing the room itself and them like do the set, the coolest part about all the whole thing is that both in London and in Manchester, there were just like people everywhere that you like recognize like, Oh,
00:16:56
Speaker
That's Barney from Sonic Boom 6. Oh, that's Frosty from Filthy Militia. And in the, oh, that's poop for Pooka. Oh, that's, well, like Pook's wife. Like, oh, that's, and it's like, oh, there's Andy B. Oh, it's just like, you can just like see how supportive. And it wasn't just that like, oh, they showed up to the festival. Oh, there's Doug from Famous Idea in London. Like, there's Mark from Call Me Malcolm. Like, they're everywhere. And they're just so like,
00:17:25
Speaker
Happy to see us and that's awesome right there in the middle being extremely supportive and I Don't know it's just insanely cool how they were just all going to like work as a group to be supportive It was cool like like we obviously as a country Will like support people in the scene, but it no matter how supportive you can be it can't work like that because they're closer together
00:17:56
Speaker
Right. But just because it goes together doesn't mean they'll actually do it. And I had heard that that was the thing. But seeing that as well was just overwhelmingly cool. Like, fuck, like, wow, I can't believe. And like people that were in Manchester came to London like they like people were just like traveling to follow the tour. It's crazy. Yeah. Fucking.
00:18:21
Speaker
I'm stoked you got to experience that. Yeah, that was fucking incredible. It was so cool. And I mean, obviously, it was good for us. I got distribution stuff set up in some of the stores. I sold some stuff to some people because I obviously brought things with me. That was great. But seeing friends of yours
00:18:41
Speaker
like blowing up in real time, 10 out of 10. I hope everyone gets to recognize that at some point because that shit is cool. Yeah. And well-deserving good people. What's the next thing then? I know, so SPI Fest is coming up, so maybe we should talk about that a little bit, but it just feels like there's more energy still picking up.
The Ska Revival and Diversity
00:19:02
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It doesn't feel like we're done with whatever momentum we have right now. It's early in the year.
00:19:06
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I mean, just in general with the Scott scene over the last like three years since we've done this podcast, like it feels like the energy is not slowing down. Yeah. I mean, I agree with that. I don't entirely know what's next. I mean, that's why we were talking about no doubt. Like there's a lot of optimism that we're on like a rise as a scene. I don't entirely know if something like that is really gonna
00:19:30
Speaker
help us. I don't know, like I can see people like latching on and like following some bands and you can see people in like mentions. I was like I made a few tweets about The Note Outside last night and stuff.
00:19:43
Speaker
I can see people being like- Totally. All caps. Yeah. I mean, I was fucking blown away that they played too late, to be honest. Did they did do it? Yeah, they did. That was cool. I didn't expect it. Yeah, like early in the set, like fourth or fifth or something, like really early on. Oh, you just missed it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and they played one step beyond.
00:20:03
Speaker
It's like they like really like lean in disguise. So that's cool. I don't know like what that's going to sound. I think that if they were going to do more stuff like longer, they're going to play things like that more often or a tour and they bring the cap or whatever on. That's obviously very helpful. But I don't know. But for us, like lower down here, it still feels like there's a lot of like rise happening. Like everything that we've done has varying degrees of
00:20:33
Speaker
well it does but it's always well enough. I mean femboy is doing ska so yeah yeah so you must be so fucking shit's happening man it's like remember this it's like the first horseman of the scapocalypse when we have more to do for sure like well there's no I don't there's a ceiling because the way things work is different now than like
00:20:59
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no doubt, and Ribbitfish and all that being on the radio, that's just not a thing. But wherever the ceiling is, we're not close to it, I guess. So that's exciting.
SPI Fest Preview
00:21:11
Speaker
I have more than enough stuff to do, but I know that just keep pushing through, we're going to end up somewhere even cooler. So that's what keeps me going. Love it. So do you want to talk a little bit about SPI Fest 2? Yeah, please.
00:21:27
Speaker
I was thinking about a lot because of things like the no doubt deal, which is like, there are like higher profile things happening, but ultimately the point of all this stuff is just to kind of bring as many of the cool people together in one place and let us all like hang out and have fun and then have a place where anyone else that isn't totally part of it yet to sort of start to find their people.
00:21:55
Speaker
And I hope that that could be a thing that gets like a little bit bigger and bigger so that more people can find their people. I think that is happening. I hope so. But yeah, we've got a ton of sick bands. The lineup is fucking bananas. Yeah. Who we got? Who we got, Chris? Who's going to be there? Should I read them all? No, just.
00:22:16
Speaker
So yeah. Okay. So like, uh, mutiny are like new big scot super group. Very excited. Uh, that's their first show ever. And then obviously on screw in diehards, we couldn't do this thing without them. They're touring up with bond breaker and then the two local heroes power up and started to skag. Runaway ricochet, our next record that comes out later in April. Um, Thompson's kid coming from the UK. Uh, you.
00:22:45
Speaker
said that already cat bite, Mademoska. That's the worst. Stop the presses. Call me Malcolm. It's going to be very fun. Some bad time. Fucking wild. Pens. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We tried to merge that a little bit. You know, Megan Finity, more of the East Coast crew, jokers, take today, a class of presidents, see the echoes. I feel like I've said most of it. There's some of the- K-Moy. Oh yeah. K-Moy, of course. K-Moy. Yeah.
00:23:13
Speaker
It's just like, it's crazy. Like there were many of these I wanted to play. I know a couple played last year, but many of them I wanted last year and we just couldn't figure out how to do it. And it's crazy. There are some things that didn't work out, but it's crazy how many of them actually did work out. That's great. But like, how is this, uh, fest going to be different from last year? Like, uh, what did you learn and what did you want to make better last year? There was a lot of things that.
00:23:42
Speaker
I was scrambling to get done. So the main thing going into this year was, well, I guess I should back up because the primary thing I learned, and I think you probably watched me realize this, was that most of the people there last time traveled. So I was thinking, well, that means I could probably do it anywhere. And a lot of the things that were a problem, like being connected to South by Southwest and parking and a lot of this stuff that I didn't love,
00:24:10
Speaker
would be easy to just do it somewhere else so that you don't have to deal with that. And since everyone was traveling, they're like, great. So for me, there was a lot of stuff I was scrambling to get done. And I was like, I need more help, or I'm going to lose my mind doing this thing. So in finding a location, I needed a place where the maximum amount of people I could trust can be involved. And I don't know if it's going to work that way every time or not. But this time, that works on the East Coast.
00:24:40
Speaker
and the best mix of value from the venue and proximity to airports and all that ended up being Connecticut. What's Connecticut like? I don't know. I've never been. I have no idea what to expect. Yeah, neither. Well, I've never been in the East Coast. I've been to Ontario and to the East Coast.
00:25:03
Speaker
So I'm expecting it to be kind of like that would be like Ontario. I think it's going to be as close. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's going to be pretty similar. I know that Windsor, where the actual venue is, is sort of like a smaller town and there's not a lot like the venue is right in downtown. There's like a train station next door or a couple of restaurants and things. And it's like right in that little couple block area. And beyond that, there's not a lot else happening.
00:25:28
Speaker
But everything else is within an hour. Like you could go anywhere really like an hour to like your sit there. And so it seems like that's fine. But I don't totally know what it's going to be like. I know that's wild. I've seen a video tour of the venue. It's very cool. I've seen tons of photos of the area. And that's exciting. Yeah, lots of homies vote. Yeah, right. And so.
00:25:57
Speaker
You know, I trust them and the venue itself has been pretty much like, yeah, do whatever you want. So that's awesome. That's great. So it's hard to say no to that versus some of the others on the East that I looked at. So I guess the main thing I learned is that it could be anywhere and I needed more help and I'm getting a ton of it this time. So I'm way less stress. Like we're about a month away and I had so much stress a month out last time and I'm kind of not this time.
00:26:24
Speaker
So that's exciting. That's nice. It's amazing. I'd say that's a big improvement. Yeah. And, uh, like if you're in that area, if you're in the East coast at all, and you're hitting and hauling, whether you should get tickets, like the reality is 80% of those bands have been on this show before.
