Full Transcript for Mixtape Rewind: New Beats & Fresh Finds - October 2022 Recap

really good, like just it sounds good. 00:04:26.612 --> 00:04:33.386 But I'm always just blown away by how great a songwriter she is and how her turn of phrase is just so well done. 00:04:33.386 --> 00:04:44.483 And this song is a great example of that and and I also with this one in particular, I could hear just I don't know, 52 different dance remixes being done of this one pretty easily. 00:04:44.685 --> 00:04:48.012 So, uh, you're gonna hear hear this in the club, I think as well. 00:04:48.012 --> 00:04:49.987 But yeah, I mean just a great pick. 00:04:49.987 --> 00:04:57.490 But I think you could have picked a number of songs from this album that I was like, man, that's really good, that's really good, that's really well done. 00:04:57.490 --> 00:05:09.372 So not that she needs the praise from me Everybody loves her but as someone who, admittedly, is not in the demographic, I do admire the way she's able to put together a song. 00:05:09.372 --> 00:05:10.173 It's really impressive. 00:05:11.574 --> 00:05:13.156 Awesome, all right. 00:05:13.156 --> 00:05:18.507 Well, let's go to your first pick, track two on the mix, and it is Mountain Song by Flatland Cavalry. 00:05:19.730 --> 00:05:19.971 Okay. 00:05:19.971 --> 00:05:21.286 So, Sam, my first question. 00:05:21.286 --> 00:05:26.632 I predicted you would not care for this song, so I'm just going to come out and ask did you like this song? 00:05:27.321 --> 00:05:28.706 I actually really did like it. 00:05:28.706 --> 00:05:32.571 I think it's more folksy than country which is maybe why I liked it. 00:05:32.571 --> 00:05:35.970 I kind of tend to lean that way on that spectrum, you know. 00:05:35.970 --> 00:05:39.307 So, flatland, Calvary. 00:05:39.348 --> 00:05:43.007 They have a new album out and I really enjoyed the whole thing. 00:05:43.007 --> 00:05:50.831 But there were definitely a few tracks on there that were very country sounding, that I'm like, oh, samer's gonna, he's gonna hate this, right. 00:05:50.831 --> 00:05:55.690 Maybe I was just in that mode, but I was like I want to pick a song from this, so I picked this one. 00:05:55.690 --> 00:06:00.790 I think it's the lead track and I just thought it was awesome just the way they wrote it. 00:06:00.790 --> 00:06:02.966 You're right, it sounds a little more folksy. 00:06:02.966 --> 00:06:31.302 He's just looking out into nature and really just really appreciating it, and I think if you've ever been out in the middle of nowhere and just taking a look around, taking in the silence and just the beauty of what's around you, I think this song is perfect for that, and so I think it's just really well written, really well sung and, again, the whole album's worth checking out, but it's definitely much has a much stronger country tone than this opening track. 00:06:31.322 --> 00:06:35.064 Yes, it exactly reminded me that, you know, of being for me. 00:06:35.064 --> 00:06:39.528 I always just think about the time I went camping in Colorado and just being out on the side of the mountain. 00:06:39.528 --> 00:06:43.512 It's just absolutely gorgeous, and I think he does exactly that. 00:06:43.512 --> 00:06:48.656 He paints a really nice picture of being out in the country, being by the mountains, you know, I just. 00:06:48.656 --> 00:06:56.403 He also mentions a bottle of Blanton, which is one of my favorite bourbons. 00:06:56.403 --> 00:06:57.427 It's a really good bottle of bourbon. 00:06:57.427 --> 00:07:00.000 I haven't had one in a really long time, but that was always a go-to of mine in business school. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:01.742 It's really good. 00:07:01.742 --> 00:07:07.603 So I loved that little nod to, to that, um, you know, cause it's like, yeah, it's uh. 00:07:07.603 --> 00:07:14.571 That just adds to the perceived warmth you know of, of being out in a campfire often, um often, people drink in camp. 00:07:14.571 --> 00:07:17.100 I think that that those two things have a lot of overlap. 00:07:17.100 --> 00:07:18.201 That Venn diagram. 00:07:18.422 --> 00:07:20.425 There is a lot of overlap there. 00:07:20.725 --> 00:07:24.011 Yes, but yeah, it's a really beautiful song and it is's. 00:07:24.011 --> 00:07:27.422 Yeah, like I said, it falls more folksy for me and I don't know. 00:07:27.422 --> 00:07:28.646 I was just comforted by it. 00:07:28.646 --> 00:07:30.964 Oddly enough, I was comforted by this song. 00:07:33.250 --> 00:07:36.201 Nice, All right, your next pick you go with. 00:07:36.201 --> 00:07:43.675 We take a very hard right turn from folksy to Unholy by Sam Smith and Kim Petras. 00:07:45.500 --> 00:07:50.091 Yes, I wrote here, this is a completely different song from your pick. 00:07:50.091 --> 00:07:55.803 I mean, I said I couldn't think of a more opposite direction than what I just listened to. 00:07:55.803 --> 00:08:19.927 To come to this song, you go from the wholesomeness of nature and camping and that sound to what Sam smith and kim petras have put together on this one, which is like all about a guy, like visiting a, I think basically a sex club, based off of the music video and the lyrics yeah, it's less comforting, I would say, than the previous track far less comforting. 00:08:20.048 --> 00:08:22.353 It's such an imposing like sound. 00:08:22.353 --> 00:08:30.233 I think that they do such a good job of putting together this track where the lyrics really do match the sound. 00:08:30.233 --> 00:08:31.605 It's like menacing in a way. 00:08:31.605 --> 00:08:33.827 Like you know, this guy is up to no good. 00:08:33.827 --> 00:08:40.214 He's literally doing something unholy which is such a great adjective you know to describe kind of these acts. 00:08:40.214 --> 00:08:44.360 Like you immediately, your mind immediately jumps to all these like perverse you know acts and everything. 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:48.991 And like he's cheating on his wife, he's left his kids behind, all this kind of stuff. 00:08:48.991 --> 00:08:50.804 Um, the music video is really fun it's.

