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Schizophrenic Music is the signal syndicate production.
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Well, hello there, and welcome into the schizophrenic music podcast, aka schizo music pod.
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My name is Craig.
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I'm joined by Kevin.
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Hey.
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We don't mean to be.
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I, you know, of course, I mean, I'd like to apologize.
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We'd like to, but I'd definitely like to apologize.
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We've missed it.
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We've been a little sporadic.
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Been doing some traveling, tried to make it work, and then just I, you know, we didn't.
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It's both of us.
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Both of us have had kind of odd schedules and whatnot.
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Um, so we'll try to get back on that weekly schedule.
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Uh hope you understand.
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But in our normal tradition, we're gonna kick things off with a beverage.
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Jim, what you got?
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Well, I recently originally from Michigan, Battle Creek, Michigan, and I recently recently took a trip home.
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So I hit up what I believe one of the greatest grocery stores that I know of, and but it's called Horox, but they got a great beer selection, a lot of stuff.
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They have a lot of local stuff.
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So there I grabbed a few local brews while I was up there.
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And I have a crop duster Citra IPA from Grand Armory Brewing, which is out of I should know this.
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Where is it?
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Grand Haven, Michigan.
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So I'm on coast of Lake Michigan.
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So all right, Kevin.
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Well, I've been thinking about this for a long time.
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We need to have a talk.
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A pep talk.
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I got a pep, I got a pep talk from uh that was a bad joke.
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I have a pep talk from bearded iris.
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It is a crisp lager.
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Uh good stuff.
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Just crushable.
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So all right.
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Three, two, one.
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Gave me a little bit of an issue.
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That happened to me uh like two or three weeks ago.
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I opened up one and it had not been dropped or shaken or anything, but man, that thing went everywhere.
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I walked downstairs with it, but it wasn't like a I do like this can though, because it's got the black top, which is just kind of that's cool.
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Yeah, I like that I like the design.
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That's pretty cool.
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Have you heard the controversy now though?
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What's uh uh with people not liking uh people using AI for their bottle designs and whatnot.
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You can spot it.
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You can definitely tell.
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Yeah.
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AI doesn't have to be used for everything, people.
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We're not I'm not anti-AI.
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I'm not totally not I'm not totally anti-AI.
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I use it for work purposes, I use it for efficiency purposes, but you know, come on.
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Graphic designers do a great work.
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Their stuff can't be replicated with AI.
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Try it, believe me, it doesn't work.
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All right.
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Here we go, man.
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All right, once again, welcome into the Schizo Music Pod.
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Um, thank you so much for joining us.
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If you are new or if you are a longtime listener, we truly appreciate you.
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If you're a longtime listener, thanks for hanging in with us.
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You know what the the score is, you know what the deal is, what we've been doing over the last uh several months, really all through this year.
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And that is exploring overlooked, underrated, or both albums from 1960 to 2025.
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We are almost through with every year.
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I think at some point we need to probably post a list.
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Once we finish this thing up, we need to post a list of all of our options for each year.
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Uh, this year being 1989.
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So this week we're gonna cover the wonderful year of 1989.
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Um, and I have uh an either or either or for Kevin.
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Um so uh I'm gonna give Kevin the option.
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Do you want to do your album first?
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Me do our album first?
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Do you want to do either or?
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What say you, Kevin Glubke?
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I say we do the album first.
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Cool.
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And then go to either or is in that.
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All right, you ready for your album or you want me to go with mine?
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Oh, go ahead.
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All right.
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Uh 1989 was a wonderful, wonderful year.
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Um, I will say for me personally, this style of music was definitely more in my, I mean, some of my favorite albums in hard rock and metal came out in 1989.
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Kevin was into it a little bit earlier.
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He's a little bit older.
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Uh, so him, I bet his is his peak maybe 85, 86, somewhere in that range.
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Mine is like 87, 88, 89.
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I love all the stuff from 85, 86, don't get me wrong, but some of my favorite albums are from 89.
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Anyway, I digress.
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Um, this album is both overlooked and underrated.
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Allmusic gives it three out of five.
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I feel like that's extremely low.
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The reviewers, the the um listeners give it four out of five.
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But anyway, it is a lovely album from the band Tora Tora.
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So now I'm called Surprise Attack.
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It's their debut album.
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Um I love this band.
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I absolutely love this band.
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Um, it fits the era.
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It is hard rock, it is metal.
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I guess you could call it hair metal if you want to lump it in that, which is a dumb terminology.
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Uh, they kind of fit in that category, but they were a good bit bluesier.
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Uh, I think the only reason they would fit in that category is because of his voice.
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Band out of Memphis, Tennessee, man.
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They absolutely, absolutely kick kick ass.
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Um, just one of my favorite bands of the era.
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This is on AM, uh, so it was on a big label at the time.
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Um, every song on here is an absolute banger.
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I just I can't say more about them.
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They did have a couple of hits off of it.
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They had a song called Walking Shoes that was huge.
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Yes.
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Um, I think Guilty may have been released, and I know Phantom Rider.
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So every band back then had to have the ballad.
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Their ballad was Phantom Rider.
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I think it's one of my favorite ballads of that era because it they used a theme and ran with it.
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You know, it's really cool.
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Anyway, love this band.
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Uh, they they only put out two albums and then they had a uh a comeback album, an unfortunate comeback album, but a comeback album.
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They had an album in 1992 called Wild America.
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That I, you know, there are several bands like this, and I'm gonna talk about a couple of them later, um, that released debut albums in that 87, 88, 89 range, uh, and didn't really have much of a chance because by the time if you take two years to re-re-release uh or to release your sophomore album, you are entering into a whole new territory.
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The whole landscape of music changed.
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We all know this.
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91, 92, everything changed.
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This style of music was no longer in favor, but Wild America from 1992 is equally as good as this album, it really is.
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It's great.
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I don't think it's quite there.
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You know, three out of five, that's that's criminally underrated.
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I would give this four to maybe four and a half, and I would probably give Wild America four.
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Okay.
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Both excellent albums.
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I don't know the second, I don't know that Wild America as much as the surprise attack.
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It's great.
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I I when you listen to it, you could probably listen to them back to back.
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It's it's it's only slightly a little bit heavier, but in some aspects it's a little bit lighter.
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Um, it rocks, it absolutely rocks.
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Great, great band.
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So uh, and I I those songs were popular at the time, but nothing really carried over.
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Nobody talks about those guys anymore like they talk about some of the other more popular bands, right?
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And they had some hits.
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So anyway, tour tourists.
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Yep, that was big.
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I mean, it was definitely got play on like MTV and stuff like that.
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Yep.
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Or on the radio, whatever, you know.
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But yeah.
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Well, if you think about it too, it falls in line with your theme here recently of blues.
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Because do you remember the video?
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He's sitting there playing the guitar with a blues guy on the porch out in the middle of the desert.
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So cool.
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Uh, I still remember that video, and I just remember thinking, well, that's kind of cool.
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And that's what I liked about these guys.
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And I like I said, I'll talk about a couple of other bands.
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These guys have a very strong blues influence.
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It was Memphis, it's making the sea.
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That makes sense now.
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You think about being from Memphis.
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I guess that all that does kind of make a little sense, but yeah.
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Yep.
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How about you, ma'am?
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What was your album for 1989?
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All right.
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Well, I was looking through, and there's definitely a lot of good stuff.
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I was picking looking some stuff, and definitely there was some in there in that metal genre that I could have gone with.
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And there were some ones that I'm like, are they overlooked?
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Or you know, and I'm this not trying to be different, but I went with a totally different uh genre.
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I don't know if I've done this yet, but there was this album.
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I originally had this actually on cassette, right?
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But I guess right before I made that, you know, right before I made the switch there to I guess buying CDs.
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I bought this used, yep, probably.
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Uh and because there was a couple songs, and like this is really good.
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Not that but the album, I don't want to say it's definitely not underrated because it gets five stars on all music, so that's a pretty high you know, you don't ever think it gets five stars, and I don't want it definitely wasn't overlooked at the time because it made it was big for a second, right?
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But it's because of certain circumstances, I definitely think it is now forgotten.
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People don't remember this album, and definitely not this artist because there were some tragic things happening, but right, so this is in the this is in the hip-hop realm, and there was this excellent album called No One Can Do It Better by the DOC.
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Oh, yeah, man.
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And so DOC, you know, he kind of wasn't in NWA, but had the you know, Dre was producer, you know, he worked with worked with NDB, did some writing, things like that.
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But he released this album, and right after, I believe, right after release of this album, he was in a tragic car accident, which almost took his life, and then afterwards he could not rap like he used to, couldn't, I mean it took him a long time, recovery and things like that, so he could not do it anymore.
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But this album was excellent.
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I mean, it's some good stuff on it.
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He did end up like later on, Dre put him on like the chronic and stuff like that.
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He's still, you know, doing things, but because this was technically his, you know, that was the album, and then he had the car crash and wasn't able to go on, he didn't wasn't able to build upon this album and continue on.
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But the album, no one can do it better by the DLC, just excellent, excellent hip-hop album.
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If you'd like to totally agree.
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I I had this, I had this cassette.
