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Oh Baby, Give Me One More Chance
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It's Second Chance Sunday! Steve and Giles reconsider some previously rejected recordings for the theoretical Best of… compilation tape.
Regular listeners might speculate that this could be a sign that they are running out of material after 30 episodes. We must tell you that this (frighteningly) is not the case.
Featuring:
- A supersonic bus journey
- A young man selling his soul on the rotary
- More AI nonsense
- Wordless rhythmic backing vocals
- Another 60-second challenge
- Frankie Machine sounding desperate
The Johnny Domino Podcast. Give it a chance.
Listen to The Best of This Are Johnny Domino, Vol. 1 on Spotify
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Podcast artwork by Giles Woodward
Edited by Steve Woodward at PodcastingEditor.com
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Transcript
Nostalgic Lyrics and Personal Reflections
00:00:00
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When I had you to myself, I didn't want you around. Those pretty faces always made you stand out in a crowd. But someone picked you from the bunch. One glance was all it took. But now it's much too late for me to take a second look.
00:00:56
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ah Have you got that out of your system? I have now. Excellent.
Introduction to 'This Are Johnny Domino'
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Welcome to the podcast. Welcome to the This Are Johnny Domino podcast, where myself and my brother Giles... Hello. ...listened to songs that were recorded 30 years ago... Or thereabouts. ...or thereabouts, and possibly even older, and we listened to them again and reappraised them. And the concept is that we are building a purely theoretical, but not purely theoretical anymore, best of compilation tape.
00:01:29
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We are. And in the process of it, we're reinforcing our relationship as brothers and discussing all manner of interesting cultural nonsense. Hopefully interesting cultural nonsense. And trying to get people engaged in it as well. So join us in the world of This Our Jolly Domino. Episode 30. 3-0. Fotty. It's Episode Fotty. Can't believe it Steve. So, tell us about
Reevaluating Songs for the Mixtape
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this episode. What are we doing? Well, we are building a Best of Mixtape. We've released one volume of the Best of This Our Johnny Domino already.
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and I was looking at some of the old episodes that we've recorded and the songs that we chose and I thought maybe some of them deserved a second chance. So on Second Chance Sunday, we were recording on a Sunday morning, afternoon actually, We are listening to some songs that I think probably got a bit of a short shrift and I think deserve to potentially go on volume two of the best of this old Johnny Domino. Yeah, they you think they got a bond deal? I think so, yeah. But, you know, I have to say I'm going to confess up at the start. I don't totally agree with this concept.
00:03:01
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But I'm happy to go along with it, Steve. So we'll see. We'll see how it rolls, right? Yes. But yeah, if any of the songs that we talk about today are passing our high standards, then we will include them in in the second volume of The Best of This Are, Johnny Domino. Yes. Let's see how it rolls. What's the first one you got, Steve? The first one is from episode 12 of the podcast, which was called Get Off The Road, I've Got Pigs To Feed. Good title. Excellent title. And they were either songs that were written about or featured our good friend, Dick.
00:03:42
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And this is a song that we did talk about. I think it was a potential to go on volume one, but we went for a different track. But I think I'd like to give this one a second go. Everybody deserves a second chance, don't they, Steve? They do, don't they? yeah I think second chances are important. ah think exactlyly I think if you mess up, right, if you don't come up to standard, Yeah. Just once. I don't think that means you get written off, does it, Steve? No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. I feel very passionately about this. Yeah, but you were down on the concept of doing Second Chance Sunday, so now...
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I don't know where you are. I
Background and Creation of 'Reap the Wind'
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don't know. You're coming around to it, aren't you? You're like a child in the world. Your mind is malleable, isn't it? It is today. Okay. What's this song called? This song is called Reap the Wind and it is recorded by Johnny Domino kind of spin-off band Jimmy Dorito and it features Dick on vocals. It does. And it's about traveling fast. It's about traveling fast on the number 15 bus. And it's got a poem in the middle.
00:06:41
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Round trees. Under bridges. Past car parks. And shops and shopping centres. Through parks. Getting on buses. The number 15 bond through Stapleton and Sandy Acre. I remember. Don't be mardy. It's not that far.
