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"Well, son, a funny thing about regret is that it’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t." - Gibby Haynes (b. 1957)
No regrets here as we stumble into the new year with an episode featuring part two of the unfathomable third volume of The Very Best of This Are Johnny Domino, along with much Jesus and the Mary Chain content and a therapeutic song from friend of the show Simon G. Richardson.
Interesting links from the episode have been injected into the left buttock of the blog here!
Also including…
- Butthole memories
- 1987 vibes
- A heartbreaking "Our Tune"
- New Music recommendations
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Podcast artwork by Giles Woodward
Edited by Steve Woodward at PodcastingEditor.com
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Transcript
Welcome & Song Discussion
00:00:00
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Are you ready to rock?
00:00:04
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Rock and roll.
00:00:08
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Pardon of me. i'm only bleeding. You cut me to the bone. My imperfections have reduced you to a lowly animal.
00:00:24
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Part of me was introduced to you. Then it walked right out the door. And tonight, tonight, you're probably feeling like a human cannonball.
00:00:45
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that was, wasn't it? I've just got it. I've just got it. Subdued, that was, wasn't it?
Podcast Return & Excitement
00:01:03
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a
00:01:08
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We're back. Hello and welcome to another episode of the This Our Johnny Domino podcast. It's been a long time. has. It's been a year.
00:01:19
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it It's been a year. this fit We've had a bit of a gap. I've kind of missed this. Yeah. Let's get back on the horse. think we need to bring some happiness into the world.
00:01:30
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Good vibes only. Good vibes only. Yeah. Well, so well ironically, wrong us too. We'll see how it goes. Mm-hmm. So did you get the lyrics? I got it. just tried to distract you by doing it in a very subdued manner. You really did. It distracted me. And then when the theme tune started, i've got it.
00:01:48
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And it's Cannonball by the Butthole Surfers. Human Cannonball by the Butthole Surfers. Well, call me bad. I'm sorry about that. But yeah, I got it. Yes. Yes. yes Good song, yes. Great song.
00:02:02
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Great band. ah Can I just do the regular announcement that if anybody has not read Our Band Could Be Your Life, the book, the chapter on the bottle surfers is genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever read.
00:02:18
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And I would recommend it to any and everybody. Definitely. They were an interesting bunch of people. Formed in San Antonio in 1981, Gibby Hayes and Paul Leary.
00:02:31
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And the the song Human Cannibal was from the 1987 album Locust Abortion Technician. And I was first made aware of the Butthole Surfers at about that point because I read a Sounds article, the magazine Sounds. And yeah it was the article, out the but a band called the Butthole Surfers. I just thought, oh, that's interesting.
00:02:52
Speaker
What kind of band would be called that? And then it took a while. I didn't actually hear any but all surfers for a while, but the the weird picture that accompanied the article and then the words in it stuck in my head. And also I noticed some scary looking album covers in the window Select Disc, a seminal record shop in Nottingham. And then I gradually discovered their work and grew to love them.
00:03:16
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I grew to love them a lot slower than you. But now those three albums, Locust of Bush and Technician, Hairway to Stephen and P.O.D. are three classics. They don't like the P.O.D. album. though they say They think it's a bad album. they think I think it's brilliant. Sometimes it's my favourite.
00:03:33
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I don't know why. you know And like I can't have enough versions of Lonesome Bulldog. i need more versions of Lonesome Bulldog. Yeah, so the good it's a weird song. But yeah, the song Human Cannonball is a song that I like a lot at the moment.
Butthole Surfers & Music Exploration
00:03:49
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It came back into my head because it was actually featured in, I think it was the second to last episode of Stranger Things because they were listening to it in the radio station, which was fun. And then I went on to songmeanings.com to find out what the the song is about. and Soldier of Funk writes, Alwaysome.
00:04:13
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I like the stuttering beat. That doesn't really say much about what it's about. And then Drink Positive says, have no clue on what this song is about, but it's really good song to skate to.
00:04:27
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Nice. And then Today Your Love says, I'm not sure it off of the song is about, Sadio Masochism, or if it's a breakup song.
00:04:42
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That wasn't really very enlightening, was it? No, but the internet is not helping there. No, but I thought it was a good a good song. I went to see the Butthole Surfers, a much later date in the mid-90s, probably after their peak.
