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[SPEAKER_01]: Hello everyone and welcome to a music of the Matt Remix on the Voices of Wrestling Podcast Network.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Andrew Rich, joined today by returning guest.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is a contributor at Voices of Wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's Brady Trapet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello again, Brady.
[SPEAKER_01]: There he is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was going.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good, good, glad you're back here.
[SPEAKER_01]: How is how's Utah treating you these days?
[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's supposed to be pretty hot out there, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: yeah it's uh... it's hot and uh... for a brief period everything was burning down uh... but we are we are settling in if you can call a hundred degrees settling but uh... yeah it's all right you know we've had a few scorchers here in Boston for sure it's it's not fun um... not to mention there was that uh... Canadian wildfire smoke a few weeks ago which turned the sky orange
[SPEAKER_01]: It was kind of like how in breaking bad whenever there's a scene in Mexico There's that orange tint everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was kind of like that and I had never seen that before But I imagine given the way the world is going and we'll be the last time Brady
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's funny to say that when we had the wildfires around here, I did send my wife a picture and said it's like one of the Mexico scenes in Breaking Bad, so we're on the same page there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, in any event, today's episode here is called Megapowers.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Megapowers, of course, the tag team of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage.
[SPEAKER_01]: We actually just passed the one year anniversary of Hulk's death last week, so good timing there, I suppose.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the concept of the Mega Powers is pretty simple.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a super team.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's these two big stars teaming up, and eventually you had the feud, and the Mega Powers explode, and all that fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Hogan and Savage, that's a team right there, just in terms of sheer star power.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to think of teams that would eclipse that, um, like there's anokin baba, they were a team before the split, and Tanashi Ocada when they first started teaming up in 2018, but, um, you know, mega powers, that's like the go-to example for a lot of people of the super team, and, uh, they had a super handshake to boot, pretty.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they did, and I'm excited for this episode until one of us, uh, hot dogs and grandstands too much, and we have no choice but to blow up the team.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to happen unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just the way it goes with these teams.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's the funny thing, you know, Hogan and Savage, I mean, they would re-unite the WCW later on and be in the NWO together.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that original run was only what 16 months or so.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't that long in terms of tag teams.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when you've got a super team, I mean, you know, the shorter the run, the more special it will be, you know, because as cool as it feels when
[SPEAKER_01]: When it's the 15th, 20th, 30th time, or whatever, it doesn't feel as special, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I remember last year when Osprey and Omega teamed up against Kexton Fletcher, that was really cool because it was the first time that Osprey and Omega teamed up together like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's their only, to this day, they're only two versus two tag match in that case.
[SPEAKER_01]: but if they had stayed together as a regular team afterwards, then it wouldn't be as cool anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it would just become commonplace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of like what happened to Tanashino-Kata when they teamed up there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So just the way it goes, Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's something I ran into with looking through my selections for these.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think most of these, the most
[SPEAKER_02]: like music that they made together.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess I have one that has four albums, but at that point it's like it's not really the super group anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: You guys started a super group and now you're your more famous for the group rather than what you were doing beforehand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you beat me to it here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was about to introduce the music topic, but yeah, speaking of super, you know, what is the mega powers equivalent in music?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the super group.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's when singers and musicians from established bands
[SPEAKER_01]: come together to form a new band.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there are plenty of examples of supergroups over the years.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of them become the main band for these musicians after they leave their old bands or when the old bands split up.
[SPEAKER_01]: But a lot of them, like you said, just don't last very long.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of them are just these side projects with one or two albums or no albums at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: In some cases,
[SPEAKER_01]: some of them are done for charity, some are done as tributes, but yeah, a lot of these supergroups are these short-lived things, which again helps keep them special, but that also means that just isn't much material to come from them, Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think that a lot of my bad for spoiling your topic, by the way, okay, a lot of the appeal to super groups is when you first hear that they're forming, you hear, whoa, these people, like this singer from this band and this singer from this band are starting a side project, that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: And
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, all comes up, hype comes up to the release, and then after that, like, day to go their separate ways, and you can remember it for how special it was, or they keep going, and maybe it loses a little bit of its charm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um, it's also fun to see how, you know, much like in wrestling, how's there's the joke?
[SPEAKER_01]: What do these guys talk about backstage?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true with some of these super groups as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there can be some real odd lineups and combinations with these bands.
[SPEAKER_01]: But for the most part, they do tend to make good music regardless, pretty.
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's one of uh, there's one of your groups that is a what do these people talk about a Hall of Fame case.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Well, let's get to the music here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have 10 picks each and a playout song at the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brady, you are the guest.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll go first.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's your first pick?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I will go with the, uh, with the first super group that I wouldn't say I was able to hear in real time, but it's like the first super group that I went back and I was like, holy cow, like you can do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know that, uh, that you could have side projects like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's, uh, it's comprised of Johnny Craig from dance Gavin dance, and I guess at the time emirosa, Craig Owens of Chiotos, and Vic Fuentes of Pierce the Vale, and it's, uh,
[SPEAKER_05]: I can tell it in
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is, I can't really convey how big of a line-up this is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know that I probably stretching the term supergroup because it's all subjective on what music you listen to.
[SPEAKER_02]: But Chiotos and dancegavin dancer are pretty big, so Johnny Craig and Craig Owens being in this is, was massive at the time, and Pierce the Vale was just on the come-up.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is, man, I wish I had a wrestling comp that I could
[SPEAKER_02]: go with off the dome, but it's like an established tag team adding a youngster to their trio.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it gave us some great results.
[SPEAKER_02]: So side projects and super groups are a big part of this just broad emo core genre.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought this was a great way to kind of introduce that concept and kick it off.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I will fully admit I had never heard of the majority of your picks before this episode Let's go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was actually worried that there would be some crossover between our lists, but apparently not so there you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and yeah, here, you know, we've got
[SPEAKER_01]: emo overload here um three lead singers on an angst written song about trying to love a girl but you don't know if it's going to work out and um the EP is called the hearts of lonely people I mean this is a proper emo polusa right here and you know what I enjoyed it you know I enjoyed the nice melodies going on there and um again you know I don't listen to Chiotos or they're receiving end of sirens or whatever but I like this Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think it's a very emo concept overall.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, would you listen to this music long enough?