00:08:50.804 --> 00:08:53.731 It's very like out there and very carnival-esque in a way. 00:08:53.731 --> 00:08:57.514 Um, so you should check that out if you're, if you're curious. 00:08:57.514 --> 00:09:12.610 Um, you know, this is one of those music videos where it's not even it's I don't even think it's that controversial today like again, you know we talked about tame music videos back in the day yes but I think if you played this back in the day, like, let's say, like in the 70s or 80s or even earlier, people's minds would be blown. 00:09:12.649 --> 00:09:23.067 But today we're like yeah, that's cool, that looks great yeah, you think about something like madonna's justify my love, right, which was a really controversial song and video and all of that. 00:09:23.067 --> 00:09:57.264 And then I mean this is like a level up from that really right, and I thought it was impressive because it's so different than what I have in my mind for Sam Smith, and so it was interesting reading about this song because he said it was like a very freeing experience like recording the song, and I could see that because, again, I'm kind of used to him writing sort of the he's got an amazing voice and just sort of the slower kind of love song type things where he really shows off his range, and so this was kind of impressive to put this, something like this together. 00:09:57.264 --> 00:09:59.691 That was just so very different than what I'm used to. 00:09:59.691 --> 00:10:03.083 So, but I love the word you used imposing. 00:10:03.083 --> 00:10:03.465 I was like. 00:10:03.465 --> 00:10:05.830 I was like that's a good way to describe the beat here. 00:10:06.731 --> 00:10:07.953 Yeah, no, it's really good. 00:10:07.953 --> 00:10:11.980 He or, excuse me, I actually believe his preferred pronouns, are they so? 00:10:11.980 --> 00:10:14.730 They were saying in an yeah all good, all good. 00:10:14.730 --> 00:10:21.086 They were saying in an interview with Zane Lowe that I was watching he talked, or they talked about that like feeling free. 00:10:26.024 --> 00:10:28.331 They recorded it in Jamaica, which is a pretty cool place to go and put together. 00:10:28.351 --> 00:10:37.232 You know a single and it's hard not to feel free when you're in jamaica, I agree but, yes, a great song overall, and one that I've had on repeat for quite some time now. 00:10:37.232 --> 00:10:40.024 But let's move forward to track four. 00:10:40.024 --> 00:10:43.091 Uh, your next pick, and it is francesca Weezer. 00:10:44.075 --> 00:10:46.581 Yeah, we had to check back in with our friends Weezer. 00:10:46.581 --> 00:10:50.909 They've been doing the season EPs all year long, you know. 00:10:50.909 --> 00:11:09.788 So they did spring, summer, fall and winter and this one's off the fall album and you know we joke about the Weezer filter being put on everything, so it sounds just like Weezer, right, but I've really enjoyed all the work they've put out this year on these little EPs that they've been

doing. 00:11:09.788 --> 00:11:28.293 This one's really cool because Rivers Cuomo decided to write a song from the perspective of Napoleon writing to Josephine and thinking about how maybe they've they've kind of, you know, lost this, uh, this paradise that they were trying to build up. 00:11:28.293 --> 00:11:33.466 And it's really kind of funny when you think about that and listen to the song as it is. 00:11:33.466 --> 00:11:40.870 It's just a really enjoyable kind of love song and, yeah, definitely worth a listen, but just a classic Weezer track. 00:11:42.054 --> 00:11:42.316 It is. 00:11:42.316 --> 00:11:44.091 It is definitely a classic Weezer track. 00:11:44.091 --> 00:11:44.933 It has that sound. 00:11:44.933 --> 00:11:49.928 I was laughing whenever I discovered that it is quite literally written about as you said, napoleon and. 00:11:49.948 --> 00:11:56.432 Josephine, because you know, at first pass like hearing the words Waterloo in a song. 00:11:56.432 --> 00:11:59.566 Like we use Waterloo, as you know, like a metaphor for like a disaster and something going wrong. 00:11:59.566 --> 00:12:04.885 So I thought like, oh yeah, you know like he could just be writing about a metaphor of Waterloo. 00:12:04.885 --> 00:12:10.634 But it's like nope, it's quite literally that and that's why the song also has like little French words thrown in. 00:12:10.674 --> 00:12:11.056 Yeah. 00:12:11.115 --> 00:12:16.833 I love the lines like I'm literally dying victim of a coup, Like it's quite, it's quite literally about Napoleon. 