Preparing for the Live Show
00:26:38
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That's not like that was done on purpose. Chris wasn't just looking for bands that have gone on checkered pass before and booking them.
00:26:43
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I don't know. It just happens to be that these are the ones that are closest to us. And I think that this is going to be just a fantastic show. I'm more excited for this one even than I was for the first one. Yeah, me too. And we learned a lot doing live shows. This will only be our second one. But we're, I think, going to be way more prepared and have way more of a plan, especially from an audio fidelity standpoint and preparation standpoint. So it's going to be great. I'm really excited.
00:27:10
Speaker
Yeah, the post pro on that last year's one was a living nightmare. So I'm going to try to avoid that this time. Yeah, I think that we'll be in a better place to help you with that, too. For lots of reasons that we don't need to talk about on here, but I remember quite well. Yeah, I think we'll I think that'll be good for you and on both respects. Yeah, definitely. A big thing with this one that I tried to do last time, I felt like I really needed like
00:27:38
Speaker
anchor bands so that's why there was like the toasters and tsunami mom and little span bands and make sure that we move tickets and then that could like trickle down into people seeing some of these other bands. I noticed people left before those bands and so I decided fuck it I'm doing it without those. Yeah. And I hope that pays off. I think it will. I think that the quote unquote bands that I think are going to be going last on both days, headliners, whatever you want to call them, I've
00:28:08
Speaker
The lineup is so good that half of those bands could be headlining this show. You know what I mean? It's really, really good. Yeah, the quote headliners are mutiny and capite for each day, but I mean, you're leading into those with Gruber's Power Up. I doubt anyone was going to be before mutiny and capite though.
00:28:32
Speaker
Sorry. Yeah. I doubt anyone would leave before mutiny or cap. Some of them might leave before checkered pass. That's the only thing.
00:28:40
Speaker
show up and then be like, ah, these folks like bail on the entire festival. Yeah. That's a funny joke for listeners because we're first. Maybe they don't get why that's funny. Um, yeah, so I was a little bit of a risk, but I mean, I'm also on the show. Yeah. Try to like book one of those bigger bands, but we actually have more tickets sold at this point.
00:29:07
Speaker
a month out than we did last time. I say that's a good sign. Are there any, there's no weekend tickets left? No, there are. There's like 40-ish, two days, and then around like 50 for each single day. Single day, okay. Sweet. A little more than half are left. Obviously, we want those to sell, but there's been a lot of push, a lot of stuff.
00:29:33
Speaker
You know, people have punk time. They're probably just going to show up and pay, which it's definitely going to be fully packed. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Punk punk time is trying to get into the back door and pretend you're with the band. Right. For sure. But, you know, that's that's cool. I'm just like, we're already at a place where it's going to be fully packed anyway. So, yeah, we're going to talk about Oreska band today. Chris, what is your history with Oreska band?
Deep Dive into Oreska Band
00:30:00
Speaker
Hmm. Well, I don't, I was trying to remember today when I first heard them. I know that I'd only heard a few songs before I got Spotify, which would have been like 2014 or so. So most of the albums, obviously some we talk about came out after that, but most of the stuff before that I didn't really hear until then.
00:30:23
Speaker
I know that the stuff I had heard was all from the, before that was from the first album, but I can't remember when it was. I don't, I don't know. I just, I knew who they were. I thought that they were kind of just like Kamari or something like that, because that's kind of what they sound like on that first record. And so I never really like tried to dig too hard until I was able to just listen to whatever I wanted to, unfortunately.
00:30:54
Speaker
But once I started digging into them, I realized how varied and stuff they are with their influences and the stuff they try. And I was, I became obsessed with them. And they're definitely one of my favorite bands. I've been lucky enough to see them in Japan in 2019. I saw them in Tokyo at the festival that they do. I guess it's not really like a festival, but it's an all day show called Stay High, Regal Rudy.
00:31:22
Speaker
I got to see that and it was insane. Not only were they incredible, the whole place was nothing like I've ever seen because they dance and do the whole thing, but it's not like we do really even in the UK now that I've been.
00:31:43
Speaker
It's very respectful and the whole place is clean the whole time. There's no trash in the place or anything. It's very organized but chaotic. It was cool. To that, I haven't seen a show in Japan, but I've seen videos of shows in Japan. They dance in place.
00:32:04
Speaker
kind of like the thing, right? They stay, they don't make pits. Yeah, not really. They stand in place and give each other a little bit of room. Yeah. And then they just like, yeah, just dance in place. And you just see like, I see videos and they're just like, heads are popping up and down. Yeah, I'm just like, they're not moving, but they're not moving in a circle. Yeah, you, yeah. Like, you will see bands sort of direct a pit or like something. And so they might
00:32:29
Speaker
do that, but then they go right back to kind of doing their thing. Yeah. Um, and you can definitely tell who's not from Japan, like me. And there was another guy that was from America and like the two of us were like going through the crowd, like just like zigging around all over the place because there was clear space to go between everyone. It's like, well, this is great. You could just do whatever you want. I can go wherever. Yeah. Um, and so we were clearly the two like American assholes, but, um, no one cared. Like they weren't mad or whatever. They,
00:32:59
Speaker
They literally would have only been mad if we like put like a drink down or like chucked something or whatever. Like they didn't care. Yeah, they were incredible. I mean, that was right after slogan. So they played a lot of stuff off slogan in that set. But what a cool show. Holy shit. Have either of you heard Oray Scott Band before? Just from you. For me. I was aware. You like them a lot and you're always sharing them.
00:33:27
Speaker
I believe their last album came out right around the time we started the pod, maybe a little bit before. I think I heard about them peripherally through that and heard a song or two, but I hadn't really dug in. This is my first time listening.
00:33:42
Speaker
This was definitely one of those ones where when I listened chronologically, I enjoyed more and more as I listened. It was an upward trajectory for sure. I will admit that first album or the first one that you had on the listening list was not for me.
00:34:01
Speaker
We'll get into it. So this is only the second Japanese SCA band we've talked about outside of Tokyo SCA Paradise Orchestra. So this is a Dark Ages SCA band that was a big deal. And they are part of the 2007 crew. 2007 had a ton of really high profile SCA releases and they had one of those and they were huge. And that work tour performance that they were on was
00:34:28
Speaker
huge that's right yeah i definitely uh was paying attention to the years of release so when i was listening to this first record and i was like hi i'm not really enjoying this and then i looked at the year and i kind of thought about it and i was like and from what i knew about the band i was like okay this
00:34:47
Speaker
Contextually, this makes a little bit of sense. And then as I kept listening, I was like, ah, they start picking up more influences and moving along in their career and get way, way, way better. Yeah, for sure. But we're going to have fun with this one because their albums are all pretty significantly different. So I think we're going to have a good time. So you love them so much. And you've always been talking to share their music with everyone. And man, you're always like here. And we're driving. Listen to the new or a very good.
00:35:16
Speaker
That's what you do all the time. You're always talking about that. And then the O-R-A sky is usually very deep. I'm usually not wrong. I'm very rarely wrong about the new one being it. So I think it's time to get into the time, Scoshy and Joey. Let's do it.
00:35:43
Speaker
The time Skashine takes us back to 2003 to the Texas of the Far East, Osaka, Japan. A group of precocious junior high school students gathered together to form a pop punk band, and since one of them only knew trombone, they chose to play Ska, selecting more members from the school's brass program. The group would be called, and I'm gonna butcher this, Oretachi Kasakasu Lassen Ska Band with cutter shirts, and would play live shows to a wrapped local audience.
00:36:10
Speaker
One bill deemed their name too long, so they chose to reduce it to simply, or a ska band, which essentially means we're a bunch of boys in a ska band. That's funny. Yeah, that's very funny. They punctuated their ironic name by dressing in boy school uniforms with dress shirts, trousers, and neckties. That's very cute. It's very cute.
