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79. The Multifaceted Power of Music
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The witches are talking music again! <3
Christina’s playlist:
Sarah McLachlan - Possession
Shawn Colvin - Sonny Came Home
Dido - White Flag
Joan Osborne - One of Us
Sinead O’Connor - You Made Me The Thief of Your Heart
Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me
Lisa Loeb - Stay (I Missed You)
Molly’s playlist:
Tool - The Pot
Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove It)
A Perfect Circle - Pet
In This Moment - Sex Metal Barbie
Green Day - Horseshoes & Handgrenades
Bonus: Dinosaur Pile-Up - My Rock n’ Roll
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Transcript
Introduction to Friday Night Madness
00:00:22
Speaker
Welcome to Friday Night Madness! Yeah, I'm like going mad for sure. Yeah! I'm going mad. Oh my god, it's been such a fucking week. Ugh. It feels like every fucking week is a fucking week. Yeah. Yeah.
00:00:43
Speaker
Every day is a fucking week. Let's do it. It's the truth. Yeah, it's the truth. That is exactly the truth. But we're here. We're here. We're queer. Get used to it.
00:00:58
Speaker
well What did you just say? I just said against all odds. We're here. That is both. are true truth Yes, um we're here and we're doing a fun ah reprisal of something we did last year.
00:01:16
Speaker
which I feel we both really enjoyed. And we had um a few friends who are listeners reach out and also tell us that they really enjoyed it. And so we're doing it again. And it was our plan anyway to do it again, whether anybody enjoyed it or not.
Exploring Unspoken Playlist Themes
00:01:33
Speaker
So we're here with more muzac Yeah.
00:01:40
Speaker
We did the thing again where we sent each other short playlists, effectively, that have a theme that we have not revealed to the other. And the theme can be literally whatever. like it can It is not necessarily meant to be something that's easy to detect or determine. Yeah, like this, it like for me specifically, it's not even a theme. It's literally there's just a connections. Yeah, yeah. That nobody would necessarily know like offhand, like you wouldn't guess it by listening to the songs because it has nothing to do with the songs themselves, to be honest. Right, right. Yeah. And so like.
00:02:19
Speaker
Yeah, and that's the thing. like When we did this last time, my theme was you know they were all connected to like memories of a particular time in my life that I would never have expected you to just know. you know So like it's very much that. but like you But this is what's so cool about what we did is that you were able to draw a pair parallel between like the themes of like the lyrics in all of those songs and And like something that never that I never even put together. yeah And I kind of what's fun about like throwing these at each other and being like, what do you hear in this group of songs? Yeah. Together for a particular reason. Yeah. Like, like, that's how I feel about today. It's like there's certain things I gleaned from the songs that I have no idea if it's what you were intending. But like, it's something that I gleaned from it that and may or may not be relevant. Yeah.
90s Female Artists Playlist and Lilith Fair
00:03:15
Speaker
yeah this is cool it's gonna be i like it um but shall we start with you with your playlist um i guess so but i but it could be this it it could be a little lengthy because i have a lot of thoughts that's okay about my stuff okay that's okay so you want to read off the list of the artists and songs that you sent me
00:03:42
Speaker
Yeah, you're going to do it because you have it written down and I don't. Oh, i I messaged them to you. Oh, you did? Oh. That's what i had said I was doing. I'm sorry. So that you would be able to. I think that's probably when my kid came in and like freaked me out by touching me on my neck. Yeah, that's the reason I wasn't looking.
00:03:59
Speaker
ah He came in here like right before we started recording. I didn't know he walked in because I was looking... somewhere else. Yeah, you had your headphones on. And he touched the back of my neck ever so slightly and freaked me the fuck out. And so then it just threw everything off for me. Creepy little child finger.
00:04:24
Speaker
Okay. you bear I love my kid, but man, he can be a lot sometimes. Okay. Alright, alright. Now, some people...
00:04:37
Speaker
may understand like may get this right away ah as to why these have a connection but uh some people meaning gen x maybe maybe ah maybe this depends it just depends if people were like if there's anybody in any age group that like these bands they might understand why they're connected okay yeah uh sarah mclaughlin possession That is the very first song by her that I ever heard on the radio when I was in college. Yeah. um
00:05:11
Speaker
That's not part of the theme element or nothing, but I'm just throwing that factoid in there. cool Colvin, Sunny Came Home.
00:05:23
Speaker
Dido, White Flag. it is Joan Osborne, One of Us. the Sinead O'Connor. You made me the thief of your heart.