00:12:16.833 --> 00:12:21.816 So I love that. 00:12:21.816 --> 00:12:24.913 I don't know why it's on the autumn mix for them. 00:12:24.913 --> 00:12:28.855 I'm curious about why they chose that, to go on the autumn mix. 00:12:28.875 --> 00:12:29.176 Yeah. 00:12:29.465 --> 00:12:29.953 I'm not sure, you know. 00:12:29.953 --> 00:12:30.875 Maybe it's like autumn is a time to go on the autumn mix? 00:12:30.832 --> 00:12:31.518 yeah, I'm not sure you know. 00:12:31.475 --> 00:12:34.673 Maybe it's like autumn is a time to reflect on your life, or something uh, perhaps. 00:12:35.196 --> 00:12:43.333 Yeah, I think it'd be interesting when all four come out to kind of put them next to each other to see how they how they are different or the same, or or kind of follow the seasons. 00:12:43.333 --> 00:12:47.586 I think that'll be really fun yeah, absolutely all right, your next pick. 00:12:47.586 --> 00:12:50.148 You went with liftoff by Labyrinth. 00:12:51.528 --> 00:12:51.708 Yeah. 00:12:51.708 --> 00:12:56.754 So this is coming off of a new album coming out soon by Labyrinth called Ends and Begins. 00:12:56.754 --> 00:13:05.761 I think, funny enough, this song is featured in a Cadillac commercial, which is how I was first introduced to it and started digging around and was like, oh right, he does have new music coming out. 00:13:05.761 --> 00:13:22.519 So Labyrinth, as I've mentioned before in the show, was introduced to me through the show

Euphoria and, like I think all of his tracks have kind of this sound Always does like a great job of kind of mixing in, in this case like an organ element to it which again makes it just sound very large and looming. 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:25.308 You get the sense of like a liftoff coming soon. 00:13:25.308 --> 00:13:29.174 I think it also works really well like with Interstellar and the music. 00:13:29.174 --> 00:13:33.181 You know the soundtrack to Interstellar by why am I blinking? 00:13:33.181 --> 00:13:33.542 I love it. 00:13:33.542 --> 00:13:34.322 Is it Zimmer? 00:13:34.322 --> 00:13:35.203 Hans Zimmer, I believe. 00:13:35.225 --> 00:13:35.485 Yeah, yeah. 00:13:36.548 --> 00:13:40.336 Yeah, and how much he just slams on the organ. 00:13:40.336 --> 00:13:42.813 It's as if someone's just falling on top of an organ. 00:13:42.813 --> 00:13:47.996 It's some of those tracks which now we just liken to space, I guess. 00:13:47.996 --> 00:13:49.366 So I really like that song. 00:13:49.366 --> 00:13:56.217 I'm just more excited that there's new music coming out from Labyrinth and curious to hear the full album whenever it comes out. 00:14:01.705 --> 00:14:03.309 So I haven't watched the show Euphoria, so I'm not as familiar with his music. 00:14:03.309 --> 00:14:07.081 And when I was listening to this I kept thinking does this guy have sort of a Latin background or influence? 00:14:07.081 --> 00:14:12.697 There was a little bit of a Latin feel to this song song I felt like and uh, turns out I was completely wrong. 00:14:12.697 --> 00:14:19.212 Um, but I still enjoyed the track, like it wasn't a negative thing, but it was just interesting like the way I heard it. 00:14:19.212 --> 00:14:25.926 And then when I kind of dug in and did some research I was like, oh okay, maybe I was mishearing that, but either way, um, it's a great song. 00:14:25.926 --> 00:14:27.148 I totally with you. 00:14:27.148 --> 00:14:39.153 Um, he also mentions there's a mention in here of King T'Challa from Black Panther, which is appropriate because the new Black Panther movie is coming out, or actually may be out by the time this recording is released. 00:14:39.916 --> 00:14:43.533 Right, yes, I know, and I was really tempted to put the new Rihanna song on there. 00:14:43.533 --> 00:14:45.750 Speaking of Black Panther, I thought about that too. 00:14:45.750 --> 00:14:50.427 Yes, yeah, so a notable mention here of the new Rihanna song. 00:14:50.427 --> 00:14:52.888 Be sure to listen to that if you haven't already heard it. 00:14:52.888 --> 00:15:02.952 But in the meantime, let's move on to your next pick, track six, and it is I'm In Love With you by the 1975. 00:15:02.993 --> 00:15:08.815 They've been around for 20 years, which I was shocked to read. 00:15:08.815 --> 00:15:12.017 I was like, wait a minute, I feel like they just are brand new. 00:15:12.017 --> 00:15:16.599 But they've been around for a while and I've never dug into their music. 00:15:16.599 --> 00:15:19.700 So they had a new album come out and I love the title of it. 00:15:19.700 --> 00:15:38.533 It's called being Funny in a Foreign Language, which I think is just a great album title and I decided to dig into it and I was like these guys are great and it turns out they're in that British pop genre that I normally love. 00:15:38.533 --> 00:15:39.957 So I'm like, okay, this is, this is great, this is right up my alley. 