00:04:56
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And they it was just Paul Leary and a bunch of other guys doing the music. Yeah. They were a much tamer beast, but Gibby still came out on stage and threw a full pack of beer cans one by one, full pelt, directly at the heads of the people on the front row.
00:05:16
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So he's still got it. That's audience development, right? there Yeah. They had their own unique style. In fact, he was throwing them at the speed of cannonballs. So there you go.
00:05:27
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There's a fact. Apologies to anybody who is joining us on the podcast for the first time.
Podcast Purpose & New Compilation
00:05:33
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The purpose of the podcast when we set it up was for me and my brother to talk about the songs that we recorded back in, as the kids say, the day.
00:05:41
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And it's kind of expanded a little bit. We also talk about songs that we've recorded recently, songs that we are recording right now and various things that people send to us.
00:05:52
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But indulge we are going to talk about some of our songs now because yeah this is the second part of discussion ah where we're discussing our new compilation Yes. The very best of This Are Johnny Domino, Volume 3.
00:06:07
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And this is Side 2. I'm sure the listeners are very excited. And we're going to go through what tracks are going to be on Side 2 and have a little bit of a listen and a discussion about the order.
00:06:18
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Yeah. The framing device of the podcast was we were putting together a compilation album, a theoretical compilation album of the best of our old band, Johnny Domino.
00:06:29
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However... Our ego's got the better of us and now we're on volume three. There you go. It's been said that this is the last volume of the best of Johnny Domino. We shall see.
00:06:40
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Anyway, track one, side two, is a song about Gaviscon.
Humor & Gaviscon Song
00:06:57
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Hey companiera, I'm talking to you. Disregard the reals for now, I'm talking to you. I ain't moaning, but the friction we created, it is leaving me with heartburn and frustrated.
00:07:17
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Cavaliers gone. Double action, flash relief, oh.
00:07:37
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I've got it on my sleeve. The symbol for openness, I wear it on my sleeve. It is aching, it is burning, it is broken, it's a warning.
00:07:53
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Do you have a cube that's forming? Kavistar.
00:09:39
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tell you what, I got through a bit of Gaviscon during the Christmas period, that's for sure. Oh dear, oh dear. Oh yes. That is from a period when we were inviting people to send in songs that featured product placement.
00:09:52
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Yeah, but no one else really joined in that much. Oh, Will did. Oh, Will did. But yeah, um'm i'm I'm glad it's made it onto this volume of The Very Best Of because it's a newish song. And listening to it that time, ah really enjoyed the vocal effect that you on. Listening to it that it sounded more extreme than I remember it. And and she enjoyed it very much.
00:10:10
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Well done. Very nice. Well done. There you go, Gavisconn. Obviously, it's not just a song about Gavisconn. It's a metaphor. It's a metaphor. For the pain of being in a relationship. Even a good relationship. Yes. Right.
00:10:27
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Next on the track listing is a song called Not My Night, which is from the third album by Johnny Domino, which was called The First 100 Years. Available on our band camp. Yes, some people call it the most miserable album. Listen to it and see what you think. You're not wrong. It is pretty miserable. Pretty miserable.
00:10:46
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But it's a nice groovy little song with some excellent keyboards and you doing your Latino house piano bit at the end. There you go. We discovered it a little while ago, didn't we? Yeah.
00:10:58
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yes Yeah. i It's a song called Good Feeling. Again, we played it and we got to listen to it for a long time. I really enjoy listening to it because i liked that we were digging in a lot.
00:11:09
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One of my favourite memories of recording that is me and Mark both played unison guitar part, which is just ah high a high And we played it over and over again, twice through, both at the same time through different amplifiers.
00:11:26
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And I seem to remember but Dad shouting at our window to stop. good nice if we could Can we hear a little bit of that guitar part? i hope we can. Yes, I'm sure we can.
00:11:41
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Right. After that, a song called The Retreat, which is ah kind of that's a... That's bit of a miserable one again. Yeah, ah kind of a kraut-rocky, mellow, droney thing. It got released on a record in America on the beautifully named Black Bean and Placenta Tape Club.
00:12:03
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Oh, yeah, man. Yeah. Hi to Mike Landucci. have you this i I've been listening to a lot of Mike Landucci stuff this year. You're listening to yeah? Oh, man. We're going to listen to some of that on the podcast soon.