00:05:35
Speaker
Six pence, none the richer. Kiss me. Lisa Loeb, stay. um And in parentheses, I miss you. But usually most people know it by stay.
00:05:47
Speaker
yeah Okay, so should I dive right in and talk about what why they're connected? or do you want to talk Can offer some thoughts? Yes, yes, You go first with that. Yes. So...
00:05:59
Speaker
First of all, i will say i actually listened to this with Jim. um he was It was before he went to work this morning. o So he was listening too. And he knew almost all the songs. Sweet.
00:06:15
Speaker
And the second one, he was like, this is so Gen X. And I was just like, yeah, that's my mother. But it was great. It was fun for him. Fun for me to listen to him, like singing all like along the whole to the whole song, White Flag.
00:06:34
Speaker
Sweet. Like laying down on the couch, just singing along. And I was like, I'm so excited to like, oh, my God, I'm so excited to tell that. to have Also because specifically like when I click that link for it, like to play it.
00:06:54
Speaker
like as soon as it started he was like oh my god yes really sweet love that he and i have musical taste in common yeah you guys would he likes he said sunny came home was one of his favorite songs when he was a kid oh and like yeah you guys have a lot of similar music tastes sweet um so excuse me so yeah i will say for myself i
00:07:26
Speaker
do i think I have heard Sunny Came Home before, but I didn't know anything about it. I didn't know who the artist was before. um i had never heard the Sinead O'Connor song before, but I loved it. Yeah.
00:07:43
Speaker
I have heard White Flag for sure, but didn't remember it because I only know Dido from her first album. That's the only album of hers that I know. And I'd never heard the Sarah McLachlan song.
00:07:55
Speaker
Oh, wow. That was her first big hit. i The only song I've ever known by Sarah McLachlan is the one that's in all the PETA commercials or whatever it is. Ooh. that's the sad one yeah the depressing that's the only sarah mclaughlin song that i know oh shit dude yeah okay and i didn't know the song by lisa lobe um but i also i knew kiss me before like and i've liked it for a long time um So that was one where I was just like, aha.
00:08:27
Speaker
Yay. Yeah. okay i will have to say, i have to admit this and I'm very sorry. i hate the song. One of us. oh Oh, that's fine. i good i don't hate it. i Both of us. As soon as it started playing, I was just like, oh no. did you um did you So you knew the song enough beforehand to like know that you hated it? or i As soon as it like really started, I was just like, ugh.
00:08:56
Speaker
But did you know it before? I've known it, okay but I've never listened to it fully because I don't like it. You know, so anytime I've ever heard it, I'm just like, oh you know, so I listened to it because it was part of the list.
00:09:14
Speaker
Okay. what But was that was the one where I was just like, ah no. okay no, that's fine. Because I know it's one of those types that's like somebody's either gonna love it or hate it kind of thing. Yeah, and I did love it for a long time. But now it's not a big deal to me either way. Like, ah yeah whatever.
00:09:33
Speaker
Okay, so so my connection was these all belong on the soundtrack for Gilmore Girls. Oh, that's like the through line for me, but also like what I really detected more than anything else. Because I was like, I was trying not to think about the lyrics too much because you would say, and then I couldn't tell because you had said like, you know, the songs themselves don't have a connection. So i was like, okay, does that mean the lyrics or like sonically, like they don't have a connection? Like, I don't know, because they do all have like the 90s female pop star characters.
00:10:07
Speaker
like theme uh but ah then i just sort of assumed that you meant that the lyrics didn't have any sort of nothing about the songs at all have a connection like what i detected through listening regardless of lyrics or even sonically was just like an intense like melancholy hmm Like even with the happy ones like Kiss Me. Okay. You know? Like and so I don't know if that has anything to do with what you connect them with. But Melancholy came through pretty heavy.
Emotional Reflections on Lilith Fair
00:10:44
Speaker
Okay. Yes. And I know like there were obviously three right off the bat I can tell you are definitely more on the darker side which is Sarah McLachlan's Possession. Sunny Came Home. Yeah. And the Sinead O'Connor song.
00:10:59
Speaker
which is from a soundtrack of a movie called in the name of the father. okay And, um, I think I see them saw the movie like once.
00:11:11
Speaker
I don't remember how I ever heard that song to begin with, like how I learned about that song to begin with, because it wasn't like mainstream radio played at all. Like that I'm aware of that I can recall.