00:15:39.957 --> 00:15:40.480 But, um, I picked this one. 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:42.586 It's just I mean there's not a whole lot to the lyrics beyond like I'm in love with you. 00:15:42.586 --> 00:15:55.149 I mean it's a really simple poppy love song, but I just thought it was really good and I'm kind of looking forward now to dig into more of their back catalog because it turns out they've got 20 years of music that I've completely ignored up to this point. 00:15:57.046 --> 00:16:00.288 I'm so glad that that was your experience too, because that's exactly mine. 00:16:00.288 --> 00:16:03.865 I wrote, like you know, and I was thinking about it in 1975 as a band. 00:16:03.865 --> 00:16:15.533 I feel that I completely missed the boat on and now I need to catch up to their sound Because, yeah, I hear a lot about them but, for whatever reason, I've just never sat down to like really listen to them. 00:16:15.533 --> 00:16:17.211 I really enjoyed this song. 00:16:17.211 --> 00:16:18.073 It's interesting. 00:16:18.073 --> 00:16:22.273 I couldn't place it if it sounded more 80s or like 90s boy band-ish. 00:16:22.273 --> 00:16:27.769 I think that the topic of the song is why it kind of has that light and pop-ish and like joyful sound. 00:16:27.769 --> 00:16:32.908 But you're right, it is like a very nice, pleasant song. 00:16:32.908 --> 00:16:35.879 I really enjoyed listening to it and I would love to get more into the 1975 we. 00:16:36.321 --> 00:16:50.292 We might need to have someone put together an intro to them for us, yes, so that we can uh dig in and kind of understand their, their 20 years of music a little bit better yeah, we need a 1975 super fan to come out. 00:16:50.511 --> 00:16:53.054 But yeah, I agree with you, I felt it was more 80s. 00:16:53.054 --> 00:16:57.600 I was like these guys are called the 1975, but this sounds straight out of 1985. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:06.895 Yes, all right, well, they sounded more 80s, but this band, of course, everyone knows from the 90s, but they've got new music. 00:17:06.895 --> 00:17:12.747 This is Beguiled by Smashing Pumpkins got new music. 00:17:12.767 --> 00:17:13.751 This is beguiled by smashing pumpkins. 00:17:13.751 --> 00:17:15.358 Yeah, again, like a completely different turn from the previous song. 00:17:15.358 --> 00:17:16.444 Uh, it's funny how we kind of whiplash on this mix. 00:17:16.444 --> 00:17:27.530 But smashing pumpkins has a new album coming out, um called atum atum, and this is just like that super hard rock sound that I love. 00:17:27.530 --> 00:17:28.534 From smashing

pumpkins. 00:17:28.534 --> 00:17:33.070 Like it is, you know, they're kind of going back to that very grungy hard rock rock sound here. 00:17:33.070 --> 00:17:35.616 I'm very excited that they're making new music. 00:17:36.357 --> 00:17:43.308 I think you know the lyrics in this song in particular kind of remind me of some of A Perfect Circle's, like heavier rock music. 00:17:43.308 --> 00:17:50.459 So with Maynard, you know, at the lead there from Tool and yeah, I just think it's like a great kind of angry rock song. 00:17:50.459 --> 00:18:00.494 I've been enjoying it whenever I just need to be like amped up or if I'm feeling kind of like I've got too much energy, I need to burn it, I just put my headphones on, I crank this and can really rock out to it. 00:18:00.494 --> 00:18:05.976 There's this part where, like the guitar is like struck a few times right, leading into the second verse. 00:18:05.976 --> 00:18:08.028 That just sounds so good turned up. 00:18:08.028 --> 00:18:15.200 So yeah, in general, just an amazing rock song that I'm again super excited that Smashing Pumpkins is releasing new music. 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:16.451 I can't wait for this full album. 00:18:18.026 --> 00:18:27.817 I wrote this was probably the most surprising track of your picks because, you're right, smashing Pumpkins stuff it was. 00:18:27.817 --> 00:18:42.176 Just it almost took on a softer tone from the stuff of in the 90s when they first came out and they were just like hardcore, like rock band, right, and so this started up and I like had to kind of look down to be like wait a minute, what am I listening to? 00:18:42.176 --> 00:18:53.910 Whoa, this sounds like the old Smashing Pumpkins Not old, I mean, it's definitely new, it's definitely a newer sound to it, but but more like that harder rock stuff, like you said. 00:18:53.910 --> 00:18:56.836 Um, so yeah, I really enjoyed this one. 00:18:56.836 --> 00:19:02.695 Just because of that, I love the energy that came with it and, uh, I don't know, I've listened to it a few times. 