00:36:28
Speaker
In 2004, they were in high school, so yes, very young, and decided to do even more live performances, eventually cobbling together $200 in yen to craft their demo, Penpal. While still in high school, the unthinkable happened. They were signed to Sony, who allowed them to create their own imprint, Terry Dollar Records, and issued their debut mini-album, Ore, or like, Wii, is basically what it means, or i.
00:36:54
Speaker
and its lead-off single, Almond, which hit 49 on the Oricon. With nothing but canned heat in their heels, they graduated high school in 2007 and devoted their entire lives to their project. The lineup was, Ikasu on the guitar and vocals, Tomi on the bass and vocals, Taison on the drums, Saki on the pink trumpet, Hayami the leader, yeah. Hayami, the leader, that's what they call her, is the leader on trumpet. And trumpet does sound like a euphemism for dick.
00:37:22
Speaker
right but it's just an actually pink trumpet on the trombone and the toasts and morico on the sax so six of them they became national sensations when their song hana no ska dance appeared in paki commercials oh that's funny and pinocchio uh was a ending theme to naruto oh really that's during a filler season so who's counting
00:37:46
Speaker
They made their splash in 2007 at South by Southwest before releasing their official debut, WOW W-A-O, aka We Are ORE Ska Band, to international acclaim. Combining the high-speed ska punk of kamurim potshot with the then-vogue bubblegum sounds and no shortage of energy and pop hooks,
00:38:07
Speaker
hitting 29th on the Oricon. It was followed up with a U.S. self-titled version. Today is still the band's best-selling record. Let's listen to that big single, Pinocchio, before we talk about the record. Yeah, it's classic JSCA. Oh yeah, this is, and then at this time, this would have been really in vogue of the SCA scene of like the mid-bots, for sure.
00:38:36
Speaker
very bright yeah very sunny the sun is out so third wavey yeah is that a thing like jay scott is so summery sounding yes well and this time at this time yeah right this time when you had the bands like this and yum yum orange and midnight pumpkin and gold betty they're all like female fronted super
00:39:05
Speaker
Like up here, I don't know how to put it. Like on the high. Like high energy. Yeah. Happy. High vibes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's also not like they stopped doing that. They still do that. Yeah. They do. But in a different context. They're also not in high school anymore. Right. Yeah. They're long out of high school. That's crazy. They started in middle school. Yeah. That's nuts.
00:39:30
Speaker
That's it. Just a bunch of candies, just so cute, being funny in a scott band. Yeah, all female. That's really cool. That's very, very cool. Yeah. Don't you think? I love it. And they were touring the US at this time while in high school. And were they like big in the US?
00:39:50
Speaker
They were getting, well, they were at South by Southwest. That's pretty big. They're so cute. Aw, they're adorable. Why are they so cute and nice? OGs from the beginning? Is that any different members? Yes, we'll get into that. There's been some members. There's still some OGs, though, yeah. Oh, yeah. There's still some middle school OGs? Yeah. That's fun.
00:40:11
Speaker
Isn't that? Yeah, it's wild. Okay, tell me more about them. They're fucking good. I re-listened to this album. What do you guys think of that song? Oh, that song's classic though. Pinocchio is like the song. As big as Ori Skahed's. Chris, do you like Pinocchio? That's fine. I don't actively go listen to it, but I mean, I listened to it probably a hundred times in my life. I listened to it many times.
00:40:41
Speaker
There's a song I like, I just, I've heard it enough now so I don't like actively go listen to it.
00:40:47
Speaker
He said that one was a clothing closing song for an anime. Yes. Which which Ruto, but like a filler season. Oh, but a filler season. Yeah. So who's counting? But they also and one of the songs was also the closing theme to bleach. Oh, that's cool. So they were like not legit. Yeah, that was one of the reasons why they got to the U.S. They played and they did this a couple of times where they play a bunch of cons. Yeah, that makes sense. OK. Yeah. Like a taco fest and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. Before warps were right. That's when they were doing that. Yeah.
00:41:16
Speaker
Yeah. And that's where most of the interviews in English that they did, which I think they did through a translator because none of them really speak very good English. Who needs to? Yeah. They don't need to. They don't know us that. But how did you find your realist in Chris listening through it? I didn't love it that much. Oh. I think that everything they do is good. I guess a baseline. I just want to make that clear. But compared to
00:41:44
Speaker
The later stuff that I listened to a lot on regular rotation, I don't love this. It's it's not a sound that I love anymore. Just in general and in JSCI as well. That's fair. Yeah, it's a little too too much. It's yeah. Too happy. Too happy. Very this first album kind of like.
00:42:07
Speaker
Didn't sound the same as, but it gave me the same feels as listening to like a less than Jake record. It just in that it's like just very it's kind of same me a little bit. And it's just that it's all just sort of that pop, very pop, punky, ska like it. It's kind of one note, I will say. It's good. It's good. And especially at the time, like had I saw this band, I would have been dancing. It was great. Right.
00:42:34
Speaker
But like listening back and especially like having a little bit of an idea of what their more modern sound sounds like. I was I was not super into this. Right. Yeah. But like you said, though, it's it's it's not as bad. It just there's nothing wrong with it. No, there's nothing wrong with it. It wasn't for me. Yeah, it's it's an album I've listened to probably 15 times over the years, but I haven't in probably six or seven and listening back and like, oh, yeah, this is why.
00:43:01
Speaker
because that sounds like a bunch of other bands and a bunch of their later stuff doesn't really sound like other bands.
00:43:10
Speaker
and it's just a little kind of like predictable. They sound like they're just coming out of high school, like in high school. Like that's what it sounds like. Absolutely. Totally. So I'm like, this is fine, but I'd like- I'm very impressive. Yeah, it sounds incredible for being that age, but I know what's coming and so I'm like, okay, okay, I get it. And so I'm good. We should play the Pocky song. Yeah. How to No Ska Dance.
00:43:41
Speaker
This was their attempt at writing basically just a straight up ska song. Like the most ska song they wrote on this record. This is good. I love this song. I still really like this song. I did find that I was skipping more tunes on this record than I... I was like, oh yeah, this one. I don't really like it. There.
00:44:01
Speaker
for once we're in agreement yeah like i like i like this one i like knife and fork there's a couple good ones they're monkey man covers fun that's actually that was on the on the english version that i had yeah that is like only a single i think but if you yeah but um yeah a lot of the ones we're gonna get to
00:44:23
Speaker
I would be like, oh, I remember this. I gotta listen to it. But on this one, I'd be like, I remember this. Okay, next. Oh yeah, I remember this. Okay, next. I remember this. Okay, next. Well, I probably listened to it in, like, so much when it came out. Like, oh, like, 2007 was Rob listening to Orey Skaab and Aubrey V. When I wasn't listening to Skaab Boy, JFK, but the Cherry Bob and Daddy's pinpoints and jint joints by the Boston's. 2007 was a weird time, man.
00:44:50
Speaker
god boy jfk yeah so yeah it was such a big deal when it came out like i still have like i was just getting bouts of nostalgia the whole time but i was also like i don't love how it's produced i don't love like i've there to your point chris like there's bands that do a sound that's like this that do it
00:45:12
Speaker
better. Like if I want to listen to Camari, I'll listen to Camari. Like I'll listen to 77 Days that has a very similar vibe to it and just a little bit better. And knowing how they go from here, it's like, okay, I get it. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like they don't have some similar sounding songs sometimes, but they do so many other things that it's kind of like a fun mix of stuff.
00:45:40
Speaker
And as we get to later records, even the songs that they write in this Ska Pop format, they write them better. Yeah, right. They'll write better versions of these songs later on, too. Right. Yeah.
00:45:51
Speaker
If you are a North American Ska fan, then 2008 is the year you remember them as that's when they hit the road on Band's Warp Tour, cementing their place in the Dark Ages Ska canon. In late 0809, they released their follow-up, the two-part What a Wonderful World that showed the band already taking their newly found festival prowess to craft bigger, more anthemic, arena-ready rock songs. The two parts hit 78 and 73rd on the Oricon, respectively.