00:11:24
Speaker
yeah, Anyhow, are you done with your assessment? Ready to move on to me telling you what it is? Yeah, was going to say, like that's basically the majority of what I could glean from them. like you know Aside from the 90s pop, indie, whatever, connection, the melancholy connection definitely stood out.
00:11:49
Speaker
But otherwise... that uh don't really have much else okay but i'm so curious to know what your connection is okay um if anybody knows these artists and has not already figured it out every one of these artists played at lilith lilith fair and
00:12:12
Speaker
I don't even know what that is. oh my God. I'm going to fucking scream. Okay. so You know what Lollapalooza is. Yeah. Lilith Fair was all female.
00:12:26
Speaker
Okay. Fair like Lollapalooza. Okay. Cool. All female only. And Sarah McLachlan put that whole thing together herself. And it ran for three consecutive years.
00:12:39
Speaker
And it was extremely successful. And I didn't know all of this until a couple of weeks ago. I knew about Lilith Fair and that I didn't go. i missed out on all of that.
00:12:54
Speaker
huh But I learned a lot about the actual um festival, like from a new documentary. Actually, it's not new. It came out sometime last year. um newish yeah and like I didn't even fucking think to like look it up so I can quote exactly what it's called um i think it's on Hulu but i'm I'm just looking all this up right now I'm really sorry you're good it's called building a mystery Lilith Fair building a mystery and building a mystery is one of Sarah McLachlan's song titles okay so you said this is on Hulu because I might want to go watch that oh I think you should okay I absolutely think you should.
00:13:37
Speaker
Yes, it's on Hulu. um Excuse me. So here's here's the events that happened that brought this.
00:13:48
Speaker
When were they? When were they? For three years. um Don't quote me at at this exact moment, but I'm going to tell you I'm pretty sure it was 1997, 98, and that?
00:14:01
Speaker
why did i immediately know that that was the three years you were gonna say i don't know i'm psychic that's why i i'm pretty sure those were the three years okay um so there were a lot more female artists besides there were some hip-hop artists like you know just but all female but like all genres Not all genres. A lot of genres.
00:14:27
Speaker
Some. there was like like Not just one genre. Do do you know who Missy Elliott is? Duh. okay She was like... Apparently they have credited Lilith Fair with her like rise to like actual any kind of fame at all. She started out um at Lilith Fair. so There's a segment about her in that documentary. okay um Erykah Badu...
00:14:55
Speaker
I've heard of her. Yeah. Yeah. and And Michelle and they get Otello. I've heard of her too. I'm pretty sure she's also African-American, but like those three there, I think there's another one I'm missing. um But then there was other names like Sheryl Crow. Yeah.
00:15:15
Speaker
And Natalie Merchant, who I love. ah The Indigo Girls. Right. So like there was a lot of more bands and acts that played this fair that that, i you know, I just had to try to pick some of my favorite, like my more favorite of the songs from artists that I like really loved anyway. So um what happened was I was searching for a specific thing to watch that I had heard of or something. And I went to go to Hulu to look for it. But that documentary popped up.
00:15:50
Speaker
As like a recommended thing. And I was like, ooh, I need to I need to watch this. So I was like, I started watching it like right away. And um I kid you not, when about halfway through, I legitimately started crying because I missed out on it.
00:16:13
Speaker
I never, i never went. And I just, because you know about it at the time when I think I did, i think I may have heard of it, yeah but I wasn't really sure. and I didn't, I wasn't really a big fan of Sarah McLachlan at that point.
00:16:26
Speaker
I got to be a bigger fan of hers later on. Yeah. um But I legitimately cried because I, I grieved for the fact that I didn't get to go to this yeah because it's so important.
00:16:40
Speaker
For, you know, like, in the and here's the thing. I never really understood what being a feminist was until, like, recently, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And it just really kicked me in the the ass about like, this was such a feminist thing in the most beautiful fucking way. Yeah. And it was just like, I just am so sad that I missed out on it and like literally cried.
00:17:06
Speaker
So then near the end or like in sometime in the second half of the thing, who pops up in a quick interview, a very quick like statement was given by Daniel Levy.
00:17:22
Speaker
your guy yes he had something to do with producing that documentary oh but he said that he followed that tour for like two summers or something like he he went and he said it was life-changing for him and i was just like i got fucking chills i got goosebumps so bad right now i love him so much and so Anyway, when he popped up on there and I was just like, oh, my God.