00:12:14
Speaker
He's still not answered any of my emails, though. but i you kindt know whether I don't know whether he's still there, but the music's still up. So I think I'm going point people towards it in a maybe next episode. Hands Across the Ocean kind of attempt at reconnection.
00:12:29
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Absolutely. With Mike. Then the next song on the compilation is the one that you are now calling Bracket's first song on Rabbit themes. a frank Good name for it.
00:12:43
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It's good name for it and it's a good song. and It's an upbeat little number. It's a groover. So we like to have a bit of an eclectic mix. And then the last track on what is apparently the last best of this old Johnny Domino compilation.
00:12:58
Speaker
It's got to be a very, very important track. If it's the last track on the last compilation of all of our stuff, this body of work that we've put together over decades. Yeah, that's So we need a track that's got the correct amount of gravitas. It's going really sum up something profound about yeah how we feel. Yeah.
00:13:24
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And it sounds... Not just us, though. Not just our feelings. It's a this generation so message to humanity through the generations.
00:13:35
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And here it is. it's
00:14:05
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Don't you know I want to be like you? Hey, little heckler, will you tell me just what I need to do?
00:14:30
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Tell me what I need to do
00:14:59
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Jump around, jump around, it's a new sensation. Oh shit, you had it in you. I pretend to be impressed.
00:15:12
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It's all action here. I'd expect nothing left.
00:15:27
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Don't you know I want to be like you? Hey there, neat little haircut Won't you tell me just what need to do?
00:15:42
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Hey, neat little haircut Don't you know I want to be like you? Hey there, hey, neat little haircut
00:15:57
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Just tell me what I need to do. Tell me what I need to do.
00:16:08
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Tell me what I need to do. Tell me what I need to do. Tell me what I need to do.
00:17:06
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Oh, is that it? The hot sounds of 1990s Ilkiston there. Lo-fi arsing around. Oh, yeah. and And that's the last track.
00:17:16
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And this compilation is going to be hitting a listening platform near you fairly soon, but not Spotify. No, we've talked about it before, and my thought has always been, well, what difference does it make?
00:17:32
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ah But then you the other day you said other people who have considerably more skin in the game are putting their neck out and taking their stuff off Spotify, and people that we respect are doing that.
00:17:45
Speaker
Yeah, so let's choice. I think we should join them. yeah I mean, I don't know whether we're going to immediately take all of our stuff down, but we don't we're not going to put any new stuff off. I don't think anyone's going notice. I mean, we can picture. don't know where it's not really. a That's not the point, though, man. Whether anybody notices or
Music Promotion & Artist Support
00:18:00
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not. It's just like, you know, it's like.
00:18:02
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Who you want to get into bed with? Exactly. you know what I mean? Yeah. So, ah yeah, we'll we'll we'll tell you where you can hear it when we when we put it together. But it won't be that long, I don't think. Will it, Steve?
00:18:13
Speaker
And it will be on Bandcamp. For sure. Along with all of that stuff. yeah You can get to our band camp by going to johnnydomino.com. Absolutely. go There's a little bit of moxing for you.
00:18:23
Speaker
There you go. I think after doing all that um publish publish this publicity or publicity, do you think we should go to an advert? Harvey, one anything special for your birthday?
00:18:35
Speaker
Just a decent cup of coffee. You're kidding. I'm serious. Honey, your coffee's undrinkable. That's pretty harsh. Well, so's your coffee. You know, the girls down at the office make better coffee on their hot plates.
00:18:49
Speaker
Well, see later. And he didn't even kiss me goodbye. You know, if I could just make a decent cup of coffee, I could relax. So, relax.
00:19:00
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Why don't you try instant Folgers? Tastes good as fresh pert. Good as fresh pert? I'll surprise Harvey for his birthday tonight. Hey, great coffee.
00:19:13
Speaker
It's Instant Folgers. Doesn't it taste good as fresh perked? Better. Better than those girls make at the office.
00:19:21
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Honey, their coffee can't hold a candle to yours. Instant Folgers tastes good as fresh perked. Try it. I don't know to about any of the attitudes within that piece of advertising. boy i but it was They were about as good as the Burnie Ann advert that played the other week. So, yeah.
00:19:44
Speaker
Thankfully, we have mostly moved on. I mean, is that from the 1960s or 70s? Of 60s. That 1960s advertising voice in American adverts. Fresh booked.