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I had uh because there was and there were very few.
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I you know, I think I think I'm realizing that I was a lot more diverse back then because I told you the first couple of the first two CDs I bought um right were King's X, Gretchen Goes Nebraska, but it the other one was unfinished business.
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Uh why am I drawing totally drawing the mic?
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Um it's hilarious.
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But and it was so I bought a hip-hop album and I bought a hard rock heavy metal album.
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Um, I had this on cassette.
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I had um NWA.
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There were several things that I had like that that were in the same vein.
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But this was definitely a I mean it the last line says it all on all music.
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It says it's a shame that DOC never got the chance to do have a proper follow-up, but in no one can do it better, he at least had that one undeniable masterpiece.
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Yes.
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I mean, I that says a lot, but nobody talks about it.
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Was this on your list?
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This was on your list, didn't it?
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It had to have been on your list.
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The list you were doing of hip hop albums.
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This had to be on uh yeah, it was.
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I think, yeah.
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I can't remember where it fell on the list, but it was definitely was on there because I mean it's respected for sure, but I just don't think because he never had able to do the proper follow-up, he didn't, you know, it's kind of I want to say one hit wonder, but it's kind of like boom, we had that one big album that then didn't isn't remembered, you know, because he didn't follow up with anything else.
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EPMD was the band I was talking about, not Mob D, but EPMD.
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EPMD.
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It was unfinished business in 1989.
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I bought that with King's X.
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I know I was it's gonna drive me nuts if I didn't look it up, but um yeah, nice curveball because I was not expecting that.
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I was totally expecting metal, but uh for you in 1989, where you you were still pretty big into metal, right?
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Yeah, but it was uh I don't want to say I was falling out of it, but I was not paying because I was in college, so you start getting a little more influenced by some other stuff, you know.
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You start set yeah, hearing other stuff, and metal was kind of doing its, you know, we still liked it.
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When did you graduate high school?
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What year?
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88?
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88.
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Okay, that makes sense.
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Like for me, I graduated in '92, so ninety three was the big year for me to.
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I was already, and the thing is, I had already made that transition from metal to grunge, had all of that, and then I got into college, and then next thing you know, I'm listening to the dinosaur junior and you know, Sonic Youth and all that stuff, and a variety, a lot of punk and stuff too.
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So I totally get it.
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Um all right, before we get into a little bit more of a discussion here of that that transition, I'm gonna do an either or for you.
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Okay, this will be a quick one.
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This is next, this is uh album edition 1989.
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Kevin, are you ready?
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Certainly.
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Kevin, either or Badlands self-titled album or junkyard self-titled.
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I I saw I didn't know if you would go.
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I don't know if you I thought you might go with Badlands as your album, but I don't know if that was I don't know, overlooked, underrated, whatever, but I would have to go both of them are excellent albums, but I gotta go Badlands.
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Yeah, I agree.
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All right.
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Uh Kevin, either or Badlands or the cult, Sonic Temple.
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Ow.
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Those are so great but different, you know.
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Uh at the time, I wasn't quite yet really into the cult right then.
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So I'm gonna go Badlands still.
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Yeah, I still think Badlands is uh far better.
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I I like Sonic Temple a lot, don't get me wrong, but Electric and Love are so much better.
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Sonic Temple's great, don't get me wrong.
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Firewoman's on Sonic Temple, right?
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Yep, yeah, okay.
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And then that's when I started, yeah.
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Sweet Soul Asylum.
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There's some great songs on there.
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It is a great album, but it's uh Badlands is on a different level.
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Okay.
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Uh either or Badlands or Faster Pussycat Wake Me When It's Over.
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I already know the answer to this, but Badlands.
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Yeah, that's the only Faster Pussy Cow album I actually like.
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I did not like the debut.
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I hated the follow-up.
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I just I wasn't a big fan of them at the time.
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I appreciate them more now, but then it wasn't, they weren't just weren't my thing.
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All right, we're gonna get tougher now, and I think I know which direction you're going on this one, but we'll see.
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Kevin, either or Badland self-titled or Blue Murder self-titled.
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I have to go Blue Murder.
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I love that album.
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Oh, dude, that's like it's a great album.
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Jelly roll, and then just the big just the song Blue Murder.
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Yeah.
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With the drum intro, the way he no song that many songs start out drumming like that.
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Like it's like a big drum roll into a I don't know.
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You don't know it, go listen to the song Blue Murder.
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It absolutely kicks ass.
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All right.
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Or LA Guns Cocked and Loaded.
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I'm sleeping with Blue Murder.
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Cock and Loaded, great album.
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I'll go blue murder.
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Uh Blue Murder or Faith No More, the real thing.
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The real thing.
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Okay.
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I love that album when that came out.
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I do too.
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I think it gets better with time, too.
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That's it, it's the test of time.
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I love that album when it came out.
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I still love Angel Dust, but this is their best album.
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I know that everybody talks about Angel Dust and critically and how great it is and stuff like that, but I like the real thing.
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The real thing is like my it's yeah.
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That's I like them both equally, but I can admit that to me, cohesively, the real thing is just better.
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It just is.
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There's some great moments on both.
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Uh all right.
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Uh the Faith No More, the Real Thing, or Bang Tango Psycho Cafe.
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And I was looking at that too, and there was a question like, is that overlooked?
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It's well, that's an excellent album.
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I'm gonna stick with uh okay.
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Uh Fade No More, the Real Thing, or Vane, no Respect.
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That was the other one that I thought that could I almost went with No Respect because I don't think that gets the respect that it deserves because that was a great, like, you know, I don't say sleazy, but like raw.
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Such a great album.
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Good album.
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Good album.
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Vane, that is an excellent album, but I still have to go with uh I have to go with the real thing.
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All right.
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Uh Faith No More, the real thing, or Tesla's Great Radio Controversy.
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You know?
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That's real I I love Tesla.
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I prefer actually mechanical resonance over the great radio controversy.
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If you you're going Tesla, that's just me.
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Great, great album.
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But still, the real thing was like just I don't know, it just was a cool, special album.
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It was different at the time, too.
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You know, it just was yeah, completely.
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Yeah, all right.
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Uh Faith No More, last one.
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Faith No More The Real Thing, or King Z Gretchen Goes to Nebraska.
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You can you can you can stick with it, man.
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I get it, man.
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No, I gotta go Gretchen.
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That's I'm sorry.
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Gretchen goes to Nebraska.
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That could easily have been both of our albums because it's not overlooked in their eyes, it's definitely seen in it critically as their best album.
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Um, I still it's sentimentally always gonna be my favorite album, and I do think it is their best album.
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Um, they're just an overlooked band.
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Yep.
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Period.
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I'm telling you guys, we cannot sing the praises of King's X.
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I know we do this, it's a joke now because we talk about King's X, but they are criminally, criminally underrated.
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So respected, everyone likes.
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I mean, musicians, everybody talks about how great King's X is.
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Right.
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But in the normal, in the general public, yeah, they're not getting that.
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So of this list that I gave you these options, these 11 options, Badlands self-titled, LA Guns Cocked and Loaded, Um, Tesla's Great Radio Controversy, and King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska are five of my uh are in my top five all-time of this genre, all from 1989.
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That shows you, like for you, I I I imagine there's a good bit more stuff in the mid-80s, early to mid-80s that are gonna be in that top five.
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The other one would probably be maybe a cult electric, maybe lynch mob, weakened sensation.
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It's definitely been up there.
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Um, and then I could always put uh Master of Puppets up there.
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Amazing.
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But for me personally, these are also albums.
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If you think about it, these are all albums too that they got some success.
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Uh probably test Tesla, probably the most out of all of them.
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I mean, with Love Song and Right and uh No Way Out and stuff like that, probably had the biggest hits.
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Um, but LA Guns, all of them got radio play and stuff, but you know, Badlands, King's X, you know, they got play, but people don't talk about them.
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So it felt personal, it felt personal that those were my favorite albums.
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Um I was gonna say of this uh listening could I listen to a couple of things today.
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I shared uh with Kevin one of them.
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I was gonna share the uh tour tour, but I didn't want to give it away.
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Right.
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Uh I shared with him, I listened to Junkyard's second album, Sixes, Sevens, and Nines.
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It's a great album.
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Uh man, Junkyard was just a straightforward bluesy.
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I mean, they had as much Skinnered and ACDC, Skinner and ACDC influence as they had anything else.
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I mean, they were just it's crazy.
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They came from like minor threat hardcore bands like Dag Nat.
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Nasty and minor threat, like heavy.
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And all of a sudden, they formed the probably one of the most streamlined, kind of southern rock-infused hard rock bands back in the day.
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Um, don't get me wrong, I had a blast in college, and later it for me later in high school, exploring grunge and that whole scene.
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Oh, yeah.
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To me, the metal era, I don't know if there was ever more of a fun time in music.
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For me personally.
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I mean that was there was some good stuff going on that year or right around that, you know?
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I mean, I mean you had a lot of yeah.
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They also had like uh saying not a big fan, but dangerous toys, Tora Tora, Ellen Guns, and Tango gets that's definitely over they're they're overlooked for not you know for sure.