00:17:51
Speaker
And then I, you know, I saw him in the credits for like, you know, producing and whatever. I was just like, ah, so that, ah you know, and then the recent passing of Catherine O'Hara, which makes me really sad. like right i after that i just was like okay i'm going back to watch schitt's creek again because i just i have to because i love him so much i just have so much respect for him i don't know i don't know hardly anything about the man but he's just cool as shit yeah um anyway So there's that. And I'm literally like, I literally still want to cry because I can't believe I missed it. Apparently they did try to revive it again in 2010, but it just didn't really get anywhere.
00:18:34
Speaker
yeah But I still feel like with the right artists, they could definitely still do this. I want them to so bad. Oh my God. I'm going to like write a letter to Sarah McLachlan right now. I'm not kidding you. I love her. I believe Oh, man. It would do so well, though.
00:18:52
Speaker
i love her so much. Like a fair, like like a fair, like a, you know, touring festival like that would do so well in this.
00:19:04
Speaker
like current political climate. That's true. Yeah, it makes me wonder if they're actually already planning it because how bad it's needed. Anyhow. It's a big fucking deal. Lilith Fair was a big fucking deal. And I think that there's just like, you know, people of the younger generations, like I'm surprised you never heard of it. And I just really think that people need to know about it. Yeah, well, the thing is that like, you know, by the last year that it was happening, i was turning seven.
00:19:33
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, I figured it had gained a cult thing at this point. True. All I'm saying is that I figured in the circles that you've been in it would have been talked about somewhere. i i feel like I've heard of it being referenced, but like I've never known what it was.
00:19:52
Speaker
So like, it's not like I've never heard the words spoken, but like, I just, I just never, you don't know, I've never heard about it in a context that made me actually wonder what it actually was. Okay. Enough to like, go look it up or anything, you know? So literally nothing like this had ever been done before. And everybody told Sarah McLachlan she was going to fail. Everybody. Everybody. But the sales were insane. it was sold out constantly through the whole three years. And like she just blew all the like ceilings off. You know what i'm saying? All the glass ceilings off. And I was just like, fuck yeah!
00:20:30
Speaker
I'm so happy! And I just want this to be a thing. i bigger, like more. Like we need it We need it so bad. Yeah. ala So there's that. um But I have a story about one of the songs.
00:20:46
Speaker
Okay. ah I will say Sunny Came Home makes me cry. Like, yeah, because if you listen to the lyrics, to me, they're really fucking powerful. But The song that I have a story about is the Sinead O'Connor one. Okay. That one is super powerful. Very, very, very, very fucking powerful. And i loved it.
00:21:11
Speaker
i I, used to go dancing at this one club. I've been to done many clubs through the years, but like there was one in particular that was close to where i lived by my parent and my, pick by you know, when I lived with my parents and,
00:21:27
Speaker
And they had alternative nights like on Sunday nights. And it was like, I don't know how I did it, but I would go there and drink till 2 a.m. and then get up and go to work three hours later. That's insane.
00:21:42
Speaker
When I was in my early God. Yeah, I shit you not. So anyhow, this song, I think it was like it was around the time of closing time for the bar, you know, like around 2 or just before.
00:21:57
Speaker
And I wrote it and I requested that song from the DJ. And like, he knew me because I'd been there plenty. And like, huh um I was like, please, please, please just play the song for me. He's like, will you dance in the cage?
00:22:14
Speaker
And I said, hell yes, I will. Hell yes, I will. my god They had like a dance floor that was sunk down. and then there was one area that had like a cage. Anybody could go in it anytime they wanted to and dance. like yeah So the place was already starting to clear out because it was already close to two. Yeah. And the lights were like almost all on. It wasn't like dimly lit anymore. It was like crazy. And he's just like, I'll play it if you dance in the cage. And I was like, fuck yes. So I went straight over there and started dancing in the cage. And it was like, so cool.
00:22:52
Speaker
But yeah, there weren't all that many people in there left to like see. So it was fine anyway. But to hear it over like, you know, speakers in a club so loud and, you know, yeah amazing. Yeah.
00:23:07
Speaker
ah It was awesome. Anyhow, that was fun. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm trying to remember if there were any other stories from any of the other songs that I wanted to talk about. um Oh, also, I will say, after I started watching Schitt's Creek again, there is a scene where he walks into...
00:23:30
Speaker
um his female friend's apartment ah for the first time after knowing her for like, i don't know, three or four years. It goes over there and she's got a Sarah McLachlan poster on the wall.