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It's not that far.
00:08:14
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someone was sprayed some deodorant during that. I think it was air freshener. I heard that as well. Yeah. I think it might be an air freshener because it's probably a room that was filled with stinky boys and probably needs it freshening up a little bit. I also like the you the preset sound from the Casio CZ 3000 synthesizer, the typhoon sound. which is being used quite liberally on that recording. is I was quite enjoying the unison bass and guitar playing. o be food bedu That's quite nice. I appreciate that when I hear that. I think that was me. I know it was you. I don't know who was playing the air freshener. I'm going to say it was me. I think it probably was you.
00:08:57
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God, then why is that worth a second chance? Because I think it's good fun. I've got very good memories of recording it. I think it's nice to feature other people singing in our stuff. And obviously it's me and Dick doing the vocals back and forth, and then you do the poem. I like the poem a lot. I like the use of the phrase, don't be Mardi. I like the fact it's about the number 15 Barton bus from Ilkeston to San Diego slash old Sorley. It's to Long Eaton actually. It doesn't mention, it doesn't mention the end point of the journey, but it does go through various other small towns yeah on the way to Long Eaton. And the Barton buses in those days were all pretty crap.
00:09:45
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They were. They were crap. And they got the little stubbers on the back of the seats. So from the days when you could smoke. Yeah, so you could put your put your cigarettes out. Don't think I ever smoked on a bus. No, no. Even when it was OK, it was kind of gross. The poem is, as we said, like it's about that journey. I mean, it's got the old Johnny Domino irony all over it, this song, because it's the song is about reaping the wind, going really, really fast, yes you know, flying through the air, reaping the wind. yes And the journey, well, it wasn't that long actually, but it I was thinking about it earlier. It's about seven miles from Ilkeston to Long Eaton. Seems longer on that bus.
00:10:31
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Yeah, I was going to see, I think at this point I was going to see ah my then girlfriend because she lived in Longine and it seemed like a really long way. Yeah. And it's funny that seven miles at that age, It seemed like a barrier. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? To a relationship, you know, when you sort of meet people from the next small town. I really like her, but she's, she's six miles away. She lives, she lives in. lo It's a 20 minute bus ride. Yeah. It's really long. I don't, see I don't think we're going to be able to maintain that yeah relationship because of that distance. Yeah. So it's fully, it made me think of that. It made me realize how, how big a deal it was.
00:11:16
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wait in my life, which is kind of funny. So yeah, yeah, that's what it's about. Yeah, I like the music. I like how that is probably as close as we ever got to sounding like the butthole surfers. Oh, I don't know about that. There were other points. But I think that's really, you know, the fuzzy, chunky, hammer on type guitar bit, especially towards the end. And, you know, it's not not strictly in tune and things like that. And the distorted bass being sort of like very spare, the notes being played.
00:11:50
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And I think you mentioned last time we played it, it's like we used the same drum machine as they did. Yeah. On that album. Pio'd. Pio'd. Pio'd. Pio'd. I'm sorry to be, this is going to be so dull. We didn't use the right drum sounds if we really wanted it to sound like the Bile Surfers. It's the same drum machine though. It's the same drum machines, unless it's HR16, which was a really good drum machine. um you could You could have bars of any length. You could change speed in the middle of songs. You can have all kinds of different drum sounds and percussion sounds. And I think I was using the gated snare on that one, which is why it sounds so, in scare quotes, mighty and a hefty. So that's a potential, I think, for reconsidering on the next volume of The Best of This Are Johnny Domina.