00:19:56
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It's a perky kind of voice, isn't it? Yeah. Weirdly, I have a coffee-related poem. Is it a coffee-related poem? ah No. Well, oh no.
00:20:07
Speaker
It's a poem about something else. It's a poem called Barstucks. ah
00:20:18
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I am in a different coffee shop, but the sizing's messed up. What is venti? Is it bigger than grande? Is it smaller than tall?
00:20:30
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They got my name wrong and all. He left her with a latte, making some excuse to leave, and now he's back, with the face of an expectant child standing at the entrance, hat askew, bouquet upright.
00:20:50
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She makes appreciative noises as he approaches. They embrace as their best friend keeps score. Then the three of them go, leaving me with my subpar Americano whispering, never again, never again.
Health Struggles with Humor
00:21:10
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I think I can understand where you were when you had the idea for that poem and Starbucks, don't make don't they don't make coffee. It's not coffee.
00:21:22
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Oh, you agree with me? You don't like Starbucks? Starbucks is terrible. Oh, well, so bit I don't know, man. It's divisive, isn't Is it? It's a big issue. Go on. It's divisive. Maybe I'm just used to the other one.
00:21:34
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I'm going to have to stop writing poems about coffee, but they just keep coming. Yeah. Maybe it's because I do all my poem writing when I'm like on a bit of a coffee buzz. Yes. Maybe I need to try something else.
00:21:47
Speaker
I don't look forward to your book of poetry. I don't know. You know, fruit teas. Oh God. That's not going to work, man. That's not going to work. i don't know. Look, well I'm just going to try. I'm going broaden my palate.
00:22:00
Speaker
How you been anyway? Been all right. Been all right. Well, I've been okay now. i i did that classic old man thing of putting my back out. Oh, dear.
00:22:12
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And I did it with the extreme motion of lying in bed. oh As in I was lying in bed and then I couldn't get out of bed.
00:22:23
Speaker
Ouch. It was crap. I genuinely think as somebody with a chronic illness, I can say this quite categorically, having a bad back is it genuinely the worst thing in the world.
00:22:35
Speaker
It is a bit of shit. It is. You can't sit down. You can't stand up. You can't lie down. Everything is just buggered. Are you feeling a bit better? Loads better. Oh, that's good, man.
00:22:46
Speaker
That's good, man. Yeah. While we're on health content, I need to talk about it. I'm having some terrible mood swings at the moment. As the listener may recall, if they've been listening keenly, I am under treatment for prostate cancer and the drug that I'm on is really fucking up my moods. ah My moods are changing mid-sentence sometimes.
00:23:10
Speaker
You know, it's yeah it's really bad. I mean, Steve, ah I absolutely love you, but you're a fucking twat.
00:23:19
Speaker
Excellent. Oh, Steve. It's mutual, baby. I'm really sorry, man. I'm really sorry. I think I'm all right again. Good. Should we talk about the PRF monthly
PRF Monthly Tribute Series Introduction
00:23:31
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tribute series? Yes.
00:23:32
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So, last month it was Jesus and Mary Chain month. Yes. Because we chose the Jesus and Mary Chain because we won the previous month. Hold up a minute. What is the PRF monthly tribute series? it is...
00:23:45
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what it says, it's a monthly tribute to an artist. Every month somebody chooses and an artist for that month and people from around the world mostly culminating around a Facebook group, submit their own songs.
00:24:00
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At the end of that month, there is a vote and whoever wins that month gets to choose the next month's artist. We won the PRF tribute for the month of November with our version of two Eurythmics songs.
00:24:14
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And for December, we chose as our artist Jesus and Mary Chain. And pleasingly, December's tribute series was won by our good friend, I am Wilbraham.
00:24:28
Speaker
Yes. From the whole album. And the whole album's available on Bandcamp. So you go with a list of the whole album, right? But Will won.
00:24:39
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And it wasn't a fix. as far as I know, voting system. Yeah. and is that you know The vote goes up for a day or so. Yeah. And i was pleased that so many people put their songs up because it was December and people have got, you know family and festive things to do.
00:24:55
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Maybe they're bored though. Maybe they are bored. Apparently they were because we've got quite a good turnout for a December run. And he won it for his version of a song called Good For My Soul.