00:46:20
Speaker
Let's talk about it by playing this one song that I have, the one and only song I cued up, Going Away. Produce much different. I did not think you would pick this one, but that's okay, I'm not mad about it. Yeah, I also was gonna do 24 and the title track. Those were the other two I was gonna do. And then I had to start cutting songs because there's a lot of records we're talking about.
00:46:48
Speaker
I don't know. Oh, that's the other thing. I don't really know what singles are until it's like the last couple years when I'm like really following that type of shit. Right. Yeah, I didn't even know like I just I gave up on song titles altogether. I was like, well, hopefully he picks ones that I recognize because I don't know what any of these are called. Yeah, I guess. In my headcanon, I thought that Oh My Honey was a single.
00:47:13
Speaker
that was a good song i enjoyed that one i thought you were gonna pick that but we should play that game so going after this i'm gonna get you to try to uh guess which songs that we can see and be disappointed in real time like joey will know and celine will know but but chris will not know this is uh
00:47:33
Speaker
like more enjoyably pop rock than I expected it to be. This song or like a couple of the songs. It's giving Avril a little. Yeah, but like in a good way, like I was there were a few songs that popped up on this pair of albums that I was like, I don't expect to like enjoy this kind of because they kind of slow it down a little bit and pop it up a little bit. And I liked it. How did you find Mr. Chris?
00:48:03
Speaker
I forgot that it's not very SCA. It's not very SCA. Overall, there's between the two, there's only like three maybe, which I don't I don't care about. Like that's part of what I like about them. Isn't one of them like a like a banger of an instrumental though? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. But it's way more like pop rock kind of like pop monkey, which is fine. I mean, I found most of the songs pretty good.
00:48:32
Speaker
Many of them, I was like, oh yeah, I remember this. I gotta listen to this, because I haven't listened to either of these in probably longer than the first album. But I probably not going to go back to them in a while, because I'm good, I think. But I mean, you can start to hear them trying some more stuff, expanding their range. And that's important for where it goes. So I still think it's good.
00:49:01
Speaker
You're not going to re-listen necessarily all the time to him. Yeah, probably not. Probably not in a while. I thought it was a snooze. I was snoozed out. The one thing I knew about those two records is they're not Ska. That's the thing I do remember. I remember not liking them when they came out. I didn't like them when I listened to them now.
00:49:23
Speaker
I didn't like that it was, they did sound like a pot, like they were trying to get some pop rock songs on the radio. But they hadn't reached City Pop yet. I think it's the next record where they kind of start hitting that city pop. I feel like they're flirting. Even that one had the slap daisy thing. Yeah, they're like dipping their toes in a little bit. Yeah, but I think on the next album, they kind of
00:49:48
Speaker
hit it a little more. Do you not like it because it doesn't have a lot of Scott or you just mean? No, because I think there's a. Oh, I think it's because the type of not Scott they're playing is not a kind of music I like. Yeah, right. Yeah, OK, that's cool. That's the kind of not Scott they're playing is music I don't mind. Yeah, it's like a full blown J-pop record. Yeah, like, yeah.
00:50:09
Speaker
And I and I will like you just said, Celine, it's I don't mind. Like, it's it's they're OK. These two records, I don't know, like Chris said, I don't know if I'll go back to them. There's definitely I wouldn't mind figuring out which one of those was that instrumental Scott song, because that that was a ripper, actually. But aside from like, it's it's good. But yeah, yeah, I don't know.
00:50:33
Speaker
No, no, no, no, I do. No, I don't like it. Um, yeah, it's tough. I just didn't get through it. It was tough. It was, that was the toughest listen for me was getting through those two. Cause I was after the first one, I was like, Oof, I gotta do that a whole other one. Yeah. And they were not.
00:50:53
Speaker
It wasn't like a like a day and night record release where the two were very different. It was just kind of like it was like the same record for two records. Yeah, they took one record and halved it is basically what happened. Yeah. Yeah. And because many albums sell super well in Japan, that's kind of what they were like or maxi singles like alternate formats do really well in Japan. And especially since they were on tour, like those are big tour sellers is like you can sell them for cheaper. Right. Like you can sell a seven track
00:51:22
Speaker
like CD or whatever, maxi single for cheaper. And so you can probably move more units at the show. Right. Right. Right. That makes sense. Any last minute thoughts on it, Chris? I mean, for me, it's just this is when they start to expand. And I think that's really important because the main thing for me that I love about them, why they're one of my favorite bands and to be honest, is very inspiring for all the stuff that we are doing, like as a label and like a group is that they
00:51:52
Speaker
are not shy or hiding that Scott is one of their influences, but they do whatever the fuck they want. And sometimes there's not that much Scott involved and that's totally fine. And that actually is pretty fucking cool. And so that's pretty much what you could say is what I'm doing with everyone I'm looking for and all the bands that I like and that I'm drawn to.
00:52:15
Speaker
And this is where you start to see the nexus of that in this band because there are many bands that put out albums like their first one, but they don't necessarily do this right after that. And so while I don't really want to go back to it, I think it's really important that they did it. Yes, I totally that I will agree with. Like considering where they end up going, it was good that they took even though hard and I'm sure I'm painting this part of me feels this. This feels a little like
00:52:45
Speaker
Like the label had something to say about the direction that the band was going in on this record. This does feel a little fabricated for like mass appeal. But that's maybe just my impression when listening to it. But I think like them expanding their palette helps inform what they do next. So yeah. Definitely. So let's take a quick break and when we get back, we'll finish off on Orey Ska Band.
00:53:14
Speaker
Welcome back to Check Your Password here with Chris Reesk, Associate Producer, SPI Phenom, and we're talking Ore Ska Band.
Oreska Band's Evolution and Albums
00:53:22
Speaker
2010 would show the band ready for their second full length and it began with something of an image change. While the irony of the name remained, the fact that they were out of high school meant it was time to hang up the school uniforms in favor of a variety of traditionally male attire, such as suits and trench coats.
00:53:37
Speaker
Musically they returned to their ska roots, oscillating between traditional ska ska punk and arena rock with the song bicycle being added as an end theme to Naruto again. The album would hit 140 on the Oricon well under their debut, but bicycle would go on to be the band's signature song and their most streamed track. Chris, can you guess what songs I have queued up from this record?
00:54:00
Speaker
Bicycle color. Yes. I have bicycle. Um, I have one more. I was gonna guess. Okay. Give me two guesses on which the other one is. I'm gonna go with, um, my beat. I feel like you're gonna like the bass tone in that one. I love that song. The bass tone is really weird in that song. It's very cool. Yeah. I do like that song. Yeah. That song works. So I would guess that one. That's the one you picked though. Yeah. No, that wasn't, I was on the list. Okay. I trimmed it. Then I don't know what the song's called with the sixth track. I don't, I don't actually know.
00:54:30
Speaker
how you say that one. All right. Let's start with bicycle. This gives us a little bit of a vibe for this record. So color is the name of the album. I don't know if I said that. Yeah. Color is the second full length. Just find your realist and Chris. I love it. There's many of these songs that are some of my favorites. I really like this one. It's very weird. It's it starts to go all over the place. There are some songs that I skip, but
00:55:00
Speaker
It's an album I listen to pretty regularly. I'm a fan. I do like Color. Color's a good one. I remember when this one came out, I was like, oh, they're back. I remember that. This is the one where they discover reggae, right? Yes. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, this is very good. I liked it. That first reggae song, I was like, yeah. Yeah, that sounds so cool. Also, I feel like
00:55:27
Speaker
This album just sounds really Japanese. It just sounds more Japanese even than the last one. It's weird because to me, they used to sound like a Scott Punk band and now they sound like a Japanese band. Yeah, totally. That's what I was thinking as well. They're a Japanese band that plays Scott and they used to be a Scott Punk band.
00:55:55
Speaker
Yeah, that's totally how I felt as I was progressing through the records. So the Eastern influences are picking up, the J-pop influences, those kinds of things. Yeah. And they just, they get tighter and there's just a certain sound the Japanese bands have that like a Genesee quad. They sound an awful lot like deer in gray. Color is a good album. I like it a lot. This is one I probably haven't listened to the longest.