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Those two albums are are incredible, you know, the Psycho Circus and and Walking On, yeah.
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Excuse me.
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I mean Psycho Cafe and uh yeah and yeah, and then uh Dancing on Gold.
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Dancing on Gold, excuse me.
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I'm all I love that album.
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I mean, that's another thing I was gonna say is that you know the Tora Taurus follow-up album, Wild America, I put up there with, and I was looking it up, I didn't realize Cinderella's Heartbreak Station was like 1990.
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I thought it was a little bit later.
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Um, there's some latter day albums, like Extreme had one called Extreme Three.
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Um I still say that's their best album.
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I know it's not Tesla's best album, but I think Psychotic Supper is an excellent album.
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Uh to me, their last great record, even though Bust a Nut was good.
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Bust Nuts good, just a bad uh yeah, horrible album cover, horrible album title.
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Lest we forget about Slave to the Grind from 1991.
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That album is a just 91.
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That doesn't even feel like it was 91.
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Blistering.
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Yeah.
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So you look at 91 was really to me 90 and 91 was when I look at my catalog, it's like I'm starting to make that shift.
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This is really the early 90s is a plethora of just so many different genres, so many different styles, and it's all great.
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So I started in the early 90s making the shift more towards stuff like Urge Overkill and Afghan Will, right and Catherine Wheel, and I'm still listening to the beasties and black, I'm still listening to the black crows, but I'm listening to less hard rock and metal because it was being phased out at that point.
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Right, it was.
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I mean, it really was a lot of the stuff was put on pause, a lot of the uh bands uh and then the stuff that did come out like three sides to every story.
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Um I didn't recognize that until after I closed my store legitimately in 2007.
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I had all these CDs in a lock in in a storage facility waiting for to sell it.
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I was put it up on basically up for auction, and I was going through some of the stuff.
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Um, and I had just this metal section, and I was like, I'm just gonna, and so as I'm organizing stuff, I'm playing that CD.
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As I'm playing it, I'm like, holy crap, this album is great.
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This album is excellent.
00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:28.799
Uh I I remember sharing uh like screenshots and stuff with Kevin.
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I'm like, man, I don't know if you've listened to this.
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This is excellent.
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But then as you move down, it you know, I'm getting more into like helmet and then box and lemon heads, little village, Los Lobos, King's X is still in there.
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So but man, I I had so much fun collecting.
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I started collecting really cassettes in the metal era.
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I started collecting some cassettes about the time of my own, and it was all hard rock and metal, and it was just such a blast.
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That's when I took pride of check this out, you know.
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It's a bygone era, and if you go back, like you get a chance, go to YouTube and just look up Headbanger's Ball.
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And because there's some there's some old school episodes that uh and and prepare yourself if they're grainy.
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It's so much fun, though.
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You can see how popular this style of music was.
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It was huge, it was massive.
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Um I I don't know, I had so much fun during that time.
00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:36.000
So anyway, I thought 1989 was a great year in general, though.
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I'm just going back, I'm just gonna scroll back up to 1989 just to give you.
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So you had that's 90.
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Uh let's go back.
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A classic, classic hip-hop album, the cactus album from third base.
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That album is a masterpiece.
00:26:53.839 --> 00:27:04.000
Uh XTC's Orange and Oranges and Lemons, The The Mind Bomb, uh Stone Roses, Stone Roses, Masterpiece, Smithere's 11.
00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:06.319
Such a great album.
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:12.799
Uh Blood uh not blood sugar, Mother's Milk from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pixie's Doolittle.
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:17.759
Oh my god, Full Moon Fever from Tom Petty, The Ocean Blue, Ocean Blue.
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I mean, just some killer stuff.
00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:22.559
Bob Mold's Workbook, Mother Love Bone Apple.
00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:27.279
Sky Mining from Blue from Midnight Oil, love that band.
00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:31.359
Self-titled Love and Rockets, Lenny Kravitz Let Love Rule, love it.
00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:34.720
Uh Love is Hell from Kitchens of Distinction.
00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:37.759
Little Heart Shaped World from Chris Isaac.
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And there's just some great music that was released in this year that Lat Duo Jets.
00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.519
I don't know.
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:53.039
Anyways, I was starting like right then, because I was all those metal albums, loved all that metal, all the metal albums, even metal later than that.
00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:57.519
Like talking about Slade to the Grind and I mean like Guns N' Roses and Metallica and everybody.
00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:08.079
But that's also getting into some of like the at the time heavier stuff like Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, that was still going then.
00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:24.559
You know, uh, but then there was like a I don't know, I was leaning more towards, not more towards, but towards like the I don't know, classic rock type stuff that was out then, but then there was bands that were popular with that, like you just said let love rule.
00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:28.640
That was oh loved absolutely positively loved that album.
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:32.799
So I started moving towards things like that, yeah, as well.
00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:39.839
As then you're getting into some of the like you know then grunts or come right.
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Remember what year did louder than love come out?
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What year was that?
00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:49.359
Uh that had to be like 88, 87 or 88.
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I don't know if I have that one, honestly.
00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:58.880
I I was uh I liked it at the time, but I have since gone back to it and I couldn't get into it.
00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:01.039
It was like a that was more of a metal album.
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:04.960
That was like kind of, I mean, it was pretty much definitely yeah.
00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:12.559
There's there's other stuff though that I was listening to, like just going back through, you know, Voodoo Highway from Badlands came out in '91.
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:14.960
Dancing on Coles from Bang Tango.
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:17.519
Once again, Bullet Boys put out one called Freak Show.
00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:19.200
That's an underrated one.
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:23.759
Um, I know you're not a huge fan of them, but I think this is their best album.
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.240
Enough's Enough put out an album called Strength.
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Love that album.
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.039
Both your G and R uh Use Your Illusion albums came out.
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:40.079
So there was still the Junkyard album I was talking about earlier: Sixes, Sevens, and Nines, Kicks, Hot Wire, Um, LA Gunn's Hollywood Vampires.
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.240
Then you got Lindy Kravitz, Mama Set.
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:43.519
God, I love Mama.
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:46.000
Mama said's probably my favorite.
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:48.000
That and Let La Roll rule.
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:50.160
And um Are You Gonna Go My Way?
00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:51.359
That's a killer album.
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:52.799
I don't care what anybody says.
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:54.960
Oh, there's some killer stuff on that.
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.680
One of my favorite songs from him is Eulotheria.
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That's on there.
00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:01.920
Uh, but then you start getting into the Pearl Jam, Nirvana, stuff like that.
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And at that point, everything shifted.
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:06.640
You still had some stuff from Rat.
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.960
I had a rat album, Slave to the Grind.
00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:10.720
Soundgarden came out in '91.
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Uh, Bad Motor Finger.
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So I would imagine Louder Than Love is probably 88.
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88.
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Let's look and see.
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Soundgarden.
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I'm just curious.
00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:24.559
89.
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So it was 89, you're right.
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:29.440
89, because they put out Ultra Mega OK in 88.
00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:30.079
Okay.
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:30.640
Okay.
00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:34.640
So yeah.
00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:40.559
This time frame, too, is when you got it, you know how when you get into college, too.
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:46.400
Uh, but I was still, yeah, I hung on to metal probably longer than most people did.
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:47.119
Right.
00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:55.359
I mean, I I distinctly remember buying that bang tango album the same day I bought Nine Inch Snails Broken, the Broken EP.
00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:59.039
Um, and that that's what everybody was buying.
00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:01.759
Everybody was buying the industrial stuff, the grunge stuff.
00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:04.880
And I'm like, yeah, I'm still gonna buy this stuff because I still like it.
00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:09.599
And and and it's the shame of it all is I mean, Psycho Cafe is awesome.
00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:11.519
Don't get me wrong, great debut album.
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:18.319
But I mean, I think production-wise, and the band was better on dancing on coals, they were just a better band.
00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:25.839
So um the the music might not have been as as straightforward, they were a little bit funkier.
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:29.519
So anywho, I'm just rambling, man.
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:30.799
I don't really have anything else.
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:41.119
So I'm just yeah, I got me thinking about all these years, but then you know, I got start getting into 90 91 and 92, and I start getting nostalgic for a different sound.
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:48.240
I got into a lot of dream pop and and shoe gay stuff, and that really that really helped me switch gears.
00:31:49.119 --> 00:32:00.960
But I was listening to everything, I was listening to anything from Izzy Stradlin and the Juju Hounds to Rocket from the Crypt to Stone Temple Pilots to Sugar, the Sundays, Riverside, REM.
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I was listening to all that stuff.
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And that's about the time right then, maybe the next year, I would say 90.
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I don't know.
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:35.920
I got into Grateful Dead, and from there I got into all the bands, like so Fish, Panic, Blues Traveler, probably Blues Traveler First, Fishman, like you got what Lawnbow was 90, Pictures of Nectar was 92, so right around there, I think 91, 92, I started diving deeper into like all of all of that as far as 90.
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So 90, 91.
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See, that's when I made that move, kind of started listening to a lot of that.
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So I was still listening to metal stuff, but I started listening to like kind of jammy stuff, but then you still had like the other bands you're talking about, like yet the grunge was going at the same time.