00:12:39
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Are we going to decide at the end of the episode then? I think it's got to be standard, yeah. OK, all right then. And for someone who is not that keen on the idea of a second chance, you chose the next one. Well, I've chosen a song. But I was struggling to think of one of our songs that I wanted to give a second chance to. So I'm good um'm going to take my second chance to listen to another song. by the band Peru that we listened to last last time. Because I chose a song called World of Jason that I really liked. But as I said last time, I've been listening to Peru. i've ah I'm having a bit of a mini Peru revival. beautiful And I found another song that I like more than World of Jason. wowusers So we're going to listen to that. And in this one,
00:13:31
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Brian, i'm not going yeah I can't do the whole story about like calling him jock again. Brian, he's not at the crossroads like Robert Johnson. He's at a roundabout and he's considering his options, I think. For American listeners, that would be a rotary. Anyway, this is Peru in roundabout slash rotary.
00:14:34
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Things I found were hard not to find But they used to be And I felt scared Walking the streets I used to walk But when I was ten
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Sometimes it's easy to train the people around you No question
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is
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Let's run around
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That was like more on the soulful end of Peru's output, definitely. I got carried away listening to that. I've got to be honest, I really did get carried away. I think I mentioned when we talked about Peru before that I wasn't really sold on the whole indie pop thing.
Song Evolution and Recording Experiences
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I just used to record them because they were my mates and I enjoyed working on stuff with them. But that song, I remember when we did that, and I realised that they were doing something really good. I seem to remember that obviously Jock is playing drums and he's playing along with the click track. Yes, I like the loosey-goosey drums. Really, really good drums. Are you standing up?
00:18:47
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in in our old bedroom and I wish I could remember how it was recorded. I think probably he played along with the click track on acoustic guitar and probably sang onto the same track and Chris played bass and they'd obviously been practicing it I think because it didn't take them very long to get their part down and I had a real problem with the structure of it. I just didn't I couldn't figure out what was going on and it was ah it's in a weird key. I think it's in F minor, which is not particularly weird key, but for a guitarist, it's quite a strange one. and My lead bit I made up as it was being recorded. um so it's all very Like you say, it's a bit loosey goosey. I'm going to see i'm gonna go out there and I'm going to make a sweeping statement here, but I really think that's like one of the best guitar performances.
00:19:39
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unlike any of our songs. I actually really love it. It's just got everything that I like about guitar playing on it, the lead guitar. I really like it. And there's like a a bit where you kind of falter oh yeah lot on the last few bars, right? And I could listen to that over and over again, that little bit over and over again, because that's the sort of thing that I like. I think I've decided I like that kind of thing in music where you hear It sort of goes wrong, but it goes wrong in a right way. yeah yeah It feels good. It adds to the soulfulness of the music. I don't know, man. I loved it. The drums are great. Everything's great on it. The singing's great. the the The lyrics are great. There's a line, you can paint, but you don't work. I could relate to that line. Yeah, definitely.
00:20:28
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I do love that recording and, you know, we did a lot of recordings with a drum machine and that kind of said, oh, we don't have to use a drum machine. We can still record with real drums played by an actual drummer on a four track. Yeah, I just love everything about it. I think, as I say, Chris and Jock had obviously practiced it in advance because they nailed their bits. And then I do remember just thinking, I don't know where the chord changes are coming. But now when I listen to it, is it's natural. It kind of makes me think of Lee Hazelwood.
00:21:03
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in a way you see You see, this is why it's worth doing this podcast. yeah Because you yeah kind of you discover things that you'd forgotten about, that you recorded ages ago, you never listened to. yeah And it's really good to listen back and hear those things and get transported. yeah So yeah, i'm I'm glad we gave that one a second chance. Yeah, it it sent me. It sent me. Another one I think deserves a chance to be on a compilation is from all the way back in episode six called When Good Neighbors Become Good Friends. And I mean, I say it needs a second chance. It gets a chance every episode.
00:21:48
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But I love the idea of this being on streaming services and occasionally popping up on someone's recommended listening.
00:22:01
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evocalish and louder
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We love you!
00:25:00
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This is our Johnny Domino podcast. Nice. It's very nice. This are Johnny Domino podcast. That's our new jingle. Do it again. This are Johnny Domino podcast. It's like getting picked up. Yeah, I did something with AI before. I don't know how much you love the AI. I said, write me ah a bio for Johnny Domino. Yeah, go on. Johnny Domino is an indie band that formed in the early 1990s. Here's a brief biography formation in early years. The band was founded by singer and guitarist Dave Newton, bassist Andy Haddock, and drummer Steve Poplewell.