[SPEAKER_02]: You kind of become desensitized to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the last line of the course is, oh, this is terrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, it's a real mope song.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm glad you liked it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Craig Goans, one of the singers there, he's gonna show up later on with another band of yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got, he is one of the, the like all stars.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I feel every, every scene, every genre has people that like to get around with super groups and Craig is one of those people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, my first pick.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a trio of rock and dudes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's Josh Hommie of Queens at the Stone Age in Caius.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Food Fighters and John Paul Jones, a little band called Led Zeppelin.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is them crooked vultures.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is from their self-thedalt album, their only album.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Dead End Friends.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nineteen my veins, it's callin' me Racing along these arteries and lungs It's just a fan Turn around, I saw the cloud Above all of our own eyes Just how big the fire Which was a piece fell out of me
[SPEAKER_05]: Real close and do it again Make full and touch up my debt of friends alone I got to know This again, that the end
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is the opposite of the tag team adding the youngster.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the tag team adding the grizzled of etcherine because, you know, homie and growl or contemporaries.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they were in Queens together for a short time there, but, um, but yeah, really good album, really good album.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, obviously it sounds a lot like Queens of the Stone Age, because it's homie singing in all that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's not really a bad thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means it's a damn good rock album Plus you got John Paul Jones as not just the basis is also playing keyboards and piano the mandolin Back up vocals all these other instruments So we had his own flavor to things and Dave grow on drums can't go wrong with that so yeah quite the other power trio here ready
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, yeah, my main takeaway, I noticed this when listening to your things, there's a lot of, it's a lot of decaprio pointing when you're listening to these bands, if you're multitasking, when you listen to the playlist and you don't look at the Wikipedia beforehand, but my main takeaway was this just sounds like a Queen's of the Stone Age song, and that is that's not a bad thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: My favorite Queen's of the Stone Age stuff is with Dave Groll and Drum
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, great stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, you know, one and done album.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ever since it came out, the big question is like, okay, why is the next one.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it turns out, you know, guys like homie and girl.
[SPEAKER_01]: they're pretty busy you know they've got other things going on besides this so we haven't gotten a second album yet unfortunately but but they did reunite a couple of years ago for the uh... the tether hawkins tribute shows which was nice and uh... they played it in friends on one of them um... so at least you got that brady so nice all right uh... brady what's your next pick yeah my next pick is uh...
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll just interrupt now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, hardcore is of the side project genres.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's one of the biggest you have so many people who are just switching between bands, whether those bands are popular, not doesn't matter, but everybody in hardcore has got several bands.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one is comprised of two bigger hardcore bands, one of them people might actually know now because they've broken out a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's a mixture of trapped under ice and turned style.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a band called Angel Dust, and this is toxic boombox.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the song for a lot of reasons.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of them being, I think you do a minute on these, but you've got, I think, three quarters of the song and on your minute preview, which is nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also like it because it's like gateway hardcore, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a little heavier, only for parts of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It lightens up to more of a,
[SPEAKER_02]: More of a skate punk kind of vibe, but but from this if you like it you can go a little bit deeper and then you're full on in a hard course on Or that has about nine hundred super groups.
[SPEAKER_01]: They could listen to Yeah, my main takeaway is that this sounds like the theme song to some programming block at MTV We're the only play punk videos
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, toxic boombox with your host, scuzzy D or whatever, that's, as a person that came to mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, you know, I know of Turnstile, I can't say I'm a fan of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I will say this though, they get right to the point on this song.
[SPEAKER_01]: 90 seconds, simple message.
[SPEAKER_01]: Makes me sick.
[SPEAKER_01]: This shit don't rock toxic boombox.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can you give me back my time toxic boombox?
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess you know lamenting wasteful music or some such and the album is called rock the fuck on forever and I do like that title break I do like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a it's a mission statement.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a code.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's it's efficiency in word count This is hardcore baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, what's not hardcore is my next pick.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a duo consisting of James Mercer from the Shins and Danger Mouse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not the cartoon character.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the musician and producer, the guy from Nerves Barkley, that guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Broken Bells, and that this one is called Shelter.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was a standalone single from 2018 and it's a beautiful song.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I love the floaty atmospheric conjures up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a jumping on clouds, you know, and the soaring chorus there too.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's great stuff and the song is about saying thank you to a loved one for their shelter for being a comfort.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Danger Mouse, you know, being a producer, he produces other stuff, which is pretty damn convenient, I'd say.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, Broken Bell's not the last super duo on my list, but the other first Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and this was
[SPEAKER_02]: This was a fun exercise in Wikipedia for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had, and I'll probably get dunked on for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had no idea Danger Mouse was in Norris Barkley.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this was after my, this is after I put my list of yours like damn, there's one that I missed out on.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I will, I'll second that, I really like this song.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is excellent summer drive music.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is Windows down, hand out the Windows music.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love the chorus and the post-chorus guitar.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't listen to the shins.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry Zach, but I don't do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And with danger mouse, I know a few Narrow's Barkley songs, the big ones.
[SPEAKER_01]: and I know some of the albums that he's produced for other people, but my main entry way for both guys is broken bells and songs like holding on for life and after the disco, which is just the way it goes with these supergroups sometimes, you know, sometimes they are like the main band for you as opposed to the original band's pretty.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there are, uh, there are a lot of people on this list where I, uh, well, maybe not on this list, but that I, I knew from the supergroup, I was like, oh, they were in this band that I know a lot less before.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's your next pick there, Brady?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So my next pick is, uh,
[SPEAKER_02]: It's one of my favorite genres of supergroup, which is it's everybody but the singer from another band.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we have adopted another singer like a baby bird.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is the instrumental lineup of No Doubt except they have replaced Gwen Stefani with baby havoc from AFI.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is Born to Lie by Dreamcar.