00:25:07
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Shall I have a listen to a bit of it? Let's have a little bit of it. Good for my soul, believe me Ever since she came up in home, believe me Ever since she came up in home
00:26:00
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Oh, there's some good sax there. It's good, isn't it? What do you want to say about it? What I like about that is it's not too guitar heavy. Will is experimenting.
00:26:11
Speaker
A lot of his recordings at the moment are keyboard-based and synth-based. And, ah yeah, I think it's really interesting what he's doing. he's got a strong synth sound. Got a strong synth sound.
00:26:21
Speaker
There's a lot of tasty saxophone as well. Done by an artist that we've mentioned before on the podcast, Gary Garn, who is the saxophone colossus of the PRF Monty Tribute.
00:26:33
Speaker
He's a saxophander. Have you got a problem with Gary? We'll talk about that in a minute. Okay. There were some very strong songs on the PRF in the Jesus and Mary Chain month. We were discussing earlier about whether it was a good choice, and you had some thoughts on that.
00:26:50
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I was thinking earlier, it's just the songs are thematically and musically and structurally not that interesting. It's quite a good one because they're easy.
00:27:03
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But it's look what Will did there. He did something interesting with it. he He took it out of the, you know, the guitar and feedback type thing and did something completely different.
00:27:16
Speaker
And I think that's what you have to do with the band like Jesus Mary Chain. It would be similar with the Ramones. I guess the Ramones have probably been done on the PRF. I think they have. Yeah. They don't do anything that complicated.
00:27:28
Speaker
No, you know, that's that's their nature of of the beast, really. Some people brought something new to it. Yeah. don't if it was good choice or not, but we did it. I like that you made out the fact that it was a seasonal choice because it was Christmas. Jesus did not marry. I quite like that.
00:27:46
Speaker
Thanks. um Should we play our song that we recorded? Yeah. It was not a cover version. I don't know whether people find that irritating or not on the PRF monthly tribute series that we don't always do cover versions, but I'll be quite transparent about it.
00:28:03
Speaker
i don't know about you, Steve. I'm just using it and ne as an excuse to do some music and write new songs because we don't have that much time to do music and write new songs. We don't.
00:28:14
Speaker
So the little time that we have, why do a cover version? Why do a cover version, right? Plus, I think also there's subliminally, there's something about what we were saying about the Jesus and Mary Chain.
00:28:24
Speaker
Maybe they're not that interesting. Maybe. But we chose them. Yeah, I know. But do you know mean? It's like, yeah, we could do a cover version of a Mary Chain song or we could, you know, write a song which references them.
00:28:40
Speaker
Yeah, in some way. Anyway, this is our song that we record. and Unless you want to say something else before we play it. Let's play it. It's called Drop That Mary Chain.
00:29:10
Speaker
Well it's 1987, all I want is a smartphone And I won't come down by tea time, Darby Town is not my home And the wormhole's closing in and the portals that we can't find Shake it in the name of the Lord, shake it in the name of mine Well it's 1987, all I want are subs and likes Downstairs at the Virgin Megastore, I'm on my group's device
00:29:50
Speaker
I'm on my group's device
00:30:14
Speaker
Well, it's 1987 and all I need is an AI to do all my household chores while I stare at the April sky.
00:30:25
Speaker
And upstairs at the Isle Price is the psycho candy guy. Clint looks out the dirty window and she doesn't wonder why. You know Europe's doomed, the US screamed, AI cats take over.
00:30:40
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Nine million rain days with 50 with 15 days of wine
00:31:24
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You gotta drop that merry chain There's nothing left to say You gotta drop that merry chain Hey, hey, hey, hey
00:32:43
Speaker
That is the last song that we we have wrote. It is. It's got a Spaceman 3 lyric. It's got a feedback collage. It's got loaded style bongos.
00:32:56
Speaker
Yeah. And it's about 1987. Why is it about Well, important year. yes right i was sixteen Darkland was released. Yeah.
00:33:08
Speaker
Bajie Samir Chain. Stacey Dooley was born. Of course. As was Marcus Munford. And Dappy. It was the launch of MTV Europe.
00:33:20
Speaker
Never Gonna Give You Up was released by um that fella. Oh, that little fella, yeah. That a fella. with the Yeah, and I Want to Dance with Somebody was on the charts as well.
00:33:33
Speaker
Big year. Big year. Big year. And also, the last season Strange Things was set in 1987. And left school in 1987. I left school in 1987, yeah. And...