00:25:43
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What? Their music blended elements of alternative rock, punk and indie pop, creating a distinctive sound. They gained popularity in the local music scene and started playing gigs around Derbyshire. Albums and notable tracks. Rabbit themes, debut album received, critical acclaim and featured tracks like The Best Things in Life Are Free and The Big Sellout. Fourth Watchmaster, the album continued to success with standout songs like The Great Leap Forward and The Last Train. Then Taste from 2000, their third album showcased their revolving sound including the single you can't teach an old dog new tricks and then there's a bit more and I said that's not the band I'm talking about.
00:26:20
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um It's like an alternative history. and It kind of went on and on. And eventually I got sick of the bio because it was just nonsense. I said to me about their live performances. Known for their energetic and engaging live performances. They took the stage. Fans could expect the following. High energy. The Van Voorst had contagious energy to their shows. Charles Woodward's charismatic vocals and Stephen Woodward's bass lines resonated with the audience. Intimate venues. Yeah, well, that's true. Eclectic set lists. Audience interaction. apparently, and DIY aesthetic. That's all right. Do you know what? I think we just can we put this one up on the bank camp as like an alternative? Because I want to, what's the name? Haddock. Dave Newton, Andy Haddock, andock and and Steve Popperwell. oh That was the Johnny Domino that I remember. That's a trippy
00:27:10
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All that audience interaction. Absolutely, yes. No, it's cool. Very good. AI is very useful, aren't they? Yeah. So you want to include that one into what we call it? A second chance Sunday. Yeah, that's it. Second chance Sunday. Everyone deserves a second chance. I just think it's a theme tune and it does get played in a slightly truncated fashion. I am going to work up some new versions and all remixes in the future when I've got a bit of time, but it's a bit of lo-fi arcing about. That's part of what we did. It's very typical of what we did, and it's what we and it deserves to be on the best of. I'm not going to argue with that. Excellent. I've got another guy. Hold on. It's the Johnny Domino podcast. Give it a chance. You filthy animal. What what is this?
00:28:02
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yeah I like him. Yeah. I like this guy. He's a cowboy. Give it a chance, why don't you? There goes a gun. It's the Johnny Domino podcast. Give it a chance. Where are these coming from? It's the thing on my phone. I can't remember where I got it from. I just thought I don't know how I found it, but it's basically a text voice generator, but you only get a certain amount of credits for free and you can't download them unless you pay for it. So I've done all of my, uh, three ones. Okay. Do you want to hear another one? I've got another one. Yeah, please. This one's particularly my favorite of mine. Listen very carefully. Yeah. I wasn't sure about the Johnny Domino podcast, but I gave it a chance and now I think I love it.
00:28:44
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I think I love her.
00:28:48
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Right, are you ready to listen to some acoustic guitar post-punk stuff? Always. Are you oh always in the mood for that? Are you in the mood for that? always Good. Absolutely always. Well, this is my choice for a second chance. And this is a song called I'm Not In any Anymore. And I want you to listen out for something that I really like in lots of music, which is wordless, rhythmic backing vocals. Ooh.
00:29:21
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One, two, three, four. Start again. One, two, three, four.
00:29:34
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The flyer says it's all We're on the first floor, we're in the dress code We don't need a reason why
00:30:04
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Look at her, she looks quite far gone I've seen her before, responded I'm not in anymore, so I can't complain about that Hey, hey, she's looking at you So play your bass, bass
00:30:53
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I'm not in anymore so I can't complain
The Making of an Epic Song
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and stick it back together. Rip it all up and leave it on the floor.