00:19:02.695 --> 00:19:06.050 Uh, on this mix I was like man, this is, this is well done. 00:19:06.050 --> 00:19:13.096 I'm interested because this, this new album, is kind of at least by the title, indicates it's some sort of rock opera. 00:19:13.096 --> 00:19:19.018 So I kind of want to get into the full album to see how this song fits into the bigger scheme there. 00:19:20.184 --> 00:19:21.068 Yeah, exactly, yeah. 00:19:21.068 --> 00:19:22.073 That'll be really interesting. 00:19:22.073 --> 00:19:28.733 All right, but let's move on to the next pick, track eight, and I'm really excited about this one in particular to talk through. 00:19:28.733 --> 00:19:33.837 So it is Empty Stomachs and Bloodshot Eyes by Jake Swamp and the Pine. 00:19:34.925 --> 00:19:36.512 Okay, so we've talked about this before. 00:19:36.512 --> 00:19:51.554 One of the cool things that has happened to us, you know, having this podcast, is we will just get people reaching out and telling us, hey, this artist has a new album coming out, or this artist has a new album coming out and that's how we discovered this one. 00:19:51.554 --> 00:19:59.037 So they reached out and a little spoiler alert okay, we may be having someone from Jake Swamp and the Pine on the show very soon. 00:19:59.037 --> 00:20:05.194 So if you like this track, you're going to get to know this band pretty well here in the coming weeks. 00:20:05.194 --> 00:20:12.936 So yeah, and when we get those submissions, so if there's any PR people listening, we listen to all of them, or at least I do right. 00:20:13.246 --> 00:20:15.634 It's always like all right, let me check this out, see what it is. 00:20:15.634 --> 00:20:18.152 And I just thought this was great. 00:20:18.152 --> 00:20:35.371 This was a really good song, kind of folksy singer-songwriter type of song, and the feel of it is just kind of reminiscing back to when you were younger and you know, in high school or college, like they talk about staying up all night and that's where the title comes from. 00:20:35.371 --> 00:20:43.513 Like because you wait, you know in the morning you've got, you know empty stomachs and bloodshot eyes, and I just thought this was a really well-written song. 00:20:43.513 --> 00:20:50.391 I love the title and then, getting into their whole catalog, I thought they had a lot of cool stuff too, so really looking forward to having them on the show. 00:20:51.432 --> 00:20:55.720 Yeah, I hope that recording date works out and we're able to talk to them more. 00:20:55.720 --> 00:21:00.454 But you're right, I was immediately hooked from the opening sound of this song. 00:21:00.454 --> 00:21:03.207 I think it's kind of a happy sounding one. 00:21:03.207 --> 00:21:04.169 I just love the mood. 00:21:04.169 --> 00:21:15.679 And, yes, definitely have a lot of memories of rolling into a day where you're starving, you're tired and you're expected to take like six hours worth of finals or something like that. 00:21:15.679 --> 00:21:19.132 You know like it can be rough. 00:21:19.353 --> 00:21:23.950 Or you have literally nothing to do the next day, so it's like just stay up all night. 00:21:24.089 --> 00:21:24.672 I don't know. 00:21:24.672 --> 00:21:25.994 What do you have to do? 00:21:25.994 --> 00:21:26.256 What do you? 00:21:26.276 --> 00:21:26.997 have to wake up for. 00:21:27.717 --> 00:21:29.679 Right, but yeah, it's so fun. 00:21:29.679 --> 00:21:40.093 I've also really loved that about this podcast that you know we get reached out by PR agencies and repping musicians and that's been such a gift. 00:21:40.093 --> 00:21:43.373 It's awesome to be introduced to all kinds of new music, big and small. 00:21:44.957 --> 00:21:47.472 All right, so we go small on that one. 00:21:47.472 --> 00:21:49.304 Let's go big with track nine. 00:21:49.304 --> 00:21:51.973 Your pick was Eddie by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 00:21:54.207 --> 00:21:55.832 Yeah, another band that needs our