00:23:45
Speaker
Obviously very much planned. yeah He walks in and he's like, Oh, I love your poster. And then she looks at him like she thinks he's being sarcastic.
00:23:56
Speaker
And he's like, no, I mean it. I followed Lilith Fair for two years. Yeah. He said it in the show. i was just like, I don't remember that the first time I watched Schitt's Creek. I don't remember that little quick reference there. But then after watching the documentary and hearing what he said, you know, and then maybe I misquoted him. It might have been three years. I don't know. But like, I know he like made the reference that we talked about in that the documentary, which is hilarious because Schitt's Creek came out 10 years ago.
00:24:31
Speaker
And that documentary just came out last year. Right. So cool. Yeah. Oh my God. All the feels. I have all the feels right now. I'm so excited. Good.
00:24:44
Speaker
So let me go quickly back over. oh um no, no nothing else really to talk about.
00:24:55
Speaker
um i will say i will probably send you more Sarah McLaughlin songs soon because There's a lot of really, really good ones and I think you would like her. so I'll try. i like I've not been particularly drawn to her, but i'll I'll listen to what you send and see what I think.
00:25:13
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Which of the songs were was your favorite? The Sinead O'Connor for sure. Cool. like of of like this you know Because i already, i I mean, I guess I wouldn't really classify Kiss Me as ever being a favorite.
00:25:28
Speaker
ah But like I did. and i'd never heard it before until my freshman year of college. And my, i think I it must have been in a show. That was when I was, that was at the beginning of when binge watching shows became a thing. And I was binge watching Scrubs. um And i I think it must have been in Scrubs. And I was like, what is this song? It's really good. And my roommate was like, you've never heard this song before?
00:25:55
Speaker
she was like, oh, it's such a good one. It's such a classic. And like, then I, you know, added it to my own playlist and like, you know, have liked it ever since. um But the Sinead O'Connor one, I was just like, yeah. Yeah, that one's good that one's definitely such a badass. She's such a badass. And that one has like such an amazing the the production quality of the music and everything is just like yeah huge it's like orchestral and you know it has all that and a heavy drum beat and just you know like primal like tribal yeah yeah it's funny is like i feel like was it that song that i was listening to and i made the comment to jim i was like this drum beat this yeah the this drum beat sounds like something out of backstreet boys
00:26:43
Speaker
Oh, really? Which is not a bad thing, you know? Oh, wow. It's not a bad thing at all, but it was just like the, because it, I don't know. it's are you are you Are you sure it was the Sarah McLachlan one?
00:26:55
Speaker
no I was talking about Sinead O'Connor. I mean, that's what I meant. I mean, are you sure it was the Sinead O'Connor one? Because that was like a really hard bassy drum.
00:27:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. i don't know if you've ever really listened to Backstreet Boys before. No. no but I never got into boy bands like that. How did you know? Backstreet Boys was my first concert. Oh.
00:27:17
Speaker
Why did you say that like you were so grossed out? Because I don't like boy bands at all. Oh my god. I never ever got into them like that. Well, I mostly you know like them for being you know sentimental now, but yeah they're sort of still good.
00:27:35
Speaker
So, for instance, in high school, yeah ah everybody was into, like, um New Kids on the Block. <unk> And I hated it.
00:27:47
Speaker
I was like, Because I was into fucking Guns N' Roses and Poison, like, hair bands, like, metal hair bands. And then I started getting into The Cure and, like, Sinead O'Connor and that kind of shit. Depression mode and blah, blah, blah, blah. so i never was into the genre of the you know yeah yeah i mean i there were pop songs that were out that i liked but just the boy band situation was not a thing for me yeah i get it but i was you know eight years old i totally understand totally do
00:28:26
Speaker
But, you know, new kids on the block, we were like 14, 15, 16, 17, you know, whatever. And that was just like. yeah well i mean like i'm i'm with you though because like when i was in high school like my favorite bands were like green day and good charlotte and blink 182 and you know ah what's the other one fucking my chemical romance i was gonna say mashbox 20 no no wait
00:28:57
Speaker
oh no But like, yeah, like rock, like hard rock, you know, and punk rock and, you know, like but basically every sub genre of rock. But Green Day has always been my favorite. And I loved Radiohead, too, at the time when I was in high school as well. um Yeah. Radiohead's the bomb.