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So you're just listening to a lot of different stuff.
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I remember in college and like things coming out, like you know, when I don't know what year it was, probably 91, you know, like Iggy pop, brick by brick.
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I love that album, and then like stuff like that.
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You got all this kind of everything's everything's coming in there, you know.
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But yeah, yeah.
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When I start looking at 92 and 93, it really started to shift at that point.
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There's still a couple things that metal was kind of at that point phased out for me.
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There was a couple things, but like this is a band that I was so shocked when Kevin told me he knew about this band.
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We've talked about this years and years ago, probably when the first couple of episodes, but this band called Best Kissers in the World.
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Oh, uh, they had an EP called Pudding.
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And I that's the kind of stuff I was looking for because it was hard rocking, but it was edgy.
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You know, it was kind of punk, it was kind of hard rock, but it was alternative, it was edgy.
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I loved it.
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I loved that band.
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Um, but then I was listening to Blur.
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I discovered Blur that year with my rubbish.
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That was the first album.
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You started getting all that kind of like I think I was going like think about all that.
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Like, I think when I graduated, so like 92, 93, but then he had like all the stuff like that, like bands like Best Kissers in the World, Pursuit of Happiness, uh those bands like that, right in there.
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I mean, even that first, even that Google Dows album that we they superstar car wash, superstar car wash, man, right in there, all that kicked ass and all that, but then you also had like Veteran Ezra and bands like that, Buffalo Tom, Buffalo Tom, man.
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Buffalo Tom.
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Oh, definitely.
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Started getting into bands and artists like Ben Harper, John Hyatt was about that same time because I heard on another station, you know, those things like that.
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Yeah, you know, but then you also had the one, the band that kept it going, and the metal thing that kept it real and heavy as hell was Pantera was doing like Cowboys from Hell, Vulgar Display, probably I do everything that was like 90, 92, 94, you know.
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But yeah.
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And then I mean you had all kinds of stuff though.
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Like, think about Masters of Reality.
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It's another band that was releasing stuff that was was great.
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Google Dell uh Superstar Car Wash.
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I still will swear by that, I will die on that sword.
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I love that album.
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I was listening to John Spencer Blues Explosion, Grant Lee Buffalo, uh Drama Rama, Dinosaur Jr., Diggable Planets, Depeche Mode.
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I mean, there were some uh you know, some stragglers.
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Like I was listening to Gene Loves Jezebel.
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I saw Gene Loves Jezebel with Pursuit of Happiness, by the way, uh in 1990.
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That was awesome.
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James, uh, listen to Ton of Midnight Oil, Morphine, I mean, just all over the map.
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Red House Painters.
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I don't know.
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We're just spouting off bands at this point.
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Just naming names, and then uh you got me thinking about other bands that were like maybe I'll pick Half Redone the Year already, but start thinking of other underrated bands around that time.
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:00.880
But yeah.
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So yeah, I mean you started like, and that's like I think I look back and I think I was more diverse than I give my credit for, give myself credit for back in the 80s and early 90s, but then it definitely started getting more diverse then, like you know, college and then after, and then hell now, but you know, I don't think anything was off limits in the 90s.
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I think that's what was cool.
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I mean, I was listening to anything from you know slow dive to seaweed to quicksand to the the teenage fan club to Matthew Sweet to Trash Can Sinatras to Rush.
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I mean, I just look at that alone.
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It's like the late 80s, early 90s hip-hop stuff, too.
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We were still listening to you know, stuff like that.
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And even like now you're going back probably 88, 89, probably 88.
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You get into some of like the R V and stuff like that, or pop even, you know.
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I mean, I'm sorry, but you know, like rhythm nation was huge, and that was great.
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And then into that, you know, that and like I remember like listen, I remember my roommate had the Paul Abdul album, and that was probably 87, 88.
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You know, that you could still you could almost listen to that.
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You were you were okay, that was still okay, you know.
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But then we started in college, for some reason you started listening.
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Now I'm just totally bad.
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We started listening to certain bands he listened to in college.
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We were talking about this with my wife and other friends because it's like that, even though there were albums that came out years before, but we listened to Steve Miller all the time in college, came out years before then.
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:45.840
But you go into any party, you're bound to hear Steve Miller's greatest hits, right?
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Everybody, people in college listen to Steve Miller, listen to your favorite cat Stevens became popular for college kids for some reason.
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You know, then you had like everybody had Squeeze, that album, everybody had nice uh smithereens, what 11, right?
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Everybody had that.
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You went to every party, even though it wasn't what I don't know what it came out, but Upstairs at Eric's, yes, was playing all the time.
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Then you also hear the Rolling Stones Hot Rocks all the time.
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Not not like people weren't playing Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers, they were playing like the Greatest Hits Hot Rocks or whatever, that double, you know, stuff like that.
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But then you also, yeah, I don't know, you know, bands like everybody listened to at that time.
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I don't know, it was just interesting.
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It's an interesting time, but you're all over the place.
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But then I remember bands like you know, you start getting into like going to the bars and seeing college music, you start listening to like bands that are a little bit, oh, they're kind of a funky band, or like, oh, that's a steel drum band.
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You didn't care, you were just it was just cool being out listening to this new music, you know.
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So, yeah, yeah.
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I mean, it it really was.
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You felt like it felt like a sponge at that point because I was just yes, I was always uh if I was if I had any money, what little money I had I spent on just new stuff.
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I and I wanted as much diversity, uh as much as I wanted to hear you know, squeeze, because I had all that stuff.
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I had this the smithereens, I had the squeeze, I had the I had hot rocks, I had your your you know, ultimate experience from Jimi Hendrix, I had the doors, double, double greatest hits, the double best of all that stuff.
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But then somebody would turn you on to like super chunk, or somebody would turn you on to fish.
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I remember somebody gave me a copy of Rift, and I was like, Okay, cool, listen to that.
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And then I heard Grant Lee Buffalo for the first time, and I'm just like, I wanted it all, I wanted all these different sounds, and then you'd start hanging out with somebody else, and they'd listen to it.
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And it's like, man, I gotta go find that.
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And then you find out they were listening to Teenage Fan Club, or this person was listening to you know, pavement.
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Yeah, this other person's listening to who knows, Meat Puppets, Luscious Jackson, you know, stuff like that.
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It was it was awesome, right?
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It was just such a creature to me.
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I felt like it was a very creative time, and a lot of this stuff we mentioned too, first for a lot of these people, I don't think they realized all this stuff is played on the radio.
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All of it was played on the radio, right?
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All of it had a space, and a lot of times you can find all this stuff on the same station, and that was the cool thing.
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So I don't know.
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We'll uh we could we could keep going on and on, but yeah, we'll keep battling, but yeah, we'll we'll we'll we'll give you, we'll let you, we'll yeah, we won't subject you to that.
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All right.
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I love this.
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This is great.
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Uh definitely check out our album, 1989, the DOC.
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You gotta check that album out.
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It is an absolute hip hop classic.
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Uh check out some Torah Torah.
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Um, can't go wrong with that.
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This is what we have left, Kevin.
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So I'll go ahead and let's go back to our blanks here.
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We have looks like nine years left.
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We have 1970.
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Nine years, yes, 70, 88, 96, and 97, 2002 and 2007, 2019, 2020, and 2025 last year.
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That's all we have left.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So uh we'll be needing some uh needing some other topics.
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We need to we're gonna get on that.
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We promise to have something here probably queued up in the next uh couple of weeks, and we'll be preparing as we always are.
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Uh hey, tell us what you think about 1989 any out any year, actually.
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You can hit us up via email at schizomusicpod at gmail.com.
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Yep, hit us up.
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Let us know what you think.
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Uh, got any topics you want to talk about, any albums you want to talk about, any artists, festivals, whatever.
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Hit us up.
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We appreciate it.
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All right.
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Well, uh, we appreciate you listening in as always, and until next time, take care.
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Thank you.
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Take it easy.
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Schizophrenic Music is the signal syndicate production.
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Well, hello there, and welcome into the schizophrenic music podcast, aka schizo music pod.
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My name is Craig.
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I'm joined by Kevin.
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Hey.
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We don't mean to be.
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I, you know, of course, I mean, I'd like to apologize.
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We'd like to, but I'd definitely like to apologize.
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We've missed it.
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We've been a little sporadic.
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Been doing some traveling, tried to make it work, and then just I, you know, we didn't.
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It's both of us.
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Both of us have had kind of odd schedules and whatnot.
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Um, so we'll try to get back on that weekly schedule.
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Uh hope you understand.
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But in our normal tradition, we're gonna kick things off with a beverage.
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Jim, what you got?
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Well, I recently originally from Michigan, Battle Creek, Michigan, and I recently recently took a trip home.
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So I hit up what I believe one of the greatest grocery stores that I know of, and but it's called Horox, but they got a great beer selection, a lot of stuff.
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They have a lot of local stuff.
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So there I grabbed a few local brews while I was up there.
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And I have a crop duster Citra IPA from Grand Armory Brewing, which is out of I should know this.
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Where is it?
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Grand Haven, Michigan.
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So I'm on coast of Lake Michigan.
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So all right, Kevin.