help. 00:21:55.832 --> 00:22:03.611 They have, just like Taylor, you know we're getting it all wrong. 00:22:03.611 --> 00:22:04.710 These are the small bands. 00:22:04.710 --> 00:22:11.193 But yes, eddie, by Red Hot Chili Peppers They've released two albums this year, which is amazing. 00:22:11.193 --> 00:22:19.065 So they, like reformed the you know, one of the OG groups and have just been really busy releasing new music. 00:22:19.286 --> 00:22:30.314 This one in particular is dedicated to Eddie Van Halen, and so it's, you know, inspired by him and kind of writes about his experience in music, and so the lyrics really talk from his point of view. 00:22:30.314 --> 00:22:31.096 So it's funny. 00:22:31.096 --> 00:22:37.349 We had one kind of written from napoleon and this one's written from eddie van halen's point of view. 00:22:37.349 --> 00:22:41.278 Um, the opening guitar notes, I think, is quite literally the song, by the way, sped up. 00:22:41.278 --> 00:22:45.234 I think it's the exact same opening chords to the song, by the way, by red hot chili peppers. 00:22:45.295 --> 00:22:48.949 If you play that one and then play this one, you'll see what I'm talking about. 00:22:48.949 --> 00:22:51.292 So that was like an immediate kind of attention grabber. 00:22:51.292 --> 00:22:54.417 I'm sure they did that on purpose, I think. 00:22:54.417 --> 00:23:04.151 Yeah, the guitar solo here, of course it has to have like a shredding amazing guitar solo, because it's a song about Eddie Van Halen, and so how could it not? 00:23:04.151 --> 00:23:25.393 But what I love about this one in particular is that there's like the solo, but then it just kind of continues and bleeds into the last verse and then kind of goes into the outro of the song, so it never really ends, even as the song like moves forward, and I just think that that is so cool and the way it plays out is just like a scorching like way of kind of going out on that song. 00:23:25.393 --> 00:23:28.907 So really really have loved listening to this one off of their most recent album. 00:23:29.789 --> 00:23:32.556 And the song is like six and a half minutes long or something like that. 00:23:32.615 --> 00:23:33.417 It's a really long song. 00:23:33.845 --> 00:23:39.035 So I started listening to this again, not knowing anything about it beyond the title, and it's Red Hot Chili Peppers. 00:23:39.035 --> 00:23:40.309 So you're right. 00:23:40.309 --> 00:23:47.236 First beginning chords immediately made me think of Red Hot Chili Peppers, right, so I think you're right about sort of that chord similarity. 00:23:47.236 --> 00:24:02.479 But then, as the song goes on, when it got, and then, like as he's playing, it was just actually the solo that made me start thinking a little bit of Eddie Van Halen. 00:24:02.479 --> 00:24:13.368 And then they go back to the lyrics and, you know, they kind of make it really obvious after a while, even referencing, like David Lee Roth, and so I was like, oh my God, this is incredible, right, like what it does. 00:24:13.830 --> 00:24:21.858 And you're right, that guitar solo never really stops, it just kind of lingers on as they finish out the song, which I thought was such a cool. 00:24:21.858 --> 00:24:23.929 Cool effect as well. 00:24:23.929 --> 00:24:27.657 And I guess Flea wrote this right after Eddie Van Halen passed away. 00:24:27.657 --> 00:24:38.789 He was kind of inspired to write this and then everyone sort of contributed their parts thereafter, but it was, yeah, I just thought it was a really good song, really good offering by Red Hot Chili Peppers. 00:24:39.731 --> 00:24:43.310 Yeah, and the rest of the album is excellent, so definitely check it out. 00:24:43.310 --> 00:24:44.355 It's really good. 00:24:44.355 --> 00:24:45.690 I've listened to it a couple of times now. 00:24:45.690 --> 00:24:48.107 Start to finish, so good stuff. 00:24:48.107 --> 00:24:51.396 All right Home stretch here, track 10. 00:24:51.396 --> 00:24:54.172 Again, a lot of whiplash on this track. 00:24:54.172 --> 00:24:55.115 This one is really funny. 00:24:55.115 --> 00:25:00.416 This is STFU featuring Rick Nielsen by Todd Rundgren. 00:25:01.507 --> 00:25:03.255 Yeah, this is STFU featuring Rick Nielsen by Todd Rundgren. 00:25:03.255 --> 00:25:05.204 Yeah, todd Rundgren has been around forever. 00:25:05.204 --> 00:25:06.166 He writes. 00:25:06.166 --> 00:25:11.250 There's so many eclectic songs by him One they sound very like. 00:25:11.250 --> 00:25:31.586 He really runs the gamut and on this new album he does a ton of collaborations and there's a ton of different music on this and I picked this song one because I love the sound of it, I love the energy, but but then just the, the message of it, the shut the F up kind of chorus, and they actually say the word OK. 00:25:31.586 --> 00:25:35.825 So just a little little warning there, if you're going to play the song with your kids in the car, right. 00:25:35.825 --> 00:25:50.601 But I don't know, it hit me at the perfect time because, samra, I don't know about you, but here in Texas I've been getting a ton of mail, a ton of robocalls and a ton of text messages around these midterm elections. 00:25:50.601 --> 00:26:01.211 Right, I'm not trying to downplay voting, okay, that's not the point here, right, but sometimes I just want all these politicians to shut the F off, okay. 00:26:01.550 --> 00:26:08.179 And if I get one more text saying we need just $10 to put so-and-so candidate over the top. 00:26:08.179 --> 00:26:12.911 Like I'm not giving you any money, Okay? 00:26:15.644 --> 00:26:16.066 I feel your pain. 00:26:16.066 --> 00:26:17.448 I'm getting inundated with. 00:26:17.448 --> 00:26:19.573 It's like every ad between like. 00:26:19.573 --> 00:26:26.599 If you watch live tv, every ad between like in the commercial break is a political ad and it's whiplash, it's too much. 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:32.416 It's like both parties just like hitting you over the head with their messaging