00:29:17
Speaker
um So I will say the songs that I picked are not. necessarily songs that they performed at Lilith Fair yeah but I just wanted to highlight the artists themselves yeah not the songs I just picked favorite songs theirs that I love that yeah you know that makes sense that's it that's it yeah that's why was saying the songs don't have shit to do with each other just the artists do though like they all play but there was still like a through line with them so you know with some of them yeah yeah for sure yeah yeah
00:29:50
Speaker
I like it. Yay. yeah All right. Moving on. one Molly's turn.
Hard Rock and Metal Playlist Discussion
00:29:58
Speaker
Excuse me. All right. Woo. Okay.
00:30:02
Speaker
My playlist that I sent to k Christina consisted of The Pot by Tool. My Own Summer by Deftones. Pet by A Perfect Circle.
00:30:15
Speaker
Sex Metal Barbie by In This Moment. And Horseshoes and Hand Grenades by Green Day. Speaking of Green Day. Yeah. So yeah that's my playlist that I sent. Christina, what were your thoughts?
00:30:32
Speaker
So I started listening to them in the opposite order that you read them. Because I started with the last one you sent and went backwards. Yes. Um, and pretty much right away, my first thought was they all have anger issues. And, uh,
00:30:52
Speaker
cause the psychologist in me just can't shut the fuck up. Um, And they have a legitimate bitch or gripe with somebody or something.
00:31:03
Speaker
Like, I want to quote the the name of a cool band that I loved back in the 90s, Rage Against the Machine. I'm feeling like they were all raging against a machine of some sort or a person. That's fair.
00:31:16
Speaker
that's fair makes total sense i get it that's what it's yeah so because all of those songs were of the heavy metal genre or i know all of like hard rock yeah would be the hard rock like like leaning towards metal yeah like in that in that like general space but like green days even their newer stuff still technically is punk like you know but it's it's you know but it's still it's like hard punk really um and so did you have any other thoughts
00:31:56
Speaker
really know okay i that because it's like it's it's funny to me to think about how like they all i guess do appeal to my aries rising ah that makes perfect sense but that was not the the theme that i tied them together with okay the theme that i tied them together with was actually uh to do with their production quality being so immaculate for being a wall of sound um like because each of those songs hits you like a truck yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and like but at the same time like it is fucking perfect each of them they just do so goddamn good you know yeah
00:32:47
Speaker
Yeah. um It's in in particular, like, oh, I mean, i i mean, I could say in particular about any one of them really, but like the pot,
00:32:58
Speaker
Like, I have loved to listen to, like, dissections of this song on YouTube. Like, from people, like, voice teachers who, like, i'd love to dissect, you know, his voice. ah And he's a fucking incredible singer.
00:33:15
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Like, truly. ah but also just the, like, production of the song overall is just, like, amazing. That's the one by Tool.
00:33:25
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Yeah. Yeah. And I just thought that was so crazy because when I listened to Tool back in like the early, early, early 2000s, he didn't seem to like sound the same to me. Like, I don't know if he changed his singing style or his voice sound or somehow or whatever, because it it it sounded somewhat, you know, familiar, but like, Just didn't sound like like the guy I remembered listening to back when they first kind of came out, right? Yeah. yeah and they are like The same could be said of Green Day, too, with regards to like voice being so prominent.
00:34:02
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um One of the biggest complaints I've ever heard about Green Day from anybody ah in general has been that they hate his voice.
00:34:14
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like People hate billy joe armstrong's voice and i don't understand it because his voice is so cool and he's such a good singer yeah like his voice is so unique and it's yeah so good um no i can understand why people would think that but i personally don't hate it i don't hate his voice i think it's great i think it's one of the things i love about the band like i love everything about the band but like it wouldn't be what it is without him. Right. you know I mean, that's the thing about so many good bands. Their singers have very unique sounding voices.
00:34:52
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You know, if you think about it, really. Really, yeah, exactly. and I also, I mean, I realized this as I was putting together the list, but you know, a perfect circle is also um James Maynard Keenan. Yeah. I was thinking, I knew they had a ah similar, um,
00:35:11
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Like they shared something in common. I couldn't remember for sure that it was the lead singer, but yeah, now that you say that, I'm like, yes, that that is what it was. I remember that now. um the But they're totally different sounds. Like the bands are fair. And dude, I don't know if I ever talked to you about the songs by a perfect circle that I loved back when they came out.