00:33:45
Speaker
Actually, that was when we first started doing music together. Indeed. And the lyrics are about like traveling back in time. Okay. Because it's kind of talking about AI and stuff or traveling forwards in time.
00:33:57
Speaker
or the time kind of like contracting or expanding. Or something or some like that, really. yeah And maybe it's about dropping the Mary Chain, dropping the attitudes that you've held since you were 16, because it's time to drop that Mary Chain, man.
00:34:17
Speaker
It's time to grow up. Maybe at this point, you know, when you're in your 50s. Yeah, it might be time to... But then no, maybe it's not time to drop the Mary Chain. Maybe it's time to pick up the Mary Chain. I don't know. I'm conflicted, be honest. You clearly haven't given it any thought.
00:34:32
Speaker
I've given it a lot of th thought. All right, all right. But I've not come to any conclusions. Okay. Anyway, you did include a feedback collage, which um I know you're itching to tell us about. no, it's just, well, the the first bit you hear in the song is obviously from the start of Never Understand.
00:34:48
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it Obviously. Obviously is the bit of feedback. Everybody noticed that. Well, you should do. with it And also because the bass is still on it as well. So there's like a little rumbling bit at the start. Okay. There's a few other bits of songs from Psycho Candy.
00:35:02
Speaker
There's a lot of Freezer Burn by Sonic Youth from their album Confusionist Sex. And there's a bit of Metal Machine Music by Laughing Lou Reed.
00:35:14
Speaker
I think we're going to make and a new album out of all of these songs that are about other bands. Yeah, we should do. We're going to do it, man. We're going to do it.
New Song 'Drop That Mary Chain'
00:35:22
Speaker
We've got to keep going with it. And then we're going to take it on tour.
00:35:25
Speaker
It's going to be amazing. Okay. I've got a new feature that I want to start. We've got a letter, Steve. Okay, did we? Yeah, but I need some appropriate music behind it.
00:35:41
Speaker
So, I got a letter from someone We'll call him Miles. He's from the East Midlands of the yeah UK. Miles always loved music, status quo.
00:35:54
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Howard Jones.
00:35:57
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Miles liked making music, but Miles was chronically lazy and couldn't be asked to learn how to play an instrument beyond a very rudimentary level.
00:36:10
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Luckily...
00:36:13
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Miles had a brother. Let's call him Jasper.
00:36:22
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just at about Jasper was talented and together they made great music.
00:36:30
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Miles had incredibly original ideas and Jasper, he could move his fingers about really, really quickly. And they had so much fun together.
00:36:51
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have to edit it.
00:36:56
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Rewind the song. I can't. Okay, you've got you're going to have to... I'll cut it out, it's fine. Okay. But then one day, Miles stumbled across something that shook his world...
00:37:11
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to the core jasper had collaborated with a flashy young saxophonist we'll call him coco jasper had been making beautiful music with coco behind miles's back and things would never ever be the same again and this is the song that broke miles's heart
00:42:25
Speaker
It's a strange and wonderful song. I really like it. Yeah. they So you you made that with Gary, the saxophander. What really like about it is a really like what he did with the vocals. It's got a a bit of a buttholesy thing going on there. Yeah.
00:42:40
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Bit ween maybe. Yeah, it's got a good sound, man. You've got a good sound on that. I really like it. So he sent me, let's count them, seven saxophone tracks. yeah That's seven saxophone tracks and two vocals.
00:42:54
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So it took a bit of going to wrangle it into some kind of shape, but yeah. A little bit of a job to do there. You had a job of work there. I didn't take too long over it. And that was the thing about it. The music that I did, like the drums, keyboard, bass, and two tracks to guitar, I did about...
00:43:10
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half an hour to an hour, me and then the mix. I tried not to take too long on that. It's not about how long you spend on stuff. Yeah, it's quite good to... right and It's also quite good to just think, right, okay, I'm not going spend all day on this. Yeah, exactly.
00:43:23
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and what What was the song? It's called k to be Last by c Sister Vanilla. Yeah. Never heard of them. No, me neither. But apparently it's Jim and William Reed's sister, Linda.