[SPEAKER_05]: There was nothing we could do Because my heart was missing too Because my heart was missing too Though I like to lie That wasn't the first time I'd find Fear due by my heart That's what I love I love to lie
[SPEAKER_05]: I love you, love me, I love to be moved But I promise you, I'm lying And you're not so sick and true I love you, love you I love you
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and if I is one of my one of my favorite bands, Sing the Saras, one of my favorite albums ever, that's the one with, uh, with Missouri a Cantar on it, uh, shout out, see him punk.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe not, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but so replacing Gwen Stefani with Davey Havick for me, if I huge win for me, huge win for your boy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I, I love this song.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is,
[SPEAKER_02]: it's not in the style of a-fi at all but if they change the name of the band a-fi here it would be one of my favorite a-fi songs.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the chorus on this love the throwback vibes it's awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah I love this this is right up my alley this modern new wavy kind of sound I mean with a name like dream car it does conjure up those bright positive vibes
[SPEAKER_01]: And it is a pleasant surprise given who's in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I know a handful of AFI songs, they don't sound like this, you know, different controls, it's not sound like this, by any means.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I am a no doubt fan, but even at their poppiest, they were more Scott, dance hall, electro pop.
[SPEAKER_01]: So going in, I was like, what the hell is this being in a sound like?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was shocked and delighted that it sounds really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to check out the whole album, Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, strong recommend on the album.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was just about to say that actually and as you said, you know, it's a certain type of super group Where it's the members of a band with a lead singer of another band like audio slave was Chris Cornell and Rage against the machine There was also Hindu love gods, which was Warren Zivan and REM Alter bridge, you know, Alter bridge is Miles Kennedy and Creed and I have my own example of this later on coming up, but
[SPEAKER_01]: But by next pick, gonna go big here, as big as a whole continent with Asia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Asia has had some different lineups over the years.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is the original four, John Wetton from King Crimson, UK, Wishbone Ash, Steve Howe, from Yes, Jeff Downs, from the Buggles, and also Yes, and Carl Palmer, from Emerson Lincoln Palmer.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is from 2010's Omega, this is finger on the trigger.
[SPEAKER_05]: But don't stop, Redwood, now you're changing every line Your ring is too, so cold still blue And you're waiting for me
[SPEAKER_05]: You're all a trigger
[SPEAKER_01]: So I've noted before on the show a big fan of Asia and not just the original run in the Ace.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the reunion run as well with the original four coming back and this is from the second of those albums and
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's exactly what I want from Asia, some meat potatoes, album oriented rock, from a quartet of pro-rock legends.
[SPEAKER_01]: The bullet bitten, my tombstones written, and I are changing every line.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your aim is true, through cold steel blue, and you're waiting for the sign.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't think twice, cold as ice, force the face your fear.
[SPEAKER_01]: Each tortured minute, no future in it, and now I know it's all because of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got your finger on the trigger, you got your hand up on the gun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, I love it, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, you know, I don't have a lot of the classic supergroups from back in the day on my list, but This is one of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had up up my boys in Asia on here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brady
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I knew Asia was an 80s band, and I, like I said, I was multitasking when I listened to this first time through.
[SPEAKER_02]: It came back, put down notes, everything like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was shocked to see the release date on this thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just talking about throwback vibes with dream card.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the genuine article.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a genuine 80s song that they transported and performed in 2010.
[SPEAKER_02]: You talked about the lineup.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to ask if this was the original
[SPEAKER_02]: They've got a hell of a past member section on the Wikipedia page.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people have been in this band, a lot of people, and there's still go and too.
[SPEAKER_01]: They actually have a new album coming out this year, but it's not the classical lineup.
[SPEAKER_01]: John Wetton died about 10 years ago, sadly, Steve Howe left in 2013 to focus on yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Carl Palmer left a few years ago, and now Jeff Downs is the only original member left in the band.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's got three other guys with them, and they sound pretty good.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do sound good, but It's hard to still call it a super group at this point and I should also mention there's another Asia Asia featuring John Paine John Paine is the guy who replaced John Wetton in the 90s as the lead singer there So yeah, we got Asia's abound
[SPEAKER_01]: Brady is it's nuts.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: I uh, there are a few like kind of tropes that I like in music when you're promoting an album.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, one of them is in the, uh, in the emo scene and the core scene is, oh, this is our heaviest stuff yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going back to the old stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it almost never is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And my favorite, my other favorite one is, oh, we're going back to the original lineup.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it works well here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like this definitely definitely.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, uh, Brady, what's your
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is a band that, or this is a group that falls into the group us, or falls into the section I was talking about earlier, which is I only know these people from the super group and now instead of saying it's this per, or this band has this person and it's now it's this person from this band so this is a lie cheat steal by run the jewels.
[SPEAKER_03]: Keep back a piranha tank, aren't bendy, keep it in a wild one Swim like the wreck, they out that we see More hurt than it's supposed to, while when it's plugged with a fork in it Cause step by leg, the acutions like life, but in your in it, should have been a dead end
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's the same without me, it's a playpan True one of the best make the names They're not the same, but I'm taking pain with that
[SPEAKER_02]: I neglected to mention who forms a supergroup earlier, so that's on me, but this is LP, not that one, and Killer Mike.
[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot listen to run the jewels without thinking about Ozzy Open, who in their own writer, kind of an inverse supergroup.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where they're both.
[SPEAKER_02]: they're both excellent on their own right now and you go back to like you know what these guys are pretty damn good as a team and uh and it's the inverse here i uh i love the changes and flow for both of them in this one um this is not their most wrestling crossover track firstly because it's not the Aussie open song and secondly because it's not the song that says Jake the Snake and DDTM and Masa Liam's which might also be the Aussie open song that's my favorite
[SPEAKER_01]: I was tempted to play Edgar Raro's theme as a gag, but I held off, I held off, I absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's funny, I'm in the same boat as you, because you know, my rap knowledge, not too deep.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was surprised to see run the jewels on your list, because I've never thought of them as a supergroup, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, LP's been working since the early 90s and Killer Micah's his own solo career, so I stand corrected.
[SPEAKER_01]: But regardless, whenever I listen to run the jewels, I enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They tend to have really good beats and some memorable lines.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll teabag a piranha tank, heart barely beaten.