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Well, I've been thinking about this for a long time.
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We need to have a talk.
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A pep talk.
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I got a pep, I got a pep talk from uh that was a bad joke.
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I have a pep talk from bearded iris.
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It is a crisp lager.
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Uh good stuff.
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Just crushable.
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So all right.
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Three, two, one.
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Gave me a little bit of an issue.
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That happened to me uh like two or three weeks ago.
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I opened up one and it had not been dropped or shaken or anything, but man, that thing went everywhere.
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I walked downstairs with it, but it wasn't like a I do like this can though, because it's got the black top, which is just kind of that's cool.
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Yeah, I like that I like the design.
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That's pretty cool.
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Have you heard the controversy now though?
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What's uh uh with people not liking uh people using AI for their bottle designs and whatnot.
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You can spot it.
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You can definitely tell.
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Yeah.
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AI doesn't have to be used for everything, people.
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We're not I'm not anti-AI.
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I'm not totally not I'm not totally anti-AI.
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I use it for work purposes, I use it for efficiency purposes, but you know, come on.
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Graphic designers do a great work.
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Their stuff can't be replicated with AI.
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Try it, believe me, it doesn't work.
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All right.
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Here we go, man.
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All right, once again, welcome into the Schizo Music Pod.
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Um, thank you so much for joining us.
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If you are new or if you are a longtime listener, we truly appreciate you.
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If you're a longtime listener, thanks for hanging in with us.
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You know what the the score is, you know what the deal is, what we've been doing over the last uh several months, really all through this year.
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And that is exploring overlooked, underrated, or both albums from 1960 to 2025.
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We are almost through with every year.
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I think at some point we need to probably post a list.
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Once we finish this thing up, we need to post a list of all of our options for each year.
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Uh, this year being 1989.
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So this week we're gonna cover the wonderful year of 1989.
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Um, and I have uh an either or either or for Kevin.
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Um so uh I'm gonna give Kevin the option.
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Do you want to do your album first?
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Me do our album first?
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Do you want to do either or?
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What say you, Kevin Glubke?
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I say we do the album first.
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Cool.
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And then go to either or is in that.
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All right, you ready for your album or you want me to go with mine?
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Oh, go ahead.
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All right.
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Uh 1989 was a wonderful, wonderful year.
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Um, I will say for me personally, this style of music was definitely more in my, I mean, some of my favorite albums in hard rock and metal came out in 1989.
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Kevin was into it a little bit earlier.
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He's a little bit older.
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Uh, so him, I bet his is his peak maybe 85, 86, somewhere in that range.
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Mine is like 87, 88, 89.
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I love all the stuff from 85, 86, don't get me wrong, but some of my favorite albums are from 89.
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Anyway, I digress.
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Um, this album is both overlooked and underrated.
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Allmusic gives it three out of five.
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I feel like that's extremely low.
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The reviewers, the the um listeners give it four out of five.
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But anyway, it is a lovely album from the band Tora Tora.
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So now I'm called Surprise Attack.
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It's their debut album.
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Um I love this band.
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I absolutely love this band.
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Um, it fits the era.
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It is hard rock, it is metal.
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I guess you could call it hair metal if you want to lump it in that, which is a dumb terminology.
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Uh, they kind of fit in that category, but they were a good bit bluesier.
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Uh, I think the only reason they would fit in that category is because of his voice.
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Band out of Memphis, Tennessee, man.
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They absolutely, absolutely kick kick ass.
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Um, just one of my favorite bands of the era.
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This is on AM, uh, so it was on a big label at the time.
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Um, every song on here is an absolute banger.
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I just I can't say more about them.
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They did have a couple of hits off of it.
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They had a song called Walking Shoes that was huge.
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Yes.
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Um, I think Guilty may have been released, and I know Phantom Rider.
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So every band back then had to have the ballad.
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Their ballad was Phantom Rider.
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I think it's one of my favorite ballads of that era because it they used a theme and ran with it.
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You know, it's really cool.
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Anyway, love this band.
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Uh, they they only put out two albums and then they had a uh a comeback album, an unfortunate comeback album, but a comeback album.
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They had an album in 1992 called Wild America.
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That I, you know, there are several bands like this, and I'm gonna talk about a couple of them later, um, that released debut albums in that 87, 88, 89 range, uh, and didn't really have much of a chance because by the time if you take two years to re-re-release uh or to release your sophomore album, you are entering into a whole new territory.
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The whole landscape of music changed.
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We all know this.
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91, 92, everything changed.
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This style of music was no longer in favor, but Wild America from 1992 is equally as good as this album, it really is.
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It's great.
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I don't think it's quite there.
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You know, three out of five, that's that's criminally underrated.
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I would give this four to maybe four and a half, and I would probably give Wild America four.
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Okay.
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Both excellent albums.
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I don't know the second, I don't know that Wild America as much as the surprise attack.
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It's great.
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I I when you listen to it, you could probably listen to them back to back.
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It's it's it's only slightly a little bit heavier, but in some aspects it's a little bit lighter.
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Um, it rocks, it absolutely rocks.
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Great, great band.
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So uh, and I I those songs were popular at the time, but nothing really carried over.
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Nobody talks about those guys anymore like they talk about some of the other more popular bands, right?
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And they had some hits.
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So anyway, tour tourists.
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Yep, that was big.
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I mean, it was definitely got play on like MTV and stuff like that.
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Yep.
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Or on the radio, whatever, you know.
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But yeah.
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Well, if you think about it too, it falls in line with your theme here recently of blues.
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Because do you remember the video?
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He's sitting there playing the guitar with a blues guy on the porch out in the middle of the desert.
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So cool.
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Uh, I still remember that video, and I just remember thinking, well, that's kind of cool.
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And that's what I liked about these guys.
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And I like I said, I'll talk about a couple of other bands.
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These guys have a very strong blues influence.
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It was Memphis, it's making the sea.
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That makes sense now.
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You think about being from Memphis.
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I guess that all that does kind of make a little sense, but yeah.
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Yep.
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How about you, ma'am?
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What was your album for 1989?
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All right.
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Well, I was looking through, and there's definitely a lot of good stuff.
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I was picking looking some stuff, and definitely there was some in there in that metal genre that I could have gone with.
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And there were some ones that I'm like, are they overlooked?
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Or you know, and I'm this not trying to be different, but I went with a totally different uh genre.
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I don't know if I've done this yet, but there was this album.
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I originally had this actually on cassette, right?
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But I guess right before I made that, you know, right before I made the switch there to I guess buying CDs.
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I bought this used, yep, probably.
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Uh and because there was a couple songs, and like this is really good.
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Not that but the album, I don't want to say it's definitely not underrated because it gets five stars on all music, so that's a pretty high you know, you don't ever think it gets five stars, and I don't want it definitely wasn't overlooked at the time because it made it was big for a second, right?
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But it's because of certain circumstances, I definitely think it is now forgotten.
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People don't remember this album, and definitely not this artist because there were some tragic things happening, but right, so this is in the this is in the hip-hop realm, and there was this excellent album called No One Can Do It Better by the DOC.
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Oh, yeah, man.
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And so DOC, you know, he kind of wasn't in NWA, but had the you know, Dre was producer, you know, he worked with worked with NDB, did some writing, things like that.
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But he released this album, and right after, I believe, right after release of this album, he was in a tragic car accident, which almost took his life, and then afterwards he could not rap like he used to, couldn't, I mean it took him a long time, recovery and things like that, so he could not do it anymore.
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But this album was excellent.
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I mean, it's some good stuff on it.
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He did end up like later on, Dre put him on like the chronic and stuff like that.
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He's still, you know, doing things, but because this was technically his, you know, that was the album, and then he had the car crash and wasn't able to go on, he didn't wasn't able to build upon this album and continue on.
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But the album, no one can do it better by the DLC, just excellent, excellent hip-hop album.
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If you'd like to totally agree.
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I I had this, I had this cassette.
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I had uh because there was and there were very few.
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I you know, I think I think I'm realizing that I was a lot more diverse back then because I told you the first couple of the first two CDs I bought um right were King's X, Gretchen Goes Nebraska, but it the other one was unfinished business.
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Uh why am I drawing totally drawing the mic?
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Um it's hilarious.
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But and it was so I bought a hip-hop album and I bought a hard rock heavy metal album.
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Um, I had this on cassette.
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I had um NWA.
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There were several things that I had like that that were in the same vein.
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But this was definitely a I mean it the last line says it all on all music.
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It says it's a shame that DOC never got the chance to do have a proper follow-up, but in no one can do it better, he at least had that one undeniable masterpiece.
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Yes.
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I mean, I that says a lot, but nobody talks about it.
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Was this on your list?
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This was on your list, didn't it?
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It had to have been on your list.
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The list you were doing of hip hop albums.
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This had to be on uh yeah, it was.
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I think, yeah.
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I can't remember where it fell on the list, but it was definitely was on there because I mean it's respected for sure, but I just don't think because he never had able to do the proper follow-up, he didn't, you know, it's kind of I want to say one hit wonder, but it's kind of like boom, we had that one big album that then didn't isn't remembered, you know, because he didn't follow up with anything else.