about no, that person's the worst. 00:26:32.416 --> 00:26:34.550 And they're like no, no, this person's the worst. 00:26:34.631 --> 00:26:55.244 And you're like okay, I get it, everyone's the worst, yeah it seems like whatever happens on election day, if you just line these ads up together, whatever happens, the world's gonna end, because that's essentially the prediction that has been laid out by both parties is that, if so, and so wins this election, we're done, and if so, and? 00:26:55.244 --> 00:26:56.226 So wins the election. 00:26:56.226 --> 00:27:01.330 We're done well, we're, I'm kind of coming to the same conclusion here, guys. 00:27:01.991 --> 00:27:03.693 But you know what, get out there, rock the vote. 00:27:03.693 --> 00:27:04.775 It's important to vote. 00:27:04.775 --> 00:27:08.919 It really is Local election, state election, federal. 00:27:08.919 --> 00:27:09.440 Do it all. 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:10.441 Have fun with it. 00:27:10.441 --> 00:27:17.066 It's good, it's a good thing. 00:27:17.066 --> 00:27:18.249 But you're right, like this song is a great anthem for that. 00:27:18.249 --> 00:27:22.317 And I think it's also kind of clever because, to the point of you know, like no matter what people will just say that the world is ending. 00:27:22.317 --> 00:27:29.946 I think you could point this at anyone like you could listen to this song and be like, oh yeah, this is definitely about that party or that politician or that yes, you know media personality. 00:27:29.946 --> 00:27:33.270 And then the other person would listen to like, no, no, this is definitely about this other person. 00:27:33.270 --> 00:27:34.352 Like how could it not be? 00:27:34.352 --> 00:27:42.470 So I think that is really cleverly done where it's just a universal, you know, shut the f up and you can point it at whoever you want that's right, feel good about it. 00:27:42.570 --> 00:27:50.021 So, whatever side, whatever party you're on, I mean you could crank this up and just yeah, just think about the person you want to shut the f up. 00:27:50.021 --> 00:27:54.308 Okay, exactly, all right. 00:27:54.308 --> 00:27:56.010 Track 11, you've got. 00:27:56.010 --> 00:27:58.134 Electrify my love, bymo. 00:27:58.193 --> 00:28:07.694 Yeah, so this is actually new music that came out way earlier this year, back in April, but I discovered it and I was like, okay, I'm going to break the rules a little bit. 00:28:07.694 --> 00:28:10.632 It didn't just come out but it is so worth putting on a mix. 00:28:10.632 --> 00:28:19.138 I know you're shaking your head the listeners can't see that You're so disappointed but you know what. 00:28:19.138 --> 00:28:21.152 This opens up the album. 00:28:21.152 --> 00:28:29.454 The album is called this is for the Barbarians, which is another great album title, and it's just one of these songs that just immediately puts me in a good mood. 00:28:29.525 --> 00:28:36.005 It's one of these like joyful songs, I think, like the lyrics, the sound effects that are kind of thrown in here are whimsical in nature. 00:28:36.005 --> 00:28:46.015 Like you know, he's got this Bob Dylan sound, I believe, and I read like an editor's note on his music and they mentioned Bob Dylan too. 00:28:46.015 --> 00:29:05.109 I don't know if he likens himself as the Bob Dylan of Gen X or if the writer you know, speaking of his music, kind of put that label on him, but I think it works because really every now and then when he's singing lines, you do hear that influence, and the whole album again is is really really good start to finish. 00:29:05.109 --> 00:29:10.537 He covers a lot of topics, um, and a lot of, like recent events and things that, like, we're all dealing with as people. 00:29:10.537 --> 00:29:12.865 So, um, really really enjoyed this. 00:29:12.865 --> 00:29:14.088 Worth a shout out. 00:29:14.150 --> 00:29:26.972 You know, coming in late, uh, late in the year, I had to throw it in on a new music mix yeah, I, uh, I love I read that he actually wrote the song to be the first track on that album, which I really appreciate. 