00:56:21
Speaker
It's been a minute and I was really surprised, pleasantly surprised at how good and how much it holds up. It feels a lot more modern. Whereas if you could argue that, wow, it's pretty dated a little bit, this doesn't sound nearly as dated.
00:56:39
Speaker
Yeah, totally agree. It has more of a timeless sound. I feel like it's also a little bit more mature. I feel like they're more locked in with what they want to do. It doesn't feel necessarily as pulled in any certain direction. Also, I feel like they're becoming better musicians in that
00:57:02
Speaker
And the last double album thing, when they were doing new things, a lot of times it's kind of sounded like they were like doing a new thing. Like that first slap bass that comes on that album is like, oh wow, she learned how to slap that bass. You know what I mean? Whereas this album integrates the stuff that they've learned into the songs better. Like it just, the songwriting is stronger, I feel like for sure.
00:57:26
Speaker
We haven't really talked about their musicianship a lot. They're they're tight musicians. Hell yeah. And and noticeably better every record. Like, yeah, like way better. They have a good horn section. Yeah. Yeah. Leader is a great trombone player. Someone in the water in Japan makes like amazing trombone players like just so good. And it makes them go like better. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:16
Speaker
Trumbo blades, hit us up. Tell us how good I'm doing. What about a trumpet? Both? The brass, right? I think they gotta have the same technique for both. Is it tickly? It gets tickly.
00:58:21
Speaker
That was awesome.
00:58:32
Speaker
it's so vibrating oh dude it's so hard it's so hard i've never been able to make a brass instrument make the sound that it's supposed to make i can i can i could i played saxophone in junior high school so i can kind of use a reed but i could never do the the brass mouth reeds totally different yeah totally different yeah
00:58:48
Speaker
So the other song I have to open this record is the Rico song. Oh, Rico. I never would have guessed that one. Is it those cool Tradska song that they have? Hell yeah. It is a cool Tradska song. They just threw it out of nowhere. Yeah. They write cool-ass instrumentals, man. I love their instrumentals. When they get an instrumental on, I'm like, fuck yeah. Yeah. One of the later instrumentals
00:59:17
Speaker
I will get to is one of my favorite songs of all time. God, they're so good. Yeah, hell yeah. That's one of my favorite toasts. Yeah. They hiccup? Yeah. So there's a reason why I was talking about their prowess coming in on the solos.
00:59:45
Speaker
And it's something to be said with an album that had like a pretty big song on it. Pretty big like J-pop song. But they also just like threw in a old timey first wave instrumental. Like it's really cool. Yeah, they're just doing whatever they wanted. There's also like a funk song. Yeah. Swing song, which is one of the ones I skip. It's one of your favorites. OK. They just they're truly all over the place on this one. They're still like.
01:00:14
Speaker
some JSCA stuff. I love it. It's great. Yeah. They even have like a goofy SCA song that I really liked. Orius SCA music is good. Yeah. I was singing along to Orius SCA music before it ended. I was pretty into it. My beat is like a great opening track. I love that song. It's very strange.
01:00:37
Speaker
great as an opener to be like, hey, look what we're going to do. You have no idea. Is that the one where it's like all the different genres in the same song? Yeah, basically. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I as I was listening to it, I was like, oh, hell yeah. This is sick. Yeah. Yeah. And the bass tone is very cool. Tony is an awesome bass player. One of my favorite bass players of all time. She's rad.
01:00:58
Speaker
In 2011, they had a massive tour to support the album. And by 2013, they had another mini album in their pocket, Hot Number, which is like a dance EDM record, I guess. It's very interesting to listen to. Lots of synth. Lots of synth. Ooh, I like this. This is a synth-y thing ever. So I got, there's only seven tracks. So I pulled a song called That's an Arbitrary Theory.
01:01:24
Speaker
Okay, well I like this. Yeah, that's why I picked it. This is probably a song that someone really likes. This one reminds me of that song. I'm like already saying- Oh, we're in trouble by- by- Oh, we're in trouble. That's off, yeah. Yeah, this is very cool. Little girl groupie, K-pop. This has got a lot of K-pop. Yeah, it's a lot.
01:01:45
Speaker
This is giving me, like, to anyone, like, er, like, not, like, different gen of K-pop, not, like, modern K-pop, or, like, ten years ago K-pop. Well, that's, yeah, that would've been out in 2000. Ahhhh! It's, like, very girl's gen to anyone.
01:02:03
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I love when, like, you guys talk about obscure skull things and I'm always like, and I don't really know and then I can just put some weird ass pause in and then I'm like, yeah, and I'm like, you guys don't know. Feels good. This is good. I like the song. What's it called?
01:02:22
Speaker
Well, it's Japanese, but it translates to that's an arbitrary theory. That's funny. This is good. This might go on the playlist. I had to listen to this. This is the first time I ever listened to it. I had to listen to it twice. Really? Because I like could not understand what I was listening to. It's wild. I like it. I think cotton over is really cool. It's not very Scott, but I think it's very cool.
01:02:51
Speaker
I'm on the fence about it. Some songs I really like because like a song like that, I was like, man, they fucking that's cool for it. I actually think that any other songs from that album, nothing cute. There's only seven songs. I think my only qualm with the album was there was very little horns.
01:03:07
Speaker
Yeah. And in a way that in some of these songs, they could have worked in a horn line. Instead of one of the synth things, because there's a lot of synth going on, they could have done a horn thing and had more. But that's really my only complaint, to be honest. It was a pretty fun EP or whatever you want to call it. Mini album. Mini album. Yeah. I think it's the sixth one.
01:03:32
Speaker
Orion Nightmove is more or less like a- Oh, I love that song. That's more or less like a Jamiroquai song. It's fucking awesome. Yeah. It's so good. So the non-SCA songs were my favorite ones. There's only a couple, I think there's two SCA songs on the record and kind of the middle there. But the ones that are like that, or the night one, Orion Night is the other one I was going to queue up. But this one I thought Selene would like some. I do like it. Thank you. Yeah. That song is good.
01:03:58
Speaker
It is fun, I think that the way to go if they're gonna try something wildly different is to do it in a seven song shot just to kinda get a feel for it. That's a good way to approach it. And it seems like they kinda do that every now and then. They'll just take a big swing for a release and then their next release will fold some of that big swing energy back into a little more cohesive sound and they kinda go back and forth like that.
01:04:26
Speaker
Yeah, it almost seems like they might just get really into a certain sound and try it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chris's favorite songs on records are the ones with big swing energy BSE. That's true BSE. That's why you love the cherry pop and daddy's. Nice try. Get them canceled. Get them canceled. Get them now. Get them now. Finally. I've been waiting.
01:05:00
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Do you have any other thoughts on hot number there, Chris? I mean, not really. There's seven songs. There's not a lot to say. I just think it's like.
01:05:08
Speaker
They clearly went for it, and I think it's cool as hell that they did. There's so much weird stuff on it, and I think it's cool as fuck. I don't know what else to say. I think everyone should listen to it. It's cool. It's weird. I think their entire collection of albums is something worth listening to. I think the problem is that they have a lot of random stuff also kicking around, and it's sometimes hard to kind of piece out where you should start. Yeah, some of my favorite songs of theirs are just like,
01:05:38
Speaker
a single that just exists on nothing else. So it is a little hard, but, you know, you really can't lose like listening to any of their stuff. I'd say just this is Oray Skaab and the Spotify playlist. Good enough. Good place to start. You're going to get a lot of different shit. Yeah. I've never even looked at that, but you're probably right. Yeah. That's why Spotify does that. So you can get a feel for everything. Yeah. You never heard Jurassic Five before. Here's a great way to find out what they sound like. Here's all the highest streams.
01:06:06
Speaker
You'll find out what's golden real quick. Yeah. All right. So in 2014, they moved to Victor from Sony for future distribution and issued the E.P. carry on as a stopgap as they thought about where to go next. I have the song. Let's listen to it. I just did it. It's not on streaming. But we can listen to this. Oh, the songs just like a blown scar. Yeah. So this is what's weird, is that because I
01:06:35
Speaker
This is an example of what I was just talking about. It's because I saved this as like a like and stuff. I can still stream it, but I know that no one else can. Yeah, it's... I can't find it. I had to just pull it off of the internet somewhere. But this song is wild. Yeah, and there's also... Brand new Day was with it. That song's cool as fuck too.