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EPMD was the band I was talking about, not Mob D, but EPMD.
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EPMD.
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It was unfinished business in 1989.
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I bought that with King's X.
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I know I was it's gonna drive me nuts if I didn't look it up, but um yeah, nice curveball because I was not expecting that.
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I was totally expecting metal, but uh for you in 1989, where you you were still pretty big into metal, right?
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Yeah, but it was uh I don't want to say I was falling out of it, but I was not paying because I was in college, so you start getting a little more influenced by some other stuff, you know.
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You start set yeah, hearing other stuff, and metal was kind of doing its, you know, we still liked it.
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When did you graduate high school?
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What year?
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88?
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88.
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Okay, that makes sense.
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Like for me, I graduated in '92, so ninety three was the big year for me to.
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I was already, and the thing is, I had already made that transition from metal to grunge, had all of that, and then I got into college, and then next thing you know, I'm listening to the dinosaur junior and you know, Sonic Youth and all that stuff, and a variety, a lot of punk and stuff too.
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So I totally get it.
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Um all right, before we get into a little bit more of a discussion here of that that transition, I'm gonna do an either or for you.
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Okay, this will be a quick one.
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This is next, this is uh album edition 1989.
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Kevin, are you ready?
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Certainly.
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Kevin, either or Badlands self-titled album or junkyard self-titled.
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I I saw I didn't know if you would go.
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I don't know if you I thought you might go with Badlands as your album, but I don't know if that was I don't know, overlooked, underrated, whatever, but I would have to go both of them are excellent albums, but I gotta go Badlands.
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Yeah, I agree.
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All right.
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Uh Kevin, either or Badlands or the cult, Sonic Temple.
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Ow.
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Those are so great but different, you know.
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Uh at the time, I wasn't quite yet really into the cult right then.
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So I'm gonna go Badlands still.
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Yeah, I still think Badlands is uh far better.
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I I like Sonic Temple a lot, don't get me wrong, but Electric and Love are so much better.
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Sonic Temple's great, don't get me wrong.
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Firewoman's on Sonic Temple, right?
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Yep, yeah, okay.
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And then that's when I started, yeah.
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Sweet Soul Asylum.
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There's some great songs on there.
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It is a great album, but it's uh Badlands is on a different level.
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Okay.
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Uh either or Badlands or Faster Pussycat Wake Me When It's Over.
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I already know the answer to this, but Badlands.
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Yeah, that's the only Faster Pussy Cow album I actually like.
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I did not like the debut.
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I hated the follow-up.
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I just I wasn't a big fan of them at the time.
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I appreciate them more now, but then it wasn't, they weren't just weren't my thing.
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All right, we're gonna get tougher now, and I think I know which direction you're going on this one, but we'll see.
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Kevin, either or Badland self-titled or Blue Murder self-titled.
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I have to go Blue Murder.
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I love that album.
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Oh, dude, that's like it's a great album.
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Jelly roll, and then just the big just the song Blue Murder.
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Yeah.
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With the drum intro, the way he no song that many songs start out drumming like that.
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Like it's like a big drum roll into a I don't know.
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You don't know it, go listen to the song Blue Murder.
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It absolutely kicks ass.
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All right.
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Or LA Guns Cocked and Loaded.
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I'm sleeping with Blue Murder.
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Cock and Loaded, great album.
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I'll go blue murder.
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Uh Blue Murder or Faith No More, the real thing.
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The real thing.
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Okay.
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I love that album when that came out.
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I do too.
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I think it gets better with time, too.
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That's it, it's the test of time.
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I love that album when it came out.
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I still love Angel Dust, but this is their best album.
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I know that everybody talks about Angel Dust and critically and how great it is and stuff like that, but I like the real thing.
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The real thing is like my it's yeah.
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That's I like them both equally, but I can admit that to me, cohesively, the real thing is just better.
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It just is.
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There's some great moments on both.
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Uh all right.
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Uh the Faith No More, the Real Thing, or Bang Tango Psycho Cafe.
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And I was looking at that too, and there was a question like, is that overlooked?
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It's well, that's an excellent album.
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I'm gonna stick with uh okay.
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Uh Fade No More, the Real Thing, or Vane, no Respect.
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That was the other one that I thought that could I almost went with No Respect because I don't think that gets the respect that it deserves because that was a great, like, you know, I don't say sleazy, but like raw.
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Such a great album.
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Good album.
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Good album.
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Vane, that is an excellent album, but I still have to go with uh I have to go with the real thing.
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All right.
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Uh Faith No More, the real thing, or Tesla's Great Radio Controversy.
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You know?
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That's real I I love Tesla.
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I prefer actually mechanical resonance over the great radio controversy.
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If you you're going Tesla, that's just me.
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Great, great album.
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But still, the real thing was like just I don't know, it just was a cool, special album.
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It was different at the time, too.
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You know, it just was yeah, completely.
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Yeah, all right.
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Uh Faith No More, last one.
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Faith No More The Real Thing, or King Z Gretchen Goes to Nebraska.
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You can you can you can stick with it, man.
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I get it, man.
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No, I gotta go Gretchen.
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That's I'm sorry.
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Gretchen goes to Nebraska.
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That could easily have been both of our albums because it's not overlooked in their eyes, it's definitely seen in it critically as their best album.
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Um, I still it's sentimentally always gonna be my favorite album, and I do think it is their best album.
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Um, they're just an overlooked band.
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Yep.
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Period.
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I'm telling you guys, we cannot sing the praises of King's X.
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I know we do this, it's a joke now because we talk about King's X, but they are criminally, criminally underrated.
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So respected, everyone likes.
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I mean, musicians, everybody talks about how great King's X is.
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Right.
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But in the normal, in the general public, yeah, they're not getting that.
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So of this list that I gave you these options, these 11 options, Badlands self-titled, LA Guns Cocked and Loaded, Um, Tesla's Great Radio Controversy, and King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska are five of my uh are in my top five all-time of this genre, all from 1989.
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That shows you, like for you, I I I imagine there's a good bit more stuff in the mid-80s, early to mid-80s that are gonna be in that top five.
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The other one would probably be maybe a cult electric, maybe lynch mob, weakened sensation.
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It's definitely been up there.
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Um, and then I could always put uh Master of Puppets up there.
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Amazing.
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But for me personally, these are also albums.
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If you think about it, these are all albums too that they got some success.
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Uh probably test Tesla, probably the most out of all of them.
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I mean, with Love Song and Right and uh No Way Out and stuff like that, probably had the biggest hits.
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Um, but LA Guns, all of them got radio play and stuff, but you know, Badlands, King's X, you know, they got play, but people don't talk about them.
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So it felt personal, it felt personal that those were my favorite albums.
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Um I was gonna say of this uh listening could I listen to a couple of things today.
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I shared uh with Kevin one of them.
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I was gonna share the uh tour tour, but I didn't want to give it away.
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Right.
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Uh I shared with him, I listened to Junkyard's second album, Sixes, Sevens, and Nines.
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It's a great album.
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Uh man, Junkyard was just a straightforward bluesy.
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I mean, they had as much Skinnered and ACDC, Skinner and ACDC influence as they had anything else.
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I mean, they were just it's crazy.
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They came from like minor threat hardcore bands like Dag Nat.
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Nasty and minor threat, like heavy.
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And all of a sudden, they formed the probably one of the most streamlined, kind of southern rock-infused hard rock bands back in the day.
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Um, don't get me wrong, I had a blast in college, and later it for me later in high school, exploring grunge and that whole scene.
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Oh, yeah.
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To me, the metal era, I don't know if there was ever more of a fun time in music.
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For me personally.
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I mean that was there was some good stuff going on that year or right around that, you know?
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I mean, I mean you had a lot of yeah.
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They also had like uh saying not a big fan, but dangerous toys, Tora Tora, Ellen Guns, and Tango gets that's definitely over they're they're overlooked for not you know for sure.
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Those two albums are are incredible, you know, the Psycho Circus and and Walking On, yeah.
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Excuse me.
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I mean Psycho Cafe and uh yeah and yeah, and then uh Dancing on Gold.
00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:21.359
Dancing on Gold, excuse me.
00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:22.640
I'm all I love that album.
00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:33.759
I mean, that's another thing I was gonna say is that you know the Tora Taurus follow-up album, Wild America, I put up there with, and I was looking it up, I didn't realize Cinderella's Heartbreak Station was like 1990.
00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:35.359
I thought it was a little bit later.
00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:41.519
Um, there's some latter day albums, like Extreme had one called Extreme Three.
00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:45.359
Um I still say that's their best album.
00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:50.160
I know it's not Tesla's best album, but I think Psychotic Supper is an excellent album.
00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:54.240
Uh to me, their last great record, even though Bust a Nut was good.
00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:59.440
Bust Nuts good, just a bad uh yeah, horrible album cover, horrible album title.
00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:02.640
Lest we forget about Slave to the Grind from 1991.
00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:05.039
That album is a just 91.
00:24:05.119 --> 00:24:06.480
That doesn't even feel like it was 91.
00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:07.359
Blistering.
00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:07.680
Yeah.
00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:16.400
So you look at 91 was really to me 90 and 91 was when I look at my catalog, it's like I'm starting to make that shift.