[SPEAKER_01]: I line the booth to catch blood like a bateman, Nathan Sacred, I'll mace a playpen.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know it's 2014 because it references the Donald Sterling controversy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I dug this one, Brady, for sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, let's see, my next pick here, this is another trio, and it's a trio called Oysterhead, consisting of Les Claypool from Primus, Tray and Estasio of Fish, and Stuart Copeland, Cope, the drummer for the police.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is from their only album, The Grand Pecking Order, and it's called Sudo Suicide.
[SPEAKER_05]: You won't wish y'all remember Danny Mow's the use day to scoops the coast Sorry, no kill for suicide When we're in the drive, it's happening We're the icing, what the hell?
[SPEAKER_05]: I brought myself up off the bed Cause we know kill for suicide I really can't remember when Didn't blow right from the bed No, they don't knock hard to tear again Cause I ain't no kill for suicide But once upon a green day I had an opportunity to play
[SPEAKER_01]: so these guys are like the weirdo cousins of them crooked vultures it's the power trio that is maybe a little too obsessed with smiling friends perhaps and uh... and they make some wacky music you know this is not a tight three minute pop song
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not Roxanne, you know, this is some alt-funk zaniness right here, just look at the lyrics, you know, buttered toast, greasy roast, you all remember denny most, he used to hit us coast to coast, because the right note here for suicide.
[SPEAKER_01]: Seven seconds after I dissolve into the fiery gates of hell locked up in a plastic tube where Sancio, Lee, Frozen, when he fell.
[SPEAKER_01]: Zudo, Zudo, Zudo, Suicide.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't listen to fish, but I do know my primus, and that is some primus as lyrics right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I enjoy it, you know, obviously I love less as bass playing, and trades guitar gets really good too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Copeland is a maestro on the drums, and I do like how three guys who on paper don't seem like they might gel actually do break
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's fun to say that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was listening to this for the first time and I was like this sounds like primus and I'm not sure like now that I'm thinking back on it I don't know who else it could have possibly been to sound like primus, you know, they're pretty distinct, but I definitely picked up on that I'll mention this because I think you listen to this podcast, but primus is leading singer in this song sounds a lot like the Michael Hayes impression on the attitude or a podcast
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't you go jump off like that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Who knows who is sad?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like the instrumentation on this is incredible.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cope is, or Stuart Copeland here is my favorite Cope.
[SPEAKER_02]: And one of my favorite drummers of all time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's always great here to this work.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a classic supergroup origin story where it's meant to be a one-off life performance at a festival where a les had to come up with a spanned and he got tray involved and they were both a big fan of Stewart Copeland so they got him in the two and that one performance turned into a whole album and tour and they toured a couple of times, although not the best luck because the first tour was interrupted by 9-11
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so say they haven't had the best luck going on on the road together, but um, there's still a hell of a trio, Brady.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what you're telling me is if oyster had an ounces of another tour, take cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Find a shelter immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: With for all my money, everything like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, all right, Brady, what you got next?
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, guess who?
[SPEAKER_02]: You guessed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Craig Owens again from Chiotos.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, this is also with, uh, with Matt Good from the band from first to last and Aaron Stern, who is a drummer from Matchbook Romance.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is, if you think the song is about you, it probably is by Destroyed Rebuild until God's Shows, or if you want to do the edgy acronym, Drugs.
[SPEAKER_05]: In a room with a new send-out shirt It's so made to stay put And reminded me why I was that Cool planet and misguided You thought this would be your best Then you try
[SPEAKER_05]: That's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that's how it is, that
[SPEAKER_02]: And this one is a first for banned construction in this list.
[SPEAKER_02]: So not only were these guys in separate bands, but Craig Owens and Matt Good were both in Isles and Glaciers, who then pressured to make this band.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is,
[SPEAKER_02]: One thing I love is Messi songs after a band breaks up, and we get that from the opening line of this song, which is some friends you left me hanging in a room with a new send a chair.
[SPEAKER_02]: You told me to stay put and reminded me why I was there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the rumor, I'll say allegedly allegedly, is that Chiyado's kicked
[SPEAKER_02]: Craig out of the band after he had recently made an attempt on his own life.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that is, that's directed towards them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Learyx aside, I love the structure of the song, the chaotic opening, the complete dropout other than the drummer just doing rudiments on the rims of the drums, and I love the guitar riff in this chorus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every time I listen to this song, I have to rewind it to the, I have to rewind a chorus at least once every time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this isn't your average everyday emo.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is advanced emo.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is turbo emo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got suicidal references.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got screamo.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are rocking and rolling here, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do like the, the, you're so vain reference in the title.
[SPEAKER_01]: You probably think this long is about you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Beyond that though, you know, it's fine, Brady.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was my goal after your adverse reaction to attack attack last time I came on because it was my goal, name, my duty to see how many songs I could get you to not like and still maybe invite me back onto the show at a later date.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like it much more than that attack attack song, that's for sure, much more awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, I want to bring up the music video for this because it is something
[SPEAKER_01]: it is uh it was a different time yeah it starts with Craig Owens being interrogated by police but there's some spookiness going on and then he's in this really dirty motel room with bugs and worms and there's a naked woman that is yelling at like it's real grommie to look at but you know when your name rebandred drugs and I guess I'm not too surprised Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they were not they were not the most subtle about their other intent to be edgy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So not really that's impressed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, my next pick this is another hard rock super group here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's called Black Country Communion and it's made up of Glen Hughes, Joe Bonamasa, Derek Sherinian and Jason Bonam.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of the Lake Great John Bonham.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is off of their Softitaut album.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is one last soul.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, no big shocker that I've banned with all four of these guys, and it sounds like this, just a kickass rock band, uh, has the blues rock influences well with Glenn Hughes in there, and I've praised Glenn Hughes before on the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: as a singer with his work in deep purple and he's one of these guys that apparently just doesn't age because he still sounds as good as he did back in the 70s, but all four of them have the chops, Joe Bautamassa, the guitar player,
[SPEAKER_01]: He was opening for BB King when he was like 12 years old.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dirk Sherinian on keyboards, he's been in a bunch of bands.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was in Dream Theater for several years.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Laura knows that's no easy gig.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got to be in that band.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jason Bonham is his father's son.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's he's Bonso Jr.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty much so yeah, there are five BCC albums and they're all good But I love the first two in particular.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we want to start somewhere with this band to start there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ready.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: When was this released?