00:32:21
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I suppose hay is a word. I knew which bit you were referring to when you said that. Okay. I was disappointed that didn't go on volume one. I'll be honest. ah yeah I've always liked that. I think when it appeared on episode nine, also called I'm Not In any Anymore, I told the story about, I think I'd written a song which was an epic four chord acoustic thing and you gamely played along with me for a while. It was very long and I thought it was going to be a real heartbreaker and as is the way we did it for a while probably recorded like five minutes of it and then we started faffing around and then that song appeared and that is a classic Johnny Domino writing song story
00:33:07
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where I have a pretentious idea and I think let's have a go at doing something which is going to be and epic like a post-rock acoustic epic. And then we have a bit of the tool about and make it something silly. And that's the one that we finish. But that's the lesson that you keep learning, though, isn't it, really? Because when you're making anything, the stuff that you labor over, I don't know, for me, it never feels like great. Yeah. And you can just work on and work on and work on and work on something. But the stuff that just it happens and you the idea is good and you just do it.
00:33:41
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That's the good stuff, right? And you just have to wait for those sort of things to happen. And while you wait for those sorts of things to happen, you have to work on your, on your little labored projects. yeah But don't use up too much energy on them. Make sure you got the portal open ready for the good stuff when it comes. Keep the aerials up. Yeah, exactly. exactly I'd watch that band if they were both skinned. I'd stop in the street and give them a listen. I'd throw them a quid. yeah ah quite enjoyed hours yes Yeah, yeah, good. I think they're the songs that we were going to talk about. They're the second chance songs. Definitely. You know what, though, I quite like all of them. Yeah. So I don't want to be too transparent to the listener and just sort of this is the whole thing has just been a facade just so that we can put some of these songs. But I think all of them should go on to the
00:34:33
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the next best of because I really like all of them. Yeah. I'm not going to pick. OK, I'd have to have a word with Brian about the Peru song. Oh, man, the Peru song. I know, I know, I know. I don't know whether we'll be allowed to use that, but that is like one of the best songs. That was that was my favorite song out that we've heard today, really. Yeah, that Peru song. and And I really liked it, but it reminds me a bit of the wave pictures. I kind of hear a bit of wave pictures there and I like the wave pictures. Yeah. constantly on the way out of Aldi today I saw a man in a wave pictures t-shirt and it was a really nice wave pictures t-shirt so I was like I was considering going to talk to him and then I realized I actually knew him so I went to speak to him but I noticed the t-shirt first that's weird isn't it
00:35:20
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I don't know why it popped into my head the other day. Maybe I was thinking about ribbed the wind and the fact that it sounds a bit like the butthole surfers. But I remembered with my first communication studies lecture at college, and I remembered there was a guy sitting opposite me in a butthole surfers t-shirt that said, that's a great t-shirt. And after, you know, and that was it. That was at the start of the lecture. And then at the end of it, he ran up to me and we became friends. through a t-shirt, you know what I mean? You see, the t-shirt's a very important aspect of the of the male friendship mating ritual. I do wonder if he'd considered which t-shirt to wear, you know what I mean? Did he just happen to have this bottle surface t-shirt? Because I know when I went to university, I really thought about the t-shirt I was going to wear on my first day in the student flat that I moved into.
00:36:11
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I mean, we can all relate to that, but it is one of the sadder aspects of our personalities that we think about this kind of stuff. Yeah, but do people think about it anymore? Yeah, well, I don't know. Well, it definitely used to though. Yeah, big time. It was the signifier a few episodes ago. My brother, as is his way, sprung something on me sprung during a recording of this very podcast and gave me a minute to name as many bands as I could think of whose names incorporated body parts.
00:36:49
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And it's a it just gave me a mental freeze and I could not think what to do. So for this episode, I've got something similar for him to do. My only problem is I think he's going to do too well at it. Don't build it up too much, man. This is your second chance of getting me back, is it? Yes. OK, but so in for a penny in for a pound. So i'm I'm getting myself limbered up ready. OK. Giles, dear brother, I would like you in one minute to name as many bands whose names, and I think you can do too well at this, whose names incorporate colours.
00:37:35
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oh and Green and red. Red, lorry, yellow, lorry. Blue airplanes.
00:37:49
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golden earring pink fairies blue yellow yellow the silver apples
00:38:17
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go ba
00:38:23
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Black. black Grape. I don't like music.