01:07:02
Speaker
So this is an example of what I was saying before, how, like, this is just them writing a full-on ska song like they did at the beginning, but they're doing a way better job of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The hook is better. They add more, like, background vocals. They're all in the halls. Oh, the backing vocals are so good. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So this, yes. Well said. This is a perfect example of why I was like, OK, this first record is fine, but let's screw it forward.
01:07:34
Speaker
And I gotta say, when I saw them in Japan, this is the song I opened with. It was like, oh. We're not saving, we're just hitting hard. It's like, shit. And also the fact there's a riff on country roads is like, you can't go wrong, really. Oh, it's so fun. What'd you think of that one, Slinn?
01:07:52
Speaker
I just like don't really like that kind of ska. Oh, really? But I like that there are girls doing it. That's fair. I really like that there are girls doing it and it's not bad, but I just have a hard time with things being so happy. Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah, I need a little. It's missing my there's no dirt under the there's no dirt under the fingernails. Well, to that point, though, that's why.
01:08:18
Speaker
I like some of their other stuff more because they do have stuff like that. That's what, yeah. And Rob showed me stuff before that's edgier. I think in these next two records. I couldn't tell you what's when, but I know he showed me stuff that does have a little bit of dirt under the fingernails. I don't know if you cued it, but like in one of these next couple of records, there was like a, there's like a straight up punk song pretty much, isn't there?
01:08:39
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, they play with all kinds of stuff, right? Like they go. Yeah. Anyway, let's let's keep moving because we're kind of putting the cart before. I guess I like my pop pop, but like my pop can be pop, but my scum like needs to be punky. Yeah, little because even cat bites like scum pop, but it's punky. Right. You know, anyways.
01:08:58
Speaker
So up to this point, the band members have not changed. So this is 2014. And they put out X number of records at this point, all kinds of singles. So this is the first time where members will start to change. So Moriko plays the saxophone, would be the first member to leave, choosing to focus on raising a family, and was replaced by ADD on the saxophone.
01:09:20
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who had helped the band put together their next record slogan that saw the band flirt with Dub, Latin, metal, a variety of other genres showcasing their more experimental side. In spite of its critical acclaim, it only hit 250 on the Oricon, which was the impetus for them to go completely independent. So after this, they went independent.
01:09:44
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So which songs do you think I queued up from this record, Chris? Okay. How many are there? Next spot, Anazami Spirit. Okay. So you got one right. We're gonna play next spot. Hell yeah. God. This is one of the best songs of all time. This song is fucking incredible. Oh my God. I think I listened to this song a thousand times. Oh, fuck. It does everything. That guitar tone is wild. Yeah. I love it.
01:10:13
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They definitely got more discerning on their guitar tone because it was not great early on.
01:10:34
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Yeah, this is cool, I like this. So fucking rad. Slogan's a fucking amazing record. And then just a little breakdown. But also, did you hear that sub drop? They start adding that type of shit in there too? Way more layers and shit. And the chimes when that part transitions too, so sick. I like how dreamy this is. Yeah, it's not even the chorus.
01:11:03
Speaker
It's just a dreamy, pretty cool. And now they got rips, too. Fucking rips. Yeah, the guitars got everything. God. Yeah. Incredible sound. That's good. That's good. Yeah, that shit rips. That's much better than that last thing we listened to. Yeah. Listening to the slogan all the way through, it's probably the best one. Whoa. You think this is the best one? Yeah. I mean, I think so. Yeah, I think so. Okay. This is very good. That's what I said was like, I'm going to be all in on a slogan.
01:11:32
Speaker
album is one of the best albums that has Scott on it of all time, in my opinion. It does so many different things. The straightforward stuff like a Zombie Spirit. Everyone on Chris's album, let that record label, let that sit in. All I'm saying is when someone sends me a demo, ruffs, whatever to try to get on.
01:11:57
Speaker
This type of thing is what I'm comparing it to. Start with, ooh, I got good. Put more in your album and I'll be more positive on it. It's more about slogan. I think the thing about it is that we were talking about this with Flaming Tsunamis and Fear Everything. It's a surprising album. You just don't know. I love it when a band has earned the right to just
01:12:23
Speaker
allow you to listen to every song and just be like, I don't know what the fuck they're going to do. And that's a lot of fun. Yeah. And just listening to it again for the first time since like 2017 or whatever, like, fuck, this is really good. Yeah, they do more genre switching midsong on this album than they ever have before. I feel like
01:12:42
Speaker
But the other, the previous albums, it was like, well, here's a song that's in this style. Other than that one, that was, you know, all the different genres in one song type of deal. But this, this album, it seems way more like, and then there's this weird breakbeat part. And then it goes back to this city pop thing. And then there's a Scott part, you know, like it kind of is a real mix like that for sure. The other song I have is V-Bray. Oh, fuck.
01:13:08
Speaker
Is that not a good one? No, no, no, I think it's incredible. I just thought Rob was gonna go with the Sky Instrumental again. That's why I picked it up on the spirit. Yeah, this song is incredible. Yeah, Tommy Spirit is awesome. And this song's great. I like that they did like a Latin thing. That's fun. Yeah, the vocals are very, very, very good. Yeah. Yeah, the lower vocals work.
01:13:38
Speaker
A little more sultry. Yeah. This just, um, sometimes Mavs, the other singers, she's always like, higher is better. I'm like, higher is lower is better. Yeah. Have we pointed out, have we pointed out that, uh, they really like to tell the band to clap and then the band claps? That happens on a lot of songs. Time to clap.
01:14:05
Speaker
They also like to count off. Yeah. But I think that's a J. Scott thing too, is counting off. This is very catchy and good. Yeah, this is great. And dancing. This is good. It's one of my favorite songs on the record. I love it. Yeah, their vocals are crazy. I remember when me and Chris were talking about doing a Ray Scott band because on the next record is one of my favorite songs of theirs. And I was like, man, this song just goes. And then he sent me Next Spot and he was like, yeah, Slogan has the good ones. I was like, fucking right. Like this, like this song is a song I thought of immediately. And I'm like,
01:14:34
Speaker
I hadn't listened to Slogan in so long, but I was like, this is absolutely worth talking about. What a great record. Any last minute thoughts on the record before we move on, Chris? Everybody, go listen to Slogan. It's fucking incredible. It's great. Start to finish. It's fucking great. Honestly, start with Slogan. I would say, and then move back. Yeah, go for it. That's the way to go. It gives you everything you need to know about the band, and then you can decide what parts you like afterwards.
01:14:58
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2018 showed the
Band Lineup Changes and Hiatus
01:15:00
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next departure with Trumpeter Saki leaving to join Mason's party, with longtime songwriter Tomi leaving in 2020 for being replaced by Yumei. They would be a 5-piece in order to issue their first independent full-length Bohemia in 2022, showing a Ska Forward sound that included a lot of nods to Rege, Ska Pop, and Dub with a more laid-back energy.
01:15:23
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From 2018 to 2021, they had a keyboardist as an off and on member of the band, and much of their arrangements are featured on this album. As of 2023, you may also have to leave the band, and they are now on hiatus. What's the future gonna hold for the band? We don't know. But let's talk about Bohemia. Chris, what songs do you think I queued up from this one? Hmm. Stormy and Itokashi. Ooh, we got one right. Let's do Itokashi. Because this is...
01:15:53
Speaker
I mean, it probably doesn't surprise many people to know this is like my favorite aurea ska band song. I fucking love it. This one? This is Imora Uno? It's like very recent, but I love this song. Love it. It's like a full on ska song, but it's like as much as like one of the best written ska songs ever made, in my opinion. It is very good. Like they're at the height of their powers in terms of writing songs and they wrote just the best ska song they could.