[SPEAKER_02]: 2010.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: Glenn still sounds great then.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also have a of soft spot for people abbreviating things but only slightly like when he says South Carolina.
[SPEAKER_02]: The start of the song kind of reminded me of you've got another thing coming by Judas Priest with the bass line and the tempo, but I'd love the chorus of this song.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he really just belts it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was around for a few years when BCC broke up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, and Andrew Watt, who was one of the big producers in the music scene right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they did one album and then BCC got back together soon after that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's another band that could have gone with theoretically.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, if you want more, Hughes and Bonham together, there you go, Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Always good to have more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, what is your next pick there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, we are, we're gonna take things down to notch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't know why, uh, this is letter two and old poet by, uh, Phoebe Bridger's Lucy Dakeys and Julian Baker, otherwise known as Boy Genius.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I love you.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're not special, you're evil, you don't get to tell me to calm down You may feel like an equal, but I'm better than you
[SPEAKER_05]: It looks like it hurt, and I wasn't sorry, but I shouldn't left you right there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please.
[SPEAKER_02]: For me, this is kind of the modern supergroup.
[SPEAKER_02]: When
[SPEAKER_02]: When you brought up the idea of the episode to me, my first idea was Boy Genius, the second one was one that I didn't pick, but you actually filtered into your list.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was glad to see that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I probably, in hindsight, should have chosen one of the songs where all three of them sing, but this is my favorite on the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's got some really deep cutting lyrics for a breakup song, for example, you made me feel like an equal, but I'm better than you, and you should know that by now.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a much different vibe than everything else I've put forward so far, but I really love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I played not strong enough a few months ago on the Mania Weekend episode with the case.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I probably could have picked this song for that one too, because there is some, yeah, some serious relationship drama going on here, you're not special, you're evil, you don't get to tell me to calm down, you maybe feel like an equal, but I'm better than you, when you should know that by now, when you fell down the stairs, it looked like it hurt and I wasn't sorry, I should have left you right there with your hostages, my heart and my car keys, you don't know me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the fact that it's done in this slow, sloppy indie girl style is so jarring.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, it's hard to misunderstand the meeting right there, Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no ambiguity to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like the subject matter in contrast with the style of the song.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like in particular when she pointed it to the guy and said, I'm not sorry that you broke your elbow.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that was really powerful.
[SPEAKER_01]: And apparently it directly references another boy genius song called Me and My Dog, which came out a few years before this, and that's literally about Phoebe's dog, who died after the song came out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I've never heard that song, so I didn't pick up on it, but if you go to the YouTube comments for this song, everyone is like, oh my god, the me and my dog reference ripped my guts out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm dead, I'm done for, so some people acknowledge it at least.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: But all right, my next pick here.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a wild collection of people here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got Damian Marley.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got Justone.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got Indian musician and composer AR-Raman.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we got Dave Stewart from your rhythmics.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a band called Super Heavy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so happy I get to say this, because I love whenever this happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Super heavy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of the album Super Heavy, this is Super Heavy with the song Super Heavy.
[SPEAKER_05]: I keep y'all this night, the guy on the stand I forget to name your eyes As kissed as back And then that won't bite Then all you ever stop Don't matter as day or night
[SPEAKER_04]: I know lies on far like the stars There's kinda jammer now reset the bar Now we have it We have it, we have it Super heavy Super heavy Y'all Surprise, let's make a hip-on arm Now say me and it means up the king So far, now we have it We have it, we have it Super heavy Super heavy Super heavy Y'all Don't you know why we don't know Not in a sky Never sell or feel on sky
[SPEAKER_01]: So I wouldn't call it heavy, but I would call it super just based in the lineup and it's a really
[SPEAKER_01]: fascinating mix of people and sounds.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, in this song, we've got the Mick Jagger Swagger.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got Damian Marley bringing the reggae vibes.
[SPEAKER_01]: On the rise and fall like the storm, we stand on jah, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: We set the bar.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got air rommings singing Hindu later.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got the soul, singing of jah stone.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a true blending of different worlds.
[SPEAKER_01]: As opposed to say, then crooked vultures or a black country communion where they're all coming from the same rock
[SPEAKER_01]: channels, basically.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the album got mixed reviews, Rolling Stone gave it four stars, AV Club gave it a D, which isn't the shock on either count, really.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do like the song a lot, Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is kind of a revelation for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is my favorite of the songs that you offered.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to present two awards to Super Heavy, firstly, being the, what do these people talk about award?
[SPEAKER_02]: And the second is, they kind of cheated, but it's the bad company by bad company award for being a song that shares a name with the band and also the album.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the energy in this is incredible.
[SPEAKER_02]: They do a good job working all the vocalists into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like did you watch the YouTube video or a YouTube video for this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Andrew I didn't The YouTube video is just it's pictures of all the members of the band, but it's cut together like with the
[SPEAKER_02]: the rhythm of the music.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you get like Damian Marley, McJayer just down.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it'll just be like a quick little shot of AR ramen in there, which is just a funny juxtaposition because you have all these people that look like rock stars and then just a lovely looking Indian man who's sitting there there in a suit.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I really enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I tried to look it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they ever toured.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they're only live performance together.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like an album preview event at Jim Henson Studios.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they weren't around for a long, anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was pretty much just this.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, look, I'm sure Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart and the rest of them, they're all doing OK regardless, Brady.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure, so yeah, I think they'll be all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Brady, what's your next pick?
[SPEAKER_02]: My next pick is another throwback entry not the genuine article like Asia was earlier, but this is leaving me alone by I don't know how but they found me
[SPEAKER_02]: this group is just a duo there their own set of mega powers although not not to the notoriety of Polkogan and Randy Savage.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a Dallin Weeks who was the bassist in panic at the disco for
[SPEAKER_02]: believe it was their third album, fourth for their fourth album, not in there anymore, and Ryan Seaman, who was the drummer for falling in reverse.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like this the first couple albums from them, and much in the style of panic at the disco, they became a
[SPEAKER_02]: in recent years.