00:38:38
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That was intense, man. Yeah, well to be fair when I did it, I didn't have the music. but but ah The music adds a level of intensity. Do you think? It really does. yeah It's good though. I enjoyed it. How many did I get? You got eight. Oh, that's not bad. You got eight, but you didn't say it with any conviction, but when you said yellow, yes beforehand you went, Blue, o yellow. And obviously there' there's a boy band called Blue. You could have had that. oh But you didn't pronounce it. I didn't know. by Yellow. I'm going to count yellow though, right? ah yeah Oh, absolutely. Yes, yellow. Blue tones.
00:39:17
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oh And green and red, I think you mean green on red. Green on on red. oh I don't know if I can let you have that, it's not report written on the card. We'll go with that. Yes, but you know, very good, very good. Much better than my, what was it, one? Did I get one? You got one. No, you got two, I think, but I helped you with one of them. Pathetic, yeah. That's all right. But, we'll you know, i'll I'll come up with another one for you. Yeah. See if you can do better next time. The bloody music. I mean, I've found it tense and I'd i'd set the question.
00:39:52
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My God. Well done. That was good.
Music Quiz: Colors in Band Names
00:39:54
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I enjoyed that. Excellent. Right. Next, a few episodes ago. Well, quite a few episodes ago now, we were talking about cover versions, weren't we? But as a second chance for that, I would like to play a cover version that one of our good friends, friends of the podcast, has recorded, which is a version of I Want You Back, chapter five, which has been recorded by Frankie Machine.
Covering 'I Want You Back' by Frankie Machine
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And I think the four track gods are going to like this. I think so too. I think it's a great piece of work.
00:40:58
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But I had to turn myself in or out These pretty faces are always my kiss and they're all gone But someone cut you from the shelf is all I took But I lose my strength and I let you take this up and go
00:41:56
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Tryin' to live without your love But I'm not stupid enough You love me so much I love you I know I love you I love you Every street and walk away I'll just slow down the ground And burn you in the ground I can't show you my love Let me tell ya, I don't wanna play a game
00:42:54
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I will try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try, but I'll try,
00:43:04
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I want you back I want you back
00:43:25
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Cracking ending on that. Yeah. Now, Frankie Maschine, who that was, he sent that to me in January of this year. And he said, there's a whole story to it, how it nearly came out as a single on some label of a guy in Leeds. I'll have to fill you in next time in the pub, but it was just me and on four track. So I guess it counts. Now we have been to the pub since then, so I don't know the story. So he didn't tell you it, didn't he? He didn't tell me the story. And I said, Giles will love this. And you responded with, did he record this specifically to be entered into the eternal halls? I'm more than like it. I'm kind of obsessed with it. Yeah, I do love it. yeah But he didn't record it specifically to enter into the eternal halls because he recorded it in 1991.
00:44:15
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OK, so what it's a cracker. It's great. america I love the it's a famous song, but I don't know the words vocal because there's bits where he's just. yeah yeah Yeah, I like the distorted vocal. It's beloved of all four track tape recording enthusiasts yeah and. and the weird drum machine, just like going into like a strange stomp beat for no reason whatsoever. That's good. I like the way he does his own backing vocals on the same track as the main vocals yeah at the same time. That's class. Eh? Well he's like, you know, the the song, he sings the actual, you know, old baby give me one much yeah one more chance.
00:44:58
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yeah than the on the original version, that would be that would be Tito and Jermaine joining in on that, doing doing doing the backing vocals, right? But Rob just does it all, you see. Because it's cause he's on 4-track. He does do it all. Yeah, it's good. I like the fact he gets it all onto one track, you see. Yeah. the Working with the limitations, you see. That's a beautiful thing about 4-track recording. Yeah, yeah. I think it is a truer representation of the lyrics than the original one. You know, we sort of talk about how cover versions are really better than the original. I don't know whether it's better, but it's a truer representation of the lyrics because the original song... Yeah.