01:16:23
Speaker
I do like the dance hall thing. It's happy. There's no dirt on the finger. I like the... It's not bad. That's not my favorite. I like that pop song better. We talked some about the backing vocals, but the thing that I think we kind of forgot to highlight is that starting around slogan, a little bit on color, they start doing the whole band, doing a gang vocal thing that is very unique to them. And this one shows that really, really well.
01:16:53
Speaker
It's like that's all of them doing the chorus, but it sounds more like a gang vocal than a backing vocal. Yeah, it's harmonized, but it's not like a chorus. Some of them are doing some harmonies, but it's kind of yelly and it's kind of gang vocally. Yeah, totally. Yeah, that is a distinct part of their sound to me, and the early stuff doesn't have that.
01:17:15
Speaker
That's true, because it was really about the two singers and just them kind of trading off their vocals. Yeah. Like femme voyue. Like femme voyue. I always thought that Orey Skovin was really trying to bite at femme voyue. For sure. Yeah. What do you feel about this record, Chris? I mean, it's great. It's not slogan, but it's number two. I think it's really, really good. It's number two for you?
01:17:41
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. Okay. It would either be this or color and they both... Yeah, I think color is too funny. They both do a lot of swings in different ways. Literally on both in their swing song and this one too. The swing song on all their records. Yeah, they all have like one swing song. This one has like a slower vibe. So really it would just be it depend on like the mood. Like I'm always, if I'm going to listen, go, oh, I'm going to listen to the worst guy, I'm going to listen to the slogan. And then after that, it's like, am I trying to vibe out a little more?
01:18:10
Speaker
or am I trying to be a little more like up? And so that's the difference between Bohemian color, but still very, very good. Bohemia is your indica and then colors your sativa. Yes. I had a joke that's late, but I didn't want to interrupt, Chris. OK, let's do it. Do you need to be set up for it? Yeah, do you need to set up again? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
01:18:41
Speaker
That's good. That was worth it. Yeah, that was worth it. What was the joke that we get? Oh, wait. Kay, I just have to tell you a joke that me and Joey made the other day. Long John Silver went to the doctor. Or no, he went to the doctor to get some medication. Okay.
01:18:56
Speaker
Then Loughton Silver says to the doctor, what are the side effects? And the doctor says, Restless Peg Syndrome. Nice. Fabulous. Fabulous. Did you start at Restless Peg Syndrome and work back? No, no, no, no, no. I know how the sausage gets paid on these things. Anyways.
01:19:24
Speaker
So that next song I had was... Okay, hold on. As I was listening to this record, I actually only made it like two thirds of the way through the record because I was setting up and I just ran out of time. But when this song came on, I was like, Rob's going to pick that song. Oh, I did call it. Yes. This is number nine. And it was because I was like, this song fucks so hard. That song riffed it. So good.
01:19:52
Speaker
This one's a little bit of a darker reggae song. This is cool. Yeah, it's sick. Why do you guys not like the better songs more? I do. I've been trying to mix up the songs that we pick. No, you're being good. But I just think this is objectively so much cooler than that happy stuff you were playing. See, I knew Chris was on here. I mean, I wasn't playing as you as Chris. I just don't understand how people don't share the same taste as me, is what I'm saying.
01:20:20
Speaker
Well, if you like this, there's like a lot of the album songs like this. Yeah, this is cool. I like this. This is cool. The vocals are cool. It's a little edgier. It's a little darker. The one he just played, Itokashi, is kind of the only one that sounds like straight pop style like that. Okay. Yeah, this album is definitely more like dubby reggae. I like this. Yeah. So there's three songs I like so far that we've played, like a lot. Yeah.
01:20:49
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from what I've heard in the sampling. The vocals are so fucking good. The vocals are incredible.
01:20:56
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This is very good. This is really catchy. This is actually out of control. How catchy this is. Okay. What's going on? Number nine. This is one of the singles too, wasn't it? Yeah. It's called number nine? Yeah. Okay. This is
Independent Band Decisions
01:21:12
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a really objectively incredible song. This is going on the list. This is going on the mega list. I remember listening to Bohemia and thinking like, wow, this is like an incredible record.
01:21:23
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Yeah, this is good. Like as I listened to it more, I was like, OK, a couple of songs kind of go on a little long. And I was like, but the ones I really like, I really like. Like that song, it's Itokashi. There's a lot of fucking bangers on this record to save the playlist. Oh, wait, no, I'm looking at this again. The fifth one is kind of Poppy Sky, but it's like not quite as much as Itokashi.
01:21:46
Speaker
Can we listen to number nine again? But yeah, there's some, oh yeah, this is good. This is a good record too. So good. Yeah. Yeah. You enjoy it. This thing, this felt Joey. These last two records were like, I get it. I get, I get why they're one of Chris's favorite bands. I these.
01:22:10
Speaker
they figured when they discovered reggae and dub and threw that into their sound. Yeah, I mean, like I was like 80 percent in before that. But as soon as those fucking because it's every third song, there will be like a dub break thing or like a little reggae part. And I'm like, if it just sucks me in, it's number nine hit my soul. Yeah. Every so often a song will just hit you and you're like, yeah, that's it.
01:22:34
Speaker
I think Chris, you said it earlier, they're not shy about their ska influences even when they're not being a ska band. And I think that's what I like about them. It's in the name. We are a ska band of a bunch of boys. But they're girls. And that's funny. But they're not locked into ska.
01:22:53
Speaker
No, it's whatever they're feeling. And I think going independent was the best possible thing they could do. And any
The Word Salad Game
01:23:00
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record they put out, I'm fucking there. Well, and didn't you mention earlier in their career, they were basically under their own imprint label anyways? Yeah. So they already kind of knew what they were doing as far as that aspect of it.
01:23:15
Speaker
You want to do a quick round of, uh, label. She's the bomb. Sure. I can put it in post. Okay. Label. She's the bomb. They only put out or a Scott band records. Okay. That was labeled. She's the bomb. Whoa. She's the bomb and Sony, right? Sony and then Victor. Yeah. Uh, yeah, very exciting. She's the bomb. Do you want to play a game?
01:23:43
Speaker
Okay, Joey, I got the song here.
01:23:52
Speaker
Come on all your tongues get loose tonight got a lot of words to spit in your cheeks will be tight This game is called word salad
01:24:16
Speaker
We're the salad. We're the salads. We gotta do that. We still have to do that episode. We gotta do the salads. We gotta do the salads episode. We have to.
01:24:23
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In this game, Celine, Joey and Chris will be given an album or song that is a straight up word salad and has no meaning and they have to guess the name of the band. A song that's a word salad title? Yeah, it's a title of a song or an album that's straight up word salad and you have to figure out what the band is. Additional clues will be given if you can't get it right away, buzz in with your name or buzz or scar or whatever, get it right, get a point, get it wrong, get the gong.
01:24:48
Speaker
Are you saying these exist or you created these? No, these are real. Okay. Okay. Like, like brain salad surgery. Yeah. Sorry. Do we know what a word salad is? Not really. Okay. Word salad is a bunch of words mixed together that don't make sense. So like, so for example, here's one. Smells like teen spirit.
01:25:10
Speaker
Nirvana. Well, yeah. OK. But yes, that's a word salad. Oh, it's meaningless. It's just a bunch of words. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. We got the best. OK. Guess the band. Yes. Yeah. OK. All right. OK. Here's the second one. And they'll get progressively harder.
01:25:27
Speaker
Take on me. Salim? I'll give it to, yeah. Oh, we're just yelling? Well, yeah, maybe we can just yell. Yeah. Listen, I got to tell you, my biggest fear is that Salim is going to go on a run again, as that was the worst part of my year last year. Was it you with the drugs? Yes. Yeah, it was. No, you weren't. That was some kind of serial killer or something. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I totally broke the wall. I don't remember. I wasn't there either.
01:25:56
Speaker
Yeah, you weren't there. I remember it quite well. My friends told me how bad that was and how much better it was. And I don't want that to happen to me. Okay, that's fair. I forgot that happened to me. So sorry, I like jumped very quickly. I got a major flashback of like, oh my god, she's going to do it again. We're starting to get extra competitive with you too. I'm like sitting up straight. Usually I'm like, oh my god. I saw you. No, Chris gets nothing. I saw you sit up and I was like, oh my god, here we go again. Yeah.