[SPEAKER_02]: The synth and the vocals are really up front and that's what's going to grab your attention or a lot of your attention.
[SPEAKER_02]: My favorite part of this song is actually the guitar in the bass that are just just under the front and the background.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like this a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Similar to Dreamcar, you know, it's a nice breath of fresh air from the the emo stuff you've been playing pretty.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the whole disco-y funky sort of pop thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, one of the guys is from Panic at the disco that kind of lines up name-wise, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: But I was also getting flashes of certain areas of the killers.
[SPEAKER_01]: or Frans Ferdinand, like that kind of sound, where there's like a retro Vegas show vibe.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I dug this one a bunch, Brady, for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, if you like this one, I'd say, check out this album.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rasmataz isn't even, but I believe, but it's a lot of, a lot of the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I've heard a few panic at the disco songs.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't listen to Falling in Reverse, though.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good.
[SPEAKER_01]: You shouldn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I only know of them because of Ronnie Radke, because he used to date page.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he is a whole list of troubles to his name, which we'll get into here.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I don't plan to listen to that band anytime soon.
[SPEAKER_01]: But with this band, I like a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, there you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, um,
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, uh, my next pick, um, I've got my own all female super group on my list.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, it's a band called Wild Flag, and it's made up of Kerry Brownstein and Janet Weiss from Slater Kinney, Mary Timony from Helium, and Rebecca Cole from The Minders, and this is from their South Adult Album, this is called Romance.
[SPEAKER_05]: If you want to see this, my only witness Do your all then I'll help you Hands down, be like me, like me, like me Hands down, be like me, like me, like me
[SPEAKER_05]: It has to free ourselves from the room We love the sound of sound is what found us Sound is the blood between me and you
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go, a nice, uh, Johnty Pop Rock song called Romance about Romance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Back when I had no story, nothing to for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got under my skin.
[SPEAKER_01]: You were my maker, my recreator, the reason to live.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's cetera, it's cetera.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, it's kind of the only song of theirs I like.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but there's only that one album.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's no much to pick from regardless.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, um, but I'll be honest, you know, similar to broken bells, I don't really know the other music that they've done outside of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I've never even heard of helium or the minders before.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do know a Slater Kenny, but I haven't really listened to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, like to me, Kerry Brownstein is the Porlandia girl.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I know her from best.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, um, in any event, I came across this song randomly one day, and I think it's really great.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to highlight it, Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was not vibing with this song, but first I'm going to listen to it until the chorus hit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love and extended really wordy chorus, and they maximize their minutes with the chorus.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the guitar work, I like the little keyboard in the background's pretty cute, the little jingley keyboard, and the mini guitar cell load and the song, I like quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking too, you know, comparatively, there's a lot fewer all female super groups than male ones, like there's Boy Genius, there's this, um, there's trio, which was Dully Parton, Linda Ronstad and Amy Lou Harris, they just missed my list, they're really quite a lot up there, yeah, and there's a handful more, but that's about it, really, they're just there aren't as many all women's super groups as there are all men ones, pretty.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, but let it be known that we are doing our part.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's too.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are allies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Girls get it done.
[SPEAKER_01]: All the slogans.
[SPEAKER_01]: All the things there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Women in STEM.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brady.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is your next super group?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, Andrew, I'd like to take this time to formally apologize.
[SPEAKER_02]: You said that my last song was a nice breath of fresh air from all the e-mo stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you invite me on my show, or on the show, I can only go with what I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: So fun origin story for this band.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first time their name appeared was on a festival poster.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and not to get inside bait or two inside baseball, but we have a game where somebody in the voice to wrestling slack will post a festival line up.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you will just count how many bands you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, informally whoever knows the most wins.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it gets a scouts honor system.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think everybody's approaching in good faith.
[SPEAKER_02]: But when this poster came up, nobody would have been able to identify it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it was later revealed to be Anthony Green from Circus Revive, or Seosin, depending on what you prefer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Frank Yero from My Chemical Romance, Travis Stever from Cohedon, Cambria, and the bassist and drummer from Thursday.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is permanent rebellion by L.S.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dunes.
[SPEAKER_02]: At this was their first single.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they tease the name on the festival lineup.
[SPEAKER_02]: They drop this single, or they drop this single, they drop the lineup.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anthony Green is the other person I was referencing earlier, who is the side project or super group all star.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is actually a band called the Sound of Animals Fighting that had Craig Owens and Anthony Green in it, but I didn't want to cross the streams.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we kept those separate.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I love the energy of this song.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that a chorus where you can't possibly understand what they're saying without looking at the lyrics.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it builds morale.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this one was kind of like a jumpscare.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it starts and I'm thinking, okay, it'll be like a fast-paced Emo-E pop punky sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: This Anthony Green fell, I don't know who he is.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what a lovely, lovely singing voice.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then bam, here comes the chorus and it is just wailing screamo vocals.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, whoa, where did that come from?
[SPEAKER_01]: But I was still bobbing my head of this one, Brady.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Put one on the board.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got to be honest.
[SPEAKER_01]: I liked it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, but I was wondering, you know, the name L.S.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dunes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where does that come from?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it like an L.S.
[SPEAKER_01]: D reference?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I found a Reddit AMA with the band.
[SPEAKER_01]: And someone asked them where the name comes from.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the answer was, I'll never tell.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I guess it was supposed to be like this big secret that's open to interpretation.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, maybe they love the Dune books.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, or, or they love LSD and Dune, and they saw that this was the opportunity to join the two.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to go with your explanation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it has to be an LSD reference.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, something a little more pleasant to the ears with my next pick.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you ever need a letter delivered, you call up this band, the Postal Service.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got Ben Gibberd from Deathcap for Cutie, Jimmy Tamborello, aka Dintel, the DJ, and also Jenny Lewis from Merillo Kylie on background vocals, although not on this song.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is off of their Soul Album Give Up, this is the big song here, Such Great Heights.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, be still my beating heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've said before, you know, I like some deathcap for cutie, but I'm way more of a postal service fan.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though again, there's just the one album and handful of bonus tracks, but I love them, you know, and I was trying to think of which song to pick here, and I just went with, you know, their most well-known song.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's our to argue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's just a really lovely song, all the beeps and boops and Ben Gibberd's sweet boy vocals and just the nice vibes of it all.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it feels like we ourselves are at such great heights listening to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you know as much as I would kill for another postal service album
[SPEAKER_01]: When you do one as good as this, I don't blame them for living up to the name, give up, because where do you go from here, Brady?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's too good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one's like a warm blanket.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the other band I was referencing earlier.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, my mind went to them immediately when I was thinking supergroup and I just just left it off, but I'm glad that the appicked it up here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love this song.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it's hard to say ahead of it's time, but I feel like it's very influential, like their style and all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did not know, I was on the old Google and the music video for this straight up got recreated for an Apple commercial, but they did not tell.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not tell the Postal Service before that they were doing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like the same director and everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in like to compensate for it, they put such great heights on the on the front page of the iTunes store.