00:43:37
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And think it was released on Chemical Underground of Glasgow. Oh, yeah. The Delgados, previously known of this parish. That was another song from the December PRF Monthly Tribute Series album, which is on Bandcamp. And I urge you, if you've not listened to it, go and listen to it because there's some interesting tracks by many of our compadres and also people We don't even know.
00:44:03
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Yeah. So um go and listen to it. It's good. And next month, the artist chosen by Wilburham is the Pet Shop Boys. Yes. So that's going to be kind of interesting. And we'll see what happens with that.
00:44:18
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Our first house nearly never got built. My wife was so bent on helping the builder. Woman, I said, leave that poor man alone and make us some coffee. Not that kind you've been buying either.
00:44:30
Speaker
Instant Maxwell House coffee. Red jar, good to the last drop. Maxwell House. The instant that tastes like, like coffee. Be a good little Maxwell House wife, and we'll be happy here for a long time. Maxwell House coffee.
00:44:45
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Instant and ground. I think you might need to sort of look for some slightly less sexist adverts for next episode, Steve. I'm not playing them because I think I agree with them. I'm playing them because I think they're funny. They're funny.
00:44:59
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They are funny. It's very 90s, Steve. Very 90s. It's like all the battles have been won. We're being ironic about it. No, joking. I'm joking. Anyway. But it is, yeah, that is mad.
00:45:13
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That is mad. It is mental. It's like literally five minutes ago. had Crazy fam. Yeah. all Right, ah what are we doing? I don't know. We're making a podcast, aren't we? Yeah, I know, but... In the face of what?
00:45:26
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Certain
00:45:32
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doom. We're making a podcast in the face of certain doom.
00:45:44
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We are this Lord Johnny Domino. We're making a podcast and we're playing our skill tunes. This is this, our Johnny Domino.
00:45:54
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We're brothers, we wear glasses. We've got medical conditions. We've both been alive for a while.
00:46:09
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We're making a podcast in the face of certain doom. It's time for this on Johnny Domino. Oh, something like that, anyway. I'm going to introduce one more song today, and this is by friend of the show, Simon Gatemouth
Simon Gatemouth Richardson's Song Appreciation
00:46:26
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Richardson. He's been busy again.
00:46:28
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Oh, he's been in his kitchen, and he's been strumming that guitar, and he's played us a really nice song, which I really enjoy.
00:46:40
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I feel like it's speaking to me, man, the message of this song. So, you know, as I say, I've been going through some mood swings, Not having the easiest time this month, to be honest. I'm sure some of you aren't either, but you know, and I relate to you if you if you're not going through the easiest time at the moment. January is always a bit of fucker.
00:46:59
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It sucks. So i really enjoyed this song when Simon sent it to me.
00:47:43
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Hey you, will you take a ride in somebody else's shoe? Would that help you realize? Even empathize, there's another pair of eyes Looking at the problem We're all looking at the problem We're all looking at the problem
00:48:20
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through whatever it is we've got ourselves into we've got ourselves into we've got ourselves
00:48:46
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Hey you, will you get yourself in debt for another man's stew? Well you lied, you never stood aside Though the world's so wide and it don't belong to you No, it don't belong to you And it don't belong to me But it don't belong to you
00:49:32
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too Yeah, you're gonna run out of steam Need a helping hand Taking one from the team Was never of your plan Well, come on, man Take a hold of my hand.
00:49:58
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As if we help each other out. We'll lift ourselves up. When we lift ourselves up. We'll help each other out. Help each other out.
00:50:30
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beautiful Simon has been recording some new stuff with his band Tidmouth Sheds recently nice so where we'll be hearing some new stuff from him soon but I really enjoyed that that was just ah him recording it in his kitchen thought it sounded pretty good actually yeah sounds great yeah he's a bit of a Michael Hurley stylist I love Michael Murray. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, certainly with the acoustic stuff, I think it's great. And that was called Hey You, previously unreleased song.
00:50:57
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And just a reminder, obviously, we've got loads of songs to play and we're going to keep making this podcast as we go through the next year, mainly for our own mental health. Yeah, yeah.
00:51:09
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You might enjoy it too. So um get involved, send us some stuff, any old recordings, or any new recordings. Just get in touch if you want us to play or listen to anything.
00:51:20
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It'll be nice to hear from you. Yeah. We're mostly ah supportive and complimentary. We usually are. Usually. can be a bit snarky sometimes. It can be a bit on souls, but a little bit, you know. But that's all right. That's all right. What do you want? You know.