00:35:36
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But like three Libras was one of them. i haven't heard that one. I'm going to need to listen to it. I'm going write it down right now. Okay. I'm going to write it down right now. And there's another one too. And I can't think of the name of it. So I'm going to look it up. But ah one of my favorites by a Perfect Circle, aside from Pet, is Judith.
00:35:54
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That's the one. Yeah. That's the one. But three Libras came out at the same time as Judith, I believe. Like on the same album, I think. Yeah. I want to say. But yeah, i' pretty sure Judith is the other one.
00:36:08
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Yeah. And they're both amazing. Yeah. I would have... um There was one additional song that I would have added to this list, but I shortened it. And then you sent me seven songs and I was just like, I could have just sent the this one. Yeah, you should have. The additional song that you won't know...
00:36:27
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or if you do know it i'll be very very very surprised okay uh but i'm gonna put it out there for anybody listening who wants to go listen to all of our playlists but then add this one to mine is uh my rock and roll by a dinosaur pile up which is a fantastic band name i love it so much um i would recommend that you listen to that actually i'm looking it up right now so i'll listen to it later yeah it's good The thing that I is that the thing that's so interesting about dinosaur pileup, I don't know. I don't know the guy's name.
00:37:02
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i knew it at one point, but their first album is just that one guy. ah He, he wrote and recorded all the instruments and produced, like he like did all the mixing and the production for that whole album by himself in his garage.
00:37:27
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Wow. And it made this, it it made this playlist. for high high high quality production for being a wall of sound amazing so like super impressive the album itself the whole album remember what it's called but again it's got dinosaur it's got um my rock and roll on it uh that whole album is really good but my rock and roll is one of my favorites off of that album m um but yeah like
00:38:00
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all of these and they're all like the other connection which i didn't write down but it is true is they are all songs that i either have been pulled over for speeding while listening to or could have been oh no didn't catch myself oh man cruise control is a good thing i know The very first one was horseshoes and hand grenades. That one I got pulled over ah back way back in the day. Right after I turned 20.
00:38:35
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right after i turned twenty or right before. I can't remember. before I think. I don't know. It doesn't matter. um That's awesome. Way back in the day. i think it was my first speeding ticket, actually. was listening to that song on the parkway. But yeah. ah You so crazy. i know. I'm an Aries rising. but but i might good i'm a cancer rising you know you can tell by our music choices um but like the particularly the other thing too and this is like not necessarily consequential but it's like you know things i'm just pulling like piecing together for the uh the first two songs the pot and my own summer they are both songs that like
00:39:27
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For some reason, i associate with like being in the car, windows down, and it's like you know middle of the summer, hot, and I'm just blasting these songs in the middle of small town Massachusetts. so and like you know Just like my punk rock goth-ass self um in the car. Yeah.
00:39:56
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oh my listening to these songs um and yeah it's it's potent sex metal barbie's on the opposite end of that spectrum because i got into this band in this moment uh during the winter time uh in 2022 so four years ago basically um And so i my primary like memories of listening to anything by them is like with snow and cold yeah around. So not with the windows open, but would still work. It's still good.
00:40:33
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They're also like all of them have incredible like lead guitar. ah Like not necessarily solos, but just like riffs, if anything. and the one in Sex Metal Barbie after the second chorus and the third chorus because it's different the first um the beginning of the song and the the guitar riff after the first chorus are different from the last two okay um and the the riff after the second and third choruses are oh it's my favorite it's so good it's delicious there's something there is something to be said about the way that like a high distortion lead guitar just lights me up oh i don't i don't know how to explain it other than just say that yeah yeah
00:41:34
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o so good yeah i I have to admit it it was hard for me to pay close attention to the lyrics throughout listening to all five. Like I i was doing good for the first three, I think. And then after that, my brain kind of started going because the fair the like we literally the music yeah overpowers. Yeah.
00:42:02
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yeah And then it was also a little, like, the vocals were just a little bit hard to understand in ah in a couple, at least a couple of them. Yeah. it was kind of like, what? I can't really tell what they're singing, like, you know? Yeah. But, yeah.
00:42:18
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Yeah. they do They definitely all seem to have like a legitimate gripe about something. Actually, the thing is with the song, The Pot, i actually didn't know the lyrics properly until I listened to like a breakdown, not of the lyrics, but like of the song in general. is This person was looking at, she was looking at like...