00:45:37
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and which was the first number one here, actually. October 1969, it came out. It was written by Barry Gordy and his cohort of writers, obviously, and they call themselves the Corporation. The first few lines, when I had you to myself, I didn't want you around, those pretty faces always made you stand out in a crowd. Jesus. There can be no more toxic put down that you can give somebody. It's a subliminal dis. It's like saying, everyone else is really good looking. You really stand out.
00:46:18
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Yeah, that's even worse than You Don't Know You're Beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. But then he picks her from the bunch. And I think it's brilliant and awful. I mean, it's an amazing song, obviously. The original is great. it like Everyone knows it's a great song. Yeah. We're not saying it's not a great song. It's an amazing song. But the lyrics, they're quite dark in a way. And I think it's kind of interesting that there's like an 11 year old singing that. It's hinting at the darkness to come. Yeah. But Rob's version. It's more obvious. I think Rob does sound kind of sleazy on it. Desperate. There's an element of desperation there, which suits the song. yeah That's absolutely it, right? It's got that desperation to it, which really works, I think. It's great. I think he just needs to gain entry though, doesn't he? What? Into the eternal halls of the four track.
00:47:16
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God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! we'll be heading to rob but God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God!
00:47:32
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let's just say boom bank bubags So that's it. We've got through second chance Sunday. Yeah. So we're definitely thinking about including some of those in the next best of this. I don't know. Definitely fabulous. Yes. It wasn't that bad an idea for an episode after all. Thanks. I'm glad you came around. I came around to it after all. It was pretty good. Thank you. And you did very well at the quiz. Thanks. Well, of the challenge. Thank you very much for listening to the podcast. If you are enjoying. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold, hold there a second. Hold there a second. I've got to include the end of this episode and unpaid advertisement as they call it in America. It's for Rob's records. That is Rob's records in Nottingham, which is.
00:48:29
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one of the longest going, as it says on Facebook, longest going secondhand record shops in the UK.
Spotlight on Rob's Records in Nottingham
00:48:37
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and it's on Hertz Yard in Nottingham. And you should go there and you should give old records a second chance. Very good. yeah It's an amazing place. If you've never been there and you live in the area, go to Rob's Records. You won't be disappointed. It's absolutely bonkers. I will include some pictures on the blog that I took the other day when I went there.
00:49:02
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it's It cannot be described how full of records this room is. They're just piled up and piled up and piled up and it's got fuller and fuller and fuller over the years. And Rob, who is a diamond geezer, just can't stop buying stock basically. And if you just like just go in there and just flick through a few of the boxes and just pull out a few unexpected gems really. I got an album of Neo-Rockabilly.
00:49:34
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volume 10 of Neo Rockabilly and I got the classic A Dog of Two Heads by Status Quo. Yes. A Dog of Two Head, sorry not heads. A Dog of Two Head. It's a great album, it's got a Mean Girl on it. Mean Girl, that's the song I was trying to think of. That's it. Yeah. For illustrational purposes I want you to include this little clip here of a song from the Neo Rockabilly album that I got It's called Girlaholic by a German neo-rockabilly band called Runaway Boys. And the reason I want you to include it is because, well, I keep getting these keep getting these letters from this young lad in Glasgow called Archie, and he keeps on writing because he wants us to keep going on about songs that sound like ween that were not done by ween. And so for Archie, I'm just going to include this one, which is Girlaholic by the Runaway Boys.
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Every girl I see looks good to me I see the twinkle in the right And I can't help it when I'm paralyzed There's no chance, no doubt about it I see no way to live with it It's something He's a girlaholic Hear me from it Can't see no chance to cool my burden deep inside I'm a girlaholic I'm a girl or a whore like man.
Featuring 'Girlaholic' by the Runaway Boys
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It could have been off one of Meen's albums.
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It's always good when a lead vocalist can't say the title of the song that they're trying to sing. Girl or whore like man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good. This is cracking tracks on that album I have to say. Hold on. I've got another thing here. Oh, good. Another little clip. Please do like and subscribe to our podcast and recommend it to someone who you think might like listening to all this kind of weird shit. Send us some of your old music and enter the eternal halls of the four track gods. Thank you so much. That saved me a job.