00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:25.119
This is really the early 90s is a plethora of just so many different genres, so many different styles, and it's all great.
00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:44.160
So I started in the early 90s making the shift more towards stuff like Urge Overkill and Afghan Will, right and Catherine Wheel, and I'm still listening to the beasties and black, I'm still listening to the black crows, but I'm listening to less hard rock and metal because it was being phased out at that point.
00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:45.039
Right, it was.
00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:53.440
I mean, it really was a lot of the stuff was put on pause, a lot of the uh bands uh and then the stuff that did come out like three sides to every story.
00:24:53.519 --> 00:25:00.079
Um I didn't recognize that until after I closed my store legitimately in 2007.
00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:06.720
I had all these CDs in a lock in in a storage facility waiting for to sell it.
00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:11.839
I was put it up on basically up for auction, and I was going through some of the stuff.
00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:19.519
Um, and I had just this metal section, and I was like, I'm just gonna, and so as I'm organizing stuff, I'm playing that CD.
00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:22.960
As I'm playing it, I'm like, holy crap, this album is great.
00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:25.119
This album is excellent.
00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:28.799
Uh I I remember sharing uh like screenshots and stuff with Kevin.
00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:30.799
I'm like, man, I don't know if you've listened to this.
00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:31.839
This is excellent.
00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:42.880
But then as you move down, it you know, I'm getting more into like helmet and then box and lemon heads, little village, Los Lobos, King's X is still in there.
00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:47.359
So but man, I I had so much fun collecting.
00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:52.079
I started collecting really cassettes in the metal era.
00:25:52.960 --> 00:26:02.559
I started collecting some cassettes about the time of my own, and it was all hard rock and metal, and it was just such a blast.
00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:06.480
That's when I took pride of check this out, you know.
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:12.799
It's a bygone era, and if you go back, like you get a chance, go to YouTube and just look up Headbanger's Ball.
00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:19.839
And because there's some there's some old school episodes that uh and and prepare yourself if they're grainy.
00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:22.319
It's so much fun, though.
00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:25.920
You can see how popular this style of music was.
00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.079
It was huge, it was massive.
00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:32.400
Um I I don't know, I had so much fun during that time.
00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:36.000
So anyway, I thought 1989 was a great year in general, though.
00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:42.079
I'm just going back, I'm just gonna scroll back up to 1989 just to give you.
00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:45.599
So you had that's 90.
00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:47.680
Uh let's go back.
00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:51.680
A classic, classic hip-hop album, the cactus album from third base.
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:53.599
That album is a masterpiece.
00:26:53.839 --> 00:27:04.000
Uh XTC's Orange and Oranges and Lemons, The The Mind Bomb, uh Stone Roses, Stone Roses, Masterpiece, Smithere's 11.
00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:06.319
Such a great album.
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:12.799
Uh Blood uh not blood sugar, Mother's Milk from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pixie's Doolittle.
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:17.759
Oh my god, Full Moon Fever from Tom Petty, The Ocean Blue, Ocean Blue.
00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:19.680
I mean, just some killer stuff.
00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:22.559
Bob Mold's Workbook, Mother Love Bone Apple.
00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:27.279
Sky Mining from Blue from Midnight Oil, love that band.
00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:31.359
Self-titled Love and Rockets, Lenny Kravitz Let Love Rule, love it.
00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:34.720
Uh Love is Hell from Kitchens of Distinction.
00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:37.759
Little Heart Shaped World from Chris Isaac.
00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:44.079
And there's just some great music that was released in this year that Lat Duo Jets.
00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.519
I don't know.
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:53.039
Anyways, I was starting like right then, because I was all those metal albums, loved all that metal, all the metal albums, even metal later than that.
00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:57.519
Like talking about Slade to the Grind and I mean like Guns N' Roses and Metallica and everybody.
00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:08.079
But that's also getting into some of like the at the time heavier stuff like Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, that was still going then.
00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:24.559
You know, uh, but then there was like a I don't know, I was leaning more towards, not more towards, but towards like the I don't know, classic rock type stuff that was out then, but then there was bands that were popular with that, like you just said let love rule.
00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:28.640
That was oh loved absolutely positively loved that album.
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:32.799
So I started moving towards things like that, yeah, as well.
00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:39.839
As then you're getting into some of the like you know then grunts or come right.
00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:42.240
Remember what year did louder than love come out?
00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:43.599
What year was that?
00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:49.359
Uh that had to be like 88, 87 or 88.
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.160
I don't know if I have that one, honestly.
00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:58.880
I I was uh I liked it at the time, but I have since gone back to it and I couldn't get into it.
00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:01.039
It was like a that was more of a metal album.
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:04.960
That was like kind of, I mean, it was pretty much definitely yeah.
00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:12.559
There's there's other stuff though that I was listening to, like just going back through, you know, Voodoo Highway from Badlands came out in '91.
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:14.960
Dancing on Coles from Bang Tango.
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:17.519
Once again, Bullet Boys put out one called Freak Show.
00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:19.200
That's an underrated one.
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:23.759
Um, I know you're not a huge fan of them, but I think this is their best album.
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.240
Enough's Enough put out an album called Strength.
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:27.200
Love that album.
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.039
Both your G and R uh Use Your Illusion albums came out.
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:40.079
So there was still the Junkyard album I was talking about earlier: Sixes, Sevens, and Nines, Kicks, Hot Wire, Um, LA Gunn's Hollywood Vampires.
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.240
Then you got Lindy Kravitz, Mama Set.
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:43.519
God, I love Mama.
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:46.000
Mama said's probably my favorite.
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:48.000
That and Let La Roll rule.
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:50.160
And um Are You Gonna Go My Way?
00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:51.359
That's a killer album.
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:52.799
I don't care what anybody says.
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:54.960
Oh, there's some killer stuff on that.
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.680
One of my favorite songs from him is Eulotheria.
00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:58.559
That's on there.
00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:01.920
Uh, but then you start getting into the Pearl Jam, Nirvana, stuff like that.
00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.640
And at that point, everything shifted.
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:06.640
You still had some stuff from Rat.
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.960
I had a rat album, Slave to the Grind.
00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:10.720
Soundgarden came out in '91.
00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:12.160
Uh, Bad Motor Finger.
00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:16.160
So I would imagine Louder Than Love is probably 88.
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:17.200
88.
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:19.039
Let's look and see.
00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:21.359
Soundgarden.
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:23.039
I'm just curious.
00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:24.559
89.
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:26.400
So it was 89, you're right.
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:29.440
89, because they put out Ultra Mega OK in 88.
00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:30.079
Okay.
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:30.640
Okay.
00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:34.640
So yeah.
00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:40.559
This time frame, too, is when you got it, you know how when you get into college, too.
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:46.400
Uh, but I was still, yeah, I hung on to metal probably longer than most people did.
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:47.119
Right.
00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:55.359
I mean, I I distinctly remember buying that bang tango album the same day I bought Nine Inch Snails Broken, the Broken EP.
00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:59.039
Um, and that that's what everybody was buying.
00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:01.759
Everybody was buying the industrial stuff, the grunge stuff.
00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:04.880
And I'm like, yeah, I'm still gonna buy this stuff because I still like it.
00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:09.599
And and and it's the shame of it all is I mean, Psycho Cafe is awesome.
00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:11.519
Don't get me wrong, great debut album.
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:18.319
But I mean, I think production-wise, and the band was better on dancing on coals, they were just a better band.
00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:25.839
So um the the music might not have been as as straightforward, they were a little bit funkier.
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:29.519
So anywho, I'm just rambling, man.
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:30.799
I don't really have anything else.
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:41.119
So I'm just yeah, I got me thinking about all these years, but then you know, I got start getting into 90 91 and 92, and I start getting nostalgic for a different sound.
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:48.240
I got into a lot of dream pop and and shoe gay stuff, and that really that really helped me switch gears.
00:31:49.119 --> 00:32:00.960
But I was listening to everything, I was listening to anything from Izzy Stradlin and the Juju Hounds to Rocket from the Crypt to Stone Temple Pilots to Sugar, the Sundays, Riverside, REM.
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:02.000
I was listening to all that stuff.
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:06.880
And that's about the time right then, maybe the next year, I would say 90.
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:07.519
I don't know.
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:35.920
I got into Grateful Dead, and from there I got into all the bands, like so Fish, Panic, Blues Traveler, probably Blues Traveler First, Fishman, like you got what Lawnbow was 90, Pictures of Nectar was 92, so right around there, I think 91, 92, I started diving deeper into like all of all of that as far as 90.
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:37.599
So 90, 91.
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:40.640
See, that's when I made that move, kind of started listening to a lot of that.
00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:51.519
So I was still listening to metal stuff, but I started listening to like kind of jammy stuff, but then you still had like the other bands you're talking about, like yet the grunge was going at the same time.
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:53.680
So you're just listening to a lot of different stuff.
00:32:53.839 --> 00:33:02.720
I remember in college and like things coming out, like you know, when I don't know what year it was, probably 91, you know, like Iggy pop, brick by brick.
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:05.119
I love that album, and then like stuff like that.