01:26:27
Speaker
I do get so competitive with Chris. Okay. All right. Sorry. I'll actually buzz next time. I'm sorry. No, it's okay. I love this. This is already okay. Next one. I'm a gumma. I'm a gumma. That's the title of the song. I recognize it. I can't think of. Yeah, nothing. Here's another from the same band, Adam Hartmother.
01:26:49
Speaker
I actually don't know. I got nothing. Oh, this is killing me. This is a dad rock band. Yeah, I know. And I can like picture album titles, but I can't think of the best. Well, and their name is their name is also a word salad. Pink Floyd. I was going to say Pink Floyd. I should have just said it. I've never really been into them.
01:27:07
Speaker
No, I don't know what to say. Pink Floyd can go fuck themselves. Well, those those two albums are like pre their fame, basically, too. Yeah, this was before Dark Side. Yeah. Yeah. Because Dark Side actually makes sense. But a magoma doesn't make any sense. Yeah. And it sucks. It's a shitty album blood sugar sex magic. Oh, I got chili peppers. Yes. So we might get this one. This might be a run away.
01:27:35
Speaker
Zenyatta Mondatta. Chris. Police. Yeah, Chris. Police. That's right. Oh! Next one. Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy. Selen. Mindly Self Indulgence. Correct. That was for me. He may fall into me. Here we go again. Okay, next one. Mink Car. That sounds so familiar. Mink Car. The band's name is also a word salad.
01:28:00
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Let's see if I could get some hints here. There's only two of them. One of them does a lot of soundtracks. There are a couple of dorks. They were big in the late 80s, early 90s. Selene, oinko boinko daddy. Not as punk rock. Sock puppets.
01:28:21
Speaker
They might be giant. Yes. Oh, I don't know if I deserve that as a point. They don't. Don't take it. You put it that way. Yeah, don't take it. But actually, you're right. You don't deserve it.
01:28:33
Speaker
Okay, here's the next one. The world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum. Sorry, let me try that again. The world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum. So Lynn, is that weird owl? That was a guess. That was just a wild guess. Prog rock band. I'm going to go Zappa.
01:28:52
Speaker
So yeah primus no more like zappa It's a very similar you're getting there more proggy less like rocky medley super tramp No, that's later. No earlier 90s Very pretty or whatever his name is plays guitar. I'll just give it to you King Crimson We're sucking
01:29:20
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So yeah, I would try to put some dad rock bands because I thought Chris might lock in, but they're not yacht rock enough, I think. Yeah, no, that's, yeah, right. It's not soft enough.
01:29:28
Speaker
It's not soft enough. It's not soft enough. Too hard. Teeth like God's shoeshine. Teeth like God's shoeshine. Yes. I've never heard that before. Really? Because this is a band you have said you really like before. This is an indie rock band. Really? Like, yep. Indie rock band from the early 90s, early 2000s. Salin? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't have an album that I've made. No, but they're like a- Architecture and Helsinki? No, that one also would fly, though. Let's say they're like a koi rat.
01:29:57
Speaker
They're like a not very... A koi rat? Yeah, they're not like, they're like a not... Oh, lot of smells. Yes. Oh, damn. Yeah, okay. They do have a lot of word salads. They love word salads. They love koi like the fish. It was like... Yeah. Tea play gods to shine. Yeah. I'm surprised I don't know that. A fish rat would be pretty cool. Yeah, for sure. It's not a fashion statement. It's a fucking death wish. Oh, that sounds familiar. I got a run coming.
01:30:25
Speaker
Okay, got got to be like, if I very close. We're in the 2000s in my chemical romance. Yeah, you unlocked it. Thanks. Here we go. London beckons songs about money written by machines. Oh, that sounds familiar. So then no, damn it. I've heard it. Are not our lady fees. Nope. They have song salads or word salads. Yeah.
01:30:52
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Here's another one. Same band. There's a good reason these tables are numbered, honey. You just haven't thought of it yet. Follow boy. So close. Selene, panic at the desk. You unlocked it. I never listened to that band. Blah. I write sins not tragedies. That's an incredible song. They're all word salads. They make no sense. What a beautiful wedding.
01:31:19
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I didn't say I was powerful. I said I was a wizard. I'll just give that away. That's Kaidos, because nobody's going to get that, but that's just a funny... You just wanted to share that with everyone. I didn't say I was powerful. I said I was a wizard. Cream corn from the socket of Davis.
01:31:37
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What's the 90's version of Zappa? Santana and Weird Al are the 90's version of Zappa. Who is the 90's version of Zappa? The butthole surfers.
01:31:59
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Let's see, I'm going to only do a couple more. This is fun, though. I'm learning. The train runs over the camel, but is derailed by the gnat. This is like, yeah, what? This band is famous for their live show with like spaceships coming down and shit. Oh, oh, Blink 182. So is it fucking Iron Maiden? Parliament.
01:32:26
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No. No. It's on fire. Oh, hot lips. Hot lips. Hot lips. I forgot what they were called. I'm changing them for you to hot lips. I got two more. I got two more. Okay. It's not a two more. It's not a two more supposed former infatuation junkie.
01:32:49
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Oh, that's like a 90s, 2000s-y. Alanis Morissette. Yes. What? Good job, Joey. That is Alanis Morissette. I also have a Tori Amos one here, but I didn't think anybody would get it. Programmable soda. You already said smells like Teen Spirit. And the power of boar knickers.
01:33:09
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That's a Tori Amos song. Oh, the power of what? The power of orange knickers. Oh, that's fun. All right, here's one more. Puritanical euphoric misanthropia. Dima board gear. Yes, that's Dima board gear. Oh, boy. Do that one right away, because that's my favorite album, by the way. Yeah, it's really good. I love Dima. I could have done any black metal stuff because it's all in silence.
01:33:29
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Uh, who won? Did Joey do that? I won. And I'm going to quit. What do you get versus me? What am I? Uh, you got two and I got, I got more than two. Chris got two. You got three. Ah nuts. At least my fear didn't come true. So I'll take that as a win.
01:33:47
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I'm gonna throw two in there. There are two of my favorites from like a local band. One of them is it's hard to be sad when you're rolling around on piles and piles of cash, which is like a fun song title. And also, they call me the part time party machine because sometimes I have to or like sometimes I like to party and other times I have to go to work.
01:34:07
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Yeah, that's just a model down the hatch. I would like Joey with a part-time party machine is one of my favorite songs like ever had sounds great. That was fun. That was such a stupid game. Great. That was great. I didn't know any of them, but it was great. It was so fun. Chris Reeves. Chris Reeves.
01:34:28
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Okay,
Promotion for SPI Fest and New Releases
01:34:29
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well, uh, SPI Fest, grab your tickets. We really want to sell this mother out. Uh, we are putting out the runaway ricochet album at this time. You're listening to this. The single is out optimist. It's insane. Has this crazy like breakdown bridge thing, super heavy and loud. And then it goes in this crazy solo after that and it rips. So if you haven't heard it, check it out.
01:34:53
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The full album is out April 30th. So in like a week or so from when you're hearing this now, well, I don't know how your, your life is like. Maybe you're hearing it after the 30th, whatever the runway, which the album comes out soon or is out already. And it's our most ambitious thing we've done. It's a two LP record. Cause it's super proggy and it goes all over the place. Tons of genres and the songs are long.
01:35:20
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And so please check it out. Please do a full listen through at least once and then do your cherry picking daddy after that. Because of course you will find stuff as your favorite. I will even admit that I have done that. But please give it a full listen. It's very hard.
01:35:38
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to get the algorithms to support longer songs, especially longer albums. So don't be a cherry pickle daddy. So please at least once don't be a cherry pickle daddy. And then after that. Full album mommy. This sounds like it. This is easy for me. I'm a full album. You're a full album mommy? A fam? That's it. What's that website, Chris? SBIFest.org or you just head to our website SBIRecords.com.
01:36:03
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01:36:23
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