00:42:40
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the singer as well as the production quality and also like looking at the lyrics and she's the one that i heard like what these actual lyrics were and they are a gripe yeah but it's a fair gripe it's a it's a song about like railing against hypocrisy of like the judicial system um so yeah it's good h cool yay yeah I love this, dude. It's so fun It is fun. Yeah, for sure.
00:43:17
Speaker
and also you should listen to more in this moment in general. okay i can try to do that i can send you some more of my favorites by them okay but they are i mean like it's more of the same it's like ah hard rock like heavy metal but it is this i don't know it's just because again it's a female artist so like i feel like you vibe with that and like she's just i don't know she puts forth this really great energy even though a lot of her songs are really dark
00:43:49
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It's really good. Cool. Yeah. So I'll send you my favorites. All right. Yay, sweet. hell yeah you know ah What a great episode.
00:44:03
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Yeah! Oh my god. We're only 43 minutes in. i know, not bad at all. And then by the time you edit and cut some shit, it's going to be shorter than that. you don't even think I'm going to have to cut that much, really. Maybe just like minuscule, like seconds shaved.
00:44:22
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Sweet. So think it'll be good. I'm happy. you and on that note... I think we should get our Friday nights started.
00:44:33
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Yeah, dude. Now that it's time to go to bed. i i'm not going to go to bed immediately. Well, I have to wait for Jim to get done working.
00:44:44
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Anyway. Do you have to get up early tomorrow for any reason? No, and I don't want to. Okay. If you can stay up tonight, you should watch the Lilith Fair documentary with Jim.
00:44:58
Speaker
I'll suggest it, but I'm not going to demand it. Okay. we can Tell him it is very good and I think he would like it. It took me conceding to watching an entire season of 30 Rock before he would allow for us to watch the Woodstock 99 documentary. Oh, Like, it's a lot of give and take. I've made him watch a lot of stuff. So I'm going to put it on the table, but I am not going to force it because... Just remind him music that he listened to. That was my list. Yeah. I'll tell him. I'll tell him. I'll tell him that was the connection. Yeah. I think he'd be into it, but maybe just not a tonight thing. Maybe not.
00:45:45
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Because, well, both of us have had long, strenuous work days. So. It was, it's very, very good though. You will. I know. I know. I know.
00:45:56
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But I also would like to be in a place where I'm like more able to like absorb. yeah yeah and so like that is partly also it but again like i'm not i'm not gonna railroad him uh when he is just getting off of working by himself poor guy ah that's true yeah oh brandy carlisle i know her yep she was in there um
00:46:27
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yeah there's there's so many there's so many more women So yeah, it was produced IMDB says produced by Dan Levy. But Sarah McLachlan obviously put together the whole fair and she has ah current day interviews in he in the documentary as well.
00:46:48
Speaker
Nice. Yeah. All right. Yeah. And i and I'm definitely going to have to be rewatching this. But yeah, yeah it's called Lilith Fair. I don't know. I can't say the word fucking Lilith. It's not an easy word. It's hard to get out. Lilith Fair, Building a Mystery.
00:47:07
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and it came out in 2025. Hell yeah. Yes, please go and watch it. Please, please, please, please, please. Because in these all these artists really deserve to be celebrated. They really do.
00:47:20
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Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:25
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good very good yeah and now go listen to three libras please like right away oh i will okay i wrote it down okay and now i'm gonna and i'm gonna listen to my rock and roll Hell yeah. All right, you guys.
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00:50:42
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That is where you can find it. Yeah. And it's usually a lot more entertaining. Yeah. Which is hard to imagine. The other thing I was going to say, though, is it usually does not have like a topic.
00:50:54
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Sometimes we'll get on a topic and stick on it, but like we can go all over the place and talk about multiple different things in one episode. It's ADHD central over there. Yeah. that makes it extra fun. yeah and we get spicy.
00:51:09
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Yeah, we ah we talked about Lent and we talked about piercings in our most recent one newest one that's being released the same day as this episode is released for March. So check it out if you want to hear our thoughts about Lent and piercings. Yeah.
00:51:28
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Body piercings. All the body parts piercings. Not just your piercings. Don't give it all away. No, no. We're trying to like, you know, get the interests going. Oh my God. Anyway.
00:51:48
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yeah Okay. Bye-bye. Okay. We love y'all. Thank you again. And we'll see you back
00:52:30
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I'm not using that. suck. No, I don't. I'm just trying to get the, pique the interest. Pique the interest.
00:52:43
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It's already piqued. Wet the interests. Whatever. Jesus Christ. Oh my God.