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:09.440
You got all this kind of everything's everything's coming in there, you know.
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:10.960
But yeah, yeah.
00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:14.960
When I start looking at 92 and 93, it really started to shift at that point.
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:21.519
There's still a couple things that metal was kind of at that point phased out for me.
00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:27.359
There was a couple things, but like this is a band that I was so shocked when Kevin told me he knew about this band.
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:34.880
We've talked about this years and years ago, probably when the first couple of episodes, but this band called Best Kissers in the World.
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:38.559
Oh, uh, they had an EP called Pudding.
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:45.599
And I that's the kind of stuff I was looking for because it was hard rocking, but it was edgy.
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:51.920
You know, it was kind of punk, it was kind of hard rock, but it was alternative, it was edgy.
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:52.960
I loved it.
00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:54.160
I loved that band.
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:56.240
Um, but then I was listening to Blur.
00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:58.559
I discovered Blur that year with my rubbish.
00:33:58.640 --> 00:33:59.279
That was the first album.
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:02.480
You started getting all that kind of like I think I was going like think about all that.
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:16.880
Like, I think when I graduated, so like 92, 93, but then he had like all the stuff like that, like bands like Best Kissers in the World, Pursuit of Happiness, uh those bands like that, right in there.
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:35.039
I mean, even that first, even that Google Dows album that we they superstar car wash, superstar car wash, man, right in there, all that kicked ass and all that, but then you also had like Veteran Ezra and bands like that, Buffalo Tom, Buffalo Tom, man.
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:36.000
Buffalo Tom.
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:36.719
Oh, definitely.
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:47.360
Started getting into bands and artists like Ben Harper, John Hyatt was about that same time because I heard on another station, you know, those things like that.
00:34:47.760 --> 00:35:04.800
Yeah, you know, but then you also had the one, the band that kept it going, and the metal thing that kept it real and heavy as hell was Pantera was doing like Cowboys from Hell, Vulgar Display, probably I do everything that was like 90, 92, 94, you know.
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:06.719
But yeah.
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:09.199
And then I mean you had all kinds of stuff though.
00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:11.280
Like, think about Masters of Reality.
00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:14.320
It's another band that was releasing stuff that was was great.
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:17.039
Google Dell uh Superstar Car Wash.
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:20.480
I still will swear by that, I will die on that sword.
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:21.119
I love that album.
00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:30.320
I was listening to John Spencer Blues Explosion, Grant Lee Buffalo, uh Drama Rama, Dinosaur Jr., Diggable Planets, Depeche Mode.
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:33.440
I mean, there were some uh you know, some stragglers.
00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:35.280
Like I was listening to Gene Loves Jezebel.
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:39.920
I saw Gene Loves Jezebel with Pursuit of Happiness, by the way, uh in 1990.
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:40.639
That was awesome.
00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:47.119
James, uh, listen to Ton of Midnight Oil, Morphine, I mean, just all over the map.
00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:48.639
Red House Painters.
00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:49.039
I don't know.
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:50.719
We're just spouting off bands at this point.
00:35:50.880 --> 00:36:00.239
Just naming names, and then uh you got me thinking about other bands that were like maybe I'll pick Half Redone the Year already, but start thinking of other underrated bands around that time.
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:00.880
But yeah.
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:24.159
So yeah, I mean you started like, and that's like I think I look back and I think I was more diverse than I give my credit for, give myself credit for back in the 80s and early 90s, but then it definitely started getting more diverse then, like you know, college and then after, and then hell now, but you know, I don't think anything was off limits in the 90s.
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:25.440
I think that's what was cool.
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:37.679
I mean, I was listening to anything from you know slow dive to seaweed to quicksand to the the teenage fan club to Matthew Sweet to Trash Can Sinatras to Rush.
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:39.599
I mean, I just look at that alone.
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:43.280
It's like the late 80s, early 90s hip-hop stuff, too.
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:45.599
We were still listening to you know, stuff like that.
00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:51.840
And even like now you're going back probably 88, 89, probably 88.
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:56.880
You get into some of like the R V and stuff like that, or pop even, you know.
00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:02.239
I mean, I'm sorry, but you know, like rhythm nation was huge, and that was great.
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:10.719
And then into that, you know, that and like I remember like listen, I remember my roommate had the Paul Abdul album, and that was probably 87, 88.
00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:13.920
You know, that you could still you could almost listen to that.
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.239
You were you were okay, that was still okay, you know.
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:20.800
But then we started in college, for some reason you started listening.
00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:21.760
Now I'm just totally bad.
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:24.000
We started listening to certain bands he listened to in college.
00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:40.079
We were talking about this with my wife and other friends because it's like that, even though there were albums that came out years before, but we listened to Steve Miller all the time in college, came out years before then.
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:45.840
But you go into any party, you're bound to hear Steve Miller's greatest hits, right?
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:53.519
Everybody, people in college listen to Steve Miller, listen to your favorite cat Stevens became popular for college kids for some reason.
00:37:53.599 --> 00:38:02.559
You know, then you had like everybody had Squeeze, that album, everybody had nice uh smithereens, what 11, right?
00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:04.000
Everybody had that.
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:10.320
You went to every party, even though it wasn't what I don't know what it came out, but Upstairs at Eric's, yes, was playing all the time.
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:14.400
Then you also hear the Rolling Stones Hot Rocks all the time.
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:25.280
Not not like people weren't playing Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers, they were playing like the Greatest Hits Hot Rocks or whatever, that double, you know, stuff like that.
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:32.159
But then you also, yeah, I don't know, you know, bands like everybody listened to at that time.
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:33.679
I don't know, it was just interesting.
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:35.920
It's an interesting time, but you're all over the place.
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:47.199
But then I remember bands like you know, you start getting into like going to the bars and seeing college music, you start listening to like bands that are a little bit, oh, they're kind of a funky band, or like, oh, that's a steel drum band.
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:52.320
You didn't care, you were just it was just cool being out listening to this new music, you know.
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:53.679
So, yeah, yeah.
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:55.280
I mean, it it really was.
00:38:55.440 --> 00:39:06.079
You felt like it felt like a sponge at that point because I was just yes, I was always uh if I was if I had any money, what little money I had I spent on just new stuff.
00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:13.519
I and I wanted as much diversity, uh as much as I wanted to hear you know, squeeze, because I had all that stuff.
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:25.360
I had this the smithereens, I had the squeeze, I had the I had hot rocks, I had your your you know, ultimate experience from Jimi Hendrix, I had the doors, double, double greatest hits, the double best of all that stuff.
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:30.000
But then somebody would turn you on to like super chunk, or somebody would turn you on to fish.
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:33.679
I remember somebody gave me a copy of Rift, and I was like, Okay, cool, listen to that.
00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:43.199
And then I heard Grant Lee Buffalo for the first time, and I'm just like, I wanted it all, I wanted all these different sounds, and then you'd start hanging out with somebody else, and they'd listen to it.
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:44.639
And it's like, man, I gotta go find that.
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:50.559
And then you find out they were listening to Teenage Fan Club, or this person was listening to you know, pavement.
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:57.039
Yeah, this other person's listening to who knows, Meat Puppets, Luscious Jackson, you know, stuff like that.
00:39:57.199 --> 00:39:59.280
It was it was awesome, right?
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:00.719
It was just such a creature to me.
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:09.039
I felt like it was a very creative time, and a lot of this stuff we mentioned too, first for a lot of these people, I don't think they realized all this stuff is played on the radio.
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:11.119
All of it was played on the radio, right?
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:17.840
All of it had a space, and a lot of times you can find all this stuff on the same station, and that was the cool thing.
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So I don't know.
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We'll uh we could we could keep going on and on, but yeah, we'll keep battling, but yeah, we'll we'll we'll we'll give you, we'll let you, we'll yeah, we won't subject you to that.
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All right.
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I love this.
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This is great.
00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:39.519
Uh definitely check out our album, 1989, the DOC.
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:41.280
You gotta check that album out.
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It is an absolute hip hop classic.
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Uh check out some Torah Torah.
00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:49.039
Um, can't go wrong with that.
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This is what we have left, Kevin.
00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:53.840
So I'll go ahead and let's go back to our blanks here.
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:58.079
We have looks like nine years left.
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We have 1970.
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Nine years, yes, 70, 88, 96, and 97, 2002 and 2007, 2019, 2020, and 2025 last year.
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That's all we have left.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:17.440
So uh we'll be needing some uh needing some other topics.
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:18.880
We need to we're gonna get on that.
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We promise to have something here probably queued up in the next uh couple of weeks, and we'll be preparing as we always are.
00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:29.440
Uh hey, tell us what you think about 1989 any out any year, actually.
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You can hit us up via email at schizomusicpod at gmail.com.
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:37.920
Yep, hit us up.
00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:39.199
Let us know what you think.
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:46.159
Uh, got any topics you want to talk about, any albums you want to talk about, any artists, festivals, whatever.
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:47.039
Hit us up.
00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:47.920
We appreciate it.
00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:48.559
All right.
00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:52.719
Well, uh, we appreciate you listening in as always, and until next time, take care.
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:53.360
Thank you.
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Take it easy.