00:51:37
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You got anything else you want to talk about today? Is that it? Pretty much. Well, you wanted to talk about some new music. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think it's nice to give the listeners something new to listen to.
00:51:48
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Obviously, we've got the show notes, though we put together every episode, which have got like links to videos and stuff and audio from things that we talked about. yeah So if you want to find out about anything that we're talking about, is see it's an easy place to go to.
00:52:02
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But we like to sort of occasionally talk about new songs that we've been listening to. So what have you been listening to, Steve? Tell us something new. Well, this is something that's new to me.
00:52:13
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It came out last year, apparently. And I just find it fascinating. It's an artist called World Peace DMT. The album title, you can see why it drew me in.
00:52:27
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The album title is The Velvet Underground and Rowan. That's right. The Velvet Underground and Rowan. World Peace DMT is work of a guy called Leo Fincham.
00:52:39
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He's a visual artist. And for this release, he has teamed up Rowan Police, who is a member of a band called The Femcells.
00:52:50
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and I'm going to be checking them out as well. But this album, sometimes when you talk about new music, all you can do is it's like this plus this. And it's kind of reductive. But... As a way in, when I listened to it, it reminded me of a cross between Animal Collective, Girl Talk, and a bit of Go Kart Mozart.
00:53:14
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Cool. Sounds good. The first song on the album is called Air Force.
00:53:50
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Wow. I mean, that is probably one of the most Animal Collective-esque tracks off the album. But it's really quite varied, and it made me laugh.
00:54:02
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It did me. Considering the fact that I've had a bad back, and the world is going to hell in a handcart, that's to be valuable, hasn't it? Yeah, it's squeezed my mind, that's for sure. Yeah, it's really, really interesting, and it's very varied.
00:54:17
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Some of the fairly standard songs are sort of it just bonkers like that one. But yeah, I would recommend it. Cool. Anything from you? A new, well, some newish stuff from an old artist. Nina Nostalgia has put a new album out on Bandcamp called Songs for a World of Trouble.
00:54:37
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And it's a really good album, but I love Nina Nostalgia anyway, right? She's one of my favorites. But i feel this is like kind of a return to form, really. She does that beautiful economical songwriting. Nothing sort of like is longer than like three and a half minutes, really. yeah It's really beautifully recorded.
00:55:00
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Nice, subtle embellishments of other instruments. and It's the first thing that she's recorded since Steve Albini died, who was a producer.
00:55:11
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I think it's it's really, really good. Standout tracks, happiness, in which she actually sounds quite happy. You're always telling me to just be happy, don't focus on what's bringing you down.
00:55:26
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You want to show me all the greener grasses once I pull my head out.
00:55:35
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If you listen to the nostalgia, that is kind of quite unusual. Yeah. And another ah song called Old Goat. yeah, both really good. Yes. Yeah. Cool. And one more track, a band from Dublin called Madre Salak.
00:55:51
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And it's an um but ah sorry a single that came out last year called Blue and Gold, which is folk slash synths.
00:56:01
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my love that keeps me sober she sighs that i'm over she tuts when the talk of finances arise she says there's no food for eating no Very, very moody, devastating track.
00:56:22
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They've only got a couple of tracks out at the moment, I think. And this one is Blue and Gold. It's about the only hope in the world that you've got is a scratch card.
00:56:32
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The Blue and the Gold. Really great track. So you've got two songs in. I did. Yeah. Do you want another one? I'm just going to do one, and this almost ended up being your Christmas present, but I couldn't get it on vinyl anyway.
00:56:45
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And it's by a band who are Irish and Portuguese, and they go by the name of... I'm going to try and pronounce it It's spelt Pot Pot, but I think I've had a look up, and the accent, i think it's Piot Pot.
00:56:59
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And it's called... This one's called 22 Degree Halo.
00:57:42
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It's an album called Warsaw 480 Kilometres and it was described as being for fans of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Moon Gio.
00:57:53
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And who do I know like that? I have no idea. That could be you. Yes, could be me. Very nice. Enjoyed that. And that's about it for today. Yes.
00:58:04
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So it's been very nice, Steve. Enjoyed talking to you today. And we'll do it again soon. Yes. And we'll record it. And there will be another episode of the This Our Johnny Domino podcast coming your way in the near future.
00:58:20
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