00:29:26.972 --> 00:29:31.394 That intentionality, like I want to write something that's going to open an album. 00:29:31.394 --> 00:29:37.815 I feel like nowadays it's more about, you know, just getting the single out there and getting a lot of listens to the one song. 00:29:37.815 --> 00:29:41.294 So I like when people sort of form an album around the song. 00:29:41.294 --> 00:29:42.107 So I appreciate that. 00:29:42.107 --> 00:29:54.290 And yeah, this one I love how it just kind of builds up and then the backup singers come in and it really is kind of beautiful, like when they get to the chorus and as the song progresses, like it's a really great song. 00:29:54.290 --> 00:29:58.128 So I'm really glad, even though you broke the rules, that you included it on this mix. 00:30:00.073 --> 00:30:01.938 Yes, I'm so sorry, I'll pay penance for that. 00:30:01.938 --> 00:30:12.556 Well, actually, I'll redeem the penance I need to pay because I had to listen to Bruce Springsteen on a new music mix, which I never thought was going to happen. 00:30:12.556 --> 00:30:19.538 But here we are and it is appropriately called Don't Play that Song by Bruce Springsteen. 00:30:21.165 --> 00:30:21.507 Yeah. 00:30:21.507 --> 00:30:31.153 So Bruce Springsteen has a new album this month called Only the Strong Survive, and it's a cover album he just is putting out. 00:30:31.153 --> 00:30:51.193 He's redone all these Motown and soul hits from the past, and the thing I think is really cool about that is that you can listen to this album then kind of do a deep dive into some Motown and soul artists that maybe you forgot or maybe you never knew, and so it's a great way to kind of get you into some older music. 00:30:51.193 --> 00:30:53.159 That is pretty fantastic. 00:30:53.159 --> 00:31:04.144 But this one is a song that was originally done by Ben E King and then later kind of famously done by Aretha Franklin done by Ben E King and then later kind of famously done by Aretha Franklin. 00:31:04.144 --> 00:31:10.107 The gist of the song is simply you know someone. 00:31:10.107 --> 00:31:15.962 The main character in the song is asking a DJ essentially not to play that song because it reminds him of like heartache and so it's just. 00:31:16.246 --> 00:31:18.175 I think it's a really I think it speaks to. 00:31:18.175 --> 00:31:20.566 In that era there were so many cleverly written songs. 00:31:20.566 --> 00:31:30.153 I think that's what I love so much about old Motown and R&B songs, and Bruce does a really good job of it here, and I'm really looking forward to this album when it comes out. 00:31:32.229 --> 00:31:35.833 Yeah, I love that and I really loved the lyrics. 00:31:35.833 --> 00:31:39.596 And it's cool that he's doing a cover album, because why wouldn't he? 00:31:39.596 --> 00:31:41.291 I feel like he could do just about anything. 00:31:41.291 --> 00:31:56.719 He could cover Rage Against the Machine and it would probably be really interesting when you're worth almost a billion dollars and you're kind of semi-retired, why not? 00:31:56.719 --> 00:31:58.851 Yeah, why not? 00:31:58.851 --> 00:31:59.993 No, this is really good. 00:31:59.993 --> 00:32:00.695 It's a great song. 00:32:00.695 --> 00:32:01.865 I really enjoyed the lyrics. 00:32:01.865 --> 00:32:03.910 I love kind of the spin he puts on it. 00:32:03.910 --> 00:32:05.614 Um, you know, we talk about the. 00:32:05.614 --> 00:32:06.717 The weezer sound like. 00:32:06.717 --> 00:32:09.173 This is definitely like the bruce sound I think in effect. 00:32:09.434 --> 00:32:11.102 So, uh, it works really well and. 00:32:11.102 --> 00:32:13.048 But I was just very much like laughing that I was. 00:32:13.048 --> 00:32:15.452 I always thought I was safe from from. 00:32:15.452 --> 00:32:18.066 You know a track by him on new music. 00:32:18.066 --> 00:32:19.328 But here we are. 00:32:19.328 --> 00:32:21.333 Yeah, I somehow snuck on bruce springsteen with a cover song, him on new music. 00:32:21.353 --> 00:32:21.813 But here we are. 00:32:21.813 --> 00:32:25.901 Yeah, I somehow snuck on Bruce Springsteen with a cover song onto a new music mix. 00:32:25.901 --> 00:32:28.813 Hey, we're all breaking rules, I guess. 00:32:28.813 --> 00:32:40.311 All right, well, there you have it Another super awesome mix for your collection, this time some new music and, like we said, this is going to be a monthly edition for us, so really excited about that going forward. 00:32:40.311 --> 00:32:44.391 But we've got plenty of other mixes to work on, so we'll get to work there. 00:32:44.391 --> 00:32:46.856 And for samar, this is matt and we'll see you next time.