[SPEAKER_02]: Shout out to the iTunes store.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I referenced this book, I think in the last episode, it's called Such Great Heights.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's about the indie music boom with the 2000s.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're giving it that title.
[SPEAKER_01]: really shows how iconic this song is.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the postal service, they've done reunion tours and anniversary tours for the album and all that.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, I know a couple of years ago, there was a postal service, death cat for cutie tour together, where Ben Gibber, pulled double duty, and was performing all of give up, and then all of transatlanticism.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, put it in a shift.
[SPEAKER_01]: so yeah yeah he was he was a busy boy those nights but um but there's also a live album called everything will change where the set list is every original song the band did which is like 16 in total so if you want to hear all the post service songs done live get that album because it's really good that's also all right uh Brady what is your second to last pick
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, so I've talked about strength of the line-ups in all of my groups so far, but this, this is the supergroup to end all supergroups.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you take into account genre, impact, everything like that, I'm not sure you can top this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is Johnny Cash, Whalen Jennings, Chris Christofferson, and Willie Nelson as the Highwayman, and this is Silver Stallion.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're gonna find me a reckless one Raise your please and die a sinner man Just a touch of sadness in your hands Under the light of your fire
[SPEAKER_05]: We're gonna ride a ride like the one I had to check the time Was with the devil who was divine, we're gonna ride
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I spent a little bit of time thinking if I could come up with a comp for who this group would be in their genre and music now, or wrestling for that matter, and I struggled.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is a powerful group, kind of the kings of their genre all coming together for three albums, they had a...
[SPEAKER_02]: three albums over 15 year period.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the Johnny Cash gets all the choruses and you just get to do hot tags to the other guys to do versus and like the riff to start it is awesome and you just heard it on the end of the course there in the clip.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah it's funny if you looked at both of our lists so far and you had to guess which one of us would be the only one to pick a song pre 21st century.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would have bet everything on me, but no, it's you who brought the song here from the far-flung past of 1990, but yeah, this is great, you know, effortlessly cool is probably the best descriptor of the highway men, just four of the coolest dudes around, so cool that they're able to overcome the dateness of the production.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like this has the studio smoothness of the late 80s, it's not a rough and tumble country
[SPEAKER_01]: But when William Jennings goes, I'm going to find me a reckless woman, razor blades and dice in her eyes, just a touch of sadness in her fingers, thunder and lightning in her thighs.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in the video, he winks when he says that final line, I mean come on, how can he not love it, how can you not come on?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that rocks.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you were talking about it being dated, I thought you were talking about the video, which is them in the JC Penny photo studio with the television running in the background.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're still cool, like I am not going to turn this into a into a complaint section about country music or modern country music anyway, but this is like.
[SPEAKER_01]: this is just I don't want to real country sounds period to be going on like this is actual outlaw country for the best all coming together and uh... we still have one highway man left uh... really no sense to go to ninety three he might live forever like that at this point i'm not sure it is wild because look at all four of them and you might think oh it's because willy is the youngest of the four that's why still alive no he's the second oldest
[SPEAKER_01]: Real Johnny was the oldest, then Willie, then Chris, then Whalen.
[SPEAKER_01]: And through the sheer power of marijuana and country music, he's still ticking, baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: He got a lot of weed and good vibes.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's still with us.
[SPEAKER_01]: God bless him.
[SPEAKER_01]: God bless him for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so my second to last pick here, this is my example of a band that adopts a new lead singer.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got Scott Wyland from Stone Temple Pilots.
[SPEAKER_01]: teaming up with three former members of Guns & Roses, Slash, Duff McCaigan, and Matt Sorham, as well as Dave Kushner from the Punk Band Weasted Youth.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Velvet Revolver, of their first album Contraband.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Slither.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're able to sit on a new rack
[SPEAKER_01]: So first of all, that was one of B.J.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whitmer's ROH themes back in the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: I point that out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but yeah, this is another one where I picked the biggest song.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to Grammy actually for Best Heart Rock Reformants.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, um, it leaves up to the name.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Slither.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's real, slithery and slinky.
[SPEAKER_01]: The guitarth is very serpentine, you know, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou, Bernou,
[SPEAKER_01]: and Scott Wyland has that kind of sneaky, you know, bad boy energy to him, both in the song and in real life, unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's that chorus that just, you know, washes over you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it comes the water.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a cool sounding song.
[SPEAKER_01]: and um... the whole album is full of bangers too it's it's a great album in total um... so yeah you know despite guns and roses and stonetable pilots being you know kind of two different flavors of rock bands i think all these guys really work well together pretty
[SPEAKER_02]: yeah it absolutely works like this uh... this particular genre of rock that being rock pretty straight up um... usually not for me but this song is uh... it's pretty undeniable uh... it is it's burned into my brain and i'm not sure why there was a there was a time in my life
[SPEAKER_02]: when I think the song came out when I was like eight, but when I was watching the top 20 music videos on VH1 every week, and I think that's probably where it's from probably a little bit of BJ what we're using it as a theme song, but it's so, so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: The chorus is huge and the verse is bringing the energy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is one of those shooting star bands because you got Grammys, this is a number one album, Libre Tau, the second album went to number five, and that's all she wrote folks
[SPEAKER_01]: Scott Wyland got fired because of his addiction issues, and they never replaced them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And eventually Scott died in 2015, and then Slash and Duff went back to G&R, which, you know, for a long time, that felt just impossible.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the reunion tour was literally called, not in this lifetime, but it happened somehow.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, they were revolver, they were here for a good time, but not a long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, Brady, what is your last pick of the episode?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so this, like, I mean, I've already upset you slightly.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was the put it in the bank.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think Andrew's going to like this one, but that I put down.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is made up of a couple of fairly prominent metal core bands, and I love their origin story, but I'll tell it after the clip.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a Dan and Sailor of a Bullet for Pretty Boy, Ryan Leachru, and Brandon Leachru for today.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alex came, Rayna of Silent Planet,
[SPEAKER_02]: This is choose your side by nothing left.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so this band formed
[SPEAKER_02]: after four today broke up where Ryan and Brandon were from the band they were in.
[SPEAKER_02]: They then opened on the tour on the four today fair well tour, which is wonderful.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a great way to hard launch your new band to just open for yourself with your new band.
[SPEAKER_02]: kind of, you're going to have to go with me on the right here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like a boy band one direction thing where you make the lyrics as ambiguous as possible, so anyone can like imagine that the song is about them and they've got kind of like like you're cast out but you refuse to fall in line held down because you opened up your eyes cast out because you didn't fit the mold.
[SPEAKER_02]: Could be anybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: right anybody who's angry at any system that's you right it's uh it's uh it's pretty frued songwriting but uh this is this is fairly standard uh pretty by the numbers metal core but i love by the by the numbers metal core so
[SPEAKER_01]: You know that scene in the Simpsons where there's like a bachelor auction and Mo walks on stage and he's smiling And he's looking across the stage and the women and the audience are all like glaring at him with hatred And he keeps on walking and he walks off the stage into the reject section
[SPEAKER_01]: This song should keep on walking and then walk off the stage in the reject section with the attack attacks on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause I am not a big fan of this one, that's for sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's the thing, like not only have I never heard of this super group before, I've never heard of the bands that the people come from.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what we're looking for.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know for today, a bullet for pretty boy, silent planet, take it back.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the words of Jerry Seinfeld,
[SPEAKER_01]: and they didn't do much to maybe want to check them out either.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I am not talking about what this one, Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fair enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, um,
[SPEAKER_02]: That was my concern with a lot of my super groups is that you wouldn't know the super groups.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nor the fans that are supposed to make it so super, but I'm glad mission accomplished.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we've added another to the attack pile.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's possible, this is my version of the hot doggy and grandstanding that tears us apart, but I was happy to be here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let me end things on a much gentler note.
[SPEAKER_01]: I started with a member of Led Zeppelin.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had the son of a Led Zeppelin member in the middle, and now I'm ending with another member of Led Zeppelin.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a Zeppelin sandwich, going on here.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Robert Plant, and his super duo with Bluegrass Country icon Allison Krauss.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, they don't have an actual band name, but they do have multiple albums, and they've tore together as well, so I'm going to count it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, it's my show and I can do what I want, so there.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is from their 2007 album Raising Sand, it's called Please Read the Letter.
[SPEAKER_05]: My house is full of brings and charms of breaded birds Please understand me, my walls came fallen down There's nothing here that's left
[SPEAKER_01]: So the backstory of this song, this is actually a remake of a song that planted with Jimmy Page.
[SPEAKER_01]: on their walking into Clarksdale album and that version is a little faster.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a blues rock song.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one I like a lot more.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think slowing it down and turning it into this like foxy bluegrass song and the mix of old man plants, weathered but gentle voice with crosses, gorgeous country, angel voice in the fiddle.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just works better.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think to make it a
[SPEAKER_01]: and rubber plant, you know, besides being the rock god, the voice of Zebblin, he really loves Americana and folk music and a lot of stuff, so pairing him up with Allison Krauss and having T-bone Burnett as the producer.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just a natural fit right there, Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, uh,
[SPEAKER_02]: I really enjoyed this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a change of pace from a lot of what I normally listen to.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you've been able to gather that for my selections.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it is, I agree, slowing it down was definitely the move here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels heavy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, plant is kind of the star of the show, but Allison Krauss is there like a good base in Lucha.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, she's there propin' him up with the harmonies.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do like that even though it's a low key song, you still get him going, oh, occasionally, just a few times, not too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got me thinking of like Ultimo Krauss or Allison Cerro or someone like that, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I mean, they do make a great combination and this album did some real good business too.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was number two on the charts and it swept all of its Grammy nominations, including album of the year, this song went record of the year and you'd think, okay, time for another one.
[SPEAKER_01]: and they did do a follow-up called Race the Roof.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, Ultimo Guerrero there, but it came out in 2021.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it took a real long time for the follow-up, but you know, it's like I said with the then-cricket Vultures, these people are busy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Robert Plant has a solo career, Allison Christo's too, you know, so it just it takes time for these things to happen again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brady.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think, I mean, this was just, it was a lovely song, lovely song band on.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I've other than super heavy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is a song that I've gone back to listen to the most out of all of your suggestions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I enjoyed your picks as well for the most part.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll stress that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some great songs in this episode here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great bands.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of focus on relatively newer super groups as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: 21st century onwards.
[SPEAKER_01]: There were plenty of classic bands still in the table, cream, bed, company, Emerson Lincoln Palmer, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, many more to get to in the future, perhaps.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, that was the episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those were our picks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brady, this was a lot of fun, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much for being here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thanks for having me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he plugs you in a give, right ahead.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I don't do much.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just, uh, I write the occasional indie review on the website.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am, uh, I'm working on, on, on a column on, uh, the, the internet's favorite wrestler John Knoxley currently.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, we'll see if I, I ever finish that, but, uh, if I do it, it'll be before all in.
[SPEAKER_02]: So keep an eye on the side, it'll go there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, it's the playout song for today.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is another power trio, and they're called the winery dogs.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's made up of Richie Cotsin, from Poison and Mr. Big, Billy Sheen, also from Mr. Big, and David Lee Roth's solo band.
[SPEAKER_01]: and Mike Portnoi from Dream Theater and other bands as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is off of their Softitaut album.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's called Elevate.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks again, Brady.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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